[IO Islamic 2744] كلّيّات قدسى

Kulliyyât-i-Ḳudsî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1553 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2744 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1553

Another copy of Ḳudsî’s Kulliyyât.

Another collection of Ḳudsî’s poems, in a rather confused and fragmentary state, containing:

1.Jalâl-aldîn Muḥammad Ṭabâṭbâ’î’s preface, beginning, on fol. 1b: سخن آفرين كه بحكم اقتضاى حكمت مدار الخ.

On fol. 7a, l.4, appear the author’s name and the date, A.H. 1048, 11th of Rabî’-alawwal.

2.Detached fragments of the ظفرنامۀ شاهجهانى , beginning, on fol. 8b, with the same bait as in Rieu ii. p. 685, and No. 1106 of the Bodleian Cat.:

بنام خداى كه داد از شهان

جهان پادشاهى بشاهجهان

The first fragment begins with the eleventh year of Shâhjahân’s reign (آغاز داستان سال يازدهم جلوس).

3.Ḳaṣîdas, upon the whole in alphabetical order, with this exception only, that the rhyme-letter د is placed between ز and ش and that at the end after ى another poem in ر appears. Beginning, on fol. 87b:

من آن نيم كه كنم سركشى زتيغ جفا الخ , see the preceding copy, fol. 218a.

At the end, on fol. 173, a few mathnawî-baits which probably belong to the ظفرنامه.

4.A large coherent portion of the ظفرنامه, on ff. 174b and 177a-279b, beginning, as in the preceding copy: بحمد خدائی زبانم گشود الخ.

On ff. 270a margin-270b margin, the same chapter is found as on ff. 8b-10a, l. 6.

5.The ساقى نامه or second mathnawî, on ff. 280a-286b, 175, 176, and 287a-296b, beginning, on fol. 280a: بنام خدائى كه روز نخست الخ .

6.The mathnawî in praise of Kashmîr or the third mathnawî of No. 929, on fol. 297b, beginning:بنام پادشاه پادشاهان الخ .

7.Another mathnawî, identical with the fifth of the preceding copy, beginning, on fol. 313b: زنده دلي بهر تماشاى هند الخ.

First heading, on fol. 313b: حكايت آن قاطع طريق ضلالت و رسيدن وى از توجّه خضر توفيق بسرچشمۀ زلال هدايت ‘.

Second heading, on fol. 314b: در شكايت ابناى زمان’.

Beginning: دوش برسوا الخ (see ff. 210a and 301b sq. in the preceding copy).

Third heading, on fol. 315b: در شرح حال خود.

Fourth heading, on fol. 316a margin: در مذمّت مردم سنجيده.

8.Ḳaṣîdas in honour of Shâhjahân, ‘Alî, etc. and Tarjî’bands, among which an elegy on the death of the poet’s son (on fol. 335a), see No. 1557 below, Rieu ii. 685, fol. 4b sq. in Or. 351 and No. vii in Or. 323. Beginning, on fol. 318a (as in No. 1109 of the Bodleian Cat.):

فراغ بال كرا در سراچۀ دنياست

درين قفس نپرد چشم بسكه تنگ فضاست

9.Another portion of the ظفر نامه, probably a continuation of No. 4, on fol.361a. Beginning: دلم چون زبان قلم گشته شق الخ.

No date. A seal from A.H. 1155 (A.D. 1742, 1743) on fol. 1a.

On fol. 87a the following note: قصائد حاجى محمّد جان قدسى در منقبت حضرات عليه الصّلوة و السّلام’ من العبد الاقلّ جان سپارخان ابن رستمدلخان ابن جان سپارخان المختار الحسينى السّبزوارى ستر عيوبه’

The proper order of the leaves is as follows: ff. 1-174, 177-286, 175, 176, 287-365. Fol. 1 greatly injured.

No. 2744, ff. 365, 2 coll., each ll. 15, and a third on the margin of ff. 174-365, ll. 30-38; Nasta’lîḳ, by many different hands, mixed now and then with Shikasta; size, 91/4 in. by 61/8 in.