[IO Islamic 763] اشعار ظهورى

Ash’âr-i-Żuhûrî. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1501 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 763 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1501 Ash’âr-i-Żuhûrî (اشعار ظهورى). A collection of poetical works only by Żuhûrî, containing: 1.Tarkîbbands and tarjî’s, on fol. 1b, beginning: اى نام تو بر سر زبانها – وى ياد تو در ميان جانها See No. 1076 in the Bodleian Cat. 2.Sâḳinâma (ساقى نامه ), the famous mathnawî which Żuhûrî dedicated to Burhân Niżâmshâh II of Aḥmad-nagar (who reigned A.H. 999-1003=A.D. 1591-1595), on fol. 130b, beginning: ثناها همه ايزد پاکرا – ثريّا ده طارم تاكرا It has been lithographed in Lucknow, 1849. Special copies of this mathnawî are mentioned in the Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1078 and 1079, and col. 766; Rieu ii. pp. 678b and 679a; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 64, No. 10 a, and p. 697, No. 11. 3.Ḳaṣîdas, mixed with some ḳiṭ’as and arranged alphabetically, on fol. 275b, beginning: اى تشخّص ده فنا و بقا – بر بقايت فناى جمله گوا corresponding to fol. 21b, first line, in the following copy. This copy, in which Żuhûrî’s ghazals and rubâ’îs are entirely wanting, is dated by Darwîsh Ibn Muḥammad Ṣâliḥ the 20th of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1116 (A.D. 1704, Sept. 20), in Kashmîr. A ديوان ظهورى was lithographed at Lucknow, 1879. No. 763, ff. 505, 2 coll., each ll. 16, and a loose leaf without a catchword, evidently belonging to the Sâḳînâmâ; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each part; size, 10½ in. by 6 in.