[IO Islamic 1359] لطائف الطوائف

Laṭâ’if-alṭawâ’if.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 778 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 1359 here with notations and hyperlinks].

778

Laṭâ’if-alṭawâ’if ( لطائف الطوائف).

Jests and witty stories about the different classes of mankind, compiled by ‘Alî bin Ḥusain alwâ’iż alkâshifî (the son of the author of the Anwâr-i-Suhailî), better known as Ṣafî (not Nasafî, as is wrongly written here), and completed shortly after A.H. 939 (A.D. 1532 , 1533), In Gharjistân, where he had betaken himself after many hardships and a year’s captivity in Harât, at the court of Naṣîr-aldaulah wa Żahîr-almillah Shâh Muḥammad, the Sulṭân of Gharjistân; comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 454-457; Rieu ii. p. 757 sq.; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 975 sq. Another title, sometimes given to this work, is لطائف الظرائف. It is divided into fourteen bâbs, viz.:

I.در بيان استحباب مزاج و ذكر بعضى از مطائبات پيغمبر باصحابه الخ (about Muḥammad), in eight faṣls, on fol. 3b.

II.در ذكر بعضى از نكات شريفه و حكايات لطيفۀ ائمّۀ معصومين (about the Imâms), in twelve faṣls, on fol. 15b.

III. در ذكر حكايات لطيفۀ ملوک و نکات ظريفۀ سلاطين (about kings), in ten faṣls, on fol. 33a.

IV. در لطائف امرا و مقرّبان و ظرائف وزرا و ارباب ديوان (about Amîrs, favourites, wazîrs, and other high state dignitaries), in six faṣls, on fol. 43b.

V.در لطائف اديبان و منشيان و نديمان و سپاهان و دليران در مناظرۀ پادشاهان (about men of letters, Munshîs, courtiers, officers, etc.), in six faṣls, on fol. 52b.

VI. در لطائف اعراب و نكات فصحا و بلغا و ذكر بعضى از حكم و امثال ايشان (about Bedouins, grammarians, orators, etc.) in five faṣls, on fol. 61a.

VII.در لطائف مشايخ و علما و فضلا و فقها و اصحاب تذكير (about Shaikhs, ‘Ulamâs, legal men, etc.), in eight faṣls, on fol. 74b.

VIII.در لطائف حكماء متقدّمين و متأخّرين و حكايات عجيبۀ اطبّا و معبّرين و منجّمين (about philosophers, old and new, physicians, interpreters of dreams, and astrologers), in eight faṣls, on fol. 85b.

IX.در لطائف شعرا و بديهه گفتن ايشان در محلّها و ذكر بعضى از عجائب صنائع شعرى و غرائب بدائع فكرئ ايشان (about poets, etc.), in nine faṣls, on fol. 97b.

X. در لطائف ظريفان از مردان و زنان (about male and female wags), in eleven faṣls, on fol. 127b.

XI.در حكايات و لطائف بخيلان و پرخواران و طفيليان (about misers, gluttons, and parasites), in five faṣls, on fol. 149b.

XII.در لطائف طامعان و دزدان و گدايان و كوران و كران (about greedy men, thieves, beggars, blind and deaf men), in eight faṣls, on fol. 156b.

XIII. در لطائف كودكان و غلامان و كنيزكان زيرك و تيز فهم (about clever children slaves), in seven faṣls, on fol. 160b.

XIV.در لطائف و حكايات ابلهان و كذّابان و مدّعيان نبّوت و ديوانگان (about silly people, liars, and impostors), in seven faṣls, on fol. 174b.

Beginning: بعد از اداى لطائف تحميدات الهى و وظائف صلوات حضرت رسالت پناهى عليه و آله صلوات الخ.

Dated the 11th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777, September 14).

No. 1359, ff. 1-185, 11. 17; clear Nasta’lîḳ , on fol. 78a a second hand seems to commence; size, 83/8 in. by 43/4 in.