[IO Islamic 2465] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى

Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1661 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 2465 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1661

A collection of Ni’matkhân ‘Âlî’s smaller works in prose.

This copy contains:

1.Waḳâ’i’-i-Ḥaidarâbâd, on fol. 1b.

2.The prose-preface of the dîwân, on fol. 34a, beginning as in No. 2 of the preceding copy.

3.Another prose-tract, identical with the رسالۀ هجو حكما or ‘satire on physician’ (see Rieu ii. p. 744b and the remark to No. 1659, 3 above), on fol. 41a, beginning: حكيم على الاطلاق از دار الشفاى الخ).

4.Ḥusn u ‘Ishḳ, on fol. 43b, beginning as in No. 1659, 4.

5.A third prose-tract, identical with the letter, quoted in Rieu ii. p. 796a, No. IV, on fol. 52a, beginning: حكيم حقيقى مرزاى دوستان الخ .

Dated the 9th of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777, June 15). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2465, ff. 54, ll. 21; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 55/8 in.