[IO Islamic 2053] مرغوب القلوب

Marghûb-alḳulûb

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1840 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 2053 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1840

Marghûb-alḳulûb (مرغوب القلوب ).

A mathnawî on the elements of asceticism and mysticism, composed A.H. 757 (A.D. 1356) and divided into ten faṣls, compare G. Flügel i. p. 526; Rieu ii. p. 874a, and No. 1765, 10 above, where it is styled ترغيب القلوب. It is commonly ascribed to Shams-aldîn Tabrîzî, the spiritual guide of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî (see Flügel, loc. cit., the heading of the present copy and the preface to the immediately following one), but as Shams-aldîn died A.H. 645 (A.D. 1247, 1248), i.e. 112 lunar years before the composition of this poem, the statement is absurd. Ḥ. Khalfa v. p. 495, No. 11809, only quotes the title. The date, A.H. 757, is found both in the copy of the British Mus. And in the two Ind. Office copies (here on fol. 76b, l. 2); but the author’s name, Shams, which Rieu found in the last verse of his copy, is missing both here and in the following copy. Only nine faṣls are marked in the present MS., but a comparison with the following copy shows, that the heading of the 6th has been omitted at the top of fol. 75a.

Beginning of the poem, on fol. 71a:

بگويم حمد ربّ العالمين را

عطا كو كرد بر من عقل و دين را

Faṣl 1.در باب توبه, on fol. 71b ; 2.در باب روح, on fol. 72a ; 3.در باب وضو, on fol. 72b; 4.در ترك دنيا, on fol. 73b; 5.در باب توحيد, on fol. 74a, last line ; 6.(not marked here, see the following copy) on fol. 75a, first line; 7.در باب عشق سالك, on fol. 75a; 8.در باب عاشق و معشوق, on fol. 75b; 9.در باب فنا, on fol. 75b ; 10.در باب مسافر سِلْك , on fol. 76a. A copy of the 10th faṣl is noticed in W.Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 4, No. 10; a complete one in No. 1924, I below.

No date. College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2053, ff. 71-76, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 51/4 in.