[IO Islamic 2306] كنز الرموز

Kanz-alrumûz

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1830 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 2306 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1830

Kanz-alrumûz (كنز الرموز).

The treasure of mysteries, a third mystical work in form of a mathnawî on the religious duties of Islâm from a Ṣûfic standpoint, on spiritual lore, etc., by Mîr Fakhr-alsâdât Ḥusainî, see Bodleian Cat., No. 1258 ; Rieu ii. p. 845b ; A.Sprenger, Catal., p. 431 ; Krafft, p. 66; W.Pertsch, p. 12; Ḥ. Khalfa v. p. 254, etc.

Beginning:

باز طبعم را هوائى ديگر است

بلبل جانرا نوائى ديگر است

Dated the 21st of Rajab, A.H. 1124 (which must be a clerical error for 1123=A.D. 1711, Sept. 4, since the scribe adds, that the date corresponds to the fifth year of Bahâdurshâh’s reign; now, the emperor Bahâdur ascended the throne in Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1124=A.D. 1712, Feb.; in Rajab, A.H. 1124, he was therefore no longer alive).

College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2306, ff. 32, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 5¼ in.