[IO Islamic 3163] Hamîsha Bahâr

Hamîsha Bahâr.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 675 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 3163 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Hamîsha Bahâr (هميشه بهار ) .

Eternal Spring, a tadhkirah of Persian poets who flourished in India from the time of Jahângîr to the accession of Muḥammadshâh (A.H. 1131=A.D. 1719), by a Khatrî Kishanćand Ikhlâṣ, who completed this work in A.H. 1136 (A.D. 1723, 1724), see fol. 7b, ll. Penult. and ultim. Compare the complete list of poets in this tadhkirah in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 117 sq.; see also Rieu iii. p. 1086b.

Beginning, on fol. 5b: اى ذكر تو گلفروش بازار سخن الخ .

The first poet mentioned in this copy is Mîr Ilâhî (see above in No. 670), on fol.8a, not, as in Sprenger’s list, Amîrkhân Anjâm, who follows here as second, on fol. 9b; the last is Aḥmad Yârkhân Yaktâ, as in Sprenger. This copy is dated A.H. 1139 (ninth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign), the 9th of Dhû-alḳa’dah (A.D. 1727, June 28), by Muḥammad Majid, at Shâhjânâbâd. The remark on the fly-leaf, that it was copied A.H. 1231 (A.D. 1816) , is consequently wrong; there are besides seals of former owners, for instance, of Mîr Ghulâm, bearing the date A.H. 1222 (A.D. 1807, 1808). The Hamîsha Bahâr fills ff. 5-173; the first leaves, ff. 1-4, and the last, ff. 174-191, contain various specimens of Persian poetry, mostly in oblique or diagonal lines . On the margin of ff. 5-29 there are additional verses also.

A former owner of this copy was Mr. Hall (Benares, 1851); see, besides, the remark of A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 117, note.

No. 3163, ff. 191, ll. 11 (in the main portion); Shikasta; size, 93/4 in. by 51/4 in.