[IO Islamic 327] كلّيّات ظهورى

Kulliyyât-i-Żuhûrî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1500 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 327 here with notations and hyperlinks].

Żuhûrî (Nos. 1500-1514).

1500

Kulliyyât-i-Żuhûrî (كلّيّات ظهورى).

A large (but by no means complete) collection of the poetical and prose-works of Maulânâ Nûr-aldin Muḥammad Żuhûrî of Tarshîz, or rather of Khujand near Tarshîz, in Khurâsân, who went in early life to Yazd and betook himself A.H. 988 (A.D. 1580) to the Dakhan, where he, like Malik Ḳummî, first settled in Aḥmadnagar, and afterwards in Bîjâpûr. He married Malik Ḳummî’s daughter and died, according to most tadhkiras, A.H. 1025 (A.D. 1616), see the preceding copy of Malik Ḳummî’s Kulliyyât; only Beale, Oriental Biographical Dictionary, p. 286b, gives the later date, A.H. 1026 (A.D. 1617), and the Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 44 (col. 298 in the Bodleian Cat.), fixes his death in A.H. 1025 or 1027 (A.D. 1618); see besides Safînah, No. 559 (col. 229 in the Bodleian Cat.); Khaznâna-i-’âmirah, No. 75 (ib., col. 258); Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 167 (ib., col. 308); Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1503 (ib., col. 349), and A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 44, 112, 125, and 151; other copies of Żuhûri’s works are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1076-1080; Rieu ii. pp. 678 and 679, 741 and 742, etc.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 580; pp. 909 and 910, etc. ‘Abd-alrazzâḳ Sûrati’s notice of the poet, under the title of مقدّمات ظهورى (written A.H. 1212=A.D. 1797, 1798), has been lithographed in Cawnpore, 1873.

The present collection contains:

1.A prose-treatise of the same character as Żuhûrî’s well-known prefaces to the Nauras, the Gulzâr-i-Ibrâhîm, and the Khwân-i-Khalil, but different from these three and from all the other treatises hitherto known as composed by the same author, in spite of the frequent mention of the گلزار ابراهیم, see fol. 1b, ll. 4 and 5: گلزار ابراهیم نام نهاد ; fol.2a, l. 4 ab infra: آب بگلزار ابراهیم داد, and fol. 4b, last line : كه شد گلزار ابراهیم نامش (the genuine preface to the گلزار ابراهیم follows in No. 4 of the present copy). Beginning, on fol. 1b:

اى نورس گلزار براهیم از تو

وی آتش نمرود تف بیم از تو

پیرایۀ داد و زینت عدل توئى

تمكين سرير شان ديهيم از تو

This treatise, in ornate prose, interspersed with verses, seems like the three, mentioned above, written in homage of Ibrâhîm ‘Âdilshâh II (see No. 1499).

2.Manba’-alanhâr (منبع الانهار), a mathnawî, which is ascribed in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 482, to Malik Ḳummî, and appears there in the Kulliyyât of that poet; but the Khulâṣat-alkalâm (see above) gives extracts from this poem under Żuhûrî, see Elliott Coll., No. 184 in the Bodleian Library, ff. 40b-44b. Beginning, on fol. 5b:

بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم – اهدنا الصّراط المستقيم

The title (not mentioned in the Khulâṣat-alkalâm) appears in the last bait: منبع انهار بپايان رسيد. It is divided into eighteen نهر, with numerous subdivisions.

As a strange coincidence it may be noted, that on fol. 11a, l. 11, the same bait is used which appears in Zulâlî’s حسن گلوسوز, see No. 1494, fol. 220b, l. 5 ab infra, and No. 1496, fol. 40b, viz.:

بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم – تير شهابست بديو رجيم

3.Tarkîbbands, tarjî’s, and ḳaṣîdas, intermixed with some ḳiṭ’as and ghazals, and concluded (on fol. 130b sq.) by various strings of rubâ’îs. Beginning, on fol. 66b:

فتحست كليد بر گشادیم – بر نه ذر چرخ در گشادیم

This initial poem has the following heading: بفتح ذرّ نه تو كليد گشایش از قلعه گشای فكر گرفتن و ذيل مدحت عادلخديو بر كمر تركيب بند كرده از خاتمه گرفتن‘ .

4.Preface to the گلزار ابراهيم, in ornate prose, mixed with verses, beginning, as in all other copies of this prose-treatise, on fol. 138b: خرّمى چمن سخن بطراوت حمد بهار پیرائيست كه گلزار ابراهیم در رخسار یوسف طالقان الخ. It is in praise of Ibrâhîm ‘Âdilshâh II, and concludes with the following bait:

داستان شد ختم بستان رخش – غيرت گلزار ابراهيم باد

5.Another series of tarkîbbands, tarji’s, and ḳaṣidas, beginning, on fol. 146b:

اى شده سود ازتو زيان همه – جنس غمت زيب دكان همه

The initial ḳaṣîdah of No. 1076 of the Bodleian Cat., and No. 931 in the Berlin Collection cannot be traced in either series of tarkîbbands and ḳaṣîdas; nor is the long tarjî’band found here, which appears in the same copy of the Bodleian Library, fol. 24b sq.

6.Ghazaliyyât (غزليّات), beginning, on fol. 224b:

بر داشتى نقاب زديدن برآمدم

در گفتن آمدى زشنيدن برآمدم

The usual initial ghazal, viz. داشت الخ خواهد (or آنكه) ايكه (see No. 1505), is not found in this copy; all ghazals, however, exhibit the takhalluṣ ظهورى.

7.Another very large collection of rubâ’îs, divided into twenty-two sections, beginning, on fol. 236b:

بر مهر زعارض تو تقديم خوشست

پیش تو زمه سجدۀ تعظيم خوشست

There are also some additional rubâ’îs on the margin of ff. 244a-246b.

This copy is not dated, but is decidedly one of the oldest we possess, since there are, on fol. 1a, several seals of the emperor Shâhjahân, to whose library this MS. belonged, with the dates A.H. 1045 and 1046 (A.D. 1635-1637).

No. 327, ff. 284, 2 coll., each ll. 18; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b, 5b, and 138b; size, 105/8 in. by 57/8 in.