[IO Islamic 3168] Persian Anthology

Persian-Anthology

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1746 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 3168 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1746

Persian anthology.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 73b; tarkîbbands, on fol. 83b; a ḳaṣîdah in honour of ‘Alî, on fol. 89b; another series of ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, tarkîbbands, and mukhammasât, on fol. 91a; a collection of ghazals, arranged alphabetically, on ff. 104b-152b; rubâ’îs, on fol. 153a sq. A

قصيدۀ تأريخ من تصنيف غلام مصطفى سخن كه از هر مصراعش تأريخ برآيد در تعريف تعمير مكان كلان واقعۀ نانك رام كه بخدمت مهاراجه بهادر گذرانيده . on ff. 156a-158b,

The poems collected here are mostly by modern poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, among them some by Hâtif, that is Sayyid Aḥmad of Iṣfahân, who died A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1784, see Bodleian Cat., No. 1188). The chief portion of this collection was written A.H. 1180=A.D. 1766, 1767 (see fol. 98a, l. 5).

Beginning of the first ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 73b:

اى ز گلزار جلالت لالۀ شمس الضّحى

وز خمستان جمالت ساغرى بدر الدّجى

On fol. 73a a خطبه in prose. The margin of many pages is covered with additional poetry.

No. 3168, ff. 73-158, 2 coll., each ll. 15 (a few pages with oblique lines); Nasta’lîḳ; ff. 156-158 and a few pages here and there added by other hands; size, 81/8 in. by 41/2 in.