[IO Islamic 471] كلّيّات رفيع

Kulliyyât-i-Rafi’

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1603 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 471 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1603

Kulliyyât-i-Rafi’ (كلّيّات رفيع).

Complete poetical works of Mirzâ Ḥasanbeg Rafi’ of Mashhad, who came to India under Shâhjahân, and lived at the court of that emperor as his and his son Dârâ Shukûh’s panegyrist, comp. Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 841 (Bodleian Cat., col. 333); he was still alive in A.H. 1083 (A.D. 1672, 1673), but had died at Dihlî, when Sarkhwush wrote his tadhkirah, A.H. 1093 (A.D. 1682), see A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 92 and 111.

This copy contains:

1.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 1a; but the first bait is a little injured, and we can only quote the second hemistich of it, which runs thus:

زين نام بهر عنوان ظاهر شده فرمانها

2.Rubâ’îs, on fol. 251a, beginning:

اين بيخردان كه طالب دنيايند

هر يك بگمان خويشتن يكتايند

3.Short mathnawîs:

a.در تعريف شاهجهان پادشاه, on fol. 258b.

b.در صفت عمارات, on fol. 264a.

c.ستايش اسپ, on fol. 266b.

d.مذمّت اسپ, on fol. 268b.

e.هجو شخصى, on fol. 270b.

f.تعريف شاهجهان, on fol. 272a.

g.تعريف مسجد, on fol. 276a.

h.تعريف قصر, on fol. 277b.

i.تعريف برج, on fol. 278a.

k.تعريف خاصّ و عامّ, on fol. 279b.

l.تعريف تخت مرصّع, on fol. 280a.

m.تعريف حمّام, on fol. 281a.

n.تعريف باغ, on fol. 282b.

o.تعريف عيد وزن, on fol. 283a.

No date.

No. 471, ff. 283, 2 coll., each ll. 15-16; unequal Nasta’lîḳ; size, 87/8 in. by 5 in.