[IO Islamic 490] نيرنگ عشق

Nairang-i-’Ishḳ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1649 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 490 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1649

Nairang-i-’Ishḳ (نيرنگ عشق ).

The love-story of Shâhid and ‘Aziz, a romantic mathnawî by Shaikh Muḥammad Akram, with the takhalluṣ Ghanîmat, of Ganjâh in the Panjâb, a pupil of Mîr Muḥammad Zamân Râsikh of Lâhûr (who died A.H. 1107=A.D. 1695, 1696, see a description of his mathnawî in No. 1147 of the Bodleian Cat.) and a favourite of the emperor ‘Âlamgîr. It was completed A.H. 1096 (A.D. 1685) and begins:

بنام شاهد نازك خيالان – عزيز خاطر آشفته حالان

The poet died about A.H. 1110 (A.D. 1698, 1699).

His dîwân is decribed in Rieu ii. p. 700b; see also ib. iii. p. 1034b. Other copies of this poem are noticed in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1153-1155, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 410; comp. also A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 113 and 127, Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 51 (col. 299 in the Bodleian Cat.), and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1815 (ib., col. 357). It was lithographed in Lucknow about A.H. 1263, with glosses by Muḥammad Ṣâliḥ and others. This copy is dated A.H. 1152 (A.D. 1739, 1740).

No. 490, ff. 33-79, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Shikasta; size, 83/8 in. by 43/4 in.