[IO Islamic 1902] منشآت ملّا طغرا

Munsha’ât-i-Mullâ-Ṭughrâ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1590 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 1902 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1590

The same.

This copy contains, on ff. 1b-64b, ten of Ṭughrâ’s refined prose-treatises, viz.:

I.مرتفعات, on ol.1b. Copied the 11th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1092 (A.D. 1681, Sept. 24).

II.كنز المعانى, on fol. 5a. Copied the 12th of Ramaḍân in the same year (A.D. 1681, September 25).

III.مشابهات بديعى , on fol. 9b.

IV.تعداد نوادر, on fol. 12a.

V.تحقيقات, on fol. 14b.

VI.تجلّيّات, on fol. 17b.

VII.مجمع الغرائب, on fol. 22b, beginning: چه نويسى الخ.

VIII.فردوسيّه, on fol. 25b, beginning:ثناى بهار الخ .

IX.ديباچۀ معیار الادراك, on fol. 35b, followed by

X.رقعات.

The remaining portion of this MS. (ff. 65b-98) contains miscellanies in prose and verse, viz.:

1.قصيدۀ شمس المناقب, by Mûsawîkhân (i.e. Mîr Mu’izz-aldîn Muḥammad Mûsawîkhân), who had first the takhalluṣ of Fiṭrat, who was born A.H. 1050 (A.D. 1640, 1641), and died in India A.H. 1106 (A.D. 1694, 1695), see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 408.

2.A tract on marriage (نكاح), on fol.68b.

3.Poetical extracts, on fol.69b.

4.A mukhammas by Mullâ Hâdî (see No. 1581 above), o fol. 71b, followed by rubâ’îs, fards, short poems by other poets, for instance, Jâmî, Amîr Khusrau, Saifî, etc.

5.A ḳaṣidah by Sa’dî, on fol. 75a.

6.A letter of Maulânâ Żuhûrî of Tarshîz to Faiḍî (see Nos. 1464 sq. and 1500 sq.), on fol.76b, followed by other indifferent prose-pieces, both in Persian and Arabic.

7.A Persian treatise on the soul (روح ) by Abû ‘Ali Ibn Sinâ (Avicenna), on fol. 82b, beginning: سپاس خداوند آسمان و زمين و ستايش دهندۀ جان و دين الخ;

See on this work Bodleian Cat., No. 1422, ll. and compare Landauer, Die Psychlogie des Ibn Sînâ in Zeitschrift der D.M.G. xxix p. 335 sq. Copied the 12th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1093 (A.D. 1682, January 21).

8.Again poetical extracts, on fol. 88a.

9.Beginning of an اعراس نامه, or book of friends, a sort of almanack or birthday book, in which, under each day of every month, the names of certain Shaikhs are marked, on fol.92b; but only the first Rabî’ and part of the second are found here; all the rest is left blank.

No. 1902, ff. 98; written in various styles of Nasta’lîḳ , mostly in diagonal lines, except ff. 41-64, ll. 21, very neatly executed, and ff. 68b and 69a, ll. 12-14; size, 95/8 in. by 53/8 in.