[IO Islamic 1950] كلّيّات امير خسرو

Kulliyyât-i-Amîr Khusrau.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1188 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 1950 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1188

The same.

This copy of Amîr Khusrau’s Kulliyyât is much older than the preceding one, but defective both at the beginning and end.

Contents:

A.Centre-columns.

1.Tuḥfat-alṣighar, the first dîwân, defective at the beginning; it opens abruptly in the middle of a ḳaṣîdah: گفتم درين گریوه بیابم امید عفو الخ , corresponding to No. 356 (1190 in this Cat.), fol. 5a margin, last bait, and consists of ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands, muḳaṭṭa’ât (on fol. 44b sq.), and the same mathnawî as in the preceding copy, beginning, on fol. 46b: هى هى اى تيره راى الخ.

2.Wasaṭ-alḥayât, the second dîwân, with the prose-preface. Beginning of the preface, on fol. 51b (different from that in the preceding copy): حمدى كه از ميان جان بر آيد و ثنائى كه از وسط دل گره گشاید حکیم حاکم را الخ .

Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 60a: حمد رانم بر زبان الخ. This dîwân consists of ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands, tarjî’, and ḳiṭ’as (on fol. 136b sq.).

3.Kitâb-alkamâl (كتاب الكمال), that is the third dîwân, usually styled Ghurrat-alkamâl, with the prose preface. Beginning of preface, on fol. 142b: غرّۀ كمال انسانى از ديباچۀ حمد الخ .

Beginning of the poetry, as in the preceding copy on fol. 193b: چه زهره خاك مسكين را الخ . It consists of ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands, and ḳiṭ’as (on fol. 282b).

4.Baḳiyya-i-Naḳiyyah, the fourth dîwân, with the prose-preface. Beginning of the preface, on fol. 296b: حمدى كه بقیّۀ نقيّه الخ .

Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 306b: زبان كه بر در معنى الخ. It consists of ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands, and ḳiṭ’as (on fol. 385a).

5.Ghazaliyyât and rubâ’iyyât, a very large collection, gathered from all four dîwâns, but incomplete at the end. The ghazals are arranged alphabetically, except the first twelve. Beginning of the initial ghazals, on fol. 402b: اى زخيال ما الخ, corresponding to the first ghazal of the fourth dîwân in the preceding copy and that of the third dîwân in No. 356 below (1190 in this Cat.), in Nos 754 and 755 of the Bodleian Cat., etc., see the full references in No. 4 of the preceding copy.

Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol. 405b:

چه اقبالست این یا رب که دولت داد رو مارا

که در کوی فراموشان گذر شد یار زیبارا

agreeing with the first in a smaller selection from Amîr Khusrau’s ghazals in No. 763 of the Bodleian Cat.

Beginning of the rubâ’îs, on fol. 874b: پاکست خداوند الخ, see No. 4 in the preceding copy; they break off on fol. 877b with a quatrain, beginning:

قدرت ملكا زآسمان بيشتر است

هر لحظه دل دشمن تو ريشتر است

corresponding to No. 356 (1190 in this Cat.), fol. 405b, l.3.

B.Margin-column.

6.Maṭla’-alanwâr, defective at the beginning; the first verse on fol.1a is not found in No.51 (1186 in this Cat.), but the second, مردمك چشم قمر شد زنور الخ, corresponds to fol. 6b margin, first line, in that copy.

7.Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 94b.

8.Majnûn u Lailâ, on fol. 214b.

9.Hasht Bihisht, on fol. 274b.

10.Iskandarnâma (اسكندرنامه), i.e. Â’îna-i-Iskandarî, on fol. 388b.

11.Ḳirân-alsa’dain, on fol. 516b.

12.Kitâb-i-Khiḍrkhânî (كتاب خضر خانى), i.e. Khiḍrkhân u Duwalrânî, on fol. 623b.

13.Nuh Sipihr, on fol. 702b.

14.Fatḥ-alfutûh ( فتح الفتوح), i.e. Miftâḥ-alfutûḥ, on fol. 827b.

15.The same series of short mathnawîs as in No. 14 of the preceding copy, the first of which, on fol. 848a, has the same heading and beginning as there.

This copy is dated A.H. 933 (A.D. 1526, 1527); the right order of ff. 82-88 is: 82, 87, 83-86, 88; that of ff. 224-370: 224, 361-369, 352-360, 256-263, 248-255, 241-247, 233-240, 225-232, 264-351, 370; and that of ff. 413, 416, 417, 414, 415, 418.

Nos. 1950 and 1951, first vol. ff. 1-401, second vol. ff. 402-877, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 19, and a third on the margin of ff. 1-875a, ll. 36; good Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated heading at the beginning of each part, except the first, the sixth, and the last; size, 91/4 in. by 63/8 in.