[IO Islamic 190] سامنامه

Sâmnâma.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1235 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 190 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Sâmnâma (سامنامه).

This strange mathnawî, which is styled on fol. 1a شاهنامه (afterwards changed into سام نامه), and in the colophon سامنامه , a full account of which has been given by Spiegel in Zeitschrift der D.M.G. iii. pp. 245-261, is like the poem of the same title and contents, described in Rieu ii. pp. 543, 544 (where, however, the beginning differs, comp. also ib. iii. p. 1089b), merely a close imitation or rather reproduction of Khwâjû Kirmânî’s هماى و همايون in the preceding copy, in which, simply for the purpose of deceiving the reader, the names of Humâi, Humâyûn, etc., have been changed into Sâm, son of Narîmân, Parîdukht, etc.; comp. also Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 24 in Bodleian Cat. (col. 297). With the real Sâmnâma this work has nothing whatever to do. Beginning the same as in the preceding copy:

بنام خداوند بالا و پست

كه از هستيش هست شد هر چه هست

Dated the first of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1085 (A.D. 1674, June 5).

No. 190, ff. 148, 2 coll., each ll. 17; inelegant and careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 53/8 in.