[IO Islamic 1050] Poems

Poems This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1759 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 1050 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1759 Short mathnawîs in Hindûstânî, Dakhnî, and Persian. 1.Bahlûl-i-Ṣâdiḳ (بهلول صادق), in Rekhta verses, on fol. 1b, beginning: سنا يك روز مين صاحب زبان سين الخ. 2.Wafâtnâma-i-Paighambar (وفات نامۀ پيغمبر), ‘the story of the prophet’s death,’ in Dakhunî verses, on fol. 8b, beginning: يو دنياتو فانى عجب باغ هى الخ. 3.’Îsâ u Kallah (عيسى و كلّه), in Persian verses, on fol. 22b, beginning: ناگهان روزى زتقدير خدا الخ. Attached to this mathnawî and written by the same hand is a Persian story in prose, the story of Sulṭân Sanjar (died A.H. 552=A.D. 1157), on ff. 25b-27, beginning: حكايت سلطان سنجر ماضى السّلطان الاعظم و الخاقان المعظّم سلطان سنجر الماضى ابن سلطان ملكشاه رحمة الله عليه الخ. No. 1050, ff. 27, ll. 10 (on ff. 1-7) in Shikasta; ll. 13 (on ff. 8-21) in Nasta’lîḳ; ll. 15 (on ff. 22-27), also in Nasta’lîḳ, by another hand; size, 75/8 in. by 43/4 in.