[IO Islamic 270] جلوۀ ذات

Jilwa-i-Dhât

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1696 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 270 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1696

Jilwa-i-Dhât(جلوۀ ذات).

A very large mathnawî on the adventures of Kṛishṇa, interspersed with many ghazals rubâ’îs, and founded on Sanskirt sources, by a poet with the takhalluṣ Amânat (امانت), see this name in all the last baits of the ghazals and besides on fol. 13a, lin. penult. It was composed A.H. 1145 (A.D. 1732, 1733), the title being a chronogram, comp. fol. 17b, l. 12.

Beginning:

بنام آنكه جانان جهان است

چو جان از ديدۀ مرچم نهان است

This copy was finished the first of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1176 (A.D. 1763, March 16), at Farrukhâbâd.

The proper order of ff. 218-235 is: 218, 227-234, 219-226,235.

No. 270, ff. 499, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 6¾ in. by 3½ in.