[IO Islamic 960] تحفت شعرا

Tuḥfat-i-shu’arâ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1743 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 960 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1743

Tuḥfat-i-shu’arâ (تحفت شعرا).

An anthology of Persia poetry, incomplete both at the beginning and end, with lacunas after the first and the second leaf. It contains:

1.Some anonymous ḳaṣîdas, ghazals, and rubâ’îs, on fol. 1a, beginning:

چو صبح از افق باز خندان بر آيد

نفير از خروس سحر خوان بر آيد

2.Ghazals and rubâ’îs, by Maulânâ Waḥshî (died A.H. 991 or 992), on fol. 7a.

3.Ghazals and rubâ’îs, by Bâbâ Fighânî of Shîrâz (died A.H. 922 or 925), on fol. 26b.

4.A tarkîbband and ghazals, by Shaikh ‘Alî Naḳî (of Kamarah, died between A.H. 1012 and 1031), on fol. 45b.

5.One rubâ’î, by Abû-alfaraj Rûnî (died after A.H. 492, see No. 905 above), and one ghazal, by Ḥakîm Azraḳî (of Harât, died A.H. 527), on fol. 52a.

6.One ḳaṣîdah, by Kamâl Isma’îl Isfahânî the خلاّق المعانى (died A.H. 635), on fol. 52b.

7.Ḳaṣîdas and ghazals, by Mirzâ Ḳulî Mailî (of Harât, went to India A.H. 979 or 983), on fol. 55a.

8.Ghazals and rubâ’is, by Mîr ‘Abd-alghanî (of Hamadân, about A.H. 1000), on fol. 59a.

9.Poems, by Mas’ûd of Iṣfahân (son of Âḳâ Zamân Zarkash, lived in great distress at the time of Naṣrâbâdî, A.H. 1083-1092), on fol. 60b.

10.Ghazals, by Shifâ’î (died A.H. 1037), on fol. 62b.

11.Ghazals, by Khwâjah Ḥusain Thanâ’î (died A.H. 996), on fol. 64b.

12.A ḳaṣîdah, by Shâh Muḥammad Mâlâmâl, on fol. 72a.

13.A few rubâ’îs and one fard, by Mirzâ Niżâm-almulk, on fol. 74b.

14.Extracts from Jâmî’s سلسلة الذّهب (see above, No. 1300, 9 sq.), on fol. 75a; with a few other little poems by the same.

15.A ḳaṣîdah, by Kamâl Isma’îl Iṣfahânî (see No. 6), on fol. 76b.

16.A mathnawî, by Maulânâ Jismî (under Akbar), on fol. 78b.

17.Another rubâ’î, by Abû-alfaraj Rûnî (see No. 5), on fol. 81b: and a ḳaṣîdah and a ghazal, by ‘Imâdî of Ghazna (died after A.H. 582), on fol. 82a.

18.Ḳaṣîdas and ghazals, by Azraḳî and Shifâ’î (see Nos. 5 and 10), fol. 84b.

19.A sâḳînâma, by Partawî (of Shîrâz, about A.H. 1000), on fol. 92a.

20.Two ḳaṣîdas and one ghazal, by Mas’ûd bin Sa’d bin Salmân (died A.H. 525), on fol. 94b.

21.Rubâ’îs, by Ḥakîm Sanâ’î (died probably A.H. 545) and Mîr Mu’izzî (died A.H. 542), on fol. 97a.

22.Ghazals and rubâ’îs, by Shifâ’î (see Nos. 10 and 18) and Mîr Ṣabrî (i.e. Amîr Rûzbahân Ṣabrî of Iṣfahân, who was a contemporary of Taḳî Kâshî and still alive A.H. 993), on fol. 100a.

23.Ghazals, by Shaikh Âdhurî (died A.H. 866), Nau’î (died A.H. 1019), and Mîr Ṣabrî again, on fol. 102a.

24.Two rubâ’îs, by Auḥadî (died A.H. 738), and tarkîbband, by Shifâ’î (see Nos. 10, 18, and 22), on fol. 104b.

25.Ghazals and rubâ’îs, by Shukrî, Rûshanî of Hamadân (under Akbar), Mashhadî, Naṣîbî (died A.H. 944), Sa’dî (died A.H. 690), Asîr (i.e. Jalâl Asîr, died A.H. 1049), and Shaikh Abû Sa’îd bin Abû-alkhair (died A.H. 440), on fol. 107b.

26.Extracts from Amîr Khusrau’s خضر خانى (see col. 694, No. 11 in this Cat.), on fol. 109b.

27.Poetry, by Kamâl Sabzwârî (about A.H. 1000), Ṣadiḳî of Abarḳûh, and Maulânâ Muḥammad Ṣûfî (still alive A.H. 1038), on fol. 110b.

28.Rubâ’îs and ghazals, by Mîr Mughîth (i.e. Mîr Mughîth-aldîn Maḥwî of Hamadân, who died A.H. 1016) and Nawwâb Sanjar Mirzâ (under Shâhjahân), on fol. 112a.

29.Poetical specimens, by Maulânâ ‘Arshî (about A.H. 1000). Sa’dî (see No. 25), Anîsî (died A.H. 1014), Ḳâḍî Nûrî (died A.H. 1000), Maulânâ Ḍiyâ-aldîn Kâshî (contemporary with Taḳî Kâshî), Amîr Khusrau (died A.H. 725), Karamî, Âḳâ ‘Îsâ (perhaps identical with Ḳâḍî ‘Îsâ of Sâwa, died A.H. 896), Raḍî (of Artimân, under Shâh ‘Abbâs the Great), Muḥammad Ṣâliḥ, Rûshanî (see No. 25), Anwarî (died A.H. 585 or 587), and a short anonymous mathnawi, on fol. 114b.

30.A rubâ’i of Kamâl Isma’îl (see Nos. 6 and 15) extracts from a يوسف و زليخا , by Maḥmûdbeg Fusûnî (of Tabrîz, under Jahângir and Shâhjahân), and other poetry by the same, on fol. 119b.

No. 960, ff. 123, 2 coll., each ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7¼ in. by 4¾ in.