[IO Islamic 1983] منشآت ملّا طغرا

Munsha’ât-i-Mullâ-Ṭughrâ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1588 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 1983 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1588

Another copy of the same.

This copy, styled انشاء طغرا, contains the following sixteen treatises, some of which appear in a rather curtailed form:

I.فردوسيّه, on fol.1b.

II.تجلّيّات, on fol.11a.

III.تعداد النّوادر, on fol.15a.

IV.مجمع الغرائب, on fol.17a.

V.مرتفعات, on fol.19a.

VI.تذكرة الاحبّا, on fol.21b.

VII.مشابهات ربيعى, on fol.23a.

VIII.مرآت الفتوح, on fol.25b.

IX.تاج المدائح, on fol.30b.

X.كنز المعانى, on fol.37a.

XI.تحقيقات, on fol.39b.

XII.جوش بلبل, on fol.41a.

XIII.الهاميّه, on fol.42b.

XIV.Risâlah dar hajwiyyât-i-ba’ḍî az mardum-i-Dakhan (رساله در هجويّات بعضى از مردم دكهن ), ‘satires,’ the first of which, on fol. 48b, is designated as نامۀ اوّل and styled خمسۀ ناقصه (see No. XI in the preceding copy), but beginning here as the مجمع الغرائب, viz.: چه نويسد الخ ; this treatise also includes parts of the اعلاميّه or مرآت العيوب (here styled كاشف العيوب, on fol. 49b, l. 10), and of the اشارتيّه (Nos. XII and XIII of the preceding copy).

XV.انوار المشارق, on fol. 51a.

XVI.رقعات or letters, beginning with one addressed to Sulṭân Shujâ’ (as in No. XVII of Rieu), on fol. 58a; the letter to Muḥammad Muḳîm, quoted in Rieu, No. XVI, is found here on fol. 59b; the one quoted in No. XVIII of the preceding copy, on fol. 61b.

Dated the first of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1148 (A.D. 1736, January 15).

No. 1983, ff. 70, ll. 14-19; Shikasta; parts of pages written in diagonal lines; size, 95/8 in. by 58/8 in.