[IO Islamic 2271] Tarjuma-i-Khulâṣat-almafâkhir

Tarjuma-i-Khulâṣat-almafâkhir.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 643 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 2271 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Tarjuma-i-Khulâṣat-almafâkhir ( ترجمۀ خلاصة المفاخر ) .

A Persian translation of the supplement to the preceding work, usually denoted by the simple name of تكملة ; see fol. 2a, l. 4, and fol. 228b, last line; the author of the Arabic original is the same ‘Abdallâh bin As’ad alyâfi’î alyamanî; comp. O. Loth, loc. cit., and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 66. It adds 200 stories to those in the روض الرياحين , most of which refer to the great Shaikh ‘Abd-alḳâdir (see above). The name of the Persian translator is not mentioned, but as the first of two other copies of the same work in the Bodleian Library (Bodleian Cat., Nos. 332 and 333) was made before A.H.910 (A.D. 1504), and as moreover the anonymous author mentions as his spiritual guide the great Shaikh Sayyid Jalâl-aldîn Makhdûm-i-Jahâniyân, who died A.H. 785 (A.D. 1384), the translation of this تكمله must have been made at least 200 years before that of the روض الرياحين . The Persian poet ‘Abdî made a poetical version of the same تكملة in A.H. 1051 (A.D.1641, 1642), entitled ترجمۀ تكملة ; see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 307.

Beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين ...... ميگويد اضعف العباد أَصْلَحَ الله شانه كه چون كتاب خلاصة المفاخر فى مناقب غوث الملكوت قطب الصمد الخ .

Dated the 14th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1089 (A.D. 1678, April 7). College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2271, ff. 228, written in different styles on Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta, by various hands, the oldest part, ll. 15, the more modern ones, ll. 17; very much damaged, but carefully mended; size, 85/8 in. by 51/2 in.