[IO Islamic 320] خلاصۀ لطائف الخيال

Khulâṣa-i-Laṭâ’if-alkhayâl

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1739 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 320 here with notations and hyperlinks].

Persian Anthologies and Albums of Persian Poetry (Nos. 1739-1757).

1739

Khulâṣa-i-Laṭâ’if-alkhayâl (خلاصۀ لطائف الخيال).

The revised and shorter edition of Muḥammad Ṣâliḥ’s anthology of Persian poets, arranged in form of an alphabetical dîwân, each specimen being headed by the name of the author (completed A.H. 1104=A.D. 1692, 1693, see the chronogram on fol. 16b, last line), by Muḥammad Naṣîr, with the takhalluṣ Nuṣrat, who A.H. 1157 (A.D. 1744) added to the original work a preface and two detailed indices, the first containing a list of the real names of the poets, quoted in the anthology, the second a list of their takhalluṣes, both in alphabetical order. A larger fragment of Muḥammad Ṣâliḥ’s original work, the لطائف الخيال , is noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 1143; comp. also Bland, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. P. 168.

Beginning of the preface, on fol. 1b: اى از تو بلند تارك و تاج سخن – گوهر زتو يافت بحر موّاج سخن الخ.

Beginning of the first index, on fol. 5a; of the second, on fol. 11a.

Another short introduction, on fol. 15b.

Beginning of the لطائف الخيال, on fol. 16b:

حبّذا زين كتاب فرّخ فال – كه بود گلستان اهل كمال

The whole anthology is divided into thirty-one جزء, copied (according to the notes on the margin) by different persons, as Madînabeg, Faḳîr Muḥammad, etc., but in a tolerably equal handwriting. A large lacuna after fol. 119.

No. 320, ff. 237, 4 coll., each ll. 25; careless Nasta’lîḳ, sometimes resembling Shikasta; size, 145/8 in. by 101/4 in.