[IO Islamic 2559] Miscellaneous-Poetry

Miscellaneous-Poetry

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1761 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 2559 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1761

Miscellaneous Persian and Turkish poetry.

This MS., the leaves of which are misplaced to an almost bewildering extent, contains:

1.On ff. 1-8, 95, 9-17, 23-52, 93, 94, 96-143:

A Turkish adaptation and amplification of Shabistarî’s Gulshan-i-râz, by a Turkish poet Shîrazî (كتاب گلشن راز ترجمۀ شيرازى), incomplete at the end with probable lacunas between the various fragmentary pieces, beginning:

نفس اوردى نفس رحمان نسيمى

معطّر اولِد جان و دل حريمى

2.On ff. 144-173 and 19-22 : the Persian original of the Gulshan-i-râz, with the omission of the first thirteen verses, beginning, on fol. 144a : جهان و خلق امر اينجا يكى شد الخ, corresponding to ver. 14 in Whinfield’s edition, London, Trübner, 1880. On the Gulshan-i-râz (composed A.H. 717=A.D. 1317), by Maḥmûd Shabistarî (died A.H. 720=A.D. 1320), see Bodleian Cat., No. 1260, and further down under ‘Ṣûfism’ in this Cat.

3.On ff. 18 and 53-86b: a large fragment (end of the second daftar) of Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr Jawâhir-aldhât (جواهر الذّات), comp. fol. 86a, l. 9: كنون عطّار گفتى جوهرى ذات الخ ; see No. 1031, 17; No. 1033, 2; No. 1035, 2; and Nos. 1046 and 1047 above.

4.Ff. 86b and 87a: a few Persian ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs.

5.Ff. 87b -92b and 174a-183a: Nâṣir bin Khusrau’s Rûshanâ’înâma (روشنائى نامه), beginning:

بنامى (! sic) كردگارى (!) پاك داور

كه هست از فهم و فكر و عقل برتر

Comp. No. 904 above.

6.Ff. 183b-184b: a Turkish tarkibband.

The whole copy is written by a scribe who was apparently ignorant of Persian, as the spelling in the few lines quoted above proves. The simple Iḍâfat he expresses, for instance, almost always by a full ى .

Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2559, ff. 184, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Turkish hand; size, 81/4 in. by 6 in.