[IO Islamic 3212] حِلْيَة الحُللَ

Ḥilyat-aḥlulal.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1378 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 3212 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1378

Ḥilyat-aḥlulal (حِلْيَة الحُللَ).

The fourth and largest treatise on riddle, also styled رسالۀ كبرى در معمّا, extracted from the work حلل المطرّز of Sharaf-aldîn al-Yazdi (who died A.H. 858=A.D. 1454), by Jâmi (not included in No. 1357 above), beginning (with the same words as No. 14 in the collection of his prose-works):

بعد از گشایش مقال – بستایش خجسته مآل الخ

See Bodleian Cat., No. 894, 32; No. 895, 28 ; No. 896, 13; and No. 1345; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 81, No. 2, and. P. 131, No. 1; Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 108; v. p. 638; ii. p. 108; J. Aumer, p. 44, Nos. 134 and 135, i; G. Flügel iii. p. 542, No. 3; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 372, No. 19. This copy is by the author׳s own hand, with numerous marginal additions, and dated A.H. 856=A.D. 1452 (i.e. two years before Sharaf-aldîn Yazdi׳s death), see the colophon and also the remark on fol. 1a: اين رسالۀ تصنيف حضرت مولوى جامى بدستخطّ خاص׳.

No. 3212, ff. 51, ll. 13; neat and small Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispiece; size, 4¼ in. by 6¼ in.