[IO Islamic 505] Miscellaneous-Poetry

Miscellaneous-Poetry This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1768 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 505 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1768 Miscellanious. This MS., written like some of the preceding ones, by a very rude and inexperienced hand, contains: 1.A short collection of letters by Ni’mat-allâh, a Jew entitled انشاء نعمت , on fol. 1b, beginning : الحمد لله ..... بندۀ درگاه ..... اشتباه نعمت الله بنى اسرائيل الخ 2.Maḥmûdnâma (محمود نامه), a collection of ghazals (from five to seven baits), by an unknown author, arranged in the form of a dîwân, so that for every rhyme-letter there appears one ghazal, and forming a complete poem, treating of the well-known story of Maḥmûd and Ayâz (the best known poetical version of which is the mathnawî of the same title, by Zulâlî. See No. 1494, 2 above); in the concluding verse of each stanza ‘Maḥmûd,’ or ‘Maḥmûd u Ayâz’ appears as a kind of takhalluṣ. Beginning, on fol. 12a: اى داغ بر, دل از غم خال تو لاله را الخ. 3.Sa’dî’s alleged پندنامه (see No. 1127, 7 above), beginning, on fol. 28a: كريما ببخشاى الخ. 4.A Rekhta mathnawî, on fol. 39a, At the end of No. 2 is written: اين كتاب در سركار تپوّ سلطان است. No. 505, ff. 48. 2 coll., each ll. 9; rude Shikasta; also, 7¾ in. by 5½ in.