[IO Islamic 95] غزليّات نسيم

Ghazaliyyât-i-Nasîm

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1734 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 95 here with notations and hyperlinks].

Poets whose lifetime cannot be fixed, and anonymous poems.

(Nos. 1734-1738.)

1734

Ghazaliyyât-i-Nasîm (غزليّات نسيم).

Ghazals, by a poet with the takhalluṣ Nasîm, who cannot be identified. The following poets with this takhalluṣ are mentioned in the various tadhkiras:

1.Maulâna Nasîm of Astrâbâd (Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1182; Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2773, Bodleian Cat., col. 386; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 662, No. 130); he must have lived about A.H. 1000 (A.D. 1592).

2.Sayyid Ghulâm-Nabî, a descendant of Sayyid Muḥyî-aldîn ‘Abd-alḳâdir Jîlânî (Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2919, Bodleian Cat., col. 390; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 662, No. 132).

3.Bûwâḳbeg (W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 662, No. 131).

4.Sayyid Nasîm of Shîrâz (ib., p. 662, No. 133).

5.Nasîm-i-Rammâl (ib., p. 662, No. 134).

6.Mirzâ Aḥmad Nasîm (ib., p. 672, No. 98).

7.Mirzâ Ghulâm ‘Alî of Amrohah (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 160, l. 9), lived before A.H. 1174 (A.D. 1760, 1761).

At the end of the ghazals, on fol. 89b, a ḳaṣîdah in honour of the late poet Jâmî (قصيده در مدح حضرت مخدومى جامى عليه الرّحمة), and some mathnawî-baits on fol. 92a. on ff. 93b and 94a short fragments of two prose-treatises are found, the first of which, styled نصائح الملوك, ‘advices to kings,’ is divided into forty bâbs, each of which contains four good advices, and is identical with the رسالۀ تحفة الملوك در نصيحت بند و بست ملك , described in the Bodleian Cat., col. 765, No. 45. Beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين .... امّا بعد اين رساله ايست كه حكما از كتب قدما اختصار كرده اند الخ.

A lacuna between ff. 93 and 94.

No. 95, ff. 79-94, 2 coll., each ll. 15; quite illegible Shikasta; size, 8¼ in. by 4¾ in.