[IO Islamic 1020] ساقينامۀ ظهورى

Sâḳînâma-i-Żuhûrî.This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1510 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 1020 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1510

The same six prose-treatises.

This copy, a bundle of loose leaves, consists of two unconnected parts, unequal in size, the first on ff. 1-26, the second on ff. 27-31.

Contents:

1.Preface to Gulzâr-i-Ibrâhîm (without a heading), on fol. 1b.

2.Preface to the Nauras, on fol. 6a, l. 2. Both treatises are written by Fâḍil Muḥammad and dated the 23rd of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1084 (A.D. 1674, March 31); the first two leaves, however, apparently belong to another hand which appears again on ff. 14a-19a, while Fâḍil’s pen is visible on ff. 20-26; ff. 11-13 and 27-32 belong to a third and a fourth hand.

3.Firâḳnâma, on fol. 11a (without a heading).

4.Katkhudâ’î-i- Ḥusn u ‘Ishḳ, on fol. 14b (again without a heading).

5.Tabassum-i-shuhadâ or Panj ruḳ’ah, on fol. 17a (again without a heading).

6.Preface to the Khwân-i-Khalîl, on fol. 20b. This treatise is slightly incomplete and breaks off on fol. 26b.

On ff. 27a-32 the preface to the Nauras is repeated.

No. 1020, ff. 32, mostly in diagonal lines, in various styles of Nasta’lîḳ, by four different hands; size of ff. 1-26, 9¼ in. by 5¾ in. ; of ff. 27-32, 87/8 in. by 4¾ in.