[IO Islamic 2092] شاه و گدا

Shâh-u-Gadâ.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1426 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 2092 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1426

Shâh u Gadâ (شاه و گدا).

King and beggar, also styled شاه و درويش, king and dervish, a mystical mathnawî by the same Hilâli, beginning:

اى وجود تو اصل هر موجود

هستى وبودۀ و خواهى بود

It has been translated into German verse by H. Ethé (Morgenländischo Studien, Leipzig, 1870, pp. 197-282); see also Ethé, ‘Ueber persische Tenzonen,’ in ‘Abhandlungen des fimften internationalen Orientalisten-Congresses,’ Berlin, 1882, vol. ii. pp. 130-135.

Other copies are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1022-1025; Rieu ii. p. 656; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat. pp. 36, No. 1; 711, no. 6, and 895; a fragment of the same poem, ib. p. 2, No. 6; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 427; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 122; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 389; J. Aumer, p. 35.

This copy is dated the 20th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1036 (A.D. 1626, Oct. 11); some extracts from Persian poets on the fly-leaves.

No. 2092, ff. 53, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; a little worm-eaten; size, 7¼ in. by 4¾ in.