CATALOGUE

or

THE PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS

IN

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

LOM DON

GILBERT AMD BIVINOTON,

ST.

JOHN'S SQtTABE, CLEBKENWELL,

K.C.

CATALOGUE
OF

THE PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS

DJ

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

BT

CHARLES RIEU,
KEEPER OF THE ORIENTAL

PH. D.
MSS.

VOLUME

II.

PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.

SOLD AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM

AXD BT

LONGMANS &

CO., 39,

ASHER &

PATERNOSTER ROW; B. QUARITCH, 15, PICCADILLY; CO., 13, BEDFORD STREET, CO VENT GARDEN, A5i> TRiiBNER & CO., 57, LUDGATE HILL.
1881.

NOTICE.

THIS Second Volume completes the description of the Persian Manuscripts which were in the Museum at the end of the year 1870 (the date at which the printing of the catalogue began), and of such of the later acquisitions as came in time to be incorporated
into their respective classes.

The manuscripts which

manuscripts noticed in the

it

comprises are 1128 in number, forming with

the 947

They are arranged under the headings of Sciences, Philology, Poetry, Fables and Tales, a few minor divisions, and, lastly, the considerable class of manuscripts of mixed contents.
first

volume a

total of 2075.

First

and foremost

in importance

and extent

is

the poetical section, which occupies

nearly one half of the present volume and includes several early and valuable copies of the
classical

poets
in
it

from Firdusi to Jami, as well as a

India

fair

muster of their successors in

Persia and

down

to the

most recent times.

Among

the

many remarkable

works which
scarce:

contains, the following

may be

pointed out as either unique or extremely

The Yusuf and Zulaikha of

Firdusi (p. 545).

fragment of the Shahryar

Namah
The

of Mukhtfiri, one of the episodic poems engrafted upon the

rare Divans of Abul-Faraj Euni

Shalmamah

(p. 542).

and Mas'ud

Sa'd, poets of the

Court of Ghaznin (pp. 547,

(pp. 552, 557),

548), of

Adib Sabir and

'Imiidi Shahryari,

who

lived

under the Saljukis

and

of Saif Isfarangi,

who

survived the invasion of Chingiz

Khan

(p.

581).

poetical version

of Kalilah and

Sultans of

Damnah, composed about A.H. 658 by Kfrni'i, a panegyrist Iconium (p. 682). The poems of Khwiiju Kirmani, written by
Tabriz!,

of the Saljuk
the celebrated

penman Mir'Ali

A.H. 798

(p. 620).

The Divans of two

hitherto unnoticed poets,

Haidar

Shirazi,

a contemporary of Hafiz

(p. 623),

and Naziri

Tusi,

who

lived under the Bali-

mani sovereigns of the Deccan, about A.H. 860 (p. 6il). Some poems in the Guran dialect, which supply materials for the study of a yet unexplored province of Persian speech
(pp.

728735).

In compiling the biographical notices of poets valuable assistance has been derived from the new and copious sources of information collected, and critically sifted, by Doctor
A. Sprenger in the
first

volume of

his

Catalogue of the Oude Libraries, a work the discon-

tinuance of which must be regretted as a grievous loss to Oriental studies.

Out
following

of the rare

and interesting manuscripts described under the remaining

:

classes the

may

be noticed here as especially worthy of attention

Durrat ut-Toj, an
Shirazi, for
:

encyclopaedia of philosophical sciences, written about A.D. 1300,

by Kutb ud-Din

the Dubfrj, or king of Gilan

(p.

434).

The Taf him, or manual of astronomy, by al-Blruni a copy

i

dated A.H. 685

so called

(p.

451).

The Zakhlrah

Khwarazmshahl, a complete
to

treatise of medicine,

from the founder of the dynasty of the Khwarazm-Shahs,

whom

it

was dedi-

cated about A.H. 504 (p. 466).

Ma'din ush-Shifa, a medical work, compiled from Sanskrit

(p.

sources for Sikandar Shah Lodi, A.H. 918

to the Sultan of Dehli,

471).

A treatise on the
607633

art of war, dedicated

Shams ud-Din

Iltatmish,

A.H.

(p. 487).

Several of the
i

earliest Persian dictionaries, as

Adat ul-Fuzala, dated A.H. 822, Sharaf-Namah

Munyari,

written about A.H. 862, and others (pp. 491, 492). Kitab Sindbiid, the tale of the king's son

and the seven Vazirs, translated into Persian

A.H. 556
(p. 748).

for Killj

Tamghaj, Khan of Turkistan, about

An

early,

dated A.H. 994

(p. 799).

and yet unnoticed, translation of the memoirs of Baber, Simt ul-'Ula, an account of the Kara-Khita'is of Kirman, written
(p. 849).
.

by a contemporary historian, A.H. 716

third volume,

now

in a forward state of preparation, will comprise the description in the year 1878,

of the Elliot

MSS. purchased

and of some other recent

acquisitions, as

well as indexes of names,

titles,

and subjects to the entire catalogue.

CHARLES RIEU.
February 24, 1881.

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

rv.t:

PAGE

SCIENCES.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
PHILOSOPHY
ETHICS
POLITICS

LEXICOGRAPHY
433

PERSIAN

TURKISH
.

DICTIONARIES

.513
516
519

438

MISCELLANEOUS
TIONARIES

DIC-

440
444

....
. . .
.

GRAMMAR
PROSODY

PERSIAN GRAMMAR

MATHEMATICS
ASTRONOMY

449
451

ARABIC GRAMMAR
INSHA, OR THE

521
525

NATURAL HISTORY
MEDICINE

462

ART OF COMPOSITION
. .

527 531 533 734

466

TREATISES ON CALLIGRAPHY

FARRIERY AND FALCONRY

ALCHEMY AND CABALISTIC

ARTS AND GAMES

.... ....

480

POETRY
ANTHOLOGIES

486
487

ORNATE PROSE
FABLES, TALES, AND ANECDOTES
.
.

740
745 773

PHILOLOGY.
LEXICOGRAPHY
:

PERSIAN DICTIONARIES

PROVERBS
COLLECTANEA
BIBLIOGRAPHY

.... 491
DIC.

774

ARABIC-PERSIAN
TIONARIES

776

505

TURKI-PERSIAN
BULARIES

VOCA.

DRAWINGS AND SPECIMENS OF CALLIGRAPHY 778

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS
.

511

769

433

SCIENCES,
TCLOP^DIAS.
Or. 16,830.
by 4J 11 and 15 lines, 3 in. long written by two different hands, apparently in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Foil.

his father

was the maternal uncle of Say-

a Buvaihide princess, who, in the Majd ud-Daulah, exercised sovereign power. From her he had obtained,
yidah,

name

of her son

283
;

in.

[Wir. YCLB.]

A.H. 398, possession of Isfahan, where, although temporarily ejected by the Ghaznavis, he maintained himself till his death, which happened A.H. 433. See Kamil, vol. ix. pp. 146, 397, 433, Jahfmara, Add. 7649,
fol.

24

ft.

Compare De
i.

kun's translation, vol.

Slane, Ibn Khallip. 445.

A manual
Author
:

of philosophical sciences. Khwiijah Ra'is Aim "All B. Sina,

y)\
{

J*

j^J

!;.

who

died

A.H.

spent the last years of his life at the court of *Ala ud-Daulah, wrote Such is the the present work in Isfahan. statement of his disciple, 'Abd ul-Vahid Ibn
Sinfl,

Ibn

who

428 (See the Arabic Catalogue,

p. 221, 4).

Muhammad

Juzjani, who was his master's constant companion for five-and-twenty years

The author wrote

in

this

work, as he states

service

the preface, for the prince in whose he had found safety, wealth, and

previous to Ibn Sina's death, and wrote the account of his life which has been preserved by Ibn Abi Usaibi'ah ; see Add. 7340, fol.

and by whom he had been desired to compose in Parsi Dari a compendious manual of the five branches of the philosophy
leisure,

of the ancients.

124 a, and fol. 127 a. 'Abd ul-Vahid, who edited the present work after the author's death, and who i designates it by the title of Danish Namah
207 b, that the section treat" the ing of mathematics was lost, because master" was not in the habit of keeping he had taken copies of his writings, and that himself to supply that deficiency with upon
'Ala'i, states, fol.

The

prince,

whose

name and

title

are

written _ti

was
really rallrd 'Alii
l.i.i

mmad

ud-Daulah Abu Ja'fnr MuB. Dushmanziyfir, and surnamed

Ibn

Kakavaih, or "uncle's son," because VOL. n.

a condensed translation in Parsi Dari of the which were following treatises of Ibn Sina, B

134
in his possession:
clid,

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS.
an abridgment of Euborn A.H. 634.

a treatise on astronomical observations, another oil music, and the arithmetical section of the " Shafii." It is therefore the
first

three sections alone, that contain the original work of Ibn Sina.

Contents
physics,

^
or
b.
l

(J*

Logic, jlal* J* fol. 3 a. Metaor fol. 67 b. Physics, (J*

^\

utyj J*
fol.

_fAy

^s- fol.

175

most of his life at the court of the Moghul sovereigns, and died in Tabriz, A.H. 710, leaving numerous works, mostly written in Arabic, and treating of philosophy, medicine and astronomy. See the Arabic Catalogue, p. 189,Tarikh Guzldah, Add. 22,693, fol. 237, and Wiistenfeld, Geschichte der Arabischen Aertzte, p. 148. The last word of the above title, which is
distinctly written

He spent

b.

Astronomy, fol. fol. 260 b. metic, Music, fol. 273 b. The work is commonly known, as stated
the endorsement, under the

207

Geome':ry, 233 b. Arith-

"

"

Dubaj
to

in various places,

and

is

unknown

in

name

points to Gilan. ur-Razzak, Matla* us-Sa'dain, Add. 1291,

3-50,
fol.

We

Persian dictionaries, are informed by 'Abd

fol.

of

^JiU

0^9-

and by

Ghaffarl, Jahanarii,

It

Khal. under
(

*U

mentioned by Haj. (jJb, vol. iii. p. 184, and

is
,

484, that

Amirah Dubaj
title

_b,>

Add. 23,516, was tj>*\

the hereditary

of the

Ishakavand or

under J'kJ\ t-jlli' vol. v. p. 118. Durrat ut-Taj, Add. 7694, fol. 18 quoted under its proper title, Danish
i

In the
a, it is

Ishakiyyah princes of the Bayali Pas, or

Namah
first

'Ala'i.

Western Gilan, whose capital was Fuman, and for one of whom, the Durrat ut-Taj was composed. The same title, written t^
_\jj^, is still

It is stated in

a note written on the

found in use in the time of

page by a former owner, Muhammad Nasir ud-Din, that he had purchased the earlier portion of the MS., and had had the rest
transcribed for him, in Lahore, A.H. 1127.

Shahlsma'il Safavi; see Fumeny's Geschichte von Gilan, edited by Dr. B. Dorn, pp. v and *.

The present copy is defective at the beginning. Although there is no apparent break in the writing, the main portion of the preface

Add. 7694.
by 6| 33 lines, 4* in. long; written in close and fair Nestalik; dated Rabi' II., A.H. 1020 (A.D. 1611).
Foil.
;

and the

initial part of

the introduction

428

10J

in.

are wanting. The preface probably included a dedication to the prince of Gilan, and that account of his genealogy which, according
to 'Abd ur-Razzak,
1.

c.,

[Cl. J. RICH.]

formed part of the

work.

The Durrat ut-Taj

is

divided into an intro-

An

Author

encyclopaedia of philosophical sciences. Kutb ud-Din Mahmud B. Mas'ud

:

duction (Fatihah), six books (Jumlah), and an Appendix (Khatimah), which are enumerated with all their numerous subdivisions, foil. 11 b 17 a. The main divisions are the
following
its
:

ush-Shlrazi,

Beg.

<

Fatihah, treating of science in general and branches, in three Fasls, fol. 1 b. JumI.

lah

Logic, in seven Makalahs,

II.

fol.

17

a.

Kutb ud-Din

Shirazi, the greatest of the

Jumlah

disciples of Nasir

ud-Din Tusi, came of a of physicians in Shiraz, where he was family

Philosophy proper, jy *ijj, in two Fanns, fol. 45 a. Jumlah III. Physics,

,Jp,

in

two Fanns,

fol.

63

b.

Jumlah IV.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS.
Mathematics,
\*~>j\

435

J&, in four Fanns,

fol.

81

a,

Jumlah V. Metaphysics,
fol.

in ^Js\ J*,

two Fanns,
Kutbs:
faith,

212

b.

Khatitnah, divided into the following four 1. The fundamental principles of

points,
!

^ ^
4.

Jyo\

fol.

264

b.

2.

The secondary
3.

3j, fol.

333

a.

Ethics, fol.

o.

Rules of religious

life, yU^i-., fol.

4106.

famous Sunni con'Azud ud-Din ul-Iji (who died temporary, A.H. 756). He left, besides the present commentaries upon the Kulliyyat of work, the Kanun of Ibn Sinii, upon the Kulliyyat of the Kanun of Sharaf ud-Din Ilaki, and upon the Mukhtasar fil-Usul of Ibn H-.jib. See Majalis ul-Muminln, Add. 23,541, fol. 373, Haft Iklim, Add. 16,734, fol. 475. The first of the works above mentioned was
in controversy with his

The contents are

hiicher, vol.
88,

fully stated in the Jahr21. Anzeigeblatt, pp. 17

according to Haj. Khal., vol. iv. 500, A.H. 753. See the Arabic Catalogue, p.
written,

See also Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 201, the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 35, Dorn, Preface to Sehir-Eddin's Geschichte, p. 7, Melanges Asiatiques, vol. ii. p. 67.

pp. 222 o, 774 a.

and

The author states in his preface that ho had devoted his whole life to the pursuit of science, and, having visited in his wanderings the leading scholars of the period, had
availed himself of their teaching in every branch of knowledge, and written special works on several sciences. After an eulogy

Add. 7695.
Foil.

148

9|

in.

by 5|

19

lines, 2 $ in.

long; written in fair Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Cl. J. RICH.] A portion of the same work, viz. the first

upon the reigning sovereign, "Jamal udDin vad-Dunya Abu Ishak Mahmud Shah," he dedicates the present work to a Vazir
designated

Fann
140.

Jumlah IV., treating of geometry, and corresponding to Add. 7694, foil 81

of

by the following
ii^5

titles:
p*

J1

^>j]}3

cili

*iuJj

w Ujj, but whose

Add. 16,827.
Foil.

long

3$ in. written in small Nestalik, with 'Unvan

lines,

593; 9|

in.

by 6; 21

proper name does not appear. The preface concludes with a statement of the plan and divisions of the work, foil. 23 b.

625

and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the Kith century. [WILLIAM YOLE.]

ud-Din Shaikh Abu Ishak, whose father, Amir Mahmud Shah, had governed Fare during the reign of Abu Sa'id, made himself master of Shiraz, A.H. 74'2, during the period of anarchy which followed

Amir

Jarafd

An
to the

encyclopaedia of the sciences

known

Muslims. Author: Muhammad B.

the death of that sovereign, and, having added Isfahan to his dominions, remained for twelve years the recognized ruler of Fzvrs and 'Irak. He succumbed at last to the rising

Mahmud ul-Amuli,

power of Amir Muhammad Muzaffar, who wrested from him Shiraz, A.H. 754, and, after
had him publicly executed in the former city, A.H. 757, according to Hafiz Abru, or A.H. 758, as stated by 'Abd ur-Razzak ; see Or. 1577, fol. 104, and Add. 17,928, fol. 98.
seizing

him

Beg.

in Isfahan,

in Sultaniyyah during the reign of Uljaitu (A.H. 703716), and frequently engaged, as a decided Shi'ah,

Tim author was a Mudarris

B 2

130

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS.
,

of composition, which i8 incidentally mentioned at the end of Muhammad's life, fol. 270 ft, is A.H. 735 ; but the

The date

fol.

200

o.

9.

Forms

of prayers,

and the proper time

for their recitation, ^s-

brought down to the death of Abu Said and proclamation of Arpa Khan, which took place A.H. 736, and the Ishak as preface, which names Shaikh Abu cannot have been the reigning sovereign,
historical

section

is

oy*>, fol. 211 b. Makalah III.

1.

Sufism,
2.

in

five

Fanns:

Religious
As-.
,

life, tiJ^-..

True knowledge,
^Jn-

3.

Degrees of knowledge,
a.
As-,

fol.

221

written before A.H. 742.

letters, ^j>3

two parts (Kism), The work treating respectively of the modern or Muslim sciences, and of those of the ancients.
consists of
I. treats of eighty-five arts or in thirty-six Fanns, classed under sciences, four categories (Makalah) as follows:

Mystic meaning of the 6. Moral perfol. 228 a.

4.

fection,

tup

As-, fol.

235

a.

Kism

Twenty-seven leaves having been lost after fol. 220, the first two of the above Fanns are
are found in the next copy, Add. 23,555, foil. 96 a 108 b.

wanting.

They

Makalah
L^lxj<>l
1.
Ai!

comprises the literary sciences in the following fifteen Fanns

I.
:

Makalah IV. Branches

knowledge, o-jj^
follows
:

of conversational

(^>
art

*& seven Fanns, as

Writing,
fol. fs.,
b.

lai-

JP,

fol.

25

b.

2.

Language,

1.

The
242
b.

of

conversation,

J*
(an

30

a.

3. Flexion,

^J^i
6.

fol.
a.

0,j^,
dates

fol.

2 and 3.

The

science of
As-,

39
5.

4.

Derivation, jVKJLJS>\ J*,

fol.

45

and

lives, ^x-.

J*

,ly

Syntax,

^
53
8.

J=-, fol.
a.

48

b.

Rhetoric,

^yUc fte, fol. 58 6.

fol.

fol.

7.

Eloquence,

^Uo

Js-,

abridgment of universal history), fol. 257 b. 4. Religious systems and sects, J^ o^la
A\s-,

Ornaments of speech,
Prosody,
J>\
^s-,

fol.

295
b.

a.

5.

62

b.

9.

^^
fol.

^.jj As-,

Genealogy,

^LJ\

^f-,
(i.e.

As-, fol. a.

71

a.

fol.

303

6.

Battles and encounters

10.

Rhymes,

78

11. Poeti-

the expeditions of

cal composition,

i>i/*->
As,,

^->

fol.
a.

82
13.

a.

12.

olSy\,,
riddles,

fol.

Muhammad), i_Ju\j!l 309 b. 7. The science

322
a.

Jic

of

Proverbs,

J\i*\

fol.

86

Know99
a. fol.

^Wl
II.
:

Af., fol.

ledge of the Divans,

14.

^^
117
b.

J*,
lli\

fol.

Kism
kalahs

comprises the following five

I.

Ma-

Epistolary
b.

composition,

As-,

108

15. Collection of revenue

fol.

and account-

Makalah
,

Practical philosophy, d**^-

keeping UL-^ J*,

in three Fanns, viz.: 1. Ethics,

fol.

ioi^

As-

331

a.

2.

Makalah
nine Fanns
:

Government of the

II.
1.
2.

Legal sciences, oLc-ji, in

Scholastic theology, +$
As-,

fol.

125

a.

Exegesis of the Kur'an,

a.

family, JjU* ^.w J*, fol. 344 b. 3. Government of the city, u>ix> L-Ua As-, fol. 351 b-

As-

Makalah
four Fanns,

II.
viz.

^...ft.!>,

fol.

136

3.
o.

Traditional sayings,
4.

Speculative philosophy, in
:

1.

hlo jjciples
5.

As-, fol,

149

of the law,
As-,

5j
fol.

Fundamental prin^yo\ As-, fol. 158 a.

168
a.

Logic,

^.u
fol.
b.

*&,

fol.

363

a.

2.

The

first

philosophy, or introducjjL.Jj,

tion to metaphysics, ,Jjl

3.

373

b.

Law, AW
Dialectic,

6.

Various

Metaphysics,
o_xl>
pic,
fol.

readings of the Kur'an, oIljS

7.

As-, fol. As.,

182 a
(J
a.

f
a.

\s-,

fol.

383

Physics,

393

Jo* A* b ^JiU
and

O L 194

Makalah
viz.
:

III. Mathematics, in four Fanns,

8.

Forms

of contracts

legal instruments,

1.

Geometry,

Ol~

L->\ As-, fol.

403

a.

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS.
Astronomy, L-jjjkJ J*, fol. 413 a. 3. 4. Music, Arithmetic, vjoii'.^, fol. 419 o.
2.

437
vol.
iii.

and Melanges Asiatiques,

vol. v. p. 261. full table of

p.

734,
foil.

J^y,
Fanns,
(2.

fol.

429

o.

contents

is

prefixed,

1
of physics, in nine
viz.
:

Makalah IV. Branches

1.

Medicine,

^o

J*,

fol.

443

16 but the numbers indicating the do not apply to the present copy.
;

folios

b.

Alchemy, and 3. Magic, '-*--, are want4. ing; see Add. 23,555, foil. 225-234).
Interpretation of dreams,
5.
^*jjJ

Add. 23,555.
296; 14| in. by 9 ; 30 lines, 7 in. written by different hands, and in long; various characters, with 'Unvan and goldFoil.

J^,

fol.
a.

462.
6.

Physiognomy,

Astrology,

^
9.

c y
(

,j,

fol.

481
a.

\&.\ J*, fol. f

485

7.

Profol.
,J*,

perties of natural object*,

tjA
>U'

ruled margins, apparently in the 14th century.

[IloBEUT TAYLOH.]

pi*,

493
.

b.

8.

Physical crafts,
falconry,

J.^

*.

veterinary,

agriculture,

etc.,

The same work. Two leaves, which contained the greater

part of the preface (Add. 16,827, foil. 18 a 22 b), and about two pages at the end, are
lost.

fol.

509

6.

The

art of holding the breath,

and other

austerities, practised
>
^s-,

of India, *> 3 Js- 3

fol.

by the Jogis 514 a.

in
,J*

Contents
:

KLsm

I.

Makalah

Makalah V. Branches of mathematics,

thirteen Fanns, aa follows
1.

I.,

fol.

b.

Spherology,

lL,
3.

fol.

576

a.

2.

Optics, ^fcU-

^, fol.

526 b.
it

Knowledge of the "intermediates,"

o'^~*yu, i. ^. of nineteen treatises, which are taken up, in the mathematical course, l>etween
Euclid and Almagest,
arithmetic,
^j*.
v_^'
-

fol.

532

6.

4. Practical
5.

Je,

fol.

533 b.
o.

Algebra,

jj*,
fol.

foL 640

Makalah II., fol. 53 b. Makr.lah III., fol. 96 a. Makalah IV., fol. 118 6.-Kism II. Makiiluh I., fol. 162 a. Makalah II., fol. 177 b. Muk-Jah III., fol. 197 a. Makalah IV., fol. 216 i. Makalah V., fol. 260 a. The following inscription in ornamented Kufi shows that this valuable copy, dating probably from the author's time, was written for a Vazir named Rukn ud-Dln Salam Ullah
:

6.

Surveying,

Je,

541

b.

7.
<

Knowledge of

the constellations,
8.

The

art of
i

t_^j\ Jr Jp, fol. 545 a. making almanacks, and using

JW>

4l)l

J*

411

the astrolabe,
fol.

549 554

a.
b.

9.

fol.

di' Geography, dttU10. Numerical diagrams,

_,

shaped ornament on the same page contains what at first sight seems to be a geometrical design, but is in reality an inscripIt tion in a fanciful square character.
of honorific epithets applying to the same Vazir, of which the following may
consists

^.JV A diamond-

i'j*^
fol.

j,, fol. 562 b. 11. Mechanics, J.*. 576 b. 12. The art of divination,
fol.

be deciphered
fol.

J^,

577

6.

13.

Games, u.-**.

^,

584ft.

Detailed accounts of the Nafa'is ul-Funun

will

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Vii-nna Catalogue, vol.
i.

396

12|

in.

pp. 38

42.

See

also llaj. Khal., vol. vi. p. 36t, Uri, p. 282,

PHILOSOPHY.
This copy omits that part of the preface

Beg.

c
is

which contains the mention of the reigning sovereign and the dedication. It wants also the twelfth Fann of Makalah V., Kism II.

divided, like the original, in ten sections called 1>U^. The contents of

The

translation

the work, and the numerous commentaries written upon it, are stated by Haj. Khal.,
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in.

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and the Leyden Catalogue,

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long written in Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Cl. J. RICH.] The following detached sections of the

p. 320.
II.

228235,

^\ C...C
Sina.

"

Philo-

same work.

sophy of death," a
subscription to

treatise attributed in the

Abu 'All

Kism
fol.

I.,

Makalah
fol.

I.,

imperfect),

2 a.

Fanns 7 Makalah
fol.

15 (the
II.,

last
9,

Fann
b.

68

a.

Makalah

III.,

complete, with the

exception of the third Fann,

71

Kism
Makalah

II.
I., I.

Kism
158*.

Makalah II., Fann 1, fol. 116 a. Fanns 13, fol. 126 b. Makfdah IV., Fanns 1 7, fol.

he wrote it at the request of one of his disciples, whose mind had been enlightened by true knowledge, and warns readers against divulging it to those who were still groping in the dark
states that

The author

Makalah IV., Fann 4 (here numbered 6), fol. 241 b. Fann 5 (numbered 7), fol. 261 b. Fann 9, fol. 264 b. Fann 10, fol. 283 b. The last is defective at the end.
II.
.

Kism

ways of received belief. This work, which is not mentioned by Ibn Abi Usaibi'ah, is distinct from the treatise
entitled ti>)Jl

^ ^\
258352.

JJ<_,?,

noticed in the

Leyden Catalogue,
III.

vol. iv. p. 312.

Foil.

Danish Namah
ii.

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spiritual interpretation of mad's ascension.

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^,,

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Muham-

1182 (A.D. 1768). [WILLIAM YULE.] Philosophical works of Abu 'All Ibn Sina.

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oy^l

the writings of Ibn Sina, either by 'Abd ulVahid Juzjani, or by Ibn Abi Usaibi'ah. Its
attribution
rests
vol.

ing to Ibn Abi Usaibi'ah, Add. 7340, fol. the latest and most excellent of 127
,

to

the

celebrated

philosopher

Ibn Sina's philosophical writings.

on the doubtful authority of Haj. Khal., iii. p. 443, on the heading in the present

PHILOSOPHY.
MS.:
JCLU. tt|** J* y>\, and on a similar title It in another copy, Add. 16,839, art. xxv. udwas probably suggested by the 'Ala Daulah mentioned in the preface, who, however, as a religious teacher, has nothing but the name in common with the prince to whom the Danish Namah was dedicated. A
t

439

jan, for

Abu Muhammad
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p.

See Haj. 442, and the Arabic CataShirazT.

logue, p. 450, art. xxiii.

VIII. Foil.

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Persian

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mentary upon Ibn Sina's

allegorical tract,

Risalat ut-Tair, SJL*^ Sl^J) *yjJ\

JOjJl

*j
iJulU

rf*
j^

celebrated saint of that name, 'Ala ud-Daulah Simtuni, died A. H. 736; see Nafahat, p. 524.

Beg. of the

Comm. aU->j
is

The commentator, who

subscription

named

in the

V. Foil. 381

102.

Persian version of

^jL-N ^^4-*
;

^ j&

J^'iM

^\

Ibn Sina's treatise on the immortality of the

soul,

was a metaphysician, of the time of Sultan

Sanjar (A.H. 512548) see Haj. Khal., vol. iii. The allegory is intended to show, p. 412.

Beg. Ou*j
translator, whose name does not appear, states that, having been shown by a friend a version which was found to be much abridged and defective, he undertook at his desire to write the present fuller and more faithful translation. It is divided into

The

according to 'Abd ul-Vahid, by what steps the author had attained true insight. See
Ilaj.

Khal., vol.
vol.
fol.

iii.
iii.

p. 418,
p.
32'.).

and the Leyden

Catalogue,

sixteen chapters (Fasl). The original work Jj^\ \-SzJ was written,

a note by Abu Talib ul-Huthat he had bought this volume saini, stating in Murshidabad, A.H. 1208, on his way from Calcutta to Lucknow.

On

is

according to Ibn Abi I's.iilii'nli, Add. 7310, fol. 27 a, in Rai for Majd ud-l>aulah. See Arabic Catalogue, p. 450, art. xxxii., and Haj.
Khal., vol. Hi. p. 4I_' 410. VI. Foil. 403

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I.

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Foil. 1

the same work, in sixteen chapters (Hah), with the heading : ^>}\ >xi)J (jJuJl iJ'-^ *

12. ^V*-

**l*

LT^ A
'All

treatise

on phy-ic*. Author: Ghiyas. ud-Din

ul- Isfahan!,

short metaphysical tract on the origin and end of existence, with the heading jUJ^ ''.xO E!U*j
:

VII. Foil.

411413.

J^>^ J^^

,>

Beg.

^^

ul-Husaini

Beg.

^o

Short extracts and tables of contents of the same work are to be found in Or. 1839, fol. 267, and Or. 1947, fol. 37, where, to the author's

It is divided into
first,

two parts (Kism)

the

name, as given above, the patronymic

treating of the origin, comprises six chapters (Fasl), the second, treating of the end, four. This short tract is distinct from
the

is

adde(l

The author mentions

occasionally pheno-

mena observed by

work entitled

J^j

>1.*-JI

u-U/ which was

in Jur-

written, according to

'Abd ul-Vahid,

(see foil. 28 b, 38 6), kistin and Fars by hearsay.

himself in Badakhshan while he speaks of Tur-

From

the fact

4to
that he refers to

PHILOSOPHY.
Fakhr ud-Dln
Razi,
fol.

29

b,

MS.,

fol.

a, is ci~~jjjy>
:

which

is

explained

" as one of the moderns," it may be inferred that he was not considerably later than that
philosopher, who short preface
died A.H. 606.
is

as follows

^J>w

ei.

devoted to considerations

on true immortality, which is shown to consist of the good name or useful work which man leaves behind him. The work, which comc^is described as j\ &\j>,
(

The commentator
12 4, G2
treatise
ft,

refers occasionally, foil.

to glosses written by the author of the

upon the Shamsiyyah, a well-known

j^>

^f-

more prises ten sections called Fasl, twenty and an aptermed Asl, four entitled Natijah,
of which pendix (Khatimah), the headings The first series, are given in the preface.

of logic, written in the time of Hulaku see Arabic Catalogue, pp. 250 a, 775 b. former owner, Muhammad 'Ali, states at

manual
;

the end that the MS.

came into

his possession

A.H. 1089.

beginning on

contains elementary notices on the spheres, the elements, and The second, or Asls, fol. bodies in
fol.
6,

Add. 26,288.
Foil.
;

general. 13 a, treats of meteorological phenomena, such as vapours, winds, rain, thunder, shoot-

180

13

in.

by 7

25

lines,

4|

in.

Natijahs, beginning fol. 40 a, treat severally of minerals, plants, animals, and man, and the Khatimah of the

ing

stars, etc.

The four

long written in cursive Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century. [WM. ERSKINE.] treatise, without preface, philosophical

title,

or author's name, endorsed

anatomy of the human body. The present copy breaks off

five

after the first

Beg. j
It treats at considerable length of ques-

pages of Natijah

I.

II. Foil.

43249,

Arabic

tracts.

See the

Arabic Catalogue, p. 455.

tions of metaphysics and physics, in a number of sections headed and contains

(j^

Foil. 87;
;

Add. 25,869. 8i in. by 4; 18 lines,

short

extensive extracts from the following works a commentary on the Akhlak i Nasiri, the
:

in.

the last of which

long written in small Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [WM. CURETON,]

Hayat un-Nufus, and the Gauhar i Murad, was written in the reign see vol. i. p. 32 a. of Shah 'Abbas II.
;

Commentary upon a
logic,

treatise

on

with the text.

The MS. is slightly defective at the begintitle nor author's ning, and contains neither name. The treatise is divided into several short sections headed J^j, but not numbered.

ETHICS.
Or. 457.
Foil.

found, without commentary, in another MS., Add. 7720, art. I., where it begins as follows
It
is
:

120; 11

in.

by 6|; 27

lines,

in.

long ; written in Naskhi, with ruled margins, apparently in the 18th century.

The

first

word of the text in the present

Moral precepts of the ancient sages of

ETHICS.
Persia, India, Arabia,

441

and Greece, collected

;

by Ahmad
died A.H.

B.

Muhammad

B. Miskavaih,

who
;

(see Arabic Catalogue, p. 627 a), and. translated from the Arabic by Taki ud-I)in Muhammad B. Shaikh Muham-

421

sprinkled paper, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins; dated A.H. 997 (A.D. 1589).

[NATH. BRASSEY HALHED.]

mad

ul-Arrajani ut-TustarT,

j^

^jJI

53

A treatise
Beg. Taki Shushtari, a scholar and poet of Persian birth, repaired to the court of AJcbar,
<

on

ethics.

Author:

Nasir ud-Dln

Muhammad B

Muhammad

B. ul-Hasan ut-TusI,

by whose command he turned the Shahnftmah into prose. He was appointed to the office of Sadr by Jahanglr, in whose reign he
died.
i

Beg. cjj

See Badaoni,

vol.

iii.

p. 256, Tabnk.it

This celebrated philosopher and astronomer

296, and Kiy.ix Add. 16,729, fol. 196. He deush-Shu'ara, scribes himself in the preface as a servant
fol.

Shahjahani, Or. 1673,

of Jahangir, and states that it was by that emperor's order that he translated the above

A.H. 507, and died in Notices on his life are Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 1., p. 60, Haft Iklim, Add. 16,734, fol. 407, and Majalis ul-Muminm, Add. 23,541,
in Tus, Baghdad, A.H. 692. to be found in the
fol.

was born

work, which was written in an elegant, but abstruse, language. Content^ face of the translator, fol. 3 b. Preface of Ibn Miskavaih, fol. 5 a. Precepts of Ilushang, fol. 6 a. How the Javidfm
1 i

368.

I'observatoire

See also Jourdain, Memoire sur de Mfraghah, and Audiffret,

Khirad came to Mamun, fol. 15 b. Precepts of Buzurjmihr, fol. 20 a, Kisrn Kubad, fol. 27 b, Nushirvan, fol. 32 a, Bahman B. IsfandiMaxims of the sages of India, yar, fol. 38 a. fol. 59 a, of 'AH, fol. 70 b, Lukman, fol. 79 a, Hasan Basri, fol. 94 a, Aktham B. Saifi, fol. 99 a. Proverbs of the Arabs, fol. Ill b. ll.-rmes and Greek The sages, fol. 119 a.
sent

Biographic Universelle, voce Nassir-eddyn. He states in the preface that, having been desired by the governor of Kuhistan, Nasir ud-Din 'Abd ur-Rahim B. Abi Mansur,
to translate into Persian the Kitab ut-Taharah of Abu 'AH B. Muhammad Ibn Miskavaih (see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 745 b), he had complied with his wish by writing an abridged version of that treatise, to which he had added the ethics of civil and domestic life, and had given to the work a title derived

copy breaks

off in

a notice on Dio-

from his patron's name.

Nasir ud-Din, surnamed Muhtasham, was governor of Kuhistan under the Isma'ili
prince 'Ala ud-Din Muhammad, who died A.H. 653, and under his successor Rukn udDin Khwurshah. On the approach of the Moghul army in the same year, he came out of his fortress, Sartakht, and made his submission to Hulagu, by whom he was graciously received, and appointed to a post of honour; but he was enfeebled by old age, and died shortly after, A.H. 655. SeeEashid ud-Din, Jiimi' ut-Tavarikh, Add. 16,688, foL

genes.

For accounts of the

vol. H. p. 581,

original
,

work of Ibn

i. p. 213, the Bodleian Catalogue, vol. i. p. 86, vol. ii. p. 676, S. de Sacy, Notices et Extraits, vol. x. p. 95, and the Leyden Cata-

Miskavaih see Haj. Khal

vol.

logue, vol.

iv. p.

Add. 5626.
Foil.

272; 9J
written
II.

in.

by 5$; 12

lines,

in.

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in

fair

Nestalik, on gold-

442
90.

ETHICS.
Orissa,

The author, who was then with Rukn ud-Din Khwurshah, in Maimundiz, urged
that prince to submit to the conqueror. He was employed by him in his negotiations with

Muharram, A.H.

103, probably for

[Cl. J. RICH.]

1003 (A.D. 1594).

The same work.

Hulagu, and passed with him into the Moghul's camp on the first of Zulka'dah, A.H.

Add. 16,815.
Foil.

The circumstances of his stay at the Isma'ili court and of his reception by Hulagu
654.
are told in the Jami* ut-Tavarikh,
I.e.,

243; 9

in.

by

5;

14

lines,
;

long

written in Indian

Nestalik

2| in.* dated

in

Ramazan, A.H. 1063 (A.D. 1653).

Eauzat us-Safa, Bombay edition, vol. v. p. 70, and in Habib us-Siyar, vol. ii., Juz 4, p. 80, vol. iii., Juz 1, p. 54. In a later preface, subsequently prefixed to
the work, Nasir ud-DIn, alluding to his rescue by a powerful prince from the hands of the
infidels (Malahidah), apologizes for the praises

[Wn. YULE.]
The same work.

Add. 18,808.
Foil.

236; 9

in.

by 5J

14 and 15

lines,

85

he had been compelled by circumstances to bestow upon those unbelievers, and requests the owners of the first edition to substitute
the present preface for the former. One only of the Museum copies,

long, in a page, written in Indian Nestalik, probably in the 17th century.

in.

The same work.

25,843, contains the earlier preface, contains eulogies upon 'Ala ud-Dm Muham-

Add. which

Add. 26,290.
by 5| ; 16 lines, 3| in. written in a cursive Indian character, long in Ahmadnagar, apparently in the 17th cenFoil.
;

151

9J

in.

mad and

Nasir ud-Din 'Abd ur-Eahim.

i

Several editions of the-Akhlak

Nasiri

have been published in India, Bombay, A.H.

1267, Calcutta, A.H. 1269, Lucknow, A.H. sketch of its 1286, Lahore, A.D. 1865. contents has been given by Lieut. E. Fris-

tury.

[WM. ERSKINE.]

sell

in the
40.

Bombay

Transactions,

vol.

A treatise on
Author
Beg.
Jalal
Siddiki,
:

ethics.

i.

See also Abul Faraj, Historia Dynastiarum, p. 358, Fleischer, Dresden Catalogue, No. 343; Schier, specimen editionis
pp. 17
libri
(jr.-oli

Muhammad
f

B. As'ad Davani,

,^,

(.

and Sprenger, j^i-^, Dresden, 1841,

539
41.

Zeitschrift, vol. xiii. pp. The last page of the

ud-Din Davani, who is also called as claiming descent from Abu Bakr

MS. contains three

'Ar/-Didah, the first two of which are dated the 13th and the 37th year of the reign (of

Siddlk, was reputed the greatest philosopher He was born, A.H. 830, in Daof his time. van (spelt Davvan by Yakut), a village of the
district of Kazarun, in which his father, Sa'd ud-Din As'ad, was Kazi, and spent the greater part of his life in Shiraz, dividing his time between his professorial duties in the Madra-

Aurangzib).

Add. 7616.
Foil.

218

in.

by 5

13

lines,

3^

in.

long; written in Nestalik; dated Subah of

sah called Dar ul-Aitam, and his functions as Kazi of the province of Fars. He died A.H. 908 neat Kazarun, and was buried in

ETHICS.
his native place.
iii.,

443

Juz
46,

4, p. Ill",

See Hablb us-Siyar, vol. Tuhfah i Saml, Add. 7670,

Foil.

Add. 25,844.
230; 8
in.

fol.

Mirat

and
404.

Majiilis

Add. 7650, fol. 229, ul-Miiminin, Add. 16,716, fol.

iil-Advftr,

by 6

11

lines,

31

in.

long ; written in large Nestalik, with goldruled margins, apparently in the 18th century. [War. CURETON.]

After an eulogy on the reigning sovereign, Hasan Beg Bahadur Khiin, the author states that he had written the present work at the
request of that prince's son, Sultan Khalil. Hasan Beg, the founder of the Ak-Ku-

yuulu dynasty, died A.H. 882, after a reign of nine years and a half. His eldest son Khalil, who during his father's life had been governor of Furs, succeeded him on the throne, from which he was soon deposed by
his brother Ya'kiib Beg. 8eo Jahanarfi, Or. fol. 190, and Mirftt ul-Advur, Add. 7650, 1H,
fol.

work on ethics. Author Husain ul-Kashifi, (died A.H. 910; seep. 96.)
:

ii.'.

Beg.
After mentioning, as the reigning sovereign, Abul-GhazI Sultan Husain, the author
praises one of that Sultan's sons, Abul-Muhsin, for his noble qualities, of which, he says,

228.

The work, which is commonly known as Akhlak .laliili, is divided into an introduction and the following three books, called ^u*X and sul .divided into chapters, mO
i :

he had given a signal proof by his dutiful behaviour when, at the first beck of his father, he left the seat of his government, Merv, to

come

I.

Ethics proper, j^lwl s-J-V j*, fol. 19 II. Government of the family, jp- J^M

b.
Jt>,

fol.

83

a. III.

Government of the

city,

.wjjji

to Court. It was on that occasion that the author, having paid his respects to the Prince, wrote the present book as a suitable offering for him, and graced it with his name.

100 a. u The author acknowledges, fol. 144 a, that he had drawn most of its contents from Nasir ud-Din Tusi's work, Akhlak i Nasiri.
.v, fol.

a versified chronogram at the was completed A.H. 900, a date expressed by the above title.
It is stated in

end that

it

See Haj.

Khal. vol. r. p. 341, and vol. i. Stewart's catalogue, p. 51, the Munich p. 202, catalogue, p. ():>, the Copenhagen catalogue,
Jalali has been printed A.D. 1810, and in the press of An English transN.-ivnlkMior, A.H. 1283. lation by W. F. Thompson has been published under the title of " Practical Philosophy of
]>. (i.

Abul-Muhsin did not long continue to deserve the author's commendation, for in A.H. 904 he combined with his brother, Mugovernor of Abivard, to He was, the standard of rebellion. however, defeated by his father, and subseraise

hammad Muhsin,

Tin- Akhlfik

in Calcutta,

quently repaired to the capital, where he reSee Hablb usceived his pardon, A.H. 906.
Siyar, vol.

the

Muhammedan

people," London, 1839.

Juz 3, pp. 280, 283, 260. The Akhlak i Muhsini has been edited in Hertford, 1823 and 1850, in Calcutta, in
iii.,

Add. 25,845.
Foil.
Ion-,'
;

381; 7$ in. by 4| ; 13 lines, 2$ in. written in a cursive Indian Xestalik,

the Selections for the use of students, 1809, and in Lucknow, A.H. 1279. An English translation by H. G. Keene has been published
in Hertford, 1851.

See Garcin de

probably in the 18th century. [ WM.CUHETON.J The same work.

Tassy, Notice du trait<5 persan sur les vertus, de Hussein Vaez, Paris, 1837, Krafft's catac 2

lit

POLITICS.
Add. 22,693,
,_/i^.
fol.

logue, p. 183, the Copenhagen catalogue, p. 6, the Munich catalogue, p. 63, and the St. Petersburg catalogue, p. 257.

calls it

See also Melanges Asiatiques, vol. v. p. 236, vol. vi. p. 114, the Library of King's College, Cambridge, No. 219, and Sir Wm.
Ouseley's Collection, No. 475.

POLITICS.

The Siyar ul-Muluk was published some years after the author's death. The editor,

Foil.

153;

Add. 23,516. 8 in. by 4; 17

Muhammad, who
lines,

describes

himself as the
jj\ji-

copyist of the Royal Library,

^l^lj/ *-U,
~-li

in.

and further on,

**>..y>- \jed>-

fol.

151

a, sjl~?.y

AS?

long

written in Nestalik ; dated Ahtnadabad,

Rajab, A.H. 1032 (A.D. 1623).

(j^-3, gives the following account

of

its

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

origin:

In A.H. 484, Malak Shah

treatise
:

on the art of government.

tillj\
..Uai

ordered some of the great office-holders of his court, such as Nizam ul-Mulk, Sharaf ulto

Author

Nizam ul-Mulk,

/J^ u-V"
This celebrated Vazir, the first who bore the title of Nizam ul-Mulk, and whose proper

Mulk, Taj ul-Mulk, Majd ul-Mulk, and others, submit to him in writing their ideas for

the better government of the empire and the management of secular and religious con-

name was Abu

'All

ul-Hasan B.

'All,

was

The memoir of Nizam ul-Mulk met with the Sultan's complete approval, and was by his order transcribed for the royal
cerns.
library.

born in Tus, A.H. 408. He carried on for thirty years, under Alp Arslan and Malak
Shah, the government of the vast empire of the Saljukis, until he fell under the dagger
of an assassin, near Nahavand, A.H. 485. Accounts of his life will be found in Ibn

The work
fifty

in its present shape consists of

Nizam ul-Mulk, who chapters (Fasl). to the editor's statement, had, according written in the first instance only thirty-nine,
added subsequently eleven more, suggested by dangers he saw threatening from certain enemies of the state, at the same time enlargWhen ing those he had previously written. he set out, A.H. 485, on his last journey to Baghdad, he left his work for transcription in the hands of the editor, who, after the
author's death, did not think it advisable to publish it, until the time came when the

Khallikan, de Slane's translation, vol. i. 142, Rauzat p. 413, Kamil, vol. x., pp. 137 us-Saf.1, Bombay edition, vol. iv. pp. 85 90,

and Habib us-Siyar,

vol.

ii.,

Juz

4,

pp.

9093.
The present work, which
is

is

designated by

the editor in his epilogue as

o*~U

u-'Ui',

called in the subscription ^xjiijl

It
!

!) ^ju*

CiiLy> /lai *r\j--

is

generally
is

known by

the

title

of

<jL)jLJ

^x-.,

which

found in the

reign of justice and Islam was restored by the " Master of the World." At the end is a Kasldah in praise of the work of Nizam ul-

heading of another copy, Or. 1930. The same

tijtle is
}).

638,

assigned to it by Haj. Khal., vol. iii., who adds that it was written for

Malak Shah, A.H. 469.

Guzldah, who mentions

The author of the

it

Mulk, addressed to that new sovereign, who there mentioned by name. It was Ghiyas. ud-Dln Muhammad, son of Malak Shah, whose accession in A.H. 498 restored for a time
is

among his sources,

peace to the distracted empire.

POLITICS.
The
following are the headings
:

445

of the

chapters

OjJu-

j ..J-j

'

b
V.

rr

J-'*

Ja-jJ.il

ro
ri

"

"
r.
r.

rr

rr
ri

ro
r1

ry

44G

POLITICS.
is
Ifc

The work
language.
ratives

written in plain and archaic contains many historical narrelating to

former dynasties, especially to the Abhasides, Al i Buvaih, Sumanis and Ghaznavis. Sometimes

and anecdotes

the author relates incidents of his

fol.

own

life,

62 a, his sending a secret as for instance, emissary to watch and report upon the private utterances of the envoy of Mulk, Khan of Mavara un-Nahr.

work was written in the ninth century of the The compiler, whose name does nijrah. not appear, states that he had drawn the contents partly from books, and partly from traditions handed down in his family, which was also descended from Nizam ul-Mulk. Fakhr ul-Mulk (Abul-Muzaflar 'All), to

whom

the counsels are addressed, Avas the

Shams

ul-

eldest son of

Nizam ul-Mulk.

Appointed

44

Chapters 47 have a special historical value ; they

Vazir by Barkyaruk, A.H. 488, he afterwards held the same office under Sanjar in Naishapiir,

treat of the rising of some subversive sects, such as the followers of Mazdak, the Batinis,

Karmatis, and Khurramdinan. On fol. 151 b, is found a subscription transcribed from an earlier MS., which is stated to have been written in the town of

was assassinated, like his father, A.H. 500. See Kamil, vol. x., pp. 172, 287. The work, which is designated in the preuntil he

face as
rally

" the Counsels," JUoi,

the

is

more gene-

known by
it is

name

of

Urmiyah, A.H. 564, by order of the Amir Hajib Alp Jamal ud-Din.

by which

referred to in the Eauzat us-

Saffi (Notices et Extraits, vol. ix. p. 149, and the Habib us-Siyar, vol. ii., Juz 4, p. 91). Compare Hammer, History of the Assassins,

Or. 256.
Foil. 93; 7
in.

p. 45,

and Melanges Asiatiques,

vol.

vi.,

by

4,|

11
;

lines,

2|

in.

p. 115.

long
bfm,

written in neat Nestalik

dated Sha'-

Several extracts, translated by a will be found, under the title of Munshi,

A.H. 1127 (A.D. 1716).

[GEO. WAI. HAMILTON.]

Majma'i Wasaya, in Sir H.

vol.
ii.

Elliot's History,

Counsels of

Nizam ul-Mulk

to

his

son,

Fakhr ul-Mulk, respecting the responsibilities of the Vazirate, illustrated by incidents of his own life, and various historical anecdotes. It appears from the preface, which is
slightly defective at the beginning, that the work was dedicated to an Amir Fakhr ud- Din

pp. Contents: Preface, fol. 4 a. Mukaddimah. Notice on the life of Nizam ul-Mulk, fol. 5 b.

485504.

Fasl

I.

Warnings against the dangers

fol.

of the

Fasl II. Rules Vazirate, ties of the Vazirate, fol. 42 b.

a.

13

and duas

Another copy,
follows
:

Add. 26,267, begins

Hasan, j.^\ j^a^\

J\

u^a, ^^\
his

t^^\^i.

^.^j

*JJ1

-.

on

appointment as

short notice on the. work

foil. 2, 3.

is

prefixed to
It
is

Vazir (in whose reign is not stated). The genealogy of that personage is traced up to the great Nizam ul-Mulk,Avho was his ancestor in the twelfth degree. It shows also that the
Vazir's
great-grandsire,

the present volume,

^lli-j ^J,

signed

and dated Dehli, April 17, 1866. Nayyir i Eakhshan is the nom de plume of Navvab Muhammad Ziya ud-Din Ahmad
Khan, son of Navvab

Amir

been Sahib Divan, or

first

Mu'izz, had Vazir, to Tugha-

Ahmad Bakhsh Khan,

tinmr, Avho reigned in Khorasan from A.H. 735 753. (See JahanariL, and Hiifiz Abru, fol.
298.)

a distinguished scholar and poet of Dehli, to whom Sayyid Ahmad Khan has devoted a notice in his As.iir us-Sanadid, vol. iv.
p. 152.

From

this

it

may

be inferred that the

POLITICS.

447

Or. 254.
Foil. 72;
;

Add. 7618.
lines, 2
in.

CJ

in.

by4i; 15

Foil.

long in the 15th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.] A work treating of the duties of kings and
the art of government. Author: Islam B. Ahmad B.
ul-Ghazzuli, [sic]

written in neat Xestalik, apparently

long

250; 10J in. by 9; 15 lines, 3 in. written in neat Nestalik, with 'Unvan
[CL. J. RICH.]

and gold-ruled margins; dated A.H. 996

(A.D. 1588).

Muhammad

A treatise on political ethics, and the rules

wordy panegyric on
of good government. Author 'All B. ush-Shihab ul-Hamadani,
:

Beg. Ojil*

^f

Tlie preface contains a

the reigning sovereign, Amir Sultan Husain. It includes a Kasidah in his praise by Salman, the court poet of the Ilkanis, which'

Beg.

no doubt as to his identity. Sultan Husain was the son of Shaikh Uvais, the second prince of the Ilkiini dynasty. He asleaves

Amir Sayyid 'AH B.

Shihfib ud-Din B.

cended the throne in Tabriz, after his father's death, in A.H. 776, and was put to death, after a short and chequered reign, A.H. 784, by his brother, Suit in Ahmad. See Rauzat us-Safa, vol. v., p. 172, and tyabib us-Siyar,
vol.
iii.,

Mir Sayyid Muhammad ul-liusaini, of Hamadan, a celebrated saint, and founder of an order of Sufis, led the itinerant life of a Darvish, and is said to have visited all parts
of the Muslim world. He is especially known as the apostle of Kashmir, which he entered, in A.H. 781, with a train of seven hundred

Juz

1, p.

137.

the preface that the work had been originally written in Greek by Aristotle, and that the present version was made
It is stated in

and where he acquired great inHe fluence on the Sultan Kutb ud-Din.
followers,
last years of his life, spent in that country the died shortly after setting out on his return to A.H. 780, at Persia, on the 6th of Zulhijjah, was buried in of seventy-three, and the

from the Arabic by order of Sultan Husain. A legendary account of Alexander and his
Vazir," the sage Aristotle, y^il,'!^ 25 A, is prefixed to the treatise, foil. 15 a

"

^,

age

Kliuttilan.

Notices on his

life will

be found

which purports to contain the precepts addressed by that philosopher to his sovereign. The work is written in prolix and ornate verses. prose, interspersed with numerous
Tin' present

copy
is

The MS.
the

is

imperfect at the end. endorsed L^W-M c)jL, and on

is

in Javahir ul-Asrar, Add. 7607, fol. 121, Add. 23,548, fol. 340, Majalis ul-Muminin, Nafahat ul-Uns, Calcutta ed., p. 515, Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 3, p. 87, Vaki'at fol. 40, and Newi Kashmir, Add. 26,282, Journal of the all, History of Cashmere,

first

page
Ail

written the following

U_Aii-a3

title:

Jt

fL*j~\

^t fU*
U
is

^ L->tf

Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. xxiii., p. 414, and vol. xxxiii., p. 278. Some of his works
a. are mentioned in the Arabic Catalogue, 406 into ten The Zakhirat ul-Muluk is divided books (Bab). Its contents have been stated Haj. Klull., vol. iii., p. 329, Tornberg, Up-

13*

i^U v~ J

Jt/N *+* <j

covered with the notes and seals of former owners. One of the latter contains the name of an Amir of Shahjahan's reign with the date 1051, while

The same page

by

Vienna sala catalogue, p. 290, and Fliigel, vol. iii., p. 284. Compare Stewart,
catalogue,
p. 50, Uri, p. 273, vol. iv., p. 220.

some of the more recent belong of Oude.

to the kings

and the Leyden catalogue,

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POLITICS.

Add. 16,818.
Foil.

Bukhara, he sent for the author, then living in Samarkand, who by his desire wrote the
3
in.

218

in.

by 5 17
;

lines,

long;

written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century. [WM. YULE.]

present work in order to assist the young sovereign in the performance of his vow.

The same work.

on every point the teaching of the Hanafi and Shafi'i

The author adds that he

sets forth

schools.

Or. 253.
Foil.

173

in.

by 5

21 lines, 3

in.

long

IJbaid Ullah Khan, more commonly known Khan, was the son of Mahmud Sultan, a brother of Shaibani Khan. He was the
as TJbaid

written in

small Naskhi; dated Ramazan,

A.H. 1089 (A.D. 1678.)

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

most powerful Uzbak chief during the reign of Kuchkunji Khan, A.H. 916936, and a formidable foe to Shah Isma'il and Tahmasp, whose dominions he repeatedly invaded. He was raised to the Khanship A.H. 940, and died
A.H. 946. See Erskine, History of India under Baber, -vol. i. pp. 309, 322, and Rauzat
ut-Tahirin, Or. 168, p. 365. The work is divided into
fifteen

treatise

on the mode of governing in

ac-

cordance with the Muslim law. Author Fazl B. Ruzbahan Isfahan!,

:

an Introduction

Beg.

The occasion on which the work was

written
is tpld at great length in the preface. After the death of Abu-1-Fath Muhammad a Shaibani Khan, at Merv, A.H. 916, the Uz-

and chapters (Bab), as follows: Mukaddimah. Legal meaning of the titles Imam, Sultan, Amir, and VazTr, fol. 14 b. Bab. I. Maintenance of the law: appointment of the Shaikh ul- Islam and Muftis, fol. 19 b. II. Appointment of Kazis and their
duties, fol.

bak princes retired to Turkistan, and Mavaraun-nahr, invaded by the Chaghatai forces under Babar, became overspread with heresy and perverse practices. When, two years later,
Abu-1-Ghazi 'Ubaid-Ullah Khun resolved to attempt the recovery of the lost kingdom, he performed, in Muharram, A.H. 918, a pilgrimage to the tomb of Khwfijah Ahmad
Yasavi, and there took a solemn
successful,

31 b. II. Appointment of the Muhtasibs and their functions, fol. 54 a.

IV. Appointment of Daroghahs, watchmen, vali-mazalim, and frontier guards, fol. 65 a. V. Public alms (Sadakat), fol. 78 b. VI. Tithes and imposts, fol. 93 trove and heirless estates,
a.

VII. Treasure-

Penal laws,
fol.

fol.

120

b.

112 b. VIII. IX. Observance of

fol.

vow

that, if

pilgrimage, Friday-assemblies, festivals, etc., 134 a. X. Repression of mutinies, fol.

he would conform in every act of

his rule with the behests of divine law.

He

attacked Bukhara a few days later, and completely routed Babar, who had brought from Samarkand superior forces against him. After re-establishing Uzbak rule throughout

XI. Religious war, fol. 148 a. XII. Booty and its division, fol. 154 b. XIII. Laws XIV. concerning renegades, fol. 160 b.
a.

144

Mavara-un-nahr and taking

his residence in

Treatment of Zimmis (Christians and Jews), fol. 164 b. XV. Engagements contracted with unbelievers, fol. 170 a. The end of Bab XIV. and the beginning of the next are wanting.

p.

See Memoirs of Baber, translated by Win. Erskine, 239 seqq.

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MATHEMATICS.
Add. 23,570.
Foil.

Add. 7693.
2^ in. long; with 'Unvan, apwritten in neat Nestalik, parently in the 17th century. [Ct. J. RICH.]
Foil. 72; 7 in.

by 4|

13

lines,

136 6$
;

in.

by 3$
Yazd,

written in minute

Nestalik;

dated

A.H.

10141018

(A.D.

A collection of mathematical tracts, mostly

Arabic (see Arabic Catalogue,
following
Foil.
is

16051609).

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]
p. 622).

Jrj
on some ingenious arithmetical operations invented by the author. Author Khalil B. Ibrahim,
:

The

Persian.
;

117133

17

lines, 1 $ in. long.

A treatise

manual of geometry, translated from an Arabic work entitled (j^-UI J'.i.\

Translator:

Beg.

o
\

Mahmud

B.

Muhammad
ul-Haravi

B.
ul-

The work

is

divided into a

Mukaddimah,

Muhammad
commonly
Hai'avi,

B. Kiviim ul-Kazi ul-Vabashtu'i,

called

Mahmud

ten chapters (Fasl), and a Khatimah. This is the treatise which is apparently twice mentioned by Haj. Khal., vol. vi. p. 29, under two different forms of the author's name;
instance to J^'i!\ and in the second to Khalil B. yj.jN jtf., as in the present copy. As the Ibrahim, honorific title Khair ud-Din is commonly
it is

attributed in the

first

The translator calls the author of the work Shams ud-Din Sayyid Hakim Sa(According to Haj. Khal., vol. i. Muhammad B. Ashraf us-Sawho died about A. II. 600.) He markandi,
p. 322,
it

markandi.

was

coupled with the name of Khalil, it is very probable that both belonged to one and the game writer. The author states in the

dedicates his translation to an Amir .Tnin.il ud-Din Sultan Husain. in whose honour he gare it the above title. That prince's name is preceded by the fol-

he wrote the treatise at the request of some friends, and that it owed its success to its appearance in the auspreface

that

picious days of the great Sultan B. Murftd B. Muhammad (i.e.

II.,

Muhammad Muhammad

lowing
J\

titles

\j*\

pte\
j^>

j^\

^s-\ wVj^l s

jA
it

A.H. 825855).

CJUj OjU\

iJlj*.

ff\

from which

ild appear that he was not a sovereign, but a provincial governor. The translation is divided, like the original, into a Mukaddimah and thirty-five theorems Ji2, the last of which is imperfect at the

Add. 5649.
86 ; lOf in. by 7| ; 15 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik; dated Calcutta, long;
Foil.

Zulhijjah, A.H. 1190 (A.D. 1777).

end.

[NATH. BRASSEY HALHED.]

The

original work, Ashkiil ut-Ta'sis,

was
is

written A.H. 593.

See Casiri, voL

it

i.

p. 380.

commentary upon
St.

by

K.I/I

Zadah

mentioned in the
p. 119.

Petersburg Catalogue,

a treatise on algebra and geometry, translated from the Sanskrit.

Lilflvati,

Translator
VOL.
II.

FaizI,

460

MATHEMATICS.
version has been printed in Calcutta, 1828. For accounts of Bhaskara' s mathematical works see Edward Strachey, " Early History of Algebra," Asiatic Researches, vol. xii. " Observations on the pp. 159 185, and mathematical science of the Hindoos, with
extracts from Persian
translations

Shaikh Abul-Faiz, with the poetical surname of Faizi, which he subsequently altered to Fayyazi, was the eldest son of Shaikh Mubarak Naguri, and the brother of AbulFazl.

of the

born in Agra, A.H. 954, became a great favourite of Akbar, who bestowed upon him the title of Malik ushthe Shu'arii, or poet laureate, and died on 10th of Safar, A.H. 1004.. The present work is mentioned by Abul-Fazl, among various translations made for Akbar, in the A'm i The same author Akbari, vol. i. p. 116.

He was

Leelawuttee and Beej Gunnit," Calcutta, 1805, Colebrooke's Miscellaneous Essays, vol. ii. pp. 419450, and A. Weber, Vorlesungen,
p. 231.

The present volume contains marginal notes by N. B. Halhed, extracts from which by J. H. Hindley are preserved in
Add. 7032.

exgives notices of Faizi's life, with copious tracts from his poetical compositions, in the Akbar Namah, vol. iii. pp. 716 738, and in

Add. 16,869.
13 lines, 3 in. written in Indian Shikastah-atmz ; long dated Shahjahanabad, Jumada I., A.H. 1141

the A'in i Akbari, vol. i. p. 235, while Badaoni inveighs against him with the bitter

FoU. 156
;

8|

in.

by 5

rancour of

Muhammadan

bigotry, in

Mun-

takhab ut-Tavarikh, vol. iii. pp. 299310, a passage translated in Elliot's History, 9. See also Mir'at ulvol. v. pp. 544 'Alam, Add. 7657, fol. 452, and Blochmann,
translation of

(A.D. 1728).

[Wn. YULE.]

A treatise
Nadir, ji

on algebra, translated from the

:

A'm

Akbari, vol.

i.

p. 490.

After a panegyric on Akbar, by whose order the translation was written, Faizi states in

Sanskrit Vijaganita of Bhaskaracharya. Translator 'Atii Ullah Eashidi B. Ahmad

the preface that the Hindi

ginal

(i.e.

Sanskrit) ori-

Beg.

was due

to

Bhaskaracharya

U-l^l^j

of the city of Bedar, in the Deccan. The time of composition, he adds, is not exactly known ; but an astronomical treatise of the

The translator states that he wrote this work in A.H. 1044, the 8th year of Shahjahan, to whom it is dedicated. It is divided into a Mukaddimah and five Makalahs. The

same author,

entitled

J*y^ uj^ ^ a(^

>

been

written in the year 1105 of Saliviihan, i.e. 373 " years before the current year," namely the

same translation is noticed by Aumer, Munich

Catalogue, p. 136.

32nd of the Ilahl era (A.H. 9956). The preface concludes with a legend on a daughter of Bhaskara called Lilavati, and on the circumstance which led to the composition of the book of the same name. The Sanskrit text has been printed in Calcutta, 1832, and English translations bave been published by John Taylor, Bombay, 1816, and by H. Colcbrooke, London, 1817. Faizi's

For

editions

and translations of the Vijaii.

ganita see Zenker, Bibl. Orient, vol.

p. 340.

Add. 16,744.
Foil.
lines,

113
in.

Nestalik,

by 6% from 13 to 19 written in cursive Indian long dated Sha'ban, the 7th year of
;

8f

in.

Farrukhsiyar, A.H. 1130 (A.D. 1718).

[Wit. YULE.]

MATHEMATICS.
I. Foil.

451

356.
on arithmetic, translated from

ASTRONOMY.
Add. 7697.
157; 9 in. by 6; 21 lines, 4| in. written in fair Naskhi ; dated Ramazan, long;
Foil.

treatise

the Arabic treatise entitled L-t-^ lo^i-, by Baha ud-Din Muhammad B. Husain 'Amili
(d.

1031

see Arabic Catalogue, p. 622 4.)

:

A.H. 685 (A.D. 1286).

[Cl. J.

RICH.]

Translator
tad

Lutf Ullah Muhandis B. UsLahauri, ^^^y.

131

Ahmad Mi'mar

A treatise
Beg.

on astronomy.
B. Ah-

Author:

Abu Railmn Muhammad

mad
The
a
translator
is

ul-Blruni,

J3J^

known

as the author of
to which the following heading
is

rhymed abridgment of Daulatshah's Tazkirah. He uses ^^jy* as his Takhallus.

See Oude Catalogue, pp. 116, 122. He states that he wrote the present translation by desire of the noble Sayyid Mir Mu-

prefixed

Al-Biriini, the celebrated philosopher,

and

hammad Said
that the above
position, viz.
II. Foil.

B. Mir
title

Muhammad Yahya, and

conveys the date of comA.n. ion !.

contemporary of Ibn Sinfi, was born in the city of Khwflrazm, A.H. 362, and was so
called, according to Sam'ani,
fol.

Add. 23,355,
tlio

" 98, from Birun," the outskirts of

lived at the courts of

6799.
He
Kabus B. Vashmagir, prince of Jurjan, who reigned A. II. 403, and of Abul-'Abbas Mamun B.

A
tion,

treatise in verse

on arithmetic, mensura-

388

and algebra, in ten sections (Bab). Author: 'AJa Ullah B. Ustad Ahmad

mini, the last of the independent rulers of Khwarazm, who was put to death by rebels
.1

1M UP, a brother of Jz~\ and probably identic with the the preceding, translator of Bijganit (p. 460 A).

M i'miir J** **f\

A.H. 407.

Having

repaired, shortly after,

to Ghaznah, al-Biruni spent the rest of his life under the patronage of the Ghaznavi Sultans,

The author begins with

eulogies on Shah

Mas'ud, whom he accompanied He died in in their Indian campaigns.

Mahmud and

Jahiin and Princo DarA-Shikuh, to the latter of which the work is dedicated.
III. Foil.

Ghaznah, A.H. 440. See Professor Sachau's

introduction to " Chronologie Orientalischer Volker von Alberuni,'' pp. 1 38, Bxjinaud, Introduction a la Gdographie d'Aboulfedn,

100107.

on the properties of numbers >'^ v^r-* m four Makalahs, by Lutf Ullah Muhandis; see Art. I.
treatise

and Sir H. Elliot's notice, enlarged by Professor Dowson, History of India,

pp. 95
vol.
8,
ii.

pp. 1

8.

Beg.

The author, after remarking that, before entering upon the investigation of astronomical problems, it was necessary to make
one's self acquainted with the configuration of

D 2

452

ASTRONOMY.
^\, who wrote also, as has been noticed by Professor Sachau,p.xv.,the valuable Leyden MS. (Catavol. ii. p. 296), containing an account

heaven and earth, and the technical terms used hy astronomers, states that he had
written the present elementary treatise at the request of Raihanah, daughter of alii asan, of
it,

Ghulam ul-KuniyavI

^y?^

pt>UM

Khwarazm, and had set forth in hy questions and answers, the principles

logue, of Riizi's
latter,

and Biruni's works, written by the and dated A.H. 692.

first

of geometry and arithmetic, the figure of the

On

the

page

is

a note by a former

world, and judicial astrology,

^^

f\-\.

The

text

is

the questions,

divided into short sections hy which are written in red, as

name has been erased, stating had purchased the MS. in SIvas, that he A.H. 732.
owner, whose

tahle of these sections (Bab), headings. The 7. in number, occupies foil. 1 530 astronowork contains numerous diagrams, mical tables, and drawings of the constellations.
foil.

Add. 23,566.
Poll.

79

11

in.

by 7

23 lines, 5

in.

These
54.
;

last

fill

twenty-seven pages,

fol.

41 140

Some

leaves are

wanting

after

the lacune extends from Bab 475

long ; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 19th century. [ROBERT TAYLOR.] The same work. This copy has, instead of the preface, a
short doxology, which begins thus
:

to

Bab

481. of composition
is

by a passage of the chronological section, fol. 98 a, in which the author states the very day on which he was writing this was the 25th of Ramazan, A.H. 420 (in another copy, Add.

The date

fixed

23,566, A.'H. 425).

The Tafhim is extant in a Persian and an Arabic edition, neither of which purports to have been translated from the other. Two copies of the latter are preserved in the Bodleian library
;

There are two lacunes in the body of the work, viz. one after fol. 72, extending from Bab 478 to 489 (according to the numeration found in the table of Add. 7697), and another after fol. 76, extending from Bab 513 to 523. The language is, to some extent, modernized.

Add. 7700.
Poll.
;

69

8|

in.

by

27

lines,

3|

in.

their contents,

which perfectly

agree with those of the Persian edition, have been fully stated by Nicoll, pp. 262 268.

long written in small Nestalik, apparently in the 15th century. [Cl. J. RICH.]

The above

title,

which

is

found in the sub-

scription of the present copy, is nearly the same as that by which the author designates

the work in his Fihrist (Sachau's introducXftlLa tion, p. 44), viz. Jj\j^ .^aJ31 i_->lj/. ^at^^ This last form is given by Haj. Khal., vol. ii.

compendious manual on the computation of the almanack, by Nasir ud-Din Tusi (see above, p. 441 b), with a commentary, the author of which is not named.
Beg. of the manual
:

d*

p.

385,

who adds

that the work had been

for

written, A.H. 421,

Abul-Hasan

'AIT

The work
(Pasl),

is

B. Abil-Pazl ul-Khassi, a notice probably applying to another recension of the same work.

and, from that circumstance,

divided into thirty chapters it has

Pasl, J-oi ^>. in the Vienna
p.

become generally known as Si Its contents have been stated

Jahrbiicher,
vol. 67,

The present copy was written by Ibn

ul-

Anzeigeblatt,

44,

ASTRONOMY.
p. 300, and 490. See also p. Ilaj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 642, and the Leyden Catalogue, vol. iii. p. 148. An Arabic version is noticed in the Arabic Catalogue,

453

Bodleian Catalogue,

vol.
ii.

ii.

Vienna Catalogue,

vol.

commentary on Nasir ud-Dln

Tusi's

treatise

p.

188

a.

on the astrolabe, with the text. Author: 'Abd ul-'Ali B. Muhammad

.x^af

ul-

written, as incidentally the author, Fast 22, fol. 55, in by A.H. 658, that is to say, as the commenstated
tator remarks,

The work was

Barjandi, ^jo*-^
!''_'.

^
J
,

1*5\

jut
J~J
,fe:\

&ft

.1}

..

-= --. J-

'

:
.

li^

AS- _

some time before the com-

mencement

of the observations in Mariighah, which extended from A.H. 860 to 872.

In the preface, which

is

somewhat

de'

Nizam ud-Din 'Abd ul-'Ali ul-Barjandi waa a pupil of Mansur B. Mu'in ud-Din Kfishi, and of Saif ud-Din Taftazani, the Shaikh ulIslam of Herat (who died A.H. 916). He wrote commentaries upon the Tazkirah of Nasir ud-Din Tusi, the Tahrir Majisti of the same author, and upon the Zij of Ulugh Beg
(this last is dated A.H. 929; see p. 457 b). He left also a treatise on the distances and

fective at the beginning, the commentator, after describing the gradual steps by which

men were led to the observation of the motions of the heavenly bodies, bewails the sad neglect of astronomy in his day, and
complains that, in spite of his long and distant travels, he had not succeeded in meeting with a competent master of that science. From a passage, fol. 56 a, in which the

commentator indicates the positions of the

planets for A.1I. 82 1,
it

appears that this

was the year

in

which he wrote.

Or. 1585.
Foil.

38; 71

in.

by 4|; 11
;

Habib Ullah, Vazir of Khorasan (see p. 98 a), and another on the construction of almanacks, which was completed in A.H. 883, and which has been lithographed in Tabriz (? ), A.H. 1276. The author of Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 4, p. 117, writing A.H. 930, speaks of him as still living, and he is mentioned in Mir'iit ulAdvor among the great scholars of the reign
sizes of planets, dedicated to

lines,

2 in.
II.,

of

long; written in Nestalik

dated

Jumada

Tahmasp.
471.

See also Uri,

p. Ill,

p. 284,

the St.

A.H. 1079 (A.D. 1668). [SiR HENRY C. RAWLINSON.) A treatise on the astrolabe, without author's name. It is the well known manual of Nasir ud- Din Tusi, which, from its division into twenty chapters (Bab), is known under the name of Bist Bab, u^U v^--->-.'See
Haj. Khal., vol.
St.
ii.

Petersburg Catalogue,
vol. iv. p.

and Haj. Khal.,

A short preface is followed by an introduction *ji,

foil.

7 b

10

6,

containing defini-

tions of technical terms.

The commentator
tables of the posiby himself for

mentions,
tions

fol.

129

a,

some

of

stars

calculated

p. 83,

Uri, p. 287, the

30(5,

the year 853 of Yazdajird (A.H. 889890). He states at the end that the date of composition of the commentary is expressed by the name of the month ^ J^*>- in which it

Petersburg Catalogue, pp. 112, the Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 9.

and

^^

Add. 22,752.
Foil.

was completed.
lines,

That name, as written in the

136

8|

in.

by 5J
;

15

in.

MS., gives 899, but, if we read ^^>- according to the usual spelling, the date would be

long ; (A.D. 1806).

written in Nestalik

dated A.H. 1221

A.H. 890.
This copy was written, as stated in the sub-

454

ASTRONOMY.
in Egypt,

scription, for Abu'1-Fath Sultan-Muhammad, called Shah Khudabandah, a descendant oJ

the latter

and of Ibn al-A'lam two being 250 years

in

earlier

Baghdad, than

the Safaris
settled

in

who fled to Lucknow

;

India A.H. 1205, and

Foil. see p. 133 1). 136 a contain some

1 b

5 a and 133 b

additional tables.

the present tables. The work is divided into four books (Makalah), as follows : I. On eras, in a Mukaddimah and two Babs, fol. 3 b. It treats of the the eras of the Greeks, Arabs, and Persians, and that of Malakshah. II. On the motions of the planets, and their

Chinese era liJ

Add. 7698.
Foil.
;

g^U,

162

94

in.

by 6

21

lines,

4f

in.

long the 14th century.

written hi fair Naskhi, apparently in

[CL. J. RICH.]

position in longitude and latitude, in thirteen

Fasls, fol.
III.

21

b,

with tables,

foil.

3082.

the determination of the times and of the horoscopes of each time, cjis,\ C^JT** *

On

The astronomical
order of Ilkhan,
TusT,
i.e.

constructed by Hulagu, by Nasir ud-Din

tables

in fourteen Fasls, fol. 83 b _^LJJ js> \*)\kj IV. On other astrotables, foil. 90110. nomical operations, in two Babs Bab 1. on
(

Beg.

horoscopes of nativity, in seven Fasls, fol. Ill b, with tables, foil. 116119. Bab 2.
'

After giving a short account of Chingiz

Khan and

his successors

down

to Hulagu,

the author states that the latter prince, after rescuing him, Nasir of Tus, from the land of

Prognostics connected with the ascendant of the world, jj,b ^\ foil. 120 a 122 b.

the Mulhids (Isma'ilis), and appointing him chief astronomer, had called together other adepts to assist him in the work, viz.
his

123 152 contain various additional tables, with explanations in Arabic and Persian, and foil. 153160 an Arabic tract, with the heading
Foil.
<

Fakhr ud-Din Maraghi from Mausil, Mu'ayyid ud-Din 'Urzi from Damascus, Fakhr udDln Khalati from Tiflis, and Najm ud-Din
Dabiran from Kazvin. Having selected the site of Maraghah, and provided the requisite buildings and instruments, the astronomers commenced a series of observations, which were completed under Abaka Khan, and
compiled their results in the present tables, which he presented to the
reigning sovereign. The author then proceeds to review the

The appointment of Nasir ud-Dm by Hulagu, A.H. 657, and the erection of the
observatory, are recorded in the Jami' utTavarikh. See Add. 16,688, fol. 105, Quatre-

mere, Reshid eddin, p. 325, and Habib usSiyar, vol.

iii.,

Juz

1, p. 59.

Nasir

ud-Dm

In the last work, p. 61, the Zij of Nasir ud-Din is designated by the name of j^-Jj **U instead of its usual title i^ j>\
^'j^-l
.

which they had referred for comparison, namely those of Hipparchus, 1400 and some years anterior to the
earlier tables to

p. 561, Jourdain, 1809, vol. vi. p. 97, Magazin Encyclopddique, and the Leyden Catalogue, vol. iii. p. 149.
iii.

See Haj. Khal., vol.

beginning of their observations, of Ptolemy, 285 years later than Hipparchus, of al-Mamun, 430

from

table of longitudes and latitudes, extracted it, has been edited by John Greaves,

who

and some years before their own time,. of alBattani, somewhat later in Syria, of al-Iakim

published in the same year, London, 1652, the introduction of a commentary

it

upon

by Mahrnud Shah Khulji, under the

ASTRONOMY.
of Astronomica quaedam ex traditione Shah Cholgii Persae. An Arabic version of the Zij i Ilkhanl is mentioned by Uri, p. 195.
title

455

is divided, like the original into four ilakalahs. The MS., howwork,

The Tauzih
is

Add. 11,636.
Foil.

very defective, and contains only the following portions Makalah I. The Mukaddimah and Fasls fol. 2 b. Makalah III. Fasls 1214, fol. 8 a. Makalah' IV.,
ever,
:

14,

69

8|

in.

by 5

long; Rabi'

written in Naskhi;
II.,

27 lines, 4| in. dated Baghdad,

fol.

b.

Supplementary

tables, to
is

which a
foil.

A.H. 795 (A.D. 1393).

statement of their contents 16 a 68.

prefixed,

An
work.

enlarged recension of the preceding

lines, 3 written by two hands, apparently jn. long ; in the 18th century. [Cl. J. RICH."]

Foil.

31;

Add. 7703. 8 in. by 5; 1923

Author: Al-Hasan B. ul-Husain B. ulHasan Shahanshah us-Simnfmi ul-Munajjim,

A short
This is the author's autograph, as shown by the following subscription Jqa-.> c-AUCjl J
:

manual on the use of the

is

astro-

labe, divided into fifty short sections (Bab),

a table of which

given at the beginning. Author: Nasir ud-Dm Ahmad B. MuhamShirazi,

\>

mad

JW
His name appears again, in a more comform, in the signature of an Ijazah, or licence, on the opposite page, dated in the middle of Muharram, A.H. 796. This licence
pli-to

The

titles

uU^\ o-^J*
opening

prefixed, in the

^ Jb^y
the

are

lines, to

name

WM granted by the
788.

author to an astronomer called Shihab ud-Din 'Abd Ullah, with whom he had read the Zij i Ilkhani in Tabriz, A.n.

of the author, who describes the work, in a short preamble, as t^^k-*^ J* ^j*&From the repeated mention of Isfahan in the examples, it appears to have been written

On the same page

:

is

written,

by another

The year in that city. for which the position of

cated,
fol.

697 of the Hijrah,

some

stars is indiits

hand

29

4, is

probably the date of

composition.

After praising the original work, which he had tested by his own observations, the editor states in the preface, the first page of which

Add. 16,742.
Foil.

158;

9|

in.

by 6; 19

lines,

in.

wanting, that a desire to facilitate its use had induced him to prepare the present Tauzlh, or "lucid exposition," in which, while eliminating some superfluous
is

to beginners

long; written in small Nestalik, with 'Un van and gold-ruled margins, probably in the 16th century. [WM. YULE.] The astronomical tables of Mirzii Ulugh

had inserted useful explanations, and some supplementary tables of his own
portions, he

Beg.

Author

Ulugh Beg
Jfj

B. Shahrukh B. Ti-

composition.

mur Kurgan,

430
Beg.

ASTRONOMY.

U^

UJ\

signates the
of

work
gj>

of

of Shahrukh, Ulugh Beg, the eldest son was appointed horn in Sultaniyyah, A.H. 796, his father, A.H. 812, to the government
his of Mavara un-Nahr, which enjoyed under estabrule a long period of prosperity, and After lished his residence in Samarkand. enhis father's death, and a victorious

JlkL-

*>.**

title Ulugh Beg by the while the Rau ? at u ?-$ am

>

vol. vi. p. 202,

and the Habib us-Siyar,

1. c.,

by

call it

The above statement

of

Ulugh Beg, com-

' ^

bined with the date assigned in the Matla' us-Sa'dain to the building of the observatory, shows that KazI Zadah cannot have died so
as asserted by Haj. Khal., early as A.H. 815, or Ghiyas ud-Dm Jamshid so vol. i. p. 322, late as A.H. 887, as stated in the St. Petersdied during Catalogue, p. 118. Both

counter with his nephew and competitor, in 'Ala ud-Daulah, he ascended the throne troubled Herat, A.H. 852. His short and
reign

when
'Abd

to a tragic end in A.H. 853, he was put to death by his son Mirza

came

burg

the course of the observations, which were

carried

us-Latif-

See Matla' us-Sa'dain,

foil.

vol. iii., 3, 45, 119, 256, Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii. pp. 56675, Price's Retrospect, p. 151,

Juz

and
pp.

Scdillot,

Introduction aux Proldgomenes,

125131.

The observations embodied in the tables were commenced, as the author states in the his master Salah ud-Din Musa, preface, by called KazI-Zadah RumI, and by Ghiya ud-Din Jamshid. The latter, however, havof the work, ing died in the early stage before its conclusion, it was and the former carried on and completed with the assistance
1

on from A.H. 823 to 841. The author of the Haft Ikllm mentions, under Kashan, Add. 16,734, fol. 387, both Mu'in ud-Din Ghiyas ud-Din Jamshid and He adds that the as eminent astronomers. former was ignorant of the etiquette of courts, but that Ulugh Beg was obliged to put up with his boorish manners, because he could not dispense with his assistance. Ghiyas ud-Din wrote for Ulugh Beg, A.H. 818, a See treatise on astronomical instruments.
the Leyden Catalogue, vol. v. p. 237. 'Ala ud-Din 'AH B. Muhammad Kushji became, as a youth, a great favourite of Ulugh and used, while Beg, who called him his son, him with his hawk; hunting, to intrust hence his surname Kushji, "the falconer," which, however, according to the Shaka'ik,

of a youthful astronomer,

AH

B.

Muhamis

mad

Kushji, whom Ulugh Beg loved son. The date of composition

calls his be-

not

expressly
;

stated.

It

was

probably A.H.

taken as the starting 841 of the tables. point of several The building of the observatory, N.E. of
for that year is

was derived from

left his

his father's office.

Hav-

recorded by the contemporary author* of the Matla' us-Sa'dain among the

Samarkand,

is

master clandestinely, 'All proing ceeded to Kirman, where he prosecuted his studies under the best masters, and wrote
his well

The same hisoccurrences of A.H. 823. four astronomers to whom the torian names observations were intrusted, viz. Salah ud:

known commentary upon

ud-Din Tusl.
It

the Tajafter his

rid of Naslr

was

Din Musa KazI Zadah Rum!,

'Ala ud-Din

of Samarkand, GhiKushji, both inhabitants

and Mu'in ud-Din, the yag ud-Din Jamshid, He adds that the last two from Kfishau.

return to Samarkand that Ulugh Beg emhis great ployed him on the completion of astronomical work. Sometime after the death of that prince,
finding himself neglected by his successors, 'AH Kushji repaired to Tabriz, then the residence of Uzun Hasan, the Ak Kuyunlu ruler,

new

tables received the

name

of

^UaL- gj

X /.

The commentator, 'Abd

ul-'Ali, de-

ASTRONOMY.
who
sent

457

him on
II.

a friendly mission to

Muhammad
hy the

latter,

Received with great honour he presented him with a

breaks off at the second page of the concluding table, fol. 200. An additional table without any heading is appended, foil. 201
212.

manual of arithmetic, called, in honour of the Sultan, al-Muhammadiyyah. A treatise on astronomy, subsequently written hy him for the same sovereign, was
entitled al-Fathiyyah in quest of the Irak Ajam.

Add. 7699.
Foil.
;

139; 11

in.

by

7;

33

lines,
;

in.

memory
'All

of the con-

Kushji died in

Constantinople in the reign of Muhammad II., and, according to Haj. Khal., vol. ii. p. 198, A.H. 879. See Habib us-Siyar, vol. Hi.,

long 1081 (A.D. 1670). [01. J. RICH.] The same work. At the end are two additional tables. The
first
is
;

written in small Naskhi

dated A.H.

Juz
p.

3, p. 160, Shaka'ik, Add. 9583, fol. 57, Scheref-Nameb, edited by Veliaminof, vol. ii.

headed ,JuC~ J*c. Jj^ the second i- shows the time of midday and midnight for
the latitude of Antioch,
foil.

131139.

123,

and the
Zij
i

St.

Petersburg Catalogue,

p. 303.

Copyist

Jadid follows the arrangement of the Zij i Ilkhani, and is divided, like the latter work, into four Makalahs, with similar
headings.

The

Add. 16,743.
Foil.

41

They begin

respectively on

9i

in.

by 6

foil.

21 lines, 4f

in.

13 o, 66 a, and 149 a. The contents have been stated in full, from an Arabic
2
6,

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Wn. YULE.]

version, in
p. 239.

the Bodleian Catalogue, vol. ii. The explanatory part of the work

The explanatory

text

of the preceding

work, without the tables.

has been edited, with an introduction, by L. P. E. A. Settllot, Paris, 1847, and a

Add. 23,567.
Foil.

French version by the same scholar was published in 1863. Detached portions have been edited under the titles of "Epoch
celebriores ex traditione Ulug Beigi," by John Greaves, London, 1650, and "Tabulse

261

10

in.

by

19
;

lines,

in.

long ; written in fair Nestalik harram, A.H. 1045 (A.D. 1635).

dated

Mu-

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

longitudinis et latitudinis stellarum ex observatione Ulugh Begi," by Thomas Hyde,

Oxford, 1665.

See also Haj. Khal., vol. iii. des Savants, p. 239, Quatremere, Journal No. Ixv., etc. 1847, pp. 66276, Uri, p. 281,

A commentary
Author: 'Abd Husain Barjandi,
(see

on the preceding work.

ul-'Ali B.
l

Muhammad

B.

^*.
L&*

453

b).

Add. 11,637.
Foil.
;

Beg.
lines,

^Uj

pfcy jl

o^- J

212

10

in.

by

21

in.

The

long written in Ncstalik, apparently in the 16th century. The same work. This copy is more correct than the preceding, but
is

as ,j'laL

entire text of the Zij, here designated with the exception of the jj.j*j,

slightly imperfect at the end; it VOL. II.

distinguished The four Makalahs begin respectively on foil. 5 6, 48 b, 128 a and 235 b.

tables, is inserted in the commentary, and by a red line drawn over it.

458

ASTRONOMY.
the effects resulting from the various positions of the planets, in eleven Babs, fol.

The commentator says in the preface that he had selected the Zij of Ulugh Beg as
being the best

known

in the present time,

its its

and that he had not only elucidated

too concise diction, but often corrected
errors.

Khatimah. Distances and planets, fol. 46 b.

31
a.

sizes of the

The contents are

p. 139.

fully stated

by

Krafft,

end that the work was A.H. 929, corresponding to the composed year 892 of Yazdajird, 1834 of the Greeks, and 445 of the era of Malakshah (A.D. 1523). The same commentary is mentioned in Stewart's Catalogue; p. 103, and in Melanges
It is stated at the

in

See also Uri, p. 284, No. Ixxv., the St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 303, the Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 9, and the Munich CataTurkish translation by logue, p. 137. Katibi llumi is preserved in Add. 7891.

Asiatiques, vol. v. p. 252.

Or. 1560.
8 in. by 4| ; 15 lines, 2| in. long; written in small Naskhi; dated A.H.
Foil.
;

Copyist

109

Add. 23,440.
Foil.

1054 (A.D. 1644).

2
in.

47;

in.

by

5; 19 lines,

long ; written in Naskhi, apparently in the 16th century. [ROBERT TAYLOK.]

I.

Foil.

29. An
10
47.

[SIR HENRY C. RAWLINSON.] Four astronomical treatises, three of which are in Arabic, and one in Persian, viz. Foil. 64 101. A manual of astronomy,
:

Arabic

treatise

on

without author's name.

fti^M

prosody (see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 644).

II.

It is the ^J X3L*,

Foil.

A treatise on astronomy,

of 'All

Kushji,

described under the

without

preceding number.

title.

4)1

J.

&*ij

Add. 25,871.
in. by 6f ; 13 lines, 4 in. 78 ; long ; written in Shikastah-amiz, in the 19th cen-

The author's name, which does not appear in the text,

(^Itjtjj
is

Foil.

10

found in the heading ^J*

Kushi, or Kushji, and his
b.

^y.

'All

works, have already been mentioned, p. 456

The present treatise is, no doubt, the astronomical manual which he composed for Muhammad II. Some copies contain a dedication to that Sultan. See the Vienna Catalogue, vol.
it
ii.

[Wii. CURETON.] Arabic commentary, by Mir Sharif, on the Isagoge; see the Arabic Catalogue p. 243.
I.

tury.

Foil. 2

35.

An

p. 489.
title

Haj. Khal. mentions

The treatise on astroabove mentioned. Some spaces renomy served for diagrams have been left blank.
II. Foil.

3678.

of &L^\ ^J S3U,, vol. iii. The work noticed by him as *#*, p. 458. vol. iv. p. 379, appears to be a more extended

under the

Foil.

32;

Add. 7702. 7| in. by 4; 23

in

Arabic recension of the same treatise. Contents Mukaddimah. Preliminary no:

long;

written

lines, 3| in. minute Nestalik, dated

tices of
fol.

geometry and physics, in two Kisms,

A.H. 1112 (A.D. 17001). [01. J. RICH.] A treatise on the instruments used for
astronomical observations, especially in the observatories of Alexandria, Maraghah, and

I. The heavenly bodies, in six Babs, fol. 13 a. Makalah II. Figure of the globe, its division into climates, and

10

b.

Makalah

Samarkand.

ASTRONOMY.
Author
:

459

'Abd ul-Mun'im 'Amili,

a short residence in Shir a z with the object of perfecting himself in astrology, but was

Beg.
the preface, which is incomplete, it appears that the work was written in Isfahan by order of the reigning Shah (Tahmiisp), and nearly three hundred years after the

anxious to return speedily to Lar, where he had judicial functions, and was known as the Mufti.
Contents
fol.
:

From

b.

Makalah

Preface and table of chapters, I. Computation of al-

manacks, in
t

five Babs, fol.

b.

Makalah

II.

completion of Nasir ud-Din's tables, *. e. about A.H. 970. The instruments are minutely described, and The work bears no
illustrated
title,

Nativities, in three Bfibs, fol. 74 a. im.-ih. Mode of writing horoscopes, fol. 101 a.

KM-

The date 1113, which appears

scription, has probably earlier MS.
II. Foil.

in the sub-

by diagrams.
is

been copied from an

but

endorsed

113131.

Foil. 27 b
tracts.

32 contain miscellaneous ex-

Arabic treatise by Muhammad Sibt alMaridini (see Arabic Catalogue, p. 201 a) on the method of reckoning degrees and minutes.
It
is

An

Or. 1573.
Foil. 137; 8J in. by 5J; 21 lines, 3| in. long; written in Naskhi, apparently in tinI'Jth
1.

abridged from the

jAS^ v-i^

of Shi-

hab ud-Din

Ahmad Ibn ul-Majdi (Haj.

and
is

Khal.,

vol. v., p. 205),

entitled ^J

century.
Foil.

[SiR

1111.

&

HKNKY
j

C. RAWLINSON.]

J
Or. 372.
lines, 6 in. with goldlong; ruled margins, apparently in the 17th cen-

treatise

on the computation of almanativities.

nacks and of

Author: Kutb ud-Din [B.] Izz ud-Din [H.] 'Abd ul-ljayy uz Zahidi ul-Kabri ulHusaini ul-Lari,

Foil.

419; 13*

in.

by 8

31

written in fair Nestalik

tury.

Beg.

e
Astronomical tables of the reign of Shahjahan.

author's object was, as stated in the preface, to elucidate for beginners the directions given

The

Author

Farid Ibrahim Dihlavi,

by Mirza Ulugh Beg B. ShahBeg.

rukh.

prayer for the continuation of the reign of Shah *Abl)us, with which the work con-

approximative^ the date of composition to A.H. 9961038. The year 1027, which is repeatedly used in the example? of calculation, foil. 5 b, 44 b, was probably the current year at the time of writing. The author states incidentally, fol. 90 b, tliat he had left his native country, Lar, for
cludes, refers

Mulla Farid Dihlavi was the court-astroShiihjahfm. emperor, calculated

nomer of

The horoscope
by him,
is

of that

inserted at

i. p. 97. length in the Padishah Namah, The author says in the preface that, afteron the Shahjahtin had ascended the throne, 8th of Jumada II., A.H. 1037, it occurred to

vol.

E 2

ASTRONOMY.
the Vazlr Asaf

Khan
and

to

make

that yea,r the

i

Add. 14,373.
11| in. by 7| 12 lines, 4f in. written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and long gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 18th
Foil. 222;
; ;

starting point of a

new

era, similar to the

Tarikh

Jalnli,

to be called Tarikh

Ilahl

Shiihjahani. mitted to

The

subproject having been

Shahjahan

and

approved,

the

author received the royal commands to preas pare a new Zij in accordance with it, and, -there was not sufficient time for fresh obsertables vations, the work was based upon the

century.

[FRANCIS GLADWIN.]

Ulugh Beg, which, however, received many corrections and improvements. The year 1011 of the Hijrah, for which the was propositions of the stars are calculated,
of

Astronomical tables by Rajah Jai-Singh

Sawa'l,

^y*

tiii->

s-^

*>-^

Beg. ^li/s^ofi- ^L-j-jy*

j.^) ibj*- &j~

si'

i^US

bably the current year at the time of writing. If so, the statement of the Tabakati ShahMulla Farid jahani, Or. 1673, fol. 320, that

Jai Singh, a Rljput of the princely house of Kachhwahah, originally called Bijai Singh,

Munajjim died A.H. 1039, must be

incorrect.

Mulla Farid wrote, according to the same dediauthority, an historical work, ,_.,
cated to Shahjahan.

succeeded to his father Bishan Singh, as Rajah of Amber, in A.D. 1699, the 44th year of Aurangzib's reign, and held high military

commands under
cessors.

that emperor and his suc-

The work
Zij

is

of

Ulugh

divided, in agreement with the Beg, into a Mukaddimah and

Shah he was governor of the provinces of Agra and MalHe founded in A.D. 1728 the new vah.

Under

Muhammad

four Makalahs, as follows : Mukaddimah, or prolegomena, treating of Zvjs in general, and of the peculiar features of the present work,
in five Kisms, fol. 3 b. Makfilah I., treating, in nine Babs, of the following eras and their

capital of his estate, called after him Jaipur, and died after a prosperous rule of 44 years,

in A.D. 1743, the 25th year of Muhammad See Skinner, Add. 27,254, fol. 75, Shah.

reductions, viz.

ning on the

Shahjahanl, beginof Farvardin of the year day of Shahjahan' s accession. 2. Hijrah. 3. Greek 4. Persian era. 5. MalakT, or Jalall, era.
:

1. Ilahl

Ma'air ul-Umara, fol. 221, Tazkirat ulUmara, Add. 16,703, fol. 137 ft, Tod, Annals
of Rajasthan, vol.
giri, p.
fol.
ii.

first

p. 356, Ma'agir
i

'Alam-

424, and Tarikh

Muzaffari, Or. 466,

222.

era.
eras,

Sambat. 7. Chinese and Uighur fol. 6 6. Makalah II. Knowledge of

6.

times, and of the ascendant of each time, in twenty-two Babs, fol. 13 b, with tables,

observed, as he states in the preface, that the current almanacks, based upon the Tables of Ulugh Beg >w.j*-

The author, having

gj

planets and
417.

III. Motion of the and their positions, in fifstars, teen Babs, fol. 90 a, with tables, foil. 98
foil.

2189. Makalah

Of Makfilah IV. the present copy contains

foil. 418, 419. only the last three Fasls, They agree with the corresponding sections of Bab I. in Ulugh Beg's fourth Makalah.

Khakanl, and upon the Zij ^j^i explanations L^^i^-J written by Mulla Chand in Akbar's reign, and by Mulla Farld in the reign of Shahjahan, were all more or less incorrect, represented the matter to Muhammad Shah, and received in consequence the

upon the

57,

emperor's commands to call together skilled astronomers, Muslim, Brahman, and European, in order to institute new and

The MS. bears the stamps of the kings of

Oude.

more accurate

observations.

He

had, thereat Dehli,

fore, astronomical instruments

made

ASTRONOMY.
first,

461

some similar to those used at Samarkand, and subsequently some others, larger and
truer, of his

UU
phets."

^Itf,

" the

Book

of Ja-

own

invention.

With

miisp, treating of the horoscopes of the pro-

these he

caused concurrent observations to be

made

in Dehli, Jaipur, Mathura, Benares, and UjWhen they had been carried on for jain.

Beg.

J\
is

seven years, he sent some competent persons, with Padre Manoel, to Europe, and, after their return, compared the tables they had brought with back, namely those of de la

ascribed to the sage Jamasp, Vazir of Shah Gushtiisp. It _.>., treats of the conjunctions of the planets, and

The work

their influence
illustrated

on the

fate of

mankind, as

Hire'^,

his

own.

The

results

of those

combined

by the horoscopes of the chief pro-

observations were then embodied in the present work, which was completed, according
to Tod, vol.
ii.

p. 360, in

A.D. 1728 (A.H.

phets and kings. The introduction consists of a Muhammadan doxology, a chapter on the high place
of

man

in creation,

and a detailed description

11401).
and arrangement the present work agrees in the main with the
In
its

division

of the planets in their

human

shapes, show-

Zij of

Ulugh Beg.

It contains the follow:

ing three Books (Makalah) I. On the four current eras, viz. those of the
Hijrah, of Muhammad Shah, of Christ, and of Samvat, in four Babs, fol. 5 b. II. On the

ing the number of their hands and the various emblems which they hold. In the early part of the work the history
of the prophets of the

Muslim

tradition is

determination of the ascendant of each time,

curiously blended with that of the early kings of Persia. From the time of GushUwp, fol. 11 a, the narrative assumes the

C*j f

^,j>*j* 10 b. III. On the motions of the planets and stars, and their positions in altitude and luML'itml'-, in a Mukaddimah, four Bubs, and
t

i$\t

in nineteen Babs, fol.

form of prophecy. The principal dynasties of the East are foreshadowed in more or less transparent language, the advent of
each

being

heralded by some

conjunction of the planets

shown

particular in a dia-

:i

Kh.ttimah.fol. 128*.

See

the

"Account of the astronomical

labours of Jaya Sinha," by Dr. W. Hunter, Asiatic Researches, vol. v. p. 177 211, where Jai Singh's preface is given in the
original language with a translation. The fly-leaf contains an English notice of the work and contents, in which the date of

gram. The Saljukis, fol. 28 ft, the Ayyubis, the Khwara/mshahi, fol. 31 a, Atsiz j*>s\
fol.

Chingiz Khan, fol. 33 6, are Further on the vatidistinctly mentioned.

31

b, lastly

cinations

become vague and confused. They conclude with the end of the world, preceded

by

its

traditional forerunners.

It will

be seen from the above that the

composition

is

wrongly given as A.D. 1696.

contents are mainly of

Muhammadan
little

origin.

Add. 77H.
Foil.

The work has probably

more than the

name
lines

in

common

46; 104

in.

by 7; 17

in.

of the Parsis.
1>.
1

with the Jamasp Namah See Wilson, Parsi Religion,

in die tradi-

long; written in Naskhi, apparently in the

!,">,

and Spiegel, Einleitung

15th century.

[Cl. J.

RICH.]

tionelle Literatur der Parsen, p. 182.

An
De

astrological
la Hire's

work, with the heading

Add. 8897.
Ephemeride* were publiihed
in

1700

and 1702.

single sheet,

34

in.

by 48, containing a

462

ASTKONOMY.
Or. 1120.
14; 12| by 8; written in fair Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, A.D.
Foil.

of Planisphere, or pictorial representation the cosmic system of the Hindus, with the

symbolical figures of the signs of the zodiac, of the mansions of the moon, constellations,
presiding divinities, etc. The names are written in both the Devanagari and Nestalik characters, with short explanations in Persian
;

1777.

[WARREN HASTINGS.]
Ilahi year of the

An almanack for the 18th

18th century.

which began on the reign (of Shah 'Alam), 10th of Safar, A.H. 1191 (March, A.D. 1777),
calculated for Dehli.

Add. 16,874.
Foil.

Add. 16,861,
Foil. 16;
lik,

long

59 ; 8| in. by 4f 15 lines, 3| in. dated written in cursive Nestalik

; ;

llj

in.

by 7

written in Nesta-

Lucknow, Sha'bfm, A.H. 1217 (A.D. 1802). [WM. YULE.]

A.D. 1801. [WM. YULE.] almanack for the 85th Ilahi year of the era of Muhammad Shah, beginning on the 5th of Zulhijjah, A.H. 1215 (March 21, A.D. 1801), calculated for Dehli.

An

Translation of a treatise on the virtues and

influences of the eight and twenty lunar
Foil.
JU-,,

Add. 18,421.
30
;

mansions, j$
Translator:

JjU*

i^y-

apparently

9 in. by 7^
for

written in Nestalik,

A.D. 1803.

from the Arabic.

[WM. YULE.]
the 87th Ilahi year

Muhammad

B.

Muhammad

Two almanacks
of the era of

Muhammad

Sudik 'Alam Beg. j

Shah, beginning on

(sic)

the 27th of Zulka'dah, A.H. 1217 (March 21, 1803), calculated for Lucknow and Dehli.

The translator says that the original work had been extracted by Aristotle from the books of Hermes. The text is accompanied
by figures representing the lunar mansions. The translation was completed, as stated at the end, fol. 47 J, in A.H. 1216. The latter part of the volume contains 1. An appendix, by the translator, on the
:

NATURAL HISTORY.
Add. 16,739.
Foil.
;

416; 8|

in.

by 5f

17
;

lines, 3

in.

long written in 965 (A.D. 1558).

fair

Nestalik

dated A.H.

[WM. YULE.]

"

seals," or

symbols of the planets,

^\

&?\r-

s.L~> with drawings, completed in

Jumada II.,

A.H. 1217, foil. 48 656 b. 2. A short tract on precious stones, foil. 56 b 59 5, apparently by the same writer. A note on the first page shows that the MS. came, A.H. 1217, into the possession of the Safavi Prince, Abul-Fath Sultan-Muhammad (see p. 133 b).

The "Wonders
Beg.

of Creation,"

translated

from the Arabic of al-Kazvml.

'**^ *$\ iiiJ^ *V^J The Arabic text has been edited by F. Wiistenfeld, Gottingen, 1848, and a German translation has been published by Dr.
]

H.

Ethe", Leipzig,

1868.

See also S. de Sacy's

NATURAL HISTORY.
Chrestomathie, vol. iii. pp. 427 450, Newbold, Journal of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, vol. xiiL pp. 632 66, Nicoll, Bodleian Catalogue, p. 234, Reinaud, Geographic d'Aboul450, etc. feda, Introduction, pp. 427 in Tehran, work has also been printed

463

The same work. In spite of some verbal differences, this version agrees in the main with the preceding. The first two leaves, supplied by a later hand,
contain a preface beginning thus
j^Jl
jo
:

The A.H.

Jlyu ,x-

1264.
i

Another
i^,
vol.

Persian

version,

entitled

AiN

is fully

described in the Vienna

Ixvi.,

j , which conjib" j^/- jSUoL* tains neither the author's name, nor the dedi-

jl

cation above mentioned.

The

final

lines,

Jahrbiicher,

Anzeigeblatt,

pp.

4850.
is

In the present version no translator's name given, nor is there any mention made of

which are wanting, have been replaced, in the same handwriting, by a spurious conclusion, dated A.H. 1051 (A.D. 1641).
This copy contains neat astronomical diagrams, foil. 10 16, a map of the world, fol.

the work being a translation. The doxology has been preserved in the original language. The author's preface includes a dedication,

59

b,

and a great number of

fair

drawings

not found in the printed Arabic text, to a man of rank called 'Izz ud-Din ShahpurB. 'Usman, who appears to have held the post of Sadr,

in Indian style, mostly in gold, representing 29, the wonders of constellations, foil. 19

the islands and seas,

foil.

foil.

60

J\P

128148, demons, mals and monsters, foil. 233

foil.

plants, 222225, ani-

83,

285.

The author s name differs

It is written here

in various copies.

Or. 1371.
Poll.

Jfr^ i>y^

^ o-^* ^ \fj

405; 11 J

in.

^jjil.

in

agreement with the statement of

long

written in fair

4 in. Nestalik, with TJnvan

by

7;

15

lines,

a nearly contemporary writer, l.hund Ullah Mustaufi, of Kazvin, who, in the Nuzhat ulKulub, ascribes the present work, as well as
the As-ir ul-Hilad, to the same author. This copy contains drawings in Persian
style,

and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century bound in richly painted covers.
;

[Sm
The same
version.

C. ALEX.

MUBBAY.]

the planets and constellations,

both plain and coloured, representing foil. 14 39,

This copy contains numerous drawings, in Indian style, carefully executed in gold

and

colours.

-253.

A set of coloured drawings in Indian style,

representing
constellations,

Add. 16,738.
4* in. long ; written in plain Nestalik, about the close of the 17th century. [Wn. YULE.] The same work, with rather coarse drawFoil.

animals,

and

plants, with Arabic names, is 416. the end, foil. 328

F..11.

appended at

248;

in.

11^

by 7i; 27

lines,

108153, 170180, 292300, have

later hands.

been supplied by

ings.

Add. 7706.
Foil. 286; 11$ in. by 7; 21 lines, 4 in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unviin

Add. 5603.
10| in. by 6$; 17 lines. 3* in. written in plain Nestalik; dated Mulong; harram, A.H. 1097 (A.D. 1685).
Foil. 380;

and gold-ruled margins, probably

century.

in the 16th

[Cl. J. Ricu.]

464

NATURAL HISTORY.
and ruled margins dated A.H. 125 (probably for 1205, A.D. 1790).
;

The same work, with coloured drawings

of constellations, plants, and animals. On the first page is a seal containing an name in the Persian character

European

wjy o^'u^ (j^*f>

Matthseus Reuss.

apparently Johannes

[Geo. WM. HAMILTON.] Another version of the same work. The translator, whose name does not appear,
states in a short preamble,

which follows the

v

Arabic doxology of the original, and begins

Add. 16,740.
Toll.

404; 10

in.

by 6|; 17

lines,

in.

long

written in cursive Nestalik, apparently

in the 18th century.

[Wn. YULE.] work. The same The blank spaces reserved for drawings
left

was written in the reign of Abul-Muzaffar Ibrahim 'Adil Shah B. 'Adil Shah B. 'Adil Shah, and for His Majesty's end of al-Kazvini's library. He adds, at the in the beginpreface, that it was completed ning of Sha'ban, A.H. 954.
that this version

have been

empty. The first page bears the stamp of General Claud Martin (see p. 2 a).

Ibrahim, the third of the 'Adilshahis of Futuhat i Bijapur, reigned, according to the

Add. 27,251, from A.H. 941 to 963,

'Adilshahi,

foil.

55, 77,

297,

or,

according to

4| in. long written in fair Naskhi, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins dated A. H. 845
Foil.
;

342;

Add. 23,564. 10| in. by 6; 21

;

Firishtah, vol.

lines,

(A.D. 1441).

[ROBERT TAYLOR.] Another translation of the same work.

A.H. 965. The present version, which differs from the preceding by its modernized and prolix diction, has been lithographed in the press of Naval Kishor, A.H. 1283. The MS. contains numerous coloured
ii.

p. 64, till

drawings in Indian

style,
foil.

representing planets

The

first

page

is lost

the second contains

and
87
foil.

constellations,

31
foil.

84, angels,

foil.

the latter part of the untranslated doxology of the original.

103, the wonders of the seas and islands,

This version differs materially from the preceding ; it is shorter, more archaic in language, and follows the Arabic much closer. The author's name is written Muhammad
B.

165223, plants, animals, foil. 470581.

336394, and

Add. 23,565.
Foil. 79; 8

Muhammad

B.
of

Muhammad
is

ul-Kazvini.

The same form

name

found in an addi-

long

in. in. by 5|; 14 lines, 3 written in Nestalik ; dated A.H. 1206

tion to Haj. Khal., vol. iv. p. 189, in the Bodleian MS., and in other copies ; see de Sacy's Chrestomathie, vol. iii. p. 444.

(A.D. 1791).

A treatise
Author
:

[ROBERT TAYLOR.] on precious stones and metals.

B. Mansur,

Muhammad

This copy contains coloured drawings of constellations, animals, and plants, some of

which have been purposely defaced.

Beg.

Or. 373.
Foil.

A
lines,

detailed abstract of the contents

by

681; 13|

in.

by 8|; 15

n.

Hammer will be found in the Mines de See also the 1'Orient, vol. vi. p. 126142.
Vienna Jahrbiicher,
vol.

long

written in large Nestalik, with 'Unvan

66,

Anzeigeblatt,

NATURAL HISTORY.
Catalogue, p. 95, and Fliigel, Vienna Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 516. The work was written, as stated in the
p. 52, Stewart's

405

Another copy of the preceding work, in which the dedicatory portion of the preface has been omitted.

by desire of a prince called AbulFath Khalil Bahadur Khan, son of the Sultan Abu Nasr Hasan Bahadur Khan, who appears from the following pompous titles,
preface,

Or. 30.
Foil.

221

8J

in.

by 5

11

lines,

2|

in.

long

written in neat Nestalik, dated Rajab,

[G. C. RENOUAKD.]

A.H. 951 (A.D. 1544).

}\ *>Uj

^.'-.jN

^j*

JJ1

Ji-

y,'*.

to have been the

reigning

sovereign, but

whose

time and

treating of the properties and uses "of natural substances, also of divination and
astrology.

A work

country have not been ascertained. The only clue to the period in which he lived is found in the following epithet, "the promised one of the seventh hundred," which seems to imply that he reigned about A.
1 1
.

Author:

hammad

ul-Mutahhar B. MuB. Abil-Kasim B. Abi Sa*id ul-

Abu Bakr

Jamal, called al-Yazdi,

700, and which is apparently the sole authority for the date given by Stewart, I.e., viz.

The author, who

in

his verses uses the

A.D. 1300.
for
(

The work must, however, have

Takhallus Jamali, describes himself as an

inhabitant of the village of Mayakh, in the district of Tun, u y Y*.\i **>,> U-5-

been written at a somewhat later period,

Khan, who died A.H. 703, is 77 a, as a king of the past. spoken It is divided into an introduction (Mukaddimah) on minerals and their origin, and two books (Makalah). Makafol. 7 lah I., fol. 9 o, comprises twenty chapters
ill. i/.

in

of, fol.

[ic]

.Vw>\ *,/^. He

gU

states in the preface,

which is slightly defective at the beginning, that he was addicted to poetry, and was preTarik u Jauza paring a fair copy of his poem
\-j. 3

(Bab), treating of as many species of precious Makalah II., fol. 66 a, contains stones.

Jj^ when some

friends, assembled in

seven chapters on metals.

most frequently quoted are the philosopher Abu Raihan (al-Biruni), and Taifiishi, the author of an Arabic treatise on precious stones, who died A.H. 651 (Ilaj.

The

authorities

house on the occasion of the birth of his son Abul-Kfisim, praised the Nuzhat Namah i 'Ala'i as a book replete with useful knowwrite one of the ledge, and urged him to
his

Yielding to their entreaties he composed the present work, and dedicated it to the Va/ir Majd ud-Din Ahmad

same

description.

Khal., vol.

iii.

p. 582).

B. Masud,
3j*~*
.j>

\jj}\
,

**f\

^Jlj >\3 who was his

diL.

*?

^\s.j^o

father's bene-

Add. 25,870.
Foil.

88; 8

in.

by

5;

11

lines,

3J

in.

He adds that he factor, as well as his own. it in the month of Ramaxan, completed A.H. 580, and claims indulgence on the
score of his youth, as he

long; written in Xestalik, apparently about the beginning of the 19th century.
[Wsr. CUBETON.]
VOL.
II.

was then

in his

eighteenth year.

The

title

is

written

*U

but

the

406

NATURAL

HIST011Y.

M\J reading of Haj. Khal., vol. iv. p. 412, with *U L!**}JJ is, on account of its parallelism

MEDICINE.
Add. 23,556.
Foil.
;

more

likely to

be correct.

The same writer

492
;

gives A.H. 560 as the date of composition, and, in his notice on the Nuzhat Namah,
vol. vi. p.

18

in.

by 11

27

lines,

6J

in.

336, which he knew only from the

long 17th century.

I.

written in Nestalik, apparently in the

[Ron. TAYLOR.]

above preface, takes 'Alal to designate the author. Jamiili, however, gives him another name, but one which cannot be read with certainty in the present copy ; for the passage incorrectly written, as follows
:

Foil.

2477.

is

encyclopedia of medical science. Zain ud-Din Abu Ibrahim Isma'al B. Hasan B. Ahmad B. Muhammad ul-

An

Author

The Farah Namah comprises the following

books (Makalat), subdivided into 1. Useful properties of chapters (Fasl) various parts of the body in men and quasixteen
:

Husaini ul-JurjanT,
^-j^
Beg.

>*"*

drupeds,

fol.

b.

2.

Useful properties of

birds, reptiles,

and

insects, fol.

53

a.

3.

Pro-

4iJJj

*-

&>

perties of trees, vegetables, and seeds, fol. 84 b. 4 6. Properties of herbs and leaves,
fol.

319

ft,

of gums,

fol.

122

b,

of stones

and

metals,
fol.

Drugs and perfumes, and Firasat, fol. 144 a. Oils, 9. Divination by shoulder-blades, and astrofol. 150 a. 10. Auguries derived from logy,
fol.

125
8.

a.

7.

the opening lines, the devoted servant of the just and wise Padishah, Kutb ud-Dunya wad-Din
calls himself, in

The author

135

a.

Khwarazm Shah Abul-Fath Muhammad B. Yamin ud-Dm, Mu*In Amir ul-Muminin.

He

throbbings of the muscles divination of the death or recovery of the sick ; vocabulary of
;

having been brought by the Khwarazm in A.H. 504, he had been induced by the fair climate of that
states that,

divine decree to

Pehlevi words,

fol.

181

a.

11. Poisons

and

antidotes, fol. 198

b.

12.

Mode
b.

of dissolving

country, and the able and righteous rule of He its sovereign, to fix there his abode.
dedicates the present work to His Majesty, as a grateful return for the favours showered

gold, pearls, etc., fol.

tricks,

207

13.

Conjuring
14.
fol.

magic

inks, etc., fol.

210

b.

Kha217
a.

vatim, or symbols, of the planets,

The

latter part of the fourteenth book, the

but the concluding lines of the sixteenth, are wanting.

fifteenth,
all

and

His object in compiling it was to supply a want which he had felt himself while studying, that of a comprehensive

upon him.

Copyist:

copy of a similar work is described in the Vienna Catalogue, vol. ii. The p. 517. same volume contains the second Makfilah of
the Nuzhat

work which would offer the required information on every branch of the medical science, and save a physician the trouble and loss of time involved in consulting other
books.

Namah

'Ala'i,

son of Nushtigin, the founder of the Khwarazmshilhi dynasty, was a vassal

Muhammad,

He was appointed governor of the Saljukis. of Khwarazm by Sanjar, in the reign of Barkyaruk, and received the titles of Kutb

MEDICINE.
and Khwiirazm Shah in A.H. His son Atsiz, who succeeded to him A.H. 522, and assumed independence A.H. See Jami'ut-Tavarikh, 535, died A.H. ">1.
lid-Din 491.

467
;

toms of disease
I-'

accidents of the body,

fol.

b.

III. Preservation of health, fol.

79

6.

Diagnosis of diseases; crisis and prognosis; fol. 151 b. V. Fevers, their various
kinds, their

IV.

Add.TC.L'SGuzidah, and Kamil.vol. xi.p.490. Yakut, who mentions our author, Abu Ibrahim B. ul-Ham K. Muhammad ul-Huillustrious natives of JurjSn, says that, after staying a long time in Khwiisaini,

symptoms and treatment,

fol.

among the

VI. Local diseases and their treatment, fol. 2054. VII. Tumours, ulcers, etc., fol. 388 b. VIII. Care to be taken of the exb.

168

ternal parts of the body, hair, skin, nails, etc.,

razm, he repaired to Marv, where he died A.H. 531; see Mu'jam, vol. ii. p. 55. Ibn Abi Usaibi'ah, who calls him Sharif Sharaf

ud-Din Isma'il, Add. 7:UO, fol. 132, speaks of the great reganl in which he stood at the court of 'Ala ud-Din [fie] Muhammad Kliu.i

razm Shah, and mentions the four following works as composed by him in Persian for
prince the present work, in twelve volumes, the Kliafi 'Ala'i in two small
that

IX. Poisons and antidotes, fol. 417 b. X. Simple and compound medicaments, fol. 431 b. Some leaves of book ix., viz., foil. 418, . li'ii 8, which are partly in another handwriting, contain a portion of a different recension, in which that book is divided into live Guftars, instead of six Makalahs. At the end is a note, written by the same
fol.

411

b.

hand as the
-eriher,

text,

and stating that the tran-

volumes, the Airlirax in two, and the

in one.
vol.
i.

Y..dL,'ar

vi. p.

All four are noticed by Haj. Khal. p. ::i;s. v .,l. iii. pp. !<;_>. 330, and vol. 5f>7, who calls the author Isma'd B. ul-

Bakir B. 'Inayat Ullah ul-Husaini, had completed the collation of the present copy on the 17th of Rajab,

Muhammad

A.H. 1095.
II.

Husain, and gives in one place A.H. 535, and in another A.H. 530, as the date of his

Fol.

478492.
human
Mansur B.

A
body.

treatise

on the
B.

Khw.nid Amir, who gives him tinsame name, Habib us-Siyar, vol. ii., Juz. I.
death.
p. 170, is
li-

anatomy of the
Author:
mad,

Muhammad

Ah-

manifestly wrong in stating that

under Tukush, who reigned All. The appendix to the Sivfm ulHikrnah contains a notice on the author, who is there called Zain ud-Din Ismfi'il B. ul Hasan ul-JurjAni; see the I.evden Catalived

668596.

The preface contains a dedication to an Amir-z.idah Pir Muhammad, who is addressed

as the reigning sovereign with the following
titles,

logue,

vol.

ii.

p. 295.

Compare

Stewart's
Ui

Catalogue, pp. 106 and 108, KraflVs Catalogue. j>. 1 \1, and De Jong, Catalogus Codd. >rr. Bihl. Arad. Keiriaj, p. 228, note 2.
<

The/aklurah consists of ten books (Kitub), which are enumerated in the preface, and to each of which is prefixed a full table of

That prince, whose age and country are not

called in Stewart's Catalogue, of the copy p. 109, perhaps on the authority

indicated,

is

numerous subdivisions termed Guftars and JJilis. Thoy are as follows: I. Definition
medicine; composition, structure, and powers of the human body, fol. 4 a. II. Health and disease; causes and symp-

there described, "Pir grandson of Timur.

Muhammad

Jahanglr,

and

utility of

Mirza Pir

Muhammad,

second son of Mirza

was pro.Jahanglr, the eldest son of Timur, Vali 'Ahd, or heir apparent, on the claimed
F 2

408
death of his elder brother, Sultan

MEDICINE.
MuhamKanun
of 'Ala

ud-Dm

'All

Ibn un-Nafis ul-

mad, in A.H. 805.

Having been appointed some years previously to the government of K.ibul, he was the first of the Timuride princes who invaded India, and held an
important command in the Indian campaign, undertaken at his instigation by Timur. At the latter's death he was left in possession of the Indian provinces and Zabulistan, but
did not enjoy it long, being murdered on the 14th of Ramazan, A.H. 809, by one of his Amirs. Another grandson of Timur

work published in Calcutta. Kurashi, See the Leyden Catalogue, vol. iii. 1828. In the present work he quotes 266. p. several times that celebrated physician, and it appears from the formula which he adds
a

name, s^f- d\ iL^ ^Jj> ^j jJ\ ?"&& +\*\ that he was writing after his death, which took place A.H. 687. See Haj. Khal., vol. vi. p. 251, and Wiistenfeld, Geschichte der Arabischen Aertzte, p. 146. After some considerations on the high
to his
,

who

bore

the same name,

B.

viz.

Mirza Pir

'Umar Shaikh, ruled in the province of Ears from A.H. 796 to 812. See Matla' us-Sa'dain, Or. 1291, fol. 25, and
Jahanara,
foil.

Muhammad

importance of a knowledge of anatomy, the author sets forth at length the diviIt consists of an inon the parts of the body in The first general, and of two books (Kitabl. treats of the simple parts of the body, and

sions of his treatise.

troduction

174, 177.
:

The work is divided as follows Mukaddimah. Component parts of the human body, fol. 479 a. Makalah I. Bones, fol. 480 a.
II.

485
fol.

Nerves, fol. 483 a. III. Muscles, fol. b. IV. Veins, fol. 486 b. V. Arteries,

comprises six chapters (Bab), as follows I. Bones, in fifteen sections (Easl). II. Nerves, in five sections. HI. Veins, in five sections.
:

489

a.

Khutimah.

Complex organs;

IV. Arteries, in four sections. V. Muscles, in The second book thirty sections. VI. Skin.
treats, in

development of the embryo, fol. 490 a. It is illustrated by five anatomical drawings, occupying a whole page each. It has been edited under the title of
erjr ai-

seventeen Babs, of as

many com-

plex organs.

The present copy, which appears to have been transcribed from a defective MS., contains only the following disjointed portions

by Mansiir 'All, Dehli, A.H. 1264. Another work of the same author, *>\a
jf, will be

of the work
I.,

Mukaddimah,
1.

mentioned further on,

Bab
3.

p.

470 b.

I.,

Easl

fol. 4 a. Book Bones in general, fol.

5b.

Easl.

Add. 26,307.
by 9 23 lines, 5 in. long; written in large Naskhl, apparently in the 18th century. [WM. ERSKINE.]
Eoll. 41;
in.
;

Easl
Easl

4.

2. Bones of the head, fol. 6 b. Bones of the upper jaw, fol. 8 a. Bones of the nose, fol. 9 b. Bab V.

15

Muscles, in thirty Easls, complete, fol. 10 a. Book II. Bab I. The brain, fol. 31 a. Bab

A treatise

on the anatomy of the human

body, designated as gjt3 J&ji^Ii? Author: Abul-Majd ut-Tablb ul-Baizavi,

Beg.

The eye, fol. 33 a. Bab III. The ear, fol. 36 a. Bab IV. The nose, fol. 36 b. Bab V. The tongue, fol. 37 a. Bab VI. The throat and gullet, fol. 37 b. Bab VII. The diaphragm and chest, fol. 38 a. Bab VIII. The Bab IX. The gullet and heart, fol. 386. Bab X. The liver, stomach, fol. 39 b.
II.
fol.

40

b.

Abul-Majd ul-Baizavi is mentioned as the author of a commentary on the Mujiz ul-

Of the
extant.

Bab the beginning only is 41 contains the latter part of Eol.

last
.

MEDICINE.
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469

Bab of Book

I.,

which treats of

the arteries.
ir
ir

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Stewart's

dated Julong ; written in fair Nestalik mada I, the 5th year of Bahadur Shah, (A.H. 1123, A.D. 1711). [Wii. YULK.]

Persische

Catalogue, p. 109, Leyden Catalogue, vol. iii. p. 277, De Jong, Catal. Bibl. Acad. Reg.,
p. 227,

and Copenhagen Catalogue,

p. 13.

work on materia medica. Author: 'Ali B. ul-IIusain

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(

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in.
II.,

Je-

A.H. 832 (A.D. U29). The same work.

Copyist
:

[Cl. J.

RICH.]

traced his pedigree to 'Abd Ullah Ansari, was born A. II. 730,
'Ali,

Zain ud-Din

who

Foil.

251

63 contain Ibn

Sinfi's

poem on

in Shir.iz,
Ilusain,

Jamal ud-Din a physician of Isfahan, had settled

where
his father,

the soul (see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 402, xiii.), with a version in Persian verse, and

A. II. 715.

He

stood high in the favour of

an Arabic commentary.

Shah Shuja' (who reigned A.U. 760786), and was during sixteen years in constant attendance upon him. IJe died A.H. 806,
leaving, besides the present work, the following medieal treatises: Miftuh ul-KhazA'in,

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Si fat
i

long; written in Nestalik; dated Sha'bim in the 26th year of the reign (of Aurangzih),

A.H. 94 (i.e. 1091, A.D. 1G83). The first Makalat of the same work, with
copious marginal corrections.

108.

The Ikhtiyarat
Badi'

Badi*i is so called

from

name of ul-.JaiiKil, whom it is dedicated. The

the
sition,

the princess to date of compo-

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long;

apparently in

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

470

MEDICINE.
first

The
Foil.

Makalat of the same work.

contain a fragment on various kinds of soil and of water, designated

266270

A manual of medicine.
Author
:

by

their

Hindu names.
:

Mansiir B.

Muhammad B. Ahmad

Copyist

B. Yiisuf B. Ilyas,

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Beg. Ll51

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The work has been lithographed, with the of tjjyai* title t^ in Lucknow, A.H. 1290. The author is evidently the same as
that of the treatise
described, p.

probably of the 17th century.

of

[EDWARD GALLEY.]

467

b,

wbo

anatomy already there calls himself

The second Makalat of Ikhtiyarat i Badi'i, At the treating of compound medicaments. end is added a chapter on some Hindu
preparations called Pak,
foil.

76ft

79.

Copyist:

Add. 17,948.
;

In a which is omitted in the present copy, but is found in the next, as well as in the Lucknow edition, he dedicates the present manual to a sovereign to whose court he had been attracted by the wide-spread fame of his justice and liberality, and whose titulature bears a close resemblance to that which precedes the name of
portion of the preface,
Pir

Mansur B. Muhammad B. Ahmad.

Foil.

136

121

Muhammad

in the author's other work.

by 9|

11
;

lines,

4f

in.

long

written

in Nestalik

dated Surat,

A H.

1222 (A.D. 1807).

The proper name of that prince, which is wanting in Add. 19,003, is supplied by the lithographed edition, in which it reads

dictionary of drugs,

written

in four

The king thus designated is probably Sultan Zain ul-'Abidin of Kashmir, who lived at about the same time as Mirza Pir Muhammad,
having reigned from A.H. 826 to 877, and is described as a generous patron of arts and science. His conquest of Tibet and Panjab
sufficient to justify, in Oriental " the epithet of second Alexander," parlance, bestowed upon him by the
is

columns, comprising the names found in the Ikhtiyarat i Badi'i, with tbeir Arabic,
Persian,
It

and Hindustani equivalents.

was compiled, as stated at the end, in Surat, A.H. 1222, for a Doctor Pudget (?)
v^y>-^> _^jw-b.

amply

See the

Arabic

Catalogue,

^^

jdifeu*.!,

p.

459

b.

author.
a proper

That epithet has been mistaken

for

Egerton 1010.
Foil.

422

7|

in.

by 4

11

lines,

in.

Stewart, " dedicated to Sekunder the work, p. 107, as Shah the Second, of Dhely, A.D. 1300." It has led the authors of the Leyden Catalogue,
vol.
iii.

name by A.

who

describes

long

written in Shikastah-umTz, apparently

p. 276,

to the

equally unfounded

in the 18th century.

conclusion, that the prince to

whom

it

is

MEDICINE.
applied could be no other than 'Ala ud-Dln

471

Muhammad Shah 695716.

The work
first
is

Khilji,

who

reigned A.H.

translation of the Arabic

title,

work which

divided into two Fanns, the of which treats in two parts (Kism) of

bears the above

means of

treats of the or restoring, the virile increasing,

and which

and practical medicine, and the of ailments and medicaments. They second, are subdivided as follows : Fann I. Kism
theoretical
I.

powers. Translator

Muhammad

Said ut-Tabib B.
jo*~>

Muhammad
Beg.

Siidik

ul-Isfahanl,

Theoretical
vi/..,

medicine,
1.

Makalahs,
health,

substantial
v

comprising four elements of

i. e.

iH

.1)

parts
_'.

>U< of the body and its

\s*^ ^jU

constituent

Apparent
^J}y>
'"

organs, fol. 9 a. conditions of health, vl~-1

The

work, which he ascribes to

translator says that, the above Arabic Ahmad B. Yusuf

O^*
ful.

e-

temperaments and
air,

faculties,

27

3. Efficient
,

causes of health,

^W
fol.

on the

ush-Sharif, being the best treatise written subject, he had translated it at the

ii-^ ^z'j

such as

motion, sleep, food

and drink, evacuation,

32
a.
-I.

age, habits, etc.,

request of Sayyid Jabir. divided, like the original,

(Juz'),

The version is into two parts

thirty off in

Various conditions and accidents

each

of

which

comprises

of the body, and their symptoms, fol. 50 a. Kism II. Practical medicine, in five Makiilahs,
viz.,
1.

chapters.

The present copy breaks

Preservation
fol.

of health and
b.

general
diseases,

treatment,
in

70

2.

Local

the twenty-second chapter of Part II. Khalifah, who mentions the work l.I.iji without author's name, vol. iii. p. 31!), says
that
it

1006. 3. twenty B.ibs, 4. Diseases of the exers, foL 258 b. ternal parts, fol. 280 b. 5. Animal poisons, fol. 310 b. Fann II., comprising two Mafol.

had been translated into Turkish

for

Sultan Salim in A.II. 910.

kalahs, viz. 1. Simple aliments

fol.

332 a.

2.
fol.

and drugs, Compound aliments and me3 19

a.

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Ncstalik, apparently

in

Author

Bhuvah

on Indian medicine. B. Khavas Khan,

The
with

15.il)

portion of the same work, ending of Mak.ilah "2, Kism II., and corfoil.

Beg.

responding to
copy.

1-46 of the

preceding

Miyan Bhuvah, or Bhuvah, son of Khavas Khun, is mentioned by Nizam ud-Dln Ahmad
Akbarshahi, Add. 6513, foil. 1 -' i, 132, 135, and, after him, by Firishtah, vol. i. pp. 330, 3 15, 350, as one of the greatest Amirs of the reign of Sikandar Shah LodI
in the
i

Tabakat

Egerton 1011,
9 in. by 62 17 lines, 5 in. written in a cursive and rude chalong racter, apparently in the 18th century.
Foil.
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103

(A.II.

891923). He
title

is

designated, like his

Khiin,

father, by the

of

Khavas

and

is

472

MEDICINE.

described in one place as Lord of the Chamber and in another as Chief Justice ^Vi. incurred the displeasure of ...*.

A full table of contents is prefixed, foil. 24.

The
latter part of the MS., foil. 364372, is in a late handwriting, although the sub-

^W,

Jj*

Having

Sultan Ibrahim, the successor of Sikandar soon after that Shah, he was cast into prison,

scription

is

dated Shahjahanabad,

Safar,

A.H. 923, and was put king's accession in to death.two years later. His name, which is written J5tJ in the best MSS. of the above
to t,^ in quoted works, has been changed the Bombay edition of Firishtah, and to

Bhoory in Briggs' translation,

taki in Sir

vol.

i.

pp. 566,
iv.

A.H. 1089. The name of Miyan Bhuvah seems to point to a Hindu extraction, and, if he was, as he pretends in the preface, the real author of the Ma'dan ush-Shifa, he must have been well versed in the Sanscrit treatises from which that work is compiled. His identity,
however, with the Hindu Misra Bhava, author of the Bhava Prakasa (see Aufrecht, Bodleian Catalogue, p. 309), which Dr. Haas, 1. c.
p.

'

from Mush594, 597. Compare the extracts

H.
Elliot's

History of India, vol.

p. 451, notes,

and p. 544. from the preface that the author, It appears Shah that having represented to Sikandar
Greek medicine was not suitable to the constitution of the natives of India, obtained

641, considers possible, is more than doubtful. The title of Khan, which belonged to him, and to his father before him, suffices

to

show that both were Muslims.

It

is,

His Majesty's assent to the composition of the present treatise, which was compiled and translated from Indian, i.e. Sanscrit, works enumerated in the text, A.H. 918. The preface, and an extract from the work, have been published, with a German translation,

moreover, quite impossible to suppose that a fierce Muhammadan zealot and ruthless

Sikandar Shah persecutor of the Hindus, as is known to have been, could have conferred
the highest offices of state upon

men

of

Hindu

faith.

by Dr. Haas,

Zeitschrift der D. Morg.

642, and an Gesellschaft, vol. xxx. pp. 630 account of the work, from a Hamburg MS.,

Add. 16,745.
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11

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Medica, p. 171.
logue,
p. 108, Catalogue, p. 10.

title

Dietz's

nor author's Analecta

See also Stewart's Cata-

and Mehren, Copenhagen

Definition of

long; written in Nestalik; dated Zulhijjah, A.H. 1079 (A.D. 1669). [Wn. YULE.] The same work, slightly imperfect at the beginning, with a table of contents,
foil.

14.
:

Contents

medicine, its origin, fol. 6 a. Bab I. Introduction to therapeutics, .a _^fr, or, in Sanscrit, Sutra Sthan, in thirty-

Mukaddimah. value, and its

Copyist

itj\

^./U {J^A

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<-J\s-

**?

oU^

Add. 18,680.
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II. Strucits

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3|

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human

body, and anatomy of

several parts, Sarlrak Sthan, in nine chapters,

with Unvan and long written in Nestalik, ruled margins, probably in the 17th century.
[J.

Bab III. Diagnosis and treatment of diseases, Nidan u Chikitsa Sthan, in eightyfol.

68

b.

HADDON HINDLEY.]
table of contents,
first

The same work, with a

foil.

seven chapters,

fol.

90

a.

17.
and
pages
it

The work
fol.

is

stated in the endorsement,

In identical notes written on the

last
is

5 a, to be

commonly known as

stated

by

Muhammad

VajUx

MEDICINE.
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473

Catalogue, p. 107, where it is stated to have been dedicated to " Abu Said Bahadur Khan,
" Emperor of the Moghuls, A.D. 1334 (i.e. A.H. 734 5), and in the Leyden Catalogue, vol. iii. p. 277, where the same erroneous statement is repeated. The Dastur ul-'Ilaj

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has been lately lithographed, together with the introduction described under the next number, in the Hindu Press, Dehli, without
date.

end, and wanting the rubrics.

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introduction to the preceding work, the same author. by

An

treatise

Author:

on therapeutics. Sult.m 'All Tabib Khurasfini,

Beg.
Sultan

jjU
Abu

JLAj*
Beg.

^, J*

This work

^
is

O-.jje^.Udedicated to

U5 j j^jfclj*.

Abu

'1-Ghazi

Sa'id,

whom

the author had

The author
this

composed he had previously spent forty years in the study and practice of the medical art in Khorasan and Mavara un-Nahr, and especially

states in the preface that he work in A. II. 933, and that

attended for twenty years. It is stated to have been written subsequently to the Dastur ul-llaj, and as a complement to it.
It is divided into sixteen chapters (Bab), treating of hygiene, of the definition of medicine, health
It is

disease, pulse, crisis, etc. described, with the preceding work, in

and

at

Samarkand,

in

the

service

of

Abu

'1-Mansur Kuchkunji Khan (the Uzbak Khan, commonly called Kuchum Khan, who reigned from A.H. 916 to 936; see p. 104 a). It was written at the request of another
prince, Abu 1-Muzaffar Mahmud Shah, who had called the author to the seat of his

the Leyden Catalogue, vol. iii. p. 277. Abu Sa'id, son of Kuchkunji, was raised to the Khanship after his father's death,

A.H. 936, and reigned till A.H. 939; see p. 104 a, and Erskine, History of India under
Baber, vol.
ii.

p. 99.

government, i.,1 C*i^ji and had been cured by him of a dangerous illness.

Add. 26,310.
Foil.

129

9i

in.

by 5$

15

lines,

3|

in.

two books Local diseases, in twenty(Makalah): five chapters (Bab), fol. 6 b. H. General in eight Biibs, fol. 170 b. A table diseases,
It is divided into the following
I.

long; written in cursive Indian Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century.

[WM. EESKINE.]
pharmacopooa u>.^^, in which compound medicaments are described in alphabetical order.

of contents
Tin-

is

prefixed,
is

foil.

4.

same work
II.

mentioned in Stewart's

VOL.

171-

MEDICINE.
:

Author

Muzaffar B.

Muhammad

ul-Hu-

saim ush-Shifa'i,

governor of Shirvan, he had been transferred by order of Shah Tahmasp to Mashhad. Kazi Nur Ullah had in his youth studied under him the medical works of Mir Ghiyas.

The author, who was a poet as well as a physician, is mentioned by his townsman and
contemporary, TakI ud-Din, of Kashan, in his Tazkirah, where he is stated to have died A.H. 963. See Sprenger, Oude Catalogue,
p. 22.

ud-Din Mansur, a renowned philosopher of Shiraz, who died A.H. 948 ; see Majalis ul-

Muminin, Add. 23,541, fol. 381. The work, which has no preface,

is

divided

A Latin translation has been published by

Father Ange de St. Joseph, of Toulouse, Carmelite monk and missionary, under the title of" Pharmacopcea Persica," Paris, 1681. The work is mentioned in Stewart's Catalogue, p. 110, No. xxiii., Munich Catalogue, p. 135,

into nineteen chapters (Fasl) of very unequal length, as follows: I. Preliminary notices, fol. 2 b. ii. xvi. Anatomy and diseases

of the following parts of the body: head, ear, nose, mouth, throat, breast, heart, eye,

Copenhagen Catalogue,

p.

15,

and by De

Jong, Catal. Codd. Orr. Acad. Regise, p. 232.

Add. 23,560.
Foil.

311; 111

in.

by 7|; 23

lines,

4|

in.

stomach, liver, gall-bladder and milt, kidneys and bladder, bowels, genital parts, and joints, fol. 5 a. xvii. Tumours, ulcers, etc., fol. 13 b. xvin. Fevers, fol. 14 b. Fasl xix., which forms the main portion of the work, is subdivided into two sections (Kism), viz. 1. Aliments and drinks, fol. 20 a. 2. Simple and compound medicaments, classed according to their effect and the diseases for which they are used, fol. 46 a.
II. Foil. 98 5214. An Arabic treatise on compound medicaments, entitled and ascribed in the heading
,

long

written in fair Shikastah-amiz ; dated

Zulhijjah,
I.

A.H. 1099 (A.D. 1688). [ROBERT TAYLOR.]

98.

Foil. 2

manual of medicine,
i>lfr

ascribed in the heading

to

+*

cjfb

d\^>.

^\

2\*s- *j;Si.

to the

same writer

(see

Hakim 'Imad ud-Din Mahmud.

Beg.

The author, who in some of his works calls himself Mahmud B. Mas'ud, was a native of
and a near kinsman of a celebrated physician of the same city, Kamal ud-Din Husain, who died A.H. 953 (Tuhfah i Saml, The author of the 'Alam Arai fol. 49). mentions him, Add. 16,684, fol. 43, among
Shiraz,

the great scholars who lived about the close of the reign of Shah Tahmasp, i.e. A.H. 984.

p. 633 a). In the preface the author states that he had applied himself from his childhood to the study of the standard medical works under his father and other physicians, and had carried on for nearly twenty years the practice of the healing art, when he repaired to the court of Shah Tahmasp, to whom he offered the present work. He adds that he was engaged upon the composition of a manual of medicine (probably the preceding treatise), which he had then brought down

Arabic Catalogue,

to the chapter treating of the

anatomy

of

He

says that he was an eminent medical writer as well as a skilled physician, and
that, after being attached for the service of 'Abd Ullah

the tongue.
Foil.

215

218 a contain various medical

some time

to

recipes.

Khan

Istajlu,

III. Foil.

218262.

MEDICINE.
Khal., vol.
i.

475
p. 368,

manual of medicine. Author Amir Sayyid Isma'il B. ul-Hasan

:

pendium was dedicated

razmshah. The Khafi
'Ala'I

that the present comto Atsiz B. Khwa-

B. ul-Husain ul-Jurjani,

consists of

two

parts,

treating severally of theoretical and practical medicine. They are subdivided as

Beg.

follows.
1.

Part

i.,

in

two Makalahs,

viz.,

The author
after

states

in

the preface that,

Preservation of health, in sixteen Babs, fol. 219 a. 2. Diagnosis of disease, in seven

Babs, fol. 232 b. Part ii., comprising the following seven

he had completed the Zakhirah i Khwarazmshahi (see p. 466 b), he had been told by a prince whose name will be given further
on, that a handy compendium of that voluminous work would be very desirable, and

that he had, in compliance with that wish, written the present abridgment. He had " given to it the name of Khafi, or hidden," because it was written in two volumes of

oblong shape, which could be conveniently

carried

Advice to physicians, fol. 2. Treatment of local diseases, in 238 eighteen Babs, fol. 238 ft. 3. Fever, measles, and smallpox, fol. 257 a. 4. Tumours, 5. Fracsores, and wounds, fol. 260 a. and dislocations, fol. 261 b. tures, bruises, 6. Treatment of the hair and of the skin 7. Antidotes, fol. 202 a. diseases, fol. 261 b.
1.
a.

Makalahs:

by the owner

in

his

boots.

The

IV.

Foil.

262264.
i

second part of the

derived
titles

Extract from the

title, 'Al.i'i, is

from 'Ala ud-Daulah, of the prince above mentioned.

is

apparently one of the

Jami* ul-Fava'id

Yfisufi,

*W

c-jU

The

Yusufi

is

the Takhallus of

Ytlsuf

author's patron

B.

styled .i- J-' jS'

Muhammad, a

physician of Herat,
:

who

lived

and

in

an

earlier copy,
,3l

Add. 27,261, written A.H.

814,

under Babar and Humayun. Ilis medical works are the following Fava'id i Akhyar, written A.H. 913, Kasidah fl Hifz Sihhat, i. e. a poem on hygiene, dedicated to Babar, A.H. 937, Riyuz ul-Adviyah, written for Humayun, A.H. 946, 'Iliij ul-Amr.lz, a
versified treatise of therapeutics,

and the

above work, Jami' ul-Fava'id, which is a commentary on the preceding. See Fleischer,
If j.,^-^ L)/
epithet,
it

may be taken

as

an honorific

name, would follow that the work was written in

:_j1

and

as the prince's real

Leipzig Catalogue, p. 511, KraflVs Catalogue, p. 148, Stewart's Catalogue, p. 112,

Leyden Catalogue,
Khal.,
t

vol.

iii.

pp. 279, 280, Haj.

the reign of Muhammad Khwarazmshnh, A. II. 491 622, and for his successor, Atsiz, who was then commander of the army and
heir apparent, a conclusion confirmed by the date which is assigned to the Khafi 'Al.u in

vol.

ii.

i(|iies,

vol. v.

p. 564, and Melanges Asiap. 261. It is doubtful whether

may be identified with the author of the well known manual of epistolary composition called BadaT ul-Insha, or Inshfi i Yusufi,
lie

Stewart's Catalogue, p. 106, viz. A.I). 1113, t. c. A.IL 606 It is also stated in the 7.
preface of the Aghrnz, as quoted by
II.ij.

which in the Khulasat ul-Insha, Or. 1750,

fol.

158,

is

ascribed to

Hakim

Yusufi,

Mun-

shi of

llumayun.

G 2

476
V.
Foil.

MEDICINE.
201

6311.

A treatise on materia medica.

manual of medicine, without author's name.
Beg.

Author: Afzal B. Yahya

Jilani,

f*ij

^y*.

j*x ^\

>V

*.f(^r
age,

Beg.

The author

states,

in a short

preamble,

that, feeling his

memory weakened by

The author's name

the preface,
fol.

he had compiled this short compendium from the most esteemed Arabic and Persian works, and had given it the name of Mujiz Kummi because its small size would allow of its being
carried in the sleeve

2 b

found, as above, in but it is written by a

is

(Kumm).

The

follow:

ing Persian works are mentioned as sources

In hand, and over an erasure. the following subscription, which is in the same handwriting as the text, the transcriber, Muhammad Husain B. Ziya ud-Dln ul-Jurud-Dln Afzal jani, calls the author Kamal second

The last J^s- J^ j ^]f^\ i-rAtf,. three were written by Sayyid Isma'Il Jur^T jf.
_,

J-isl

jani in the early part of the sixth century of

sU

the Hijrah (see p. 467 ). The work is divided into

chapters
(Bfib),

subdivided

thirty-eight into sections

(Fasl), all of

which are enumerated at the

as
b.

beginning.
I.

The chapters are

fol.

follows

The work is dedicated to Abul-Muzaffar Shah 'Abbas (i.e. 'Abbas I., who reigned A.H. 9961038).
Contents
:

Treatment of infants,
fol.

266

Introduction

n. Signs

(Mukaddimah),

of the temperament,
ib. iv.

268 a.

in.

Properties of various

articles

Seasons, of

treating, in fourteen sections (Fa'idah), of

food, fol.
vi.

Perfumes, fol. 270 a. Garments, ib. vn. Bathing, ib. viu. xxx. Local diseases and their treatment,
b.

268

v.

medicaments, their degrees, preparation, and Makalah i. Simple use, in general, fol. 3 b.
drugs, arranged according to the Abjad, fol. 20 a. Makalah n. Various kinds of com-

in the customary order,

fol.

270

6.

xxxi.

Tumours, fol. 303 a. xxxiv. xxxv. Treatdiseases, fol. 303 b. ment of the hair and skin, fol. 305 b. xxxvi. Bleeding and cupping, fol. 308 a. xxxvir. Pulse, fol. 309 a. xxxvm. Uriua, fol. 310 a.
302 Skin
a.

Fevers,

fol.

296

b.

xxxn.
fol.

xxxin. Sores,

pound medicaments, in twenty-four sections Makalah iv. Diseases of (Bab), fol. 279 a. skin and their treatment, in twenty-four the
chapters (Fasl),
fol.

356

b.

Add. 23,557.
Foil. 304;

llf

in.

by 7f
;

long ;

written in Nestalik

25 lines, 5 in. dated Shamakhi,

;

Shirvan,

Add. 18,543.
Foil.

Ramazan, A.H. 1121 (A.D. 1709). [ROBERT TAYLOR.]

I.

Foil.

2274.

385

10J

in.

by 6

15

lines,

in.

long; written in neat Nestalik, with 'Unviin and gold-ruled margins; dated Rabl* I.,

work on materiu medica.

A.H. 1002 (A.D.

1593).
[J.

Author:
H. STEKNSCHUSS.]

Muhammad Mumin

Husaini,

MEDICINE.
Beg.
in the preface that, inherited the experience gathered by having his father Mir Muhammad Zaman Tanakfifol.

477
Tashkhis
5.

1926.
a.

On

weights,

fol.

The author says

197

Dasturat.
drugs, in

Kism

I.

five

sections (Tank),

Manipulation of simple fol. 198 b.

buni Dailami, and his ancestors, and having himself practised the medical art according to their method, he had been induced to compile the present work by the inaccuracies

Kism

ir.

Manipulation of compound medi-

caments, in twenty-four chapters (Bib), fol. 208 b. Kism in. Treatment of diseases.

which he had noticed

in the

then

As the last-named part present and other known

is

wanting in the

copies, it appears

current pharmacopcea, Ikhtiy&r.lt i Badi'i (p. 469 a). He had based it on the most trust-

probable that it never was written. The fifth section (Tarik) of Kism i. has been
transposed in the present copy ; it is found at the end of Kism 11., foil. 262274.

worthy authority on the subject, viz. the book entitled *!$ t_* Jo^ *>. ^'-* (see the Arabic

and commonly called I. which he had made I.niii' copious additions, gathered from the Jiimi'
Catalogue,
632), to r_rlid;idi,
p.

The author's Nisbah Tanakabuni is derived from Tanakabun, a Buluk of the district of Atnul, which is sometimes joined to Gihln
the Zeitschrift der D. Morg. Gesellschaft, vol. xxi., pp. 242, 245), and which
(see

of Ibn Baiter, the Taz.kirat Uli-1-Albab of l> 'lid ul-Ant.iki, the Mughni, the Shamil,
the

Kamil ul-Adviyah, the

appears to have been his birth-place.

He

J;mii'

ul-Ad-

viyah of

Amin ud-Daulah,

etc.,

and, lastly,

from several works of Indian physieians, liar, Charak, Sat Jog, Firuzshahi, Bhojdev, Susrut, and others. He adds, in conclusion, that, as his father and grandfather had been court-physicians to the Safavi sovereigns, and as he had himself attended th.- present ruler, Shah Sulaimiin (A. II. 10771103), he had adorned his page
with the exalted
sovereign.

quotes occasionally some local names of animals or plants as current in the dialect of Tanakubun. On the other hand, his with the medical works and acquaintance the simples of India shows that he had been living a considerable time in that country. The Tuhfat ul-Muminin has been printed in Dehli, A.H. 1266, and in Isfahan, A.K. 1274. It is mentioned in Stewart's Catalogue, p. 108, the Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 13, the Munich Catalogue, p. 134, and the

name

of the last-named

Ouseley Collection, No. 402.

divisions,
II. Foil.

The work comprises two main

the
first

contains five chapters called T:i-hkhi8, and the second, which is termed Dastfirat, consists of three parts

of which

276

304.

treatise
:

on thera-

peutics,

with the heading

*^c

(Kism), as follows Tashkhis 1. On the reason of the divergence of the opinions of physicians respect:

Author
Ullah

Muhammad 'Ala ud-Din B.

called

Ilibat

Sabzavari,

Ghiya

ut-Tabib,

ing the nature, properties, and doses, of Tashkhis 2. On the qualities drugs, foL 3 b. simple drugs and aliments in general, and their preparation, fol. 5 b. Tashkhis 3.
>f

Beg. ^jJtt

i.

jli.

A
as stated

Nature and properties of simple drugs and aliments, in alphabetical order, fol. 9 b. Tashkhis 4. On the treatment of poisons,

The work, which was compiled,

in the preface, at the request of some friends, from the standard works on the subject,

178
is

MEDICINE.
portion of the same work. It contains Kism i. of the Dasturat, with the exception of its last section, Tarlk 5, and the whole of

divided into fourteen chapters (Bab), according to the organs affected. The author

gives his name, as above, at the end, stating that the treatise was completed in Riibi' I.,

Kism

ii.

The 24th chapter of the

latter,

A.H. 871.
Copyist
:

^j]}\
first

J&

j^

lo,

j^
MS.

^\
is

which treats of the diseases of birds of chase and their treatment, has a separate heading,
*U jb, and a preface not found in other
copies.

On

the

page of the

a note,

stating that

it

was purchased by Mir Muul-Husaini, of Kazvin, in the

hammad HadI

town of Shamakhi.
Foil.

Add. 26,311.
187; 81 in. by 6J; 15 lines, 4 in. written on European paper, about the long ; close of the 17th century. [Win. EKSKINE.] dictionary of simple drugs, extracted from the Tuhfat ul-Mummin, Tashkhls 3, and

Foil.

long ruled

3| in. written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and

lines,

433;

Add. 17,953. 9 in. by 5; 22

apparently

margins,

in

the

18th

century.

Another copy of the

Foil.

u^>^

&oa

written in tabulated form, with the addition of the Latin, and, in a few cases, of the

360433, comprising the latter porof the work, from the beginning of Tashkhls 4 to the end of Kism u., are in a
tion
later hand.

French, equivalents. On the first page is impressed a seal with the name c-oyj/J&j (Vital Guyonnet'^).

Foil.

382

Add. 16,747. 12 in. by 8; 27

Egerton 1006 and 1007.

lines, 5
in.

Two uniform

volumes, containing respec;

long ; written by several hands, in Indian Nestalik; dated Rajab, the third year of
'Alarngir II. (A.H. 1170,

The same work.

Ad. 1757). [WILLIAM YULE.]

20 tively 256 and 257 foil. ; 10 in. by 6 4 in. long; written in Nestalik; lines, dated Jumada I., A.H. 125 (for 1125 = A.D.
1713).

Add. 6642,
Foil. 531;

A treatise on the symptoms of

their treatment, translated
lines,

diseases

and

from the Arabic

10

in.

by 6|; 17

in.

work
for

entitled

oU^p

j v-'W-^

long; written in Nestalik, apparently early in the 18th century. [J. E. HULL.] The preface and the first three chapters (Tashkhis) of the same work.

rj

(written

Mlrza TJlugh Beg by Naf is B. 'Ivaz Kirmam; see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 224).
Translator
:

Muhammad Akbar, called MuMir Haji Muklm,

hammad

Arzanl, B.

Add. 26,308.
103; 12 in. by 7; 23 lines, 5.$ in. written in cursive Indian long; Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century.
Foil.

Beg. \j^'\

[Wir. ERSKINE.]

Mir Muhammad Akbar, better known as Shah Arzfmi, lived in India, where his mediIt is stated cal works are in high repute.

MEDICIXE.
96, applied for instruction to Sayyid 'Alavi Khan, a well known Shiraz physician, that he
first

479

in the

Yadgar Bahadur!, Or. 1652,

fol.

who had come

to the court of Auran<*zlb O

A.n. 1115 (see the Mir'at Afitabnuma, fol. 132, and the Oude Catalogue, p. 157), and that, on his refusal, he betook himself to
Shiraz in order to study medicine there. The dates of his works, however, range, as

twenty chapters (Bab) on local and general diseases, and an appendix (Khatimah) on compound medicaments and technical terms. It has been repeatedly printed in the East,

A.H. 1265; Bombay, A.H. 1264, 1275, and 1279 Teheran, A.H. 1275; and Lucknow, A.H. 1289. Seo Stewart's Catalogue, p. 110, and Fleischer, Dresden Catalogue, No. 345.
Calcutta, 1830; Dehli,
;

can be ascertained, from A.H. 1112 to 1130. In the latest of them, Karabadin i Kadiri, the author gives the following list of his previous compositions: Tibb untranslated from Jalal ud-Din Suyiiti, Nabi, Tibb ul-Akbar, Mufarrih ul-Kulub, Mizan
far as they

Add. 17,949.
Foil.
;

ut-Tibb, TaVirif ul-Amraz,

i

and Mujarrabat

long A. 1. 1155 (A.D. 1742).

1

45; 12 in. by 8J; 25 lines, 6 yi. written in Nestalik ; dated Sha'ban,

Akbari.

says in his preface that, after completing the usual course of

Muhammad Akbar
and

making himself acquainted with medicine, he had selected the " Sharh Asbab va 'Alamat " (whose author he does not name) for translation, as the best treatise on He had omitted, however, in that science. his version some superfluous arguments of the original work, and had made useful addistudies,

manual of medicine by the same MuAkbar.

hammad
Beg.

The author states at the beginning that he had written this short manual for the use of his own children and other students.
It
i.

tions to

from the following books: Kfrnftn, Havi, .\kvu-:i'i, Sadidi, Mujiz, Zakhirah (see
it

comprises the following three Makalahs On symptoms, and the four qualities of
:

heat, cold, moisture,

ii.

and dryness,

fol.

b.

p.

KJ<),

Kifayah

Mujfihidiyyah (see p. 470),

The work was completed, he adds, in the year expressed by the above title, with deduction of the weak letters (\ and j), i.e. 1122 10 = A.H. 1112, and at
and
others.

On simple and compound medicaments, ib. in. On diseases and their treatment, fol.
10 a.

The work has been printed in Calcutta, A.D. 1836, Cawnpore, 1874, and Lucknow,
without
date.

'Alamgir, after subjugating the Deccan, " had washed the blood-stained spears of his victorious armies in the waters of the Kishnah."

the time

when

See

Stewart's

Catalogue,

p. Ill, and Ouseley's Collection, No. 400. A leaf appended to the present volume contains a short notice on the Pars! work,

After the capture of Sattarah and of the fortress of Parli, Aurangzib crossed the swollen stream of the Kishnah, or Kislnah,

entitled

^^

Bihdin

Bahrain

^UL-jU , written by the Farhad in the time of

Akbar.

and considerable loss, in of Safar, A.H. 1112. See Ma'asir the month Tho same event is placed 'Alnm^iri, p. 429.
with great
difficulty

Add. 17,954.
Foil.

113

9|

in.

by 5

15

lines,

in.

by

Kliafi

Khan,

vol.

ii.

p.

473, in A.H. 1111.

The Tibb ul-Akbar comprises seven-and-

long ; written in Nestalik A.H. 1221 (A.D. 1800).

dated Sha'ban,

ISO

MEDICINE.
The work is divided into three-and-twenty Babs, in which medical preparations are
are intended.

treatise

on compound medicaments by
J\ b'b*

the same author.

described under the diseases for which they In each Bab they are arranged
in alphabetical order.

Beg.

The Karabfidin
The author, having written down on loose slips such recipes as he had obtained from experienced physicians, found it necessary
1286.

Kadiri has been printed

p. 110, xx.

in Bombay, A.H. 1277, and in Dehli, A.H.

See Stewart's Catalogue,

them to order for his own convenience. Hence grew the present work. It is divided into a number of chapters
to reduce

Add. 26,309.
Poll. 9; 7 in. by 4|; 11 lines, 2| in. long; written in small Shikastah-amlz in the early part of the present century. [WM. ERSKINE.]

which the under the various arranged which they are used.
(Bah),
in

medicaments
diseases

are
for

Author:

Flriiz

B. Mulla Ka'us,

table of contents

is

prefixed to the

present copy, and another is appended to it. The latter is said to have been transcribed from the author's autograph.

Beg.

short tract in defence of the inoculation

^y J,b<i The Mujarrabat i Akbarl has been printed in Lucknow, A.H. 1280, and in Bombay, A.H. 1276. See Stewart's Catalogue, p. 110, and the Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 11.

Copyist

^l*

wbtf

of the smallpox. The tract was written, shortly after the introduction of inoculation in Surat, with

the object of refuting the religious objections which Dastur Barzurjl, a ParsI of Kustam-

purah, had raised against the practice. It contains some Zend and Pehlevi texts in

Add. 17,952.
Foil.

long

880 9J in. by 5^ 15 lines, 3| in. written in Indian Nestalik ; dated A.

; ;

the original character. Mulla Firuz is known as the editor of the

Desatir, published in Bombay, 1818, and the author of a treatise on the intercalary year

1159 of Yardajird, Jumada

(A.D. 1789).

I.,

A.H. 1204

of the Parsis, vol. i. p. 108.

Bombay, 1828;

see Zenker,

treatise

on compound medicaments, by

the same author.

Beg.

^-f>^

O^o- t-^UaS
states

<-r>\^r u)V..li

&

<j US

The author
enumerating

in the preface, after

FARRIERY AND FALCONRY. Add. 14,057.

Foil.

his previous works, that

commenced the
i

present in
it

he had A.H. 1126, and

90

8i

in.

by 5|

13

lines,

4|

in.

name of Karabadln was a disciple of the most holy Sayyid 'Abd ul-Kadir JllanI (i. e. a member of the Kadiri order). In the chapter on China root, fol. 832, A.H. 1130 is mentioned as the current year.
that he had given

the

Kadiri, because he

long; written in a rude Indian Shikastahamlz, apparently in the 19th century.

I.

Foil.

3-60.

on farriery, translated from the Sanscrit work known as Sfdihotra.

treatise

FARRIERY.
Translator
:

481
See "Weber, Verzeichniss der
263,

'Abd Ullah B.

SafI,

it is

set forth.

Sanskrit Handschriften, p. 291, Elliot, Biblio-

Beg.

graphical
states,

Index,

p.

and History of

'Abd Ullah

in a short preamble,

India, vol. v. p. 574.

II. Foil.

that he had, in the reign of Sultan Ahmad Vali ul-Bahmani, and by his order, translated
into Persian the Sulihotra

61

73.

A treatise, without title,

.

on the same

subject.
.

from the original

of Durgarasl, son of Sargarasi,

Beg. LlAj* ^UaL.

y-JUJ

t-j,

15

In the opening lines the Sultan Ghiyas ud-

adds that the work was written in the The date of composition city of Kulbargah. which follows is, in the present copy, defec" A. H. hundred and ten," tively written
.

He

Din Muhammad Shah B. Mahmud Shah Khilji is mentioned as the reigning sovereign, and the 21st of Muharram, A.II. 983, vU3 ajuthe date of composition. As f >- Jf -]a<
i

y^'j.as

*j

jf&

fi

*>'-

jLs-

f I-*

The same work

is

dated

in

Stewart's

A.D. 1407 ( A.D. 810). Shah Vali Bahmani reigned from A.H. 825 to 838, that date cannot be correct. Contents: Preface and table of chapters,
Legendary account of the creation of the horse, which is said to have been originally endowed with wings, fol. 46.
fol.

Catalogue, p. 96, As, however, Ahmad

Ghiyas. ud-DIn B. Mahmud, king of Malvah, who is here meant, reigned from A.H. 873 to 900, the above date is obviously wrong it is probably a clerical error for A.H. 883.

divided into twelve chapters and (Bab), subdivided in sections (Fasl), enumerated at the beginning, as follows:
is

The work

36.

Breeds of various countries, fol. 62 a. 3. 2. Mode of choosing horses, fol. 626. derived from the motions of horses, Omens 5. Their 4. Colours of horses, ib. fol. 63 a.
1.

Defects of the horse, in fifty-two chapters, Good points of the horse, in (Fasl) fol. 5 a. thirteen chapters, fol. 22 Signs of the
.

blemishes,

fol.

63

b.

6.

Their limbs,
fol.

fol.

656.
!

7.

Diseases
fol.

and remedies,
a.

666.

8.

age of horses, fol. 26 a. Diseases of the horse, with their treatment, and management
of the horse,
fol.

Diet and food, Bleeding, 10. Fattening, and treatment of fol. 69 6. 11. How to know the age sores, fol. 71 6.

69

9.

296.
is

with a great numln-r of coloured drawings of a rather

treatise

The

illustrated

rude style of execution.

Salihotra
is

of horses by their teeth. In the body of the work, however, the last chapter is replaced by the two following :
11.

On

various remedies,

fol.

73

a.

12.

On

the traditional inventor of the

veterinary art.

He

is

stated in the introduc-

tory chapter to have been instructed by his in the knowledge and fa' her. .\-|>a-ti

fol. 73 6. lucky and unlucky marks in horses, A fuller copy of the same work, with the title of Kurratul-Mulk.willbe found among

J^-x-S

management

of horses, while in the next following work he appears as a Brahman, the master of Susrntn. The. same name, however, art
is

the Elliot MSS., Or. 1697, art. ii. See also 263. Elliot, Bibliographical Index, p.
Treatise on the diseases of horses and their treatment, imperfect at
III. Foil.

7489.

denned by
ii.

Abul-J'a/.l, in the A'in

Akbari, vol.
itself,

p.
it

and
:.

144, as applying to the has conic to be used as a

common

designation of the works in which

it.

the beginning and end. Prefixed to the volume is an English letter written by "Tirmal lliio, son of Rao Bahadoor

IS -2

FARRIERY.
abridged from a Persian Faras Namah, written in the time of Mahmud Ghaznavi,
fol.

Venkut Rao,

principal Sudr Ameen of Dharon sending the work to the Rev. John war," AYilson,D.D., president of the Bombay branch

of the Royal Asiatic Society.

It

is

dated

their
fol.

Dharwar, 20th August,

18-10.

Knowledge of horses, and of and bad signs, in twelve Babs, good 13 a. Diseases of the horse, and their
6
b.

Add. 16,854.
8 in. by 5. [WILLIAM YULE.] in. long ; 15 lines, 3 ; written in neat Nestalik on gold-sprinkled paper, with gold-ruled margins, in the 17th
Foil.
I.
;

treatment, in thirty-eight Babs, fol. 33 b. This copy contains three coloured drawings of horses.

122

Foil.

374

An English translation of 'Abd Ullah Khan's version has been published by Joseph
Earles,

Calcutta,

1788.

See

also
p.

Sir

H.

Elliot, Bibliographical Index,

264, note,
p. 16,

century.

and Mehren, Copenhagen Catalogue, on

farriery, translated from the

treatise

no. xxxix.
II. Foil.

Sanscrit, with a preface by Kwajah 'Abd Ullah, entitled 'Abd Ullah Khan Bahadur

75121

16

lines,
;

written in fair Nestalik

2f in. long dated Ramazan,

Firuz Jang, t&

A.H. 1098 (A.D. 1687). The same work.

O'
..*"*

Beg.

Uta jj
liX-i-

*
I*

(*

iX=-

L- ^

>Hji

"

'Abd Ullah Khan says that the sages of India had written of old, on the knowledge of the horses and their maladies, a treatise
in the Sanscrit tongue, consisting of 16,000

This copy wants the preface and introduction; it begins with a short statement that
the work
926.

had been translated from the Indian into the Persian language in A.H.
in spite of this, and other minor discrepancies, the substantial identity of the
is

But

Most people being ignorant of that language, he called together, in the reign of His exalted Majesty, Shahjahan, some Pandits well versed in Sanscrit, and had that
Slokas.

two versions

fully

established

by their

general verbal agreement, especially in the Persian verses frequently inserted in the text.

work, there designated as

lated

^^^ j>J^*
adds

trans-

into

Persian.

He

that

the

Add. 7716.
Foil. 47 ; 6 in. by 3| 18 lines, 2| in. long ; written in Naskhi, apparently in the 18th
;

copy in his possession had been with other Hindu books, in some found,
original

chests captured
rebel

by him after defeating the Singh, Rana of Chltor. 'Abd Ullah Khan had been sent against

Amar

century.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

the Ranfi by Jahangir in the fourth year of the reign (A.H. 1018) but Amar Singh did
;

treatise
:

on

farriery.

not

make

his submission until

A.n. 1023.

Author

Nizam

ud-Din

Ahmad,

'Abd Ullah Khan died A.H. 1054, at the

age of seventy years. See Ma'agir ul-Umara, Tazkirat ul-Umara, and Elliot's History, 9. vol. vi. pp. 335 Contents Introduction, treating of the
:

Beg.
called in the heading of Add. 23,562, Mirza Nizam, another copy,
is

The author

creation of the horse and of

its

colours, partly

son of Mullii S'adra.

FARRIERY.
from the preface that this was compiled from earlier works by order of Shah 'Abbas II. (A.H. 10521077). Reference is made, fol. 45 o, to a census of the Shah's horses taken A.H. 1067, and, as it is stated further on that four years had
It

483
earlier Faras

appears

The
is

Namah

here referred to

treatise

elapsed since then, it follows that the date of composition is A. II. 1071. Contents : Mukaddimah. Creation and

mentioned by Hazin in his memoirs, Balfour's edition, p. 97. It was written in Isfahan about A.H. 1127. The present treatise comprises nine sections termed Hulyah, on the knowledge of horses and their diet, and ten chapters (Fasl) on the diseases of horses and their treatment.

Marlinlah I. Its good and bad qualities, and other things relating to the knowledge of Marhalah II. horses, in nine Babs, fol. 6 b.
domestication of the horse,
fol.

b.

OH zoology, with the heading ^V*^ u>\p- _/ *^> by the same Shaikh Hazin, who here calls himself Muhammad B. Abl Tfilib uz-Zahidi Jllani,
III. Foil.

G7

90.

treatise

Rules concerning the rearing of horses and the running of races, in nine Babs, fol. 21 b.

surnamed

'All,

Marhalah

Treatment of the diseases of the horse, in nine Babs, fol. 31 a. Klultimah, on the horses of the Shfth, and on amulets,
II.
fol. 4-46.

Beg. J*jl i^j* fti^U This tract is called in another copy, Or. 207, II., Tazkirah i Saidiyyah.

Add. 8989.
Foil.

87; 7i

in.

by 4|

12

lines,

3 in

Legal precepts hunting and the slaying oi' concerning Bab i. Account of some animals, fol. 67 b. animals of land and sea, arranged in alphalift k-;il

Contents: Mukaddimah.

long ; written in Naskhi, apparently in the 17th century. Another copy of the same work, wanting
a few lines at the beginning.

order,

fol.

72

b.

Bab

n. Origin of

animal

life and its nature, fol. 88 a. Bab in. Senses and faculties of animals, fol. 89 b.

Add. 23,562.
Foil.

short tract on the on legal measures in weight of coins and JL*, Khorasan, with the heading: ^,^1

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92 ; 8$

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I.

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21
;

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3J

in.

S,JLfr

y jUj J J

dated Sha'ban,

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

Author: the same Ha/in, who here himself 'All B. Abi Talib ul-Jllani, ^\
Beg.
$\

J JULJL* calls

>

Foil. 1
Foil.

48.

The same work.

67.

II.

49

Another

treatise
*!'--,

on

farriery,

with the heading

:

*U-y

Add. 23,563.
Foil.

Author
Beg.

Hazin,

u)^-

169; 8i
written

in.

by 5|; 17
Kaskhi,

lines,

3g

in.

JV *r \ t/^V- 3 J^ j-~" uVr-

long;

in

dated

Sha'ban,

Thc author, who has been already mentioned, p. 372 6, says that he had composed in his youth, and in his native place, an extensive work on farriery, and that, unable to procure a copy of it in India, where he was lint:, he had now written what he calls a mere bain pie of his former work.

A.H. 1246 (A.D. 1830).

[ROBEUT TAYLOR.]

transcript of the preceding

MS.

Foil.

100;

Add. 23,561. 8| in. by 6; 12

H 2

lines,

8$

in.

in the long; written in Nestalik, apparently 19th century. [ROBERT TAYLOR.]

is

FALCONRY.

treatise

on

farriery,

without author's

name.
Beg. i>

two books (Kitab), the first of which treats of the knowledge of horses and of their training, in forty chapters, and the second, of the diseases of the horse and their treatment, in sixty chapters. The work is noticed by Fluegel in the Vienna Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 553, where the
It is divided into

chapter contains a legendary account of an ancient work from which the present treatise purports to be derived. Written by the sages of the town of Balnas
This
first

;_ylib .$>, it passed, in

the time of Alexander

contents are fully stated.

Add. 7715.
Foil.

80

in.

by 5

12

lines,

3|

in.

long

Alexandria, and subseWhen the empress quently to Antioch. Helen and her son Constantine, wishing to force a new religion on their people, resolved

and

Aristotle,

to

written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins ; dated Baghdad, Ramazan, A.H. 1204 (A.D.
1790).
[CL. J. RICH.]

to

burn the contents of the royal library, it was rescued with some other books, and conveyed to Baghdad (sz'e), where it was
translated into Syriac. Hearing of its existence, the Khakan of the Turks, who was passionately fond of falconry, sent for it, and

The same work.

Add. 19,528.
Foil.
;

had
3|
in.
i

63; 8J

in.

by 5$;

14. lines,

long written in Nestalik, apparently in the 19th century. [SiR THO. PHILLIPS.] A portion of the same work, extending from the second chapter of book i. to the twenty-ninth of book n.

translated by a learned Turk of Pariyab Then follow various <Marv, r J ^.

it

traditions relating to the invention of hawking, which is ascribed in turn, to king

Demetrius, to Shapur B. Salm, to Abul-Hari Mu'aviyah, to a Roman emperor called

(_y,yL~j

Or. 374.
6f in. by 5; 16 lines, 3| in. written in cursive Persian Naskhi, long, probably in the 13th century.
Foil. 77;

and to Constantine. The following chapters, Bab

,

230,

foil.

13 b 35, treat of various kinds of birds of prey, the names of which are given in Persian, Arabic, Turkish and Greek, of their selection and training, and of their appearance in a

[GEO.

WM. HAMILTON.]

A
It

treatise

on falconry, without author's

name.
is
is

What
MS.,
tents,

imperfect at beginning and end. now the first leaf of the original
contains the end of a table of con-

The remaining chapters treat of the diseases to which they are liable, The present copy and of their treatment. breaks off before the end of Bab 131.
state

of health.

fol. 6,

showing that the work comprised 135 chapters (Bab), and the beginning of Bab 1, which is as follows
:

authorities occasionally adduced are Ghitrif B. Kudamah, described as living at the court of Harun al-Rashid, Mahdi B.

Among

Ahram, the Khakan of the Turks, and Khalil of Mavara un-nahr, a contemporary of the
author.

FALCONRY.
It may be noticed as a dialectic peculiarity that the third person of the plural is generally written without the final .>, as ^ij^ for ^4>y, so as to become identical in form with the
infinitive.

485

5 contain a short preamble and a table of chapters, written apparently in the

Foil. 2

acquired considerable experience. He dediwork to Akbar, whose skill and prowess in the hunting field he praises at great length. The work is divided into sixty-one chapters (Bab), a full table of \\hich is given in
cates the

17th century. written page the title *>***, and on the fly-leaf *li jU.
first
is

On

the

The passage above quoted shows

the

that

~i>,
is

Preface, fol. 2 b. Precepts of the law relating to the chase, fol. 9 6. Qualifications of a perfect huntsman (Mir
:

the preface. Contents

designation of hunting birds, there applied to the work itself.

common

For Oriental works on falconry, see HamPurgstall, l-'alknerklee, bestehend aus drui ungedruckten Werkcn iiber die Falknerei, Testa, 1810.

12 b. Capture and breeding of 13 How to select hawks and hawks, .other kinds of hunting birds, fol. 20 a.
Shikar),
fol. fol.
.

mer

Signs of health and disease,

fol.

24

a.

Direc-

tions relating to hunting in general, and to the diet and training of the different kinds

of hunting birds,

fol.

26

b.

Diseases

of

Egerton 1013.
Foil.

hawks, and their treatment, fol. 68 b. Snares and decoys, fol. 87 b. Selection and
lines,
;

108; 9
written

in.

by 5|
Indian

13

long Rabi

in

Nestalik

3J in. dated

training of panthers, jy.,

fol.

101

a.

the thirtieth year of the reign (proof Muhammad Shfth, i.e. A. II. 1161, bably
'I.,

Egerton 1012.
Foil.

A.I)'.

1718).

124

;.

9$

in.

long;

written

in

by 5 ; 21 lines, 3 in. Indian Shikastah-Amlz,

on falconry. Author: Muhibb 'AH, surnamed Khan Khas Mahalli B. Nizam ud-Din 'Ali Marghutreatise
'

apparently in the 17th century.

on falconry. Author: Bahadur,

treatise

R
'Ali

Khan, son of Nizam ud-Din Khabfah, prime minister of Babar, was raised to the Khanship in the first year of Akbar's reign, and died as governor of Dehli, A.M. .)89. See Erskine, History of India under Baber, vol. i. p. 385, Ma'asir ul-Umara, fol. 448, Tazkirat ul-Umara, fol. 87, and Ain i Akbari, p. 420. Blochmann, The author states that he was nearly sixty rs old at the time of writing, and that, havini; from his youth upwards accompanied illustrious monarchs on the chase, he had

Muhibb

'Ali

Bahadur
!

is

the poetical surname assumed

in

a versified preamble, foil. containing eulogies on 'Abd ul-Kadir on his own spiritual guide, Mir .Jilani,

by the author
1
5,

Muhammad
sovereign,

Ashraf,

and on the reigning

Aurangzib.

He

states

in

the

next-following prose preface, that he had undertaken the present work at the urgent
request of Ja'far Beg, whom he calls his master in the craft, ^U-j', and of his own
brothers, La'l

Beg and Habib

Ullah, adding

480
further on that he

ALCHEMY.
had written it in the Bhaskar jL-^> w-ai', Subah of Berur

Add. 17,966.
15 lines, 3 in. long; written in a cursive Indian Naskhi, apparently in the 18th century.
Foil.

town

of

259

'Alamglr, corresponding must be observed, however, that in the 5 a, mention is made poetical preamble, fol.

the reign of Bfilaghath, in the 25th year of It to A.H. 1091.

10

in.

by 5

I.

Foil.

7101.

of the capture of Sanbha, which took place A.H. 1101. The work is divided into forty-three is given at chapters (Bab), a list of which

" The seven friends," a treatise on alchemy.

Beg.
self

the end of the preface,

fol.

8.

The

^ ^V^ Jy^j^ "

of the preface,

lnj^~'

^ ^^
him-

first

The author

who

calls

the training thirty-nine treat very fully of and other hunting birds, and of of hawks

Hamid ud-Dln

Nagori, states that the

Then employment in the chase. Bab XT.. Diseases of hunting birds, follow
their

work was the joint production of himself and

having contributed one of the seven parts (Bab), of which it consists,
six friends, each

in

sixty-eight
XLI.

sections

(Fasl),

fol.

84

b.

Bab

Their

treatment,

in

as

many

in the following order

i.

sections, fol. 93 b.

Bab

XLII.

Miscellaneous

Hamid ud-Dm

Nagori,

fol.

12

6.

n.

instructions, in four sections.

The present

Hindu
stated

copy breaks

off before

the end of the fourth

who is Jogi, originally called Gyan, to have been brought over to the
faith

section of this last Bab.

Muslim
in.

by the

six others,

and

to

have
23 51
b.

taken the

name

of Sa'adatmand,

fol.

Shaikh

Sulaiman Mandu'i,

fol.

b.

ALCHEMY AND
Foil.
;

CABALISTIC.

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127
;

121

in.

written in long dated August, A.D. 1807.

10 lines, 5J in. large Indian Nestalik

by 8

Mir Sayyid Muhammad Hashim Bukharl, Miran Sayyid Tayyib Audhi, fol. 62 b. vi. Shaikh Nasir ud-Din Narnoll, fol. 76 a. vn. Maulana Muliammad Sadik Multani, fol. 816. The above names are those of Indian
iv.

v.

treatise on alchemy ascribed to Tankuj-*-

as

liishah the Great,

who lived in very different periods, Hamid ud-Dm Nagori, who died A.H. 643, Shaikh Sulaiman Mandu'i, who died A.H. 944, and Mir Sayyid Tayyib of Bilgram, who died
Shaikhs

Beg.

A.H. 1066
foil.

It

is

divided into
titles:

sections

bearin

the
*3\

Riyaz ul-Auli'yii, Or. 1745, and Or. 1804, fol. 38. Their 109, 131, connection with the present work is evidently
;

see

following

oifc,
Ajl

fictitious.
ii. contains a long piece in Hindi with Persian glosses. Bab iv. which verse, has been transferred to the end, foil. 100

Bab

For an account of that mythical sage, more commonly known as an astrologer, see
Chwolsohn, Ueberreste der altbabylonischen
Literatur, p. 130, and Gutschmid, Zeitschrift der D. M. Gesellschaft, vol. xv. p. 79.

101,
II.

is

imperfect.

Foil.

102119.

An

alchemical tract,

treating especially of the tincture of metals, written, as stated in the heading, by Abu

Copyist

jfb

+j>

Ji

AH

Smii for

Khwajah Husain

Jj^j [sic].

CABALISTIC.
hand, ascribes
u'^4 J w* W ** This is apparently a translation of Ibn Sma's Arabic treatise on alchemy, written

487
the work
to

Abu-Ma'shav

^'

^V'

Balkhi.

On

the last page

it* *i->

A.H. 008,
tion of the

found the date Rajab, <~*TJ j$~> d**~M ..y. ifjO

is

.,}

for

Ahul- Hasan Sahl B. Muhammad usSahli, and mentioned by Ibn Abi Usaibi'ah,
A.I). 7330,
f,,l.

probably copied from the original subscrip-

MS.

127
J-*^
1

b,

UJL^(

J$-. Compare Wiis^^4-^ tenfeld, Geschichte der Arabischen Aertzte, p. 72, no. 39.
119 6129 b. Short alchemical extracts, with a passage of Akhlftk i
III. Foil.
Nftsiri,

^1 ^ gl

Jl i'U,

Add. 23,582.
Foil.

30;

0^

long

written

by 4; 12 lines, 2 in. in Naskhi dated Rajab,

in.
;

A.H. 1225 (A.D. 1810).

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

relating to

philosophy and

its

di-

*&
A

Jlf
in

visions.

book of divination,

which certain

IV. Foil.

1312:. I.

predictions or omens are arranged under the names of five and twenty prophets.

Hindustani treatise on medicine and magic, without author's name.

Beg.

yjbULJ

AS

cl*~^ *L^Li J\j

rA

Add. 7713.
Foil.
;

Sa'di, transcribed by 'All Rixil, surnamed Mirza Babii, Nurbakhshi Shirazi.

Foil. 20 Vahshi and

30

contain

some

verses

by

long the 13th century.

237 ; 71 in. by 5 ; 19 lines, 3$ in. written in a fair Naskhi, probably in

fCL. J. RICH.]

on the construction of the cabalistic squares called in which the j'J^, numbers added up in any direction produce hi- same total, and of some other arithmetical figures, with numerous diagrams. The work is divided into a Mukaddimah, five chapters (Bab), and a Khatimah. The
treatise
t

ARTS AND GAMES.

Add. 16,853.
Foil.

190

7i

in.

by 4|

15

lines,

n.

long, written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and ruled margins, apparently in the 10th century.

[Wu. YULE.]

In

rulings of the Bftbs are as follows

Fol. 3 a.
1

20

a.

u-il

\3

treatise
:

on the

art of war.

Fol. 105 a.

Author

Sharif

Muhammad

[B.]

Mansur

Fol. 177 b. jy
Fol. 228 6-j^J-

[B.] Sa'id etc., Kuraishi, sliah, commonly called

surnamed MubiirakFakhr Mudabbir,

This copy wants the preface, a portion of the introduction, and all but a few lines of the KhatiiiKih, which treats of the virtues of the above figures.

Beg.

spurious beginning, written by a later

The author, who

in the preface traces his

188

ARTS AND GAMES.

fol.

genealogy up to Abu Bakr, mentions incidentally, fol. 99 6, as his maternal ancestor, " who succeeded to the the Amir Bilkatigin,

96

b.

12.

On

reviewing an army, and

preservation of order,

Chamberlain Alptigin as king of Ghaznln, where he reigned four years (A.H. 359362), and was the father-in-law of Sultan YamTn ud-Daulah Mahmud Ghazi." (See Raverty's Tabakat i Nasiri, p. 73, notes, and Elliot's History, vol. ii. p. 267, note, and
Great
p. 479).
fol. 186 a, Relating, in another passage, instance of recovery from a

fol. 109 b. 13. On and changing of ground, fol. encampments 112 a. 14. On guards, rounds, videttes and

night attacks, 16. On placing ambushes, fol. fol. 118 a. 119 b. 17. On the choice of a field of battle, fol. 123 b. 18. On arranging the several despies,

fol.

115

a.

15.

On

'

marvellous

coming to and attention of commanders of corps, action, fol. 131 a. 21. On engaging battle, fol.
133
b.

scriptions of troops, fol. 126 b. 20. On of battle, fol. 129 a.

19.

Order

it had deadly wound, the author states that come under his observation in Multan, fifteen years after the defeat of Khusrau

22.

On

the enemy, fol. of the field, fol. 141

public worship in front of 138 b. 23. On the courtesies

b.

24.

On

the unity

Shah by 'Ala ud-Din Ghuri (A.H. 550 see Kamil, vol. xi. p. 108), he being at the time
;

and composition
25.

of

On

religious wars,
fol.

an army, fol. 151

27.

fol.

146
26.

b.

a.

On

about A.H. 565) a mere youth j&f, while in the preface he describes himself as
(i.e.

plunder,
fortified

154

b.

On
a.

old

and infirm. Several other references to Multan make it probable that it was his
present work to the

places, efficacy of the prayers of the pious in army, fol. 166 b. 29. On the omens

fol.

159

28.

the siege of On the

an
of

native place. He dedicates the

Padishah of Islam, Shams ud-Dunya wadDin Abul-Muzaffar Iltatmish us-Sultan, Nasir

30 and 31. On rewards and 176 a. 32. On gymnastic punishments, exercises and military weapons, fol. 180 a. 33. On the fact that, whether you flee like
victory,
fol.

172

b.

fol.

Amir ul-Mumimn (who

ruled the empire of

calls

Dehli from A.H. 607 to 633), and himself the least of his servants.

a poltroon, or face the enemy like a hero, you will not die till your day come, fol.

185

a.

34.

On

certain

maxims which

it

The work
ters,
foil. 9,

divided into thirty-four chapwhich are enumerated in the preface,

is

equally behoves the sovereign, subject, and soldier, to attend to, fol. 188 b.

The MS. breaks

last chapter.

off before

the end of the

10.

The following
fly-leaf,
:

table, written

by

Major Yule on the

of the contents

gives a fair idea

The work contains a great number of

historical anecdotes, relating principally to the Ghaznavis.

Chapters 1 to

4.

On
b. b.

and

duties, fol.
fol.

ministers,

12 51

the regal character 5. On the choice of

6.

Intercourse with
Poll. 62;
;

Add. 26,306.
6 in. by 4|; 17 lines, 2 in. written in small Nestalik, with 'Unvan long and ruled margins, apparently in the 17th
century.

foreign
7.

by ambassadors, fol. 56 b. On counsel, and avoiding the extremity of

states

Avar, fol.

66

a.

8. a.

On
9.

and

use,

fol.

71

horses, their qualities On their marks on

;

breaking in for the saddle, fol. 76 b. 10. On discovering the age of horses by inspecting their teeth ; on food and medicine, fol. 87 a. 11. On the arms and armour of cavalry,

[War. EKSKINE.]

treatise

on archery, in twenty-seven

chapters (Bab):

ARTS AND GAMES.

Author:

489

Muhammad
Mir

Budha'I,
.*-

commonly
^J2.

The

treatise is divided into three parts,

1.

called Sayyid

'Alavi,

uJ^fr

as follows:

Giti-kanda,

jjtf

c^,
6.

fol.

b.

Vada-kanda,

*M
fol.

b, fol.

97

3.

Nritya-

Beg.
It is dedicated to 'Ala

kanda, joK

Oy,

149

J.

ud-Dunya wad-Din
reigned Ferishtah, from
Foil. 119;

Abu-1-Muzaffar Ilusain Shah,

in

who

Add. 16,662.
10^
in.

Bengal,

according

to

A.H. 904 to 927; see Briggs' translation, vol. iv. p. 349, and Marsden, Numismata,
p. 577.

by 7

17
;

lines, 5 in.

long ; written in large Nestalik

ka'dah, A.H. 1205 (A.D. 1791).

dated Zul-

There are some drawings in the margins

17, 18, representing archers in Indian costume drawing the bow in various atti-

[WM. YULE.]
I.

of

foil.

Foil.

94.
;

Zauzani's

Commentary

on the Mu'allakftt
p. 479.
II.

see the Arabic Catalogue,

tudes.

There

are

also

some notes and

See Bibliotheca

additions in the margins. Sprenger., No. 1940.

Foil.

95119.
chiefly of

work on agriculture, treating

Egerton 1031.
Foil. 55;

tin*

culture of fruit-trees, flowers, vegetables

long;

8 in. by 5|; 15 lines, 3J in. written in Indian Nestalik ; dated

and grains, as practised in India. Author Ahmad 'All B. Muhammad Kha:

9afar, A.II.

1200 (A.D. 1786.) The same work.

lil,

of Jaunpur,

The author

says, in a short preface, that

Egerton 793.
Foil.

had been abridged in A.H. 1205, from the works designated as Jl^j tj?* <^^
this treatise
lines,
;

211; 8$

in.

by 4|; 13

3$

in.

long; written in Indian Nestalik Sha'ban, A.H. 1194 (A.D. 1780).

Jf.-.^ d\
Ainaii

UU

OliJ-A

dated

^ ^bb

tier* j

by

who

on music, translated from a Hindu work ascribed to Ahobal

treatise

Ullah ul-Husaini (i.e. Khanzaman, died A.H. 1046 see Add. 5554).
;

Translator: Raushan Zamir, jy^>

Beg. j\-.J&

Add. 17,960.
Foil. 55;

MJ,.;

Ayj *3r>}\ 3

long

8| in. by 5; 17 lines, 3| in. written in Indian Nestalik, apparently

The The

translator calls himself a born slave

in the

18th century.

'Alamgir (A.II. 10681118). of the original work is uncertain ; it appears in three different forms, viz. ciijWjb, fol. 51 a, and fol. 2 a, tiliUjL, in the
of I'.idi.shah
title

ciXJWjU, It is not stated whether it subscription. was a Sanscrit or Hindi work. The technical

and curious making pearls and recipes and dies, jewels, preparing various inks and oxydizing engraving stones, dissolving
collection of useful secrets
for
artificial

terms are Sanscrit, but several Hindi Dohrahs are introduced.

VOL.
II.

metals, making artificial flowers, illuminating books, etc., without author's name.

490

ARTS AND GAMES.

contains forty-two chapters (Bab), subdivided into one hundred and forty sections
It

A treatise on the game of from an Arabic original.

Author
:

chess, abridged

Muhammad B. Husam ud-Daulah,

(Fasl).

According to Stewart's Catalogue, p. 97, the work was written by Zain ul-'Abidin in But a Turkish the reign of Aurangzib.

Beg.

which appears to have been written about A.D. 1655 (A. H. 1065), is described in the Vienna Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 525.
version,

The Arabic work

\,

entitled

J*
'

<j
>

by

Muhammad

B.

'Umar Kajma

-J, is

stated in the preface to be

Add. 17,959.
Foil. 175;
;

the most useful treatise on chess.

As

there

in.

by 4|

13

lines,

in.

was, however, only one copy of it in the land, and that an incorrect one, it appeared
desirable to

written in Indian Nestalik, in the long latter half of the 18th century.

make an abridged

version of

it

in Persian, and the author performed that task by the order of a sovereign who is

designated by such

titles

as

A cookery-book,
Beg.

without author's name.

kila.,

but whose proper

Hy * ^*

name

does not appear.

It is divided into fourteen chapters (Bab),

After an introduction treating of the rites and observances to be attended to before

eating, the author gives,
foil.

as follows:

1.

The companions of Muhamdisciples

mad and

their

20, 21, a table

chess, fol. 7 a.

2 and 3.

played at Proofs of the lawful-

have

of the forty chapters (Bib) comprised in the book. Another title, viz. ci*>o ^, is

found in the heading of a

tents

^lyi w full table of con-

ness of the game, and its advantages, fol. 9 a. 4. Inventor of the game; multiplication of

prefixed

to

hand, foil. 2 9. A words shows that the work was written in India. It was completed, as stated at the in A.H. 1179; but it is not clear, end, whether the date relates to the composition,
or to the present copy.

the volume by another frequent use of Hindi

the squares, fol. 13 b. 5. Etymology of the terms of the game, fol. 17 b. 6. Polite rules to be observed in playing, fol. 22 a. 7. Advice to players,
fol.

24

a.

8.
a.

How
9.

to tell

the issue of a game, fol. 31 of the game, fol. 33 b. 10.

Opening
inge-

On some

nious games on the chess board, fol. 36 a. 11. Positions \^^a^c, or chess-problems, fol.

41

a.

14.

On
fol.

Add
Foil. 63;
;

the board,

playing without looking at 62 a.

is

16,856.

The present copy

the
first

defective.

Of Bab 9

10 in. by 6; 10 lines, 2| in. written in neat Nestalik, with 'Unvan long and gold-ruled margins; dated Babi' I., A.H.

three lines only are extant. The latter part of Bab 11, and the whole of Babs

1021 (A.D. 1612).

[Wit. YULE.]

12 and 13, are wanting. The last two are also omitted in the table of chapters at the end of the preface.

ARTS AND GAMES.

abstract of the work has hecn given O Mr. Bland in his " Persian Chess," Lonby 25. The title above mendon, 1850, pp. 18

491

An

Sloane 4095.
Paper
roll
;

16

in.

by 5^

written in plain

" tioned u^iU o^o- " the august Majesty was taken by him for a proper name, and led to the statement that the treatise had been

Naskhi, apparently in the 18th century. Explanation of some technical terms,

designating
various

kinds

of

ornamental
e^c>

compiled for the emperor Humayun.

buildings, such as

u ^,

<j-^*> ty*

PHILOLOGY.
LEXICOGRAPHY.
Persian Dictionaries.
Shaikh. Zadah 'Ashik (the author of a dictionary quoted in the Farhang i Jahangirl) Ic compiled in the present lexicon the matter
I

Or. 1262.
4$ in. long ; written in fair Indian Shikastah-amiz dated Zul-Ijijjah, A.U. 1102 (A.D. 1091).
;

Foil. 101

11|

in.

by 7; 23

lines,

2U*N
A dictionary of words
Author:
Kfi/i

ibl

Farfollowing works Fakhr Kawas (mentioned hang Namah, by by Firishtah, vol. i. p. 214, as one of the poets of the reign of 'Ala ud-Din Khilji, A.H. C95 716 he is called, in the Farhang i Jali.iiii,nri, Maulana Mubarak Shah Ghaznavl see Blochmann's list of sources, p. 4, No. 61),

contained in the

and phrases used by

the standard Persian poets.

(ib., No. 19; Haj. Khal. Risalat i Asadi Tusi (No. 2), vol. iii. p. 450), Dastur ul-Afazil (No. 17), Lisan ush-Shu'arii

Risalat un-Nasir

Khan Badr Muhammad

^,1*.

Dihlavi, called Dharwul,

(No. 46), and Fava'id i Burhani u Firdausi (No. 40). To the above he added other

names of kings and countries, etc., collected by him in the Divans, as well as
words,

Beg.

poetical phrases used

is

Fariyiibi, Firdausi, Sa'di,

by Khakani, Anvari, and other classical

noticed by Blochmann, p. 7 of his learned "Contributions to Persian

This work

poets. In A.II.

812

(or,

Lexicography," Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. xxxvii. pp. 1 72, a work which will be constantly referred to in the
following pages. logue, p. 131.

Blochmann, pur to the end

A.II. 822)

according to Stewart and he set out from Jaun-

of kissing the threshold of the illustrious prince Kadr Khan B. Diliivar

See also Stewart's Cata-

Khan, o/jj

The author had studied the Persian

poets,

as he states in the preface, under Kazi Burhan ud-Din, known as Dahanab, and under

as a Jafrl j>, whose fame ^,'i. jj^Jj munificent patron of learning had spread far and wide, and he made use of this Farhang Namah as an introduction to His Highness.
i

J'-c-

^ ^ ^\ ^^
.u

fb~

492
Diliivar

PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
Munyari, in whose honour the above title was given to the work. It concludes with a prayer that the author may be accounted one of the dwellers in that saint's
holy
shrine,
it.

Khan, the founder of the Ghuri in Malvah, had taken up his residence dynasty in the city of Dhar, from which the author's
surname, Dharval, is evidently derived. His son Alp Khan reigned, under the name of

mad

and may never be removed

B. Yahya from his native place,

Hushang, from A.H. 808 to 838. Another son, Kadr Khan, was in possession of the pro-

from

Sharaf

ud-Dm Ahmad

vince of Chanderl (Thornton's Chandhairee), which, on his demise, was added to the dominions of Hushang. See Tarikh Muham-

yarl, so called

MunMun-

yar, a village in Bihar,

madi, Or. 137,

p. 462.

fol.

428, and Firishtah, vol.

ii.

went to Dehli in Nizam ud-Dln Auliya, but, finding him dead (Nizam died A.H. 725), became a
quest of

Murid of Shaikh Najib ud-Dln Firdausi, who

Adiit ul-Fuzala is divided into

The

two

parts (Kism), viz. Kism I., containing single words arranged in alphabetical order, according to the first and second letters of each,
fol.

gave him the investiture of the Chishti order. He spent the latter part of his life in the city of Bihar (Thornton's Behar), where he
died A.H. 782, and where his tomb became the resort of the devout. His letters (Stewart's

b.

Kism
and

II.,

containing compounds

and
the

poetical phrases, arranged according to

initial

final letters, fol.

77

b.

Catalogue, p. 42) are much admired, as well as his discourses, collected under the title of

The copyist states at the end that his MS. had been written by a blundering scribe, and
that he had corrected
ability. Foil.
it

Ma'dan ul-Ma'am
vol. v. p.

(see

458).
fol.

Notices on his
fol.
i

Melanges Asiatiques, life will be

113,

to the best of his

found in Mir'at ul-'Alam,

ul-Akhyfir,
97,

Akhbar
ii.

A'ln

Akbari, vol.

3 contain an extract on Persian particles, 'and foil. 97101 a glossary of Arabic phrases in the Gulistan.

p.

219, and Blochmann's

It

translation, p. 48,

note.

Add. 7678.
Foil.
;

the above that the author lived in the city of Bihar. The time of composition is indicated by a quatrain, with which, according to Blochmann's full account, 1. c., pp. 7 9, the work concludes,

may be inferred from

285; 7*

in.

by

4;

19

lines,

2f

in.

long written in small Naskhi, apparently in the 17th century. [Cl. J.

RICH.]

and in which Abul-Muzaflar Barbak Shah is mentioned as the reigning sovereign. Barbak Shah reigned in Bengal, according to Tabakat i Akbarshfihi and Tarikh i Firishtah, vol. ii. p. 580, A.H. 862879. See also
Marsden, Numismata, p. 572. The Sharaf-Ncamah is divided into several Babs, each of which contain words beginning with the same letter. are sub-

A Persian
Author:

dictionary.

Ibrahim

Kivam

Faruki,

They

divided into

Beg.

letters.

at length,

The and

Fasls according to the final pronunciation of words is stated

their

meaning

illustrated

by

A prologue

in verse contains a

on a celebrated Shaikh, Sharaf ud-Dm Ah-

panegyric

copious quotations of the poets, from Firdausi to Hafiz. The author often

adduces

his

own

verses,

and prefixes to each Bab

PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
a Kasidah of his composition. TurkI words are given at the end of each Fasl.

493

The work, which

the

name
is

himl,

frequently called, from author, Farhang i Ibraquoted in Tub fat us-Sa'adat (see
is

divided into two parts (Kism). The first, which comprises single words and compounds, arranged according to the initial and final

of

its

below, p. 493 b) and later dictionaries. Copies are mentioned in the Munich Catalogue,
p. 103, p. 491.

alone extant in the present copy. It slightly imperfect at the end, breaking off in the compounds the first term of which
letters, is
is
is

dJo

The words

are illustrated

by copious

and the Melanges Asiatiques,

See also
Ilaj.

vol.

iii.

Khal., vol. v. p. 325. The present copy contains little more than the first half of the work, ending with

poetical passages headed j^>, but without the authors' names. The meaning is fre-

the letter (j.

quently explained by Indian equivalents. This is no doubt the work designated as Farhang i 'Asimi in the Farhang i Jahangiri

(Blochmann, No. 34).

Or. 265.
Foil.

161

in.

by 5

19

Add. 7683.
lines,

3$

in.

long;

writted in small and neat Naskhi, apparently in the 17th century.

Foil.

198 ; 9

in.

by 5

23

lines,

in.

[GEO.
I.

WM.

HAMILTON.]
(see

long; written in small Nestalik, apparently in the 16th century. [Cl. J. RICH.]

Foil.
a).

60.

Adat
first

ul-Fuzala

p.

491

This copy wants the

tion to

page, the dedicaII.

A Persian
Author:

dictionary.

Kadr Khan, and Kism

Mahmud

B. Shaikh Ziya

II. Foil.

62161.
Beg.
dictionary.

A Persian

Author: 'Asim Shu'aib'Abdusi,

The author begins with a prologue in verse, containing eulogies on the reigning
sovereign, Sultan Sikandar (Sikandar Lodi,

Beg.

Requested by some friends to collect into one book all the words, Parsi, Pehlevi, Kami,
or Turki, necessary to a complete understanding of the poets, the author com-

Nabati,

and beneShaikh Sa'id, also called factor, Khwiijagi Sa'id ud-Dln. He then states that he had hitherto cultivated poetry, and composed
A.H. 894
last

923), and on his patron

and presented it, posed the above work, called 'AH Akbar, and All. 899, to a Vazir
entitled P.rricl

pioces of every kind, mostly in praise of the personage, but that he had been prevailed

Khan, son of the Vazir

'Imful

ul-Mulk,

upon by some friends to compile the present lexicon, which he completed on the tenth of Safar, A. II. 916, and presented to the patron
aforesaid.

He enumerates

in the preface the follow-

ing sources: Zamir (Blochmann, No. 33), Dastur (probably Dastur ul-Afazil, No. 17), Farhang i Fakhr i Kavvas (see p. 492 a), Zu-

The work

is

stated in the preface to be

fun

Guya (No.

21),

Dastur ul-Fuzala (No. 18),

19-1

PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
Besides the above works he enumerates the
sources: for Arabic words the Surah and Taj, and for those of Fars, Samarkand, Miivara un-Nahr, Turkistan, etc., Lisan ush-Shu'ara (No. 46), Adat ul-Fuzala (p. 491 a), DastQr ul-Afazil (No. 17), Zufan Guya (No. 21), Mava'id ul-Fava'id (No. 64), Sharh' i Makhzan ul-Asrar, Tibb i Haka'ik ulAshya, Farhang i 'Ilml 'All Begi (Nos. 35 and 37) and Fakhr Kavvas (p. 491 b). A sup-

Adat ul-Fuzala (p. 491 a), Sharh i Makhzan, Far hang i Kazi Zahir (No. 41), Farhang i Ibrahim! (i. e. Sharaf Namah i Munyari, p. 492 a), HusainI (No. 16), and 'Aja'ib (No. 36). For Arabic words he made use of the Surah, Dastur, Khulasah, Nasib ul-Vildan, and
Tajain.

following

The dictionary is divided, according to the two and twenty Babs, and each Bab is divided into two sections (Fasl),
initial letters, into

which contains the single words, arranged according to the final letters, and the second, the compound words and phrases, in the same order. There are no poetical
the
first

of

plement

JL3 treats of the numerals, arith-

metical notation, and Persian grammar. The words are grouped in books (Kitfib)

quotations.
Sururi, who states that he made use of the Tuhfat us-SaVidat for the second edition of his dictionary, calls the author Maulana Mahmud B. Shaikh Ziya ud-Din Muhammad. It is, no doubt, the work mentioned by Firishtah, vol. i. p. 346, under the title of

according to the initial letters, and, in each kitab, in Babs, according to the final letters. Each Bab is subdivided into three sections
(Fasl), containing respectively the Arabic,

Persian,

and Turkish words.

Farhang
list

SikandarT, as written in the reign of Sultan Sikandar. See also Blochmann's

i

The Mu'ayyid ul-Fuzala is described by Blochmann, 1. c., p. 9, who calls the author Muhammad B. Shaikh Lad, of Dehli, and assigns to the work the date of A.H. 925,
without, however, stating his authority. It mentioned as a work of great merit in the preface of Madiir ul-Afazil (p. 496 ). See also
is

of sources, No. 10. On the last page of the present copy is a

note stating that it was purchased A. H. 1003 by one Paramanand in Sirhind.

Stewart's Catalogue, p. 132. The present copy wants the supplement.

Or. 261.
Foil.

395; 12|

in.

by

6;

21

lines,

4|

in.

long;

written in Nestalik;

dated Rajab,

Add. 23,575.
Foil.

A.H. 1118 (A.D. 1706).

[Geo.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

152;

?i

in.

by 5

17

lines,

3 in.
II.,

long; written in Nestalik; dated Rabi'

A Persian
Author:
Beg.

A.H. 1020 (A.D. 1611).

dictionary.

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

Muhammad
.*

B. Lad,

M
Persian glossary. Author Hafiz Aubahi,
:

he had combined in his lexicon the entire matter of the Sharaf Namah (see p. 492 a), and of the Kunyat utTalibln (Blochmann, No. 42), a work of that most learned master of the science, entitled
states that

The author

Beg.

KazTshah,

iU

t^^-M

j.U ^-L
(_,>b

The author, so called from Aubah, a village near Herat (Mujam, vol. i. p. 137), was led to compile this work by noticing the neglect
into which the ancient poets

had

fallen in his

PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
used by tbem day, because many of the words It is dedicated to a Vazlr had become obsolete.
of Kborasan

495

Beg. JJ^

name

CJd. jj,, whose proper does not appear, and the date of its

^\f-

The author
face,

he states in the preto free himself of the importunate quesdesired, as

completion, A.H. 936, is chronogram at the end

stated in a versified
:

tions

which

were
jjj,

his friends, brothers, and sons, ever putting to him, as to the meaning

^Udl pU31 a ji-U31 J3 From a connection alluded to,

of Sufi phrases.

in the verse

immediately preceding the above, between the title of the work and the name of the Vazir
before mentioned,

While reading with his son, Shaikh Sliihab, the Divan of Kasim i Anvar, he found that many words were wanting,
both in the Farhang of Shaikh Ibrahim Kivam (p. 492 a), and in that of Shaikh Muhammad B. Shaikh Lad (p. 494 a), and was (Jbliged to look for them in the Surah, the
Tajain,

the latter

it becomes probable that was Habib Ullah, apparently the

same to whom the Ijablb us-Siyar is dedicated. The words are arranged according to the initial and final letters, and are sometimes
illustrated

and the Kanz ul-Lughut, all of which, however, he found also deficient. This induced
to compile the present dictionary, in which he omitted for brevity's sake the words
in

him

by poetical quotations. The Tuhfat ul-Ahbab is quoted in the Farhang i Jahangiri and in the Majma' ul Furs. See Blochmann, No. 9, and Melanges Asiatiques, vol.
ii.

common use. The contents are arranged in

p. 439.

Add, 8990.
long; written in a small and neat Nestalik, apparently in the 16th century.
;

Foil 97

7 in. by 3J

14

lines, 2 in.

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The same work. The hitter portion of this copy, foil. 62 97, was written in Ispahan, Rajab, A.H.
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A dictionary of Persian and Arabic words,

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Author: 'Abd ur-Rahlm B.

Ahmad

Sur,

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A Persian
Author
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dictionary.

Persian

lexicon,

Ilahdad FaizI B. Asad ul-'Ulama

words of Persian
quotations.

containing all the with copious poetical origin,

AIT Shir Sirhindi,

j\

^^AJJ

[sic']

ato

<d!\

Jamal ud-Din Husain Inju B. Fakhr ud-Din Hasan, Jl r^. )>\.

: .
(

Author

Beg.

jU
author,

^^ ^

The

who has been

already

menBeg. Ll

tioned, p. 253 a, states in the preface, that

he had compiled the Arabic words from the Surah, Muhazzib ul-Asma, Tajain and its commentaries, Nisab us-Sibyan (Blochmann, No. 65), and Kunyat ul-Fityan (No. 43), the Persian words from the Zufan Guya (No. 21), Adat ul-Fuzala (p. 491 a), Tabakhturi, Hall
i

Mir Jamal ud-Din Inju belonged to a Sayyid family of Shiraz. Having left his native city for India, he repaired, after some
whose
stay in the Deccan, to the court of Akbar, service he entered in the thirtieth

Lughat ush-Shu'ara (Blochmann, p. 7), Sharaf Namah i Ibrahim! (p. 492 a), and
author,
viz.,

two modern works, highly praised by the

Tuhfat us-Sa'adat
i

Sikandari

6), and Mu'ayyid ul-Fuzala (p. 494 a). (p. The words are arranged according to the initial and final letters, and are marked with

493

A .H. 993 4), and by whom ( he was sent to the Deccan, A.H. 1013, to negociate the marriage of Prince Daniyal with the daughter of 'Adil Shah. He rose to high military commands under Jahangir, who conferred upon him the government of Bihar, and later on, A.H. 1027, the title of 'Azud ud-Daulah. He was pensioned off
year of the reign

PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
A.H. 1030, and died some years later in Agrah. His life, extracted from the Ma'asir
ul-UmarS, is given with a translation by Blochmann, 1. c., pp. 65 70, and Ain i
Akbari, translation, p. 450.
the
first

497

instance the second of each word, and then the first. The appendix (Khatimah),

contains the following five special glossaries, called Dar, and similarly arranged 1. Meta:

The author says in his preface that, having from early youth upwards devoted himself to the study of the poets, he had found many words and phrases either wanting, or imperfectly rendered, in existing dictionaries. He therefore began to write down for himself the rare

phors and poetical phrases, 2. Compound words, fol. 461

containing Arabic, fol.
words,
fol.

fol.

423

b.

a.

3.

Words

any of the letters peculiar to 481 a. 4. Zand and Piizand

a.
fol.

482

5.

Foreign words, mostly

a.

proper names,
Copyist
:

489

JwU

had been

for

words which he met with, and nearly thirty years engaged on

d\ >>*. ^i. Jj

that labour when, having been called in Zulka'dah, A.H. 1005, to the presence of

Akbar, who then held his court in Srinagar, Kashmir, and had been told of the author's
learning,

The Farhang i Jahangiri has been lithographed in Lucknow, A.H. 1293. See Blochmann, I.e., pp. 12 15, Stewart's Catalogue, p. 129, Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 24, and Munich Catalogue, p. 105.

he

had

received

Ilis

Majesty's
Foil. 606;

commands for the compilation of the present work. The task, however, was not completed
until

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after

long
zan,

written in neat Nestalik

dated Rama-

succeeded

by Jahangir, work was named. The date of

pletion,

whom
its

the

com-

A.H. 1033 (A.D. 1624). [Ww. ERSKINE.] The same work, without the Khatimah.

A.H. 1017,
it,

is

fixed

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gram j\^r ^.^ j)> tlijy

revised
It is stated in

j>j

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[J. F.

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The
Musa, which

(Moknddimah), divided into twelve sections (A'in), folL 4 18, treats

introduction

An

copyist, Muhammad Fazil B. Munslri says at the end that the MS. from
this

copy was taken had been corrected, for the main part, by the author's own hand.

of the

extent of

Persian language and

flections,

ancient Persia, of the its dialects, the letters

affixes,

used in Persian, the

bers

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in-

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(A.D. 1655).

[NATH. BRASSEY HALHED.]

The same work.

Copyist
:

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(A.D. 1683).
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[01. J.

RICH.]
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A Persian
Author
:

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*-

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27

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gins;

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not to be confounded with another Sururi (Mustafa B. Sha'ban), a comis

The author

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[ADAM CLARKE.]

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sand verses by heart, and wrote, besides the present work, a glossary to Nizami and other
lines,

poets.

Sururi's habitual residence

was

Isfa-

han, where he was seen by Pietro della

Valle,

A.H. 1032

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

No. 389).

He

left

(see Ouseley's Collection, it for India, where he

The same work, wanting the

of the Appendix.

fifth section

volume, foil. 292 464, is written by a later hand, and dated Zulhijjah, A.H. 1195 (A.D. 1781).

The

latter portion of the

stayed some time, in the reign of Shahjahan, and died on his way from thence to Mecca. See Mirat ul-'Alam, fol. 484, and Riyaz ushIt will be seen further on, 217. that he had reached Lahore as (p. b) as A.H. 1036. early Sururi states in the preface that, after a

Shu'ara,

fol.

500

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:

columns ; dated Calcutta, October, 1815.

[WM. CURETON.] The same work. This copy was written by Shaikh Asalat 'All Bihari for Captain Thomas Roebuck.

by Shams Fakhri (Blochmann, No. 58, Haj. Khal., vol. vi. p. 640), Tuhfat ul-Ahbab (p. 494 b), Risalah i Husain Vafa'i (No. 14),

PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
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i

499

Abu Mansur
2),

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i

Tusi (No.
i

Risalah

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Jami' ul-Lughat, iu verse, by Niyazi Hijazi (No. 11), and four other anonymous treatises.

Muhammad

long

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;

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edition,
1*.

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^3 j^\

jt-^o j>,

u o .uii'

*jJ\la*,

the author states that

he condensed their Bubstance in the presentwork.eliminating Arabic and common Persian words, and adding examples from the poets. The preface coneludes with a dedication to Shah 'Abbas
Compiling
all these,

(A.H.

9961038).

are arranged according to their initial and final letters. short appendix,

The words
310

he had perused in A.H. 1028 (not A.H. 1038, as stated by Blochmann), the Farhang of the noble and illustrious Navvab Shah Jamal .ud-Din Husain Inju (p. 496 ft), brought from India in that year, and had added some of words and observations to his own its He had read also in the same dictionary.
year the Shiimil ul-Lughah, a Persian dictionary explained in Turkish, by Karfi-Hisari
(p.

foil.

313, contains metaphorical phrases,

in alphabetical order.

A full
Farhang

account of the Majma* ul-Furs, or

i

Sururi,

more

513a), and theTuhfat us-Sa'adat (p. 4*93 b). lie adds that his work having for some time

especially

of

its

second edition, which will be noticed further on, is given by Blochmann, I.e., pp. 12 and

past been submitted to a thorough revision, the present edition is far more trustworthy, as

1618.

See also Haj. Khal.,

vol. v. p. 325,

Stewart's Catalogue, p. 130, Uri, p. 290, the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 101, the Leyden Catalogue, vol. i. p. 96, the Munich Catalogue,
p.

more complete, than the first. The following is written on the fly-leaf: " Shamel Lagatt, or Persian Dictionary,
well as

written 43 yeeres since, to this yeere 1636." The writer had evidently taken the defective

101,

and

Melanges Asiatiques,

vol. iv. p. 498, vol. v. p. 238.

date of this copy, 103, to stand for 1003 = A.D. 1693, a date which, being anterior to the time of composition, is obviously wrong. If 103 be meant for 1030, and it does not

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WM

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K2

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PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
tionary proper,
in

marginal notes, and some poetical pieces by Sururi, written on the last page, are all in
the author's handwriting. At the bottom of the last page is actually found the following

which

the words

are

arranged according to the first, second, and third letters, as in European dictionaries,
fol.

somewhat mutilated subscription, which, if genuine, would show that Sururi had written the above verses in Lahore, A.H. 1036
:

Guftar 29, or supplement, containing seventy-one words, mostly foreign words and proper names, fol. 862 b. The Burhan i Kati1 has been edited by
b.

12

'

Captain Roebuck, Calcutta, 1818, and reA Turkish printed in 1822 and 1834. translation has been printed in Constantinople, A.H. 1214, and in Bulak, It has been entirely incorporated

A.H. 1251. by
Prof. J.

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Catalogue, p. 435, and the p. 107.

Munich Catalogue,

tury.

[WM. YOLE.]
FoU. 735
;

language, including words borrowed from the Arabic and other languages.

dictionary of the Persian

4| in. long; written in Nestalik, with ruled margins; dated Ramazan, A.H. 1135 (A.D.
;

Add. 26,130. Hi in. by 7 19

lines,

1723).

[WM.

ERSKINE.]

Author

Muhammad

Husain, poetically
t_ali-

The same work.

styled Burhan, B. Khalaf ut-Tabrizi,

^\

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in.

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in.

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about 14

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The author

states that

he had compiled in

the present dictionary the entire substance of the Farhang i Jahangiri, Majma* ul-Furs of

long; written on paper water-marked 1815, and on one side of the leaves only, by the Rev. John Haddon Hindley, and by him of inscribed " Historical
:

vocabulary

proper

Sulaimani, and Sihah ul-AdHusain ul-Ansfm (No. 24 and 32) and viyahby
Sururi,
i
,

Surmah

names of

places,
etc.,

persons, etc.

and eminent from the Borhan Katea."

countries,

that he had, for brevity's sake, omitted poetical quotations and superfluous matter. He dedicates his

Add. 5555.
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Foil.
;

work to Sultan 'Abd TJllah Kutubshah B.Kutubshah (who reigned in Golconda from A.H. 1035 to 1083), and fixes the date
of its completion, A.H. 1062, by the following

303

llf

in.

by 8

chronogram, jkl ^Ijy *jlj Contents Nine Fa'idahs, or preliminary observations, on the Persian language, its
:

^^

[CHARLES HAMILTON.]

letters, particles,

and orthography,

fol.

b.

A Persian
:

dictionary.

Twenty-eight Guftars, comprising the dic-

Author 'Abd ur-Rashid B. 'Abd ul-Ghafur

PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
ul-Husaini ul-Madanl ut-Tatavi,

501

hang i Rashidi, which he terms the first critical dictionary, and gives the most important portion of the preface in the original with a transThe same scholar 24. lation, I.e., pp. 20

*Abd ur-Easchid, who was born in Tattah of a family of Medinah Sayyids, is known as the author of an Arabic dictionary, entitled Muntakhab ul-Lughat (p. 510 a) which he dedicated to Shahjahan A.H. 1046. He is mentioned in the ami shah Bahar,Oude
1 1

M ullfi

promoted and superintended the edition of the

work in the Bibliotheca Indica, Calcutta, 1875, to which is appended a notice on the author. The Mukaddimah of the Farhang i Rashidi
has been edited by Dr. Splieth under the " Grammatics Persicae title of
prsecepta

Catalogue, p. 122,

among

the poets of that

A chronogram which he composed period. on the second Julus of Aurangzib shows that he was still alive in A.H. 1069. See 'AH
Shir,

ac regula?," Halle, 1846. It is also the foundation of the Persian grammar of 'Abd ul,Vasi' Hansavi.
It is

mentioned in Stewart's

quotes several of his poetical pieces, and says that his two works, known as Rashidi 'Arabi and Bashidi Pdrsi, bear ample testimony to his

Add.

21,589,

fol.

488,

who

Catalogue, p. 130.

Add. 7001.
about 20 lines ; Foil. 193 ; 9 in. by 7i written on one side only of paper water;

profound erudition.

The author observes

the Farhang
i

in the preface that

i

marked 1814, by

J.

Haddon Hindley.

Jahangiri and the Farhang

A Persian

glossary, containing rare words,

Sururi, although the best existing Persian lexicons, had the following four blemishes
:

proper names, and metaphorical phrases, without preface, title, or author's name.

1.

Prolixity
2.

and redundance of

poetical quo-

Beg.
It is

tations.

of accuracy in denning the meanings and pronunciation of words. 3. Insertion of Arabic and Turkish words as
Persian.
4.

Want

^jJuLf) (y-* j f& ^-4 found to consist of extracts from the

i

>ix-.*

Farhang

Rashidi.

Wrong
last

words;
Sururi.
its

the

of mis-spelt observable in especially

entries

Or. 264.
9 in. by 5$; 17 lines, 3 in. written in Shikastah-amiz, about the long ; close of the 18th century.
Foil. 152;

The present work, he

adds, had for

object to

combine the matter of those

to eliminate

two

dictionaries,

superfluous

quotations, and non-Persian words, and to supply a more accurate definition of the meaning and spelling of words. The date of its completion, A.H. 1064, is conveyed by

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

A poetical
Author
:

glossary.

the chronogram, J^i ^juij i^liiiy >'.> An introduction (Mukaddimah), treating of Persian grammar, occupies foil. 4 a 13 b.

Siraj

ud-Din
~

'All, poetically sur-

named
Beg.

Arzii,
ci>

The

dictionary proper, arranged on the same plan as the Burhan i Kat i', fills the rest of

A Khiitimah, announced in the preface, is wanting in the present and other known copies.
the volume.

Blochmann speaks very highly of the Far-

ud-Din 'AH Khan, a well-known Persian and Hindustani poet, born in Akbarabad, A.H. 1101, traced his origin to Shaikh Kamal ud-Din, a nephew of the famous saint
Sirfij

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PERSIAN DICTIONAEIES.
used by
the

Nasir ud-Din Chiragh i Dihll. He proceeded, A.H. 1132, to Dehli, where he found a

Persian

poets,

ancient and

modern, with copious examples.

powerful patron in Mu'taman ud-Daulah Ishak Khan, and, after him, in his son Najm

Author

Tekchand Bahar,

ud-Daulah. He made himself conspicuous by his bold criticisms on Shaikh Hazln,

published in a pamphlet entitled "Tanbih ul-Ghafilin, and wrote, A.H. 1164, a Tazkirah

Beg. ty\

Majma' un-Nafa'is. In A.H. 1168 he Lucknow, where he received a pension from Shuja' ud-Daulah, and died shortly after, on the 23rd of Rabi' II., A.H. 1169. His life is found in the Khizanah 'Amirah, Or. 232. See also Sprenger, Oude Catalogue,
called
settled in
p. 132,

Eai Tekchand, poetically styled Bahar, was a Khatri of Dehli. See Gulzar Ibrahim, fol. 29, Garcin de Tassy, Litterature Hindoui,

and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, Little is known of his life beyond p. 211. what he tells us in his preface, two draughts of which, partly identical, are found in the
vol.
i.

p. 100,

Garcin de Tassy, Litterature Hindoui, vol. i. p. 69, and Blochmann, I.e., pp. 25 28. The author states that this work, which forms, as it were, a second part (Daftar) to
ul-Lughah, or glossary of the ancient poets, contains those words and phrases used by modern poets, which are not found in the
his Siraj

Prom his present copy, foil. 2 4, 6 7. childhood to his fifty-third year, which he had reached at the time of writing, he had
devoted
himself to the study of Persian
poets and their idioms, and was indebted for much of his knowledge to two accomplished scholars, viz. Maulana Shaikh Abulkhair Khair Ullah, whom he refers to in his work as ?-, and Siraj ud-Din 'All Khan

Farhang
viz.
:

i Jahangiri, SururT, Burhan i Kati', or other dictionaries. They are of two kinds,

Arzu
title

(see p.

501

5),

whom he quotes under the

1. Difficult
;

stood in India
of

words, not generally under2. Words or phrases, the

While engaged on the of ^..Hfl^ p-lr"compilation of his dictionary, in which he

had spent " twenty ")
(in the second draught years, he had written a treatise on
fifteen

which is known, but the correctmeaning ness of which is questioned. Both are given
in one series, alphabetically arranged according to the usual plan.

letters

<_Jjj*^ j>\fr

(lithographed in Kanpur,

ul-Lughah was written A.H. 1147. The date is fixed by a chronogram, quoted by Blochmann, I.e., p. 26. The Chiragh i Hidayat is printed in the
Siraj

The

margins of the lithographed edition of Ghiya ul-Lughat, published by Naval Kishor Kanpur, 1874.

A.H. 1267), and another on verbs yW51 j^y (lithographed in Dehli, A.H. 1272). The date of completion of the present work is then expressed by the chronogram Xjb JU ti> b jV jP - j&> *" e H52+10 = A.H. 1162. The author explains further on his
-

Or. 259.
Foil.
;

704;

12

abridged references to his authorities, namely the two scholars above mentioned, Shaikh 'All Hazln, the Siraij ul-Lughah (p. 5026), 1 Mulhakat i Burhan i Kati and the com,

in.

ly 8; 17

lines,

4f in

long written in Nestalik ; dated January, A.D. 1836. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]

mentary of Abul-Hasan Earahani upon the Kasidahs of Anvari. He concludes with an extensive list of the poets and glossaries from which the matter of his lexicon is derived. Of modern works he had used, as stated in
the second draught of the preface, only the

dictionary of the words and idioms

PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
Tanbih ul-Ghafilin, (see p. 502 a), and a Mukhtasar by Mir Muhammad Afzal Sabit (died A.H. 1150 or 1152 Oude Catalogue, p. 150). But after completing his first edition, he had had access to the Mustalahat ush-Shu'ara of Varastah, a treatise of Anand Ram Mukhlis
;

503
&

Author

Varastah,

Beg. Varastah was a native of Lahore.

His

original name was, according to the preface of Roebuck's edition of Burhan Kati', p. 12,
SiyfJ
viXijV&j

Koti

Mai.
is

110 1; Oude Catalogue, p. 159), and another without author's name. This mention of Varastah's work, which was not written before A.H. 1180 (see the next number), gives a date to the second preIt must have been penned by the face.
(died A. II.

His anthology entitled

iij-

noticed by Sprenger,

Oude

Catalogue, p. 146.

The author

states in a short

preamble that,

finding in existing dictionaries no sufficient explanation of poetical phrases, he had been

fifteen years in collecting the of this work from linguists of the .materials land of Iran, jbo u \ib ^bj, and had begun to write it in the year for which the

author

that very year, and therefore shortly before his death. Between the two draughts above mentioned
in

engaged during

y^

found a preface written by Indarman, who himself a pupil of Tekchand, to an abridged edition made by him in A.H. 1180, upon the rough copy left by the author at
is

calls

above title is a chronogram, i.e. A.H. 1180. He then gives a list of the authorities to which he occasionally refers by abbreviations,

among which
glossaries,

is

found, besides some

known

his death.

a work entitled
is

The Bahar i 'Ajam is described by Blochmann as "one of the grandest dictionaries

the author of which

^lib JjV*?, w not named. Varastah's

work
ment.

CVT

written by one man." His notice on the author and his works will be found, 1. <., pp. 28 30. The work has been used by Thomas Roebuck for his additions to the

follows the usual alphabetical arrange-

Burhan, and by Professor Vullers in his Lexicon; see the preface, p. vii. It has been lithographed in Dehli, 1853, under the title
See the Journal of j\> O'-aP*"**. the Asiatic Society of Bengal, voL 22, p. 40-1, and Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1537.
of

The Mustalahat ush-Shu'ara is mentioned by Tekchand as one of the works of which he became possessed after completing the
first

edition of
I.e.,

the Bahar
p. 30.

'Ajam.

See

Blochmann,
II.

Foil.

203206.

Or. 262.
Foil.

by Jiimi (see. p. 17 a), containing such Arabic words, as by a slight change in their punctuation assume different
meanings.

A versified treatise

232; 11

in.

by 6J; 19
;

lines,

4f

in.
I

long ; written in Nestalik dated Muharram, A.H. 1245 (A.D. 1829). [GBO. WM. HAMILTON.]
I.

Foil.

3203.

This tract has been edited by Francis Gladwin in the Persian Moonshee, and by It has been J. H. Hindley, London, 1811.
1826. printed in Calcutta, 1818, and
III. Foil.

206209.
Sahib

A treatise on
Kiidiri,

Izafat,

A poetical glossary, dealing especially with

words and phrases peculiar to the modern poets of Iran, with examples.

by Muhammad
heading
:

with

the

504
IV. Foil.

PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
211231.
Arabic Persian vocabulary.
FarahT,

A versified
Author
:

Abu Nasr

most useful for the reading of classical It has been printed in 1847 by one authors. Hasan from a MS. corrected by the author. Mir A lithographed edition, dated Kanpur, A.D.
as the

1874, contains the Chiragh

Hidayat in the

margins.

Badr ud-Din Abu Nasr

Farahl

wrote,
Foil.

a according to Haj. Khal., vol. ii. p. 559, of poetical version of the Jami* us-Saghlr ShaibanT, in A.H. 617. His vocabulary is a

Add. 26,316.
32 ; lOJ
in.

by 5J

13

lines,

3J

in.

long
tury.

written in Nestalik, in the 19th cen-

been pubpopular school-book, which has lished in Calcutta, 1819, and frequently reSee Blochprinted in India and in Persia.
Haj. Khal., vol. vi. p. 346, Fleischer, Leipzig Catalogue, p. 333, Fliigel, Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 112, etc.

[WM.

ERSKINE.J

mann,

1.

c.,

p. 7,

A
hanl,

Persian glossary.
:

Author

Muhammad

Sadik Katib Bahba-

Or. 260.
Foil.

Beg.

724

11 J

in.

by 6

19

lines,

n.

The work takes

Duncan,
tdXistl

its

name from Jonathan

&5j

long; written in Nestalik; dated Safar, A.H. 1258 (A.D. 1842). [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]

^oi>

.
(

^ ^V
was

<\

jW

il&i)

.
(

}^>\

JL^as-

j^}

(Resident at Benares,
it

1790

4), for

whom

written.

The author

A Persian dictionary.
Author: Muhammad Ghiyas. ud-Din B. Jalill ud-Din B. Sharaf ud-Din,

remarks in the preface that the people of Bahbahan, and the husbandmen of Isfahan, Shushtar, and Dahdasht, had preserved much ancient Persian in their vernacular, and he
professes to have

Beg.
author, who describes himself as an inhabitant of Mustafa-abad, commonly called

The

drawn the contents partly from the storehouse of his memory, partly from Persian dictionaries. There is, however, nothing original in the work it is transcribed, with a change in the arrangement, from the Farhang i Jahan;

states

Rampur, Parganah of Shahabad, Lucknow, that he had been engaged fourteen

giri.

The present copy breaks

off at

the

word

years, in the midst of his avocations as a

teacher, and other literary labours, upon the compilation of this work, which was com-

Sloane 2743.
Foil. 18;
in.
;

pleted A.H. 1242.

he says, is to all the necessary words, whether of explain Arabic, Persian, or Turkish origin, as well as the metaphorical phrases and scientific terms, which occur in the standard works of
Its object,

long the 17th century. A Persian vocabulary.

Beg.

lines, 3| written in Nestalik, apparently in

8J

in.

by 5$; about 15

^M>.jfO

if

_g'&*\ j

\-i>^
li

jlii

f&-\j&

Persian literature

commonly read

in India.

This
p.

according to Blochmann, 1. c., " the student's dictionary," 30, eminently

is,

It \vas written, as stated in a short preamble, at the request of a young student

called

Nauruz Beg Baghdadi.

It consists of

ARABIC-PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
two parts, the first of which contains common Persian words in alphabetical order, without any interpretation ; the second, Arabic words
explained in Persian.

505

long; written in Naskhi and Nestalik, apparently in India, early in the 19th century.

A rabic-Persian
Foil.

[WM. ERSKINE.] The same work, without the preface. In spite of some discrepancies, the text agrees in the main with the preceding copy. In the subscription the work is termed

Dictionaries.

Or. 18.
; by 5 ; 10 lines, 2 J in. long ; written in Naskhi, apparently in the Hth century. [J. L. RENOUARD.)

Or. 1174.
Foil.

112

7 in.

190

10i

in.

by

5 lines, 4

in.

long ; written in large Naskhi, with all the vowels, dated Rajab, A.H. 864 (A.D. 1460). [ALEXANDRE JABA.]

A dictionary of Arabic verbs,

Persian.

explained in
Illah

Author: Al-Kazi Abu 'Abd

ain B.

ul-Hu-

Introduction to the study of Arabic.

Ahmad

Author
uz-Zuzani,
shari,

Mahmud

B.

'Umar uz-Zamakh-

The author died A.H. 486

Catalogue, p. 755).

(see the Arabic

Beg.

Beg.
in several classes, according to the vowel of the media in the Each class is again past and future tenses.

The verbs are arranged

Zamakhshari, the well-known author of the Kashshaf, was born in Zakhmashar, a died village of Khwarazra, A.II. 467, and See his life and works in Ibn A.H. 538.
Khallikan, p. 321.

de Slane's translation, vol.

states in the preface that

iii.

subdivided into regular JL*, concave

^^Sj, and reduplicate verbs, the arrangement in each section being alphabetical, according to the last radical. The verbs are given under the form of the Masdar, or verbal noun.
defective

The author

he

See Fleischer, Leipzig Catalogue, p. 331, where the contents are specified, Dorn, St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 203, the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 105, the Upsala Catalogue, p. 9, p. 111.

had received the commands of the noble Amir, the Isfahsalar Baha ud-Din 'Ala udDaulah Abul-Muzaffar Atsuz B. Khwarazmshah (who afterwards reigned from A.H. 522 to 551 ; see pp. 475 a, 467 a) to write
for the

Amir's library a copy of his work, Mukaddimat ul-Adab, which had already been favourably received, and had circulated
far

and the Munich Catalogue,

and wide.
is

Add. 26,133.
1.

divided into five parts (Kism) 1. Nouns. 2. Verbs. 3. Partias follows : 5. In4. Inflexion of the nouns. cles.
flexion of the verbs.
lines,

The work

The Preface and the

84; 10
Vol..

in.

by

13

4|

in.

first

two of the above parts have been edited

H.

500

AEABIC-PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
(kism) as follows
:

with an Arabic index by J. G. "Wetzstein, See also Haj. Khal., vol. vi. Leipzig, 1850.
p. 76, Uri, p. 233,

Pusey, p. 186, Fleischer, Leipzig Catalogue, p. 332, the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 96, and the Upsala Catalogue, p. 11.

i., containing the verbal nouns, 5 a, is subdivided, according to the various forms of the Masdar, into twentythree chapters (Bab), in each of which the

Part

fol.

The present copy contains only the

and part

preface

1, which gives the nouns (including adjectives, numerals and pronouns) classed

verbs are alphabetically arranged under the Part n., fol. 97 a, contains the first radical.

according to subjects. The contents correspond to pp. 1 85 of the lithographed edition.

nouns arranged under the following heads 1. parts of the body, 2. crafts and tools, 3. food and drink, 4. animals, 5. heaven and
:

The Arabic

is

accompanied through-

out by a Persian and a Turkish version, written in two separate lines under the text, by the same hand, but in a smaller character,

earth, and, in each class, in alphabetical order.

Part

in., fol.

206
is

a,

Each word

contains a few particles. followed by its Persian

and marked with all the vowels. In some places Greek equivalents have been added.
Copyist
:

equivalent, written with all the vowels, and Turkish glosses are added in a smaller

character
archaic

between the
of the

lines.

From
in

the

spelling

Persian,

such

190, by the same hand, do not belong to Zamakhshari's work. They contain tables of the Arabic pronouns
Poll.

184

written

words as ^i--, ^ib, ^T for *^T etc., this copy appears to have been transcribed from an early MS. In a Turkish note on the fly-leaf the writer
ascribes the

combined with prepositions, Persian pronouns and adverbs, and some Turkish notes on Persian grammar and on the calendar.

work to
vol.

al-Birunl, evidently con*fejM

ii.

founding it with the

S3lp-l>

JjJuo

mentioned

by Haj. Khal.,

p. 324.

Or. 1175.
Foil.

Add. 26,136.
Foil. 45; 12 in.

long ;

by 6|; 11 lines, 4J in. written in large Naskhi with vowels,

206;

9|

in.

by

7;
;

lines,

in.

long

written in fair Nestalik

apparently in the

probably in the 16th century.

17th century.

[WM. ERSKINE.]

[ALEXANDRE JABA.]

A versified Arabic Persian vocabulary

An Arabic vocabulary explained in Persian.
Author
:

(see

p.

504

a).

Isma'il B. 'All B. Ishak,

Foil. 34;

Add. 26,137.
8
in.

by 4

14

lines,

2f

in.

Beg.

fWljy^l j >UJb
is

^M ^J ^\ A

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the

not otherwise known, defines his work, in a short Arabic preamble, as a compendium which will be to students

The author, who

18th century. [WM. ERSKINE.] The same work, slightly imperfect at the
beginning.

an indispensable introduction to a knowledge of Arabic, and divides it into three parts

Add. 7435.
Foil.

438

9|

in.

by 5|

23

lines,

3|

in.

ARABIC-PERSIAN DICTIONARIES,
long
;

507

written in Naskhi

dated

Jumada

I.,

A.H. 1122 (A.D. 1710).

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Add. 26,138.
Foil.

40

8|

in.

by 5

13

lines,

3^

in.

long

written in Nestalik, apparently in the 17th

century.

[Wai. ERSKINE.]

abridged recension of the Sihiih, or Arabic Lexicon, of al-Jauhari (see the Arabic Catalogue, pp. 227, 467), with the addition of the Persian equivalent to each word.

An

Arabic-Persian vocabulary in verse, arranged, like the Nisab us-Subyan, by order

of subjects.

An

Author: Abul-Fazl

Muhammad

B.

'Umar

B. Khftlid, called Jamil ul-Kurashi,

Beg.

J*

Beg. In a short prose preface, the author, calls himself ^c aj J-Iii j-fr ^^5^ ^^\

who

j^

After duly praising the original work, the author states, in an Arabic preface, that

a suspicious resemblance to that of the celebrated poet Rashld

^^jN
ud-Din

(a

name bearing

who

he bad succeeded, after a long search, in

dis-

B. 'Abd ul-Jalil Vatviit, died A.H. 578), says that this work

Muhammad

covering at last in the Madrasah named after tin; S.ihib Burhan ud-Din Mas'ud, in Kashghar, a corrected copy of the same in four

consists of fifty sections (Kit'ah) and 578 Baits, and that it was intended as an offering
to the library of Mirza

Ulugh Beg ChalabI,

which the present abridgment was made. It was completed, as stated at the end of some copies, A. II. 681. According to Tarikh i Rashidi, Add. 24,000,
thick

volumes, from

son of the Sultan Muhammad [B.J Bayazld B. Murad B. Urkhan B. 'Uman (i.e. Muham-

mad

I.,

An

reigned from A.H. 816 to 824). enlarged recension of the same work,

who

248, the author gives in his Additions to O'i^* an account of the the Surah
fol.

-^

learned
his

of Balasaghun, and states that father was one of the Hafiz, or tra-

men

comprising fifty-one Kit'ahs and 650 Baits, is mentioned by Haj. Khal., vol. iv. p. 239, as ascribed to Rashid Vatvat, and dedicated
to Sultan

Murad

B.

Muhammad Khan (A.H.

ditionists, of that city.

825855).

The Surah has been printed in Calcutta, See 1812, and in Lucknow, A.H. 1289.
also Haj.

Khal., vol.
vol.

iv.

p.

101, Stewart's

Foil.

317

Add. 7440, 104 in. by 7; 24 lines,

;

4|

in.

Catalogue, p. 133, Uri,

den Catalogue,

i.

237, and the Leyp. 101.

p.

long

written in Naskhi A.H. 961 (A.D. 1554).

;

dated Shavval,
[Cl. J. RICH.]

Add. 5643,
Foil. r>:>;

written in
It

Ujin.byO; 21 lines, 5 in. long; fair Nestalik dated June 1779.

;

Author:
B. Ma'ruf,

An Arabic dictionary explained in Persian. Muhammad B. 'Abd ul-Khalik

The same work.

end that this copy had been transcribed from the MS. of Mr. (Sir Charles) Wilkins, and collated with the
is

stated at the

Beg.

The author

states in the preface that, as a

original.

the knowledge of Arabic, the language of

L 2

508

ARABIC-PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
tradition,

Goran and the

all

was incumbent on

long

written in Nestalik
II. ,

Muslims, and, as the best dictionary, the Sihah, was written in Arabic, and therefore available only to Arab readers, he had been induced to write the present work, containing the most important words of the language and all those which occur in the Coran. It was compiled from the Sihah, Mujmil, DusMasadir, Ikhtiyarat i Badi'I, Lughat ulKur'an, and Sharh i Nisab (see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 469 b). The preface concludes
tur,

Rabi'

dated Veramln, A.H. 1111 (A.D. 1699.

;

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

The same work.

Copyist
:

^j\}\

***>\i' is-****

J>*aM

<**

,jr\>-

^
in.

Add. 7443.
Foil.

132

10

in.

by 6f

15

lines,

long ; written in large Naskhi, in the village of Savukh Balagh, itsb .t.U*&.?; dated
Shavval, A.H. 1076, and Sha'ban, A.H. 1083

with a dedication to Sultan Muhammad, and a eulogy upon his son and heir apparent, Mirza 'All.
the
It is stated in the Jahan-Ara, Or. 141, that Kanz ul-Lughat was written for Kiir

(A.D. 1664 and 1672).

I.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Foil.

1119.

Giya Sultan Muhammad, who reigned in Gilan from A.H. 851 to 883. His son, Kiir Giya Mirza 'All, who succeeded him,

vocabulary of Arabic words used in Persian composition, but not generally understood.

was put to death by his brother A.H. 911. The latter is the prince to whom a history of Tabaristan by 'All Ruyani was dedicated.
See Sehir-Eddin's Geschichte von Tabaristan, edited by Dr. Dorn, Vorwort, pp. 9 11,
Text,
p.
4,

Author:
kharzl,

Isma'Il

B.

Lutf-Ullah

ul-Ba-

Beg.

and Aly Ben Schems-Eddin's

Geschichtswerk, Vorwort,
pp.

The words
initials,

are arranged, according to the

Chanisches

613.
The words are arranged according to the initial and final letters. The Kanz ul-Lughat has been lithographed in Persia, A.H. 1283.
See Haj. Khal., vol. Catalogue, p. 135, the
logue, p. 202, p. 109.
v.

Each book

in eight-and-twenty books (Kitab). is subdivided into three Babs,

according to the vowel which accompanies the initial.

This is probably the work mentioned as Khulasah among the sources of the Tuhfat us-Sa'adat see p. 493 b. A copy is noticed in the Melanges Asiatiques, vol. iii. p. 493.
;

p.

256,

Stewart's

St.

Petersburg Cata-

and the Munich Catalogue,

Add. 23,571.
Foil.

short alphabetical of diflicult Persian words, without vocabulary author's name.

II.

Foil.

120123.

258

11^

i n<

by g
;

Beg.
;

*i

long

written in Nestalik

23 lines, 5 in. dated Muharram,

III. Foil.

A.H. 1059 (A.D. 1649). The same work.

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

124130.

giving the Persian

short vocabulary, equivalents of Arabic

Add. 23,572.
Foil.

words and phrases used in epistolary composition, without alphabetical arrangement.

Beg.
lines,

303 ; 7i

in.

by

17

3|

in.

ARABIC-PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.

509

Add. 16,752.
29 lines, 4 in. long; written in Nestalik and Shikastah, apparently in the 18th century.
Foil.

263

11

in.

by 6J

I.

Foil.
a).

1220.

[Wi. YULE.] ul-Fuzala (see Mu'ayyid

of

Ullah Husaini, son of the famous Mahabat Khan Zamanah Beg, served with distinction under Jahangir and Shahjahan. He obtained the title of Khanahzad Khan, by which he designates himself in the present work, together with the post of

Amfm

p.

494

Deputy-Governor of Kabul, in the seventeenth year of the former's reign (A.H. 1031 2); but he is better known under the
title

(Tatimmah), treating arithmetical notations and some points of Persian grammar, foil. 216 b 220 6, is imperfect at the end.

An Appendix

Khulasat ul-Lughat, tin- work described in the preceding MS., art. I. In this copy a short anonymous preamble has been substituted for the original preface.
II. Foil.

222263.

of Khilnzaman, which was conferred upon him at the accession of Shahjahan, A. II. 1037. He played a prominent part in the Deccan wars against Sahu, and died as

Governor of the Balaghat, A.H. 1046.

left

He

a general history, a Majmii'ah called Ganj i B&diivard (see p. 439 b), and a Divan of great merit, in which he takes the poetical

Add. 6959.
by 6$ about twelve lines a page; written by the Rev. J. Iladdon Hindley on paper water-marked 1806.
Foil. 66; 7 J in.
;

surname of Amani.

See Ma'agir ul-Umara, fol. 180, Tazkirat ul-Umara, fol. 45, and the Oude Catalogue, p. 109. The above notices do not mention either the present dictionary,
or

11.

in

Ullah 's medical work,

Umm ul-'Ilaj

Tajnis
p.

Khatt, by Jami, the \vork described

503 b, with an English translation and an

(Egerton 1008). After dilating upon the

reigning

merits of the

alphabetical index.

Add. 5554.
Foil.

sovereign, Jahangir, the author states that, as the emperor was ever eager to promote learning, and especially the
lines,

358

15$

in.

by 9 ; 25

5$

in.

long; written in fair Nestalik in the first half of the 17th century. [CHARLES HAMILTON.]

science of language, he had conformed with his desire by compiling from the most

large

dictionary of

the Arabic

and

Persian languages.
Ullah, entitled Khanah/ Khan Flriiz Jang, son of Mahabat Kh;m, entitled Khan-Khfmfm, Sipahsalar, B. Mir

Author:
1

Aman

esteemed works a dictionary comprising all the important words, either Persian or Arabic, as well as metaphorical phrases and medical terms. The preface is followed by a statement of the contents of the four parts, termed 'Unsur, of which the work consists, with some preliminary remarks belonging to each In the case of the of them, foil. 2 17. second 'Unsur this introduction is of considerable
extent.
It

Muhammad

Ghayur,

s\

comprises a

list

of

sources

Beg.

_>

j\

and an account of the Persian language and grammar, the whole of which is textually copied without any acknowledgment from the Farhang i Jahanglri, with the only difference that the word <jiib has

510

ARABIC-PERSIAN DICTIONARIES.
Shahjahiin, to

been substituted for jjyT in the headings of the twelve sections which it comprises. The latter work having been dedicated to the same Jahanglr less than twenty years before,
this is a

whom

the work

is

dedicated,

remarkably bold plagiarism.

are
:

The contents of the four 'Unsurs

stated to be as follows
tionary, compiled
i.

with versified chronograms composed by the author for the emperor's birth and accession. 'Abd ur-Rashld states further on that he had compiled the present work from the most esteemed lexicons, such as the Kamus, the
Sihah, and the Surah, and he enumerates nine blemishes noticeable in earlier diction-

An

Arabic dic-

from the Kamus, Surah, Kanz ul-Lughat (p. 507 b), Kashf ul-Lughat (p. 495 a), and some treatises not specified.
n.

Persian dictionary,

in.

Metaphorical

Zend and Pazend words, with some Turk! and Hindi words, iv. Medical terms. The first, and only extant, 'Unsur occupies
phrases,

from which it was exempt. The date of composition is expressed, in a versified chronogram found at the end of the next copies, by the words Jj.jj i_^** i.e. 1092 46 = A.H. 1046. The words are arranged according to the initial and final
aries,

the rest of the volume, foil. 17 b 358. It is a very full Arabic dictionary, in which
the spelling of the words
Persian.
in

letters.

The Muntakhab ul-Lughat,

also

called

accurately determined and their meanings explained in

is

Rashidi 'Arabi, has been frequently printed in India, Calcutta, 1808, 1816, 1836, Luck-

It is divided into

Babs and

Fasls,

to their final

which the words are arranged according and initial letters. The margins
is

now, 1835, and A.H. 1286, Bombay, A.H. See Stewart's Catalogue, p. 135, and 1279. Ouseley's Collection, No. 386.

are filled with copious additions.

The MS.

endorsed
is

^J^li OilM

On the

first

page

a note stating that

it

^. had
long;

Add. 6644.
FoU. 330; 9|
written
in.

come into the possession of Zuhur ud-Dln Muhammad ShirazI ul-Kurashi, A.H. 1068. At
the end
is

by 6; 19

lines,

3|

in.

a seal with the

still

earlier date

Nestalik, with ruled in the 17th century. columns, probably

in

A.H. 1057.

[JAMES GRANT.]

The same work.

Add. 5556.
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long 17th century.

21 lines, 5 in. written in Nestalik, apparently in the

i
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314; 111

n by 8

word
;

llaju.

to iU

[CHARLES HAMILTON.]
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;

Egerton 1022.
249
;

14^

in.

by 8J; 19

lines,
;

4|

in.

dictionary of Arabic words in use, explained in Persian.

common

dated written in Shikastah-Amiz long A.H. 1229 (A.D. 1814). Faizabad, Zulka'dah, The same work.

Author: 'Abd ur-Rashld ul-Husaim ulMadanl ut-TatavI, "^o\ && <Jju-il ^^}^ UJj* erj^Jl (see p. 500 6)

^^

Add. 16,753 and 16,754.

foil. 471 and 392 29 lines, 5J in. long; written by 9; 15^ in Nestalik, apparently in the latter half of the 18th century. [WM. YULE.]

Beg.

jtflJ

/ ,_/lL

Two uniform volumes

in.

The preface contains a long panegyric on

TURKI-PERSIAN VOCABULARIES.

511

Add. 16,755.
Persian translation of the Ksimus, or Arabic Thesaurus, of al-Firuzabadi see the
;

Arabic Catalogue,
Translator:

p. 469.

Muhammad Habib

20 lines, 4& in. long; written in cursive Indian Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century.
Foil.

687

10i

in.

by 6

Ullah,

[WM. YULE.]
The
first

volume of the preceding work,

fe.

Beg.
After dwelling on the importance of a knowledge of Arabic, and on the superiority of the Kamfis, in point of comprehensiveness,
to all other dictionaries, Muhammad Habib Ullah states that in his translation he had fol-

ending with the letter

Turki-Persia n Vocabularies.

Add. 6646.
Foil.

52

lowed as

as possible the renderings of the Surah, Kanz ul-Lughat, Taj ul-Masadir, and Muntakhab ul-Lughat ; that, unlike the

much

8J

in.

by 5$

15

lines,

in.

long ; 18th century.

written in Nestalik, apparently in the

[JAMES GRANT.]

author of the Surah, he had left no word of tli.- original untranslated, and, lastly, that he had added in many cases words or meanings omitted by the author. This is followed by
a full notice on the
of al-Firuzabadi, extracted from as-Sakhavi's work, *^J| \, and
life

Turki (Oriental Turkish) vocabulary,

explained in Persian.

Author
Beg.

Fazl Ullah Khan,

g>\ The author designates himself

ff

_,

L^

as a cousin

ty

other sources, and by a detailed explanation, in the form of questions and answers, of some difficult points in the method adopted
in the

ulj^pof Saif Khan, of the lineage of Chaku, and one whose forefathers had been attachod
for fourteen generations to the service of the states that he had house of Timur.

He

Kamus.

The translator says that he had completed his work in A.H. 1147, *& y j]^ *^- jJ
^j
(j^i

written this work by order of the reigning emperor (Aurangzib), and for the use of the

Shahzadah.
Saif ud-Din

J^

but in a versified chrono-

Mahmud, commonly

called

gram, which immediately follows,

Fakir Ullah, was the second son of Tarbiyat Khan, who came from Turiin to India, and became Bakhshi of Shahjahiin. He was a descendant of Amir Chaku, one of the Amirs
viz. A.II.

he gives a somewhat later date,

1149.

of Timur.

Having deserted the imperial

to pass into the

adds, in conclusion, that, as the work had been submitted to the inoriginal spection of Timur, it was meet that its translation should be honoured by a glance of the

He

army under Rajah Jaswant,

ranks of the rebel Aurangzib (A.H. 1068), he was rewarded by the latter with the title
of Saif Khan, and appointed successively of Kashmir, and Bihar. governor of Dehli, He died as governor of Ilahabad, A.H.

best of his descendants, the reigning emMuhammad Shah Padishah Ghazi. peror, An earlier Persian translation of the Ka-

1095.

See Tazkirat ul-Umara,

:

fol.

50,

and

mus, by 'Abd ur-Rahman B. Husain, A.D. inis A.II. 1027), is mentioned in Stewart's
f

Ma'asir ul-Uinarii, fol. 312. Contents Introduction, treating of Turki

suffixes,
fol.

Catalogue, p. 134.

2 a.

Bab

i.

Verbs, arranged

512
according to the
II.

TURKI-PERSIAN VOCABULARIES.
first letters, fol.

b.

Bab

Nouns, arranged according to the initial and final letters, fol. 12 b. Bab in. Miscellaneous words,
viz.

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in India, in the 17th century.

human

body, names

numerals, parts of the of animals, of Turkish

printed, at the request

tribes, etc.

The work has been

of Sir

vocabulary of Turki verbs, explained in Persian, imperfect at beginning and end. The verbs are arranged in alphabetical Each verb is completely conjugated order. in tabular form, and constitutes a Fasl, occu-

'

improved arrangement and some additions, by 'Abd ur-Rahim, Calcutta, A.H. 1240.

Wm.

Ouseley, with an

pying two pages. The Persian equivalent is written under each inflexion. The MS. begins in the middle of the verb the twelfth Fasl, and breaks off
jlcjjjT, in the first line of the verb
l

Add. 16,759.
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in.

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long ; written in large Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, in the 18th century.

Or. 404.
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111

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s^> oli)

^
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17

lines,

in.

long

trict of Mirath),

written in Nestalik, dated Puth (DisRabi' I. A.H. 1253 (A.D.

TurkI

vocabulary and grammar, ex-

1837).
I.

[GEO.
9
27.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

plained in Persian.

Foil.

Turki grammar ex-

Author: Khwfijah Tayyib Bukharl Nakshabandl, ^^-laJ ^U; t-A> **-\^~

Beg.

plained in Persian, entitled in the subscription jjy &Aj>-

jlU?^

jijt

Jlj*-l

Author

'Ashur Beg, son of Niyaz Beg B.

Dust Beg,
Persian, partly in Arabic, and partly in TurkI, the last two with interlinear Persian version, contains a panegyric, in prose and verse, on the reign-

u->\

A preface, written partly in

ing emperor, Nasir ud-Dln Muhammad Shah Padishah Ghazi (A.H. 1131-1161), to whom
the work
is

dedicated.

The author says in a short preamble that he had written this short manual at the request of some students desirous of learning the colloquial Turku
Familiar dialogues in II. Foil. 2868. TurkI and Persian, entitled in the subscription

The
(Fasl)
first

treatise is divided into fifty chapters

and an appendix (Khatimah). The twenty-five chapters, fol. 14 b, contain TurkI words classed according to subjects, with the Persian equivalent written under each. The last twenty-five, fol. 35 b, treat of Turki grammar. The Khatimah, fol. 85 b, contains a hundred moral sentences ascribed
to Turkish Shaikhs, with interlinear Persian version.

^/p were written, as stated at the beginThey

^jjjlfcii

Beg.

lib

ning,

for

the use of the author's

pupil,

Navviib Mir

Muhsin Khan, who, although

was not able acquainted with the vocabulary, to speak the language.
III. Foil.

69

79.

Fragment

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Egerton 1021.
Foil.

poem
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is

in Magnavl rhyme, the hero of which

495

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by 6 j

16

Human

B. Kaifur.

PERSIAN-TURKISH DICTIONARIES.
IV. Foil. 80
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I

513

B eg.
The words are arranged in Babs according letters, and in sub-sections called Nau' according to the initials. The
to the final
latter are again sub-divided according to the
initial. The Turkish equivawritten in a smaller character above each word.

A Turki-Persian vocabulary.
Beg.

J
into nine Fasls, under the heads: 1. Heaven and earth. 3. Arts and trades. 4. Names of
5.

It is divided

vowel of the
is

following
2.

lent

State.

Parts of the body. 6. War 7. Names of animals. 8. Miscellaneous words. 9. Numerals. In each of the above sections the words are in alpharelationship.
arras.

and

In a copy described by Aumer, Munich Catalogue, p. 117, the author is called Hasan B. Husain Imad, of Kara-Hisar, and
^the

work dedicated
to 918.

to

Sultan Bayazid B.

betical order.

V.

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reigned from The Lughat iKara-Hisari is one of the sources of Ni'mat Ullah (p. 514 b), and of the second edition of Sururi (p. 499 b).

Muhammad

B. Murad,

who

A.H. 887

versified Turki-Persian vocabulary. Author : Ealimat Ullah, commonly called

end.

Khwajah Padishah, son of Khwajah Rahmat Ullah B. Khwajah Ni'mat Ullah^^. 411

lines at the a note stating that page the writer had purchased the MS. A.H. 1134 (A.D. 1722).

The present copy wants a few

On

the

first

is

Harl. 5494.
49 ; 8 in. by 5| ; 7 lines about 3 in. written in Naskhi, with all vowels, long;
Foil.

face,

was written, as stated in a prose preby desire of a prince of royal blood, Mirza Kutb ud-Din, and consists of 274 disIt

A.H. 1062 (A.D. 1652).

tichs.

The Turki words are marked with a written over them in red ink, their Persian
renderings with
,__.

A Persian-Turkish vocabulary, in
verse.

Magnavl

Author: Shahidi,
Beg.
Uly j
j

^
jj ^ \"
describes himself as a

Persian-Turkish Dictionaries.

The author, who

Add. 7684.
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110; 9*

in.

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4 in. long

written in Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Cl. J. RICH.]

Maulavi, and a native of Maghlah in the province of Mantasha, states in a poetical prologue that he had written this vocabulary
in imitation of the Tuhfah i Husami, which he had read in his childhood with his father Khuda'I, and by the help of which he had been able to understand the Magnavl without a

A Persian-Turkish
Author
:

dictionary.

master.
Shahidi,

Al-Kara-Hisari,
II.

whose proper name was Ibrahim,

VOL.

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to

son of Khuda'i Dadah, lived in Brusa, as Shaikh of the Maulavis. He is the author He died of several Masnavis and a Divan. A.H. 957. See Hammer, Geschichte der Os-

Ibrahim Pasha, the Vazir of Sulaiman.

in
this
iii.

The author, not named

copy,
p.

is,

according to Haj. Khal., vol. Ahmad B. Sulaiman, called

Pasha.

232,

Ibn Kama!

manischen Dichtkunst,

vol.

ii.

p. 258.

The date of composition is fixed at the end, fol. 48 a, by the following chronogram
:

This celebrated poet, philologer, and historian, son of a Pasha of the time of Muham- ,

which gives A.H. 920.

This disposes of the attempted identification of the author with another Shahidi, 'Abd ul-'AzIz ChalabI, who See the St. Petersburg died A.H. 1021.
Catalogue, p. 428, the Gotha Catalogue, p. 39, and the Munich Catalogue, p. 39. The Lughat i Shahidi, as the work is commonly called, is a popular school-book,

accompanied Sultan Salim, as KazI 'Askar, in the conquest of Egypt, and was promoted under Sulaiman to the dignity of Mufti. He died in Constantinople, A.H. 940 (not 941, as stated by Hammer). The
II.,

mad

date

oU a,Sj>j^*
vol.
ii.

by contemporary chronograms, and +9~\ ,IJU tjj&. See Hammer, Geschichte der Osmanischen Dichtkunst,
pp.

is

fixed

205211.
c-~y and the 232,

on which several commentaries have been written. See Haj. Khal., vol. vi. pp. 598 9. It has been described by Fleischer, Dresden Catalogue, No. 221, Krafft, No. 22, and Fliigel, Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 135. In a portion of the present copy, foil. 6 31, English equivalents have been written under
the text in a hand-writing of the 17th cenOn 'the first page is written "Brian tury.

The work has been subsequently arranged

in alphabetical order, under the title of

jftbM

see Haj. Khal. vol.

vol.
i.

Vienna Catalogue,

p. p. 133.

iii.

An abstract
Hammer,
See also

of the contents has been given by Mines de FOrient, vol. iii. p. 47.

the Leyden Catalogue, vol.

Catalogue, vol.
logue, p. 19.
II.
i.

i.

p. 99,

Vienna

p.

130, and Upsala Cata-

Braxton his Book, 1652." Other copies will be described

Turkish Catalogue.

Foil.

7279.

in the

Add. 7887.
2| in. long written in small Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Cl. J. RICH.]
; ;

An Arabic tract on the alteration of foreign

words introduced into Arabic, by the same
author.
;

Foil. 79

7 in.

by 4

23

lines,

Add. 7680.
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I.

Foil.

171.

long ; 18th century.

236; 8| in. by 5|; 21 lines, 4 in. written in Naskhi, apparently in the

J. RICH.] in Turkish. dictionary explained

[CL

on the distinctions existing between Persian synonyms, explained in Turkish, and illustrated by numerous quotations from the standard poets.
treatise

A Persian
Author
:

Ni'mat Ullah B.
,J>^S
,.,

Ahmad

B. KazI

Mubarak ur-Ruml,
ti

Beg.

<_._>

Beg.

The work

is

dedicated in a short preamble

The work

is

called

in the

subscription

PERSIAN-TURKISH DICTIONARIES.
*1N Ivo *i!. Haj. Khal., who mentions it under JJ1 **J, vol. vi. p. 362, states that the author died A.H. 969.

515

In the body of the work, the main difference appears to consist in the absence of numerous
poetical quotations, especially from Fakhri, which are found in the

Shams

was compiled, as stated in the preface, from the following works 1. Uknum i 'Ajam
It
:

preceding

copy.

Turkish Lexicon ; see Uri, p. 291, No. 108). 2. Kasimah i Lutf Ullah Halimi (Haj. Khal. reads **J\5; see vol. iv. p. 503. The author died A.H. 928 ; see the Peters(a Persian

Add. 7686.
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in.
;

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burg Catalogue, p. 431). 3. Vasilah i Makasid (written by Maulavi Rustam about A.H. 903 ; see the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 197). 4.Lughat i Knra-Hisari (see p. 513 a). 5. Sihah i 'Ajam, in two recensions, one early and short, the other later and enlarged (by Hindushah Nakhjavani; see Haj. Khal., vol. vi. p. 91, and the Leyden Catalogue, vol. i. p. 100). The author adds that he had explained every word, even the most usual, as he was
writing for ordinary readers,

The same work

tabular form.

abridged, and written in

This copy wants the preface, the latter part of Kism i., and the whole of Kism n., but the last lines.

Add. 7687.
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^UN
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J^p
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a.

^y
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5;

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lines,

3}

in.

The work
ii.

is

divided into the three

:

long; written in small Naskhi, beginning of the 19th century.

about the

lowing parts (Kism)

Particles

i.

Verbs,

a.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

and

flexion,

17

in.

Nouns, fol. 22 b. In the first and third of the above parts the words are alphabetically arranged in Babs according to the initials.
subdivided into three sections according to the accompanying vowel. The Lughat i Nftnat Ullah has been deis

Each Bab

containing the most usual Persian words explained in Turkish.

A versified vocabulary

Author: Vahbi Sunbul-Ziidah,

Beg.

by Fleischer, Dresden Catalogue, No. 182, and by Dorn, Petersburg CataSee also the Vienna Catalogue, p. -127. logue, vol. i. pp. 132, 137, and the Leyden
scribed

The author, whose proper name was MuB. Rashid, left his native town, Mar'ash, for Constantinople, and was sent

hammad

Catalogue, vol.

i.

p. 101.

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Another recension of the preceding work, with a somewhat different preface, in which the enumeration of the sources is omitted.

by Sultan 'Abd ul-Hamid on an embassy to He has left a Divan the Persian court. which was completed A.H. 1222. See Geschichte der Osmanischen DichtHammer, kunst, vol. iv. pp. 554 73. It appears, from a prologue in Turkish verse, that he wrote the present work, after a long residence in Persia, and especially in Shiraz, for his son Lutf Ullah, and dedicated it to the Grand Vazir Ibrahim Pasha. The date of composition is expressed in a

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a volume of 23; 12| in. by 8 miscellaneous contents. [THOMAS HYDE.] about 33 lines, 12 in. by 7 Foil. ; 4 in. long; written by a European hand,

79

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sentences, explained in Hindustani.

Miscellaneous Dictionaries.

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Nestalik

J J^rj-* It is commonly called, from its beginning, Khalik Barl, and is ascribed by popular It has been tradition to Amir Khusrau.
Beg.
J3j{
\j>

iiii\

See Sprenger, lithographed in Lucknow. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,

vol.

xxi.

p.

519, and Biblioth. Sprenger.,

Hindustani

arranged, in used by the

alphabetically which the words and phrases

glossary,

No. 1003.

Rekhtah poets

of Dehli,

and

imperfectly understood in other parts of India, are explained in Persian, and illustrated with copious quotations.

Royal
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written in Nestalik,

Author : Mirza Jan, poetically surnamed

Tapish,

in the 17th century.

I.

Beg.

Muhammad Isma'Il, familiarly

Jan, of Dehli,

called Mirza

An alphabetical vocabuPersian verbs conjugated lary containing through their main forms, with the HinduFoil. 2

32.

was the son of a native of

stani equivalent written

under each.

Bukhara, and a descendant of Sayyid Jalal ud-Dln Bukhara. He began life as a soldier, and was attached to the service of prince Jahandar Shah. He lived later in Murshidabad and Calcutta, and acquired some fame as a Hindustani poet. In the Divan i Jahan, written by Beni Narayan A.D. 1814 (A.H. 1229), he is mentioned as still alive. See Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la Litterature Hindoui, vol. i. p. 502, and Sprenger,

Beg.

,i*>T

Aft^i-

^Tj

It is called in the subscription wlv<T

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A list

of

common

Per-

sian words arranged by order of subjects, with interlinear Hindustani translation.

Oude Catalogue, p. 297. The author states in the

Add. 5661,

A.

preface that he

had written the present work in Murshidabad, A.H. 1208, at the request of Navvab Amir ul-Mulk Shams ud-Daulah Ahmad 'All Khan Bahadur Zulfakar Jang.

Foil. 50; 9J in. by 6; lines; written in two columns, in the 18th cen-

1315

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tury.

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Several

versified

Muhammad

A.H. 1234 (A.D. 1819).

[GEO.

pletion.

WM.

The work
HAMILTON.]

is

divided into an introduction

A Hindustani Pushtu dictionary, explained

in Persian.

Author: Ilahyar, son of

tfafiz

Hftfiz

ul-Mulk

Rahmat Khan Bahadur,

Beg.

The author, a son of the celebrated Rohilla chief, Hafiz Rahmat (see p. 212 6), states in
the preface, that, by constant intercourse with the Afghans who flocked to India during

fol. 4 b, and which form the dictionary twenty-eight Babs, proper, and begin at fol. 11 *. The Hindustani and Pushtu words, distinguished by the letters t and <_-* written over each, are combined into one alphabet, and arranged according to the first and second letters. The Persian and Arabic is added to equivalent each, and all the Pushtu words are spelt at full length. The present work has been mentioned by " Major Raverty in his Remarks on the Origin

treating of Pushtu grammar,

of the Afghans," Journal of the Asiatic Another Society of Bengal, vol. 23, p. 571.

he had acquired a familiar with the language. At the acquaintance death of Hafiz Rahmat in A.H. 1188, the Afghans were scattered far and wide. After being confined with his brother, during eight months, in Ilahabad, he was released,
his father's rule,

Afghan grammar and dictionary, entitled Riyaz ul-Mahabbat, was written A.H. 1221,
by the author's brother, Mahabbat Khan. See Sprenger, Zeitschrift der D. M. G., vol. xvi. p. 785, and Dr. Dorn's
for Sir Ch. Barlow,

Afghan Grammar.
works have
been

The contents of both

upon the death of Shuja' ud-Daulah, and repaired to Lucknow. Three years later he settled with his younger brothers, who knew
the language but imperfectly, in Bareli; and, although he frequently visited his elder
brother,

incorporated by Major " Raverty in his Dictionary of the Pukhto," London, 1860 ; see the preface, p. 21.

Add. 12,266.
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Nawab Mahabbat Khan,

lost,

in

Luck-

now, he had

from want of practice,

much of

his native tongue.

When, however,

Mahabbat Khan, who was the head of the family, died in A.H. 1223, the author, seeking some occupation to divert his mind in his
bereavement, began collecting
all

A Persian-Maghi dictionary.
Maghi, <JT*,
is

or

inhabitants

of

the language of the Maghs, Arracan. The Persian

i

he could

words are taken, with their explanations,

from the Farhang
Jahangiri, the arrange-

remember of the language, and compiled tho

present work, in order to preserve to his children and other Afghans growing up in

ment

of which

is

generally preserved.

The

India the precious heirloom of the national He adds that the work represents speech.

Maghi words are written opposite, both in the original (Burmese), and in the Persian
character. An " Ex-Libris "

mainly the dialect of the Sarahban tribe, to

which he belonged.

on the cover shows that he MS. belonged to John Murray, after-

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" Het ontwerp van de Persianse
clatour."

wards Sir John M'Gregor Murray, Bart., who attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
in the East-India 1787.

Nomen-

Company's

service

in

A Dutch-Persian vocabulary,
It
is

arranged by

See above, p. 409, note.

Harleian 342.
9f in. by 6 ; about 20 lines ; written by a European hand, in the 16th
.90
;

written in three columns, subjects. the Dutch, the Persian, and the containing Dutch transcription of the latter. Some

FoU.

have been left unfinished. At the* end are some notes on Persian grammar,
classes

foU.

7987.
Or. 443.

century.
alphabetical EnglishPersian vocabulary, giving, in three columns, the English words, and the Persian equivalents in both the English and original characI. Foil.

372. An

with some remarks on the Persian verb. At the end is written " John Banggam his Booke."
ters,
:

597; 13 in. by 8J; from 20 to 23 written in fair Nestalik, by a. Eulines; ropean hand, about A.D. 1785. [Bequeathed by MRS. L. ROBERTS.] " of a Persian and
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73 78. Some Persian verbs fully conjugated, with the English equivalents.
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Specimen

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7986. An

have been

left

blank.

which do not appear in any printed dictionaries, and numerous additional senses,'' etc. The character of the work may be judged from the foUowing specimen, taken from the
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:

IV. FoU.
Persian,
racters.

in

The Lord's prayer in the English and original chaThe same in Hindustani, in the

8789.

bj Abhorrence, aversion, ancestors, fathers, broth, refusal, denial, with.

English character.

^jj\ Bodies;
Prefixed
Sir
is

fit,

proper.

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Wm.

an autograph letter written by Jones to Major Roberts, Khanpur,

and

FoU. 123.

him

dated, Hugli, 26 Oct., 1785, informing that his supplement to the Persian

dictionaries

writer to

had been communicated by the the Asiatic Society at Calcutta, and

Persian vocabulary,

written

by Kampfer

encouraging him to continue his labours.

(probably A.D. 1684 8), containing familiar words and short sentences, arranged by
order of subjects, in the original character and Latin transcription, with the German or

Roger E. Roberts, who had entered the India Company's service in 1767, attained the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel in 1794, and retired in 1797. He held for some
East

Latin equivalents.

time the

Sloane 2919.
Foil.

Persian interpreter to the See the Journal of the of Bengal. governor Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xiii. p. 115.
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87

8|

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PERSIAN GRAMMAR.
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519

John Haddon Hindley, on paper

Vocabulary, from Richard"
(also

water-marked 1815.
"Historical
son's Dictionary

as

deals principally with Oriental Turkish, or, it is called here, Jaghatai, the forms of
dialects

the Kizilbashi and Rfimi

are fre-

from Castellus and

quently

noticed.
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Babs:

Makalah m., in three Meanings of the single letters,

and places in Persian, with English explanations ; to which are added some extracts from Abulfaraj, Pecocke, etc. in Latin and
Arabic.

according to the teaching of the Imams, fol. 49 b. 2. Arabic orthography, fol. 62 a.

3.

Rules of correct speech in Arabic,

1.

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76

a.

Makalah
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GRAMMAR.
Persian Grain mar.

2.

iv. On penmanship, in eight Babs, Creation of the kalam, fol. 86*. Invention of the art of writing, fol. 87 b.
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"Writing implements,

portion of the letters *-r*iO' fl 106 8. How to correct writing, fol. 109 b.

^^3

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[Cl. J. RICH.]

treatise
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on orthoepy and penmanship,

without

Author: Abul-Kasim B.
Majlis-Navis
i

Muhammad Riza,

Nasiri, \*

In a Persian note written on the first page, and dated A.H. 1117, the writer calls this work u l J4j f ^^j, an ^ appears to take " Davariin " as meaning scribes (Davar = Dablr ?), for he adds a wish that the work may prove useful to the eminent scribes of the

Beg.

*,..V;.J

The author, who calls himself a born servant

of the Shah, states that his grandfather, his
paternal uncle, and his father, having severally written books on surnames, on the rules of
Foil.
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4}

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written in Nestalik, in the latter half

T- writ ing, and on poetry, j \^X&\ _^b

,

.,>

he had chosen for his subject

in the present treatise orthography, the rules

A treatise on Persian grammar and prosody.

Author
:

Muhammad

of correct diction, and penmanship. It is divided into a Mukaddimah and four

Kuli, poetically sur-

namcd Muhibb,
Beg.

*-**? <j*A&^

JS

Makalahs, as follows: Mukaddimah. Letters proper to Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, fol. Makalah i., in two Babs, viz. ortho2 b.

Mir 'Imad of Kazvin, a Nestalik 996 1038). He was assassinated the Shah, to whom he was hateful
given
personal offence.

writer of great
I.

graphy }M, and rules of correct speech j*ly in Persian, fol. 4 b. Makalah n. (jF^yatf" Orthography and rules of correct speech in Turkish, fol. 38 b. Although this section

under Shah Abbas repute, lived in Ispahan

(A.H.

at the instigation of as a Sunni,

and had
fol.

and Oude

See Riyaa nsh-Slm'ara, 89. Catalogue, p.

312,

520

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states that

The author

he had compiled

this treatise, at the request of

some

friends,

as stated in the preface, for the use of his pupil, Mirza. Muhamit,

The author wrote

from the standard works of the masters,

adding the results of his own observation, that it might facilitate the study to beginners, and be also useful to proficient scholars. He
so

mad

Nasir, son of 'All

Beg Khan
it

Sahib, in
title.
:

whose honour he gave

i.

the above

It is divided into five Babs,

as follows

rhymed epilogue, completed it, at the beginning of the reign of Shah 'Alam, and in the year expressed by the words
It is divided into six

as stated in a

Construction of Persian nouns, Izafat, and n. Pronouns, decomposition, fol. 2 b. tached and attached, fol. 9 b. in. Prefixed iv. Affixed particles, particles, fol. 25 a.
fol.

44

b.

v. Figures of speech, fol.

55

b.

books (Makalah), as

follows

I.

b.

ii.

Letters and parts of speech, fol. Various forms of the infinitive, and
fol.

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formation of the past and future,

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tion, fol.
fol.

of the detached letters,

19

ft.

36 84

a.

vi.

Meanings and their permutav. Syntax and derivation, Containing two Babs, viz.,
fol.

fol.

13

b.

iv.

1217 (A.D. 1803).

A treatise
in Persian.

on correct and elegant diction

1.

Prosody, u*j^>
a.

45

a.

2.

Rhyme

fol.

Author: Katil, JJS

first

On

the

page

is

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former owner, Ahmad 'All Khan, who states that he had been long searching for that rare and excellent work. He calls the author Muhammad Kuli Khan.

w tf-i)V j* Mirza Katil, who has been

Beg.
,JJ'

^-^

jr

a
*>\j>

already men-

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64

b,

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;

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long

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dated Rabi*

In the preface of a later composition, Char Sharbat, Mirza Katil states that the present

A.H. 1229 (A.D. 1814). The same work.

[Wn.

CURBTOK.]

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ul-Amani.
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treatise

models of epistolary composition. The work has been printed in Calcutta, 1822, and in Lucknow, 1843. See Bibl. Sprenger., No. 1569, and Blochmann, Journal
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It is

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ments, ou Grammaire Franyaise Persienne." " P. On the is the name of

fly-leaf Villotte," probably the author,

Jaque

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Jacques Villotte, a Jesuit missionary, the author of a Dictionarium Latino-Armenium,

author, who describes himself as a Kanungo of the Parganah Silak, Lakhnau,

The

resided in Persia, principally at the Jesuit establishment of Julfah, Ispahan, from 1689
to 1708.

compiled this work, as he states in the preface, in order to help children of his caste to
acquire the necessary knowledge of Persian. The rules are illustrated by copious quotations from the poets.

He

died in 1743.

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Short passages from various poets, illustrating points of Persian grammar or idiom,

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Arabic Grammar.

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Rashidi, etc.,

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16th century.

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Toll. 1

54.

A treatise
called,
<-J>jo

flexion,
title,

commonly
i

on Arabic infrom the author's

Sarf

A tract on Arabic Beg. oU^ fJW

inflexion, without title.

Mir,^x

Beg.

oU/a/y^UN ^J JUo A

Sharif Jurjam, born A.H. 740 in Taghu, a village belonging to Astrabad, obtained access in A.H. 779 to Shah Shuja',

Mir Sayyid

*-2f **& The author's name, Sayyid 'AH Akbar, and the date of his death, A.H. 1091, are recorded in the following verses, written at the end by the same hand as the text, and
ascribed to

Nawab

Bakir

Zhan

then encamped in Kasr i Zard, who took him to Shiraz, and appointed him as teacher in the Dar ush-Shifa. When Timur took Shi-

was transferred and stayed there to Samarkand, the end of the conqueror's life, engaged in teaching and in frequent academical disputes with his great rival in learning, Sa'd ud-Din
raz,

A.H.

789, Sayyid Sharif

by him

to

The margins and the

intervals

between

the lines are crowded with notes written in a minute character. This tract has been lithographed in the press of Naval Kishor, with the title J^-aJ
^ji^\.

Taftazam.

He

then returned

to

Shiraz,

where he died A.H. 816, at the age of His numerous works, mostly seventy-six. written in Arabic, have become favourite
text-books in

See Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1069,

is

where the author

called

Akbar 'AH.

Muhammaclan
iii.,

schools.

See

IJablb us-Siyar, vol.

Juz
S.

3, p. 89,

Majalis
Foil. 72
;

ul-Muminln,

fol.

375, and

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4 12. The present work, mentioned by Hfij. Khal., vol. ii. p. 304, under the title of is a popular schoolt-_a^>, i_ajj.D\ ,XyJ\

23 lines, 2 in. 8 in. by 4| in small Naskhi dated Rabi' I, written

;
;
.

A.H. 1120 (A.D. 1708). [War. CURE-TON.] A treatise on Arabic syntax ^6, without
title.

been printed in a of grammatical tracts published collection in Calcutta, about 1805, pp. 122 164, and lithographed in Lucknow, A.D. 1844, and

book in India.

It has

Author:

Baha ud-Din Muhammad

ul-

Husainl ul-Mukhtari un-Na'Ini,

A.H. 1288.

Beg.
leaves of the present copy are
holes.

The
48

first

disfigured

by

The

latter portion, foil.

is

54, written by another hand,

dated

A.H. 1089 (A.D. 1678).

II.

Poll. 55

78.

An
w

Arabic treatise on
See the Arabic

grammar, known as
Catalogue, p. 473.

<jjA\.

The author describes his work as a compendious manual written for some beginners who came to him for instruction. It is divided as follows Mukaddimah, on the of f&, fol. 2 a. Makalah i., ib., submeaning divided into fourteen Fasls. Makalah n., fol. 25 a, treating of grammatical agents, and
:

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Copyist:

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The Panj Ganj occupies pp. 38 112 of a collection of grammatical tracts printed in Calcutta, about 1805, and beginning with
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in the 16th century. An extensive Persian

Sarf.

It is called in the sub-

[EGBERT TAYLOR.] commentary on the Kafiyah, or Arabic grammar of Ibn Hajib ; see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 230.

It has been lithographed scription (.Jb^aj. in Lucknow, 1844; see Bibliotheca

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ger.,

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The MS.
and

is

at the end.

imperfect at the beginning It contains neither title,

it is

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if*
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five treasures,"

short preamble that he had

a treatise on Arabic

written this manual for his brother's son,

'Ata Ullah B.

accidence

<Joj*i, without author's name.

Muhammad

Zarif,

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five Fasls. Bab i., treating of the conjugation of the regular verb, is here omitted, the reader being referred for its contents to the author's

" probably the work described as a grammar in questions and answers by 'Ata Allah, printed in Calcutta, 1244." See

This

is

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jJ~+ iJ\j (i>., according to a marginal note, the opening chapter of his treatise entitled
Jt

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1187 (A.D. 1773).

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and Add.

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...))

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11

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preface, for his son, Abul-Makarim Ismail, as a sequel to the Panj Ganj (p. 523 a),

which the

latter

had read through.

A.H. 1258.
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and on
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se-

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condary forms.
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The Mlzan;

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see

1617. A short tract on the forms of the Arabic verb, in Masecondary

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the laws of permutation in irregular verbs; see Add. 5566, v. On the first page is written "In the

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five

hemi-

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11.

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[WM. EESKINE.] treatise on the con-

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Author

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J
it,

In an English
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title,

The author wrote

he

states in the

the

fly-leaf,

the

first

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PROSODY.
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Farm

Component

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49

77.

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Mir see above,

;

522

a.

their modifications, fol. 6 b. The metres, fol. 34 a. Fann n. Rhyme, in ten Fasls, fol. 69 a. Mufti Muhammad Sa'd Ullah, who edited

the above work, with his

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is

p.

522
II.

an error of the

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It
is

are

not

told,

however,

on

what

divided

authority that attribution rests, and it may be noticed that no such work is mentioned
in the extensive list of the writings of Nasir

the simple and secondary forms. digms are given in tabular form.

The para-

"Dustoor Moobteda" has been written by Erskinc on the first page.

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title

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in.

17912).

[WM. YCLE.]

long written in neat Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century.

I.

Foil. 1

48.

treatise

on Persian

prosody.

An
rhyme
Beg.

extensive

treatise

on prosody and

Author:
Beg.

Saifi,
JJ
Saifi,

in Arabic and Persian poetry, with-

out author's name.

of Bukhara, also called 'Aruzi, on account of his mastery in prosody, was a poet of note. He left in early life his

Maulana

It is divided into

Mukaddimah and two

Mukaddimah,
fol.

Fanns, as follows:

in three

Fasls. Definition of poetry,

b.

Variety

of metres and rhymes in different languages, fol. 5 a. Arts connected with poetry, fol. 5 b.

patronage to his country, he was sequently returned to Bfiisunghar Mirza, appointed preceptor

native place for Herat, where he stayed some of Sultan Husain, under years, in the reign Mir 'Ali Shir. Having subof the

526
with

PROSODY.

he remained three years. After that prince's violent death, he retired to Bukhara, where he spent the rest of his life. See Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 3, p. 693, and Haft IklTm, fol. 693. Mir 'All Shir states in his Majalis, Add. 7669, fol. 32, that
Saifi was which he had however

whom

IV. Foil. 55 b

57.

On
and

various kinds of

composition, in prose

verse.

Beg. ^JfV. Foil.

5862.

On

the

feet,

and

their

various modifications.

intemperate habits, lately renounced. second son of Sultan Bfiisunghar Mirza, Mahmiid Mirza, and grandson of Sultan Abu
Sa'id,

addicted to

Beg.

was placed on the throne of Samarkand after his father's death, in A.H. 900, at the age of eighteen years. Driven from thence by Babar, A.H. 903, he was put in possession of Hisar by an Amir of his father, Khusrau Shah, by whom he was shortly after treacherously murdered, A.H. 905. See Erskine,
History of India under Baber, pp. 92, 142, and Memoirs of Baber, pp. 33 and 72. Saifi died, therefore, some time after A.H. 905. The date 99, which is assigned to his death in
the Atashkadah, A.H. 909.
is

This tract contains frequent references to the work of Saifi.

VI. Foil. 63

68.

A treatise on rhyme in
(see p. 17 a}.

Persian poetry, by Jam!

Beg.

w \^*

J\S

J^ ^

vjjr*

v^j**>
1

The work, which has no

in the preface
.

title, is

(JU-^-a^ by the words It has been edited by Bloch-

designated

mann, with an English

translation, in the

Prosody of the Persians, pp. 75 86. Haj. Khal. mentions the work, without author's

probably

to

be

read

name, under the

aJVSN, vol.
iii.

title

J*

^
12

^V^ '^^P

p.

425.

The date of composition, A.H.

lowing
line
:

896, is ex-

pressed in a Ruba'i at the end by the fol-

u^V) ^aw O~* * (j*>.& The treatise of Saifi, commonly called

has been edited with an English

Add. 7433.
Foil.

123

7 in.

by 4

lines,

in.

^jjua (^jjZ,

translation " title of

by H. Blochmann, under the

long; written in Nestalik Shikastah-amlz ; dated Sha'ban, A.H. 1129 (A.D.1717).

Foil.

1872.

Prosody of the Persians," Calcutta, It is mentioned by Haj. Khal., vol. iii.

I.

113110.

RICH.] short tract on the

[Cl. J.

<J *)^j- See Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1572, and King's Colp. 419,

under

u^j^

component parts of the feet, and on the sixteen metres used in Persian, without author's
name.
Beg. JI Each metre
taining
sion.
its

lege,

Cambridge, No. 207.

verses, containing examples of the Persian metres, folII. Foil.

49

52.

Mnemonic

by a distich conand followed by its scanname,

is

illustrated

lowed by
Beg.

their scansion.

j&

jj\

j^ ^
55.

Jtj rU3 /],}*

the

II. Foil.

117
J\j!

123.

treatise

on rhyme,

III. Foil.

52 b

A short tract on

illustrated

by Persian
jjjo.

verses.
j.i

feet

used in Arabic metres and their modifi-

Beg. j

yU-j

cations.

Beg.

For the

rest of the contents, see the

Arabic

Catalogue, p. 242.

INSHA.

527
latter
foil.

INSHA,
OR,

The

part
ft

of

Risalah

vi.

(Add.

THE ART OF COMPOSITION.

Foil.
;

493

Add. 16,841. lOf in. by 6; 17

lines,

3|

in.

506 a) is wanting. In 16,842, the first part of the volume are found some marginal notes and corrections. A note on the first page states that the MS. had been purchased, in A.H. 1184, by
471
Rui (afterwards Maharajah) Tiket Rui, the

long written in fair Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Wu. YULE.]

Oude

Minister.
is

The work

$f*\ J5U,
A
own
treatise

Khusravi.

as Pj'az i short account of it will be

commonly known

found in
p. 566.

Elliot's

on elegant prose-writing, with

History of India, vol.

iii.

Some

extracts of historial interest

copious examples, consisting of official documents of the period, and of the author's
letters.
:

.are given in Persian by Nayyir Rakhshan (see Others, p. 446 i) in Or. 1940, foil. 1536.

Author

Amir Khusrau, ^>,> 3r

of Dehli,
(see p.

^-.1

translated for Sir H. Elliot by a Munshi, will be found in Add. 30,772, foil. 217254.

240

b).

The

Beg.

Risalah has been lithographed in Lucknow, 1865, and the entire work in the
first

same
After verbose panegyrics on Sultan 'Ala ud-Din Muhammad (A.H. 696 716), and his son and successor, Kutb ud-Din Mubarak Shah (A.H. 717721), the author
describes at great length nine different styles of Persian prose, to which he adds a tenth,
his

place, 1876.

Add. 16,842.
544; 10 in. by 5J; 17 lines, 3 in. long, in a page written in cursive Nestalik ; dated Burhfinpur, from Ramazan, A.H. 1081, to Jumfida I., 1082 (A.D. 16701).
Foil.
;

own, as

far superior to all.

He

states, at
1

[WILLIAM YULE.]

the end, that the work was completed A. 1. It contains, however, some of the 719.
author's earliest compositions, especially in the last section, which includes letters dated

The same work.

begin as follows
fol.
:

The

several
fol.

sections
i.,

Preface,

1 b. Risalah

17
b.

b.

n., fol.

327

v., fol.

844. in., foL 272 b. iv., fol. 507 b. In the last there is a

A.H. 680 and 682.

books (Risfllah), divided into chapters termed Khat, which are again subdivided into sections
treatise consists of five

The

lacune extending from the first Harf of Kha^ 4< to the end of the book. The
Foil. 1 also wanting. been supplied by a later hand.

epilogue

is

24 have

called
i.

Harf.

The

Risiilahs are as follows

fol.

oU^JJj cA>/uM ^J, containing ten Khats, 22 b. H. oUyiJI oUS^M J, con-

Add. 22,706.
Foil.

taining nine Khats,

fol.

85

b.

in. jJuUalU ^J
fol.

86; 8

in.

by

6;

20

lines,

in.

oUjLoJI
iv.

jy-,

containing two Khats,

263 A.

Oby*M
fol.

^
a.

long; written in neat Nestalik, apparently in the 16th century. [Sir JOHN CAMPBELL.]

JbjJl

ij,

containing five

Khats,
fol.

317

v.

ollijl 410

^
b.

jjl^JI

J,

containing six Khats, fol.

Epilogue,

A treatise
tion.

on the

art of literary composi-

484

a.

528

INSHA.
:

Author
GilanT,

Mahmud

B. Shaikh

Muhammad

The work

is

divided into an Introduction

life

of 'Imad ud-Dln

Mahmud, comGavan,

monly

called

Khwajah Mahmud

written by 'Abd ul-Karim Hamadam, is given in substance by Firishtah, Bombay

edition, vol.
vol.
ii.
i.

'Mukaddimah), two books (Makamah), and a Khatimah. as follows: Mukaddimah. On the nature and object of the science of Insha, i. e. the art of literary composition, and on
the figures
(Fasl),
fol.

of

speech, in eight chapters,

'

a.

Makamah

i.

On

the

dif-

p.

p. 611.

694, Briggs' translation, Born in Gilan, where his

forefathers

had held the post of Vazlr, he merchant through various countries, and having reached the Deccan at the age of forty-three years, was taken into the service of 'Ala udDln Bahmani, who sent him, A.H. 860, at the head of an army to Tilinga. Humayun Shah conferred upon him, after his accession, A.H. 862, the office of Vakil, with the title He discharged the of Malik ut-Tujjar. of Vazir under the reign of Nizam functions Shah (A.H. 865 867), and of his successor
spent his early life in travelling as a

ferent kinds of composition, in verse and prose, and on the rules to be observed in the
selection of

words in writing,
its

fol.

27

b.

Ma60
b.

kamah ii. On
Khatimah.

the various styles of epistolary

rules,
fol. fol.

composition, and on

On

orthography,

82

a.

The contents are more fully described by Hammer, in the Wiener Jahrbiicher, vol. 62, Anz. Blatt, p. 16, and by Fliigel, in the
Vienna Catalogue,
Khal., vol.
v.

vol.

i.

p. 237.

See also

Haj. p. Redekiinste Persiens, p. 412. This copy wants the first page.
of contents
fly-leaf,

138, and Hammer,

table

Muhammad

Shah, i Jahan. Khwajah

who gave him the

title of

Mahmud was put to death,

by a later hand is found on the on which is also written, "John

on an unjust accusation, by the last king, A.H. 886. His surname is said to be derived from Kavan ^JS, his native town in Gilan but an anecdote, quoted by Firishtah, proves
;

N. N. Campbell, Tabreez, 1831."

Add. 25,865.
Foil. 244;

12 J

in.

by 8J; 30
Jl^\

lines,

5f

in.

that in India

Mahmud
his literary
liberalities.

was pronounced Gavan ^3^' Gavan was celebrated no less for

it

long; written in Nestalik, in the town of

Banur,

district of Sihrind,

talent

He

than for his boundless left a collection of letters

w^-*; dated Muharram, A.H. 1020 (A.D. 1611). [Wai. CURETON.]

^ ^ &~a>

entitled Riyfiz

ul-Insha (Or. 1739; called Eauzat ul-Insha by Firishtah) and a Divan.

pp. 653, 655, 663, 672 and 692, Briggs' transla511. tion, vol. ii. pp. 448

See Firishtah,

Bombay

edition, vol.

i.

A treatise
sition.

on the

art of epistolary

compo(.#

Author

Husain B. 'AH ul-Kashifi,

y? d*~a2
die(i -A-.H. (

The author
brated

is

mentioned as one of the

cele-

J&&\ J*
Beg.

910; see
J*-

p. 9

6).

of Gilan by his contemporary, 'Abd ur-Eazzak, Matla' us-Sa'dain, fol. 380,

men

f>\ju* JJjlji-

who

him Mahmud Kavan W ^IS, of Easht, son of Khwajah Jalal ud-Dm, and who, writing A.H. 875, says that he was known
calls

The preface, which begins with considerations on the value of the art of writing in
general, and especially in its application to

correspondence,

contains

eulogies

on the

throughout the world as Malik ut-Tujjar, and was then wielding supreme sway in the kingdom of Kulbargah.

reigning sovereign, Abul-Ghazi (Sultan Husain), and on the author's noble patron,

Mukarrab ul-Hazrat Mir

'All Shir, for

whom

INS HA.
the work was written.
It
is

529

stated at the

end to have been completed on the fourth of Jumada II., A.H. 907. The date is ingeniously expressed in a by the following line :

that he had compiled this manual for his son Raf i' ud-Dln Husain and other students.
its completion is obtained by the numerical value of its title, doubling 470 x 2 = A.H. 940, as expressed in the fol-

The date of

rhymed chronogram

lowing chronogram
J

The work
Sahifah
i.

is

divided as follows: TJnvan.

fol.

J'

"What a secretary (Katib) must know,

44.
fol.

a.

Forms of address, ciLjU-, fol. Sahifah n. Forms of-answer, c^'^-J^*-!

The letters are arranged according to the rank and class of the persons addressed,
and, in the latter part, according to subjects. This popular work, commonly known
.as

Sahifah in. On the various 107 b. matters which have to be stated, fol. 127 b. Khatimah. Forms of prayer used in Each part contains a letters, fol. 233 b. great variety of forms of expression tabularly
arranged.

Inshai Yusufi, has been lithographed in

Hindu Press, Dehli, without date. It is described in Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1603, as compiled in 1086.
the

See

Ilaj.

Khal. vol.

v. p.

Catalogue, p. 23. An Insha entitled Sahifah

466, and Krafft's Arabic and Persian

i

Add. 18,884.
Foil. 134;

by IIuhas been lithographed in Lucksain Kashifi, now. See Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1580.
Shiihi, also

9i

in.

by 5|

13

lines,

in.

long

written in Nestalik ; dated Zulka'dah,

A.H. 3235 (A.D. 1820). The same work.

Add. 6608.
Foil.

Add. 16,846.
lines,

140;

9}

in.

by 5; 15

in.

long;
A.II.

written in Xestalik;

1087 (A.D. 1676).

dated JumaduII., [J. F. HULL.]

8^ in. by 5 11 lines, 2| in. long written in Nestalik ; dated Lucknow, Safar,

Foil.
; ;

94

Forms of

A.H. 1206 (A.D. 1791). [WM. YULE.] The same work, somewhat abridged. The first page bears the stamp of General Claud Martin (see p. 2 a).

letters.

Author: Yusufi,
Beg.
In the

Add. 7692.
Foil.

w^J

43; 7

in.

by 4; 8

lines, 2

in.

long;

Khulnsat ul-Insha, Or. 1750, fol. a work written A. II. 1 !<>:.', the author of 158, this manual is called Mauluna Hakim Yusufi, Mnn^hi of Humayun. This would make it probable that he was identical with the physician Yusuf B. Muhammad, of Herat, who used also the poetical surname Yusufi, and lived
under

written in Shafi'a'i; dated Shawal,

A.H.
t-jlJo

1087 (A.D. 1670).

[01. J. RICH.]
letters,

A collection of royal
Author: Mansur B.

headed
B.

Muhammad

'All,

and Ilumayun; see p. 475 b. The author states in a short preamble

Jiiihar

Be g.

\jjti,\

VOL.

II.

530

INSHA.
Beg.
in a short preamble, that he had compiled this work at the urgent request of some friends with whom he held
states,

The author says that he had collected here for the use of students some letters composed by the ministers of the present
period, ^Uj
letters,

The author

*'JU\

lii1

^ o^r^'

Tlie

written in an extremely involved

and wholly destitute of diacritical in the points, appear to have been written I. A few name of Shah Tahmasp and 'Abbas of them bear dates, viz. A.H. 954, 961, 971, 972, and 1032. This copy appears to contain a portion only of the work described as
character,

converse in Mathura, and whose plea was that he had been some time Munshi to Navvab I'tibar Khan, and that he had spent"

life

in the exercise of that profession.

I'tibar

Khan, a eunuch, who had been

early attached to the service of Jahangir, was appointed Subahdar of Akbarabad in

^J6

^lij)

in

Krafft's
is

where the author

Catalogue, p. 28, called Mansur B. Mu-

hammad

'Ali, of Shiraz.

the 17th year of the reign (A.H. 103132), and died about two years later ; see Ma'air ul-Umara, fol. 32, and Tazkirat ul-Umara,
fol.

Royal
Foil.

16, B.
;

xxm.

8i in. by 4f 15 lines, 3 in. long; written in Nestalik ; dated Rabl' II., A.H. 17
;

1077 (A.D. 1666). Models of familiar

relations,

[THOMAS HYDE.]
letters

addressed to
of inferior

friends,

and

officials

is divided into seven Babs, and models of letters and of various comprises kinds of official documents. It has been edited, in text and translation, by Francis Balfour, Calcutta, 1781, and reprinted in It has been also lithographed in 1831. Lahore, 1869. See Mackenzie Collection,

The work

rank.

vol.

ii.

p. 136,

the Leyden Catalogue, vol.

p.

i.

Author: Hadlki,
Beg. jtfj^iT

p. 175,

C^w
sS

the Copenhagen Catalogue, and the Munich Catalogue, p. 124.

28,

The work was written

in India.

The
Foil.

Add. 8913.
46
;

date A.H. 1077, which is found at the end of one of the letters, fol. 16 a, as well as in

8|

in.

by 5

lines,

in.

long

written in large Nestalik, apparently in the

the subscription, probably denotes the time

of compilation.

18th century.

Add. 26,140.
Foil. 53
;

A
4
in.

short
:

manual on

letter- writing.

8J

in.

by 7

lines,

long

Author Sayyid 'AH NakI Khan B. Say yid Hishmat 'All, SM ^- (JLJ

written in Indian Shikastah-Amiz, apparently about the beginning of the 19th century.
.

ERSKINE.]

Beg. lAj^^S^

iiJ.ji

(.#*

Jjo U\

<0l

The author, who

describes himself as an

Forms

of letters. of

Author:

Kanbu

Harkarn, son 'd Multani,

Mathuradas

inhabitant of Sandl (a town near Shahabad, Oude), gives, in seven sections, called Zabitah, various

forms of epistolary phraseology,

CALLIGRAPHY.
graduated according to the rank of the person A summary, in tabulated form, addressed.
occupies
foil.

531

and

43

45.

is stated to have been written for Shahzudah Sultan Muzaffar. Mir 'All Katib died, according to the

Mir'iit ul-'Alam, fol. 460,

A.H.

924.

That
is evi-

Add. 16,857.
Foil. 34;

date, however,
lines,

which

is

also given

by Bloch-

7$

in.

by 4|; 7

2$

in.

mann (Ain

Akhari, p. 102, notes)

long; written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and ruled margins; dated Rajab, A.H. 1213
(A.D. 1799).
[Wii. YULE.]

The same work.

CALLIGRAPHY.
Add. 26,139.
Foil.

40;

in.

by 1{;

15

lines, 2

in.

contemporary writer, 45, that Mir 'All repaired from Khorasan to Mavara un-Nahr in A.H. 945, when his eye-sight had already been impaired by age; and a chronogram composed by Mir 'Ali on the erection of a Madrasah in Bukhara A.H. 942, and quoted by Rakim, Or. 471, fol. 62, shows that he was then residing in that city. Other authors refer his death to A.H. 951 and 957.

dently too early.

Sam

Mlrzii states,

fol.

long ; written in Nestalik, with TJnvan and ruled margins, apparently in the 17th century. [WM. EKSKINK.
]

See Dorn, Melanges Asiatiques, vol. It must be noticed, however, that

ii.

p. 43.

Khwand

I.

Foil.

218.
on the rules of Per-

Amir, who mentions Maulana Majnun, son of Kama! ud-Din Mahmud Rafiki, as a calligrapher and poet who lived in the reign of Abul-Ghazi Sultan Husain, does not identify him with Mir 'Ali Kutib, the first of Nestalik writers, to whom he devotes a separate notice

treatise in verse

sian penmanship, in six characters, viz. Sul$, Tauki', Muhakkak, Naskh, Raihun, and Rika'.

under the reign of Shah us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 3,

p. 118.

Isma'il.

See Habib

p. 350,

and Juz

4,

Author: Majnun, ay
Beg-

J
</

f*j

i/
3

rr

The author says

<'>

in the preamble that lie

had put here

father

in verse the teachings of his

designates himself by his poetical surname Majnun, is better

The author, who here

his

Mahmud

ur-Rafiki,

who had been

his instructor both in

known under
Mir 'Ah

ul-K'fitib,

proper name, Maulana as one of the most ac-

The

title

penmanship and poetry. and the date of composition, A.H.

:

909, are given in the following distich

Mir 'Ali, son of Mnliminl, poetically surnamed Rafiki, and born of a family of Herat Sayyids, grew up
complished Ncstalik writers.
in

Mashhad, but spent part of

his life in

Hukhiirfi.
I'llah

He

lived at the

Khun Uzhak

court of 'Alxl son of Kuchkunji; (a

The work is dedicated to Sultan Muzaffar (probably an Uzbak prince), who is described as a " rose on the rose-bush of Chingiz Khan,"

he was raised to the Khanship A.H. 946, and died six months later see p. 103 b),
;

II. Foil.

18

636.

and taught that prince's son, Mumin Khun. See the Tazkirah i Khat by Rakirn, Or. 171, fol. 01, and Or. 235, fol. 1113, where the present work is called

treatise

called

on the rules of the character Naskh u Ta'lik, by the same author.

o2

532

CALLIGRAPHY.
time of Asaf ud-Daulah. Of the various dates given in the biographical notices the latest is A.H. 1228. This treatise, which is called in the subin the
scription ^.>.^>f- aJUj,
{

now

The author
III. Foil.

refers

in.

the preface to the

preceding work.

36

40.

A treatise in verse on
JU*>;>

contains an account

the same subject, jAko j >-J apparently by the same author.

and

of various characters, and instructions, in prose and verse, as to the choice of a reed,

Beg.

J.AJ j i-J

lai-

The

relative proportions of the letters,

the preparation of ink, etc. But it is chiefly taken up by notices on eminent calligraphers, which are brought down to the author's

expressed by various numbers of dots, are shown by figures in the margin. This is probably the work ascribed to Mir
Ali in Krafft's Catalogue, p.
5,

No.

xii.

Or. 235.
Foil. 52
;

and include several of his pupils. The arrangement, which was originally chronological, has been much disturbed in the present copy, which appears to have been transcribed from a MS. in which some leaves were missing and others transposed.
time,

8|

in.

by 6

11

lines,

in.

long;
Foil.

Or. 471.
92
;

written in Nestalik; dated A.D. 1863.

HAMILTON.] A treatise on calligraphy, with notices on the penmen who bave attained eminence in the divers varieties of the Persian character.

[GEO.

WM.

10|

in.

by 6*
[GEO.

11

lines,

in.

long; written in Nestalik, in the 19th century.

I.

WM. HAMILTON.]

Author:

writer of seven Kalams, or characters,

The

author's

his notice

on Muhammad Hafiz Khan, fol. 41 b. He mentions himself as one of the disciples of that calligrapher, who had served under Muhammad Shah as Daroghah i Yasavalan, and who died in Dehli, A.H. 1194. That date is fixed by a chronogram of the author's composition in which he uses Rakim
as his Takhallus.

/I
^
(JlAOfe

Rakim Ghulam Muhammad,

J'Jj

Syllabaries showing all possible combinations of letters, with some

Foil. 2

21.

writing models.

J^*

*^fr

j*

r>j

aiaJ s*la>' <j]

Rules for the correct writing of every letter of the alphabet, in

II.

Foil.

2227.

name

occurs incidentally in

Masnavi rhyme.
Beg.
iW.b

&U5J iM>

i_a5\

(j^i

They are due, according to the following subscription, to the pen of Rakim (see the
preceding number)
:

Khalifah
Dehli,
is

Ghulam Muhammad Rakim,

of

mentioned in the Tazkirah of Kasim, written A.H. 1221. He had proceeded to Lucknow about A. H. 1209, but had subsequently returned to Dehli, where he was then studying medicine. See the Oude Catalogue,
p.

III. Foil. 28 54. Calligraphic specimens in various characters, including figures of animals made up of letters. On fol. 39 a is

found the signature of Rakim under his proper name, Maulavl Ghulam Muhammad.
IV. Foil.

5692.

Notices on celebrated
earliest period to
j \a-

penmen, from the

trrV

A.H.

280.

work

Several passages of the present show that the author lived in Luck-

1239, with the heading:

POETRY.
Author: Rakim, J^
Beg.

533

Ramazan, A.H. 1209, March, A.D. 1795.

c~1 j*\5

" Seven alphabets with the combinations of all the letters in each. Written at Calcutta, on the 68th year of his age, by Sha Azeez Ullah of Bochara, Moonshy to Sir John

The contents are to some extent identical with those of the preceding MS. The present copy
is

also incomplete

and out of

order.

King's
Foil. 70;

MS.

445.

Murray, Bart." (See p. 409, note.) Contents: Nestalik, fol. 3. Shikastah-

Amiz,

fol.

13.

Shikastah Pur,

fol.

22.

Shafol.

by 6$; 7 lines, 4 in. long; fairly written, with gold- ruled margins; dated
9
in.

fi'al, fol.

29.

Naskh,

fol.

Suls, fol. 38. 60.

Tughra'I,

49.

POETRY.
Add. 21,103.
8J in. long ; written in Naskhi, in six columns, ruled with red ink, probably in the 13th cenlines,

Foil 297; 13 J

in.

by 10$; 29

tury.

[H. STEINSCHUSS.J

thirty-five years on the composition of the Shahnamah, which he wrote partly in Tus, partly at the court of Sultan .Miilmniil in Ghaznin, and completed, as stated at the end, in A.H. 400, when he

A.H. 320, and spent

Author: FirdGsi,

was nearly eighty years of age. Firdusi died in his native town, A.H. 411, or, according to others, A.H. 416. The earliest extant account of Firdusi is probably that of Ahmad B. 'Umar un-Nizami
ul-'Aruzi us- Samarkand!,

who

states that
It

he
is

Firdusi's great epic has been edited

by

visited

the poet's tomb A.H. 510.

Turner Macan, Calcutta, 1829, and, with a French translation, by Jules Mohl, Paris, 1829-1878. A third edition, based on the
preceding, was commenced by Professor J. A. Vullers, Leyden, 1876. Eastern editions,

lithographed in Bombay, 1849, Cawnpore, 1874, Teheran, A.H. 1267, etc., are reprints of the text edited by Macan.
Firdusi's original

Ibn Isfandiyar's History of Tabaristan (see p. 202 a), Add. 7633, foil. 185 188. Other notices will be found in the two Persian prefaces contained in some MSS. of the Shahnamah, and in the following works
quoted at length in
:

ristan, fol.

name was Abul-Kasim

Tarikh Guzldah, fol. 242; Jami's Baha59 ; Tazkirah i Daulatshah, fol. 25 (translated by S. de Sacy, Notices et Extraits,
;

Hasan,

or,

according to the preface of Bai-

sunghar, and later writers, Mansur. He was born in Shadab, near Tus, some time after

vol. iv. p. 130, and by Vullers, iiber die Religion des Zoroaster)

Fragmente Habib usfol.

Siyar, vol.

ii.,

Juz

4, p.

22 ; Haft Ikllm,

534
290;
Majalis ul-MuminTn,
fol.

POETRY.

FIRDUSI.
about 1848 at Shiraz from a Parsee who brought it from Yezd at my request."
tained
it

522; Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 332, and Atashkadah, p. 77. See also the English and Persian prefaces of Macan's edition ; the introduction of Mohl's
edition;
siens,
p.

Hammer, Schone
50;

Eedekiinste Perof Persian

Foil.

Or. 1403.
513
;

Ouseley, Notices

10

in.

poets, p. 54;

Wallenbourg, Notice sur le Schahname, Vienna, 1810 ; Gorres, Heldenbuch von Iran, Berlin, 1820 J. Atkinson, " Soohrab, a poem, Calcutta, 1814, and the
;

by 6J

27

lines, 5 in.

long ; small Nestalik, with two TTnvans and gold dated Ramazan, A.H. 841 (A.D. headings
;

written in four gold-ruled columns, in

Shah Namah of Firdausi," London, 1832;

Kej Kawus in Masenderan, Vienna, 1841; A. F. von Schack, Heldensagen, 1851; Sprenger, Oude Catalogue,
Starkenfels,
-

1438).

[JULES MOHL.]

The same poem. The learned translator of the Shahnamah,

p. 405,

and Ethe, Firdusi

als Lyriker, Sit-

who frequently refers MS. No. 5, describes

autre,
fort
qu'il offre

to this
it

copy as his
"
:

as follows

Un

zungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie, 1872, p. 275, and 1873, p. 623. The archaic spelling of the present copy,

un

ancien, est remarquable en ce excellent exemple de 1'etat ou

etait le texte

avant la revision faite par

and for t^, as well as the i> form of the writing, assigns to it a very antique early date. The last leaf has been supplied by a hand of the 16th century but the subscription, which professes to have been copied from the original MS., and states that it had been written A.H. 675 (A.D. 12767), is probably correct. The first six leaves, and four in the body of the volume, foil. 49 52, are due to the same later hand.
as i for
;

See Mohl's ordre de Baisangher Khan." Preface, pp. xvi., xxix., xxxvi., notes, and Ixxxv.
Contents The older preface, foil. 2 b. (It has lost two leaves after fol. 3. The text,
:

Foil. 1

3 contain a

list

of the early kings

of Persia and a preface to the Shahnamah,

which begins thus

although agreeing in the main with other copies, shows an addition probably made in India towards the end of Firdusi's life, fol. 5 a, it is stated that, when fleeing from the wrath of Mahmud, he had taken refuge in India, and that the king of Dehli, after keeping him some time as an honoured guest, sent him back with rich presents to Tiis). An account of the early kings of Persia,
:

This preface is found in copies anterior to the recension of the Shahnamah completed for Mirza Baisunghar (see p. 77 5), A.H.
829, and may therefore, in contradistinction to the preface of the latter, be called the
It is designated by Mohl, older preface. p. xv., note, as preface No. 2, and it has been translated by M. de Wallenbourg in his " Notice sur le Schalmame."

with tables of the dynasties,

ing a leaf after
fol. 5).

fol.

a,

(want-

alphabetical glossary of the obsolete words occurring in the Shahnamah, fol. 7 a.

An

The

Shahnamah,
foil.

consisting

of

about

51,200 distichs,

10

6513 a.

The number of distichs, in the present copy, amounts to little more than 50,000.
the fly -leaf is the following note, written by the llev. H. Sternschuss : " Ob-

The last section differs considerably from the printed texts. It omits the verses in which Firdusi states that he was nearly eighty years of age, and had spent thirty-five years on the composition of the poem and it gives a much
;

On

earlier date for its completion, namely 384, instead of A.H. 400, as follows :

A.H.

POETRY.

FIRDUSI.
'All

535

Shah, and to have been completed on the tenth of Muharram, A.H. 779.

This volume contains ninety-five miniatures in Persian style, each of which occupies about a third of the page.

found in an epilogue, consisting of thirty-three Baits, which follows the ordinary conclusion without any hreak, and is not found in other copies. It begins
thus:

A later date is

Add. 18,188.
Toll.

500

13|

in.

by 9

25

lines,

5|

in.

long; written in fair Nestalik, in four goldruled columns, with gold headings, and a rich 'Unvan; dated Jumada II., A.H. 891

(A.D. 1486).
f+~
.

The same poem, without preface. The number of distichs may be roughly

. i>

estimated at about 45,500. The volume contains seventy-two miniatures, in fair Persian style,

occupying about
<*L>\s>

half a page each.

Copyist

u_jy

^>j>,

^ ^^\
8;
25

The writer

relates

this great history,

how, after completing on the 25th of Muharram,

Add. 15,531.
FoU. 543; 13$
in.

A.H. 389, he had been invited by a governor, Ahmad B. Muhammad Abu Bakr Ispani d*., by name, who received him in his
Lanjan, ^jf ul-, liberally wants, and refused to listen supplied lie concludes by expressto his slanderers,
l

by

lines,

5J

in.

residence, in

Khan

long; written in neat Nestalik, in four goldruled columns, with rich 'Unvans and gold

headings; dated Zulhijjah, A.H. 942 (A.D.

1536).

all his

The Shahnamah,
following
1.
:

to

which

is

ing his unbounded gratitude to the governor's youthful son, who had saved his life by dragging him by the hair out of the raging waters of the Zarrm Rud Jjj, into which

prefixed the

^j

introduction, written in a flowery style, treating of the relative merits of prose and poetry, and concluding with a wordy

An

he had accidentally fallen. Kh.mlanjan is mentioned by Sam'anI and Yakut as a town of the province of Ispahan.
according to the Kami], vol. viii. distant from that city. p. 367, nine Farsakhs states in his Travels, vol. iii. p. 17, Ouseley that Linjan b the name of a district watered
It
is,

encomium
Beg.
2.

of the Shfihnamah,
j

fol.

ft.

^ ^ j&
foil.

&

.x- j

i^-VJ

(j-U-.

The

differs

older preface, in a recension, which materially from the text of other

copies,

4696.
which comprises about 52,000

The

text,

by the Zindah-rud, some distance above

Ispahan.

Baits, is divided into two parts. The second, which has an 'Unvan of its own, fol. 265 6,

begins with the reign of Luhrasp (Macan,

is followed by a rhymed same metre, transcribed from which is stated to have been

The above epilogue

colophon in the an earlier MS.,

p. 1030).

written for a noble personage called

Khwajah

This volume contains three whole-page miniatures, enclosed in rich borders, at the beginning, foil. 2 6, 3 a, 10 a, and forty-five

536

POETRY.

FIRDUSI.
foil. 2 b and occupies two illuminated pages, 3 a. But the preface itself, foil. 3 b 7 ,

On the " To Maria is written Graham, from fly-leaf her affectionate friends James and Catherine
smaller, all in good Persian style.
:

which begins thus

Mackintosh, Tarala Library, Bombay, 27th This MS. belonged to Chiragh Jan., 1810. Ali Khan, said to have been one of the
ablest ministers that Persia ever had,

is

who

which quite distinct from either of those

died a few

months ago

at Teheraun."

have been already mentioned. Beginning with an account of Mahmud's first attempts
to obtain a poetical version of the Book of it is chiefly taken up with a short and

Add. 27,257.
Foil.

Kings,

540

18|

in.

by 11

25

lines,

6|

in.

legendary

life

of FirdusI,

who
is

is

called Abul-

long; written in fair Nestalik, in four columns, profusely ornamented with rich 'Unvans, ornamental borders, and illuminated
headings, probably in the 16th century bound in embossed and gilt leather.
[Sir
;

Kasim Hasan B. 'AH, and

said to have

had

It cona younger brother, Husain B. 'All. on Mahmud tains the celebrated satire

JOHN MALCOLM.]
of Bai:

(Macan, vol. i. p. 63, Mohl's preface, p. 88), and ends with an account of the deposition of Hasan Mimandi, and of the present which
the penitent

The Shahnamah, with the preface

sunghar,
foil.

Mahmud

sent too late to the

2 b

14

a,

which begins thus

list of the ancient kings slighted poet. of Persia is appended.

This preface, which was written for Mlrza Biiisunghar in A.H. 829, has been printed almost entirely in Macan's Persian introduction to the

The poem
Copyist
:

consists, in the present copy,

of upwards of 56,000 Baits.

i_*>is3\

^.^>^\

^j

Shahnamah, pp. 11

61.

The number of Baits

is

in the present

copy

not much in excess of 48,000. This fine volume, which contains

fifty-five

fifty-two whole-page in fair Persian style. miniatures, On the first page is a Persian note, dated Rabl'IL, 1248 (September, 1832), in which

The volume contains

whole-page miniatures, in good Persian style, was probably executed for some princely personage ; but it bears now only private seals of modern date, such as those of Muhammad

the writer states that he was sending this book as a souvenir to the English Prime Minister
(j-i&l writer's

w>

cJj>
i.e.

J^f jjj

(Earl Grey).

The

seal

bears the

name

of

Muham-

Mahdi, A.H. 1110, and Sayyid Murtaza ulHusainT, A.H. 1153. It passed into the hands of Edward Galley, A.D. 1783, and was purchased by Sir John Malcolm in 1805.

mad Husain, Amln ud-Daulah,

Husain, HajT the second minister of the

6,

Muhammad
notes).

Persian court (see p. 392

Add. 27,302.
Toll.
;

Add. 5600.
Foil. 585;
;

622

19

in.

by 12

written in fair long columns, ornamented and bound precisely in the same manner as the preceding dated
;

25 lines, 5| in. Nestalik, in four

;

A.H. 994 (A.D. 1586). The Shfihmimah, with a preface. The doxology of Baisunghar's

long in four gold-ruled columns, with rich 'Unvans and ornamental headings, apparently in the 16th century bound in glazed and
;

by 8; 25 lines, 4| in. written in a small and neat Nestalik,

12
in.

painted covers.
preface

[N. BRASSEY HALHED.]

The Shahnamah, with a version of the

POETRY.
which differs in some parts from the text of Add. 21,103. The total number of distich s amounts to
older preface,
foil.

FIRDUSI.
The number

537

2 b

ft,

of distichs in this copy is not much over 48,000. The volume contains ten whole-page minia-

about 51,000.

The volume contains ninety miniatures,

each of which occupies the larger part of a page. They are executed in the best Indian style, and are signed by different artists.

somewhat rubbed and

Copyist
:

tures in Persian style, most of which are discoloured.

The names of Kiisim, Kamftl, Shimitl, Banwari, and Bhagwati, recur frequently.
page is a Persian note stating that this Shahniimah had been bestowed by His late Majesty Jahfmgir on the least of his
first

Add. 16,761.
Foil.

525

llf

in.

by

25

lines,

4|

in.

On

the

long;

written in small Nestalik, in four

gold-ruled columns, with rich 'Unvans and illuminated headings ; dated Zulka'dah, A.H.

servants,

Il.ih virdi

Chelah, in the 8th year of

1023 (A.D. 1614).

[Ww. YULE.]
older preface,

the reign (A.H. 1022), and had been presented by the latter to his brother Khwajah

The Shahnamah with the

foil.

1 b

7 a.

Muhammad Rashid. On the opposite page are found the seal and signature of Muhammad 'Arif, son of the hist named Muham'1,

IlAhvirdi,

the Saljiiks, of Sultan Parviz, and afterwards that of Jahfmgir, with whom his skill in hunting soon made him a great favourite. He rose in the reign of Shahjahan to high military

and those of some later owners. a Turk, who traced his origin to entered in early life the service

To the ordinary conclusion of the poem are added some verses, partly taken from the satire on Sultan Mahmud. The total number of distichs does not
exceed 48,000. This volume contains forty miniatures, in good Persian style, each of which occupies
the greater part of a page.

Copyist

^^\

^yU- wUj

j^*? ,.^-s-

^\

commands

Shuj.i' in tin-

but was put to death by Prince .'{2nd year of the See reign. his lift- in Maiisjr ul-Umarfl, Add. 6567, fol. 60 b, and Tazkirat ul-Umara, Add. 16,703, fol. 14 /,
;

Add. 27,258.
Foil.

660

14J

in.

by 9

25

lines,

in.

long; written in Nestalik, in four gold-ruled

columns, with 'Unvans;

dated

Ramazan,

A.H. 1037 (A.D. 1628.)

[Sir

JOHN MALCOLM.]
of Bai-

Add. 7724.
Foil.

The Shahnamah, with the preface

sunghar,
foil.

1 b

11

a.

171

13*- in.

by 8|

27

lines, 5

in.

The poem

is

divided into four parts, each

long, in a page ; written in Nestalik, in four

with a separate 'Unvan.

the fight of

gold-ruled columns, with 'Unvan; Rab.' I., A.H. 1021 (A.D. 1612).

dated

The first ends with Rustam and the Div Akvan

;

[Cl. J. RICH.]

The Shahnamah, with the preface of Baisunghar, foil. 1 b 11 a, the first two pages
of which have been restored by a later hand, as well as foil. 1356, 1923, 2367,
VOL.
II.

a the (Macan's edition, p. 753), fol. 243 second with the reign of Kaikhusrau (ibid. the third with the reign b p. 1030), fol. 366 of Kubad (ib. p. 1617), fol. 529 b; and the
;

fourth completes the poem. The text is perhaps the longest, or most
interpolated, in existence.

The

total

number

538
of distichs

POETRY.
is,

FIRDUSI.
(Macan, pp.
pp.
less

according to a calculation
first

4648)

and

after fol.

583

(ib.

entered on the

page, 61,266.

16791681).

This copy

is

mentioned by M. Mohl in

his preface, p. 82, as the

main source of the

text published by Lumsden, Calcutta, 1811. The MS. contains sixty-three miniatures, in fair Persian style, each occupying half a page or more.

Five miniatures, in Indian style, more or defaced, which have been inserted, foil. 61, 81, 219, 398, 446, once belonged to
other

MSS.

The same

leaves contain por-

tions of older texts.

Copyist

This copy was written by Haidar Muhammad Tabriz! for an officer called Mirza 'Ivaz

Beg Salmani.

Of the date

Add. 4943,
Foil. 283;

12

in.

by

7;

25

lines,

4J

in.

the last figure only, 8, is Beg, afterwards 'Ivaz Khan, held a military command at Kabul in the first year of

of transcription An 'Ivaz legible.

long; written in Nestalik, in four columns, with a 'Unvan dated Rabi' I., A.H. 1054
;

(A.D. 1644).

The
edition.

latter half of the

Shahnamah,

cor-

responding to pp.

11552096
is

of Macan's

On

the

first

page

written

" Presented

Shahjahan (A.H. 10378), and died A.H. 1050; see Tazkirat ul-Umara, fol. 70 b, and Maasjr ul-Umara, fol. 377 b. At beginning and end is impressed the seal of Sayyid Jalal 'Alamglrshahl (i.e. an Amir of Aurangz'ib's reign), with the date A.H. 1088.

by Claud

Russell, Esq., Oct. 5, 1781."

Add. 6610.

Add. 6609.
611 11 in. by 25 lines, 4f in. 7| in a page written in Nestalik, in four long, gold-ruled columns, with several rich TJnFoil.
; ; ;

Foil.
;

311

13

in.

by 8

25

lines,

4|

in.

long written in Nestalik, in four gold-ruled columns, with a 'Unvan, probably in the 17th century. [J. F. HULL.]
half of the poem (Macan's edi1 1065), with forty-seven halftion, pp. page miniatures, in a second-rate Indian
first

vans, apparently in the 17th century. It is partially injured by damp and torn. [J. F. HULL.]
in about 48,000 distichs. Prefixed to the poem are 1. The older in a fuller recension than in Add. preface,
:

The

The Shahnamah,

style.

Add. 18,804.
358; 14 in. by 9|; 20 lines, 5J in. written in Nestalik, in four gold-ruled long; columns, with 'Unvans ; dated Parganah of
Foil.

5600,

fol. 1 b. 2. An extract from a work on general history, with tabulated lists of the

3. short early kings of Persia, fol. 8 a. of obsolete words, bealphabetical glossary

ginning

^\^\

ju)

^j

v u,

fol.

10

Rajur, Rabr
1719).

I.,

and Rajab, A.H. 1131 (A.D.

b.

The poem, which begins on fol. 13 6, is divided into two parts, the first of which
closes

in a

with Dakiki's apparition to FirdusI dream (Macan's edition, p. 1065), fol

after
fol.

The latter half of the Shahnamah, divided into two volumes, corresponding to pp. 10281587 and 15882096 of Macan's
edition.

338

a.

The concluding
30

section

contains

some

Single leaves are missing

verses of the satire on

Mahmud.

POETRY.
The MS. was
scriptions, for a

FIRDUSI.

539

written, as stated in the sub-

man
c^*-\

of rank called Ajagat

long; written in Nestalik, in four columns, apparently in the 18th century.

jy, by Khalil Ullah, surnamed Haft-Kalami. It contains ninetyseven miniatures, in fair Indian style, a few

Singh j*-

ftii-.

[WM. EBSKINE.]

The

first

half of the
982).

Shahnamah (Macan's

edition, pp. 1

of which only are whole-page.

Add
Foil. 131;

Add. 25,798.
25,797.
by 8|; 25
lines,

Foil.

201

Hi

in.

11$

in.

by 7i

17

lines,

in.

in.

long; written in Nestalik, in four columns, apparently early in the 18th century.
quarter of the can's edition, pp. 1 552).
first

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [WM. CURETON.]

The

[WM. CCRETOS.] Shahnamah (Ma.

abridgment of Firdusl's Shahnamah, consisting of copious extracts from the poem, connected by a prose narrative. Author Tavakkul Beg, son of Tulak Beg,
:

An

dated in the fourth year of the reign, probably that of Bahadur Shah, A.H.
is

The MS.

11212.
Copyist
:

A\ JJ*.

.i^J

tiily

Egerton 682-685.
Four uniform volumes, containing respectively foil. 198, 185, 157, and 142 16J in. by 9J; 23 lines, 6J in. long; written in
;

from the preface that in the 26th year of Shahjahan's reign, or A.H. 1063, the author was sent by Prince Dara
It appears

Nestalik, in four columns; dated Kundapili (Condapilly, district of Masulipatan), Rabi' I.,

A.H. 1202 (A.D. 1788); bound in embossed leather covers. [ADAM CLARKE.] The Shahnftmah, in about 58,500 distichs. The first two volumes contain the first half 1030 of the poem, corresponding to pp. 1
of Macan's edition, the third corresponds to 1595, the fourth to pp. 1595 pp. 1030 2096, and has the satire on Sultan Mahmud,
in

Shikuh, then Siibahdar of Kabul, to Ghaznin, as a confidential agent and news-writer, ^t^ he wrote the present j and that (j-y
fJ\Sj
,

compilation at the request of the governor

of that place, Shamshir Khan. Shamshlr Khan Tarin, whose
original

name was Muhammad Hayat, had

the imperial service in the
reign of Shahjahan.
first

entered

year of the

He was appointed

Tha-

n-cvnsion which diners considerably from the printed texts.

a

nahdar of Ghaznin in A.H. 1060, and retained that post till A.H. 1069, when he was
transferred

Prefixed to the
notice

first

volume

is

on

Firdusi,

extracted

an English from Jos.

by Aurangzib
fol.

to the

command of
fol.

Kabul.

See Maagir ul-Umara,

59.
is

357,

and

Champion's
1785.

"

Poems

of Ferdosi," Calcutta,

Tazkirat ul-Umara,

The author

Copyist

Jj^
12

J*

5619, Tavakkul Muhammad ul-Husaini.

called in another copy, Add. Muhammad, son of Tulak

Add. 26,143.
Foil.

nated by
others
lines,

The work is desigin three copies ; in the above title

called

it is

Khulnsah

Shahnamah
i

272;

in.

by 9; 25

5 in.

(Add.

6611,

27,269), Tarikh p 2

Dilkushai

540

POETRY.

FIRDUSL

ShamshirkhanI (Or. 371, Add. 6619), and i Shamshirkhani. The history is brought down to the reign of Ardashir Biibagan. The work concludes with a dry enumeration of that king's successors, and a notice on the Shahnamah and Firdusl's life, extracted from the older preface. The ShamshirkhanI is the original of the work published by J. Atkinson, "The ShahTarlkh
of Firdausi," London, 1832. It is mentioned in Stewart's Catalogue, p. 20,

Add. 6939.
FoU. 722; 13 in. by 8; written by the Rev. J. Haddon Hindley, on paper water-

marked 1811.

A transcript of the preceding

English translation.

MS., with an

Add. 7725.
20 lines, 3| in. long; written in a cursive Indian character; dated Bab? I., A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1784).
Foil.

namah

157

in.

by 5|

Mohl's preface,
vol.
ii.

p,

79,

Ouseley's

Travels,

p. 640,

and the Copenhagen Cata-

logue, p. 540.

[Cl. J.

RICH.]

The same work.

Or. 371.
5J in. long written in large Nestalik, with *Unvan and gold-ruled margins dated Sha'ban, A.H. 1155 (A.D. 1742).
;

Copyist : J-^.^ <j

_5

lix>

J5

^*>>b

Foil.
;

232

13|

in.

by 8J

17

lines,

Add. 6611.
Foil. 270;

9i

in.

by 7|; 13

lines,

5 in.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

The same work. By some mistake of the

first

long; written in a cursive Indian character, with ruled margins ; dated Zulka'dah, A.H.

transcriber the

1212 (A.D. 1798). The same work.

[J. F.

HULL.]

three pages of the notice on Firdusi, which are found in their proper place, fol.

have been also written at the beginning of the volume, where they are followed, without any apparent break, by the preface Tavakkul Beg. This volume contains seventy-six miniatures, in Indian style, each occupying about one third of a page.
227
b,

This copy does not contain the life of Firdusi, but ends with an extract from the
satire

on Mahmud,

foil.

268 b

270

a,

Add. 27,269.
Foil. 270; !!
in.

by

7;

15

lines,

in.

It "was transcribed

by Js3UN

+^, for Mi-

long ; written in Indian Nestalik, in the 18th century. The same work, ending also with an extract

yan Sukhan-Fahm

Jlv.

from the

satire

on Mahmud.

Egerton 1105.
Foil.

the fly-leaf is written: "From His Highness the Nabob of the Carnatic, to John

On

Macdonald Kinneir."
2|
in.

263

9|

in.

by

15

lines,

long; written in Nestalik, at Murshidabad, about the beginning of the 18th century.

Add. 5619.
Foil.

214; 10

in.

by 6J; 17

lines,

in.

[ADAM CLARKE.]
The same work.
Copyist
:

long; written in Nestalik, in the 18th century.

dusi.

[N. BBASSET HALHED.] The same work, without the life of Fir-

POETRY.

FIRDUSI.
work, 70
is

541

Add. 6949,
Foil. 19;

treated here at

in.

by ?i; written by the Rev.

079 a.

some length,

foil

John Haddon Hindley.

transcript of the first six folios of the

preceding MS.

Add. 24,415.
Foil.

160; 10$

in.

by 7; 17

lines,

4$

in.

long, in a page; written in Indian Nestalik, at Vellore, A.D. 1804. [Sir JOHN MALCOLM.]

At the end, and by another hand, is added a second and different recension of the satire on Mahmud.
Copyist:
U. ^fj W
j.^--*-

The same work.

are some verses in the epic which the author records the presentation of his book to Mr. Aungier, and the reward he obtained from him. On the fly-leaf is found the following note " This is a most excellent booke and not to be gotten here amongst them. I got it from our worthy President, Mr. Aungier. The learned Herbud was very loath I should part with it before he had taken a coppy of it,

At the end

metre, in

but it could not be done, our ships being soe near their departure."

*-\

J,

j-_o

**f

The above shows that the MS. was written

after the death of the transcriber's father,

would appear that the MS. contains the original draft, and that the scribe, who in the subscription calls himself
this it

From

Ahmad Husain Khan,

which, according to a versified chronogram written on the flyleaf, took place in Zulhijjah, A.H. 1218
note, in the hand of Dr. John Leyden, states that he perused it in November, 1804.
(April, 1804).

Khwurshid, son of
himself.

Isfandiyiir,

an inhabitant

of the town of Nausari,

was the author

described by Sir Win. Ouseley ii. See the same p. 540. scholar's Oriental Collection, vol. i. pp. 218,
is

This MS.

in his Travels, vol.

359, and vol.

Royal 16 B. xiv.
Foil. 118;

Hyde, Historia Religionis Persarum, p. 319, and Mohl, Preface to the Shahnamah, p. 79.
ii.

p. 45,

10J

in.

by 6$; 19

lines,

in.

long;

month

Nestalik; of Shahrivar of the year 1040 of Yaz-

written

in

dated in the
Foil.

Add. 6938.
171; 13
in.

by 8; written by the

dagird (A.D. 1671).

[Tno. HYDE.]

Rev. J.

Haddon Hindley, on paper water-

marked 1812.

An abridgment of the Shahniimah in

prose.

transcript of the first portion of the b, with an preceding MS., foil. 1

495

English translation extending to the three quarters of the text.

It appears

first

thor, a Parsee,

from the preface that the auwrote this abstract by desire

of Captain Aungier,* JL-* v^i~>f, who had no mind to read the bulky poem. It may bo noticed that the episode of

^\

Foil. 72;

Add. 7664. 8J in, by 6; 11

lines,

in.

long; written in large Nestalik; dated A.H.

1222 (A.D. 1807).

[Cl. J. Ricn.J

Barzu, which does not belong to Firdusi's

Mr. Aangier was President in Surat, where he died See Uruce's Annals of the East India Company.

in 1077.

An abridgment, in prose, account of the Pishdadis.

of

Firdusi's

542

POETRY.

FIRDUSI.

Author; 3Taridvj.ii B. Muhammad Kasim Halalkhwur Mazandaran!, -^

this composition we are indebted to the curious taste of Fath 'All Shah, who, as

For

quaintly stated in the preface, being extremely fond of the Shahnamah, gave, in
is

A.H. 1216, the order to turn it into prose. The task was divided, the Kayanis devolving on Mirza Muhammad Riga Tabriz!, the Ashkanis on Mirza 'Isa Farahani, the Sasanis on Mirza 'Abd ul-Vahhab Isfahan!, and the Pishdadis on the present writer. The above title, written at the top of the
first

page, apparently applies to the aggregate of the four versions. The present copy breaks off in the account

of Kavah's rising against

edition, p. 36).

Zahhak (Macan's

Add. 24,095.
16 in. by 11$; 29 lines, 5| in. written in fair Nestalik, in four goldlong; ruled columns, apparently in the 17th cenFoil. 16;

tury.

Fragments Author Mukhtari, ^s^? This is one of several poems written in imitation of Firdus!, and engrafted as episodes on the Shahnamah. Its hero is Shahriyar, son of Barzu, the son of Suhrab, and consequently great-grandson of Rustam. The
:

of the Shahriyar-Namah.

be seen from the above that Mukhtari wrote the Shahriyar Namah, in the space of three years, by order of Mas'ud Shah, not from his own invention, but from
It will

a narrative which he had to put into verse. The poet concludes by claiming the reward to which he was entitled, but adds, in evident
allusion to Firdusi's diatribe against

Mah-

scene of his adventures

is

laid in India.

The

title

in the concluding lines,

and the author's name are found which are as follows

mud, that, even should none be vouchsafed, he will never think of resorting to satire. The last couplet is a transition which leads back to a passage of the Shahnamah, in which
Isfandiyar
battle.
is

described as

going forth to

The king, who is called in the above verses " the rose of the garden of Mahmud," is

POETRY.
apparently Mas'ud, the son and successor of the great Mahmud Ghaznari. Mas'ud wrested

FIRDUSI.

543

the throne from his brother Muhammad in A.H. 422, and was himself expelled from his

to the palace of Faranak, Queen of Sarandib, whom he enjoins to release her captive Ar-

realm by the Saljuks, A.H. 432. There is, however, no record of a poet The earliest called Mukhtari at that period.

She feigns submission, but treachecauses Shahriyar to fall into a well, rously in which she keeps him in durance.
zang.

known by that surname is Siraj ud-Din 'Ugman B. Muhammad, of Ghaznin, who first
poet

used 'Uman as his Takhallus, and adopted towards the end of his life that of Mukhtari. He was in great favour with Sultan Ibrahim
B. Mas'ud,

who reigned from A.H. 451

to

481

lived (see the Kfunil, vol. x. pp. 3, 110), in Kirman, at the court of Arsl.m afterwards

Shah (A.H. 491 53G; Jaand died in Ghaznin, accordhanitra, 97), to Taki, Oude Catalogue, p. 16, A.H. 554, ing

Shah

B. Kirmftn
fol.

In the meanwhile Arjasp, the king of Turan, who was besieging Luhrasp in the city of Balkh, dispatches the Div Arhang, son of Puladvand, with an army to Sistan. Zal, in the absence of Rustam, then far away in Khavar land, sends his second son Zavarah to oppose the Div, and, after a first encounter in which the latter is worsted, marches forth himself, and puts him to flight. The next fragment, foil. 12, 13, which probably belongs to an earlier part of the poem,
relates the arrival of Zal at the court of

King
by

Salomon.

The

latter tests the wit of Zal

or, as stated
fol.

59,

A.H.

in the Atashkadah, Add. 7671> Mukhtftri is said to have 54-1.

means of a

riddle relating to the twelve sons of Jacob, and his strength by a fight with a

excelled in every kind of poetry. He is mentioned with high praise by Sana'i, who calls him his master. Notices of Mukhtari will be

Demon

called

Abriman. and

Fol. 14 contains the end of the poem, concludes with the lines quoted above.

found in Daulatshah's Tazkirah,

fol.

48,

and

Hammer's
fol.

Redekiin*ti>, p.

lot, Haft Iklim,

fol.

137, and Kiyaz ush-Shu'arfl,

is

405.

If the Shahriyar-Nainah

to be ascribed

The last two leaves of the volume, foil. 15 and 16, contain two detached fragments of the Shahnamah, both relating to Isfandiyar. In the first he enters the brazen fortress, and
150 1); slays Arjftsp (see Macan's edition, pp. in the second he claims the crown from his
father Gushtiisp (ib. pp. 11635). Twelve out of the above sixteen
folios

Mas'ud Shah for whom it can be no other than Mas'ud B. was written Ibrahim, who was, not the son, but the greatfrom A.H. grandson, of Mahmud, and reigned
to this poet, the

481 to 508
353). It

(see the

Kamil, vol.

x. pp.

Ill,

have on one side whole-page miniatures, in a good Indian style of the 17th century.

must be remarked, however, that no

in

mention of a similar poem is to be found the notices on Mukhtari above quoted.

The first and longest of the three fragments included in this volume, foil. 1 a
11 o, begins with the single combats in which Faramurz (Rustam's son) engages, first with Raihfm, a black giant, and then
with the chief of the Indian army, who turns out to be his grand-nephew Shahriyfir. After
3

Add. 6941.
Foil.
in.

197

long ; Hindley on paper water-marked 1811.

by 7| 22 lines, about written by the Rev. J. Haddon

;

in.

*.u

mutual

recognition

they

part,

Faramurz

A poem written in
namah, and treating

returning to Iran, and Shahriyar proceeding

imitation of the Shiihof the exploits of Sam,

544

POETRY.

FIRDUSI.
however, that the biographical notices of the latter poet make no mention of the Sam

son of Nariman, and his love adventures with the Chinese princess Parldukht.

Author: Khwaju,

Namah.

Mohl gives a short account of the Sam Namah, without naming the author,
Jules

The author
Jki~S>-

gives

^y j <_-itf jl his name towards

fol.

from a complete copy in his possession, which

the

contained 11,000 distichs.

to the

See the preface

end, in the following distich,

197 a

Shahnamah,

p. 59.

containing 30,000 distichs, Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 594.

*-$

Another copy, is mentioned by

See also

poem, in the next-following lines, as a rivulet from the sea of Firdusi, to whom he is like an atom to the sun, and a drop to the ocean.

and describes

his

Aumer, Munich Catalogue, p. 7. The present copy contains no more than

It has been transcribed from distichs. a MS. dated the tenth of Rajab, A.H. 1084. In an English notice, prefixed to the volume by J. H. Hindley, the work is de" the first historical of the scribed as

4200

The poem begins with a short doxology and an extensive passage of the Shahnamah, relating to the court held by Minuchihr after
his accession,

poem

and

his allocution to

Sam, the

by the celebrated Abool Kausim Pirdoosee of Toos." Shah

Namu

Pahlavan (Macan's edition, pp. 95, 96). The original composition begins, fol. 6 a, with Sam's setting out on a hunting expedition. The concluding sections relate how Siim, after slaying the emperor of China, and seating the Vazir's son, Kamartash, on his throne, proceeds with Parjdukht to the land of Khavar, and returns from thence to the court of Minuchihr. The narrative is not drawn from national tradition, but from individual fancy, and has all the features of a Persian fairy
tale of the

Or. 346.
about 15 lines, 3 in. long written in a cursive Indian character, probably in the 18th century.
Foil.

275;
;

8 in.

by 5;

[Geo.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Another copy of the same poem, wanting both beginning and end. It begins in the midst of the account of
meeting of Sam with the princess Paridukht (Add. 6941, fol. 85.) The text differs considerably from that of the and conpreceding copy. It is more copious,
the
first

modern

type.

Professor Spiegel has given in the Zeitschrift der Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft,

pp. 245 Namah, from a
vol.
iii.

261, an analysis of the Siim MS. belonging to the East

tains

much additional matter. The latter part

India Library, in the subscription of which the author is called Khwaju Kirmani. This is the name of a well-known poet, who died

deals with Sam's warlike deeds in the Maghend after his rib, and comes abruptly to an

about A.H. 745, and whose works will be mentioned further on. This identification is confirmed by the substance of the Sam Namah, which, as remarked by Spiegel, agrees to some extent with that of the Humai Humayun, a poem undoubtedly due to

of Tanjah, victory over 'Auj the 'Adite, king when the latter sends a message to his mother Khaturah, imploring the aid of her

witchcraft against his foe. The poet's name occurs in the following
verse, fol. 85 a
:

Khwaju Kirmani.

It

mvst be observed,

POETRY.
The corresponding
copy,
fol.

FIRDUSI.

515

verse in the preceding

99

4, is,

now, that old age held him tight in its claw, uil^; j^o <-^> c*a" \j, he turned to a
truer and

imperfect state, contains upwards of 8000 distich*. It bears the stamps of the kings of Oude.

The present MS.,

in

more holy theme. The Yusuf u Zulaikha is mentioned by

Kuli

its

'Ali
fol.

Khan

332, and by
p. 82.
its

in the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, Lutf 'AH Khan in the Atashit is

;

kadah,

Both allow that

worthy
but the

by

style of the

great master

Add. 24,093.
Foil.
;

222

10|

in.

by C

15

lines,

2|

in.

former takes objection to its metre, as one unsuited to any but heroic subjects, while
the latter remarks that

long written in neat Nestalik, in two goldruled columns, with 'Unvan ; dated Muharram, A. 11. 1 <'.".: (A.D. 1645); bound in
neatly painted covers.

shows a genius See also Mohl, enfeebled by age and grief. to the Shiihnamah, pp. 42, 46, Ousepreface
it

[Wu.

II.

MORLET.]

Biographical Notices, p. 91, Stewart's Catalogue, p. 55, Haj. Khal., vol. vi. p. 519,
Irv's

and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue,

p. 407.

Two

and Zulaikha, a poem. Author: Firdusi,

Yfisuf

lithographed editions of the poem are mentioned in the Fihrist i Kutub, or list of books issued from the press of Naval Kishor, p. 61.

Copyist:

It is stated in

Baisunghar's preface to the

and Add. 7721,

81iahn.un.ih (Maean's Persian preface, p. 55, fol. 10), that Firdusi com-

posed this poem in Baghdad in order to ingratiate himself with tin- Klnlif, who saw \\ it li displeasure the praises bestowed in the

Further down, and in the same handninth of Rabi' I., writing, is a note dated the A.H. 1055, stating that the MS. had been collated and corrected in the town of Patnah by Mulla Kashn and Kfizi 'Abd ul-Majid
Sivistani.

upon heathenish kings. Macan asserts, however, in the English preface, p. 52, and on the authority of a copy of the
Sli.ilm.uinli
Viisui'
I'irdiisi
11

Xulaikli.i
it

"wrote

in his possession, that at the instigation of the

of Baits in the present copy exceeds 6500, while the MSS. of scarcely T. Macan and Sir Gore Ouseley are said to contain 9000. Pencilled notes in the margins show that the late owner, W. H. Morley, had those MSS., compared it with the former of

The number

governor of Irak." The prologue of the present copy makes no mention of the latter pf rsonage hut it contains a short panegyric on a prince, de;

and had found important

differences.

The following

notice

on the

fly-leaf

is

signated in the heading as "Sovereign of Islamism," V-J L1.>'_>, by which is meant,

no doubt, the reigning Khalif, al-Kadir

Bil-

In the next-following lah (A.H. 381442). section Firdusi says, in evident allusion to
the Shahnamah, that he had hitherto sung the fabulous deeds of ancient kings, but that
VOL.
II.

signed by the last-named scholar, 1810 : " This poem was for a long time supare but four MSS. posed to be lost. There of it now known to exist one in the library of the College of Fort William in Bengal; a second in the collection of N. Bland, Esq., which is probably copied from the last, and

and dated

was purchased
third in

Major Maean's sale; a the library of the Boyal Asiatic

at

546
Society,

POETRY.

A.H. 400500.

which is correct, but imperfect at the beginning and the end ; and the present MS., which is more correct than Mr. Eland's MS., and more copious than either that or the MS. of the Eoyal Asiatic Society."
Prefixed to the volume
is

came

station to

Marv, and soon reached the highest which a man of science can attain. 'Umar Ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyaml is mento

tioned in the Kamil, vol. x. p. 67, as the first of the astronomers who were summoned

a short note

signed Kazimirski, from which it appears that the MS. owes its elegant binding to Hasan 'All Khan, the Persian ambassador at

the French court, to -whom

it

had been

lent.

by Malak Shah in A.H. 467 to institute astronomical observations, and he was the editor of the Zij in which they were recorded; see Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 570. According to Daulat Shah he also enjoyed the
favour of Sultan Sanjar, who used to give him a seat by his side on the throne. 'Umar

Or. 330.
in. by 4|; 8 lines, 2 in. written in large Nestalik, page with gold-ruled margins, apparently in the

Khayyam

is

stated to have died in Nishapur,

Foil.

109;

6|
;

long, in a

A.H. 517. See Hyde, De Religione Veterum Persarum, Oxon., 1700, p. 498, Oude Catalogue, p. 464, and Vienna Catalogue, vol. i.
p. 496.

18th century.
"

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

(*

Quatrains of 'Umar Khayyam, arranged in

alphabetical order.

Beg.

U U

His treatise on algebra has been published, with a French translation, by F. Woepcke, Paris, 1851. The quatrains have been edited in Teheran by Sanjar Mlrza, A.H. 1278. The same text has been reproduced with a few additions, and accompanied with a French
version,

by

J. B. Nicolas, Paris, 1867.

Some

select Ruba'is,

101 in number, have been ren-

The author, who calls himself in his Arabic works Abul-Fath 'Umar Ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyami, is no less celebrated as mathematician and astronomer, than as the writer
of the witty, often cynical, epigrams called Ruba'iyat. Nizam ul-Mulk, who was born A.H. 408, states in a passage of his Vasiiya (see p.

dered in English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, London, 1859, 1872 and 1879, others in German, by A. F. von Schack, Stuttgart, 1878. Notices on 'Umar Khayyam are to be

found in Daulatshah, Or. 469,

Iklim,
fol.

fol.

110, Haft

and

312, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 155, Atashkadah, p. 124. See also the Cal-

446 a), which has been quoted at length in the Rauzat us-Safa, vol. iv. p. 61, abridged
in

cutta Review, No. 59, Reinaud, Geographic d'Aboulfeda, preface, p. 101, Hammer, Redekiinste, p.
80,

and Jahrbiicher,

vol.

66,

Habib

us-Siyar, vol.

ii.,

Juz

2, p. 69,

and

translated by S. de Sacy, Notices et Extraits, vol. ix. p. 143, that Hakim 'Umar Khayyam of Nishapiir, was of the same age as himself,

Anzeigeblatt, p. 29, Garcin de Tassy, Journal e Asiatique, 5 Sdrie, vol. ix. p. 548, and Se"dillot, ib., vol. ii. p. 323.

The present copy

trains,

contains

423

qua-

and had attended with him the lessons of the Imam Muwaffak in that city. When Niziim ul-Mulk was raised by Alp Arslan to the office of Vazlr, he bestowed upon his former schoolmate a pension of 1200 tumfrns. In the reign of Malak, Shah 'Umar Khayyam

and ends with No. 400 of M. Nicolas'

last three

edition.

pages contain some verses Shah 'Alam Padishah during composed by

The

his captivity.

On

the fly-leaf

is

a seal bear-

ing the

name

of 'Abd ul-Majid

Khan, with

POETRY.
the date 1143

A. H.

400500.

547

MS.

is

in

also a note stating that the ; the handwriting of Mir Abul-

derived, according to BadaonI,

Muntakhab

Hasan.

Or. 331.
Foil.

ut-Tavarikh, vol. i. p. 37, from Run, an ancient village, now ruined, of the district of Lahore, a statement confirmed by the Ear-

92; 4$

in.

by

2;

12

lines,

1|

in.

long; written in small Nestalik, with goldruled margins, dated Kul Jjf ^<aS, Ramazan,

A. II. 1033 (A.D. 1624).

[Gto.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

hang i Jahangiri and the Burhan i KatT, which call Run a town of Hindustan. The Atashkadah, however, p. 122, derives it from Runah, in Dasht i Khiivaran, while the Riyaz ush-Shu'arii, fol. 5, and the Khulasat ul-Afkar, fol. 5, place the poet's native town
owing apparently to a confusame name, Abul-Faraj Sijzi, orSijistani, who lived under
in Sistiin,

Another copy of the Ruba'iyitt, slightly imperfect in the beginning, and containing quatrains. The first is No. 11 of M. Nicolas' edition, the last, No.
:

Run

sion with

an

earlier poet of the

'All

the

A modern title on the fly-loaf,

ij*
_^j JV,

Simjur in the fourth century of the llijrah see Daulatshah, Or. 469,
;

Amir Abu

j-^- c^Ufrb,

wrongly ascribes the work to Sarmad, a later poet, also renowned for his Kubfus. This Sarmad was a Jew, born at Kfishan, and whose original name was Sa'id. !!> embraced Islamism and went to India, where he led the life of a Fakir. He incurred the displeasure of Aurangzib, who put him
to death shortly after his accession (A. 1 1068), on the charge of infidelity. See Ri
ush-Shu'arii,
f..l.
1.

28, and Hammer, Hedekiinste, p. 45. Abul-Faraj Runi lived in the hitter part of the fifth century, under Sultan Ibrahim Ghaznavi, and his son and successor Mas'ud
fol.

B. Ibrahim, to both of whom several pieces of his Divan are addressed. Sultan Ibrahim

succeeded to his brother Farrukhzad A.1I.

fol.

220

b.,

Mirat

ul-'Alam,

'183 b,

Atashkadah,

p. 204,

and the Oude

Catalogue, pp. 96, 112.

450 or 451, and died, according to the Kamil, vol. x. p. 110, and the Rauzat us-Safii, vol. iv. p. 43, A.H. 481, or, as stated in the Tabakat i Nasiri, Nizam ut-Tavarikh, and Guzidah, A.H. 492. Mas'ud, who succeeded immediately to his father, reigned till A.H.
508.
If the latter,

Add. 27,318.
Foil.

long;
L.'
1

57; 9$ by 5; 17 lines, 2$ written in small Nestalik, in two

in.
in.

In-

and more probable, date for accession of Mas'ud be adopted, the stateof
tin-

ment

Mir'iit

ul-'Alam that Abul-Faraj

columns, with TJnvan, apparently in the 10th century. [DUXCAN FORBES.]

lil-ruled

Runi died A.H. 482 is necessarily incorrect, for he addresses Mas'ud B. Ibrahim in several

poems

as the reigning sovereign.

The Divfm of Abul-Faraj Runi.

Beg.
t

Abul-Faraj has been highly praised and imitated by Anvari, and other poets of a

subsequent period. A contemporary poet, Mas'ud i Sa'd i Salman, prides himself, in a verse quoted in the Haft Iklim, on being his
pupil.

Abul-Faraj B. Mas'ud Runi was, according, to 'AuTi (Oude Catalogue, pp. 5 and 308),
))<>rn

and educated

in Lahore.

He

is

also

niontioned

among

the natives of that city in

14,

the Haft Iklim,

fol.

and

his

Nisbah

is

not alphabetically arranged. It consists almost entirely of Kasidahs, which are in praise of the two sovereigns above-mentioned, of the Vazir 'Abd ul-Hamid

The Divan

is

548

POETRY.
office,

A.H. 400-500.

(who held that

as stated in

Hablb

us-Siyar, vol. ii. Juz 4, p. 32, during the latter part of Ibrahim's reign), of the Sadr ill-Islam, Mansiir B. Sa'Id, and other dignitaries of the court of
foil.

A.H. 472, to the hill-fort of Nai. There Mas'ud underwent a long period of captivity in the life-time of Ibrahim, and
prisoner,

61

Ruba'is;

Ghaznin. At the end, 57, are found some Kit'ahs and among the former, a piece on a

again during the reign of his successor, Mas'ud B. Ibrahim. After his final release

palacejaZ belonging to the above-named poet, Mas'ud i Sa'd, and the latter's answer in
praise of Abul-Faraj.

he adopted a religious life, and died, accordx ing to Nizaml 'Aruzl, quoted in Eiyaz ushShu'ara, A.H. 515, or, as stated by TakI KashI, A.H. 525. Daulatshah gives under the name of Mas'ud
B. Sa'd B. Salman (Or. 469, fol. 39, and Redekiinste, p. 42) the life of a poet who
lived at the court of

Egerton 701.
by 4| 16 lines, 2 long written in a small and neat Nestalik, in two gold-ruled columns, with two 'Unvans dated Rainazan, A.H, 1008 (A.D. 1600).
Foil.

Minuchihr B.

Kiibiis

201

81

in.

(A.H. 409424). He has evidently confounded, with his usual inaccuracy, Mas'ud with his father, Sa'd B. Salman. The two
curiously blended into one in a notice prefixed to the present copy of the
lives are

[ADAM CLARKE.]

Divan, foil. Notices on Mas'ud

16.

Sa'd will be found in

The Divan

of Mas'ud B. Sa'd B. Salman.

the Haft Iklim, fol. 416, Riyiiz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 407, Badaonl's Muntakhab, vol. i. p. 36,

Atashkadah,
'Aufi says that Mas'ud was born in Hamadan, while in the Tazkirah of Daulatshah and the Atashkadah he is called a native of Jurjan.

p.

147, Subhat ul-Murjan, Or.

p. 19,

1761,

fol.

98,

Haft Asman,

and Khu-

Llaat ul-Afkar, fol. 282.

The

story of his

chequered

Both statements are contradicted by

by Dr.

has been told at some length Sprenger, Journal of the Asiatic

life

the poet himself, who says in the following lines, fol. 162, that the envious can only reproach him with being a youth and a ": native of " this
city

Society of Bengal, vol. xxii. pp. 442 and by N. Bland, Journal Asiatique,
Serie, vol.
'Aufi's
ii.

4,

5e

pp.

356369.

left

statement regarding three Divans by Mas'ud, namely in Arabic, Persian, and Hindi, is confirmed by Amir Khusrau in his preface to the Ghurrat ul-Kamal, Add.
21,104,
fol.

175

a.
is

The present Divan, which The poem contains a eulogy on Mahmud Saif ud-Dm, the son of Sultan Ibrahim, and was apparently composed in the royal residence, Ghaznin. After rising to a position of high rank at the Ghaznavi court, Mas'ud

not alpha-

betically arranged, consists chiefly of Kasldahs in praise of three sovereigns of the

Ghaznavi dynasty, viz. Ibrahim, Mas'ud B. Ibrahim, and Bahrain Shah, who reigned,
according to the Kamil,
xi. p.

vol. x. p. 356, vol.

124, from A.H. 512 to 548.

incurred the displeasure of Ibrahim, who suspected him of plotting with his son, prince Saif ud-Dm Mahmud, and sent him a

are addressed to prince Mahmud, Ibrahim, to the poet's master Abul-Faraj

Others son of

Runi, and to some dignitaries of the court

POETRY.
pieces contain the author's laments on his protracted captivity. The latter part of the volume contains a

A.H. 500600.
Beg.
JJA.

549

of Ghaznin.

Several

Masnavi,
17
t
,

fol.

149

ft,

some Margiyahs,
182
b,

fol.

Abul-Majd Majdud

B.

Adam

Sana'i was, as
,

Mukatta'ut,
a.

fol.

and RubaMyat,
is

fol.

193

An
in the

extract from this

Divan
p. 8.

mentioned

Munich Catalogue,

Add. 7793.
Foil.
I.

he states in the present poem, fol. 372, * s *"* &?& ]f ^3*1 a native of Ghaznin, and lived in the reign of Bahrain Shah (A.H. 512548). A great part of the fourth book is devoted to a panegyric on that prince and a description of his court. The Hadlkah

was completed; as stated in the concluding lines, A.H. 525:

[Cl. J. RICH.]

241; 7$
1

in.

by

4J.
lines,

2| in. long; written in Nestalik; dated IJamaz.m, A.II. 1005 (A.D. 1597). Another copy of the preceding Divan, containing about two thirds of the poems found in the last, but in a different order.
164;

Foil.

14

Some
p. <;;):{,

copies however have A.H. 535.

is

The

former date

adopted by Jam!, Nafahat,

that Sana'i died in the
vol.
ii.,

The

first

Kasldah, which begins thus:

who adds
Haft
fol.

year.
is

See also Habib us-Siyar,

Iklim,
fol.

same Juz 4,
ul-

found at
II.

fol.

67 of the preceding MS.

p.

33,

132,

Majalis

'Ushshak,

2| long; written in Nestalik ; dated Haidar.ibad, Ramazfm, A.H. 1021 (A.D. 1612). Another copy of the Divan of Abu '1-Faraj

Foil.

165244;

12

lines,

in.

63, Majalis ul-Muminin, fol. 300, Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 40, Haft Asman, p. 20, and Riyaz ush-Shu'arii, fol. 201. Jami's

statement is fully confirmed by a preface preserved in Or.358,and noticed further on. Taki
of his usual accuracy, places death in A.H. 545 (see the OudcCatalogue, p. 558), and Daulatshah, a very unsafe The former is followed guide, in A.H. 576. the Atashkadah, fol. 53, and the lalter by by
K.ishi, in spite
Sanii'i's

Runi
t

(see p.

547

a).

The contents are nearly the same as in the copy, but the arrangement is somewhat
different.

Copyist

~Z*

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Add. 16,777.
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Biographical Notices, p. 184.

386; 10

in.

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64.

15

lines,

3|

in.

long; written in fair Nestalik, with goldruled margins ; dated A.II. 1076 (A.D. 1665).

Kluvfmd Amir points out, I.e., the glaring anachronism committed by Jami, who represents Sana'i as composing in his youth poems
in praise of Sultan Mahmud, who died A.H. 421. The author of the Khuliisat ul-Afkar
states, fol. 105, without quoting his authority, that Sana'i was born A.H. 437.

[WM. YULE.]
-vi-xiiT

I5

The " Garden

:

of Truth," a

poem on ethics

and religious life. Author Sana i,

Sana'i, as the author is generally the earliest of the great Sufi poets. called, The greatest of all, Jalfil ud-Dm Rumi,
is

Hakim

refers

to

him

as

his

master in spiritual

550

POETRY.

A.H. 500600.
is

knowledge, and his Hadikah is one of the favourite text books of the sect. It is divided into ten books (Bab), the contents of which are stated in the Jahrbiicher, yol. 65, Anzei5. See also Stewart's Catageblatt, pp. 1
logue, p. 57, the Oude Catalogue, p. 557, the St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 326, the Munich
vol.

due

to

Muhammad

B. *Ali

Rakkam, who
disci-

calls ples.

himself the humblest of Sana'i's

He

states that the present sovereign,

Yamln ud-Daulah Bahramshah

B. Mas'ud,

informed of the holy life of Sami'I, had offered him a post at his court, but that the
latter, who had led for forty years a life of retirement and poverty, had begged leave to As a token of his retain his independence.

Catalogue, p. i. p. 498.

7,

and the Vienna Catalogue,

fol.

384 I, is found an epilogue written in the same metre. It is addressed to the Imam Burhan ud-Din Abul-Hasan 'All B. Nasir, surnamed Bir-

At the end of the poem,

gratitude for the Sultan's acquiescence, Sana'I began to write for him the present work, to

yangar,^.,b.^ t_JiU^ a doctor of GhaznTn, who was then staying in Baghdad. The
author beseeches him, for old friendship's sake, to state fairly his opinion on the preceding poem, and to shield

which he gave the title of ibOjM_j &LJi*r &b,> While he was yet engaged upon its Xo^la^j. composition, some portions were abstracted and divulged by certain ill-disposed persons, and the author determined to complete it
without further delay.

The writer

of the

him from the

malignant aspersions of tenders in Ghaznm.

some ignorant pre-

preface had made, by order of Bahramshah, a fair transcript of the few thousand lines of

which

it

consisted,

when the poet's

soul took

page of the present copy is the seal of Sultan- Muhammad, a serfound

the
first

On

its flight

to a better world.

The preface

vant of Padishah 'Alamgir, with the date 1080.

concludes with a rhymed table of the ten books of the Hadikah,

This preface

is

mentioned by Haj. Khal.,

Add. 25,329.
298; 7| in. by 4|; 15 lines, 2| in. long; written in small Nestalik, with gold headings; dated Safar, A.H. 890 (A.D.
Poll.

vol.

iii.

mad

p. 40, who calls the writer MuhamB. 'All ur-Raffa. See also the Vienna

Catalogue, vol. i. p. 498. The second preface, foil. 12 b

is

15

a,

which

by

Sana'! himself,

and begins:

1485).

[ADAM CLARKE.]
latter part

The same work, wanting the

of the epilogue. On the first page
is

i"''

ig

imperfect in the end.

the Persian seal of Archibald Swinton, dated A.H. 1174.

Sana'I says that, while he was immersed in sadness at the thought that he should

Or. 358.
Poll.

317

6| in. by 3|

17

lines, 2 in.

long

depart from this world without leaving any good work behind, he had been accosted by a loving friend, Ahmad B. Mas'ud Mustauf I, who endeavoured to comfort him, and, probably, suggested to him the composition of the Hadikah. But here the preface breaks off after the sixth page.

written in small Nestalik, in two gold-ruled columns, with two 'Unvans, apparently in the 16th century. [Gso. WM. HAMILTON.]

The same poem.

This copy contains two prefaces in prose. The first, foil, 2 b 12 a, which begins thus
:

the MS. have been a later hand. supplied by The first page bears the seal of Shfih 'Inayat Ullah, with the date A.H. 1178.

The

last four leaves of

POETRY.

A.H. 500600.

551

Add. 16,778.
301; 10 in. by 5J; 17 lines, 2 in. written in Nestalik; dated A.H. 1040 long;
Foil.

The Divan of Ahmad of Jam.

(A.D. 1631).

[WM. YULE.]

BeS-

j3

j*

The same work, with marginal notes and additions. The date of composition in this is A.H. 535, which has been corrected copy
in the

Abu Nasr Ahmad

named Zhandahpil
niaki

B. Abul-Hasan,

sur-

Jj,t&j,

was

called

Na-

margin

to

52 "3.

[Wsi. YULE.]

his birth-place, Namak, a village of the district of Jam, but his usual desigis Shaikh ul-Islam Ahmad i Jam. His countryman Jami devotes to him a long notice in the Nafahat ul-Uns, pp. 405 417, an abstract of which has been given by

from

nation

Add. 26,150.
Foil.

246; 10

in.

by 5$

19

lines,

2|

in.

long; written in Xestalik, with ruled margins and a 'Unvan, apparently in the 17th

[WM. EBSKIXK.] The same poem, with a few marginal notes and additions in the first pages. The date of composition at the end is A.H. 535.
century.

Sprenger in the Oude Catalogue, p. 323. He was born A.H. 441, adopted a religious life in his twenty-second year, brought thousands to repentance, and died in great

renown of sanctity A.H. 536, a date

as stated in the Javahir ul-AsrSr,

fixed,

fol.

148,

Add, 27,311.
Foil.

302; 8}

in.

by 4}; 20

lines,

2|

in.

^>.l. Alby the chronogram j^ <_>-.iS though illiterate, he composed several Sufi tracts, the best known of which is entitled

^W

long

written in fair Nestalik, with gold; ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century.

^yLJI r ^'
in

Other notices

will

be found

[DUNCAN FORBES.]

the Majalis ul-'Ushslulk, fol. 57, Haft Iklim, fol. 282, Habib us-Siyar, II., Juz 3,
fol. 9, p. 71, liiyflz ush-Shu'arfl,

Khulasat ul-

Afkar,

fol. 4,

and Atashkadah,

p. 73.

The Divan of Sanal.

\jr!

The Divan comprises Ghazals

alphabeti-

fol. 43 a, cally arranged, a few Masnavis, and some Ruba'is, foil. 54 a 60 a. The

contains Kasidahs, Gbazals, and Rubii'is, without alphabetical arrangement, or any

It

poet calls himself mostly Jami, and, in a a few places, Ahmad i Jam.

apparent system, except that the Ruba'is are placed at the end, foil. 277302. It includes

The
1.

latter part of the

volume contains
to his

letter written

by Jahangir

son
sus-

some pieces in praise of Bahramshah. The DivAn of Sana'i comprises, according

thousand couplets. The present copy does not exceed eleven
to Daulatshah,

Sultan

Khuram

(Shahjahan), when he

pected him of treasonable plots, answer, the latter in Masnavi rhyme,

and Khuram's
fol.

thirty

60

b.

2.

love-poem, entitled

thousand.

Or. 269.
Foil. 75
;

Beg.
lines,

in.

by 5} 15
;

in.

long

The poem appears

in the

to

have been written

written in Nestalik, apparently in India, in the 18th century. [GEo. WM. HAMILTON.]

of reign of Akbar, at the request The author designates Prince Daniyal.

552

POETRY.
(

A.H. 500000.
Sayyid Majd ud-Din
Ja'far, Ra'is of
fol.

see himself by the name of 01*^ ty .y*s>j> On the first page of the volume fol. 71 a. are the stamps of the kings of Oude.
;

Abu

'1-Kasim 'All B.
as is stated,
call

Khomsan, whom,

55

a,

Sultan Sanjar used to

his

brother.

The same personage

is

called in

Or. 327.
70; 7i in. by 4; 17 lines, 2f in. written in small Nestalik, apparently long ; in the 16th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]
Foil.

some of the above notices Abu Ja'far 'All B. ul-Husain ul-Musavi, Ra'is i Khorasan.
This copy bears the stamps of the kings df

Oude.

Add. 10,588.

j^a
The Divan
of

Oil
Sabir.

Foil.

Adib

long ; 17th century.

227 8 in. by 5J 19 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik, apparently in the

; ;

Adib

Sribir,

a native of Tirmiz, was one of

the favourite poets of Sanjar, and his great contemporary, Anvari, ranked him, in a verse

The Divan of
Beg.

Mu'izzl.

quoted in Jami's Baharistan, above himself. Historians state that Adib Sabir was sent by
Sanjar with a friendly message to Atsiz, and retained by the latter in Khwarazm. Having
frustrated by a timely warning an attempt of that crafty vassal on the life of his sovereign, he thus incurred his anger, and was drowned by his order in the waters of the Jihun.

Amir Mu'izzi's original name was Muhammad B. 'Abd ul- Malik, His birth-place is not
ascertained.

Daulatshah names
fol.

Nasfi,

the

This event is placed in the Guzldah, fol. 137, and the Rauzat us-Safa, vol. iv. p. 107, before A.H. 542, and by Taki Kashi, Oude Later dates Catalogue, p. 16, in A.H. 540.
are given in some Tazkirahs, viz. A.H. 546, in Daulatshuh, fol. 47, and the Atashkadah, fol. 152, and A.H. 547 in the Haft Iklim,
fol. 248. See also Habib us-Siyar, vol. ii., Juz 4, p. 104, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 10, Khulasat ul-Afkar, fol. 6, Hammer, Rede-

309, Nishapur, Taki Kashi (Oude Catalogue, p. 16), and the Atashkadah, Nizanri 'Aruzi, who fol. 157, Samarkand.

Haft Iklim,

knew him

personally, relates, as quoted in the

Iliyfiz ush-Shu'ara, fol. the following particulars of his life 409, After the death of his father, BurhanI Sa:

Haft Iklim, and the

kiinste, p. 121,

and Sprenger, Oude Cata-

markandi, a poet of the court of Alp Arslan, he lived some time in obscurity, until he was introduced to the notice of Malak Shah by the Amir 'Ali B. Faramurz (a vassal of the from A.H. 443 to Saljukis, who ruled Yazd 488; and to whom Alp Arslan had given his
sister in

logue, p. 313.

marriage

see Jahanara,

fol.

66).

The Divan
it

includes

consists chiefly of Kasidahs; also a Tarji'-band, fol. 55 ,

Mukatta'at, fol. 59 6, and Ruba'iyat, fol, 68 b. Some of the laudatory poems are addressed
to the Sultans Sanjar

The king, charmed with some impromptu verses of the poet, bestowed upon him a the surname of Mu'izzT, princely reward and
derived from his
Mu'izzi rose
still

own

title,

Mu'izz ud-Din.

34

15

a);

and Atsiz (see foil. 23 a, but most of them are devoted

higher under Sanjar,

the
title

who
of

conferred

upon him

and

office

to the praises of the poet's earliest patron,

Malik

ush-Shu'ara.

He was

accidentally

POETRY.
killed

A.H. 500

GOO.
fol. 63,
ii.,

553
Daulatshah,

by a stray arrow from the bow of San1-2. See also Guzidah, fol. 242, Hajar, A H. bib us Siyar, vol. ii., Juz 4, p. 103, Kbulasat
:.

243, Jami's Baharistan,

!

ul-Afkar,

fol.

260,

Hammer,

Redekiinste,

p. 77, and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 501. The Divan of Mu'iz/i contains, according to the Haft Iklim, 15,000 couplets. The pre-

Juz 4, pp. Haft Iklim, fol. 243, Riyaz ush169, 174, Shu'ara, fol. 178, Atashkadah, fol. 138, and Khulasat ul-Afkar, fol. 100. See also Hamfol. 45,

Habib

us-Siyar, vol.

sent copy does not exceed 8000. It consists chieBy of Kasidahs, not alphabetically arranged, a few Ghazals and Kit'ahs, fol. 216 a,

p. 119, and Sprenger, Oude 541. Catalogue, p. This Divan consists of Kasidahs iu alpha-

mer, Redekiinste,

and Rubfi'is, fol. 224 a. The first and last pages have been supplied by a later hand.

At the end are found some and Tarkib-bancls, fol. 136 a, and Tarji'further on, Mukatta'at and Ruba'is, fol. 158 b. Most of the pieces are in praise of Sultan
betical order.

Atsiz, here called

Abu

1-Muzaffar 'Ala udII

Din

Muhammad

a few are addressed to

Arslan, to the Vazir 'Ala ud-Din

Muhammad,

Add, 16,791.
2J in. written in Nestalik, with gold ruled long ; margins and a 'Unvan; dated Rama/an,
lines,

and some other personages of the court of

Foil.

176; 94

in.

by 4$; 19

Kh \\arazin.

Or. 283.
by 5*; 19 lines, 3 in. long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. f GEO. WM. HAMILTON.] The poems of Rashid Vatvat, not alphain.

A.H. 1063 (A.D. 1653).

Foil.

[W.M. YULE.]

130; 10

The Divan of Rashid

Beg.
\ij

Vatv.,t.

^s\

li.y

jj\ y i\iu Rashid mi-Din Muhammad B. 'AM

\j j\ 3

The first Kasidah, which the second of the preceding copy, begins thus
betically arranged.
is
:

ul-Jalil
I'

ul-'Umari

(i.e.

a descendant of the Khali

\JL>.1

*Umar), a native of Balkh, surnamed Vat vat or "swallow," on account of his dwarfish
size,

This volume bears the stamps of the kings

of Oude.

held the post of chief secretary u-.U> J^j\ u <y_j under two sovereigns of the
Kliw.u-a/.m
"'

Add. 16,826.
Foil. 29
;

v,

551),
:,G8).

Sh.ihi dynasty, viz. Atsiz (A. II. and his son Il-Arslan (A.H.

137,

The author of the Guzidah, fol. quotes verses composed by him on the

written in fair Naskhi, with gold and with blue ink, and in neat Nestalik, with a rich

7 J in. by 4|

6 lines, 2| in. long

accession of Atsiz, on his death, and on the accession of Tukush, which took place in

TJnvan and illuminated borders, probably in the 16th century. [Win. YULE.]

hundred maxims of
J\P
&*lfr

A.H. 568. He died in his 97th year, A.H. 678, and left, besides the present Divan, a
treatise
.w^kaJI

on poetry j*^ jpb*-, a work entitled .yfly, and a metrical translation of the
1

with a paraphrase &.yj* in Persian quatrains by Rashid ud-Din Vatvat See the Arabic Catalogue, p. 511.
*A-,

'Ali B.

Abu

Talib

This
jjii'

sentences of 'Ali
VOL.

j^ *^.y. Notices on his life will be found in the Guzidah, fol.

II.

J/

the work above mentioned as v>/ o, and edited by Fleisher in 1837. It

is

forms the fourth part of a collection including

B

554

POETRY.

A.H 500600.
terrific

the sayings of the first four Khalifs, which was dedicated A.H. 659 to Sultan Shah Abul-

convulsion of nature, so that people

fled in

alarm

to

mountains and caves.

When

Kasim Mahmud, son

Shah.

of II Arslan

Khwarazm
i.
i.

See Fliigel, Vienna Catalogue, vol. p. 125, and the Leyden Catalogue, vol.
p. 192.

the dreaded day came, there was not enough wind to winnow corn or blow out a lamp.

The

historian remarks that the prophecy was fulfilled in another sense, for in that year

Four

leaves are wanting after

:

fol.

12.

Copyist

Chinglzkhan became the chief of his people* while the prop of the empire, Atabak Muhammad, was laid low. However, the discomfited
astronomer, finding

Add. 25,019.
Foil.
;

himself

the

butt

of

360; 9

in.

by

5;
;

17

lines,

3 in.

satirists, retired to Nlshapur, and afterwards to Balkh, where he spent the rest of his life.

long written in Nestalik dated Ahmadabad, Gujrat, Shavval, A.H. 1083 (A.D.1672).

Various dates are assigned to Anvari's death. TakI KashI, Oude Catalogue, p. 16, gives

A.H. 587, Mir'at ul-'Alam, fol. 474, A.H. This last 592, and Daulatshah, A.H. 547.
date

The Divan
Beg.

of Anvari.
s

refuted by the fact recorded in the Guzldah, and by the evidence afforded by
is

several passages of the Divan, that the poet

Auhad ud-DTn
writers,

Anvari, the
in
district

first

of Kasldah

was born

Mahanah
called

(Yakut's

Maihanah), in the

Dasht

had survived Sanjar (see fol. 108 a). Notices on Anvari will be found in Jami's Baharistan, fol. 62, Guzldah, fol. 238, Hablb us-Siyar, vol. ii., Juz 4, p. 103, Haft Ikllm,
fol.

Khavaran, near Ablvard, and took from his native province the poetical surname of Khavarl, which he afterwards exchanged for
Anvari.

228, Majalis

ul-Mumimn,

fol.

536, Riyaz

ush-Shu'ara, fol. 16, and Khulasat ul-Afkar, fol. 11. See also Hammer, Redekiinste,
p. 88,

In early

life

he applied himself to
in

and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue,

is

p.

331.

Madrasah Mausuriyyah of Tus, but subsequently embraced the more lucrative profession of courtpoet, and became a great favourite of Sultan Sanjar, to whom most of his Kasldahs are
the pursuit of
science

the

Kasldahs, without systematic arrangement, fol. 1 a. Shorter Kasldahs, fol. 202 b. Mukatta'at, in alphabetical order, fol. 205 a. Mukatta'at,
:

The Divan

divided as follows

addressed.

An incident related in the Tarlkh i Guzldah,

and repeated in the Rauzat us-Safa andHabib us-Siyar, shows that he lived on to the reign
of Sultan

Tughrul B. Arslan.

A conjunction

of the seven planets in the third degree of Libra was expected in the month of Rajab, A.H. 581, a and some astronomers, first and foremost of whom was Anvari, predicted a
conjunction of ,five planets in Libra took place, according to the Kamil, vol. xi. p. 348, on the 29th of Jumada II., A.H. 582.

without alphabetical arrangement, fol. 287 a. Ghazals, not in alphabetical order, fol. 295 a. Mas.navis, fol. 333 a. Ruba'is, fol. 338 a. The names which recur most frequently in the laudatory poems are those of Sultan Sanjar, and the Vazir of the latter part of his reign, Nasir ud-Dln Abul-Fath B. Fakhr ul-

Mulk, who was a grandson of the great Nizam ul-Mulk, and died A.H. 548 (see Kamil, vol. xi. p. 121, and Hablb us-Siyar, vol. ii. Juz 4, of Tughrultigln and 'Imad ud-Dln p. 103) Firuz Shah, who both held sway in Balkh, of the Vazir of Balkh, Ziya ud-Dln Maudud B. Ahmad 'Usmi, the Khwajah i Jahan Majd ud;

POETRY.

A.H. 500600.
It

555

Din Abul Hasan'Imrani, and Kazi Hamid udDin Balkhl, the author of the Mak;"iin.it. The same Divan, alphabetically arranged, has been lithographed in Tabriz, A.n. 1266. Copies are mentioned in Stewart's Catalogue, p. 56, Mackenzie Collection, vol. ii. p. 139,
the
St.

wants sixteen leaves at the beginning, a few in the body of the volume, and some at
the end.

Add. 5617.
Foil.

Petersburg Catalogue,

p.

319, the

280

10

in.

by 6

19

lines,

in.

Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 502, the Munich Catalogue, p. 10, and the Gotha Catalogue,
p. 83.

long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins and two 'Unvans, dated Zulka'dah,

A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1677).

[NATH. BRASSEY HALHED.]

Add. 7732.
Foil.

329; 9$

in.

by 6; 19

lines,

in.

The Divan of Anvari, containing Kasidahs, and Mukatta'at, fol. 195 6, both in Col. 1 b
t

written in Nestalik, about the beginning of the 17th century. [Cl. J. RICH.]

long

alphabetical order, with the exception of the

first

Kasidah, which begins:

The same Divan,

in alphabetical order;

containing Kasidahs, fol. 1 b. fol. 174. Maynavis, fol. 235

Mukat ta'.it
6.

This copy was written, as stated in the

subscription, for Shams ud-Din Vazir of the Subah of Tatah,

Ghazals

Muhammad,
by 'Abd
ul-

(not alphabetically arranged), Ghazals, in alphabetical order,

fol.

240

a.

fol.

273.

Majid Katib Tata'i.

Kubais,

fol.

309

a.

Beg.

J/V- *=*->V
is

J\tF ** u*'>
later hand,

Add. 16,763.
Foil.

This beginning

by a

and

202

9J

in.

by 5|

only imperfectly supplies the deficiency of the original MS., which has lost all the idahs in Alif but the last two.' Foil. 1131, 64 76, and 329 have been written
:

long ; year of Farrukhsiyar, A.H. 1129 (A.D. 1717).

;

written in Nestalik

17 lines, 3| in. dated the 6th

[WM. YULE.]

by the same modern hand, A.II. 1200. The margins contain some additional pieces <f Anvari, and, on foil. 126217, the Tuhfat ul-'Irakain and some other poems by Khukani, written in the same handwriting as the text, and dated Ispahan, Zulka'dah, A.II. 1011
(A.D. 1603).

The Kasidahs

of Anvari, in alphabetical

order, beginning like the preceding MS. curious feature of this collection is that,

while consisting for the most part of authentic poems of Anvari, it includes some Kasidahs which are not found in the preceding copies,

Add. 22,381.
259; 9 in. by 5$; 15 lines, 2| in. written in small Nestalik, apparently long ; in the 17th century. Another copy of the Divan of Anvari, conFoil.

and which, according

the poet's
for
life,

known of cannot bo attributed to him

to

what

is

they bear internal evidence of having been composed in India, and many years after the latest date assigned to Anvari's
death.

Thus we

find a

Kasidah addressed to

taining Kasidahs,
fol.

fol.

1 a,

and M ukaitaVit,

Shams ud-Din
India from

163

a,

without alphabetical arrangement.

Iltatmish, who reigned in A.H. 607 to 633, fol. 60 b ; four

R 2

556

POETRY.

A.II.

500600.

poems

in praise of his son Eukn ud-Dln Firuz Shah, who succeeded to his father, and was deposed after a reign of six months,

who deigned to admit him to his assemblies, he received His Majesty's command to write a commentary upon the difficult verses of
Hence the present work. The author was apparently a native of Shadl-abad, commonly called Mandu, the capital of Malvah, and the above-named sovereign is, no doubt, Nasir ud-Dln Khiljl, who reigned in Malvah from A.H. 906 to
that poet.
916.

A.H.

634,, foil.

40

b,

42

Iltatcontaining the name ud-Dln Muhammad, who at the mish, Ghiya time of his father's death was in possession of Oude, fol. 43 a; lastly, three Kasidahs

62 a, 135 b of another son of

a,

one

addressed to the Vazlr of Iltatmish and his

successor, Nizam ul-Mulk
(see

Muhammad Junaicli
b,

Tabakat

Nasiri, Raverty's translation,

See ririshtah, vol. ii. p. 509. The commentary does not follow the

al-

pp. 613, 639), foil. 44 a, 46 To the first of the above

62
it

b.

phabetical order.

The

first

three Kasidahs

poems a precise
records the

commented upon
follows
:

are those
<o

which begin
i

as

date can be assigned;

for

reception by Shams ud-Dln Iltatmish of a robe of honour sent to him by the Abbaside

jjlk*

OjjJb cJT

^^a*, Tabriz

edition, p. 124,
ib., p.

O~Las
^x-/\
<j^

*i

Khalif Mustansir, an event which is stated by a contemporary historian to have taken place A.H 626 see Tabakat i Nasiri, trans;

26,
ib.,

and
p.

^
J\j

^UV^s-

JW
is

*>-^
last

Jbb,

197.

The

a Kit'ah
222.

beginning Ja*

till*

^,

ib., p.

lation, p. 616.

The

poet,

whose name does not appear,

:

says in the following lines, fol. 45 a, that he had come to India from Khorasan

Add. 25,820.
Foil.

129

in.

by 6

15

lines,

3|

in.

long;

written in

cursive Nestalik;

dated

Sha'ban, A.H. 1232 (A.D. 1817).

i.

Badaum mentions in his Muntakhab, vol. p. 65, two poets who repaired from Iran to
Nasiri

[WM.
additions.

CTJKETON.]

The same commentary, with some marginal

the court of Iltatmish, namely

and

Amir Ruhanl.

Or. 361.

Or. 362,
Foil.

92

by 2| long written in Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]
;

Foil.
;

153

in.

15

lines,

in.

9J

in.

by 5^

15

lines,

3|

in.

in the long; written in Nestalik, probably 17th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]

A commentary on the Kasidahs of Anvari.

Muhammad B. Shadiyabadl, (j^ ^11 (j-\sAuthor
:

commentary
:

on

some

Kasidahs

of

Da'ud 'Alavi
^jb

Anvari.

Author
-"

Abul-Hasan,

the preface that, having once recited a poem of Anvari before the exalted throne of Sultan Nasir ud-Dln,
states in

Beg. \)^.^ The author

*-^>j*

***-> i_r?-V^j

Beg.

Tahir Naslrabadl,

who

in

his

Tazkirah,

composed A.H. 1089, mentions Mir Abul-

POETRY.
Hasan, a Husaini Sayyid of Farahan, as a contemporary poet and the author of a

A.H. 500600.

557

Ghaznin, although the verses he quotes under

commentary upon Anvari, states that after staying some time in Nasirabad, a suburb of Ispahan, Abul-Hasan settled in Shirfiz, where
he entered the service of the governor Imam Kull Khan, but was eventually put to death. See Add. 7087, fol. 208, Sprenger, Oude
Catalogue, p. 332, and Melanges Asiatiques, vol. iv. p. 5 k

The author

states

in

a short preamble

that he had confined himself to the explanation of the difficult verses and of some rare

some good copies, ascribed to 'Imadi Shahriyari. The original Divan of 'Imadi is lost but about two thousand Baits have been preserved. Among the numerous pieces inserted in the Haft Iklim, several of which are found also in the present copy, are two in praise of Sultan Tughrul, the second of which contains, according to Ahmad Razi, an allusion to Kizil Arslan. It was evidently written after Tughrul had thrown off the yoke of the Atabaks, as he did after the see the death of Jahan Pahlavan, A.H. 582
his

name are,

in

In conclusion he claims the readers' indulgence for what he calls the first literary attempt of his youth, and adds that the work had been circulated before he had
words.

Kamil, vol. ix. p. 437. The date assigned by Taki Kiishi, Oude Catalogue, p. 16, to the death of 'Imadi, namely A.H. 573, is
accordingly too early. Other notices on 'Imadi will be found in

intended to

make

it

public.

The commentary follows the alphabetical

arrangement, beginning with the first Kasidah of the Tabriz edition, and ending with
the
1-.

poem beginning

^ jtfm

the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 294, the Khulasat ul-Afkar, fol. 173, and the Atashkadah, See also Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 102.
p. 439.
is

jUii-',

ib.

In the
called

first

of the above works the

:>05.

poet described as the

Hakim

'Imadi Ghaznavi, and panegyrist of 'Imad ud-

Or. 298.
Foil.
;

Daulah Dailami.

also called Sultani

long the 16th century.

56 ; 6| in. by 3 ; It lines, 1$ in. written in small Nestalik, probably in

[GEO.

WM.

It is added that he was and Shahriyari, and that In- was, according to some authors, a son of Mukhtari Ghaznavi (see p. 543 a), a very

HAMILTON.]

doubtful statement, repeated in the Atash-

kadah.

The Divan of
Beg.

'Imadi.
\

little

The present collection, which contains more than 1400 Baits, consists princi-

Kasidahs, arranged without any apparent system, with some Ghazals, Kit'ahs and lluba'is. It affords no evidence of the
pally of
is

The beat account of Imadi

in the
is

to be found
lie

Haft Iklim,
'Imadi

foil.

436439, where

Ghaznin, poet's connexion his residence in Miizandarfin

joining countries. praise of Sultan

with

but

much

of

and the ad-

called

among the name

Shahriyari, and placed the natives of Rai, Shahriyar being

Two Kasidahs are in Tughrul, who was the

of one of the richest Buluks of

that city. Some of the best authorities, we are told, identify him with 'Imadi Ghaznavi,

nominal sovereign of Irak from A.H. 573 to 582, and an independent ruler from the latter date to his death in A.H. 590 (Kamil,
vol. xi. pp. 265, 347,
is

while others hold that there are two distinct

poets of that name.
'imiidi,

vol. xii. p. 70).

One

'Aufi

knows only one

whom

he classes with the poets of

addressed to Jahan Pahlavan (the Atabak Muhammad B. Ilduguz), who reigned

558

POETRY.

A.H.

500600.

A.H. 568582 (ib. vol. xi. pp. 255, 582), and another to Tughan (i. e. Tughan Shah B. Muayyad, who ruled in Nishapur A.H.
568
581 or 582; see Journal Asiatique, 4 e Serie, vol. vii. p. 446). But by far the greater number of the
laudatory poems are in praise of a prince of Mazandaran called Saif ud-Dln "Imad ud-

two passages, foil. 30 a, 34 b, to the change of that surname to Sultani, as consequent upon his entering the service of Sultan
Tughrul.

page bears the stamps of Tiket Rai, the Oude minister, and of the kings of Oude.
first

The

Daulah B. Faramurz, who appears to have been the poet's special patron, and from whose title he took, no doubt, his Takhallus 'Imadi. He is thus designated, fol. 19 a.

Add. 25,808.
Foil.

386

9|

in.

by

19

lines,

2f

in.

long; written in fair Nestalik, with goldruled margins, apparently in the 16th century.

[WM. CUKETON.]

and

fol.

19

b.

The Divan
Beg.
(jiito

of

Khakam.
Jit

In a Ruba'I composed after his benefactor's death, fol. 54 b, the poet wonders at his beholding laid low in the dust him who had raised him from it
:

Jy

^j tl*->\

Afzal ud-Din B. 'Ali Najjar, or son of 'All

the carpenter, a native of Shirvan, adopted in the first instance the poetical surname of
Haka'iki, but received subsequently that of Khakam from his master Abul-'Ala Ganjavl.

by*

"V
In a poem in praise of Faramurz, apparently the father of 'Imad ud-Daulah, the poet
describes himself as a
prince's army,
fol.

was, according to most But he says himself, biographers, Ibrahim. in the following verse, quoted in the Haft

His original

name

Iklim, fol. 529, that he had been called by his father Badil, or "Substitute," because

humble follower

in the

10 a:

he filled the vacant place of Sana'i, the great mystic

:

Of 'Imad ud-Daulah no record has been found. His father was perhaps the same
Faramurz, who is mentioned by Zahir udDin, Geschichte von Tabaristan, p. 223, about A.H. 512, as the nephew of the reigning Ispahbad, 'Ala ud-Daulah 'All. Another prince called 'Abd ur-Rahman, described as a powerful sovereign in no less than three pieces, foil. 17, 36, 37, has not been identified. The poet designates himself throughout by the Takhallus of 'Imadi but he refers in
;

and he adds in another place, Add. 16,772, fol. 264, that one magician (Sana'i) had just been buried in Ghaznin when Shirvan gave birth
to another (Khakani):

Hence it may be inferred about A.H. 525 (see p. 549

His
of
life

that he
6).

was born

two

principally spent at the court successive sovereigns of Shirvan,

was

namely Khakan Kabir Minuchihr, from whose title the poet's surname is derived, and his son

POETRY.
Akhsatan
(in our died after a

A.H. 500600.
poems,
fol.

559
a.

MSS. Akhtashan u llli

204

Short pieces of ascetic

who
after,

long reign in, or shortly A.H. 584, the year in which Nizami

character, epigrams, satires, etc., fol. 246. Copies are described in the Jahrbiichei-,
vol. Ixvi., Anzeigeblatt,

(See also Khanykov, Bulletin de la Classe HistoMost of rique, tome xiv. pp. 353 370).

dedicated to

him

his

Majnun u

Laila.

p.

26, the
St.

Vienna

Catalogue, vol. i. p. 508, the Catalogue, p. 328, etc.

Petersburg

Khakani's laudatory poems are addressed to

Akhsatan.

Add. 16,773.
Foil.

Hamd

Ullah says in the Guzidah that

in Tabriz

Khakaui died

A.H. 582, and that

statement has been repeated by Daulatshfih, fol. 76, by Ahmad Razi, Haft Iklim, fol. 529,

long

2| in. written in neat Nestalik, with 'Unvan 379; 9$

in.

by 5|; 19

lines,

and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the

16th century. The same Divan.

and

in the Atashkadah, fol. 18. But there is in his Divan evidence that he lived ample

[Wn. YULE.]

on to a later period. He survived his patron Akhsatan (see Khanykov, I.e. p. 35G); he

Add. 7726.
310 9$ in. by 6 ; 15 lines, 1| in. long, with about 30 half-lines written round the margins in continuation of each page,
Foil.
;

composed several poems in praise of the Atabak Nusrat ud-Din Kizil Arslun, who reigned from A.H. 582 to 587 finally, as has been noticed by Khwfmd Amir, Habib us-Siyar, vol. ii. Juz 4, p. 176, he addressed
;

in neat Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Kasidah to Sultan Tukush KhwSrazm Shah after the taking of Isfahan, A.H. 590. The date assigned to his death inMir'at ulKhayfil, fol. 23, Khulasat ul-Afkar,fol.78, and Nata'ij ul- Af kar (in the margin of Hahih usSiyar,

The same Divan.

Add. 7727.
Foil.
;

329; 10

in.

by 5|; 21

lines,

in.

A.H. 595, is probably correct. Other notices on Klifik.mi will be found in

I.e.), viz.

long written in cursive Nestalik, with goldruled margins, apparently in the 17th century.
[Cl. J. RICH.]

Jflmi's Bahiiristiin, fol. 65,

p. 707, Majalis

Nafahat ul-Uns,
fol.

ul-Muminin,
23,

534, Mir'iit

The same Divan,

end.

slightly imperfect at tho

ul-Khayal,
fol.

fol.

and Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

153.

See also

Hammer,

Redekiinste,

p. 125, Ouseley's Notices, p. 157, Sprenger, Hide Catalogue, p. 461, and Khanykov,
<

The
.of

first

Kasidah of this copy is the second

Memoire sur Khacani, Journal Asiatique, <>1. iv. (F p. 137, vol. v. p. 296, and
:*

the preceding

MSS.

Add. 25,809.
402; 10 in. by 5 ; 19 lines, 3f in. long; written in cursive Nestalik; apparently in the 17th century. [WM. CURETON.]
Foil.

M. langes Asiatiques, vol. iii. p. 114. The Divan is arranged according to subThe following are the principal jects. Poems on religious or moral divisions :
topics.

Laudatory

poems

and men fol. 182 b. Marasi, or funeral Tarp-bands,

princes, vazirs,
In Armenian, "AkhaarUn." See Dora, Catpia, p. 3Oi.

addressed to of rank, fol. 55 b.

The same Divan,

end, with

many marginal

slightly imperfect at the notes, especially in

the

first

half of the volume.

On

the fly-leaf at the end, and in a later

500
hand,
is

POETRY.

A.H. 500

GOO.

written a ghazal popularly, ascribed

:

to Khakani, beginning

The preface concludes with a dedication to the Vazir Jamal ud-Din. This was the title
of

Muhammad

It has been

printed at the end of Dr.

at the head of the

B. 'AH ul-Ispahani, who was government of Mausil

Forbes' Persian

Grammar.

Add. 16,772.
Foil.
;

from A.H. 541 to 558, when he was deposed by the Atabak Kutb ud-Din Maudfid. See the Kamil, vol. xi. pp. 74 and 202, and Ibh
Khallikan's translation, vol.
iii.

p. 295.
fol.

283; 12f

in.

by 6J; 25

lines,

3f

in.

long written in Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century. [Wn. YULE.] Another copy of the Divim of Khakani,
in

V. Tuhfat ul-'Irakain,
Beg.
e*~ tiilil^jj+vt " Present to the

Xfta2,

299

b.

which the Kasidahs are alphabetically

Beg.

The

two Iraks "

is

arranged.
\jt

Mas.navi poem, in which the poet describes

his journey from Shirvan to Mecca and his return. Its precise date is not stated ; but in his ode to Ispahan ( Journal Asiatique, 6 Sorie,
e

Add. 25,018.
358 8 in. by 4| ; 14 lines, 2| in. long, with about 24 half-lines in the margins written in neat Nestalik, with 'Unvans and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 16th
Foil.
;
;

329) Khakani says that he was in where he stayed some time on his Mausil,
vol. v. p.

return journey, in A.H. 551. An abstract of the contents has been given e by Khanykov, Journal Asiatique, 6 Serie,
vol. iv. pp. bucher, vol.

173

179.

See also the Jahrpp.

i.

century.

and

64, Anzeigeblatt, the Vienna Catalogue, vol.

16
506.

18,

p.

selection from the Tuhfat ul-'Irakain has

The complete works of Khakani, namely The his Divan and the Tuhfat ul-'Irakain. MS. is divided into the following sections, each of which has a separate 'Unvan I. Kasi:

been printed in Lahore, 1867.

Add. 7728.
Foil. 124;

dahs in alphabetical order, with the exception

of the
first,

8 in.

by 4J; 13

lines,

in.

which begins

II.

Mukatta'at in alphabetical order, fo1 .

written in small Nestalik, with gold; ruled margins, apparently in the 16th cen[Cl. J. RICH.] tury. The Tuhfat ul-'Irakain. See the preceding

long

206

b.

MS.,

art. v.

Beg-

Add. 25,810.
Ghazals in alphabetical order, with some Rubius at the end, fol. 239 b.
III.

Beg.

VJ^b.
J

<-^

84>

^^

lai- \3

(js |.U-

IV. Preface *>L?i of the. Tuhfat ul-'Irakain,

fol.

296

15 lines, 3 in. long dated Haidarabad, Decof 'Alamglr, can, Muharram, the 20th year A.H. 1088 (A.D. 1677). [WM. CURETON.] The same work, with marginal annotations
Foil.

118

10

in.

by 6
;

written in Nestalik

Beg.

in the

hand

of the copyist.

POETRY.

A.H. 500600.
long; written in cursive

561
Nestalik;

Add. 23,553.
OJ in. by 5$; 17 lines, 2 in. long, in a page ; written in Nestalik dated Rajpur, district of Kalpi, Rajab, A.H. 1096
Foil. 103;
;

dated

Shavval, A.H. 1080 (A.D. 1670).

["War.

CURETON.]

(A.D. 1685).

[ROB. TATLOB.]
corrections, various in the same handglosses,

The same work, with

readings, and writing as the text.
Foil.

A full commentary on
:

forty-four Kasidahs

from the Divan of Khakani.

28

a contain extracts from Hafiz

and other

Author Muhammad B. Dii'ud B. Muhammad B. Mahinud Shfidiyabadi, >,b

poets.

Add. 16,776.
2g in. long; written in a cursive hand, apparently in the 17th century. [WM. YULE.] The same poem, imperfect at the beginning and wanting a few lines at the end.
Foil.
;

Beg.
'

jli

The author, who has been already men-

93

72

in.

by 4; 17

lines,

tioned, p. 556 a, says that he had acquired considerable skill in unfolding the abstruse

It begins with

meaning of ancient poets, and had been urged by some intimate friends to write the present commentary. The Kasldahs selected
do not follow the alphabetical order, nor the usual arrangement of other
for explanation

,J\*

3 ii>L*

^.^ ^\

(Add. 25,810,

fol.

a).

Add. 16,775.
Foil.

The first copies. as follows : begin

lines,

three

are

those which

116; 7i

in.

by 4$; 15

2$

in.

-~o
*
^fc

long ; written in Nostalik, apparently in the 17th century. [WM. YCLE.] The same poem, with the prose preface noticed p. 560 a. This copy belonged to Muhammad Shahid,
son of Rah mat

*-*>

jJ-oJ

y-o

^'j-^-

See Add. 25,808,

foil. 1,

21, 29.

Khan

Da'udzai,

whose

Or. 363.
19 lines, 2 J in. long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled
Foil.

seal

and signature are found on the

last page.

357

9J

in.

by 4|

Add. 16,774.
Foil.
;

margins, apparently in the 17th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]

lines,
2fc

114;

7 in.

by 4; 15

in.

long 17th century. [WM. YOLE.] The same work, with marginal notes. The prose preface, written by a later hand, occupies foil. 1 6 6 b.

written in Nestalik, apparently in the

Another copy of the same commentary, not including about twenty minor poems found in the preceding. On the first page are some seals of the of which is reign of Shahjahan, the earliest
dated A.H. 1045.

Add. 25,811.
Foil.

Add. 27,315.
lines,

235

8$
ii.

in.

by 5$

17

3|

in.

Foil.

210

8|

in.

by 5

19

lines,

in.

YOL.

562
long
;

POETEY.
written in cursive Nestalik
;

A.H. 500600.
however, according to the Haft Iklim, fol. 543, to attach himself to Sultan Tughrul. In the latter part of his life he was employed in the revenue collection in Isfahan, where he made fierce enemies by his satires. He was finally assailed in a bath by an infuriated

dated

Zulka'dah, A.H. 1107 (A.D. 1696).

[DUNCAN FORBES.] commentary on some Kasidahs of Kha:

kanii.

Author
Beg.

'Alavl Lahiji,
8<

j_^--j*

t^\r'
calls

himself in the preface an old servant of Jahfmglr, says that at the time of the Emperor's accession he was

The

author,

who

After a long sojourn staying in Mecca. there he returned to India hy way of Irak

mob, and put to death. 'Aufi, quoted "in Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 403, states that Kizil Arslan, displeased by Mujir's remissness in his attendance, called two rival poets, Asjr Akhsikati and Jamal ud-Din Ashharl, to his court, and bestowed his favour upon them.
Mujir's death
is

placed by Taki KashI,

and Khorasan, and presented to His Majesty the above commentary, together with some
Kasidahs in his praise. This preface is the only part of the work

which

is

'Alavi's original composition.

For

the commentary is simply transcribed, with some trifling alterations, and without any acknowledgment, from the preceding work. It contains, however, towards the end, some minor poems and a few verses from the Tuhfat ul 'Irakain, which are not to be found in Add; 25,811, and which differ from the
additional pieces of Or. 363. Kasidah in praise of Jahangir, with which, according to the preface, the work

A.H. 594, and by the author of the Riyaz, 1. c., in A.H. 568. As his Divan contains, fol. 27, an elegy on the death of Kizil Arslan, which took place A.H. 587, the latter date is evidently wrong". Other notices on Mujir will be found in Daulatshah, fol. 99, Atashkadah, fol. 14, and

Oude Catalogue,

p. 16, in

Khulasat ul-Afkar, fol. 267. See also Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 129, and Sprenger, Oude Amir Khusrau, who Catalogue, p. 503. mentions Mujir in the preface of his Ghurrat ul-Kamal, places him above Khakani, who is
generally called his master.

was

to conclude, is not

found in the present

copy.

The present copy, which is imperfect at the beginning, contains Kasidahs, which are not in alphabetical order, with a few Kit'abs and two Ruba'is at the end. The first complete Kasidah, probably the second of the

Add. 8993.
44; 6f in. by 3; 14 lines, 2 in. minute Nestalik, long, in a page written in with gold-ruled margins; dated Sha'ban, A.H. 1016 (A.D. 1607).
Foil.
;

Divan, begins thus

Copyist:

Add. 19,498.
Foil.

115

7i

in.

by

14

lines,

3^

in.

The Divan of Mujir ud-Din Bailakani. Mujir ud-Din, born in Bailakan, a town of the province of Arran, was a dependent of the Atabaks of Azerbaijan, namely Ilduguz, and his son Kizil Arslan, who is the principal
object of his panegyrics.

long

on goldwith gold-ruled margins, sprinkled paper, probably in the 16th century.

;

written in neat Nestalik,

He

left

the latter,

The Divan

of Zahir ud-Din Faryabi.

POETHY. A.H. 500600.

Beg.
Zahir ud-Dln Abul-Fazl Tiihir B.

563
differently arranged.

The same Divan,

Beg.

MuhamThis copy comprises the following classes in which the alphabetical order is not observed 1. Kasidahs, fol. 1 b. 2. Mu:

in the province of Balkh, applied himself to the sciences, especially to astronomy, as well as to poetry. He
at Faryab,

mad, born

composed in early

life

poems

in praise of

Tughan Shah, who ruled in Nishapur from A.H. 569 to 581, and of Hiisam ud-Daulah
Ardashir,

kattaYit, fol.
4.

Rubals,

fol.

90 b.' 131

3.
a.

Ghazals,

fol.

127 b

who

reigned in Mazandaran from

(see

A.H. 567 to 602

Ibn Isfandiyar, Add. 7633, fol. 69). From the latter country he proceeded to the court of the Atabaks of AgarbAijan, and lived in great honour under

Or. 268.
Foil.

188

10

in.

by 6

12

lines,

3 in.

Muhammad
and under

B.

Ilduguz (A.H.

668582),

leng ; written in fine Nestalik, with 'Unviin and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the
15tli

and successor, Kizil Arslan (A.H. 582687), whom he left to attach himself to the former's son, Nusrat ud-Din Aba I'.rikr. He ended his life in retirement, and died, according to the Guzidah, fol. 211, in Tabriz, A.H. 598.
his brother

century.

[Geo.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

The Divun

of

Air

Akhslkatl.

He
Juz4,
144.

is

noticed in Jami's Baharistan,

fol.

fol.

66,
ii.,

Dnulatshuh,
p.

95,

Hahib

us-Siyar, vol.

127, Haft Iklim, fol/245, Rix.i/

ush-Shu'ar.l, fol.

280, and Atashkadah, fol. See also Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 130,

Asir ud-Dln, a native of Akhsikat, a town of Farghanah, is placed by most Persian critics in the same rank of excellence as his
great contemporaries, Anvari and Khakanl. The fame of the latter attracted him to Irak,

Ouseley's

Notices,

p.

151,

and Sprenger,

Oude

Catalogue, pp. 16 and 579. Contents: 1. Kasidahs in alphabetical 2. Two Tarji'bands, fol. 86 b. order, fol. 1 b.
3.

Ghazals, not alphabetically arranged,

a.
4. Mukatta'.it, fol.
a.

fol.

90
fol.

93

b.

6. Ruba'is,

110

Copies of the Divan are mentioned by Krafll, p. 62, in the Upsala Catalogue, p. 102,

and he soon became a favourite court-poet of Sultan Arslan B. Tughrul, who reigned from A.H. 555 to 571. After a time he retired to K ha Ik hiil, a mountainous canton of Azarbaibeen called by the local jiin, whither he had ruler, and where he spent the remainder of
See Daulatshah, fol. 101, and Haft Iklim, fol. 602. TakI Kashi places his death in A.H. 608. He is noticed
his life in seclusion.

and

in Bibliotheca Sprenger.,

No. 1523.

The first page bears the Persian seals of Mr. Henry Vansittart, and of Mr. Charles Boddam.

Add. 7733.
Foil. 140;

239, the Riyaz ushShu'ara, fol. 8, and the Atashkadah, fol. 147. See also Hammer, Redekiinste, and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, pp. 16 and 345.
in

the Guzldah,

fol.

6i

in.

by 3J

14

lines,

2g

in.

The Divan contains Kasidahs, arranged

according to the persons to whom they are addressed, Ghazals, fol. 84 a, Mukatta'at, and some additional Kasidahs, fol. 140 b. In the 2

long
ruli'il

written in cursive Nestalik, with goldminjins; dated Shavval, A.U. 1035

1'

(A.D.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

564
first class are

POETRY.

NIZAMI.
Most
conflicting
fol.

found poems in praise of Arslan B. Tughrul, (see foil. 9 a, 11 a, 11 b, 71 6, 73 a, etc.), of Kizil Arslan, son of Atabak Ilduguz (see fol. 63 a), and of 'Ala ud-Daulah
of Kuhistiin,

made regarding
Daulatshfih,

statements have been the date of Nizami's death. 101, gives A.H. 576, the

Fakhr ud-Dm Shah, who is styled king and appears to have been the
foil.

poet's special patron (see

16

b,

18

a,

19

6,

a, etc.). probably the ruler of Khalkhal mentioned in the above notices.

22

The

last is

Atashkadah, A.H. 586, the Jahanara, fol. Ill, A.H. 597, Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 176, A.H. 596, the Subh i Sadik (marginal note to Habib us-Siyar, vol. ii., Juz 4, p. 112), A.H. 602, and TakI Kashi, Oude Catalogue, p. 17, A.H. 606.
ingenious attempt to reconstruct Nizami's life from his own writings has been made by Dr. "Wilhelm Bacher, in his Memoir on the poet, published in German, Leipzig,
1871, and in an English translation, London, 1873. Although his results, owing to the insufficiency of his materials, are not free

An

Add. 7729.
3| in. long written in small Persian Naskhi, in four columns, with six MJnvans dated Shavval, A.H. 802 (A.D. 1400). [01. J. RICH.]
Foil.
;
;

316

in.

by 5

22

lines,

poems of Nizami. Nizami (Nizam ud-Dln Abu Muhammad

five

The

from errors of detail, it cannot be denied that he has succeeded in establishing the chronology of the poet's life and writings on
a safe basis.

Ilyas" B. Yusuf) is universally acknowledged as the greatest of Magnavi-writers, and his poems have remained to the present day the
classical standards of that
tion.
fol.

Of

several references

made by Nizami

in

various passages to his age the most precise is found in the prologue of Majnun u Laila,
fol.

He

is

kind of composimentioned in the Haft IklTm,

the poets of

90 a, where he says that he counted then seven times seven years

:

398,

among

Kum

and the
x.*-)

fol. 102, names Tafrish, in the of Kum, as the birth-place of the province Nizami himself refers, poet, or of his father. in the Iskandar Namah, to the hilly district of

Atashkadah,

As the whole poem was

course of A.H. 584,
it

written in the

follows that the poet

a

was born

Kum as his place of origin, ^ j^> u ^

1

<

'}

Jj-

We

A.H. 535. have, on the other hand,

in

contem-

But he spent nearly the whole of his life in Ganjah, a town of Arran, the modern Elisabetpol, where he died in great renown for It is said of him that he never sanctity.
courted the favour of kings, but that kings vied with each other for the honour of being named in his poems. His writings show, however, that, although he shunned the

porary record of Nizami's death in a short rhymed epilogue added to the second part of the Iskandar Namah by an unknown person, who evidently stood in a close relation to the

he lavished praises with no sparing hand on those princes from whom he expected some return.
courts,
Nijjaini gives his proper of Laila u Majnun, fol. 90 b.
a

and witnessed his last moments. It is there stated that he did not long survive the completion of that poem, and that, at the time of his death, he had reached the age of See fol. sixty-three years and six months. 313 b, Add. 25,900, fol. 317 b, and Sprenger's edition, p. 182
poet,
:

name

Ilyas in the prologue

_JLJ

POETRY.

XIZAMI.
Amir, Manguchak
GhiizT,

505

was the hereditary

ruler of the principality of Arzanjfm, and a vassal of Kilij Arslan (A.H. 558578), who

had given him a daughter in marriage. He died after a long reign A.H. 622. See the
Nizami was born A.H. 535, and lived 63J years, he must have died A.H. 598 or
If

Kamil, vol.

xii.

pp. 279, 312, Jahfmara,

fol.

699.

Besides the works above referred to Nizami

is

Ill, and Haft Iklim, fol. 399. The poet refers in the same passage, fol. 6 6, to two books bearing the name of
-Bahrain Shah,

noticed in the Guzidah,

vol.

fol.

243, Bahii-

ristun, fol. 66, Nafahfit

us-Siyar,

ii.,

Juz

ul-Uns, p. 708, Habib 4, p. 112, the Kiya/

ush-Shu'arfi,

fol.

419, and Haft

Asmfm, pp.
Rfdekiinste,

j*
and another (the Hadlkah 549 a), dedicated to a soveof the same name, who reigned in reign
namely, his own, of Sana'i ; see p.

25

-44.

See

also

Hammer,

p. 105, Ouseley's Notices, p. 43, and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 519.

The Khamsah of Nizami, which is often called Panj Ganj, " The Five Treasures," has
been lithographed in Bombay, 1831 and 1838, and in Teheran, A.H. i261. Copies are described in Fleischer's Dresden Catalogue, p. 1, the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 50:J, the St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. :!:.',

Ghaznin. The allusion has not been understood by Dr. Bacher, who translates, 1. c., 20 " Two letters came to me from
p.
:

two

renowned
fol.

places," etc.

One of the

the Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 34, and the

31, couplets stating that the poem was completed on the 24th of Rabi' I., A.H. 559
:

following copies, Or. 1216, contains in the conclusion two

Munich Catalogue,
It

p. 10.
:

contains the following poems

Fol. 16.

I.

"The
poem,
in

Storehouse of Mysteries," a Sufi which moral and religious maxims

arc illustrated by anecdotes.

Tho same lines are given in a full notice on Makhzan ul-AsrSr by Aglia Ahmad 'All, in the Haft Asmfm, pp. 53 63, and the date has
the

Beg.

been also recorded by Haj. Khal., vol. v. p. 365. Another copy, Add.19,500, has in the last line

A.H. 582

^ ^\ ^

,>'il> j

j-ib.
or -

The correct
>':&*,

poem

is

divided into twenty sections

reading

is

probably jj

.iUi*

for the

(Makalat), the subjects of which have been stated by Hammer, 1. c., p. 106. It was, as stated by Nizami in the Iskandar Namah,
contains,

poem is undoubtedly anterior to the Khusrau u Shirin, dated A.H. 576. It must be noticed,
however, that these verses, which are wanting in the best copies, are of very doubtful
authenticity.

composition. The prologue a dedication to Fakhr ud-Din Bahrain Shah, son of D.Vud, who is described as king of Armenia and Ruin.
the author's
first
fol. 5,

The
;

earlier date
for it

is,

besides,

highly improbable posed that Bahrain Shah, who died A.H. 622,

can hardly be supbefore.

This Bahrain Shah, a grandson of a Saljuki

had begun to reign sixty-three years

566

POETRY.

A
is

composition be found in Nizami's allusion to his age in the prologue, fol. 8 a u ^\* Jt?* If the poet was then ahout forty years ^y-. old, the poem cannot have been written much
to
:

safer indication of the time of

uV

fol.

before A.H. 575.

The Makhzan ul-Asrar has been edited by Nathaniel Bland, London, 1844, and lithoCawnpore, 1869. An English translation by J. Haddon Hindley is preserved in manuscript, Add. 6961.

found in Add. 25,900, fol. 109 6, and other b, old copies, as well as in the Teheran edition. In an epilogue, which must have been sub- v
is

The same reading

97

Add. 27,260,

graphed

in

83, Nizami, after sequently added, foil. 81 to the death of Atabak Muhammad, referring

relates

how he was summoned

to the pre-

sence of his successor, Kizil Arslan (A.H. 582 587), and describes the gracious reception he

II. Fol.

29

b.

met there, and the favours conferred upon him by the new sovereign. He concludes
with a eulogy on the heir-apparent, Nusrat ud-Din Abu Bakr B. Muhammad. The Khusrau u Shirln has been lithographed in Lahore, A.H. 1288. See for the ein contents Hammer's "
Schirin,

Khusrau and Shirm.

Beg.

persisches

In the present copy the prologue occupies only three pages, and has no dedication. But in Add. 25,900, 16,780, in the Teheran edition, and other copies, it contains extensive eulogies on the reigning Sultan Tughrul, Add. 25,900, fol. 33 b, on Shams ud-Din Abu Ja'far Muhammad, in whom, the poet says, fol. 34 b, the departed soul of his mighty father, Atabak

romantisches Gedicht nach morgenlandischen

Quellen," Leipzig, 1809. III. Fol. 836.

Laila and Majnun.

Beg.

j\\ j*

^
received, as

IlduguZjj-Ol <^JjlJ\, had come to life again, and thirdly, fol. 35 o, on Kizil Shah, JjS

The author had

he

states in

meant for Kizil iy>f>-^ evidently Arslan, the brother, and afterwards successor, of Atabak Muhammad, whose full name could not be made to fit into the metre. The
uX-*l (^o

the prologue, a letter from the Shirvanshah, requesting him to take for his next theme,
after the

completion of his Khusrau and the loves of Laila and Majnun. He Shirln, hastened to comply with the king's desire,

work is dedicated to the second of the abovementioned personages, to whom the poet
offers apologies

for not attending his

court

in person.

The poem must,

written between

therefore,

have

been

and wrote, as he states in the introduction, fol. 88 a, the present poem, consisting of upwards of four thousand couplets, in the space of four months. He adds that it was completed at the end of Rajab, A.H. 584
:

the accession of Sultan B. Arslan, in A.H. 573, and the Tughrul death of the Atabak Muhammad, surnamed

Jahan Pahlavan, who ruled in the Sultan's name, and died A.H. 582. The following lines in the conclusion of the poem, fol. 81 a, contain its precise date, A.H. 576
:

Further on is found a panegyric on the above king and his presumptive heir Minuchihr.

POETRY.
The
king's
i

NIZAMI.

567

name
(in

is

given in full as follows

Jalfil

Daulat u Din Abul-Muzaffar Akhta-

The name is written as above in some of the earliest copies, as Add. 25,900, fol. 154 a,
and Add. 27,200, fol. 174 6, <o/, in Add. 23,517, fol. 163 and u in Or. 1363, fol. 165 b. In other copies the more familiar names ^^U^ t-Jl (as in the
ft,

Add. 16,780, fol. 109, wLJt.i) son of Minuchihr. This king of Shirvan, whose real name appears to have been Akhsatan, has been already mentioned, p. 559 a, as the special patron of Klmkfml. The Laila u Majnun has been lithographed

shan ylia-l

^^ ^^

present MS.), and

stituted

w !^-^

JjS,

have been sub-

Lucknow, A.H. 1286, and an English translation has been published by James Atkinson under the title " Laili and Majnun, a poem from the original of Nazami," London,
in

Towards the end of the for it. devoted to his praise his two sons chapter are also mentioned. The first is called Nusrat ud-Din Muhammad, the second Ahmad.
record has been found of that king, 'who is described by NizamI as giving prosperity to the fifth climate ^VibT y j\ J9Z> levying tribute on Greeks and Eussians,

No

1830.

IV. Fol. 130

b.

^g
the

" The seven images," a poem comprising seven tales told by the seven favourites of the king Bah nun Gur.
Beg-

ty-

Caving u-jj 3 pjj Mb (J^jr> Huh of Dailam for one of his servants,

and

^^3 j3\^>- ^

Jjj.

His successful en-

y j &r1

V
I>J.

**>
., )

oV

a'

>

,1

^|t

,.}

,_f3j> A.fc

in the following verse, Or. 13G3, and Or. 1578, fol. 6 a

:

counters with the Georgians are alluded to fol. 100 b,

It

is

stated in the concluding lines, fol.

fol. fol.

192
fol.

211 a, Add. 25,900, 221 a, that the poem was completed on the 14th of Ramaz.m,
\

b, Add. 16,780, 205 a, Or. 1363,

A.H. 593.

The main branch of the line of Aksunkur, to which he belonged, was represented at that period by the Atabak of Mausil, Nur udI>in Arslan, who succeeded to his father, 'Izz ud-Din Mas'ud, A.H. 589, and died A.H. 607. See the Kamil, vol. xii. p. 191, and Ibn

It
fol.
i

was composed, as stated in the prologue, 139 a, at the desire of a sovereign called ud-Din Karb [?] Arslfm, the pride of the

Kliallikan's translation, vol. i. p. 174. It has been stated by Sir G. Ouseley, Flugel,

and

others, that the Haft

dedicated to Kizil Arslan.

Paikar was But a compari-

lineage of

Aksunkur

son of dates suffices to disprove it; for the poem was written A.H. 593, while the Atabak died A.H. 587. Dr. Bacher's assertion that
rat
it

was written
is

for the

Atabak Nus-

ud-Din

not confirmed by any of our

copies.
'

J
,

>

J_^ u

The Haft Paikar has been lithographed in Bombay, 1849, and in Lucknow, A.H. 1290. One of the seven tales has been published

568

POETRY.

NIZAMI.
of the

with a German translation by F. von Erd" mann, Behramgur und die Russische Fuerstentochter," Kasan,

1844

poem. The second part has also been called Khirad Namah, from the word i. with which it begins.

V. Fol. 193

b.

The prologue of the

first

part contains a

glowing eulogy Dn a king designated by his title, Nusrat ud-Dln,

The Book
Beg.

of Alexander.

U
who had
desired the

poem

to be dedicated to

The poem consists of two distinct parts. The first treats of the career of Alexander as a conqueror. The second describes him in the character of sage and prophet it relates
;

him:

also his journeys to the end of the world and his adventures at sea. That those two

The

prince's proper

name

(,

} >\) is only
:

alluded to as one consisting of six letters

parts form only one and the same shown by a line at the end of the

poem
first,

is

in

which Nizanri says that he has now completed

ne

half of the book,

JL^by
is

*13

fe^>^

,>

The Iskandar Namah

nated by the
IkbFd
titles of
i

Namah

frequently desigSharaf Namah and The first is taken Iskandari.

"

Nusrat ud-Dm Abu Bakr, son of Jahan Pahlavan Muhammad, succeeded to his uncle the Atabak Kizil Arslan, in Tabriz, A.H. 587, and died A.H. 607. The date of composition, A.H. 597, is stated
in the following verses quoted in the Haft Asrnan, p. 29, but which the author thinks to be of doubtful authenticity
:

from ^jy-s- **^

zFimi in

tr> a

name

applied by Ni-

poem which he as a complement once contemplated writing to the Shahnamah, and from another pasthe prologue to a
sage in the beginning of the second part
(fol.
4>,y

**^

275

a,

Sprenger's edition,

p. 8)

^Lj^i,
desigas

p^y 8j\J,

in which Sharaf

Namah

The same date is found in some

nates the Iskandar Namah

The second is borrowed from this verse of the same prologue, fol. 203 a, in which the poet refers to the present work under the title of Ikbal i
itself.

late copies,

Iskandari,

Add. 26,147, fol. 226, Add. 26,146, fol. 143, and Add. 25,799, fol. 176. There can be no doubt, however, that the Iskandar Namah, or at all events the present recension, was written subsequently to the Haft Paikar, viz. after A.H. 593 ; for that poem is mentioned in the prologue, fol. 203 a,
as the last of the previous compositions of

and from another passage in the epilogue of the second part, fol. 314 5, in which he
designates it by the name of Ikbal. Much confusion has been created by the arbitrary application of those titles by transcribers to one or the other of the

Nizami:

JLi-l

There

are,

two parte

instance Add. 26,144,

however, some copies, as for fol. 169 b, in which

POETRY.
the enumeration of the former poems concludes with Lailu u Majnun.

NIZAML

569

wanting in most of the early copies, as well

as in the printed texts, and a suspicious circumstance is that it is found on examina-

The second part of the Iskandar Nfimah begins on fol. 273 b, as follows
:

tion to be almost entirely transcribed, with the exception of the proper names, from the

It is called in the

heading

*U

t_j,l.

The

prologue contains in the present copy, fol. 276 b, a panegyric addressed to the ruler of Mausil, Malik Kahir 'Izz ud-Din Abul-

eulogy on Nusrat ud-Din prefixed to the first part of the Iskandar Namah. In other copies the second part is dedicated, like the
first,

to Nusrat ud-Din.

The

prologue contains

also, fol.

273

b,

a mournful

Fath Mas'ud

B.

Nur ud-Din (Arslan)

reference to the death of Shah Arslan, i.e. Kizil Arslan, the uncle and predecessor of

.Nusrat ud-Diu,
,.

who

died A.H. 587, ^>

y*-

and the description of a recent earthquake

S*

cH -V

*'

y^

The same verses are found in Add. 16,780, fol. 211 b, and in Add. 6613, fol. 267 b. Nur ud-Din Arsl.m Shah died on the 28th
of Rajab, A.H. 807. His son al-Malik alKiihir Mxx ud-I)in Mas'ud, whowas then seven-

We learn from (Sprenger's edition, p. 10). the Kfunil, vol. xii. p. 72, that a destructive earthquake took place in Irac and the neighbouring countries in the month of Eabi
I.,

A.H. 590.

At the end
is

314 a, found an epilogue addressed to a king

of the second part,
fol.

teen years of age, was immediately seated on the throne. He died A.H. 015. See Ibn
Khallikfm's translation, vol. i. p. 171, vol. iii. p. 361, and the Kitmil, vol. xii. pp. 191, 217.

called 'Izz ud-Din,

ito

jb

above lines were really written by follows that he was still alive at Nizam!, the close of A.H. 607. The death of his former patron, the Atabak Nasr ud-Din Abu B ikr, which took place in that very year
If the
it

whose proper name Mas'ud is given further on, fol. 315 a, s\> ^-* J'j (ji^-l ,,U ^-.
After describing the splendours of 'Izz udDin's court, the poet says that he sends to the king " two pearls brought up from his

Juz. 4, p. 127), ii., (Habib us-Siyar, would naturally account for his dedicating the poem to the youthful sovereign who had
vol.

ocean," namely his son and his poem, here designated by the names of Mukbil and Ikbal,

and claims for both a favourable reception. 'Izz ud-Din Mas'ud, son of Kutb ud-Uin

just been seated

on the throne of Mausil and the recurrence of the same name, Mzz udDin Mas'ud, in the epilogue which will be presently mentioned, would not require any
;

Maudud, succeeded to his brother Saif udDin Ghazi on the throne of Mausil A.H. 570, and died in Shaban, A.H. 589. See Ibn Khallikan's translation, vol. iii. p. 356, and
Kamil, vol. xii. p. GO. Dr. Bacher looks on the above epilogue as a fragment of an earlier recension of the Iskandar Nainah, and finds its date in an
incidental reference to the age of Nizfimi's T

other explanation. On the other hand, the great weight of pvidcnri- in favour of an earlier date for Nizami's death must throw some doubt on
the authenticity of that dedication.
VOL.
II.

It is

570
son,

POETRY.
who was then
*> is

NIZAMI.
statement of the contents will be found in

C.~
son

^^a ^.jj

&5L*

seventeen years old jifc. As the same

Erdmann's work,

vol.

i.

p. 24,

and a

fuller

described in Lailn

u Majnun, A.H.
90
b,

584,

<^ the present epilogue must have been written three years later, viz., in A.H. 587, the ve'ry year in which Kizil Arslan was
jy-iiM
ji,

as a youth of fourteen,

fol.

JU a^U

abstract in Bacher's Memoir, pp. 101 See also Dr. Ethe, Alexander's Zug

171.

zum

Lebensquell,

Sitzungsberichte

der Bayeri405.

schen Akademie, 1871, pp. 343

found murdered in his bed.

It

was appa-

rently the unsettled state of Azerbaijan after

Add. 25,900.
Foil. 316; 7* in.

the Atabak's death which induced Nizami to look for a new patron in the neighbouring state of Mausil.

long

by 4|; 25 lines, 2| in. written in a minute and elegant Nes-

Passages of later dates, however, have been mixed up with that earlier epilogue. Thus in the following verse, fol. 315 a, and Add. 25,900, fol. 319 a, Nizami says that he

columns, with illuminated borders and headings, dated A.H. 846 (A.D. 1442) bound in painted covers.
;

talik, in four gold-ruled

had reached the age of sixty years f

j*T o~.S.

poems of Nizami, viz. Makhzan fol. 5 b. Khusrau u Shlrln, fol. ul-Asrar, 31 b. Laila u Majnun, fol. 101 b. Haft
five

The

JL

ij\>\

In other copies, as Add. 26,144, fol. 280 a, Add. 17,329, fol. 367 b, and in the Calcutta
edition, p. 182, the epilogue is addressed, as well as the prologue, to Nusrat ud-DTn. In

Iskandar Namah, Part 1, called Sharaf-Namah i Iskandari, fol. 206 b ; Part 2, fol. 279 b.
Paikar,
fol.
b.

151

The

MS.

contains

twenty
style,

whole-page

miniatures in Persian
degree of finish, on

of the 'highest
16, 39, 42, 68,

the Calcutta edition, it is stated in one of the last lines, p. 190, that the poem had been

foil. 1, 2,

completed on the tenth day of Ayar, A.H. 599. The same date is found in Add. 16,782,
fol.

75, 118, 112, 119, 138, 159, 171, 187, 230, 233, 244, 249, 268, 279. .Four pages at the beginning are covered with rich ornamentation.

117

jW^

j-ai'^j

sLJjJi

,}y.

The

first

part of the Iskandar

Namah

has

been edited with a commentary in Calcutta, 1812, and reprinted in 1825. The text alone has been printed in Calcutta, A.H. 1269, and lithographed editions with marginal notes have been published in Lucknow, A.H. 1282, and in Bombay, A.H. 1277 and
Extracts will be found in Franz von Erdmann's work, " De Expeditione Eussorum
versus," Casan, 1826, and in Charmoy's "Expedition d'Alexandre centre les Russes," St. Petersburg, 1829. See also " die bei den OrienSpiegel, Alexandersage talen," Leipzig, 1851, pp. 33 50. The second part has been edited under the title of Sikandarnamah i Bahri, by Dr\ Sprenger,

the fly-leaf is found the last owner's " name, James E. Ballantyne, Nov. 1837."

On

Add. 16,780.
Foil. 326;

10|

in.

by

7;

23

lines,

in.

1292.

long; written in neat Nestalik, in four goldruled columns, with a rich border enclosing

Berdaam

two pages, five smaller 'Unvans and ornamental headings dated Muharram, A.H. 936 (A.D. 1529). [Wn. YULK.J
the
first
;

fol. 1 b.

The same poems, viz. Makhzan ul-Asrar, Khusrau u ShirTn, fol. 27 b. Laila
fol.

u Majnun,
Iskandar
fol.

104

b.

Namah,

Part

Haft Paikav, fol. 155 Part 1, fol. 211 b

;

b.

2,

254

b.

Calcutta,

1852,

and 1869.

short

The second part of the Iskaudar Namah

POETRY.
contains,
fol.

NIZAMI.
|

571
dated

Kaliir 'Izz

noticed p.

214 b, the dedication to Malik ud-Din Mas'ud, which has been 569 a.
c

columns, with five 'Unvans; Jumada II., A.H. 968 (A.D. 1561).

ruled

Copyist Sixteen miniatures in Persian style occupy about half a page each.
:

v -$w1

.kll

o\

The four following poems Makhzan ul-Asr.lr, fol. 4 b.

Shirin,
fol.

[Wsi. ERSKINE.] of Nizami

:

Khusrau u

It appears from a Persian note, dated A.H. 1183, that this MS. came from a library in Kashmir, and was given to the writer in

Dehli.

It

bears

the

seal

of

the

Oude

fol. 104 b. Iskandar Namah, Part 1, endorsed SharafNamah, fol. 160 b ; Part 2, endorsed Khirad Namah, fol. 238 a. In the record of the author's death, folb.

32

Laila u Majnun,

minister, Maharajah Tiket Rai.

280 a, his age is stated to have been sixtytwo years and six months,

Or. 1216.
Foil.

391; 9

in.

by 5J; 18

lines,

Copyist:
in.

long; written in four gold-ruled columns, in small Nestalik, with five 'Unvans and orna-

Add. 17,329.
9| in. by 7; 19 lines, 4 in. written in small Nestalik, with six long; 'Unvans, and gold-ruled margins; dated
Foil. 369;

mented headings; dated Ramazan, A.H. 961

(A.D. l.Vil).

JALKX. JABA.]
viz.

The same poems,

(wanting the
first

Makhzan

ul-Asriir
fol.

three pages),

1 a.

32 b. Lailu u Majnun, Haft Paikar, fol. 186 b. Iskandar Niimah, Part 1, headed *--> wJ^A fol.

Khusrau u
122
b.

Shirin, fol.

fol.

Muharram, A.H. 994 (A.D. 15S5). The five poems of Nizami, viz. Makhzan Khusrau u Shirin, fol. ul-Asriir, fol. 1 b. :\'l b. Laila u Majnun, fol. 107 b. Haft
Paikar,
fol. fol. fol.
;

b
fol.

Part
b.

2,

entitled

^ jjCJ

*Vj

J'jJ*,

339

The

last lines

of the Makhzan,

fol.

31

a,

234 b 324 b.

169 b. Iskandar Niimah, Part 1, Part 2, entitled Khirad Namah,

is

written in a different handwriting, apparently in the 15th century, include the date of

The Iskandar Namah

fol.

dated at the end,

369

a,

A.H. 590

composition, A.H. 559, mentioned p. 605 b. The Haft Paikar is dated A.H. 598 in the following lines, fol. 245 a:
j

Copyist

[\3]

\5

-\J

^ pi

<
Foil.

The volume contains

Per;-! in
-t

fifteen

miniatures in

Add. 27,260.
362 ; 12
in.

vie,

occupying about two-thirds of

by 7

21

lines,

in. long,

a page, on foil. 11, 17, 49, 57, 80, 135, 149, 160, 201, '1-10, 231, 279, 301, 323, and 354.

in a page ; written in a small and neat Nestalik, in four gold-ruled columns, with six

Copyist

t_-3

& ^J
26,144.
by 7; 21
lines,
in.

rich

'Unvans,

and

ornamental

headings,

apparently in the 16th century.

gilt

Bound

in

Add
Foil. 282;

and stamped

leather.
[Sir

4|

in.

long; written in small Nestalik, in four gold-

The same poems, fol. 2 b. Khusrau u

viz.

JOHN MALCOLM.] Makhzan ul-Asriir,

b.

Shirin, fol. 32 T 2

Laila

572

POETRY.
fol.

NIZAMI.
in three

Haft Paikar, fol. 171 b. Iskandar Namah, Part 1, with the heading Sharaf-Namah i Iskandari, fol. 235 b ; Part 2, fol. 292 b. Owing apparently to a transin the MS. from which this copy position
b.

u Majnun,

113

columns

dated Rabi'

II.,

A.H. 1042

(A.D. 1632).

[Wsr. ERSKINE.]

The same poems, viz. Makhzan ul-Asrar, Khusrau u Shirin, fol. 39 b. Laila fol. 2 b. u Majnun, fol. 121 b. Haft Paikar, fol. 194 6.
Iskandar-Namah, Part at the end, fol. 273 b.
1,

was taken, the

Iskandar

latter half of the first part of

is

slightly imperfect

followed, without any break, by the latter half of Part 2, foil. 270 b 292 a, and, vice versa, the former half of Part 2 by the latter half of Part 1, foil.

Namah

Add. 6613.
Foil. 300;

315362.
There are eighteen miniatures, in good Persian style, occupying about twp*thirds of a page each.

lOf

in.

by

6; 25 lines,

3|

in.

long;

written in fine Nestalik, with five

double-page
(A.D. 1665).

'Unvans, gold-ruled margins,

[J.

and gold-headings; dated Rabi' II., A.H. 1076

F. HULL.] The same poems Makhzan ul-Asrar, fol. 1 b. Khusrau u Shirin, fol. 28 b. Laila u
:

Or. 1363.
Toll.
;

347; llf

in.

by 6|; 22

lines,

in.

long written in fair Nestalik, in four goldruled columns, with six 'Unvans and goldheadings, apparently in the 16th century.
[Sir

Majnun, fol. 90 b. Haft Paikar, fol. 138 Iskandar Namah, Part 1, fol. 196 b Part fol. 261 b.
;

b.

2,

CHARLES ALEX. MURRAY.]

:

The MS. contains forty-one miniatures, in fair Persian style, each of which occupies
about two-thirds of a page. It was written for Taja Mlrza Abul-Hasana a copyist who calls himy. \jj>* Wli, by
1

The same poems, as follows Makhzan ulKhusrau u Shlrln, fol. 30 b. Asrar, fol. 3 b. u Majnun, fol. 106 b. Haft Paikar, Laila
162 Part 2,
fol.

b.

Iskandar Namah, Part fol. 310 b.

1, fol.

224

b;

self

The volume contains twenty-nine wholepage miniatures in Persian

style.

Foil. 112;

Add. 25,800. 9f in. by 6; 21 lines,

4|

in.

Add. 23,547.
Foil.

with two TJnvans and gold-ruled margins, probably in the 15th century. [War. CURETON.]
long;
lines,

written in fair Nestalik,

307; 104

in.

by

a;

21

4f in.

This volume, which

is

endorsed

p>

s^^>.

long

written in small Nestalik, with five

Unvans and gold-ruled margins, probably in

the 17th century.

contains only the first two poems of (ji'Jaij the Khamsah, viz. Makhzan ul-Asrar, fol. 2 b,

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

The same poems, viz. Makhzan ul-Asrar, fol. 2 b. Khusrau u Shlrin, fol. 31 b. Laila u Majnun, fol. 107 b. Haft Paikar, fol. 160 b. Iskandar Namah, Part 1 only, fol. 224 6.

and Khusrau u Shirin, fol. 31 At the end is impressed the

c

b.

seal of a court

librarian, ^Jjltf ..yj

sl5^>

jl>,
is

A.H. 934.

The

first

page

with the date covered with

'Arz-Dldahs of the time of Aurans-zib. O

Add. 26,145.
Foil. 375; 9
in.
;

Add. 25,801.
lines,

by

6j

21

in.

Foil.

36

12| in

bv 8

18

lin es,

4|

in.

long, in a page

written in cursive Nestalik,

long; written in four columns, in fine Nes-

POETRY.
talik, with 'Unvan, gilt headings, and goldruled margins; dated Jumada II., A.H. 865 (A.D. 1461). The broad margins are covered

NIZ AMI.

573

Add. 26,149.
9 in. by 5 227 19 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik, apparently in the long ; 17th century. [WM. EESKISE.]
; ;

Foil.

with designs of flowers and animals in gold

and colours. [War. CUBETON.] The Makhzan ul-Asrar by Nizaini (see

p.

565 a).
:

-i^Copyist ^^1,!) tJ This celebrated calligrapher died in Herat A.H. 919. See Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii.,
l

A commentary
Asrar.

upon the Makhzan

B.

ul-

Author:
etc.,

Muhammad B. Kivam
commonly

Rustam
Karklii,

Juz 3, p. 3-H. There are two miniatures in fair Persian style at the end, and two more in unfinished
outline at the beginning.

ul-Balkhi,

called

Beg.

j\

The

Add. 16,781.
Foil. 76
;

author,

who

states that
to

he had preSikandar-

viously written
in.

glosses

the

7|

in.

by 4}; 13 line, 2J
Indian

written
liabi'L,

in

plain

Nestalik;

long dated
;

Nitmah, professes to explain in the present work 1310 difficult dystichs, out of 3263 of

A.H. 1028 (A.D. 1619). [WM. YULE.] The same poem. In the concluding verses A.H. 559 is given as the date of composition (see p. 565 b).

which the entire poern consists. lie appears to have lived in India, and quotes a poetical extract on Nizami's writings from the Badi' O
*

ul-IIik;ly.,t

he

calls

Add. 19,500.
Foil. 168; 8 in. by 5; 7 lines, 2J in. long; written in cursive Indian Nestalik; dated

by Mughis. ud-Dm Hansavi, whom the most eminent man of the age.
is

According to the Oude Catalogue,

the time of composition
versified

521, in a expressed
p.

Muharram, the 29th year of Aurangzib, A.H. 1097 (A.D. 1686). The Makhzan ul-Asrar, with copious marginal notes. In the concluding lines the
to

chronogram by the words _^1 ^j ^Ix-J^A.H. 1091. The present MS. must contain an earlier recension for it bears on
;

the

first

page a note of purchase dated A. II.

1089.

poem

is

said
1

have been completed on the 2 Ath of Rabi A.H. 582 (seep. 5656).

1.,

fol. 216 b, shortly before the end of the thirteenth Makalat.

The

text breaks off

The next following

leaves, foil.

217229,

**

contain miscellaneous extracts.

Add. 6966.
Foil. 82; 7'j! in. by 6J; written by John Haddon Hindley, on paper water-marked

Add. 23,548.
Foil.

1806.
lines,

95; 8|

in.

by 5J

12

in.

long; written in a cursive, Indian character, about the close of the 18th century.

" Instructive Apologues from Nizami."

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

The same poem.

This volume contains twenty short narratives, all from the Makhzan ul-Asrar, with

574

POETRY.

NIZAMI.

an English version written under the text. Another MS. by the same hand, Add. 6963,
contains the English of the first eleven stories, with the same title, to which is added '* by a young student."

Add. 26,147.
Foil.

226 9|
;

in.

by 5

1 5 lines,

in.
;

long

written in a cursive Indian character

rently in the 17th century.

appa-

[WM.

ERSKINE.]

The same

part,

wanting about three leaves

supplied by contain the date of They
^1*0**

Or. 1578.
Foil. 71 13J by 8| 19 lines, 4 in. long written in minute and elegant Nestalik, in four gold-ruled columns, with gold headings, and gilt designs on the margins;
;

at the beginning. 226 Foil. 224

have been

in.

another hand.
composition, JU*
p.

jy j-oib

&j\z>.

(see

dated A.M. 952 (A.D, 1545).

and, at the end, the date of trans7 Rabl' 1., A.H. 1090 (A.D. 1679). cription,

568

6),

[Sm HENRY

0. RAWLINSON.]
Foil.
;

Haft Paikar by Nizami (see p. 567 a). This fine copy is the work of a known Nishacalligrapher, who signs Shah Mahmud
1

Add. 26,146.
143 9| in. by 5; 13 lines, 2 in. long, with 24 oblique lines in the margins written in Indian Nestalik; dated Kuujari, Jumada I., A.H. 1117 (A.D. 1705).
;

puri, (jj)>^> tij-*^

^of Nishapur was a pupil of

Shah

Mahmud

Mulla 'Abdi, who was himself a pupil of the famous penman Sultfm'Ali Mashhadi, and died about A.IL 955.
his maternal uncle

The first part of the same date of composition, A.H. 597,

in the preceding copy.

[WM. EUSKINE.] the Iskandar Namah, with

as

Shah Mahmud, who took in verse the poetical surname of Mukhlis, was still alive in A.H. Shah See Tuhfah i Sami, fol. 76. 957. is also mentioned in the A'in i Mahmud Akbari, Blochmann's translation, p. 102.

Add. 6614.
Foil.

202; 8

in.

by 4^

17

lines,

3|

in.

long;

The MS. having

foil. 1,

lost eleven leaves, viz.

written in Nestalik, probably in the 17th century. [J. F. HULL.]

28, 39, 40, 43, 47, 49,

5154,

which

The same

part.

apparently contained miniatures, they have been replaced by a clever imitation of the learn from a note on original writing.

leaves at beginning and end have been supplied by a later hand.

Some

We

the

first

page, and from the subscription,

Foil.
;

Add. 16,783.
long in the 18th century.

that this was done A.H. 1264 by

Ahmad Khan B.'Abd ul-Husain Khfm, grandson of Muhammad Husain Khan Sadr i A'zam Isfahan!, for
the owner of the MS., the deputy-governor Farhad Mirzii, son of the heir apparent.

13 lines, 3| in. written in a cursive Indian character,

162

in.

by 6^
.

The same
the end.

part,

[WM. YULE.] some leaves at wanting

Harleian 503.
199; 7| in. by 5; 17 lines, 3^ in. in a page; written in plain Nestulik long, about the close of tie 16th century.
Foil. Foil. 226;

Add. 26,148.
9f
in.

by 5f

15

lines,

in.

long; written in a cursive Nestalik, probably in the 18th century. [War. EESKIXE.]

The
(see p.

first

part

of

the Iskandar-Namah

The same

part,

wanting about

five leaves

568

a).

at the beginning.

POETRY.

NIZAMI.
long, in a page
;

575
written in plain Nestalik
;

Add. 25,799.
Poll.

dated Baghdad, Safar, A.H. 1231 (A.D. 1816).

lines,

176

10 J

in.

by

6.J

20

in.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

dated Surat, long; written in plain Nestalik; Zulhijjab, A.H. 1227 (A.D. 1816).
[\VM. CCRBTON.]

The same work, without preface. This copy was written for Mr. Rich by his Munshi Muhammad 'All ul-Hasant ulLarljanl.

The same

part.

This copy was written for Lieut. Rigby by

Munshi Ghulam Muhammad.

Grenville xxxviii.
Foil.
lines,

Add. 16,782.
Foil.

117; 8J

in.

by 5}; 15

in.

long

12 lines, 3| in. written in a fine Nestalik, with illuin.

;

39; 10

by 6

long; written in plain Indian Ncstalik, profWn. YULE.] bably in the 18th century.

The second part of the Iskandar Numah

(see p.

minated borders on every leaf, apparently in the 17th century. Another recension of the same work.

5C9

a).

The table contained in the preface enumerates thirty -five chapters, which, however, are not distinguished in the body of the
work.
Copyist
:

Add. 7731.
Foil.

long;

10 lines, 23 in. 57; 7$ in. by 6 written in fair Nestalik, on gold;

j^f
is

.iU*

Appended

a letter of Lord Clare, dated

sprinkled paper, with 'Unvan, gilt headings, and gold-ruled margins, probably in the 16th leather century; bound in gilt and stumped covers. [Cl. J. RICH.]

April 18th, 1831, from which it appears that the MS. had been sent to him by the Imaum

Muscat.

Add. 27,270.
Select verses from the Kharasah of Nizami,

with a short preface in prose. Beg. _^ij

17 lines, 4 in. written in Indian Nestalik, long, in a page Indian paper, about A.D. 1815. on coarse
Foil.
;

158

Hi
;

in.

by 7

Oi

^\

^j*

^\*?\

j>
J

[JoiiN

MACDOXALD KINNEIB.]

Ub~Pj
verses are arranged under thirty-seven heads according to the religious or moral

The

sentiments they express, and under each head in tlie order of the poems from which
they are taken.

The story of Khusrau and Shirin, after the poem of Nizami (see p. 566 a), told in easy
Persian prose, interspersed with poetical extracts,

by Ghulam Husain Khan Munshi,

s^p.

Copyist

^y

^
B eg.
The author states in a short preface that he had written the present work at the

See Bibliothcca Sprengcr., No. Ii76.

Add. 7730.
Foil. 48; 8 J in.

by 5}; 12

lines,

3|

in.

576

POETRY.

'ATTAR.
Vienna Catalogue,
510, St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 332.
i.

request of some English officers in the reign of Muhammad 'Aziz ud-Dm Padishah Gkazi,

vol.

p.

and the

A.H. 1230, A.D. 1815.

On

the

first

page

is

written
to

"
:

From Gko-

IV. Fol. 184

affliction."

5,

*'j

" The book of

lam Hussein [the author]

Kinueir."

John Macdonald

Beg.

Add. 16,787.
Toll. 413; 9 in. by 5f ; 21 lines, 3| in. long; written in fair Nestalik, in four gold-

ruled columns, with 'Unvans; dated Sha'ban,

p. 349, the Gotha and the Upsala Catalogue, the same work is noticed p. 100, clxii., where under the title of Nuzhat Namah.
(See

the

Oude Catalogue,

Catalogue, p. 85,

A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777).

[Wai. YULE.]

J<j 3r , "Khusrau and Gul," an abridgment of 'Attar's previous poem,

V. Fol. 277

b,

Six Masnavi poems by Farid ud-Din 'Attar (see p. 344 a), as follows
:

Beg.

g &\
p. 352.

fc

I.

Fol. 3

b,

j^\

jlai.,

"The language

See the Oude Catalogue,

of birds," an allegorical poem.

VI. Fol. 370 b, wli jU*?, " Mukhtar Namah " (see p. 577 b}.

Beg.

The

contents

have

Hammer,

Redekiinste, pp.

been described by 141 154, and

Three

of

the

above poems,

viz.

Ilahi
ut-

The Jahrbiicher, vol. 65, Ang. Bl. p. 5. text has been edited by Garcin de Tassy,
Paris, 1857,

Namah, Mukhtar Namah, and Mantik

Tair, are to be found in a

volume

entitled

and lithographed in Lucknow,

64
**U

Kulliyat
in

Farid

ud-Dm

'Attar,

lithographed

A.H. 1288.
II. Fol.
b,
,

Lucknow, 1872.

They occupy respectively

pp.
Ilahi

771943, 9461047, and 10501165.

Namah,

Sufi poem.

The MS. bears the seal of Maharajah Tiket Rai, the Oude minister, with the date 1203.

Beg.
Foil. 240;

Or. 353.
13
in.

(In other copies)

oiUp. 61.

by 10; 25
;

lines,

7|

in.

long, with

two transversal

lines in the

mar-

See Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 357,

gin

written in fair Naskhi

dated Safar,

and Stewart's Catalogue,

III. Fol.

A.H. 877 (A.D. 1472).

of

144

b,

"The book

[GKO.

WM. HAMILTON.]
:

mysteries."

Three poems by
I.

'Attar, viz.

Fol. 2.

Beg.

<>

See

the

Oude Catalogue,

p.

358,

the

A Manavi poem,

treating of mystic love,

POETRY. 'ATTAR.
and correctly described by Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 154, and by Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 351, as a rhapsody full of the most
tedious repetitions.

577
is

by him pp. 599 and 600

the

poem

ascribed.

Thus we

read,

the

The Jauhar uz-Ziit occupies pp. 2 582 in Lucknow edition of the Kulliyat. See
i.

also Stewart's Catalogue, p. 60, the

Catalogue, vol.

p.

Vienna and Sprenger, Oude 518,

five

See "Hellaj Nameh," Stewart's Catalogue,

p. 60.

Catalogue, p. 351.

pages at the beginning, corresponding to pp. 2 8 of the printed text, and two pages at the end, corresponding to pp. 686 770. The deficiency at the beginning has been supplied, in appearance only, by

The present copy wants

III.
foil.

Foil.

234

6240,

in the

234, in the margins, and body of the page.

A collection

of Ruba'is (see p. 576

ft),

with

modern hand character, and

the
Ilalii

2 and 3, written by a in imitation of the original containing the beginning of

foil.

a prose-preface, foil. 2 15. In the preface, which wants a few lines at

N.imah

(p.

576

a,

ii.

This poem, the

title

of which occurs in the

the beginning, the author enumerates his previous works, apparently in the order of composition, viz. Khusrau Namah, Asrir

191 a,^^- Jfif ^UaP following c^jJI, is also designated more than once by
line, fol.

^^

Namah, Mantik ut-Tair, Muslbat Namah, and a Divan. They are designated as follows

the

name Lucknow

of Javahir

N&mah,
:

as in this line,

edition, p. 581

II. Foil.

200234
Namah

a.

The
,

latter half of

the Hailaj Namah, *-U

^^U

a Masnavi poem.

The
of the

Ilaillj

occupies pp. 583

770

Lucknow

edition,

where

it

begins

thus:

He adds that the Divan had not yet been properly arranged, and that the six thousand Ruba'is which it comprised had been reduced by him to five thousand, out of which he
made, at the request of some
friends, the

The present fragment corresponds to pp. 770. The poem treats of the absorption of the soul into the Divine essence, and
686
is

present selection. with a table of the

The preface concludes

fifty sections

(Bab) into

which the work

is

divided.

See Sprenger,

a complement to the Jauhur uz-Zftt, in the conclusion of which it is announced. Hailaj,

Oude Catalogue,

p. 353.

which is, according to the Burhan Kati a Greek word meaning " water of life," is here an arbitrary alteration of the name of the famous mystic, Mansur Hallfi j. whom 'Attar
,

Add. 7735.
208; 9 in. by 6| 11 lines, 3 in. long; written in fair Nestalik on goldand gold-ruled sprinkled paper, with 'Unvan margins, probably in the 16th century.
Foil.
;

introduces in the prologue as the revealer of divine mysteries, and to whose inspiration VOL. If.

[01.' J.

RICH.]

578

POETRY.

'ATTAR.
long, in a page, with 26 half-lines round the margins, in continuation of each page
;

Mantik ut-Tair (see p. 576 a, i.). The volume contains nine whole-page
miniatures in Persian style. According to a note written

on the

first

written in Indian Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 17th
century.

page, and dated A.H. 1117, this MS. had been the property of Allah Verdi Khan, the
late Beglerbegi of Shirvan.

Hahi

Namah

(see p.

576
is

a, ii.).

The usual beginning

couplets, the first of
vi
e:

preceded by four
is
:

which

Or. 1227.
Foil.
;

HJJ
5^1

165

in.

by 4J

15

lines, 2

in.

At the end
distichs

are found twenty additional

:

long the 16th century.

written in fair Nestalik, apparently in

beginning thus

[ALEXANDRE JABA.]

The same poem.

Seven leaves at the beginning and five at the end have been supplied by later hands.
additional verses at the end give the date of composition, A.H. 573, as follows
:

Or. 332.
Foil.

Some

185

9|

in.

by 6

25

lines,

4|

in.

long; written in small Nestalik, in four columns, with three 'Unvans and gold-ruled

margins;
(A.D.

dated

Balkh, A.H.
[GEO.

10001004
HAMILTON.]

15921596).

WM.

Add, 16,788.
Foil.

Three Magnavi poems by lows

:

'Attar, as fol-

149; 9

in.

by 5

14

I.

lines, 3

Fol. 2

b.

in.

Ilahl-Namah (see
5.

p.

576

a, ii.).

long

written in Nestalik

dated Muharram, [WM.' YULE.]

is

II.

Fol. 67

Musibat-Namah
Asrfir-Namah

(see

p.

A.H. 1051 (A.D. 1641). The same work.

576

5, iv.).

III. Fol.

150

b.

(see

p.

The date A.H. 570

:

of composition at the end

576

a, iii.)

Add. 7736.
j f-*

Harleian 3285.
Foil.

172; 8| in. by 6; 15 lines, 3| in. long; written in Naskhi, in two columns; dated Sha'ban, A.H. 968 (A.D. 1532).
Foil.

178;

in.

by 6; 15

lines,

2|

in.

[01. J. RICH.]

long ; written in Indian Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century.

Two Manavi poems by

lows
I.
:

'Attar,

as

fol-

The same poem.

Fol. 2

b.

Add. 7089.
Foil.

148;

8i

in.

by 5;

12

lines, 2 in.

Ushtur- Namah, or the Book of the Camel.

POETRY. -'ATTAR.

579

The poem has

heading
title

in the

J\as-

** n-'j^

present copy the ^\I^; but its real

fol.

of the work, which is given in the following line of the prologue, fol. 3 a,
title

The

occurs in the following line,

21 a

.ut

~-li*

mystic love, and its name is derived from a comparison of the yearning soul with the pilgrim's camel represented as longing for the Ka'bah. In the introduction
It treats of

alludes to 'Ali, the true " theatre of marvels," to whom the poem is dedicated
:

"Attar mentions

some of

his previous works,

j\ j.U. j\

namely Mantik ut-Tair, Musibat Namah, Khusrau u Gul, and Ilahl-Namah, adding that, although these had been circulated, the present work was to be kept secret. See the Oude Catalogue, p. 352, and the Leyden
Catalogue, vol.
II. Fol.
ii.

In the same passage the author refers the reader to several of his previous works,

namely Jauhar
tik ut-Tair,

uz-Zat,

Ushtur-Namah, Man-

p.

114.

130

a.

Asrar Namah, Musibat-Namah, Khusrau u Gul, Ilahi-Numah, Pand-Namah, See the Oude and Tazkirat ul-Auliya.
Catalogue, p. 353. This MS. has been
evidently detached

"

Vaslat-Namah, or the Book of Union," a

Sufi

poem.

Beg.

from a larger volume. It is folioed with Arabic figures from 77 to 149, and at the end is a separate leaf numbered 558,
containing the concluding part of a poem probably due to the same author. It treats

j*f
The
lowing
title

U^ J
poem
:

of the

is

found in the

fol-

line, fol.

132 I

of the feelings of a true devotee, last section begins thus :

and the

See the Oude Catalogue, p. 355.

Add. 6621.
Foil.

page bears the Persian seal of Archibald Swinton, with the date 1174.
first

The

74 ; 12$

in.

by 7

25

lines,

4J

in.

long, in a page; written in four columns in small and fair Nestalik, with TJnvan and

Sloane 3588.
19 lines, 2| in. long written in a cursive Turkish character; dater Zulhijjah, A.H. 1083 (A.D. 1673).
Foil.
;

94;

in.

by 6|

gold-ruled margins,

century.

probably in the 17th [J. F. HULL.]

I.

Foil.

1-24.

" The theatre of marvels," a Sufi

Attar.

poem by

The " book of advice," or moral precepts in Masnavi rhyme, by Farid ud-Din 'Attar.

5 SO

POETRY.
uL
\j

'ATTAR.
translator, whose name does fol. 32 b, appear, states in the introduction, that he had written this version in obedience

Beg.

The

not

This
'Attar.

is

the most popular of the poems of It has been repeatedly printed in

to the behest of his benefactor, the Padishah

Calcutta, Lahore, Bulak, and Constantinople. It has been edited by J. H. Hindley, London,

1809, and translated into French by S. de Sacy, Paris, 1819, and into German by

Bayazid B. Sulaiman Khan. On the fly-leaf is a short notice of the Pand Namah written in Latin by Salomon,
Negri.

G. H. F. Nesselmann.

Add. 6960.
by 8; 15 lines in a Haddon page; written by the Rev. John 1802. Hindley on paper water-marked
Foil.

Turkish commentary II. Foil. 25 94. on the above work by Sham'I. See Haj.
Khal., vol.
ii.

133; 104

in.

p. 68.

I.

Foil.

34.

The Turkish

version of

Sloane 3264.
Foil. 221;

the
lines,

Pand-Namah

[transcribed from the pre-

12

in.

by 7; 12

in.

ceding MS.]
II. Foil.

long

written on one side of the paper, in large Naskhi, about the beginning of the
;

3544.

Collation of three co-

pies

of the Persian

Pand-Namah, namely

18th century.

The Pand-Namah of 'Attar, with a Latin See the translation by Salomon Negri.
Arabic Catalogue,
p. 335.

Harleian 5447, Harleian 5464, and Sloane 3264.

III. Foil.

45109.

The Pand-Namah,

[transcribed from Sloane 3264], with English

glosses.

Add. 7734.
by 5|; 9 lines, 3| in. long; written in Turkish Naskhi; dated Shawal, A.H. 1193 (A.D. 1779).
Foil. 52;

IY. Foil.

110133.

Glossary

to
list

the
of

7|

in.

Turkish version, and alphabetical words occurring in the Persian text.

[01. J. RICH.]

Prefixed to the volume, foil. 1 4, are the PandSylvestre de Sacy's notices on

The same work, with Turkish

Namah and
into English.

the Bulbul-Namah, translated

glosses.

Harleian 5447.
15 and 17 lines, 3 in. long written in a Turkish hand, apparently in the 17th century.
Foil.

Or. 473.
Foil.

60

in.

by 4|

361; 8|

in.'

by

long

written in fair

3| in. Nestalik, with TJnvan

6;
lines,
II.,

17

I. Foil. 1

629
31 a

ft.

The Pand-Namah of
b.

'Attar (see p. 579 6).

II.

and gold-ruled margins; dated Rabi' A.H. 1007 (A.D. 1598).

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Foil.

60

A
verse.

translation of the

above in Turkish

JA^ax^ JUS" u)|^ The Divan of Kamal Isfahan!.

Beg. i

Beg.

POETRY.

A.H. 600700.

581

Kamal ud-Din Isma'il, surnamed, on account of the fertility of his fancy, Khallak ulor " the inventor of
Ma'ani,
great
concetti,"

Add. 7092.
long

was the son of a poet of

note,

Jamal ud-Din

Muhammad B.
He

'Abd ur-Razzak Isfahan!, who died, according to Taki Kashani, A.H. 588.
was, like his father, a panegyrist of the noble Said family, especially of Rukn ud-

19 lines, 3 in. ; written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated Shavval, A.H.
Foil.
;

312

9i

in.

by 5

1036 (A.D. 1627).

The same Divan.

This copy contains only fourteen Ruba'is.
Copyist
:

Din Said B.

Mas'iid, the Sadr of Isfahan.

He

perished, according to Daulatshah, in a general slaughter of the inhabitants of Is-

fahan by the Moghul army under Oktai Ka'an, A.H. 635. His death is placed, however, by the Mirat ul-'Alam, fol. 691, in A.H. 639,

Add. 7748.
Foil.

365

9|

in.

by 5

19

lines,

in.

and by the Khulasat ul-Afkar,

A.H. 628.
the Guzidah,
Iklim,
fol.
fol.

fol.

229, in
fol.

Other notices will be found in

242, Baharistan,
ii.,

long ; written in Nestalik, probably in the 17th century. [Cl. J. RICH.] The same Divan, wanting the first page. This copy contains a more copious text than any of the preceding. It is furnished

67,

Habib us-Siyar,
and Atashkadah,
"
1

vol.

Juz

4, p. 190,
fol.

Haft
356,

356, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

fol.

80.

Redekiinste, p. 156,
1 .

Hammer, and Sprenger, Oude

See also

through the first half with headings. The last page of the MS. contains records
of the birth of the owner's
earliest of

children, the

Catalogue, p. This Divan, which is not alphabetically arranged, contains Kasldahs and Kit'ahs,
fol.

which

is

dated A.H. 1043.

b, b.

Ghazals,

fol.

300

a,

and Bubals,
Foil. 174;

Or. 287.
9i in. by 6; 15 lines, 3| in. written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and long; gold-ruled margins ; dated Muharram, A.H.
1007 (A.D. 1598).
[GEO.

fol.

344

Some Kasldahs
Divan
reigns:

in the early part of the are addressed to the following sove-

Sultan 'Ala ud-Din Tukush, who reigned in Irak from A.H. 590 to 596, and

WM.

HAMILTON.]

ud-Din (A.H. 621628) and Ghiyiis ud-Din, the Atabak Sa'd B. Zingi (A.H. 599 623), and his successor Abu Bakr B. Sa'd (A.H. 623658), lastly the Ispahbad Hasan of Mazandaran. Most of the laudatory poems are in praise of the above mentioned Sadr, Rukn ud-Din Sa'id.
his grandsons Jalal
is,

Divan of Saif ud-Din

Beg.

Isfarangi.

The

poet's native place Isfarang, or Isfarali, according to Amin Razi, a hilly tract nine

Add. 18,414.
Foil.

443; 8

in.

by 4f

15

lines,

2|

in.

farsangs to the south-west of Marghinan. As to the period in which he lived there is a wide divergence in the statements of

long; written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated Ramazan, A.H.

Daulatshah says that he biographers. flourished in the reign of Ilarsliin B. Atsiz

(A.H. 551567). He is followed by the Haft Iklim, fol. 599, and

1029 (A.D. 1620). The same Divan.

[Wat. YULE.]

Khwarazm Shah

582
also

POETRY.

A.H. 600700.
Another collection of the poems of Saif
Isfarangi, richer than the preceding, endorsed

by the authors of the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 206, and the Khulasat ul-Afkar, fol. 206, who place Saif ud-Dln's death in A.H. 573 and 583. On the other hand, Taki KashI,

CJ^A-*! ^.^31 u.ijuJ OoUaal!

Oude Catalogue,

p. 17, states that

he was

Beg.

born A.H. 581 and died A.H. 666.

We read
Contents: Kasidahs,
fol. fol. 1 b.

in the Atashkadah, fol. 147, in agreement with the last writer, that Saif ud-Din of
Isfarang,

Mukatta'aV
a.

surnamed

al-A'raj,

or the

lame,

fol.

207 269

a.
.

Ghazals,

fol.

247

Ruba'is,

grew up in Khwarazm, attended

the court of Sultan

in his youth

Muhammad

B.

Tukush
Foil.

Add. 7766.
by 6f 21 lines, 5 in. long ; written in four columns in small Persian Naskhi; dated Zulka'dah, A.H. 863
in.
;

(A.H. 596617), and died A.H. 666, at the age of eighty-five years. See also Hammer,
Redekiinste, p. 123, Catalogue, p. 561.

109; 10

and Sprenger, Oude

Divan
;

The evidence

of the

favour of the later date poems addressed to 'Ala ud-Din

altogether in O for it contains

is

(A.D. 1459).

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Muhammad

Shah, and designating him by the title of Sanjar, a surname which the Sultan assumed in consequence of his victory over the Kara Khitais, A.H. 606 (D'Ohsson,
Histoire des Mongols, vol. i. p. 182). There are also Kasidahs in praise of Nizam ul-Mulk

Khwarazm

poetical version of the book of Kalllah and Dimnah, in the epic metre, the author of which is called in the heading and in the

known
Beg.

subscription, Ahmad B. as Kani'I,

Mahmud

ut-Tusi,

Muhammad

B. Salih,

who was Vazlr

to the

same Sultan during the latter part of his 613 (see Habib us-Siyar, reign, A.H. 606 vol. ii., Juz 4, p. 183), and of Kutb ud-Din Mir 'Amid Habash, who was at the head of the government of Mavara un-Nahr under Chaghatai Khan and his successors, Kara Hulagu and Bisu-Munga, A.H. 617 649 (see Jahankushai, fol. 81, and Habib usSiyar, vol. iii., Juz 1, p. 46). The Divan contains Kasidahs and some
Tarji'-bands arranged according to subjects,

Ka'us, to
is

for a king called a few laudatory verses are addressed at the end of each section. He

The work was composed

whom

designated as the sovereign of Rum, and the worthy successor of Kaikhusrau and

and a few Ruba'is at the end. Copies are mentioned in the St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 330, and in the Bibliotheca Sprenger,
No. 1514.

Kaikubad. 'Izz ud-Din Kaika'us, who is here meant, succeeded as the eldest son to his father Kaikhusrau, at the time of the Moghul invasion of Asia Minor, A. H. 642, and carried on for about twenty years a fitful
rule under the control of the
reigns,

Moghul

sove-

and in a

state of constant struggle

Add. 7790.
283; 9f in. by 5^; 17 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik, apparently in the long ; 16th century. [01. J. RICH.]
Foil.

with his brother Rukn ud-Din Kilij Arslan, with whom he had to divide the kingdom. Ousted at last by the latter he repaired to
Constantinople, and was shortly after, A.H. 662, confined by the emperor Michael Paleo-

POETRY.
logus in the castle of JSnos.

A.H. 600700.

583

He was

subse-

bytheMoghul BerekaiKhan, and obtained from him a principality in the Crimea, where he died A.H. 678. See Abulfaraj, Historia ])ynastiarum, pp. 319 332,
Abulfeda, vol. v. des Mongols, vol.
p. 11,
iii.

quently released

D'Ohsson, Histoire

pp. 92, 479,

and Ham-

mer, Geschichte der Goldeuen Horde, pp.

174

181.

gives in the prologue, fol. 8 b, a brief account of his career. He lived, he

The author

Khorasan in joy and comfort, a matchless poet sought after by all,

says, in

Moghuls overran the country, blood by torrents, and drove the shedding Khwarazm Shah in wild flight to the sea of

when

the

M ./andirfin (A.l[. 617). Having escaped to India, he took ship to 'Adan, and, after
Medina and the holy shrines of Mecca, and passing through Baghdad, he " in his distress his repaired to Rum, where was rejoiced by the sight of the soveheart reign of the world, Kaikubad" (A.H. 616
visiting

If, therefore, the arrival of Kiini'i at the court of Kaikubad took place, as appears probable, in A.H. 61S, the composition of the present work must be placed about A.H.

658.

The author's name

heading by the

is

preceded in the
titles

pompous

\^1M

i-\
is

aai '

s*$j, and in the subscription he

called *~\*+*U living in

634):
lU,

mentioned by Aflaki, the author of Manakib ul'Arifin, Add. 25,025, fol. 142, who calls him Amir Baha ud-Din Kanu Malik ush-Shu'ara,
;

^t\ 3 \^\ Kuniyah A.H. 672

iiiu

He
for

was
is

still

he

He became

his panegyrist, lived,

thanks

as one of those

to his bounty, in great opulence,

and com-

paid a last tribute to the saint Maulfma Jalal ud-Dln Rumi, deceased
in that year. He may be identical with a Kani'i called like him Baha ud-Din Ahmad,

who

posed a poetical record of the dynasty, entitled Saljuk Namah, the bulk of which was not much less than a camel's load. He enjoyed also the favour of Kaikubad's glorious
successor,

Kaikhusrau (A.U. 634641).

in

and also entitled Malik ush-Shu'arti, who is mentioned in the Gotha Catalogue, p. 68, as the author of a Kabus Namah. The latter,
designated as Kazaruni, or native of Kazarun, while our author came from

The poet says

95
a,

two other passages,

foil.

however,

is

a, that he had, during forty years, celebrated the praises of three sovereigns of the house of Saljuk (Kaikubad, Kaikhusrau,

108

Khorasan.

The prologue of

Kani'i treats at consider-

and Kaika'Qs), that his poems filled thirty volumes, and amounted to about three hundred thousand distichs
:

able length of the virtues and accomplishments which befit a king, of each of which the author shows his royal master to be the true

584
paragon.

POETRY.

A.H.

600700.
102
a.
fol.

An easy transition to Nushirvan, the

and wise
ruler,
fol.

fol.

The
103

king's
a.

son and his com-

traditional pattern of a just

panions,

introduces,

work.

the main subject of the At his court appears an Indian 9

b,

is very similar to that of the Persian version of Nasr Ullah. But

The arrangement

envoy bringing the tribute of his country. Questioned by Nushirvan about a wonderful herb said to grow in India and to give eternal life to those who eat it, he explains its true The herb is but an emblem of the nature. book of wisdom which the kings of India
keep as a sacred heirloom in their treasury.* He entreats the king, however, not to betray to his master that he has disclosed his secret. Here follows, fol. 10 b, a detailed account of Barzuyah's mission to India, and of the means by which he succeeded in obtaining a copy of the precious book.

the author does not give any information as to the original which he had followed. He

merely says that he was turning prose into

verse
:

Add. 27,263.
Foil.
;

417

13|

in.

by 9

17

lines,

in.

long ruled columns, with rich 'Unvans and gilt headings, apparently in the 16th century.

written in fair Nestalik, in four gold-

The work proper begins on

the rubric

fol.

13 a with

Bound

in stamped leather.
[Sir

The

first

aLJ/i-^jlfr!. section contains the life of Barzu-

^_^h

&$ ^l^-b j

JOHN MALCOLM.]

yah, the physician, as told by himself, and

drawn up by Buzurjmihr.

The nature and

arrangement of the remainder of the contents will appear from the following headings The ox and the lion, fol. 17 a. Damnah and
:

The Magnavl

of Jalal ud-Din

Rumi.

Be.
AAXJWI

the lion, fol. 20 a. the ox, fol. 40 a.

parrot, the slave,

The lion repents killing The merchant's wife, the

Maulana

Jalal

ud-DIn

Muhammad Ruml,

49

and the men of Balkh, fol. The pigeon with a collar, fol. 50 b.

the founder of the order of Darvishes called

after him Maulavis, is by general consent the greatest of the Sufi poets of Persia. His life forms the main subject of Manakib

The worldly friends, ^Uj j&>\ ^h-,^ (the crows and the owls), fol. 61 b. The ape and the
tortoise, CL+ZJ tdli~> j

^4> ^'

^a
}

^ ue
fol.

ul-'Arifin

(see p.

344

b},

from which the

hermit and

the weasel,

^^

jj^V-,

following particulars are extracted. born in Balkh on the sixth of Rabi'

604,

He was
I.,

A.H.

b. The mouse and the cat, fol. 80 a. The king and the bird Kabrah, jJSjciJi*, The lion and the jackal, fol. 87 fol. 83 b. The lion, the jackal, and the huntsman, fol. 93 a. The hermit and the traveller, fol. 97 a. The dream of the king of India, fol. 97 a. The snake, the ape, the leopard, and the well,

78

Jumada

and died in Kuniyah on the fifth of II., A.H. 672. His father, Muham-

mad B. ul-Husain ul-Khatibi ul-Bakrl (a descendant of the Khalif Abu Bakr), commonly called Baha ud-Din Valad, son of a daughter of Sultan 'Ala ud-DIn B.
Khwarazm Shah, had acquired by
ing and
his his learn-

recorded in the preface of Nasr Ullah's Persian version, where it is put in the mouth of See Notices et Extraits, vol. x. a Brahman in India.
similar answer
is

much religious influence in Balkh as to rouse the jealousy of the Sultan, and was obliged in consequence
character so
to leave his native city.

p. 107.

He

proceeded with

POETRY.
his son Jalal ud-DIn,

JALAL UD-DIN RUMI.

five

585
illustrated

who was then

hy way Baghdad from thence to Malatiyah, where he stayed four years, and to Larindah, where he
years old,

of

to Mecca,

Prophet, anecdotes.

of

the

by numerous

Chalabi
addresses

Husam ud-Din, whom the author by name in several passages of

sojourned seven years. Subsequently, yielding to the instances of the Sultan of Rum, 'Ala ud-Din Kaikubad, he settled in the royal residence, Kuniyah, where he died on the 18th of Rabi' II., A.H. 628.
After Balm ud-Din's death Jalal ud-Din
received his spiritual instruction from Sayyid Burhan ud-Din Tirmizi, a disciple of his
father,

the Masnavi, was his favourite disciple. His proper name was Hasan B. Muhammad B. Akhi Turk. He had been appointed Khalifah after the death of Salah ud-Din Zarkub
in A.H. 657, and remained for ten years, from the decease of Maulana to his own death,

which took place A.H. 383, the acknowledged head of the order. Husam ud-DTn had no
small share in the production of the poem. Jt was he who, having noticed with how

joined him in Kuniyah in A.H. 629, and, afterwards, from a wandering Sufi,

who

Tabriz!, who from A.H. 612 to A.H. 615, was Jalal ud-Din's constant companion, and whose name the

Shams ud-Din
his death in

much delight

the disciples read the Masnavis

of Sana'i and Farid ud-Din 'Attar, suggested to his master the composition of a poem
similar to the Ilahi

poet adopted, as a Takhallus, in his Ghazals. In the latter part of his life Maulana was worshipped as a saint by a crowd of devoted

Namah

of Sana'i

(sic),

but in the measure of the Mantik ut-Tair of

and was treated with the utmost regard by the Moghul governor, Mu'in udDin Farvimah, who was at that time the virtual ruler of the Saljuki empire. The only son who survived him was Bahu uddisciples,

and who, when Maulana carried out that idea, wrote down the poem from his
'Attar,

master's dictation, reading

after each sitting,

it

aloud to him
text.

and correcting the

The work was interrupted during two years, in

consequence of the death of Husam ud-Din's wife; but it was resumed, as stated at the begin-

Din, brtter

A.H. 623,

known as Sultan Valad, born who became, ten years after his
head of the Maulavis, and

father's death, the

ning of Daftar II., in A.U. 662, and continued to the end. See ManSkib ul-'Arifin, fol. 176.

died A.H. 712.

The poem, which

called Daftars,

is

divided into six books

Other notices will be found in Nafahat ulUns, p. 530 (translated in Mines de 1'Orient, vol. vi. p. 429), Daulatshah, fol. 96, Habib iiSiyar, vol. Hi., Juz 1, p. 66, Hajftlis ulMurninin, fol. 330, Haft Iklim, fol. 235, Kiyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 400, and Atashkadah, fol. 142. See also Ouseley, Notices, p. 112,

has been the text of

many

Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 163, Sprenij.T, Oude Catalogue, p. 489, and George Rosen's
Mesnewi, preface, pp. 13
26.

The Magnavi,

or, as

it is

often called </yi

v^-*-, the "Spiritual Manavi," is the favourite text book of the Sufis. It is a vast, and somewhat rambling, collection of moral precepts and religious reflexions, with comments on texts from the Goran, and sayings
VOL.
II.

commentaries enumerated by Haj. Khal., vol. v. p. 375. It has been repeatedly in the East, viz. in Bombay, A.H. printed 1262, 1266, 1273, 1280, and 1294, in Lucknow, A.H. 1282, in Tabriz, A.H. 1264, in Bulak, with a Turkish translation, A.H. 1268, and in Constantinople, A.H. 1289. The contents have been stated by Hammer, 26. Jahrbiicher, vol. 65, Anz. Blatt, pp. 7 Portions have been translated into German verse by M. V. Hussard, Mines de 1'Orient, vol. ii. p. 162, etc., and by George Rosen,
Leipzig, 1849.

version in English verse,

is

by

J.

W.

Redhouse, Esq.,

being prepared

for publication.

586

POETRY.

JALAL UD-DIN RUMI.

Or. 1364.
FoU. 313
long
;
;

In the present copy the six Daftars begin respectively on foil. 2 b, 69 b, 131 i, 212 b, 275 J, and 347 b. A rich border enclosing
the beginning of the
following lines in
its

12

in.

by 8

23

lines,

in.

poem
:

contains the

written in small and neat Nestalik,

praise

in four gold-ruled columns, with six 'Unvans ;

dated Rajab, A.H. 982 (A.D. 1574).

in

Bound

stamped leather covers.

[SiR CHAS. ALEX. MURRAY.*]

The volume contains nineteen whole-page

miniatures, in fair Persian style.

The Magnavl, with the prefaces, beginning respectively on foil. 3 b, 50 b, 94 b, 150 *, 1U7 b, and 254 b.

Add. 26,153.
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Foil.
; ;

[WM. ERSKIXE.]
Daftars
I.

III. of

the Mas.navi.

[WM. ERSKINE.]
The same poem.
This copy contains short prose prefaces to the several Daftars. Those of the first, third,

The MS. was

subscription,

by

written, according to the Ilahyar for Minuchihr Beg.

and fourth are in Arabic, the others in Persian. They are to be found on foil. 2 #, 73 b, 138 b, 235 b, 304 b, and 383 b. At the end of Daftar IV. is a subscription stating that the MS. had been written near
the shrine of the holy
IJM

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i^Jo^i

A.H. 1049 (A.D. 1639) and gilt leather.

those of Daftar
II., fol.

bound

in

stamped

[WM. YULE.]
prefaces, viz.
fol.

^M

J>j

t*ojj

by Sayyid Kablr

The same work, with three

52
b,

B. Sayyid Raja B. Husainl. On the first page are the Persian seal and the signature of Edward Galley.

205

b,

and Daftar VI.,

fol.

Daftar V., 258 b.

Egerton 1107.
Or, 1211.
506 ; 101 i n by 6 ; 27 lines, 4f in. written in a large and cursive Persian long ; character, in two columns, probably early
Foil.
.

362 ; 14| in. by 9 ; 21 lines, 5 J in. written in cursive Indian Nestalik, long dated Jumitda II., A.H. in four columns
Foil.
; ;

in the 15th century.

[ALEX. JABA.]

1077 (A.D. 1666). [ADAM CLARKE.] with the same prefaces as in The Magnavl,
the preceding copy.

The Manavi, with the prose prefaces. The six Daftars begin respectively on foil. 1 b, 80 b, 154 a, 248 b, 324 b, and 409 b. Foil. 15, and 502506, have been supplied

The

copyist,

Muhammad

Shafi', describes

himself as tutor to the son of FaridQn Beg, Vaki'ah-Navis to Amir Khan, Subahdar of

by a

later hand.

Kabul.

POETRY.

JALAL UD-DIN RUMI.

587

Foil.

241

Add. 7740. 14 in. by 7; 31

lines,

4f

in.

The Masnavi, with the prefaces of Daftars IV. and VI., and copious notes written
partly in the margins, partly on inserted
slips.

long ; written in Ncstalik, in four columns ; dated Shahjahanabad, Zulka'dah, A.H. 1077
(A.D. 1667). The Masnavi, with that of Daftar I.
[CL. J. RICH.]
all

the prefaces but

The

^y^,

jjLo j-*? states in the subscription that he had

transcriber,
131

o>*<o Jj

229; with 30 lines in the margins long,

Foil.

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;
;

2J

in.

written this copy for Mir Muhammad Vazih, son of Iradat Khan. At the end of Daftar IV. it is stated that the text had been corrected, A.H. 1083,

written in small Nestalik, in two columns dated Ujjain, Miilvah, Rabi' II., A.H. 1093 (A.D.
1682.)

Daftars III
first

five folios

[WM. YULE.] V. of the Masnavi, with the of Daftar VI. Daftar III.
beginning.

wants sixteen

folios at the

on the copy of Shah 'Abd ul-Fattah Gujrati, who had collated a large number of MSS.
Foil.
;

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Add. 5605.
4$ in. written in Nestalik, in four columns long; dated Rabi' I., A.H. 1082, the 13th year of
Foil.

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in.

by 6$

25

lines,

4|

in.

324; 114

in.

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22

lines,

long written in Naskhi, in four gold-ruled columns, with 'Unvans, probably in the 17th

[Aurangzib's] reign (A.D. 1671). [N. BKASSEY HALHED.] The Masnavi. The prefaces of Daftars
II.

[Wn. CURETON.] century. The Mas.navl, with all the prefaces but that of Daftar V.

VI. have been added by another hand.

Add. 16,768.
255 ; 13 in. by 7| ; 27 lines, 4J in. written in cursive Indian Nestalik, in long; four columns; apparently in the 18th century.
Foil.

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Foil.

[WM. YULE.]
The Masnavi, with the
prefaces,

434

and mar-

ginal additions. According to a Persian note

MS. was bought

in

on fol. 1, this Jainagar, A.H. 1203.

1771).

The same poem.

[N. BRASSEY HALHED.]

Or. 1214,
Foil. 24; 9 in. by 7 ; 21 lines, 4| in. long; written on four columns in small Nestalik,

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21 lines, 6 in. in Nestalik, in four gold- ruled long ; written columns ; dated the 24th year of Aurangzib
Foil.

probably in the 18th century.

583; 10

in.

by 6|

[ALEXANDRE JABA.]

The seventh Daftar of the Masnavi, with

a prose preface.
Beg.

(A.H. 1091-2, A.D. 1680-1).

[\VM.

x 2

588

POETRY.

JALAL UD DIN RUMI.

liminary discourses, as follows
great Sufis 8 a. 2. On
:

This seventh Daftar, which has been printed at the end of the Bulak edition, was
first brought to light, A.H. 1035, by a commentator of the Masnavl, Isma'il Dadah (Rusiikh ud-Din Isma'il B. Ahmad ul-Ankiravi), who gave out that he had found it in a copy dated A.H. 814, and who stood out for its genuineness, which, however, was gene-

1.

On

the
fol.

from

'All to

Jalal ud-Din,

Sufi terms, fol. 36 b. 3. On the degrees of spiritual knowledge, fol. 41 a. 4. On the essence of the Divinity, fol. 43 b.

God's names and qualities, fol. 48 a. 6. the worlds, fol. 49 b. 7. On creation,

5.

On
fol."

51

a.

rally disbelieved.
p.

See Haj. Khal. vol.

Redekiinste, p.
vol.
i.

v.

377,

Hammer
:

167, and

9. On 10. On

the great spirit, fol. 52 the soul's return to the spirit, fol. 55
8.

On

b.

a.

Fliigel,

Vienna Catalogue,

p. 518.

the essence of love, fol. 64 a. Comon Daftar I., fol. 716; on Daftar II., mentary
fol. 203 b ; on Daftar III., including the Arabic preface, fol. 314 b. On the first page is written, " Geo. Jervis, Ahmudabad, 1814."

Copyist

Add. 14,051.
Foil.

508

11

in.

by 6J

21

lines,

4|

in.

long;

written in cursive Nestalik;

dated
Foil.
;

Muharram, A.H. 1081 (A.D. 1670).

Add. 25,804.
497 12 in. by 8| 22 lines, 6 in. written in large Naskhi, with ruled long; margins, apparently in the 17th century. M. CURETON.]
;

volume of a commentary on the Mas.navi, by Husain B. Hasan,

first
T>
I ' *

The

A
. -^

>i'i!'.

C-AJW J ^"- IT
I

!\x,_>
'

UP
,

j.jo

!_-

-^

The author, whose full name is Kama! udDin Husain B. Hasan Khwarazmi, has been He states in already mentioned, p. 144 b. the preface that he had, from his youth upwards, eagerly studied the Mas.navi, and that he was constantly consulted by the learned as to its meaning. He had already written on that subject a work entitled jyi
length induced by his friends' prayers, as well as by the desire of the ruler of Khwarazm, to write a
,J)IH*

A full commentary on the first two Daftars

Manavi, with the text. Author 'Abd ul-Hamid B. Mu'in ud-Din Muhammad B. Muhammad Hashim ul-Huof the
:

saini ul-Kattali ur-Eifa

l i

'

ut-Tabrizi,

jj*,

,3-^*

>

and was

at

Beg.

The commentary is preceded by a short preamble and nine preliminary chapters

17, treating of the of theosophy and the definition of principles its technical terms. The entire text is in-

fuller

commentary, the present work.

mentions,
as
still

He
his

(Mukaddimah),

foil.

frequently

living,

spiritual guide Khwajah Abu'1-Vafa (a celebrated Sufi, who died A.H. 835 see Nafahat
;

ul-Uns, p. 499, and Habib us-Siyar, vol.

iii.,

Juz
ger,

3, p.

144).

The work

is

Haj. Khal.

vol. v. pp. 375, 376,

mentioned by and Spren-

Oude Catalogue,
Preface,

p. 493.
fol.

Contents:

b.

Ten

pre-

Each of these is folserted by paragraphs. lowed by short verbal explanations of rare words OU5, and by extensive comments. The most recent authors quoted appear to be Khwajah Abul-Vafa, who died A.H. 835 (see the preceding no.), fol. 139, and 'Abd ul-

POETRY.
Karim
ul-Jili,

JALAL UD-DIX RUMI.

Diviin of

589

who was born

p. 459), fol.
fol.

265,

is

author of al-Insan ul-K;imil, A H. 767 (Haj. Khal., vol. i. 143 b. At the end of Daftar I., found a transcript of the subis

Kabul under Jahangir, and afterwards Siibahdar of the same province under
Shahjahan. He passed into the imperial service in the fifth year of the latter reign as Divan i Tan, with the title of 'Akidat

scription of the author's original draft. The first part of the same commentary

Khan, and was some time

court-chronicler.
I
1

employed

as

described by Pr. Sprenger, p. 493.

Oude Catalogue,

page is a seal of Muhammad Maluli dated A.H. 1141, and the Persian seal

On

the

first

He died in old age in the 12th year of the reign (A.H. 10489). See 'Amal Silih, fol. 708, where his commentary on the Magnavi is mentioned with praise, and Tazkirat ul-Uniara, fol. 70.
preface entitled dated by the chronogram
*IJLj,
t. e.

of Archibald Swinton.

In a

^yJUM
,.y<ail

iT^,

and

Or. 1213.
31 lines, 5 in. written in a small Turkish hand, prolong bably in the 17th century.
Foil.
;

\_i\^ &a-U_>J

222

12

in.

A.H. 1032,

foil.

1019,

the edi.

by 8|

tor gives

an account of the labour he had

[ALEXANDRE JABA.]

bestowed upon the text. He collated it with an authenticated copy in Kabul, A.H.
1024, and with several MSS. in Yulam Guzar, near Pashiiwar, A.H. 1025, subjected it to a critical examination, with the help of a friend,

commentary upon the fourth Daftar of the Masnavi, by Sham' U" with
i

A Turkish

the text.

Beg.

ijSKl.

aU/Cl 3 jj jo

while on a journey to theDeccan in A.H. 1030, and collated it again with four copies in Bur-

The author states, in the preamble, that he had undertaken the work by order of Sultan Murad Khan B. Salmi, and, at the end, that he had completed the present portion on the 15th of Jumadii II., A.H. 999. See
Ilaj.

hunpur, A.H. 1031. He also verified the passages of the Goran and the Hadig referred to

Khal., vol.

v. p. 37:..

Or. 1210.
3| in. long; written in Nestalik, in four columns, with 'Unvfms and gold-ruled margins, apFoil.

by the poet, and gave their original text with interpretation in the margin, corrected the Arabic prefaces which he found sadly corrupt, and explained all the rare words and difficult verses. He adds that his comments had been compiled in a detached shape, and formed two separate works, entitled Latu'if
ul'Ma'iini

464; 11J

in.

by 6$

19

lines,

and

Lata'if ul-Lughat.

Tables of contents, drawn up by the editor, are prefixed to the several Daftars. The
preface is repeated in a condensed form at the beginning of Daftars II. VI.

parently in the 17th century.

[ALEXAXDKE JAIU.]

of the Masnavi, by 'Abd ul-Latif B. 'Abd Ullah ul-'Abbasi, ^_j\M\ ^e-

A revised edition
itt\

end of Daftars III. and IV., that the MS. had been collated in Burhanpur, A.H. 1100.
It is stated, at the

^.UJ\

Atf-

^, with marginal

notes.
Gujrfit,

Add. 25,803.
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Mulls 'Abd ul-Latif, a native of

312; 12|

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4|

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Khun Mashhadi,

long; written in Nestalik, in four columns;

f>90

POETRY.
(Bengal), A.H.

JALAL UD-DIN RUMI.

which
is

dated Katak
1701).

1113 (A.D.
editor's

not found in the present copy.

See

[Win. CURETON.]

also Stewart's Catalogue, p. 59.

The same revised text, with the preface and marginal notes.

Royal 16 B. xix.
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;

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in. long,

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from 25 to 27

(A.D. 1670).

[THOMAS HYDE.]

A Glossary
'Abd
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jujjC.

to the

Manavi, by the same

and

gilt leather.

[WM. YULE.]

copious marginal notes extracted from the Lata'if ul-Ma'navI (see

p.

The Magnavi, with

589
V).

oU5 The author, who

Beg.
tif B.

J^ JJki
calls

c^-i&AJ

0>\

himself 'Abd ul-La-

This MS. contains the following prefaces Persian preface to Daftar II., fol. 38 a. Arabic prefaces to Daftar III. and IV. with
:

Persian paraphrase,

foil.

70

a,

and 112

b.

The preface
sion of the
fol.

of 'Abd ul-Latlf to his recen-

148

b,

Masnavl is prefixed to Daftar V., and again to Daftar VI. fol. 192 b.

ajjL-fi", enumesome well known Arabic and Persian dictionaries, and the Sufi glossaries of Ibn 'Attar, and 'Abd ur-Razzak Kashi, which he had used, and states that the present work was the result of twelve years of study, and had been compiled in view of his revised

'Abd Ullah Kabiriyyah

rates in the preface

followed in each place by his statement of the contents of the respective Daftars.
It is

edition of the text (see p. 589 b). It comprises all the words found in the Mas.navJ, with the

exception of those which belong to

speech,

common

and

is

alphabetically arranged ac-

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10
;

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cording to the initial ul-Latif adds that

in.

long, in a page

written in plain Nestalik ;

dated

Jumada

II.,

A.H. 1080 (A.D. 1669).

and final letters. 'Abd he had been assisted in the compilation by his friend Maulana Ibrahim Dihlavl, who had attended his
This glossary, known as Farhang i Manavl, has been lithographed in Luckuow, 1877.

lectures.

A Commentary on the Manavi, by 'Abd ulLatif B. 'Abd ullah ul-'Abbasi (see p. 589 slightly imperfect at the end.
b),

See also Stewart's Catalogue, p. 132, and Ouseley's Collection, No. 384.

Beg.

^Ij *K^

oL_>i

^^

jt,

Add. 6612.
Foil.

The commentator states that he had brought o together in this work, with some additions, the explanations of difficult verses and Arabic texts, written in the first instance on the margins of his revised copy of the Manavl.

162

14

in.

by 10^
in

25 and 23

lines,

in.

year of Jahandiir Shah, A.H. 1124 (A.D. 1712). [J. F. HULL.]

I.,

Rabl'

long; the

written
first

Nestalik;

dated

edition lithographed in Cawnpore, contains a dedication to Shahjahan, 1876,

An

I. Foil. 194. The first two Daftars of the Masnavi, with marginal notes.

POETRY.
II. Foil.

JALAL UD-DIN RUMI.

explanation of some difficult verses, imperfect at the beginning; the
is

591
slightly line

95

162.

The glossary described

under the preceding number.

first

quoted

is

the ninth of the

poem

Or. 369.
23 lines, 3 in. by 5$ long; written in small and close Nestalik; dated Ramazan, A.H. 1100 (A.D. 1689).
Foil.

,ji3T

175

in.

[GEO.

WM.

Daftars
f ol.

II.

HAMILTON.]

34
b.

a, fol.

VI. begin respectively on 56 b, fol. 83 a, fol. 104 b and fol.

line

An extensive commentary, entitled Mughni,

\^,

133
ff

The last
.

commented upon is ^\*jb

vol. vi. p. 171).

upon the third Daftar of the Mas.navi,

*!

w->T

jl^Jjj

(Bulak edition,

by

Muhammad 'A Mil.

Beg.

The author's name appears

scription
:

in the sub-

The author's name and

in this endorsement, ci

the title are found

~m*

Transcriber

A
In a Persian note on the same page it is stated MS. is the author's first draught v^~-' jj=>> iJii*v lo^-* y-i^, and that he

leaf prefixed to the

MS. by a

later

hand

contains the beginning of the preface of 'Al>d ul-L:itii' to his revised text of the

that this

Masnavi (see
This MS.

p.

589

a).

bears the seals of the kings of

began to write the commentary on Daftar I. in A.H. 1100. Many mistakes, however, corrected in the margins, the work of a scribe.
additions in a

Oude.

Or. 367.
Foil.

show

this

copy

to be

Extensive marginal

230; 12

in.

by 8$; 23
;

lines, 6 in.

more cursive character may have been written by the author. The commentary of Shaikh 'Abd ul-Latlf
(p.
is

long; written in Nestalik dated Ramazan, the 60th year of Aurangzib (A.H. 1117,

A.D. 1705).

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

690 a),

is

frequently quoted.
to the

Reference

Muntakhab ul-Lughat, which was written A.H. 1046 (see p. 510 a).
also

made

commentary upon the MasnavT, with the text. On the first page is found the
full

following
1 1
1

title

U^* ^a^')
l ;\

^W^
Siihib,

oU-yJ
has been

Ju- h.^-10
(

Jj

j-c,

and the name of the

at the

Or. 370.
by 4f 21 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik; dated Muharram, long; the 36th year of the reign (of Aurangzib, i.e.
8}
in.
;

author, Maulana 'Abd ul-'Ali written by the same hand

end of

Foil. 141;

Daftar

A.H. 1104, A.D. 1692).

[GEO.

137 6. It begins with the first verse of the poem, followed by a poetical paraphrase, the first line of which is:
I., fol.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

A Commentary on the Manavi, hammad Na'lm, W% ^g*

This commentary, which
is

by Mu-

The commentator quotes frequently

Jiimi's

confined to the

Nafahat ul-Uns, and occasionally the com-

592

POETRY.

JALAL UD-DIN RUMI.

where the author, who
is

mentary of his predecessor, Shaikh 'Abd ulLatif (p. 590 a). The present volume contains the first two
Daftars.

called
is

Muhammad Nur
resided in Arcot.
II.

Ullah Ahrari,

Shah Mir said to have

Poll.

177328.
l

Or. 368.
Foil. 125; 12
.

Another commentary on the same poem, by Afzal, of Ilahabad, l^ ibl^5\

J^

in.

by 8$; 26 and 23
;

lines,

summary
:

of the contents of Daftar

I. is

from 5 t6 7

long ; written by two different hands, in cursive Nestalik dated A.H. 1103
in.

followed by a prologue in verse beginning thus

(A.D. 1692).

[GEO.
author's
A)JS?

WM.
A>&\
I

HAMILTON.]
juj_
li

The same

commentary upon
j

Daftar VI., endorsed

^s-j^>

This volume contains only short portions of the text, preceded by the word 3y-

The author says that he wrote this work as a supplement to the commentaries of his predecessors, 'Abd ul-Latlf 'Abbasi (p. 590 a),
and Mir Nur Ullah Ahrari. The present copy contains only the commentary on the first Daftar, including the
Arabic Preface.

Add. 16,771.
Poll.

long

328 ; 8| in. by 5| 17 lines, 3f in. written in cursive Nestalik dated

; ;

Or. 1212.
Poll.
;

A.H. 1143, the 15th year of Muhammad Shah (A.D. 1731). [WM. YULE.]
Zulka'dah,
176. A Commentary on the Manavi, by Muhammad Nur Ullah Ahrari,
I.

long dated Ramazan, A.H. 923 (A.D. 1517).

144; 8 in. by 6J; 15 lines, 3| in. written in Nestalik, in two columns

;

Poll. '1

[ALEXANDRE JABA.]

The author, who is called in the subscription Mir Nur Ullah Akbarabadi, states in the
preface that, having applied himself from his youth upwards to the study of the Masnavi,

with the with the

Select verses of the Magnavi, beginning first verse of Daftar I., and ending
last of Daftar VI.

Copyist:

Add. 9999.
Poll. 112; 8J in. by 5J; 17 lines, 3 in. long, in a page ; written in cursive Nestalik,

he had been in the habit of putting down on the margins of his copy any new meaning
that occurred to him, until, yielding to the solicitations of his friends, he wrote out those

apparently in the 17th century.

notes in a connected form.

The commentary deals only with detached The author frequently quotes his passages.
predecessor 'Abd ul-Latlf
in order to correct him.
(p.

The " Rose Garden

from the Mas.navi.

of Unity," a selection

590

a),

mostly

Author
Catalogue, p. 495,
p.

Shahidi Maulavi,

^fa

^jjtU, (see

See Sprenger, Oude

513

6).

POETRY.
Beg.

JALAL UD-DIN KUMI.

year or twc in

593

poems written

collecting the scattered by scribes from Maulana's

The author had extracted, the prologue, some detached

as he states in
lines, six

dictation,

them
the

hun-

dred in number, from the Masnavi. At the request of a friend he connected them by

arranging adding that alphabetical collection comprised thirty thousand

revising
in
order,

them,

and

distichs.

means of additional
distichs of his
original.

verses, inserting

five

own between each two of the The date of composition, A.II.

:

937,

is

conveyed by the following chronofol.

by by Fliigel, Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 522, by Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 497, and Bibl.

Copies of the Divan are described

Redekiinste,
p.

Hammer,

172,

gram,

2 b

Sprenger., No. 1458.

p.

For extracts,

see Krafft,

yr ou^y yltf
See
7

/ JA>
where A.H.

Ilaj. Khal., vol. v. p. 232,

65, Leyden Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 113, Gotha Catalogue, p. 69, Munich Catalogue, 214. p. 16, and St Petersburg Catalogue, p.

given as the date of composition, Orientalia, vol. i., p. 319, the Vienna Catais

logue, vol.
logue, vol.

iii.
ii.

p.

129,

and the Leyden Cata-

with a translation in German verse, by V. von Rosenzweig, Vienna, 1838.

Select

poems have been

edited,

p. Hi'.

Or. 289.

Add. 7738.
Fol. 366; 13 in.

Foil. 255, leaves 17

lines,

lines,
;

by 7

19

3|

in.

written in Persian

Naskhi
[Geo.

4 in. long; dated Zulka'dah,

long, with 36 lines in the margins; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 16th century.
[Cl. J. RICH.]

A.H. 824 (A.D. 1421).

WM.

HAMILTON.]

The
The Divan of Jalul ud-Din Rumi, often " Divan i Shams i called Tabriz," because the
poet takes in
guide,
his takhallu-..
it

latter part of the

same Divan, with

3

the heading,

^J y^, o^i ^y

Beg.

J3, J*5

,.>

^^^y

&

the

name

of his spiritual

It contains the

Shams ud-Din

Tabrizi (see p. 585 a), as

Tarji'-bands,
fol.

fol.

Ghazals from J to ^, some 246 a, and a few Ruba'is,

253

a.

is

The contents of the present copy, which slightly imperfect at beginning and end,
Ghazals in alphabetical order,
fol.

Copyist:

are

fol.

1 a.
ft

Tarji'-bands,

316

b.

RubftHs,

foil.

352

Add. 7749.
15 lines, 2 in. by 3 and neat Shikastahlong ; written in a small Amiz; dated Baghdad, Zulka'dah, A.H.
Foil.

3596.
Foil.
editor's

360

365 contain a portion of the It is extremely wordy, preface.

and,

193

5J

in.

confused,
written.

moreover, very incorrectly whose name does not describes himself as a devoted admirer appear, of Jalal ud-Dm, whom, however, he had never seen. lie says that he had spent a

The

editor,

1208 (A.D. 1791).

Iraki,

[Cl. J. RICH.]

The following works of Fakhr ud-Din

j\p

j*
Ibriihim B. ShahriySr 'Iraki

Fakhr ud-Din

VOL.

II.

594
left

POETRY.

A.H. 600700.

at the age of eighteen his native city Hama'dan, went in the guise of a wandering

The prologue contains a eulogy on the celebrated Vazlr, Shams ud-Din Muhammad
Sahib Divan.

kalandar to India, and attached himself in

Multan to Shaikh Baha ud-Din Zakariyya, with whom he stayed twenty-five years. After his master's death, which took place A.H. 666 or 661, he performed the pilgrimage, and proceeded from Mecca to Kuniyah, where he found another spiritual guide in the well-known mystic, Sadr ud-Din Kuniyavi, who died A.H. 672 (Arabic CataIt was there, and while logue, p. 779 b). Sadr ud-Din's lectures on the attending Fusus ut-Hikam, that he composed his Sufi tract, Lama'at, which was approved hy his
Shaikh.

176 b. 0,1^, Lama'at," a tract in prose and verse on mystic love (see the preceding column, and Haj. Khal., vol. v. p. 333.
III. Fol.

Beg.

Add. 16,822.
Foil. 84;
;

6J

in.

by 3|

17

lines, 2

in.

long with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, pro[WM. YULE.] bably in the 16th century.

written in small and neat Nestalik,

patron see Geschichte der Ilchane, vol.

He left Rum after the death of his Mu*m ud-Din Parvanah (A.H. 677
;

i.,

p. 299),

and spent his latter years in wanderings He died in through Egypt and Syria. A.H. 686, according to the GuDamascus, zldah, fol. 241, or A.H. 688, as stated
in the Nafahiit ul-Uns, p. 700,

commentary on the preceding work, LamaVit," by Nur ud-Din *Abd ur-Rahman Jami (see p. 17 a).
"

Beg.

Majalis ulii.

The commentator

says in his preface that

'Ushshak,

fol.

91, Firishtah, vol.

p. 760,

Haft Iklim, fol. 413, and Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 291. Daulatshah, however, followed by Taki Kashl, Oude Catalogue, p. 17, places his death in A.H. 709. See Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 226, and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 440. I. Fol. 16.

he had been, like many others, prejudiced against the soundness of the Lama'at, until,
requested by his friend, Amir 'Alishir, to revise the text, he had found in it a rich
storehouse of spiritual truths, which he undertook to elucidate in the present work. The

Divan, containing 1. Kasldahs and some TarjI'-bands, without alpha2. Ghazals in alphabetical arrangement.
betical order, fol.

date of composition, A.H. 886, is expressed in a versified chronogram at the end by the

This work See Haj.

is

generally called
p. 371.

46

b.

3. Ruba'is, fol.

125

b.

Khal., vol. v. p. 335,

oUJu\ T-J"*and Dora, St.

Beg.

jLi- Uil

^m*

C^j

Petersburg Catalogue,
Copyist
:

Some
II.

of the Kasldahs are in praise of the

Foil. 357
;

poet's Shaikh,

Baha ud-Din Zakariyya. the " Book Fol. 138 J. *.'i j'wls,

Add. 24,944.
9 lines, 3| in. long, with 22 lines in the margin ; written in elegant Nestalik, with rich 'Unvfms, ornamental headings, and illuminated borders on
in.
;

14i

of

by 9

Lovers," a

in Mas.navi verse, varied by Ghazals, treating in ten sections (Fasl) of

poem

mystic love.

every page; dated A.H. 974 (A.D. 1566)

bound

in gilt

and stamped

leather,

[G. LIBRI.]

POETRY.

SA'DI.

595

The

Kulliyat, or complete

works of

Sa'di.

and breadth of the world known to the Muslims, from Tartary to Abyssinia, and from
India to Barbary. He visited Kashghar, as he states in the Gulistan, Bab v., 15, in the

Sa'di, the most popular of Persian poets, took his name from the Atiibak of Fiirs, Sa'd

B. Zingi, father

who

died A.H. 623. after a reign of

year in which Sultan

Muhammad Khwarazm

twenty-three years, and to whose service his

was attached. He is generally called Muslih ud-Din but there is reason to believe that his original name was Musharrif ud-Din, and that Muslih ud-Din was the name of his father. In a copy of the Kulliyat, dated A.H. 905, lately belonging to Col. C. 8.
;

Shah had made peace with the Khitais. This must have been shortly after the great victory which the Sultan won over the Kara Khitais A.H. 606 (see the Kamil, vol. xii. p. 177), and the anecdote shows that even at that early period the fame of the young poet of Shihiz had spread to that remote region.
Sa'di returned to his native city shortly iefore A.H. 655, and composed in that year

a subscription to the Bustan, purporting to have been transcribed from the author's autograph, in which he

Guthrie, there

is

calls

himself

L*

,_j>!*.

In an

early collection of his works, Add. 18,411, in Or. 5601, and in the present copy, his name
is

and the next his two most popular works, the Bustan and the Gulistan, in both of which he immortalized the name of the reigning Atabak, Abu Bakr B. Sa'd B. Zingi (A. II.
623 658), v hose wise rule had restored peace and prosperity to Furs. There he spent in peace and seclusion the latter part of his long life, treated with respect by the Moghul who had superseded the Atabaks governors and receiving frequent marks of the regard and liberality of the great Vazir, Shams udDin Siihib Divan, who from the reign of Ilulagu to the accession of Arghun, A.H. 683, was at the head of the civil administration
of the

written

^ ^oN
(V

<_> rl,

and

in Bisu-

tun's preface ,.*-rtH Ju*.

a.*jL.Jl

j*!^ *3J1 In the Guzldah the names are

_,

^\

^1-

inverted ._i^L*

-J

J -**,
1

while in the Na-

fahat ul-Uns they

refers

are

combined, with
^>'^

trifling alteration, to ^L*

^jL

Sa'di

native place.

frequently to Shirfiz as his The date of his birth is not

accurately known. In the Biistan, which he wrote A.H. 655, he addresses himself as

Moghul empire.
i

septuagenarian,

Ziyfi Barani states that Muhammad Sultan, son of Sultan Ghiyas. ud-Din Balaban, who in the seat of his government at Multiin (A.H. 670-683) surrounded himself with

from which it may be inferred that he was born about A.H. *5S5. But if the Shaikh

Shams ud-D'in Abul-Faraj B.

Jauzi,
ii.,

whom
20, as

messengers to Shiraz for the purpose of inducing Sa'di to settle in Multan, but that the poet, excusing himself on the
poets, twice sent

he mentions in the Gulistan, Bab

the preceptor of his youth, is really identical, as has been asserted, with the celebrated

some autoplea of old age, sent to the prince See Turlkh Firuzshahi, p. 68. verses. graph Sa'di died on the seventeenth of Zulhijjah,
the date given by Hamd Ullah Mustaufi in his Guzidah written forty

doctor
Jauxi,

Jam ul vd-Dln Abul-Faraj Ibn ulwho died in Baghdad A.H. 597, a

A.H. 690.

This

is

date must be adopted. After completing his studies in Baghdad, Sa'di entered upon a long course of distant
still earlier

travels,

which took him through the length

Daulatshah and Jami give A.H. years later. 691, and the former adds that the poet had reached at his death the age of one hundred and two lunar years. Amin R;izl states that
v 2

590

POETRY.

SA'DI.
betical

he was then one hundred and ten years old, an estimate which, according to what has heen above stated respecting the probable date of his birth, must be nearer the truth. The principal notices on Sa'dl are those of Daulatshah (translated into English by J. H. Harington, "Works of Sadee, x., pp. ii. and into German by K. H. Graf, Rosengarten, pp. 229234), of Jami, Nafahat ul-Uns, p. 699, Hablb us-Siyar, vol. ii., Juz 4, p. 130, Majalis ul-Miimimn, fol. 332, Haft Ikllm, fol. 92, and Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 198. See
also

letters of the

index to the same, based on the rhyme. It is added at the end

that the Majlis i Hazl, or mock-homily, had been transferred to the section inscribed

English translation of the found in the Introduction of Harington's edition, pp. 24 26.
Khablsjit.

An

preface will be

I.

Fol. 8

preface.

*=-U> y./LJ J,1 See Bacher, Sa'di-Studien,

b,

^,

Sa'di's

p. 84.

Beg.
II. Pol.
>

Hammer,
p.
5,

Redekiinste, p. 204, Ouseley's

17

b,

wtfjU fjAsfj* JlS *JUj. [read

Notices,
p. 545,
rale,

Sprenger,

Oude Catalogue,

"the

five sittings or homilies.'"

tf* &f-.}\ jli-

Defremery, Nouvelle Biographic Genevol. xlii., p. 1002, and, above all, Dr.

Beg.

*j*M

^JJI

<dJ

^^

W.

Bacher,

who in his introduction to

" Sa'di' s

Aphorismen und Sinngedichte, Strassburg, 1879," has ingeniously combined all the information which was to be extracted from a
careful perusal of the poet's works. The Kulliyat have been edited

The fifth Majlis has been translated by James Ross, Bombay Transactions, vol. i.
pp.

146158.
58
b,

III. Pol.

a \^ ^.\_* ,*J^, "The

by

J.

H.

questions of the Lord of the Divan," i.e. the Vazlr Shams ud-Dln Muhammad JuvainI, to
Sa'dl,

Harington, Calcutta, 1791 1795. Many other editions have since appeared in the

with the answers of the

latter.

Be.
This tract, which was not drawn up by Sa'dl, has been translated by Harington,
Introduction, pp. 14
garten, vol.
ii.

Bombay, A.H. 1267 and 1280, Dehli, 1269, Cawnpore, 1280, Lucknow, The 1287, Tabriz, 1257, and Teheran, 1268. contents have been stated in the Vienna Jahrbiicher, vol. 64, Anz. Blatt., p. 5, Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 527, Oude Catalogue, p. 546, and, with great fullness and accuracy,
East, as .in

17,

and by Graf, Lust-

pp. 136
a,

142.

IV. Pol. 62

by Dr.

"W. Bacher,

in his

Sa'di-Studien,

Zeitschrift der D.
schaft, vol.

Morgenlandischen Gesellxxx. pp. 81 106.

'All B.

a Sufi tract on reason and love, in answer to a question of Maulana Sa'd ud-Dln.

Beg. yif

Contents: Preface of

Ahmad

B.

V. Pol. 67

a,

Abu Nasr
Blsutun,

[in other copies

Abu

--

Bakr"] B.

-x

fol.

" Advice to kings."

b.

Beg.

The

^Sjjjw (,>U- j writer states that in A.H. 726 he

3jiW
\j

cd=-

j&
had

Beg.

t**>.

Jj\

jj JU3

*D

This tract was written, as Sa'dl states in

the beginning, at the request of a friend, ^Jj. whom he addresses further on as ;',
.,\z*j*

arranged the Ghazals of Sa'dl alphabetically according to the initial letters, and had subsequently, A.H. 734, compiled an alphaa

"

" According to Dr. Bacher, Sa'diStudien," pp. 93102, and "Aphorismen

son," jjjy

Slii'ah Bcribes frequently substitute

Abu Nasr

for the

und Sinngedichte," Vorwort,

it

was addressed

hateful

name

of

Abu

Bakr.

to the Sahib Divan, together with the collec-

POETRY.
tion of ethical

SA'DI.

597

poems known as Sahibiyyah

It
is,

(see art. xviii.).

however, highly im-

1807, by Eastwick, 1852, and by Platts, 1873, into German by Graf, 1846, into

probable that Sa'di should have familiarly referred to the all-powerful Vazir as " one of

French by A. du Ryer, 1631, D'Alegre, 1704, Gaudin, 1789, and C. Defr^mery, 1858.

he should have presented him with a work avowedly composed for another person. In an early recension of the Kulliyat, Add. 18,411, the Risalah i Sahib Divan (art. iii.) is found to precede immediately the Kitab i Sahibiyyah.
his friends," or that

The following

articles,

viii.

xvii.,

are

written in the margins.

VIII. Fol. 4 b. (jLL-^j, the Bustfm, a moral poem, scarcely less known than the preceding work.

VI. Fol. 88

b.

Three short pieces, as

fol-

lows:

1. \JL>\

u LkJ-- *-&*,, Sa'di's interview

with Sultan Abakfi, drawn up from the poet's oral relation by an anonymous writer. It has been translated by Ilarington, Introduction,
pp.

The Bustan has 1810 and 1828, in 1868, and Tabriz, edited, with the
Sururi,

been printed in Calcutta, Lahore, 1863, Cawnpore, A.H. 1285. It has been Turkish commentary of

17
ii.

19,

and by Graf, Lust146.

2.
3&

garten, vol.

pp. 142
Sa'di's

^JUj

yLxiJI ki-^^jS, addressed to Ankiyanu, who was Moghul governor of Ffirs, A.H. 667670. See the Shiriiz-Namah, fol. 75, and Hafiz Abru, fol. 98. 3. ^jJI ^^1 dlJo ool&-. An anecdote

advice to a ruler,

by Graf, Vienna, 1850, translated the same scholar, Jena, 1850, and by Schlechta Vszerd, Vienna, 1852, and into English by H. W. Clarke, London, 1879.
into

German by

IX. Fol. 108

Kasidahs.

a.

the Arabic ^jf. oJu;,

Shams ud-Din, and the remonstrances made to him by Sa'di, told by an anonymous writer; translated by
relating to Malik

X.

Fol.

116

b.

^U
^J^,

^-J'-aS,

the Per-

sian Kasidahs, in alphabetical order.

Ilarington, pp. 19

21,

and by Graf, Lust148.

XI. Fol. 147

a.

elegies, or funeral

garten, vol.

ii.

pp. 1-16

Malik Shams ud-Din B. Malik was placed, at the head of the revenue colleclLa- t_*U> in Fars. tion See the Shiraz

A.H. 676,

poems. Some pieces of this and the preceding section have been translated by Graf, Zeitschrift der D. Morg. Gesellschaft, voll.
i

v., xii.

and xv.
Fol.

Namah,

fol.

70,

and

Hfifiz

Abru,
--

fol.

99.

XII.

151

b.

oW->

Kasidahs

in

VII. Foil. 98

m.
Beg.
This
is

6284 a. J

\*~, the

Gu-

alternating Persian and Arabic verses.

XIII. Fol. 157

a.

uilclk

J ^~ 3 ^t. yj*. c-iits

oU-y, poems with

oL_>,

re-

frains.

the most popular Persian work in the East, and the best known in Europe.

XIV.
order.

Fol. 164 a.

Ghazals called

Two

of the latest and most correct of

Tayyibit,

or

Some

alphabetical "pleasant," of these have been translated

in

innumerable editions have been published by Dr. Sprenger, Calcutta, 1851, and by Mr. John Platts, London, 1874. It has been translated into Latin by Gentius, 1651, into
English by
Fr. Gladwin, 1806, by

by Graf,

Zeitschrift, voll. xiii.

b.

and

xv.

XV.

Fol. 262

*j\>,

Ghazals composed

in the ornate or artificial style, also alphabetically arranged.

Dumoulin,

598

POETRY.
Pol. 306 a.

SA'DI.
This

XVI.

^ji.,

Ghazals called

Khavatim, or

order. signets, in alphabetical

b.

XVII. Fol. 322

oj*

oU>,

the early

contains two whole-page miniatures at the beginning, two at the end, and the sixty-seven of smaller size in the body of in the Persian style and of volume. They are

MS.

Ghazals, alphabetically arranged.

x^U> L^^, short moral and epigrammatic poems, in the form of Mukatta at, called Sahibiyyah, from their dedication to the Sahib Divan (see above,
XVIII. Pol. 284
b.

the highest degree of finish. The first two pages contain a table of contents, disposed in

two ornamental

circular designs.

The last two

pages, also richly illuminated, contain versified chronograms giving A.H. 974 as the

art.

v.).

They
in

have

been
title

edited,
verse,

with

translation

German
the

W.

Bacher,

under

of

by Dr. " Sa'di's

date of transcription, and A.H. 976 as the year in which the ornamentation was completed.

Aphorismen und Sinngedichte," Strassburg,

1879.

the last page is a note of purchase dated Dehli, A.H. 1149.

On

Beg.

M^ ^

Sjj.jJu.Jl

Jolj

5U6

i3&

j)J

j-J'

In the present copy, contrary to what is found in most MSS., the Mukatta'at of the Kitab Sahibiyyah are arranged in alphabetical order. They are followed by some 335. in Mas.navl, foil. 322 pieces

Add. 7741.
19 lines, 2 in. 337 11 in- by 6 long, with 12 lines in the margin; written in neat Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins; dated Jumada II., A.H. 901 (A.D. 1496).
Foil.
;
;

[01. J. RICH.]

XIX. oV*L
which in most

Mukatta'at.

This section,
in

copies, editions, follows the Sahibbiyah,

and

The Kulliyat
Ibn Bisutun.

of Sa'di, with the preface of

the printed

and com-

This copy contains the Mukatta'at alphabetically arranged, foil. 320 b, 322 a; but it wants the sixth of the prose works (see above, art. vi.), and has two lacunes, viz. one of

does prises a few pieces in alphabetical order, as a separate section in the not appear dispresent copy ; but its contents are found to their rhymes in the tributed according
alphabetical series of the

preceding book.

XX.

Facetious and licentious pieces in

verse and in prose, viz. 1. obolk*? jocular " poems, generally called oli._-i-, or wicked,"
foil.

about thirty-four leaves after fol. 213, extending from the latter part of the Tarji'band to the Tayyibat in <i, Calcutta edition, vol. ii. pp. 259 300, and another of about
fifteen leaves after fol. 229,
c

339

6340
in

a,

margins.

2.

c^K.^,

comic pieces

mock

prose, consisting of three called and some homilies, Jj* (jJl*.*,

same section. A portion of u the Ruba'is and Fardiyyat is also wanting. The first thirty-one leaves are in a later hand, and want the rubrics.
to

extending from

of the

facetia? i_julk), foil.

335 I

355

a.

Copyist

,_

.x>-j\^

^^ vu-e

XXI.

Fol. 340

J,

margins.

oLcb., Ru-

b<Vis, or quatrains.

Or. 1365.
355
a,

XXII.

Foil.

350 a

margins,

detached distichs.
Copyist
:

459; 15 in. by 9; 12 lines, 3g in. with 24 lines in the margin; written in long, fair Nestalik, with rich 'Unvans, and marFoil.

POETRY.
ginal ornaments on every page, apparently in the 16th century; bound in stamped
leather.

SA'DI.

599

[Sir

CHARLES ALEX. MURRAY.]

Sa'di.

in the preceding copies, alphabetically arFol. 134 has a whole-page miniaranged. ture in the Persian style.

The Kulliyat of
Contents
:

Preface of Ibn Bisutun, fol. 3 b. The five prose works, fol. 7 6. Gulistan, fol. 82 b. Bustan, fol. 3 6, margins. Arabic

Add. 5601.
Foil. 349;

15$

in.

by 10

9 lines, 3

in.

and Persian Kasidahs, and Elegies, foil. 238 b 245 a, margins. Mulamma'at, wrongly headed ci>UJj_p, fol. 238 6. Tarji'at, fol. 244 b. Tayyibat, fol. 251 b. BadaY, fol. 347 b. Khavatim, fol. 383 b. Ghazaliy-

long, with 20 lines in the margins, written in neat Nestalik, with fifteen rich 'Unvfms,

and ornamental

borders

apparently in the 16th century stamped and gilt leather.

on every page, bound in

;

yat

Kadim, without heading,

fol.

399

a.

The Kulliyat of Sa'di.

312
This copy contains the Mukatta'at, foil. but wants the Sahibiyyah. It has four whole-page miniatures at begin-

Sahibiyyah, with the heading o'-Joi. alphabetically arranged as in the

copy,
fol. fol.

<~>'zf,

6316

first

Mukatta'at, fol. 429 *. Mu/lukat, or facetiae in verse and in prose,

a.

407

431

b.

Ruba'iyyat,

fol.

margins.

Fardiyyat,

foil.

440 6455 453 b 458 a.

Oi'J*

a,

Copyist: <j$j^X

^& ^

ning and end, and twenty-one of lesser size in the body of the volume. They are finely executed in the Indian style. Foil. 2 b and 3 a contain the first words of Bisutun's preface, and a table of contents written within
richly illuminated borders with the heading
:

The MS. contains a richly illuminated table of contents, and two whole- page miniatures in Persian style at beginning and end. In a note written on the fly-leaf by Sir

J*k

C. A. Murray, it is stated to have belonged " to Zulfekar Khan, the commander-in-chief

On

the

first

page
first

is

an 'Arzdidah dated
II.

Lucknow,

the

year of Shahjahan

of the army in the reign of Fath Ali Shah." In the margin of fol. 9 is found an entry relating to the birth of a grandson of that

(A.H. 1173).

Add. 17,961.
lines, 3 in. with 24 lines in the margins ; written loug, in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and ruled margins,

A.H. 1236. At the end is found the seal of Baba Khan (afterwards Fath *Ali 8h4h ; see Malcolm, vol. ii. p. 184).
officer in

Foil. 426;

12}

in.

by

8ft;

11

Add. 16,764.
9$ in. by 5$; 12 lines, 2| in. with 24 lines in the margins, written long, in Nestalik, with 'Unvan, illuminated headings,
Foil. 377;

about the close of the 16th century. The Kulliyftt of Sa'di, wanting the FarAt the beginning is the first half of diyyat. a table of contents, richly illuminated. On the first page is a partly obliterated note, in

99

a)

and gold-ruled margins; dated Zulka'dah, A.H. 984 (A.D. 1577).

Sa'di,

(fol.

which the name of Ibrahim 'Adilshah (A.H. 988 1037), and lower down the date A.H.
1014, are
still legible.

The Kulliyat of
Kasidahs.
Tin-

[Wii. YULK.J wanting the Arabic

Add. 7742,
Foil. 376; 12 in. by 7J; 18 lines, 3 in. long, with 14 lines in the margin; written in fair

353

and the

Saliibiyyah, foil. 338 ft follow ing sections, are not, as

600

POETRY.
mar-

SA'DI.
states in a short preface
\.

Nestalik, with 'Unvans and gold-ruled gins, apparently in the 17th century.

beginning

,J&\- C^oLfr

,e-> i^^-i-5

<

after (JUjL^-i. that,

[Ci. J. RICH.] The Kulliyat of Sa'di, wanting the Ruba'isIt has a whole-page miniature in Persian
style at the beginning.

an unremitting study of the works of the most eminent writers in prose and verse, he had found none brighter or more delightful
than the writings of the late {pj>-*) Mu" sharrif ud-Dln Sa'di, whom he styles king of the Imams and divine sages, Sultan of the
poets and philosophers," y-j-JjU)^ Xv^)\ CiH*
^aJL-tr' j

Add. 7743.
18 lines, 2| in. 399 9| in. by 5 12 lines in the margin written in long, with Nestalik, with 'Unvans, illuminated headings,
Foil.
;

A_x5) ^UaLrt

and, as they were

and gold-ruled margins, apparently

17th century.

in

the

[CL. J. RICH.]

scattered piecemeal in people's hands, he had deemed it a stringent duty to bring them

The Kulliyat
pieces in prose.

of Sa'dl, wanting the Arabic

together, and had collected

had spared no trouble

till

he

Kasidahs, the Mukatta'at, and the comical

them in the present volume.

Add. 18,412.
by 6 ; 21 lines, 2| in. long, with 18 lines in the margin ; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins ; dated
Toll. 233;
in.

Contents: The five sittings (Majlis; see The Bustan, fol. p. 596 b, art. ii.), fol. 1 b. 8 b. The Gulistan, fol. 54 b. The Tayyibat,
beg. \3b j^jl

10

JL'i^

jy,

fol.

89

b.

BadaT,

128
u^i

b.

Zulka'dah, A.H. 1076 (A.D.1666). [Win. YULE.] portion of the Kulliyat, containing the Bustan, fol. 1 b. The Persian Kasidahs,

joi

Khavatlm, beg. _!&j y j=>\ &)\, fol. 138 b.

ci^i* } (_yluo j

&*-l*

j\

<-r^V.

Persian Kafol.

sidahs, beg.

.iii,

142

b.

without alphabetical arrangement, fol. 62 b. The Tarjr-band, fol. 82 b. The Tayyibat, The preface of Ibn Bisutun and the fol. 87 b.
six prose tracts, fol.

152

b.

The Gulistan,

fol.

1796.

Mulamma'at, beg. JILJ1 Jj*> >rii)l ^a c?l, The tract fol. 156 a. Tarjlat, fol. 158 a. on reason and love (p. 596 b, art. iv.), fol. 160 &. Naslhat ul-Muluk (art. v.), foil. The tract of Ankiyanu, 161 5166 a. Questions of the late (art. vi. 2), fol. 178 b. Sahib Divan, uV-^ ^-*= ^ JV" (art. iii.),
l_

^^

>

fol.

179

b.

Sahibiyyah

(art.

xviii.),
fol.

beg.
a.

Add. 18,411.
197 llf in. by 6 20 lines, 2J in. long with 44 lines in the margin, written in minute Nestalik, with illuminated headFoil.
;

180

ings and gold-ruled margins, probably in the 17th century. [Wir. YULE.]

fol. 188 b. 1), 193 a. Ruba*iyat, fol. 193 b. Mufradat, fol. 195 b. 166 a 178 b contain a work which Foil. It is a wordy contest between is not Sa'di's.

Muta'ibat in verse

(art.

xx.

Mukatta'at

fol. (art. xix.),

An

earlier collection of the

works of

Sa'di,

from the preceding in the number and order of the works included, and in the
differing

Isfahan, u Vwrt j A\*J oy&li, ornate prose, alternating with written Arabic and Persian verses.
in

Baghdad and

entire absence of alphabetical arrangement in the poetical sections.

Beg.

^-J^

_,

is^La)!

_,

*jU*>

J^

jJ

The

editor,

whose name does not appear,

The

author, 'Abd us-Salam B. Abil-Majid,

POETRY.
surnamed Kamal
ul-Isfahani,

SA'DI.

601

..

is not to be JJo ^5U^ *r\J\ confounded with the well-known poet Kamal Isfahan! (p. 580 6), whose proper name was

JV-*

^,

long; written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan, gilt headings, and gold-ruled margins ; dated

Herat, Shawal, A.H. 995 (A.D. 1587).

IsinaM.

He

belongs to a later period (pro-

The Divan of Sa'di.

Contents
:

[WM. CURETON.]

bably to the eighth century of the Hijrah) ; for he mentions Auhad ud-Dm Kirmani, who died A.H. 697, as one of the holy men that lay buried in Baghdad.

I.

Foil. 2

612 a.

The Per-

sian Kasidahs arranged in alphabetical order.

The contents correspond with the first portion only of the same section in the Calcutta
edition, vol. ii. pp. 214 220, the latter part of the alphabet being only represented by the nos. 31 and 34 of the same edition.
II.

long been, he says in the preamble, wandering from place to place in pursuit of

He had

knowledge, and having found Baghdad and Isfahan fairer than all other cities, was at a loss to which he should give the preference,

Foil.

12 a

152

b.

Ghazals

alpha-

betically arranged, not, however, as usual,

when a
plexity

him out of his perby communicating to him the debate

friend helped
It
is

by the rhyme-letters, but by the

of each piece.

first letter

This

is

precisely the arrange-

which
turn,

follows.

each of

a dialogue in which the contending cities boasts in

ment which was adopted by Ibn Bisutun

A.H. 734
(see p. 596 o), but which is not followed in the copies of the Kulliyiit. The

its glories, privileges,

and

attractions.

Eventually Baghdad yields the palm to itrival as being the abode of the illustrious
>r,Shihab ul-l.iakk vad-Din Muburaksh.ih.

contents are principally derived from the Kit.il) i Tayyibat; but the first part of the series

some Kasidahs, and such strophes of the Tarji'-band as begin with the letter 1.
includes
III.

Foil.

152

6208

a.

Another

series

4,

who

is

styled the master of Iran,

and described as a wise and powerful ruler, and a munificent patron of letters. In conclusion the author resolves to return
to his native city, hoping to introduce himself " contest" to the notice of by means of that

of Ghazals, alphabetically arranged by the rhyme-letters, and, under each of these, by

the initial letter of each piece. Ghazals included belong to

Most of the
the Kitab
i

BadaT.
IV. Foil. 208 a

217

a.

Ruba'is arrange.

the noble Vazir, to whom he sent at the same time a laudatory poem rhyming in the letter ^.
Subscription:

according to the rhyme-letters.

Copyist:
tjj

%^S\

&***
.Jy.j.

The MS.

is

endorsed ^j*~* *-.

On

the same page are several 'Arzdidahs of the reign of Shahjahan, the earliest of which is dated of the 17th year (A.H. 10534).
the Hrst page are two 'Arzdidahs of the reign of 'Alamgir, dated respectively the

On

second and forty-sixth year (A.D. 1069 and

1113).
Foil.

Add. 17,330.
13;

in.

by

5,

17

lines,

in.

Add. 25,812.
Foil.

1-ini;;;

written in neat Nestalik, with two

217

9J

in.

by

5.|

17

lines,

3f

in.

'Unvans, gilt headings, and gold-ruled margins; dated Rajab, A.H. 871 (AD. 1467).
z

VOL.

II.

002

POETRY.
foil.

SA'DI.
the fly-leaf is written : " Daniel Walde his booke. April the 9th, 1704. Bought att Suratt in the East Indies."

The Bustan,
foil.

2124, and
p. 597.

the Gulistan,

On

127

213; see

inscription written at the of each work, within illuminated beginning borders, states that the MS. was written for

The following

Sultan

Muhammad

II.

(A.H.

855886).
Foil,

Add. 7744.
163; 7iin. by 4; 11 lines, If in, with 24 lines in the margins written long, in Nestalik, with 'Unvan, illuminated headings, and gold-ruled margins, apparently in
;

Copyist

^b3\ JIU-, JU

the 17th century.

[Cl. J.

RICH.]

The

Gulistan,

with the Bustan in the

Add. 16,811.
Foil. 202;

margins. At the
;

9&

in.

long, with 24 lines in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan, gold headings, and gold-ruled margins, probably in the 15th

by 7; 10 lines, 2$ in. in the margins written

beginning are two whole-page miniatures, with illuminated borders, in

Persian style.

century.

[WM. YULE.]
147 and 26 long,
Foil.
;

Or. 1416.

The Gulistan, written in the centre of the page, and the Bustan, written in the margins
from
fol.

Hi in.

by 6^

12

lines, 3

in.

1 b to

fol.

185

b.

margins; written in Nestalik, as stated, Kashmir, apabout the middle of the 19th cenparently
lines in the

in

Sloane 2951.
172; 11^ by 7|; 11 lines, 2f in. long, with 24 lines in the margins ; written in fair Nestalik, with a rich 'Unvan, and with
Foil.
in.

tury.

The Gulistan, with the Bustan

margins.

in

the

Or. 1219.
Foil.

illuminated headings and borders throughout, probably in the 16th century ; bound
in stamped

142; 8

in.

by 4f

and painted covers. The Gulistan written in the centre of the page, and the Bustan written in the margins from. fol. 6 b to 172 a. There are two wholepage miniatures at the beginning, and six of
smaller size in the body of the volume, all in Persian style.

long; written in fair and gold-ruled margins,

2f in. TTnvan Nestalik, with

;

15

lines,

16th century. The Bustan.

probably in the [ALEXANDRE JABA.]

Add. 26,158.
Foil.

Copyist
Prefixed

erjl^
is

J^ ^

Jy

MS.

a leaf detached from another It contains on the first side the second

long

129; 7i in. by 4|; 17 lines, 2| in. written in Turkish Naskhi ; dated

Sha'ban,

A.H. 1038 (A.D. 1629).

[Wir. ERSKINE.]

half of an 'Unvan of fine execution, and a fragment of preface beginning as follows:

The Bustan, with marginal notes, partly

Turkish.

POETRY.

SA'DI.

603

Add. 27,262.
Foil. 175;

Add. 26,157.
Foil.

15

long; written in

by 10$; 12 lines, 5| in. a large and elegant Nestalik,

in.

158 ; 9

in.

by 5

14

lines,
;

written in Indian Nestalik

3 in. long; dated Rabi' I.,

with

'Unvan,

gold

headings,

interlinear

gilding and gold designs on the margins throughout; dated Agrah, Rabi* I., A.H. 1039 (A.D. 1629); bound in painted and

A.H. 1098 (A.D. 1687). The Bustan.

[Wii. ERSKINE.]

glazed covers.

[Sin
Sa'di.

JOHN MALCOLM.]

Foil. 120;

Add. 14,346. 8 in. by 4; 15 lines,

[J.

in.

The BGstan of
Tli is
fine

long; written in Nestalik, probably in the

copy, ornamented with ten miniatures in Indian style, and of exquisite finish, is due to the penmanship of a well-

17th century.

CRAWFURD.]

known physician and poet, who signs Rukn ud Din Mas'ud, commonly

The Bustan, imperfect at the end. A leaf appended to the MS. by a later hand, to Hakim .make it appear complete, is dated A.H. 1185.
called

Hakim

Ruknii,
Foil.

Add, 16,765. 108; 8* in. by 6; about

Muhammad Shah

20

lines,
;

Kashi, Masih, was the son of Hakim Nizam ud-Din *Ali, of Kashiin, and began
hallus of
his poetical career at the court of 'Abbas I. He repaired to India in the reign of Akbar,

Rukn ud-Din

who adopted

the tak-

long; written in a rude Indian character dated Mednipur, Orissa, Jumfida II., 17th
in.

year of
1734).

(A.H. 1147, A.D.

[WM. YULE.]

The Bustan.

and became one of the favourite poets of Shahjahaii, whose court he left, at an advanced age (according to Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 424, one hundred and five lunar years),
to return to his native country, where he died. The Mirat ul-'Alam, fol. 482, gives
Foil.
;

Add. 9696.
169;
8j| in.

by 6^; 13

lines,

3$

in.

A.H. 1057
Afkar, his death.
p.
.'5

Siriij,

Oude Catalogue,
Ill,

p.

151,
ul-

long written in cursive Indian Nestalik, in the 18th century. The Bustan.

Atashkadah,
fol.

fol.

and

Kind., sat

283,

A.H. 1066, as the date of

vol.
i.

Add. 5631.
Foil.

See also Padishah Namah,

193; 7i

in.

by 5$; 11

lines,

in.

long;

written in cursive Nestalik;

dated

On

the

first

page

is

written: "This book

Rajab, A.H. 1180 (A.D. 1766).

[N. BRASSET HALHED.]

was purchased at Kermanshah in 1810 by Sir John Malcolm from a prince of the Zund family, whose eyes had been put out, and who wandered as a mendicant over the country his ancestors and relations had so
long governed."
Fol. 168 b has been reproduced by photography in the Oriental Series of the Palseographical Society, No. 50.

The Bustan.

Add. 25,813.
Foil.

141

in.

by 5

15

lines,

in.

long

written in cursive Nestalik, apparently

in India, in the 18th century.

[WM. CURETON.J
The Bustan.
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POETRY.

SA'DI.

Add. 6630.
Foil.
;

202

in.

by 6

11

lines,

in.

long written in Nestalik on European paper water-marked 1799. [J. F. HULL.]

The Gulistan see p. 597 a. At the end is a seal bearing the name of Ni'mat Ullah with the date A.H. 1082.
;

The Bustan.

From an endorsement in the handwriting of Humphrey Wanley, dated A.D. !724-5 t

this

Add. 25,814.
lines, 7J long written in Nestalik, probably in tbe 18th century. [Wat. CURETON.] A commentary on the Bustan, by 'Abd ur-Rasul B. Shihab ud-Din, etc., akKurashl,
;
;

MS. appears

to

have once belonged to

the Harleian Collection.

Foil. 66;

in.

by 4

15

in.

Add. 26,155.
Foil.

77;

9|

in.

Beg.
This short commentary, in which the FarJahangiri is frequently quoted, deals chiefly with the explanation of proper names, rare words, and a few detached passages.

long; written 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, probably in the 17th century. [Wtt. ERSKINE.] The Gulistan, with some marginal notes. It wants the Khatimah.

in

by 5; 19 lines, 2| in. Indian Nestalik, with

hang

Add. 26,154.
14 lines, 3 in. 8^ in. by 5 long, in a page ; written in a coarse Indian character, about the close of the 17th cenFoil.

116

The author states in the preface that he wrote it in A.H. 1073, at the request of his elder brother, Shaikh 'Abd Ullah, and that
ho submitted it to the inspection of his master, Mir Nur Ullah. 'Abd ur-Rasul has also written a commentary

tury.

[Wn. ERSKINE.]

upon the

Gulistan.

See the Oude Cata-

logue, pp. 550, 552.

The Gulistan, with copious marginal notes. The notes have been written by Ibrahim B. Kazi Husain, who also transcribed the last six leaves, which supply a defect of the original MS., and are dated Aurangabad, Zulka'dah, A.H. 1160 (A.D. 1747).

Add. 6627.
Foil.
;

long the 16th century.

5| in. by 3| 11 lines, 2f in. written in fair Nestalik, apparently in

179

Add. 6658.
Foil. 97;

8i

in.

by 4|; 14
II.,

lines,

in.

[J. F.

HULL.]

Gulistan, with some marginal notes in Arabic. Some lacunes of the original MS. have been supplied by later hands.

The

long; written dated Surat, Jumada

1779).

in large

Indian Nestalik; A.H. 1193 (A.D.

The

Gulistan.

Copyist:

Sloane 2953.
Foil.
;

107; 8

in.

by 5^; 15

lines,

in.

long written in Indian Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century.

Add. 19,274.
Foil.

122

10

in.

by 7

11

lines,

3|

in.

POETRY.
written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins; dated Safar, A.H. 1197 (A.D.

SA'DI.

605

ong

Add. 16,812.
Foil. 85 ; 8 in. by 5|; 15 lines, 3f written in fair Indian Nestalik,

1783).

The Gulistan, wanting the Khatimah. On the first page is written, " John Dawson, 1798."

long; probably in

in.

the 18th century.

The

[WM. YULE.] a few lines at the Gulistan, wanting

beginning.

Foil.
;

215

Add. 14,345. 12 i in. by 8; 9 lines,

4f

in.

Add. 17,962.
Foil. 110; 8J in.

long written in fair Nestalik ; dated Muharram, the 25th year of 'Alam Shah (probably for Shah 'Alam, i. e. A.H. 1198, A.D.
1783).

by G; 13

lines,
;

in.

long;

written in Indian Nestalik the 18th century.

apparently in

[JOHN CRAWFUBD.]
Gulistan.
:

The

The Gulistan, transcribed, as stated in a Persian note at the beginning, for Lieut O'Shea.

Copyist

\jj

te\

Or. 349.
Foil. 21
;

Add. 6967.
7|
in.

by 6^; 15

lines in a

Foil. 144;

in.

long; written in
'I'nviin

by 5$; 3j large and fair Nestalik, with

lines,

13

page

in.

written by John Iladdon nindley, on paper water-marked 1806.

and gold-ruled margins, probably

[Gw>.
Gulistfln,
style.

in

the 18th ceutury.

WM. HAMILTON.]

few extracts from the Gulistan, with

English translation.

The
fair

with seven miniatures in

Indian

subscription, purporting to bare been transcribed from the author's

The following

Add. 5973.
17 lines, 2| in. long; written in a small Turkish Naskhl; dated Rabi' I., A.H. 360 (probably for 900,
Foil.

82;

in.

by 5$

autograph, states that the MS. was completed in the hist decade of Muharram, A.1I. 662,

on the day

which Shiraz was taken (by Hulagu's army), and the kingdom passed from the house of Salghur to other masters :
in

A.D. 1553). Turkish commentary upon the preface of the Gulistan, with the text.

Author
Lftmi'i,

Mahmud

B. 'Usman B. 'All ul-

Beg.

ci-^5

L->W jj

,US

^ JU5 y- b
Dichtkunst,

author, a Turkish poet, who was born in Brusa, and died A.H. 938 (Hammer,

The

Add. 6626.
Foil.

Geschichtc
vol.
ii.

der

Osmanischen

112; 9J

in.

by 5J; 14

lines,

3*

in.

he comp. 20), states at the end that See Haj. in A.H. 910. pleted this work
Khal., vol. v. p. 231, the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 541, and the Gotha Catalogue, p. 94,

long ; written in Indian Xestalik, probably in the 18th century. [J. F. HULL.]

The Gulistan.

No. 65.

606

POETRY.
Or. 1366.

SA'DI.
merchant.
After teaching at several

lipoli

21 lines, 2f in. Foil. 159; 6| in. by long ; written in small Naskhi, apparently in
the 16th century.
[Sir

4;

CHAS. ALEX. MURRAY.]

Medresehs in Constantinople he was appointed tutor to Prince Mustafa, son of Sultan Sulaiman, over whom he acquired unbounded His royal pupil having been put influence.
to death

An

by

his father (A.H. 960, see

Ham-

Arabic Commentary upon the Gulistan,

text.
:

with the

Author

Ya'kub B. Sayyid

'All,

^
U

mer's Geschichte, vol. iii. p. 315), Surur.i in retirement, and spent the rest of his life died A.H. 969, at the age of seventy-two He had made a special study of Peryears.

Beg.
It
is

\jSjj

vol. v. p. 230, the real author of that, according to some,

stated

by Haj. Khal.,

commentary was Muniri (Osmanische Dichtkunst, vol. i. p. 304), and that Sayyid'Ali-Zadah had appropriated it by putting his name in the preface. But a later commenthis
tator, Sururi, frequently refers to the present

and left, besides the present work, commentaries on the Mas.navi, the Busi tan, the Divan of Hafiz and the Shabistan Add. 18,519, Khayal. See Zail ush-Shaka'ik,
sian poetry,
fol.

10

a.

The author says in his preface that he wrote the present work for the use of his
pupil, Sultan
(i.e.

prince) Mustafa,

son of

Sultan quired

work

as

Ibn Sayyid
its

'All's

commentary, in
is

Sulaiman, because the Gulistiin reand he wished to a

commentary,

order to correct

mistakes.
of the present copy

an Arabic note stating that the author, Ya'kub B. Sayyid 'AH, died on his return from a

At the beginning

of a former one written supply the deficiencies as by some Maula (in the margin, "known

Ibn Sayyid

'All "),

who was unacquainted

pilgrimage to Mecca, A.H. 931. The same date is given by Haj. Khal. 1. c., and vol. iv. writer is said to have p. 402, where the same dedicated a commentary on the ^jjjlsr-^

with Persian idioms, and had frequently mistaken the sense. He says in conclusion
that he had completed the work in Amasia, at the end of Rabi' II., A.H. 957.

u^]f

to Sultan Sulaiman.

See Uri,
vol.
i.

p.

96,

the

Leyden Catalogue,

See Fleischer, Dresden Catalogue, No. 242, the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 539, the Upsala Catalogue, p. 59, the St. Petersburg
Catalogue, p. 343, and the p. 549.

p. 355, the Upsala Catalogue, p. 60, Fleischer, Dresden Catalogue, Nos. 33, 242, and the Oude Catalogue, p. 549.

Oude Catalogue,

Add. 7745.
Harleian 5451.
Foil.

19 lines, 2| in. 208 7 in. by 4| long, in a page written in small Nestalik dated A.H. 982 (A.D. 1574). An Arabic commentary upon the Gulistan, with the text.
Foil.
; ; ; ;

long;

203; -8i in. by 6; 20 lines, 4| in. written in Turkish Naskhi; dated

[Cl. J. RICH.]

A.H. 1116 (A.D. 1704). The same commentary.

Author
Beg. Muslih
cally

Sururi,
^U_jJ\
Foil.

Sloane 2651.
3| in. written in small Naskhi, long, in a page; 18th century. apparently in the

188; 8

in.

by 5f ; 21

lines,

ud-Dm Mustafa B. Sha'ban, poetisumamed Sururi, was the son of- a Gal-

POETRY. -SA'DI.

607

A Turkish commentary upon the Gulistan,

with the text.

Author: Shaml,
Beg.

The same commentary. The margins of foil. 3 23 contain the beginning of the same author's commentary upon the Bustan.
Beg.
See the
^iu,

Mnulana Sham'i, whose original name was

Darvlsh, has commented several other Persian poems, as the Magnari (p. 589 a),
u.staffi

jy

*USj ,>*

*+>.

Catalogue, p. 99, the Leyden Catalogue, p. 114, and the Gotha

TJpsala

Mantik ut-tair, Pandthe Divan of H&fiz, etc. He Nainah, Bustan, died, according to Haj. Khal., some time after A.H. 1000. His commentary on the Subhat of Jami is stated, vol. iii. p. 575, to have
ul-Asrar,

Makhzan

Catalogue,

p. 69.

Add. 26,156.
Foil.

120; 9
written

in.

by 6

15

lines,

3f

in.

been written in A. II. 1009.

St.

See also Dorn,

long;

in

Indian

Shikastah-amiz,
M. ERSKINE.]

apparently in the 18th century.

Petersburg Catalogue, p. 333. states in the preface that he had written this commentary at the request

The author

of his pupil in Persian, the intendant of the

Imperial Gardens, had completed it within

Muhammad
live

Chalabl, and
It

months.

was

A commentary on the Gulistfm. The beginning of the preface is wanting, and the author's name does not appear. The
remaining portion contains the above title, and the work concludes with some verses, stating that it was written in A.H. 1095.

written, as stated in a transcript of the author's autograph, described in Krafll's

Catalogue, p. 48, in A.H. 977, or, according to the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 510, A. II. 979. Compare the Gotha Catalogue, p. 93.

The margins contain copious same handwriting as the text.

notes, in the

The

has the title " Kilid e Gulistdn " in the handwriting of Mr. Erskine. The marginal notes of a copy of the Gulistun, Add. 2f,.i:,i ,|>. r.ol b), include several extracts

fly-leaf

Add. 7746.
Foil.

202

in.

by 5J

21

lines,

3$

in.
I.,

long;

written

in

Naskhi; dated Rabi'

A.H. 1224 (A.D. 1809). The same commentary.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

from the present commentary.

Or. 366.
284; 11 in. by 7; 17 lines, 4| in. written in Indian Shikastah-amiz, aplong; parently in the 18th century.
Foil.

Add. 19,509.
Foil.

long;

251; 7i in. by 5$; 19 lines, 3$ written in Naskhi; dated Rabi*

in.
I.,

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

A.H. 1068 (A.D. 1648). The same commentary.

A commentary on the
Beg.
2
in.

Gulistan.

Harleian 5485.
Foil.

ciiiLK

j\

239; 8

in.

by 4$

21

lines,

long; written in small Nestalik, with ruled margins; dated Constantinople, A.H. 1000 (A.D. 1591).

The author does not state his name, but gives to understand, in the conclusion, that -. and it is ^connected with the .words
it

may

be Jj

60S

POETRY.
work

A.H. 700800.
Firishtah, vol.
fol.
ii. p. 762, RiySz ush-Shu'ara, 116, and Atashkadah, fol. 60. The work is divided into eight Makalahs,

It is stated in the preface that the

was written in the town of Palval (Thornton's Pulwul, 41 miles south of Dehli), where
the author lived in retirement. The date of composition, A.H. 1119, is conveyed in a versified chronogram at the

which, however, are not distinguished in the The date of composition, present copy.

end of the words

j+s-

^ILJS.

The work

283, with a summary concludes, foil. 279 of the moral bearings and logical connection of all the tales of the Gulistan.

A.H. 729, which Dr. Sprenger gives from his MS., Oude Catalogue, p. 430, is not found in any of the Museum copies. See Haj. Khal. vol. iii. p. 528, the Leyden
Catalogue, vol.
ii.

The margins contain copious notes

in the

Catalogue, pp.
Catalogue,
p.

the St. Petersburg 356, 438, and the Gotha

p. 116,

same handwriting as the text. From those of the last page it appears that the author had previously written commentaries on the Gulistan and the Magnavi, respectively enand titled \s-\

10.

Add. 7750.
51; 7 in. by 4 ; 11 lines, 2| in. written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and long ; gold-ruled margins ; dated Muharram, A.H.
Foil.

Sloane 3587.
in. Foil. 55; 8| in. by 6; 13 lines, 3 dated written in Indian Nestalik long
;

878 (A.D. 1473).

[L.

J.

RICH.]

Rajab, A.H. 1118 (A.D. 1706).

" The rose-bed of mystery," a Sufi poem.

Author: Mahmud, ^^f, Mahmud B. 'Abd ul-Karltn B. Yahya ash"Store of the wayfarers," rules of religious
life,

illustrated
:

by anecdotes and
Husaini,

fables.

Shabistarl (or, as in the subscription of the a present copy, Chapistari), from Shabistar,
village at eight farsangs

Author
Beg.

Amir

from Tabriz, wrote,

U
Mir Husaini Sadat, a native of Ghur, became in Multfm a disciple of Eukn udDln Abul-Fath, grandson and successor of the famous Shaikh, Bah a ud-Dln Zakariyya

beside the present work, three Sufi tracts entitled Hakk ul-Yakin (Add. 16,832, i., and Asiatiques, vol. v. p. 229), Eisalah

Melanges

Shahid, and Saadat Nainah (Add. 27,261, He died A.H. 720. See Majalis ulxxiv).
fol.

'Ushshak,

97, Haft Iklim, fol. 508,

Riyaz
fol.

(Eukn ud-Din died, according to Akhbar ulAkhyar, fol. 57, shortly after A.H. 725). He afterwards settled in Herat, where he died, as stated by Jami, Nafahat, p. 705, on the 10th of Shavval, A.H. 718. He left many Sufi works in prose and verse; the
following are especially mentioned: Kanz ur-Rumuz, Zad ul-Musafirm, Nuzliat ul-

ush-Shu'ara,

fol.

405, and Atashkadah,

17.

Beg.

e^>-_yT

t^& ^ V

etoT ,.Uj

The author states in the prologue that he had written this work in answer to some
in questions in verse, received by messenger, eminent personage of A.H. 717, from some Khorasan, whose name is not given. (It

was,

Arvah, Riih ul-Arvah, Sirat Mustaklm, Si Namah, and Tarab ul-Mahasin. See above,
p.

Amir

according to Jami, Nafahat, p. 705, Husaini, mentioned under the pre-

ceding No.).

40

Habib us-Siyar,

vol.

iii.,

Juz2,-p 74,

Although he had composed numerous works in prose, he had never

POETRY.
attempted poetry.

AMIR KHUSRAU.
MSS. there
is

609

Yielding, however, to the instances of his friends, he wrote the answers in the same form as the questions, i.e. in

described.

An

contents by Raushan 'All preserved in Or. 1869,

account of their (Ziya ud-Din Khan)

foil.

316,

and a

Manavi rhyme, and completed them

in the

space of a few hours. The questions, which relate to the meaning of some Sufi terms,
are given in their original form, and each followed by the answer.
is

detailed analysis, with translated extracts, by Sir Henry Elliot, of such of Khusrau's

poems
pp.

found in the

as are of historical interest, will be History of India, vol. iii.

524566.
are as follows
:

The work has been

version,

edited, with a German

by Hammer,

" Rosenflur des GeheimIt is

The contents
I.

nisses," Pesth, 1838.

noticed in the

Fol.

b.

j-al\

iAJ, Poems

of

Jahrbiicher, vol. 66, Anzeige-Blatt, p. 26, the Vienna Catalogue, vol. iii. p. 425, Krafll, p. 66, and the St. Petersburg Catalogue,
pp. 212, 319.

adolescence, with a author.

.

prose preface by the

Beg.

ay

j^

t\j

ydj

Jjlj\

/^j^-

Add. 8992.
2$ in. long; written in small Shikastah-amiz dated A.U.
;

Khusrau speaks in the preface of his precocious taste for poetry, and quotes a Ruba'I extemporized by him in his childhood in the
presence of Khwajah Mzz ud-Din, from whom he received the poetical surname of Sultani,
in his early compositions. Much his will, he states further on, some against poems composed by him from his fifteenth to

Foil.

48

in.

by 4 11
;

lines,

adopted

1220 (A.D. 1805).

The same work.

nineteenth year had been collected by his brother Tfg ud-Din Zahir, who, moreover,
his

Add
Foil.

21,104.

forged a chain (" Silsilah ") for the fastening of that ship (or anthology, " Safmah ").

892; 9 in. by 6J; 10 lines, 3 in. with 34 lines in the margins written long, in small Nestalik, with 'Unvan, illuminated dated headings, and gold-ruled margins Rabi' I., A.H. 923 (A.D. 1517).
;
;
|

The
fixed

to each of the separate

links of that chain are distichs prepoems. All

have the same measure and rhyme, so as to form one connected poem, binding together
the loose contents of the Divan.
Silsilah is

similar

II.

found in each of the next-following

STEIXSCBCSS.I

four collections.

The complete
Khusrau, who
Tlic

poetical works of Amir died A.H. 725; see p. 240 b.

The Tuhfat us-Sighar consists of Kasidahs and Tarji'-bands. They are in praise of Sultan Ghiya ud-Din Balban (A.H. 661686), of his son commonly called

Sultan-Muhammad

works of Amir Khusrau are mentioned Sir Gore Ouseley, in his Notices, pp. 148 by 103, by Dr. Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, pp. 467470, and by Dr. Dora, St. Petersburg In the last work they Catalogue, pp. 350. are stated to have been collected by the poet Saifi, whose preface is preserved in one of the
VOL. n.

Khan

great personages of finally of the poet's spiritual guide, Shaikh

Ku'.m, Shahid, of some Balban's court, and

i

Nizam ud-Din Auliya.

well as in the four following Divans, every piece has prefixed to it the name and scansion of its metre.
this, as

In

A A

610
II. Pol.

POETRY.
51
b.
t

AMIR KHUSRAU.
Auliya, of the Sultans Mu'izz ud-Dln Kaikubad (A.H. 686689) and Jalal ud-Dm Piruz

k-j, Poems of mid<6

dle

life,

with a prose preface.

>\j>

Beg. ^Uj j

U U. y^Ji

(**

Shah (A.H. 689-695), of the

cessor,

latter's suc-

The
by

pieces here collected were composed Khusrau, as stated in the preface, Add.

of

Rukn ud-Dm Ibrahim (A.H. 695), 'Ala ud-Dln Muhammad Shah (A.H.
lastly of the *Ali B. Aibak, Saif

25,807, from his twentieth to his thirty-fourth " year (in other copies from his twenty-fourth
to
his. thirty-second year "). They are Kasidahs and Tarji'-bands, in praise of Nizam Auliya, of Nusrat ud-Dln Sultan Muhammad, the eldest son of Balban, and the poet's

695715),

ud-Daulah Barbak, Taj ud-DJn Alp Khan GhazI, Taj ud-Daulah Malik Chliaju, and some others.
IV. Poll. 317
nants, or
b.

Dm

Amirs Ikhtiyar ud-

*>

*<>.>,

Select

rem-

poems of old

age, with preface.

special patron,

whose death in battle in the

month

of Zuhhijjah, A.H. 683, is here recorded. Others are addressed to Mu'izz ud-

The author

Din Kaikubad, who reigned A.H. 686 689, to Ikhtiyar ud-Daulah B. Kishll Khan, and other Amirs of that period. 139 b, maturity, with preface.
III.

different kinds of Ghazals,

treats in the preface of the and illustrates by

Pol.

,,

Poems

of

copious and fanciful images the distinctive characters of each of his four Divans. The date of compilation is not given, but from the fact of an elegy on the death of Sultan
'Ala ud-Dln, A.H. 715, being included, it may be inferred that the Divan was completed

Beg.

In the preface the author discourses at great length on the excellence of poetry in general, on the superiority of Persian to Arabic poetry, on the different kinds of
poetical talent,

but a few years before the poet's death.

The
331
,

collection consists of Kasidahs,

Tarji'-bands,
fol.
fol.

fol.

ta'at,

Persian poets. He names, as his great models. Sanai and Khakani in contemplative poetry,

and on his own rank among

377 b, Most of the poems are addressed to Muhammad Shah ('Ala ud-DTn),

and Mukat-

386

a.

others to his sons,

of his court.

Kutb ud-Dm Mubarak

Shah and Khizr Khan, and to various Amirs

Razi and

in invention, Nizami and Sa'dl in MagnavT and Ghazals. He then goes on to state that he had been urged to collect

Kama!

the present Divan by his brother, the eminent

The preceding four Divans have been printed with the title of Kulliyat i Amir Khusrau in the press of Naval Kishor, Lucknow.
V. Pol. 393 b. 3j~j*\ Ghazals and Ruba'Is.

penman, 'Ala ud-Dln 'Alishah, and expatiates on the great variety of poetical figures or ornaments Xio which he had originated, concluding with a sketch of his life. The poems included in the present collection, he states, had been written from his thirty -fourth to his forty-third year, or from A.H. 685 to to the end of A.H. 693. This Divan, which exceeds the others in bulk, consists of Kasidahs, fol. 190 b, TarjTbands, fol. 286 b, and Kitahs, fol. 297 b. The poems are in praise of Nizam ud-Dm

J^A A collection of

U JU-j <_y\ jUi. y j& Beg. A^J The contents originally formed part of the preceding four Divans. With the exception of the first twelve pieces, which are in praise of God and the prophet, the Ghazals are ar-

^j

ranged in alphabetical order according to the rhyme-letters, and, under each letter, those which have the same measure are grouped together, the name and scansion of the metre being prefixed to each class. At the end,

POETRY.
foil.

AMIR KHUSRAU.
IX.
nun.
Foil.

611
b.

861 b

871

a,

are Rubals without alpha-

233

(J

JujJ

yf*, Majnun
u Maj-

betical arrangement.

Lailn, in imitation of Nizami's Laila

VI.

Foil.

871

b.

rJ

aM

cUiu,

"

The key of

victories,"

a poetical account in Masnavi rhyme of the campaigns of Jalal ud-Din Firuz-Shah during the first year of his reign,

j\

i.e.

from his accession, A.H. 689, to his

return to Dehli in

Jumada

II.,

A.H. 690, the

This poem, which is also dedicated to Sultan 'Ala ud-Din, is stated to contain 2660 distichs, and was written, like the two preceding, in A.H. 698 ; see fol. 312 b. The text has been lithographed in Calcutta, A.H.
1

time at which, as stated in the conclusion, the

poem was

written.

244,

and

in

This Masnavi was originally included in the Ghurrat ul-Kamal. An abstract of its contents is given by Sir H. Elliot, History
of India, vol.
iii.

X. Fol.

Lucknow, A.H. 1286. 313 b. c^-^- *"A Tne mirror

of Alexander, a counterpart to the Iskandar Namah of Nizam!.

pp. 536

544.

The
VII.

following works are written in the

:

margins

This
Din.

poem

is

also dedicated to 'Ala ud-

Fol. 5 b.

j\^\

**,

moral and

It is stated at the end, fol. 445 a, to have been written in A.H. 699, and to con-

religious

Makhzan ul-Asr.ir of same measure.

poem, written in imitation of the Nizfmii, and in the

tain 4-450 distichs.

In some copies, as Add. 24,983, 22,699, etc., the beginning is

The poem
Din

dedicated to Sultan 'Ala udMuhammad Shah. The author states in

is
fol.

the concluding lines,

tains

105

b,

that

it

con-

3310

distichs,

and was written

6. i^~l*, The eight a poem on the loves of Main-fun, paradises, written in imitation of Nizami's Haft Paikar.

XI. Fol. 447

c^V

in

two
Beg.

weeks, A.H. 698.

VIII. Foil. 106
b.

3r

ti

Khusran, an imitation of Nizami's Khusrau

tt

Shirin u

The author
that this

states at the end,

fol.

Shirin.

poem was completed A.H.

540 b, 701, and

Beg.

to 'Ala ud-Din, and contains a chapter of advice to the author's son, Manful, then in his tenth year. It is stated,
is

It

ako dedicated

fol. 232 *, that this was written in imitation of Nipoem z'lmi's Khamsah, and that it was completed at the beginning of Rajab, A.H. W8. It is added that the poem consists of 4124 distichs. tin-

nrds the end,

that it contains 3352 distichs. He adds in an appendix, Jjj, that the whole Khamsah (the five preceding poems, artt. vii xi.) had been completed in the space of three years, and that it had been revised and corrected by Kazi Shihab ud-Din, whom he describes as the most accomplished scholar
of the age.

second

XII. Fol. 644 b. C.JAN w l/, The conjunction of the two lucky planets, a poetical account of the meeting of Sultan Mu'izz udA A 2

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POETRY.
his father Nasir

AMIR KHUSRAU.
Beg.
!>
,.,1

Din Kaikubfid and

ud-Din Bughra Khan),, Sultan of Bengal, which took place in Dehli, A.H. 688.
Beg.

'Ala ud-Din,

This poem, which is dedicated to Sultan was written at the request of prince Khizr Khan, from a narrative penned

It is stated

towards the end,

fol.

647

b,

that the poern was written in three months, in Ramazan, A.H. 688, the author being then in his 36th year.

and completed

was not finished until after the death of 'Ala ud-Din and Khizr Khan. It is often called j,\i>-ja*-, and someby himself.
it

But

times
title

iu'fl'.tfr

or aJLlc.
it

See the analysis of the

Elliot,

poem

by Sir H.

given to
fol.

but the above is the by the author in the intro;

History of India, vol. iii. pp. 524 and the extracts by Prof. Cowell, 531, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,

duction,

809

a.

vol. xxix. pp.

225

239.

The Kiran us-Sa'dain has been lithographed in Lucknow, A.H. 1259, and edited, with a commentary, by Maulavl Kudrat Ahmad, Lucknow, A.H. 1261.
XIII. Fol. 660
b.

Khusrau states in the same passage that the heroine's name, which was originally
^jJji^,

had been changed by him) for con-

J^A

*J,

The nine

venience's sake, to j,]^^, pronouncing the first part like the plural of Daulat

spheres, a poetical description of the court of Kutb ud-Din Mubarak Shah, with an account of the principal events of his reign.

The

text breaks oif at the end of the

is

section in which

Beg.

<i

In the prologue, which contains a dedication to

recorded the tragic end Rani. In the conclusion, as found in other copies (Add. 7776, fol. 119 a, Or. 335, fol. 154 6), the
of Khizr

Khan and Deval

Kutb ud-Din, Khusrau

sixty,

says that his

age was then over

three Sultans

and he names the

who had

successively been his

poet states ^that he wrote this poem in the space of four months and a few days, and that he completed it on the 6th of Zulka'dah, A.H. 715. He adds that it consisted originally of 4200 verses; but that 319 lines added after the death of Khizr Khan,

patrons, and the objects of his panegyrics, namely, Mu'izz ud-Din Kaikubad, Eiruz Shah, and 'Ala ud-Din. See the analysis of this poem by Sir H. The Elliot, History of India, vol. iii. p, 557. is there stated to have been poem completed on the 30th of Jumada II., A.H. 718, when the poet was sixty-five years of age. Com-

brought up the total to 4519.

An
Sir

abstract of the

poem

is

given
iii.

by
pp.

Elliot, History of India, vol. 544557. See also E. Thomas,

H.

Pathan

Kings, p. 176, and Aumer, Munich Catalogue,

p. 22.

pare Stewart's Catalogue, p, 63.

XIV. Fol. 790 b. ram Khizr Khan," a poem on the

The MS. contains two whole-page minialove adtures at the beginning, and fifteen of smaller size in the body of the volume, all in Persian
style.

ventures of Khizr Khan, son of Sultan 'Ala ud-Din, with Deval Rani, the daughter of

On

the

first

page

is

an illuminated

Rai Karn of

Gujriit.

shield enclosing a table of contents.

POETRY.

AMIR KHUSRAU.
fol.

613
ft.

Add. 25,807.
521; lli in. by 7 ; 17 lines, 3 in. the margin written long, with 24 lines in in fair Nestalik, with three TJnvans and goldruled margins, apparently in the 16th cenFoil.
;

163
a.

a.

Kit'ahs, fol. 167

fol.

Ghazals,

fol. fol.

169
187

Masnavis,

184

a.

Rubuls,

o.

The Kit'ahs and Masnavis are not found

in the preceding copy.

tury.

[Wll. CURETON.J

IV. Fol. 193 a. A series of Ghazals, probably from the Ghurrat ul-Kamal (p. 610,
art.
iii.),

imperfect at beginning and end.

y
lilil

The

five

original

Divans of Amir Khusrau in their the shape, that is to say, including

y'JLM*
latter

V. Fol. 223
second Divan,

a.
S^JL*^

The

half of the

Ghazals and Mas.navis. The MS. has some lacunes and transpositions, and the text is
far

from correct.
:

The contents are

I.

k-j, beginning with the .last Tarji'-band, and containing Kit'ahs, fol. 223 a, Manavis, fol. 227 a, Ghazals, fol. 236 a, and Ruba*is, fol. 307 ft.

Fol. 2

b.

t^

i-.j, the

second Divan

(p. 610,

art. ii-X first half.

which agrees with that of the two lines in preceding copy, is preceded by

The

preface,

VI. Fol. 327 ft. JUJlH o^-c, the third Divan, with the preface, to which is prefixed the following line in Arabic
:

Arabic beginning:

vi>^*N
:

>

Ojk-

jJ

U1

J-ia?

Contents: Kasidahs, fol. 359 a. Tarji's, fol. 417 ft. Ghazals, 423 a. Ruba'is, fol.

Contents Kasidahs, foL 7 b, Tarji'-band, fol. 42 a. This second section breaks off in the begin-

425 a. There

ning of the fol. 132 6).

II. Fol.

last Tarji'-band

(Add. 21,104,

a gap, apparently of considerable extent, after fol. 422 the latter part of the and MasTarji's, the whole of the Kit'ahs navis, and the greater part of the Ghazals
is
;

Divan the preface, and (p. 610, art. iv.), wanting It begins lines at beginning and end. some
52
ft.

.&>

uJu, the fourth

are wanting.

VII. Fol. 442

ft.

JLM e^V>
v*j

the

fifth

with the following verse of the Silsilah

of the author's Divans, comprising the poems of the last years of his life, with a preface.

Beg. Contents : Kasidahs, fol. 52 ft. Tarji's, fol. 77 ft. Masnavis, fol. 82 a. Kit'ahs (most of

ij^ yin

^ v^V

*"

r->

which are not found fol. 85 a. Ghazals, 130 o.

in the preceding copy),

fol.

99

a.

Rubals,

fol.

The Ghazals,
III. Fol.

in this

and the following

Divans, are not in alphabetical order.

141

a.

i.) (p. 609, about three pages at the beginning. Content* Kasidahs, fol. 141 a.

art.

the first Divan j*J' *jJ, the preface and wanting

Tarji's,

and the author's gives no clue spiritual guide, But the to the date of the compilation. Divan includes an elegy on the death of Sultan Kutf> ud-Din Mubarak Shah, A.H. 720, fol. 464 ft, several poems addressed to Ghiyas ud-Din Tughluk (A.H. 720725), and to his son and presumptive heir Fakhr ud-Din Ulugh Khan, foil. 465, 4(36, and even a

preface, of God, the prophet, praises

The

which

is

confined to the

Nizam ud-Din,

poem on the

festive entrance of the latter into

614
Dehli after his accession as

POETRY.

AMIR KHUSRAU.
gins,

Muhammad Shah,

dated

Ramazan,

A. H.

890

(A.D.

467 a, an event which took place a few months before the death of the
fol.

A.H. 725,
poet.

1485).

[Sir

JOHN CAMPBELL.]

442 b. Kasidahs, fol. 444 a. Manavis, Tarji's, fol. 464 b. fol. 469 a. fol. 473 b. Kit'ahs, Ghazals, fol, 475 b. Ruba'is, fol. 519 o. The Nihayat ul-Kamal is mentioned in the
:

Contents

Preface,

fol.

Ghazals from all four Divans of AmTr Khusrau, arranged in one.

collection

of

'

alphabetical series.

Beg.

y-A-^LA-N

i_>,

<jll

^\>j j>

>\

Mir'at Aftabnuma, fol. Ill, as the last of the five Divans of Khusrau.

The arrangement

differs

from a similar

Add. 23,549.
Foil. 290; 9
in.

collection described p. 610, art. v., and the number of poems is much smaller. After
lines,

by 5$; 19

3|

in.

the Ghazals are found some Mukatta'at, fol. 453 , not in alphabetical order, and some
Ruba'is alphabetically arranged,
fol.

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the

465

a.

17th century.

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

Copyist:

Or. 1215.
The
third
art. iii.),

Divan of Amir Khusrau with some lacunes.

:

(p. 610,

Foil.
;

326; 10

in.

by 6; 12

lines,

2J

in.

Contents

Preface,

fol.

2 b (wanting about

long written in an elegant Nestalik, with a rich 'Unvan, gold-ruled margins, and orna-

seven leaves after

fol. 33,

corresponding to

Add. 21,104, foil. 165 ft 171 a). Kasidahs, fol. 59 b. Ghazals, fol. Tarji's, fol. 150 b. 161 b (Add. 25,807, foil. 205 a 208 b). Masnavis (imperfect at Kit'ahs, fol. 170 a. the end), fol. 190 o. Ghazals, foil. 228 a 253 b (imperfect at beginning and end, cor205 a, responding to Add. 25,807, foil. 196 208 6218 a). Rubais, foil. 254 a 291 b, (also imperfect at beginning and end, corresponding to Add. 25,807, foil. 427 a 438 a).
ft

mental headings throughout; dated Sha'ban, A.H. 895 (A.D. 1490); bound in stamped and painted covers. Another copy of the Divan of Amir Khusrau, substantially agreeing, in both contents and arrangement, with the preceding MS.
fol.

It contains also
b,

fol.

313 319

some MukattaYit, and Ruba'is in alphabetical order,

a.

Copyist:

^.

The Manavis include Miftah ul-Futuh

611, art.vi.), a narrative of the poet's journey to Oude with the Sultan's army (A.H.
(p.

Add. 7757.
Foil. 452 ; 9 in. by 5 15 lines, 2| in. long written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and goldruled margins, apparently in the 16th cen; ;

(587),

addressed to his brother Zilhid(see Elliot,

p. 535),

vol.

iii.

and a few shorter poems.

Add. 22,700.
Foil. 475;

tury.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

The Divan of Amir Khusrau, containing

lines,

in.

by 4^; 14

2J

in.

Ghazals in alphabetical order, and, at the

end, Mukatta'at,
fol.

long ; written in neat Nestalik, with 'Unvan,

434

a,

and Ruba'is,

fol.

ornamented headings, and gold-ruled mar-

440

b,

both without alphabetical arrangement.

POETRY.

AMIR KHUSRAU.
talik,

615

The contents differ considerably from those of the two preceding copies.

with rich 'Unvans and marginal ornaments dated Herat, A.H. 917 (A.D. 1511) bound in stamped and gilt leather.
;

Add. 7756.
Foil.

174; Si

in.

by 5|; 14

lines,

in.

long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century.
[Cl. J. RICH.]

The Khamsah, or Khusrau (p. 611, artt.

ul-Anvar,
fol.

five
vii.

poems of Amir
xi.), viz.
:

Matla'
fol.
i

b.

Shirin

u Khusrau,

The Divan

of the

same

poet, containing

28

ft.

Majnun u
fol.

Laila, fol. 60 6.

A'inah

Ghazals in alphabetical order, a Tarjl*, fol. 163 a, some Kit'ahs, fol. 164 a, and Ruba'is, fol. 166 b, the last two sections without alphaAll the Ghazals in \, betical arrangement.

Hasht Bihisht, fol. 113 ft. Sikandari, An illuminated shield on the first page
80
6.

contains the following inscription

but the

wanting, and the MS. is also imperfect at the end. The number of Ghazals is considerably less than in
last seventeen, are

"The
Dehli,

the preceding copies.

Poems of Amir Khusrau of mercy be upon him for the library

five
;

Or. 474.
Foil.

of the great Sultan, the just and noble Khakiin, Abu-1-Ghazi Sultan Husain Bahadur
lines,

267; 7|

in.

by 4^; 13
[GEO.

2|

in.

Khan, may
911.

his reign last for ever."

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the

Abul-Ghuz! Sultan Husain died in A.H.

It is strange to find him designated as the reigning sovereign in a MS. written six years after his death, and at a time when

16th century.

WM.
i.

HAMILTON.]

Ghazals selected from the four Divans of

Amir Khusrau

(p.

609, artt.

iv.),

and

alphabetically arranged.

Beg.

Khorasan had passed into the possession of Shah Ismii'H $afavi. At the end of the Matla' ul-Anvar is found
Herat and
all

gd

>

the following subscription

Each Ghazal has a heading showing from which of the four Divans it was taken. The collection is much smaller than Add. 21,104, v., and differently arranged. The first two leaves, and the last two,
which contain sixteen Ruba'is in alphabetical order, are by a later hand. 267 contain Jami's preface to Foil.. 260 his Haft Aurang, fol. 260 b, and the beginning of the
Silsilat

Similar colophons, bearing the same date, are appended to the fourth and fifth poems.

uz-Zahab.

impressed the seal of Kabil Khfm, servant of 'Alamgir Padishah, with the date 1097. Kabil Khan was appointed imperial librarian about the middle
the
first

On

page

is

of 'Alamgir's reign.
fol.

See Tazkirat ul-Umara,

Add. 24,983.
136 ; 10 J in. by 7i ; 22 lines, 3| in. with 48 lines in the margin ; written long, in four gold-ruled columns, in a minute NesFoil.

82.

Add. 22,699.
Foil.

209; 13|

in.

by 8f

22

lines,

in.

four columns, long; written in Nestalik, in

616
with
five rich 'Unvans,

POETRY.

AMIR KHUSRAU.
ruled columns, with 'Unvan ; dated Randijah, district of Ahmadabad, Gujrat, Zulhijjah

gold headings and ruled margins; dated A.H. 978 (A.D. gold1571). [Sir JOHN CAMPBELL.]

A.H. 995 (A.D. 1587).

Matla' ul-Anvar (see p. 611, art.
vii.).

The same Khamsah.

whole-page miniatures, in fair Persian style, are prefixed to each of the five
poems.
Copyist
:
(

Two

Copyist:

O^
;

,J

Add. 24,054.

J^^

>U

a)J\

i__akl

(J

^sf

Foil.

150

10

in.

by 6J

15

lines,

3|

in.

Add. 7752.
Foil.

long; written in fair Nestalik, with gold headings; dated Sha'ban, A.H. 885 (A.D.
1480).

long ; columns, with

188; 9 in. hy 6|; 25 lines, 4 in. written in small Nestalik, in four

five

A'inah

Sikandari (see p. 611, art. x.).

'Unvans

dated Rabi'

II.,

A.H. 981 (A.D. 1573).

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Add. 16,785.
99; 5| in. by 3|; 13 lines, If in. long, with 8 lines in the margin written in small Nestalik, apparently about the close of the 15th century. [Wai. YULE.]
Foil.
;

The same Khamsah.

Copyist
:

Add. 7751.
Foil. 245; 9
;

in.

hy 6f

19

lines,

4|

in.

long written in Nestalik, in four gold-ruled columns, with five 'Unvans dated A.H. 982,
;

(A.D. 1574)

bound

in painted covers.
[Cl. J. RICH.]

The same Khamsah. The volume contains eleven whole-page

miniatures, in the Persian style of the 18th note on the first page states that century.

Hasht Bihisht (see p. 611, art. xi.). Foil. 83, 84, and 9799, have been supplied by a later hand. A note on the first page states that the MS. was purchased for the library of the Kadiriyyah in A.H. 1050.

Add. 16,784.
FoU. 110
;

8i

in.

by 4

15
;

was given hy Muhammad Kazim B. Jaliil ud-Din Muhammad Mazandaram to his son Muhammad Hashim. The former's seal
it

long ; written in Nestalik Rabi' I., the 9th year of (A.H. 1139, A.D. 1726).

2| in. dated Fathabad,

lines,
'

Muhammad Shah
[War. YULE.]

bears the date 1100.

The same poem.

Copyist:

Foil. 232;
;

Add. 26,159. 10 in. by 6; 20

lines,

in.

long written in Nestalik, in four goldruled columns, with five 'Unvans apparently early in the 17th century. [WM. ERSKINE.]
;

Foil.

145;

Add. 7753. 9| in. by 6; 14

lines,

in.

long; written in fair Nestalik, in two goldruled columns, on gold- sprinkled paper, with a rich 'Unvan, and illuminated headings throughout; dated Herat, Rajab, A.H. 921

The same Khamsah.

Add. 21,976.
Foil.

(A.D. 1515).
lines,

[Cl. J. RICH.]
p.

92

2 in. by 4

19

in.

Kirfm us-Sa'dain; see

611, art.
j,,

xii.

long

written in fair Nestalik, in two gold-

The MS.

is

endorsed

Jjo

Jjdi)l

^j

POETRY.
It contains

AMIR KHUSRAU.
j

617

four whole-page miniatures in

Persian style.

long; written in small Nestalik; dated Safar, A.H. 1136 (A.D. 1723).
[GFO. WM. HAMILTON.] A commentary on the Kiran us-Sa'dain. Author Niir Muhammad, called Kazi Nur
:

The

transcriber,

^m- ^^ u 'il-,
is
iii.,

Sultan

Muhammad Khandan,
Habib us-Siyar,
skilled
vol.

mentioned in the Juz 3, p. 350, as a

still

penman then (A.H. 930)

living

ul-Hakk DihlavT,
Beg.
\j

in Herat.

Add. 26,160.
Foil.

long

119; 8$ in. by 5; 17 lines, 2J in. written in fair Nestalik ; dated Safar,

A.H. 1000 (A.D. 1591). The same poem.

Copyist
:

[WM. EBSKINE.]

The work is dedicated to Majd ud-Din Maulanu Shaikh 'AM ul-Hakk, the author's father and instructor. Both have been mentioned. See pp. 14 a and 224 b. already The date of composition, A.H. 1014, is
ingeniously indicated in the following chro-

nogram

Add. 18,413.
''

Foil. 104;

in.

by 5
;

written in Nestalik
in the reign of

15 lines, 3g in. long; dated Shuhjahanfibad,

;

Muhammad

Shah (A.D.
(

1711)
|

obtained by deducting from the total produced by the title ^>*~1\ ^\} ^L, namely " the "eye" of the word 108-4, fault,"
li is

^^

-1748).

WM.

YOLK.

that
70.

is

to say, the value of the letter

viz.
j,

The same poem.

Copyist
:

^jy*
in.

J^

j^

.*

See Sprenger, Oude Catalogue,

p.

471.

Add. 16,786.
101; 9J by 5; 12 lines, 3^ in. long ; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century. [Wj. YCLE.] The same work.
Foil.
Foil.

Or. 335.
by 5 ; 14 lines, 2 in. written in fair Nestalik, with *Unvan long; and gold-ruled margins; dated A.H. 982
;

158

in.

page bears the stamp of General Claud Martin.

first

The

(A.D. 1574). [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.] Duvalrani Khizr Khan (see p. 612, xiv.), with three whole-page miniatures in the
Persian style.

Egerton 1033.
144; 10 in. by 6$ ; 15 lines, 4 in. long; written in a rude Indian hand, at K.imnagar, apparently in the 18th century.
Foil.

Add. 7754.
Foil.

153

9J

in.

by 6
fair

12

lines,

2J

in.

long;

written

in

The same work.

Copyist
:

Nestalik on gold-

oU-

> t t^*

>

jj. \,e

sprinkled paper, with a rich 'Unvan, and illuminated borders, probably early in the IGth

century.

fCl. J. RICH.]

\JT.
Foil. 65;

oo4.
;

The same poem, with

miniatures in
fair

six

whole-page

Persian style.

in.
II.

by 5$

20

lines,

3g

in.

Copyist:

VOL.

B B

618

POETUY.

A.H.

700800.
died,

Harleian 414.
Foil.

and
lines,

120; 94

in.

by 5|; 19

in.

according to the same author, Taki Kashi, howp. 201, in the same year. ever, gives A. H. 745, and the Khulasat
ul-Afkar, fol 65, A.H. 738, as the date of Mir Hasan's death.

long

written in cursive Nestalik, in Sultanin the 17th century. pur, apparently The same poem, called in the subscription
;

Copyist

^\

i_i

The historian Ziya Barani, who was the constant associate of Mir Hasan, and of Amir Khusrau, speaks with enthusiasm of
the former's gifts and moral character, and Hinsays that he was called the Sa'di of
dustan.

A<ld. 24,952.
Foil.
;

359.
lines, 2
in.

Firuzshahi, pp. 67, Other notices will be found in Nafahat

i

See Tarikh

260

in.

by 4

14

with 'Unvfm long written in neat Nestalik, and gold-ruled margins ; dated A.H. 922
(A.D. 1526).

ul-Uns,
Iklim,

p. 711,
i.

Akhbar ul-Akhyar,
p. 214, vol.

fol. 87,

Firishtah, vol.
fol.

See also
Sprenger,

ii. p 737, Haft and Daulatshah, fol. 168. 153, Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 232, and

Oude Catalogue,
:

p. 418.

Contents

The Divan of Mir Hasan, of Dehli.

Beg.
~

arranged,
order,

fol.

Kasidahs, not alphabetically 2 b. Ghazals in alphabetical

jjb J^r

Masfol. 35 b. Kit'ahs, fol. 244 a. in praise of Sultan 'Ala ud-Din, fol. navi,
246
b.

Ruba'is,

fol.

248

a.

Khwajah Hasan, or Amir Hasan, surnamed a Najm ud-Din, son of 'Ala'i Sanjari, was of native of Dehli, and an intimate friend Amir Khusrau, with whom he stayed five
at the years in Multan, A.H. 678683, the eldest son court of Muhammad Sultan,

The Kasidahs

are nearly all in praise of

Sultan 'Ala ud-Din Khilji (A.H. 695715). Two are addressed respectively to Ulugh Khan (afterwards Sultan Muhammad), and

Like Khusrau, of Ghiyas. ud-Din Balban. he was one of the court-poets of Sultan 'Ala ud-Din Khilji (A.H. 695715) to whom most of his laudatory poems are addressed.

Khizr Khan, the sons of Sultan Ghiyas. udDin Tughluk (A.H. 720725). A note on the first page states that the MS. belonged to Katib Zadah Muhammad
Eafi', the first court physician,
&*>li-

,_U1^ ^-

At the age

Amir
ciples

of fifty- three he joined, through Khusrau's influence, the circle of dis-

Copies of the
St.

Divan are mentioned in the

which surrounded Nizam ud-Din Aubecame one of the favourite liya, and soon Murids of the holy Shaikh, whose teaching he attended from A.H. 707 to 722, and whose utterances he wrote down from day to clay
under the
2001).
luk, in
laid

Collection, No.
p. 73,

Petersburg Catalogue, p. 356, Ouseley's 178, the Gotha Catalogue,

and the Munich Catalogue,

p. 22.

Add. 7747.
Foil.
;

of Fava'id ul-Fu'ad (Or. 1806, When Sultan Muhammad B. Tughtitle

long ruled columns, probably in the 16th century.

[Cl. J.

304 7 J in. by 4J ; 16 lines, 2.I in. written in neat Nestalik, in two gold;

A.H. 727

(see Badaoni, vol.

i.

p. 226),

RICH.]

waste, and forcibly removed its inhabitants to his new capital Deogir, or Daulatabad, Amir Hasan went with .them,

Dehli

The Divan

of Auhadi.

POETRY.
Rukn ud-Din Auhadi, sometimes
called

A.H. 700800.

619

Add. 7090.
Foil. 156;

Maraghi, from Maraghah, which appears to have been his birthplace, and sometimes Isfahan], from his habitual residence, Isfahan, took his poetical surname Auhadi from his spiritual guide, Shaikh Auhad ud-Din Hamid Kirmani, who died A.H. 697 (see Oude Catalogue, p. 48, and Nafahat, p. 684). He left,
besides his Divan, a

in.

by 5
;

written

in

Nestalik

15 lines, 2| in. long; dated Sirhind, Zul-

ka'dah, A.H. 1038 (A.D. 1629).

poem

called .lain

Jam,

composed A.H. 733, and another

entitled

Dah Nam :>li,

The Cup of Jamshid," a poem in the style of the Hadikah of Sana'i (p. 549 a), and in the same measure, by Auhadi.

"

dedicated to a grandson of Nasir ud-Din Tusi (Majalis ul-Muminin, fol.

JU

Au334, and Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 239). hadi died in Maraghah, near Tabriz, and the
date of his death, A.H. 738, was engraved upon his tomb. See Nafahat ul-Uns, p. 706,

The prologue contains eulogies upon the

reigning Sultan Abu Sa^d, (A.H. 716736), and his Vazir Ghiya ud-Din Muhammad B.

Lubb
and

ut-Tavarikh, Add.

23,512,

fol.

107,

Kiy.i/ I'.sh-Shu'ara, fol. 20. who with his usual inaccuracy Auhadi with his master Auhad confounded

Rashid (A.H. 728736), to the latter of whom It is divided into the poem is dedicated.

Daulatshah,

" It circles." three sections, called jjj, or was composed, as stated in the conclusion,
fol.

He has ud-Dln, makes him die A.H. G97. Taki Kashi, Oude Catabeen followed by
logue, p. 17,

155

a, in

the space of one year, and com:

pleted in A.H. 733

and

tl..-

Halt

Iklim,

fol.

362.

Compare Sprengcr, Oude Catalogue,

p. 360.

JLi

Contents: Kasidahs and Tarji'-batuls, fol. 1 a. This section, which contains religious and Sufi poems, without alphabetical arrange-

JU.
Copyist
:

k-ij

ment,
first

is

imperfect at the beginning.

:

The

See Haj. Khal., vol. ii. p. 498, Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 362, and the Vienna
Catalogue, vol.
i.

complete piece begins thus

p. 543.

Ghazals in alphabetical order,

imperfect at the beginning.
plete Ghazal begins thus
:

fol.

48

a, also

Or. 333.
Foil.
;

The

first

com114;

in.

by 4|; 17

lines,

2g

in.

long written in cursive Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]

fol.

Rubies, without alphabetical arrrangement, 297 a.

In a

The same poem, wanting the

lines.

last

four

poem included
b,

in the first section,

t'ol.
(

16

p.

624

Auhadi addresses Khwajah Salman 6), a contemporary poet, whose pride

In this copy the date of composition A.H. 732, fol. 113 b:

JU, jjj

is

^j

jy *ij

4/J-AB*

and ambition he severely reprovrs. The Divan of Auhadi is mentioned by Haj. Khal. vol. iii. p. 264, and an extract from it
is

The

last four distichs are

wanting.
seals,

On

the

first

of the page are the stamps

noticed in the Gotha Catalogue, p. 72.

kings of Oude, and some earlier A.H. 11111117.

dated

620

POETRY.

KHWAJU KIRMANI.
ush-Shu'ara,
fol. 62.

Add. 18,113.
25 lines, 5 in. 93 12| in. by 9 long; written in a small and elegant Nestalik, in four gold-ruled columns, with three rich 'Unviins, and gold headings; dated
Foil.
; ;

172, and the Atashkadah, Other notices are to be found in

fol.
fol.

Majalis ul-Muminin, fol. 119. See also

p.

543, and Haft Ikliin,

248, Sprenger,
St.
b.

Hammer, Redekiinste, Oude Catalogue, p. 471,

p. 357.

Baghdad, Jumada I., A.H. 798 (A.D. 1396). Three poems by Khwaju Kirmani,

and Dorn,
I.

Petersburg Catalogue,

Fol. 1

^.U*

i^Ufc,

the love adven-

Kamal ud-Din Abul-'Ata Mahmud

B.

'All,

poetically surnanied Khwaju, was a native of Rinnan. He states in the epilogue of Gul u

Humai, prince of Zamin and Humayun, a daughter of the Khavar, Faghfur, or emperor of China a Mas.navi in the same metre as the Iskandar Namah of
tures of Shahzadah
;

Nauruz

(a

passage not found in the

Museum
"Chu-

Nizami.

copy, but quoted by

Erdmann

in his

dschu Germani," Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morg. Gesellschaft, vol. ii. pp. 205 215) that he was born on the fifth of Shavval, A.H. 679. According to the Tarikh i Ja'fari, quoted in the Lubb ut-Tavarikh, Add. 23,512, fol. 118, he began his poetical career as a panegyrist of the Muzaffaris, but having left
them, in consequence of some slight, he repaired to the court of Amir Shaikh Abu
Ishak (who ruled in Shiraz from A.H. 742 to

after duly praising the reigning sovereign Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, and his Vazir Ghiyas. ud-Din Muhammad

In the prologue,

(son of the historian Rashid ud-Din), thu author says that he had been induced to

compose this poem by the illustrious Sadr, Abul-Fath Majd ud-Din Mahmud, who had

he composed many poems, and died there A.H. 753. The date assigned to his death by Takl Kashi, Oude Catalogue, p. 18, A.H. 745, is too early for it will be seen further on, p. 621 b, that the poet was still alive in A.H. 746. It is said that Khwaju had followed for some years the teaching of the great Sufi, 'Ala ud-Daulah of Simnan, who died A.H. He has left a Divan, and a Khamsah 736.
754), in, whose praise
;

and had urged him to " sing

supplied

him with a genuine Persian theme, to the Muslims a

Magian

spell," ^ytf

^UL^y W U* ^^J
we
learn that the

From

the epilogue

poem

was composed in Baghdad, where Khwaju was pining for his native Kirman, and that it was completed in A.H. 732, a date expressed by the chronogram Jjj in the fol-

lowing

lines:

Jjj

written in imitation of the five

poems of Nizami, and beginning with the Rau^at ulAnvar.

744, as
2, p.

The Khamsah was completed A.H. stated in Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz

The contents have been

I.e.,

stated by Erdmanu,

p. 213, and, i'rom a

Turkish imitation,

See also Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 175. That date is indeed found at the end of
24.

Kamal-Nainah, which must have been the

last

by Krafft, Handschriften der Orientalischen Akademie, p. 71. See also Haj. Khal., vol. vi. p. 504, and the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i.
p. 544.
|

Khamsah. Notwithstanding that undoubted fact, Daulatshah gives A.H. 742 as the date of the poet's death, an error which has been blindly copied by the'Riyaz

poem

of the

II. Fol.

50

b.

~13

JU

the

"Book

of
in

Perfection," an ethic and religious poem, the metre of Haft Paikar.

POETRY.
Beg.

KHWAJU KIRMANL

621

attached to the ChupSni princes Amir Pir Husain and Malik Ashraf, by whom he was put in possession of the fortress of Sirjam.

The greater part of the prologue is taken up by an invocation to Shaikh Abu Ishak
Ibrahim B. Shahriyar Kazuruni, the patron Kazarun (who died A.H. 426; sec above, p. 205 a, Nafahiit ul-Uns, p. 286, and B. de Maynard, Diet. Geographique, p. 472). The poet states that he was staying as a
saint of

He surrendered it, A.H. 744, hammad Muzaffar. Sent by

Shirftz

to

Amir Mu-

the hitter to

devout worshipper at the Shaikh's holy In the epilogue he addresses a shrine. panegyric to the sovereign of Ears, Amir Shaikh Abu Ishak (A.H. 712 751), and some advice to his own son, Mujir ud-Din Abu Sa'id 'All. lie adds that he had read
the

on a mission to Amir Shaikh Abu Ishak, he deserted his patron to enter the service of his rival, by whom he was apHe died in an encounter pointed Vazir. with the Muzaffaris on the 4th of Safar, A.H. 716, a date recorded by Khwiiju in verses quoted by Hafiz Abru; see Or. 1577, and Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 2, p. 18. inhabitant of Taj ud-Din 'Iraki, a wealthy Kirmau, was one of the first who came out
of that city, then besieged by Amir Muhammad Muzaflar, to submit to the conqueror (A.H. 741). liaised by him to the Vazirate,

poem to his spiritual guide (Murshid), then just arrived in the hind, who being
pleased with it, had conferred upon him the holy investiture (Khirkah), and upon his

he incurred his anger some years later, and was put to death. See Dastur ul-Vuzara,
fol.

work the

title

of Kanial

Namah.
is

The date

121.

of composition, A.H. 744,

stated in the

In the prologue the poet introduces his

beloved,

following lines

who

suggests to

him

that, his

Gul

jV

Jr

3? Jj

u Nauruz being finished, he should now turn to his admired Nizftmi, and try to surpass
C
J

the

Makhzan

ul-Asrar.

The same verse

of the Khamsah.

is

quoted

in the I.Iabib ut-

Siyar as giving the date of the completion

divided into sections (B.ih), The poem which in another copy. Add. 7758, are numis

Khw.iju says in the epilogue that the poem had been written at the shrine of Shaikh

Aim
A.H.

Ishak Ibrahim Kfi/aruui, aud completed

bered from
lost

1 to 12.
fol.

The present MS. has

a leaf after
Fol. 71

50.

III.

b.

,y#
poem

^, the " Garden

in

of Lights," a Sufi

twenty sections

wanting after fol. 79. The llauzat ul-Anvar is considered as the

leaf is
first

(Makalahs).

poem
iii.

of the

vol.

pp.

Khamsah. See Haj. Khal. 175, 498, and Zeitschrift der 1).
is

Beg.

M.
dedicated to
t
>

G., vol. xvi. p. 234.

It is

Shams ud-Din Mahmud

by his
first

due to the pen of a celebrated calligrapher, Mir 'Alt TabrizI, who

This fine MS.
In some lines quoted in the Maj.'ilis ul-Mua penminin, fol. 48(5, Sultan 'All Mashliadi,

B.

Sun,

whom
lie

the poet had been recom-

mended,
patron,

as

states in the epilogue,

T..j

ud-Din

Ahmad

'Iraki.

Shams ud-Din Mahmud

B. Sa'in was

manof great repute (see p.

573rtj,calls

Mir 'Ali

622

POETilY.

KHWAJU KIRMANI.
Gul, daughter of the emperor of Rum, a Magnavi in the metre of Khusrau u Shirin.

Tabrlzl the inventor of the Naskh-Ta'lik, and says that he was a contemporary of Kamal

Khujandi (who died A.H. 803). See also fol. 458, and Blochmann, Ain Akbari, p. 101, where he is said to have lived under Timur. At the beginning of the Rauzat ul-Anvar, which appears to have held originally the first place in the volume, is an illuminated shield with an inscription showing that the MS. had been written for the library of a royal personage called Abul-Fath Bahram
Mir'iit ul-'Alam,
:

Beg.

the same Vazir, Taj udDin "Iraki, whose generous reward is thankThe date of fully recorded in the epilogue.
It is dedicated to

composition, A.H. 742,

is

stated in the fol-

lowing

lines
>.-*

>j

Jli S^>J\

^^
\

>

'

j\\

v>-

Jjd\

p\x>

^\

j^>.j^>

aJU-

i^
^aflfc^J

LT^

The MS. contains nine whole-page miniatures in a highly finished Persian style.

An

abstract of the
I.e.,

poem has been given

See Haj. KhaL,

by Erdmann,

p. 212.

Add. 7758.
Foil.

vol. v. p. 234.

178
in

8|

in.

by 6

21

lines,

in.

III. Fol.

long;

118

b.

Kamal-Namah
II.

see the

written

Nestalik,

in

four
;

gold-ruled
I.,

preceding MS., Art.

columns, with four TJnvans

dated Rabi'

A.H. 934 (A.D. 1527).

Five
follows
I.
:

[OL. J. RICH.]

b. *l3y>^, the "Book of a Magnavi in praise of the Vazir Jewels,"

IV. Fol. 142

poems
b.

by

the

same

author,

as

Baha ud-Din Mahmud and

Beg.
u

his ancestors.

Fol. 1

Humai and Humayun

foil.

see

the preceding MS., Art. I. This copy contains an epilogue,

54

is a later addition. The Sultan, are told, having succumbed to fate, and the Vazir having soon followed, the poet had lost the expected reward. (Abu Sa'Id died on the 13th of RabI' II., A.H. 736, and

56 a, which

we

eulogies on the of Kirman, Amir Muhammad reigning prince Muxaffar, and on his Vazir, the above-

The prologue contains

named Baha ud-Dm Mahmud.

The

entire

poem
latter,

is

Ghiyas. ud-Din was put to death in Ramazan of the same year.) Subsequently, however, his patron, Taj ud-Dm Ahmad 'Iraki
p.

sixth

devoted to the glorification of the who was a lineal descendant in the generation of the celebrated Vazir

of the Saljuk empire, Nizam ul-Mulk (see Each of p. 444 a), and of his forefathers.

(see

621

V),

having proceeded from Kirmfin to

the royal camp to kiss the threshold of the Khfikan, obtained for Khwaju and his work the favourable notice of the Vazir, Shams ud-Dm Mahmud B. Sa'in (see p. 621 a), who

theme of hyperbolical laudations of the most tedious sameness, from which little is to be learned as to
their real history. Their filiation father to son, as follows
:

these becomes in turn the

is,

from

recompensed him beyond

IT.

his hopes.

J, the love-story of Nauruz, son of the king of Khorasa-n, and

.

Fo

57

b.

,,

The great Nizarn ul-Mulk. Hamid ulMulk Mahmud, who died in Tabriz, and was buried in Jarandab. Kivam ul-Mulk Nur udDin Mas'ud, Vazir of Kizil Arslan,
also buried

POETRY.
in Jarandiib.

A.H. 700800.
satires against a

623

died in Sivas.

Fakhr ud-Din Ahmad, who Zaki ud-Din Mahmud, who

KirmanI

(see p.

contemporary poet, Khaju 620 a), whom the author

became Vazir of the Khak&n of Turkistan, and was called Ata Mahmud. He died in lzz ud-Din Yusuf, who served Azarbaijan. Yusuf Shah and Amir Muzaflar, and died in Rum. Baha ud-Din Mahmud, for whom the poem was written. Kasidahs in praise of the same personages, and in the same order, are mentioned by Erdmann, I.e., p. 215, as forming part of the Divan of Khwaju. The present copy wants the conclusion, in which occurs, according to Dr. Sprenger,
f

charges with disparaging Sa'di, while plundering his Divan, and declares unable to compete in poetry with himself:

The other

satire,

beginning

Oude Catalogue,
giving A.H. 716

p. 473, the following line, as the date of composition

:

was composed when Khwajii came from Kirman to Shiriiz, and is stated, in the headhave been recited in the presence of Amir Shaikh Abu Ishak (A.H. 742754). There are also three Kasidahs addressed to Nusrat ud-Din Shah Yahya, of whom the poet says, fol. 27, that he had, in the presence of Sultan Muhammad, gloriously
ing, to

Rauzat ul-Anvar (see the preceding MS., III.), wanting two leaves at
a.

V. Fol. 155

the beginning.

Copyist

jy^ ^\ ,U* Oj
Or. 28.

tsfti

^^

J*

vanquished Akhi at the gate of Tabriz, and had received as his reward the sovereignty
of Yazd, the seat of his father:

86; 7 in. by 5| ; 13 lines, 3 in. written in cursive Naskhi ; dated long;

Foil.

Rajab, A.H. 881 (A.D. 1476).

[6. C. RENOUAUD.]

The Divan of Haidar, j^

Tlio poet,

no record of

whom

has been

found, uses I.Iaidar as his takhallus, and is called in the heading and subscription II a id:i r
ush-Shirazi. in Sliiraz,

Shah Muzaffar, the

eldest son of

Amir Mu-

The Divan shows that he lived his birthplace, and occasionally

middle of the eighth cen-

fari

in Yazd, about the

tury of the Ilijrah. It contains, fol. 35, an elegy on the death of Sultan Abu Sa'id,

the founder of the Muzafhad died in his father's life-time, dynasty, A.H. 754 (see Matla' us-Sa'dain, fol. 91). His eldest son, Nusrat ud-Din Shah Yahya, was only fifteen years old when he fought

hammad MuzafTar,

which took place A.H. 736, and,

fol. 78,

two

by the side of his grandsire in the battle referred to in the above lines, in which Akhi

621

POETRY.

A. H.

700800.

Juk, a Chupani Amir, who had made himself master of Azerbaijan, was completely routed before Tabriz, A.H. 759 (ib. fol. 101, and
Price's Retrospect, vol.
ii.

Foil.
;

400

Add. 27,314. 11 in. by 6; 19 lines,

in.

p. 690).

long in the 17th century.

written in Nestalik, probably in India,

[D. FORBES.]
Savaji,
^^

Having been confined, A.H. 760, by his

uncle Shah Shuja', in the fortress of Shiraz, Shah Yahya was re-instated by him as viceroy of Yazd A.H. 764. But he took the first

The

poetical works of Salman

Khwajah Jamal ud-Din Salman, son of Khwajah 'Ala ud-Dm Muhammad, was born
in Savah,
cial

opportunity to assert his independence, and, being of a restless and ambitious disposition, carried on for years a constant struggle

where

his father held a

high finan-

the

appointment, and followed in early life same profession, which he afterwards

with his

relatives.

Placed by Timur, after

his conquest of Shiraz, A.H. 789, at the head of the government of Pars, he was dispos-

sessed a few

months later by his brother Shah Mansur, and was eventually involved, A.H.
795, in the general slaughter of the Muzaffari princes by the ruthless conqueror.

gave up for poetry. He was, according to Jami, Baharistan, fol. 67, a successful imitator of the great Kasidah writers, especially of Kamfil Ismful, whom he often surpassed, but did not reach the same eminence in the
Ghazal.

In his Firftk Namah, which he composed,

as

Another Kasidah, composed 43, is in praise of Sharaf ud-Din Shah Hufol.

in Yazd,

stated in the

sain

Juz 1, p. had completed his seventy-first year

Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., 136, AH. 761, Salman says that he
:

He must

therefore have been

born about

Shah Husain was the third son of the above-mentioned Shah Muzaffar, and appaShah rently succeeded his elder brother,
Yahya, in the principality of Yazd, but the
exact period The Divan, which begins with seven Kasidahs in praise of God and the prophet, conis

A.H. 690. His earliest poems are apparently those which he addressed to the celebrated Vazir, Ghiyjis ud-Din Muhammad, who died A.H.

not recorded.

But his brilliant career as court-poet commenced in the time of the founder of the IlkanI dynasty, Amir Shaikh Hasan Bu736.
zurg,
in

tains,

besides the pieces above mentioned,

who rose to power after the death of Sultan Abu Sa'id, A.H. 736, held his court

little else

than Ghazals, and

is

Its systematic arrangement. in a short prologue, headed <_^ljLS JiJ ^-*~,

without any title is found

in

which the following dialogue is carried on with an imaginary interlocutor:

*S

C^fli

Cl*a>

to-

Baghdad, and died A.H. 757. He was in high favour with that prince, and afterwards with his son and successor, Shaikh Uvais (A.H. 757 776), who established his residence in Tabriz, as also with the latter's mother, the accomplished Dilshad Khatun. Having survived Shaikh Uvais, who died on
the 2nd of
I., A.H. 776 (Matla' usSalman maintained for Sa'dain, 148), some time the same influential position under his son and successor, Sultan Husain

Jumada

fol.

y c-^
Transcriber
:

POETRY.
(A.H. 776784), to

A. H.

700800.

625

poems are addressed.

whom several of his He composed also, as

has been noticed in the Matla' us-Sa'dain, fol. 152, two Kasidahs in honour of Shah
Shujfi', during that king's temporary occupation of Tabriz in A.H. 777. It is said that he passed his last years in retirement in his

In obeying the king's behest, he says, further on, he found a welcome opportunity of discharging a debt of gratitude for fifty
years' favours
:

native place.
It will

be seen from the above facts that

the date A.H. 769, assigned by Daulatshah to Salman's death, and adopted by most later

In the epilogue Salman regrets his departed youth, and complains of the infirmities of age. His figure is bent like a bow, nothing but skin and bones.

by at least eight years too early. The Tabakat i Shahjahani, fol. 38, places that event in A.H. 778, Haj. Khal., vol. iv. p. 389, in A.H. 779, and Taki Kushi, Oude Catalogue, p. 18, in A.H. 799 (an obvious error for 779). The notices of Daulatshfih and Atashkadah have been edited in text and translation by Erdmann, Zeitschrift der D. M. G., vol. xv. Other notices will be found 772. pp. 758 in Majalis ul-Muininin, fol. 517, Haft Iklim, fol. 408, and Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 208.
writers, is

The poem was completed,

as stated in the

following lines at the end, in the

month

of

Jumada

II.,

A.H. 763

See

also

Hammer,

Redekiinste,

p.

260,

The Jamshid

of

Salmon

is

not the mythical

Ouseley's Notices, p. 117, and Sprenger, Catalogue, p. 555.

Oude

king of Persian tradition, but an imaginary prince, son of the Faghfur, or emperor of
China.

The contents
I.

are as follows

The heroine

is

a daughter of the

J^ji- j >/ ., the loveof Jamshid and Khwurshid, a Masnavi story poem in the measure of Khusrau u Shirin.
4.

Fol. 1

Kaisar of
II.

Rum.
the " Book of Se-

Fol. 85 a.

paration," a Masnavi.

Beg.

Beg.

uiJli-

After a panegyric addressed to Sultan Uvais, the poet relates in the prologue how he had been summoned to the presence of
his royal patron, and told that, Ni/./imi's book on Farhiid and Khusrau having become old and obsolete, he should compose on the tale of Jamshid, a new poem dedicated to his

was written, like the preceding, for Sul^un Uvais, who had desired Salman to compose a poem on the pangs of absence.
It

It is stated in

the Habib us-Siyar, vol.

iii.,

sovereign

Juz
3

consequence court and gone to Baghdad, A.H. 761. The heroes of the tale are called Malik and

1, p. 136, that Sultan Uvais was then pining for his minion Bairam Shah, who, in of some quarrel, had left the

Mah bub.
VOL.
II.

See Haj. Khal., vol. c c

iv. p.

389.

626
III.

POETRY.
Fol. 117
is
.

A.H. 700800.

Kasldahs

and Tarjf-

The volume contains three whole-page

miniatures in the Persian style.

bands.

This section

beginning. ing to the personages to

dressed, as follows
fol.
.
:

The poems

slightly imperfect at the are arranged accord-

whom they are adMuhammad and 'All,

Add, 6619.
186; 8 in. by 5; 15 lines, 2| in. written in fair Nestalik, in two goldlong ruled columns, with 'Unvan and gilt headFoil.
;

Sultan Uvais, fol. 128 b. Jalalud117 Din Shaikh Husain (A.H. 776784), fol. 222 a. Nuyan A'zam Shaikh Hasan Beg (Hasan Buzurg), fol. 228 a. Dilshad Khatun (wife of the preceding), fol. 248 b.

ings

dated Zulhijjah, A.H. 876 (A.D. 1472). [J. F. HULL.]

Dundi Sultan (wife of Sultan Uvais),

268
a.

fol.

Shams ud-Dm Zakariyya

fol.

(Vazir of

Shah Mahmud A.H. 776), fol. (the Muzaffari, who died 277 a. Shah Shuja' (A.H. 759786), fol. 279 6. Sahib Ghiya ud-Dm Muhammad (who died A.H. 736), fol. 282 a.
Sultan Husain),

272

b.

The
poem.

tale of

Mihr and Mushtari, a Masnavi

Author
Beg.

'Assar,

Mariyahs, or funeral poems, including elegies on the death of Sultan Abu Sa'id (A.H. 736), Amir Ilkan, Shaikh Hasan, Sultan Uvais, and Dundi Khatun.
IV.
Pol.

285

a.

Maulana

Muhammad

mentioned in the Lubb

'Assar, of Tabriz, is ut-Tavarikh as one of

the panegyrists of the Ilkani Sultan Shaikh Uvais (A.H. 757776). He died, as stated
in the

Mukatta'at, without alSeveral of these phabetical arrangement.

V. Fol. 295

a.

same work, A.H. 779, or, according to TakI Kashi, Oude Catalogue, p. 18, A.H.
784.

relate to

contemporary events, fixing their for instance, the death of Shaikh dates, as, Hasan Chupani in A.H. 744, and a destructive
inundation at Baghdad in A.H. 775.

Very meagre notices of him are found

in the Baharistan, fol. 68, Haft Iklim, fol. See also 513, and Atashkadah, fol. 18.

At the

end

is

a TarjI'-band.

Hammer, Redekiinste, p. Oude Catalogue, p. 311.

254,

and Sprenger,
to

'Assar refers in several passages

the

VI. Fol. 329 a. Ghazals, and Ruba'is, also without alphabetical arrangement. This volume bears the seal of the college On the first page are of Fort William.
several 'Arzdidahs,

numerous poems which he had composed in. praise of princes, and which often had remained unread. Thus in the epilogue
:

one of which

is

dated

A.H. 1062.

Add. 7755.
Foil. 134;

>

aZSJ

J^

9f

in.

by

12

lines,

in.

long ; written in fair Nestalik, in two goldruled columns, with 'Unvan, apparently in the 16th century. [Cl. J. EICH.] JamshTd u Khwurshld. See above, art. i.

Finding poets neglected and scorned, he had retired, as he says in the prologue, to From solitude and silent contemplation. roused by a friend, who this torpor he is urges him to complete his poetical works by

POETRY.

A.H. 700800.

627

kind of adding to them a Masjiavi, the only composition which he had not yet attempted

Add. 7759,
6 in. by 4 ; 14 lines, 2 in. ; written in fair Nestalik, in two goldlong; ruled columns, on glazed, tinted, and goldsprinkled paper ; dated Ramazan, A.H. 855
Foil. 141

(A.D. 1451).

[OL J. RICH.]

After urging two objections, the absence " this of any patron of poetry, especially in town of Tabriz," and the unapproachable standard of perfection held up by Nizami,
the author yields, and relates to his friend " the tale of Mihr and Mushtari, the story of a love free from all weakness, pure of all sensual desire."

The Divan

of Hafiz Shirfizi.

Beg. LfJjUj L-.K ji\ J* V^- J*\ J, jy

^u
H

Hafiz Shirazi, originally called

Shams ud-

Dm

Muhammad, who
;

is

by common consent

the greatest of Persian lyrics, ranks also high as a Sufi a spiritual symbolism is generally supposed to underlie, in his most Anacreontic the expression of sensuous ideas. Jami says in the Baharistan that he is as great in the Ghazal as Zahtr Fftryabi in the Kasidah. The whole of his long and unstrains,

The author states in the conclusion that the poem was completed on the tenth of Shawal, A.H. 778
:

eventful

was, with the exception of short Such absences, spent in his beloved Shiraz. as bear upon contemporary of his poems nts are frequently quoted by the hislife

and that

it

consisted of 5120 distichs,

>

Their dates range of the period. from the reign of Amir Shaikh Abu Ishak (A.H. 742754), which he extols as a
torians

C^~...

3 c:

aT

(j&
arbitrarily

glorious epoch for his native city, to the short-lived rule of the last of the Muzaflaris,

The above date, which had been

to

Shah MansQr (A.H. 790-795).

The

latter

A.H. 674 by C. R. 8. Peiper, changed Commcntatio de libro Persico Mihr o Muschteri, Berlin, 1835, has been vindicated with
overwhelming evidence by Prof. Fleischer, / tschrift der D.M.G., vol. xv. pp. 389

took possession of Shiraz towards the end of A.H. 790, about six months after the first
invasion of Timur.

Two poems

in his praise,

The contents of the poem have been

stated
by.

and by

Sir

Peiper in the above quoted work, Gore Ouseley in the Biographical

226.

quoted in the Ma^la* us-Sa'dain, fol. 198, are probably the latest compositions of Hafiz, who died A.H. 791, or, according to less trustworthy authorities, A.H. 792.

The

Notices, pp. 201

Cataloirui-, vol.
i.

See also the Vienna

mad

the date recorded by MuhamGul-and&m, the friend of H:ili/., and

first is

p. 547, the St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 359, and the Upsala Catalogue, p. 111.

collector of the Divan.

It is engraved, ac-

Transcriber:

cording to Sir Gore Ouseley, Notices, p. 40, on the poet's tombstone, and is conveyed by the words La,. ^JW in the following chro-

This copy contains eight whole-page miniatures in the Persian style.

nogram, found in some copies of Gul-andam's

preface:

628
elJli-

POETRY.

HAFIZ.
p. 415,

and Deft-emery, Journal Asiatique,

Serie, pp.

406425.
first

been followed by the Lubb ut-Tavarikh, fol. 117, and by Taki Kashi, Oude
It has

Catalogue, p. 19. The second date, A.H. 792, is expressed by another chronogram, which, although contradicting the direct statement of Gul-

andam, has found its way into most copies of the same preface
:

by Abu Talib Khan (see p. 378 b), in Calcutta, 1791, and re-printed in 1826. It has been printed in Bombay, A.H. 1228 and 1277, Dehli, 1269, Cawnpore, 1831, Lucknow, A.H. 1283, Teheran, A.H. 1258, Bulak, A.H. 1250, 1256 and An excel1281, and Constantinople, 1257. lent edition of the text, with the Turkish

The Divan was

edited

commentary of Sudl, has been published by H. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1854. A German translation of the Divan by J. von Hammer was published in Tubingen,
1812.
into

poems have been translated German by Bodenstedt, Berlin, 1877,

Select
J.

adopted by hat, p. 715, and, after him, in Habib usSiyar, vol. iii., Juz 2, p. 47, Majalis ul-

It

has

been

Jami, Nafa-

Muminin,
p. 272.

fol.

334, and Haj. Khal., vol.

iii.

Richardson, 1774, J. Nott, 1787, J. H.*Hindley, 1800, H. BickS. Robinson, 1875, and W. H. nell, 1875, Lowe, 1877. Contents Ghazals in alphabetical order,
:

and into English by

Daulatshah, whose account of Hafiz has been translated by S. de Sacy, Notices et

Entraits, vol. iv. p. 238, stands alone in placing his death as late as A.H. 794, and

fol.
fol.

16. 134
b.
:

Masnavls,
Ruba'is,

fol. fol.

132 138 b.

a.

Kifahs,

Copyist

commits a further anachronism

in representFoil.
;

ing a supposed interview of Hafiz with Timur as having taken place after the death of

Add. 7760.
179
;

9f

in.

by 6

15

lines,

in.

Shah Mansur, who

fell

in battle

A.H. 795.

Firishtah has a circumstantial account of a message sent by the king of Deccan, Mahmud Shah Bahmam (A.H. 780799), to Hafiz to induce him to come to his court. The poet, probably anxious to escape from the approaching hosts of Timur, accepted the invitation, as well as the funds provided for the journey, and proceeded as far as Hormuz, where he went on board the king's
ship.

long written in neat Nestalik, in two goldruled columns, with 'Unvans, illuminated
headings, and gold designs on the margins, dated A.H. 921 (A.D. 1515), bound in

painted covers. [Cl. J. RICH.] The Divan of Hafiz, with the preface of

Muhammad

Gul-andam,

\&\

^>

which
and

begins (_>*>Ui' o^i"* ) J*^ <-?^ j After some remarks on the charm

^^ ^-

rough

But, frightened sea, he landed again, and

Shiraz.
i.

at

the sight of a

made

all

pregnant sense of Hafiz's poetry, and on the wonderful speed with which it had spread to the most distant lands, delighting kings and
Sufis alike, the writer of the preface, who describes himself as an old friend of Hafiz,

speed back to
edition, vol.

See the

Bombay

p. 577.

Notices on Hafiz will be found in

Ham-

mer's Redokiinste, p. 261, Ouseley's Notices,

pp.

says that during his life the poet was so busy lecturing on the Coran, giving instruction to

23

42,

Sprenger,

Oude

Catalogue,

the Sultan, writing glosses to the Kashshaf

POETRY. -HAFIZ.
and the Miftan, studying the Matali'and the Misbah, etc., that he found no leisure to collect his scattered poems and although
;

629

long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, ornamental headings, and six miniatures in the Persian style, apparently in the 16th century. [ALEX. JABA.]

Muhammad Gul-andam, who

verse with

often held con-

him in the college, t\S t^a, of Maulana Kivam ml- Dm 'Abd Ullah, re-

The same Divan, without the Kasidahs.

peatedly pressed the subject on his attention, Hafiz still put it off with some excuse, until death overtook him in A.H. 791 (see Add.
5625, and 7761), when the task of collecting and arranging the Divan devolved on the
writer.

Grenville
Foil.

xli.
;

258; 5

in.

by 3

10

lines,

long

written in neat Nestalik, with

If in. 'Unvan

preface is printed in the bay edition of the Divan.

The above
Contents:

Bom-

and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century bound in painted covers. The same Divan, wanting about forty leases at the beginning, and not including
;

Preface,

fol.

3ft.
fol.

the Kasidahs.

Kasidahs,

beg.

jub
fol.

oj

uJN y/p
a.

b.

gr/J-Jj,

Ma

navis,

Uhazals, in
Mukatt.i'.it,

18 a. alphabetical order, fol. 236. fol. 170 o. Ruba'is, fol. 174 a.

Tarji-*band8,
fol.

12

contains nineteen miniatures, in the Indian style, and of a high degree of finish,
It

but partly defaced. Prefixed is a letter of

the lion.

Wm.

Marsden to

Tlu- copyist, Sultan

Muhammad Khandan,

Thomas

Grenville, describing the

was a pupil of the famous calligrapher Sultan 'AH Mashadi, and one of the scribes of Mir 'Ali Shir (see p. 617 a).

MS.

Add, 8890.
Poll.

Of four miniatures

in Persian style, placed

147

in.

by 3
;

15

lines,

1*

in.

at the beginning and end of the volume, two are of modern date.

long

written in small Nestalik, with

'Unvan

and gold-ruled

The first page is covered with 'Ar?didahs of the reign of Shahjahan and Aurangzib.

dated Jumada, margins 1020 (A.D. 1611). The same Divan, without the Kasidahs.
11.
:

Copyist

J-i " Given by Sr.

Add. 7761.
lines, 3| 10| long ; written in fair Nestalik, in two goldruled columns, with 'Unvans, and gold 'lings; dated Jumada I., A.H. 083 (A.D.
1

Foil. 228;

in.

by 6; 14

On
in.

the cover

is

written

R. C. to At'her Ali

Khan, and by him

Jones."

bequeathed

to Sir

W.

M5). The Divan of

Contents
:

Hafiz,

[Q. J. RICH.] with the same preface.

fol.

Add. 26,161.
154; 8 in. by 4J; 15 lines, 2| in. written in fair Nestalik, with a rich long ; 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated the
Foil.

Ghazals,

^fr wyI'.i'Jft.

206 a.

fol> ff uV- */u->~s* Mas.navis, fol. 199 a. Tarji'-bands, fol. Kifahs, fol. 212 a. Ruba'is, fol. 220 b.
'

^^

b.

Kasidahs,

fourth year of Shahjahfm (A.H. 10'iO

41,

Copyist

Or. 1220.
Foil.
19-1
;

A.D. 1631). [WM. ERSKINE.J A copy of the same Divan, containing, besides the Ghazals, only one Magnavi, with a few K it'alis and Kuba'is.
Copyist
:

7 in.

by 3$

12

lines,

2 in.

630

POETRY.
first

HAFIZ.
1161, the
1749).
first

page contains several 'Arzdidahs and seals of the reign of Shahjahan.

The

year of

Ahmad Shah

(A.D.

Add. 16,762.
Foil.

[WM. CTJRETON.] The same Divan, with the preface of Muhammad Gul-andam, and the Kasidahs. At the end, foil. 268 270, is an anonymous
tract

200; 11

in.

by 6|; 17
;

lines, 3

in.

on the

spiritual

meaning attached by

written in fair Nestalik, in two goldruled columns, with 'Unvan dated Rabi' I.,

long

Sufis to the

names

of sensual objects, sub-

A.H. 1053 (A.D. 1643). [Wn. YULE.] The same Divan, without the Kasidahs.
Copyist:
i_JulaD\

stantially agreeing with the treatise of Sayyid 'All Hamadani, mentioned further on.

Copyist

^s- U^yo

&*.>

j\

J.-P

Add. 7763.
404; 9J in. by 5J; 12 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik, with two 'Unvans, long ; illuminated borders, and 112 miniatures in
Foil.

The volume contains eleven miniatures, partly in Indian, and partly in Persian style, which did not originally belong to it.
" Wm. the fly-leaf is written Yule, from his friend Col. D. Ochterlony, Dehli, 10 Sept., 1805."

On

the Indian style

written apparently in the

.[01. J.

18th century.

RICH.]

The same Divan, 1. The Preface of

fol.

which are prefixed Muhammad Gul-andam,

to

Add. 5625.
Foil.

b.

2.

Exposition of
'All

the spiritual

long

213; 8i in. by 5J; 17 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik, with 'Unvans and

meaning
fol.

of words in the Divan of Hafiz,

by
&),

Amir Sayyid
7

Hamadani

612 a.

(see p.

447

ruled margins ; dated Zulka'dah, A.H. 1082,

(A.D. 1672).

The same Divan, with the preface of Mu-

hammad Gul-andam, and

Copyist
:

the Kasidahs.

Add. 7762.
Foil. 195;

Foil. 252; lines, 3| in. in a page ; written in Indian Nestalik ; long,

lines,

Add. 27,264. 9 in. by 6; 13

[Sir

51

in.

by 3J;

15

in.

dated Rajab, A.H. 1226 (A.D. 1811).

long

written in a cursive character ; dated

JOHN MALCOLM.]

Zulhijjah,

A.H. 1109 (A.D. 1698).

[01. J. RICH.]

The same Divan.

Copyist:

J
Add. 25,815.

The same Divan, with the preface of Gulandam, and the Kasidahs. Prefixed are some observations on the spiritual meaning of some words in the Divan, partly taken from Sayyid 'All Hamadani, fol. 1 a, and a notice on the life of Hafiz, from the Habib us-Siyar, and Nafahat ul-Uns, fol. 4 b.

Foil.

long ;

15 lines, 3| in. written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and 270

;

9 in. by 5

Add. 4946.
Foil.

gold-ruled margins

dated

Jumada

I.,

A.H.

153; 91

in.

by 5|; 15

lines,

3|

in.

POETRY.
long; written in Indian Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century. [CLAUD RUSSELL.] Another copy of the same Divan, contain-

HAFIZ.
long;
written in a cursive

631
Nestalik, ap[Cl. J.

parently in the 17th century.

RICH.]

a ing only the Ghazals, a few Kit'ahs, and short Masnavi.

A Turkish commentary upon the Divan of Hafiz, by Sururi, ^j* (see p. 606 a).
& **^ ^.f-j'^ in a short Turkish prestates, face, that he had written this commentary for some religious friends, with the object of
Beg.

Add. 23,550.
Foil. 209;

(_i^

ki-

The author

7i

in.

by 5J; 13

lines,

in.

the long; written in Nestalik, probably in 18th century. [Ron. TAYLOR.] The same Divan.

fully disclosing the spiritual

sense of the

Divan.
This copy breaks off in the middle of the

Or. 1367.
; 12$ by 8; 11 lines, 4j in. long; written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 18th [SiR CHAS. ALEX. MURRAY.] century.

letter

y
vol.
iii.

Foil.

309

in.

See Haj. Ehal.,

p. 273,

and the

Munich Catalogue,

p. 26.

Or. 29.
239 ; 8$ in. by 5J ; 23 lines, 3| in. written in a small Turkish Naskhi, long; apparently in the 17th century.
Foil.

The same Divan, imperfect

at the end.

Add. 6620.
Foil 200
long ; in the 18th century. [J. F. HULL.] same Divan, slightly defective at The beginning and end.
7 in. by 3$ ; 11 lines, 2| in. written in Indian Nestalik, apparently
;

[G. C. RKNOUARD.]

A commentary upon

the Divan of Hafiz

by Maulanit Sham'I Efendi, (see p. 607 a).

<->\Z\ t Beg. In a short Persian preface the author informs us that he had written the present

j+

Add. 7764.
7 in. by 4; 14 lines, 2$ in. long; written in Nestalik, with an TJnvan, illuminated borders, and sixteen miniatures
Foil. 219;

work by

desire of his protector,

Ahmad Fari-

dun. It contains the text, followed by a Turkish paraphrase and a few verbal explanations.

in the Indian style

dated Zulka'dah, A.H.

in painted covers.
[Cl. J.

1215 (A.D. 1801); bound

The
from

RICH.]

subscription, apparently transcribed the author's own, states that the com-

The same Divan.

Or, 1417.
Foil.

mentary had been completed at the end of Xulhijjah, A.H. 981. See Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 273, and Krafft's Catalogue, p. 67.
lines,

170; 12
;

in.

by 6J; 16

3|

in.

long;

written in

Nestalik, as

stated,

in
Foil.

Or. 312.
113 ; 9| in. by 6 ; 15 lines, 3i in. written in cursive Indian Nestalik, on long ; silver-sprinkled paper; dated Patnah, Ju-

Kashmir dated A.H. 1264 (A.D. 1848). The same Divan.

Add. 7765.
Foil.

mada
lines,

II.,

A.H. 1072 (A.D. 1661).

[GEO.

264; 84

in.

by 5f

20

3J

in.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

032

POETKY.

A.H. 700800.
Other poems are addressed to Shaikh Nasir ud-Din, no doubt the celebrated Chiragh i Dihli 41 b), who was also, according (see p. to Ilahi, a religious instructor of Mas'ud. His name occurs on fol. 24 b
:

The Divan
Beg.

of Mas'ud of Bak,

L^li j\yb

u^j^

Vj

The author, who sometimes uses Mas'ud i Bak (hut still oftener Mas'ud) as his Takhallus, was so called, according to Ilalri, Oude
Catalogue, p. 84, followed by the Itiyaz ushShu'ara, fol. 410, from Bak, a dependency of Bukhara. He was, as stated in the Akhbar
ul-Akhyiir, fol. 137, a relative of Sultan Flruz Shah (A.H. 752 790), and bore in his When he early life the title of Shir Khan.

Add. 19,496.
Poll.

177

6J

in.

by 4|

13

lines,

in.

long

written in cursive Nestalik, apparently

renounced the world, he took for his spiritual guide Shaikh Rukn ud-Din B. Shaikh Shihab ud-Din, Imfim of Mzam ud-Din Auliya, and became a fervent adept of the Chishti order. By his mystic exaltation and reckless utterances he made himself obnoxious to the 'Ulama, by whom he was sentenced to death, as stated in Tabakat i ShahjahanI, A.H. 800. He was buried near the tomb of the famous saint Kutb ud-Din, in old Dehli.

in the 17th century.

The Divan

of Kamal Khujandi.

He

left,

besides his Divan, a treatise entitled

Tamhidat on the plan of a work of the same name by 'Ain ul-Kuzat Hamadam (p. 411 b), and another called Mir'at ul-'Arifln. See
Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 486. The author says, in a short preamble, that

Shaikh Kamal was born and grew up in Khujand, a town of Mavara un-Nahr; but, after performing a pilgrimage to Mecca, he settled in Tabriz, where Sultan Husain B. Shaikh TJvais (A.H. 776784) built for him a monastery (Khankah), and where his renown as a devotee and religious teacher drew to

him numbers

of

disciples.

Tughtamish,

Khan

of Kipchak, when returning from his raid upon Tabriz in Zulka'dah, A.H. 787 (see

Matla' us-Sa'dain,
capital
Sarai,

fol.

185), took

him

to his

he had composed this work called Nur ul-

where Kamal remained four

Yakln at the request of his brother Nasir udDin Muhammad, that it might give light to the. eyes of friends and serenity to the bosom
of the godly.

afterwards returned to Tabriz, years. then the residence of Miran Shah, son of Timur, by whom he was treated with considerate
attention.

He

There he

died, accord-

The Divan, which is entirely of a religious and mystic character, contains Kasidahs, fol.
3 a, Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 19 b, and Ruba'is similarly arranged, fol. 95 a. Several of the Kasidahs are in praise of

ing to Jaml, Nafahat, p. 712, in A.H. 803, a date adopted by Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii.,

Juz

3, p. 90,

ShahjahanI,

fol.

Haft Iklim, fol. 601, Tabakat i 35, Mirat ul-Khayal, fol. 41,

the author's spiritual guide

following lines,
fol.

Eukn

ud-Din,

whose proper name, 'Ugman, appears in the

13 b
:

and Eiyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 383. Daulatshah places the same event in A.H. But this is inconsistent with his own 792.
account;
according to him, Kamal lived many years after his return from Sarai, which cannot have taken place earlier than
for,

A.H. 791 or 792.

According to the Majalis

POETRY. A.H. 700800.

ul-TJshshak (see p. 352 A), died A.H. 808.

633

Kamal Khujandi

JamI says in the Baharistan that Kamal imitated the style of Hasan Dihlavl (p. 618 a), but surpassed him in subtlety of thought. He is said to have been much admired by his contemporary Hafiz.
Notices on his
life

have been given by

p.

Shaikh by whom he had been invested with the Khirkah of the Sufi order of Ibn ul'Arabi. He was a disciple of Shaikh Isma'il Sisi, lived in Tabriz on terms of friendship with Kamal Khujandi, and was, like him, better known as a Sufi than as a poet. He is said to have been in favour with great Miran Shah, until he was supplanted by his

Ouseley, Notices, pp. 192 and 106, Bland, Century of Ghazals, iii., and Dr. Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 454.

Hammer,

Redekiinste,

255,

more celebrated contemporary.

to Jaini, Nafahst, p. 713, followed

The present copy contains Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 1 a, Kit'ahs, fol. 169 a, and
a few Ruba'is,
(iliaxals
fol.

176
\

b.

It

wants

all

the

but the last seven. found one in which Among the poet compares himself with his namesake Kamal Isfahan! (Oude Catalogue, p. 455), and another relating to the invasion of Tughtamish, fol. 174 a :
in the letter

the Kit'ahs

is

Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 3, by TakI Kashi, Oude Catalogue, p. 19, Maghribi died in Tabriz A.H. 809. TakI Auhadi and the Majfilis ul-TTshshak (p. 252 b) give * somewhat earlier date, A.H. 807. See Dr. Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 476 compare Ouseley's Notices, p. 106, and Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 78, where three poems
;

According by the p. 91, and

of Maghribi are wrongly ascribed to

Mu'izzi.

Amir

fol.

Contents: Ghazals in alphabetical order, 1 b. Tarji'-bands, fol. 80 b. Ruba'is in

fol.

Copies are mentioned in Fleischer's Dresden Catalogue, p. 7, Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 557, Munich Catalogue, p. 27, and Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1428.

100 b. mentioned by Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 315, and in the Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1444, has been printed in See Dorn, Melanges Persia, A.H. 1280.
alphabetical order,

The Divan, which

is

Asiatiques, vol. v. p. 524.

Add. 7739.
104; 5J by 3$; 12 lines, 3 in. long; writtt-n in Xestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Cl. J. EICH.]
Foil.
in.

Add. 6623.
9$ in. by 5 ; 19 lines, 3 in. long; written in Indian Nestalik ; dated Rabi II.,
Foil. 80;
1

A.H. 1177 (A.D. 17G3). [J. F. HULL.] The same Divan, somewhat differently
arranged.

The Divan Maghribi.

Beg.

J^j-ij

U
Foil.

Jj jj j

Maghribi, whose original

hammad

Shirin,

name was Muwas born, according to TakI

80 contain some poetical extracts and a fragment of an Arabic-Persian vocabu75

lary.

Auhadi, quoted in Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 413, in the town of Nfiin, province of Isfahan, and took his poetical name from a Maghribi
VOL.
II.

Add. 25,824.
Foil.

35

in.

by 5 D D

18

lines,

3^

in.

634
long; written in Nestalik

POETRY.
;

A.H. 800900.

dated Safar, A.H.

Add. 7811.
Poll.

1096 (A.D. 1685).

[Wu. CURETON.]

319

in.

by 6

15

lines,

2f

in.

long; written partly in Naskhi, and partly in Nestalik ; apparently in the 16th century.
treasure of appetite," a collection of poems, with a prose preface by the author.

"The

[Cl. J.

RICH.]

Author

Jamal ud-Din

Abu

Ishak,

sur-

The Divan of Ni'mat

called Ni'mat Ullah Vali.

Ullah,

commonly

named

Hallaj, ^

Amir Nur ud-Din Ni'mat Ullah, who was, according to his own statement in this Divan,
fol.

309, a son of Mir 'Abd Ullah, and a descendant of the Imam Bakir, is revered,
especially by Shl'ahs, as a great saint, and worker of miracles, and was the founder of

Hakim Jamal ud-Din Abu

monly
called

Ishak,

comIshak

&^9^M

J^^ 3>\

or

Abu

the gastronomer, designates himself in his verses by the takhallus -j^, a contraction He was a native of Shlraz and of y>\.

a religious order, called after him Ni'matullahl. It is stated in a contemporary Mana-

jl^

a favourite of Sultan Iskandar B. 'Umar

Shaikh, grandson of Tlmur and viceroy of He died, according 817. Pars, A.H. 812 i to the Tabakat Shahjahanl, fol. 75, A.H.
819, or, as stated in the Mir'at ul-'Alam, fol. See also TakI Kashi and 475, A.H. 827.
Ilahi,

Oude Catalogue,
and

lim, fol. 99,

pp. 19, 68, Haft IkMir'at ul-Khayal, fol. 44.

says in the preface that he was in his youth ambitious to achieve renown in poetry,
but,

He

coming

after so

many great poets,

as the

he names Kamal Khujandl and Hafiz, he was at a loss what new theme to select, when his beloved came in and suggested one by complaining of the loss of her
latest of

whom

appetite, for

the restoration of which he

wrote the present work.

The poems, which are in the form of Ghazals and Ruba'is, describe, in a curious travesty of the lyric style, various products of the culinary art. See Haj. Khal., vol. v. p. 248, and the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 415.
Poll.

ud-Din Shah BahmanI Add. 16,837, foil. 339 (A.H. 838862), 355, that he was born in Halab, A.H. 730 or 731, but grew up in Irak, and went in his twenty-fourth year to Mecca, where he stayed seven years, and became a disciple and Khallfah of Shaikh 'Abd Ullah Yafil (who died A.H. 768 ; see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 427). He lived afterwards successively in Samarkand, Herat, and Yazd, attracting everywhere crowds of disciples, and finally settled in Mahan, eight farsangs from Kirman, where he spent the last twenty-five years of his life, and died on the 22nd of Rajab, A.H. 834, at the age of 103 or 104 lunar years. In a later, but much more circumstantial account of his life, the Jamf i Muf Idl, Or. 210, foil. 2 36, the same day and year are as the date of his death, which is congiven
kib, written for 'Ala

firmed by several contemporary chronograms. 'Abd ur-Razzak, who visited the saint's tomb A.H. 845, says in the Matla* usSa'dain,
fol.

167,

that Ni'mat

Ullah Vail

died on the 25th of Rajab, A.H. 834. The same year is mentioned in Hablb us-Siyar,
vol.
fol.
iii.,

33

35

contain a fragment of a
Paizl.

description of

Kashmir by

177,

Juz 3, p. 143, Lubb ut-Tavarlkh, and Tabakat i Shahjahanl, fol. 53.

POETRY.

A.H. 800900.
has after
to r
.

635

Daulatshah, who places his death in A.H. 827, is followed by Taki Kashi, Oude Catanl-Miiminln, fol. 299, fol. 451, and Mir'at ulRiyaz ush-Shu'ara, 'Alam, fol. 110. Compare Hammer, Redelogue, p. 19, Majfilis

fol.

302 a lacune extending from

kunste, p. 223, and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 517Nftnat TJllah Vali was treated by Shiihrukh with great consideration, and the king of Dec-

Three copies of the same Divan are mentioned in Bibliotheca Sprenger., Nos. 1470 1472. Foil. 1 6 contain a prose tract by the

same author, imperfect at the end, on the means of attaining spiritual insight, with
the heading
tract

(A.H. 825838), obtained as a singular favour the sending of one of the saint's grandchildren to his court.
can,

Ahmad Shah Bahmani

u^LJ\ XJU, ^J d,. Fol. 317 contains the end of a versified

on

ascetic

life,

called

in

the

sub-

After the saint's death two others of his

grandsons, Shah Habib Ullah and Shah Muhibb Ullah, went to the Deccan, with their father Khalil Ullah, and rose to high

scription i>s&\ ftJl-.^. At the end of the volume,

is

foil.

317

6319,

a Tarji'-band, ascribed to Khwajah Hafiz, in praise of Imam 'Ali Riza, with the burden

rank at the Bahmani court. See Firishtah, vol. i. p. 633. A detailed account of those of his descendants who remained in Persia, and intermarried with the Safaris, is to be found in the above quoted Jami' i Mufidi. The tomb in Mali an is a much freholy Sayyid's
quented place of pilgrimage. He his Divan, a collection of Sufi
left,

It is written
scriber,

by another hand

the tran-

Muhammad Kasim

of Isfahan, dates

Zulka'dah, A.H. 971.

besides

Add. 7091.
Foil.

tracts,

the
five

220

in.

number of which
hundred.

by 5

15

lines,

3i

in.

is

said to exceed

present copy of the Divan, which consists of poems of religious and mystic character, is imperfect at beginning and end. Its contents are as follows miscellaneous
:

The

long; written in fair Nestalik with goldruled margins; dated Muharram, A.II. 962

(A.D. 1554).

series of
Rubfi*is,

Manav!s, Kasidahs, Ghazals, and without any apparent system of

fol.

The Divan
Beg.

of

Kasim

Anvar.

arrangement,

7 a.

(It

contains a piece

composed A.H. 777, foL

30, in which a of the distracted state of the ription world is followed by a prophecy of the ap-

proaching reign of the

promised Imam.)

Ghazals, alphabetically arranged, fol. 41 a. Ma^navis, fol. 303 a. Ruba'is, alphabetically arranged, breaking off in the letter j, foil.

Sayyid Kasim, or Kasim i Anvar, whose original name was Mu*in ud-Dm 'Ali, is, like the preceding, a saint of great renown with the Shi'ahs. He was born in Sarab (Yakut's

and

Sarav), in the district of Tabriz, A.H. 757, had for religious instructors Shaikh

310 a

316

b.

The

series of Ghazals,

which begins

an ancestor of the Shaikh Sadr ud-Din 'AH Yamani, a disciple of Shaikh Auhad udDin Kirmani (see p. 619 a). After staying some time in Gilan, he went to Khorasan, D D 2
Sadr
Ardabili,
Safavis, and, after him,

ud-Dm

036

POETRY.

A.H.

800900.

and

settled in Herat, where he lived during the reigns of Timur and Shahrukh. There disciples flocked to him in such numbers,

same Divan, containing only the Ghazals, and wanting the latter part of the
letter

The

and he acquired so great an influence, as to give umbrage to the sovereign. 'Abd urRazzak relates in the Matla' us-Sa'dain, fol. 155, that in A.H. 830, Shahrukh having been
stabbed in the Masjid of Herat by a certain Ahmad Lur, Sayyid Kasim was charged by Mirzii Baisunghar with having harboured the intended assassin, and was obliged to
leave Herat and repair to Samarkand, where he found a protector in Mirza Ulugh Beg.

Add. 18,874.
242; 8 in. by 6; 15 lines, 4 in. written in Nestalik, long; apparently in the 15th century. I. Pol. 1 b. The same Divan, containing : Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 1 b. miscellaneous series of Ghazals, Kit'ahs, and
Poll.

He

returned, however, some years later, to Khorasan, and took up his abode in Kharjird,

196 b. Ruba'is, fol. 204 a. Mars.iyahs on Mir Ghiyag, Mir Makhdum, and Khwajah Hasan 'Attar, fol. 208 b. A
Masnavis,
fol.

a town of the district of Jam, where he died in A.H. 837. See Nafahat ul-Uns, p. 689, Lata'if Namah, fol. 5, Majalis ul-'Ushshak
(p.

Manavi,containing, according to the heading, a prediction of the death of Timur, fol. 209 b.

A Masnavi
ascetic

treating of the various degrees in

{

352

b),

Habib us-Siyar,
ut-Tavarikh, 509.

vol.

p. 145,

Lubb
fol.

fol.

Juz 3, and Haft 112,

iii.,

life, ^i^LJ) oWa* J See the Vienna Catalogue, vol.

fol.
i.

211

b.

p. 559.

II. Pol.

214

b.

Iklim,

Daulatshah alone has an

earlier date for

the death of Sayyid Kasim, viz. A.H. 835. See Hammer, Eedekiinste, p. 285, Bland,

by the same poet, treating of the meanings attached by the Sufis to the
words " soul," y-ai
c_A,

A Masnavi

"
,

Century of Ghazals,

vi.,

and Sprenger, Oude

spirit,"

"
Jj}

heart,"

Catalogue, p. 533. The Divan, in which the poet uses sometimes sometimes _^^, for his Takhallus,
^Jj',
(

"intellect"

Jo*,

and "love,"

^z,

with a short prose preface beginning u^i* t&itt Cdffj &xlofr CL*k>]^.^> in which the

Ghazals alphabetically arranged, fol. 1 b. A TarjI'-band, fol. 203 b. Ghazals and Kit'ahs, some of which are in Turkish,
contains
others partly in the Gilani dialect, Ruba'is, fol. 215 b.
fol.

author
(

calls

himself

^\

y^Va^ai

^^

208

a.

It is _$ JS&Lj\ (jj>j^\ tj*~^ ^la!U stated in the introduction, fol. 220 b, that the poem was written in answer to some

~AaV

questions which were

put to the
years old.

author

Copyist:

when he was about twenty

Copies of the Divan are mentioned in the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 559, the Gotha
Catalogue, p. 101, the Miinich Catalogue, p. 28, and the Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1491

copy of this work is mentioned, without author's name, in the Vienna Catalogue, vol. The last verses are those of the iii. p. 506. poem described, without title, in the Leyden

1493.

Poll.

167;

Add. 25,825. 10 in. by 7; 17

Other copies are Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 119. noticed in the Gotha Catalogue, p. 101, and in the St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 389.
231 b. il^\ SU-,, "Tract of the Trust," a Sufi work in prose and verse, by the same,
III. Pol.

lines,

in.

long;

written in Nestalik, apparently in in the 18th century. [Wn. India, CTJRETON.]

POETRY.
Beg.
A.

A.H. 800900.

63 7

recognition, he left the court in disgust, and,

A^>

^A^

Trust," the author understands spiritual insight, as the true scope of man's

By

J'A

"

wandering through Astrabad and Gilan, he found a generous patron in the ruler of Shirvan, Mirza Shaikh Ibrahim (who died
after

creation.

He

refers incidentally, fol.

237

a,

to

an interview he had in Herat, A.H. 779, with Maulana Zahir ud-Din Khalvati. This tract, which is quoted in the Nafahat, p. 692, is described, without title, in the Gotha
p. 101.

A.H. 820, after a reign of twenty-five years; see Lubb ut-Tavarlkh, fol. 153), whose
reckless
liberalities

he

squandered

with

equal lavishness.
in

From

Catalogue,

stay Azarbiiijan, notice from its sovereign,

Shirvan, after a short obtaining but scant

Amir Iskandar

B.

Or. 1224.
Foil. 237;

in.

by 4$

15

lines,

2|

in.

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the

16th century.
I.

[ALEX. JAIU.]
first

Kara Yusuf (A.H. 824 838), he repaired to Isfahan, where he was initiated to Sufis m by Khwfijah Sa'in ud-Din Tarikah (who died A.H. 835; see p. 42 a). He finally settled in Astrabad, where he began writing a Khamsah in imitation of Xizfmu, but had
scarcely

Fol. 1 a.

wanting
fol 194
II.
6,

the

The Divan of Kasim i Anvar, page, and containing

fol.

achieved the counterpart of the

Ghazals, Kit'ahs,

192
fol.

and Ruba is,

203
ii.

b, a Tarji'-band, 199 a.

ul-Asrar, when he was carried off by the plague in A.H. 838 or 839.' Another poem, however, the Laila Majnun, evidently

Makhzan

Fol.
art.

b.

Anis

ul-'Arifin;

see

above,
III.

belonging to the Khamsah, is noticed in the St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 366. Notices on Katibi are to be found in Daulatshah, vi. 12, Lata'if
us-Siyar, vol.
iii.,

Fol. 225
iii.

b.

Risalat

ul-Amanah ;

see

Namah,
3, p.
i

fol.

7,

Habib

above, art.

Juz

149, Majalis ulShfihjahfmi,

Add. 7768.
2| in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvans, gold-ruled margins, and gilt headings ; dated Zulhijjah, A.H. 857 (A.D. 1453).
lines,

Muminin, fol. 77, Haft Iklim,

fol.

549, Tabakat
fol.

313, and Riyaz ush-

Foil.

3i9; 8|

in.

by 5J; 19

Shu'ara,

fol.

381.

Compare Hammer, Rede-

[Cl. J. RICH.]

kiinste,p.281,Ou8eley, Notices, p. 188, Bland, Century of Ghazals, v., and Dr. Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 457. Copies of the Divan of Katibi are noticed
in the

Leyden Catalogue,
vol.
i.

vol.

ii.

p.

119, the

The Kulliy&t, or collected works, of Katibi.

Katibi,

who

calls

himself

Muhammad

B.

p. 561, and the Other No. 1429. Bibliotheca Sprenger., portions of the Kulliyat are mentioned in

Vienna Catalogue,

'Abd Ullah un-Nlsapuri, was born in Tarshiz, but studied in Nishapur, and took his poetical surname from his early application to the art of penmanship under the celebrated poet and calligrapher Simi in the latter place. He went thence to Herat, and composed
Shahrukh, and the tatter's son Mirza Baisunghar (who died A.H. 837), but, failing to obtain adequate

the St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 366, the Upsala Catalogue, p. 104, and the Gotha
Catalogue, p. 76.
I.

Fol. 1

b.

The Divan, with the heading,

,/,yW
with unexampled violence plague, which raged in the Maila' u-Sa'dain under A.H. in Herat, ii recorded

poems

in praise of Timur,

Bt&

638

POETRY.

A.H.

800900.

Beg. Contents Kasldahs, arranged according to the persons to whom they are addressed. The first are in praise of God, Muhammad, 'AH, and the author's spiritual preceptor Khwajah Sain ud-Dln. The next following are addressed to TImur, Shahrukh, Baisunghar, Shah Ibrahim, king of Shirvan, his son the Shahzadah Miniichihr, and persons of less note. Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 89 b. Mukatta'at, fol. 186 b. Ruba'Is
:

V. Fol. 293 b. .ti ^," The thirty letters," a poem on the loves of Muhibb and Mahbub, so called from the thirty love-letters which
it

contains.

Beg.

The poem

is

often referred to by the title

VI. Fol. 385

and Fardiyyat,
II. Fol.

fol.

193
j\j->\

b.

an allegorical of Yaman, and

Beg.

^bjh L->Ll/, Dilrubai," poem, treating of Kubad, King

his crafty Vazir.

b.

"

200

b.

^s=>, "The

rose-

a religious poem in imitation of the Makhzan ul-Asrar of Nizami.

garden

of

the

godly,"

Beg.

i-

III. Fol. 224

b.

of the

two
it

seas," or

^t metres
*
:

"
(a

**,

The confluent
so called

poem

it, as he states in the introon returning after a long absence to duction, Gilan, and shortly after the death of Sultan Riza (who died A.H. 829 see Jahanara, fol.

Katibi wrote

because

may
f

be read in two different

69).

It is dedicated to the latter's successor,

measures), with a short prose preface, begin-

Amir Kiya (Mir Sayyid Muhammad).

In

ning

J&*

_,

\\

the same passage are mentioned the poet's former works, Dah Bab, SI Namah, Majma'
ul-Bahrain, and Jan
Copyist: Jc.

Beg. of the

poem

Dil.

Uy

t^jj

The poem, which treats of the loves of Nazir and Manzur, in the allegorical sense familiar to the Sufis, is often called
^

Add. 24,953.
309 7 in. by 4J 15 lines, 2| in. written in fair Nestalik, with three long; Unvans, and gold-ruled margins; dated
Foil.
;

IV. Fol. 258

chapters, a

b.

VU
&

"
it,

The ten Babs," or

precepts

Astrabad,

Jumada

I.,

poem containing moral

A.H. 883 (A.D. 1478).

[LORD ABERDEEN.]

and anecdotes,
Beg.
i\~

in the style of the Bustan.

Another copy of the Kulliyat of Katibi,

containing
fol.

the Divan,

fol.

b.

Dah Bab,

In the conclusion Katibi addresses his son 'Inayat, for whom the poem was written.
are given in the Upsala Cata104. with the same beginlogue, p. poem ning is described in the Gotha Catalogue, p. 77, under the title of Tajmsat.

212 Gulshan

Majrna' ul-Bahrain, fol. 2546. Abrar, fol. 295 b. The last poem wants the latter half, corb.
i

The headings

responding to
copy.

foil.

212223
JiU

of the preceding

Transcriber:

+sf'

POETRY.

A.H. 800900.
and gilding between the

639
lines throughout,

Foil.

Add. 21,588. 119; 9 in. by 5; 15 lines,

3|

in.

probably in the 16th century.

[Sir

long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins; dated Safar, A.H. 1023 (A.D.
1614).

JOHN MALCOLM.]

The Divan
dahs.

of Katibi, wanting the Kasi-

Hfd Niimah, a Magnavi by

'Arifi,

Beg.
Copyist

U
:

J'.T

Maulanfi

On the first page is a note signed Sultan Muhammad Kutubshah, stating that the MS.
had been written by Mas'ud in the royal
library at Haidarabad.

second

Mahmud 'Arifi, surnamed the Salman, ^3 ^U, lived in Herat, his

native city, under Shahrukh, and died there, according to the Tabakat i Shahjaham, fol.
96,

A.H. 853. He left, besides various poems, among which the present is mentioned by

Add. 22,702.
Foil. 85;

Jami, Baharistan, as the best, a versified treatise on law, and a Dah Namah dedicated
lines,

7|

in.

by 4|

12

2$

in.

to the Vazir

Khwajah
vii.

Pir
4,

Ahmad
Habib

B. Ishak.
us-Siyar,
fol.

long ; written in neat Nestalik, with 'Unvfm and gold headings; dated Shiraz, Ramazan,

See
vol.

Daulatshah,
iii.,

Juz

3, p. 150, Lata'if

Namah,

42,

A.H. 889 (A.D. 1484).

[Sir JOHN CAMPBELL.]

and

Il.ihi,

Oude
29,

The Divan

of Khayali,

Although
author,
fol.

Catalogue, p. 80. entitled Hal Namah

by the

of his

Maulfma Khayali, of Bukhara, was a pupil townsman Khwajah 'Ismat, who died A.H. 829. Khayali died, according to the
Tabakut
i

the present subject, as

in

poem is better known, from its w tfj- j <jjf. It is an allegory,

ball

Shiihjahani,

fol.

94,

during the

reign of Ulugh

Beg (A.H. 850853). See

Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 3, p. 161, Lat.i'if Namah, fol. 9, Daulatshah, vi. 19, Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 465, and Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 279.

and the bat are personified as types of mystic love, and all the images are borrowed from the favourite game of Chaugun. The author wrote it, as he states in the epilogue, in the space of two weeks,
which the
in

Two Kasidahs in praise of God and Muhammad, fol. 1 b. Ghazals in alphaContents

:

J?

the year indicated by the chronogram _i- ^f, i.e. A.H. 842, in the following

lines, fol.

29

betical order, fol.

'All,
fol.
.

80

a.

4 b. Tarji' in praise of Kasidah in praise of the

author's
fol.
fol.

master,

81 b. 83 a.

Khwajah 'Ismat Ullah, Kit'ahs, Rubals and Fardiyyat,

same passage that he was then past fifty years of age, and adds, in a second epilogue, that he had been rewarded
says in the

He

Add. 27,266.
Foil.

by the prince

to

whom

poem with the

2$
in.

gift of a horse

he presented the and a thousand

written, accord-

31

in.

by 5

10

lines,

long ;

Dinars.

written in elegant Nestalik, with 'Unvan,

The Guy u Chaugan was

640

POETRY.

A.H. 800900.
Habib us-Siyar,
Iklim,
fol.

ing to the Tabakat i Shahjahani, in Shir.iz, for Mlrza 'Ahd Ullah B. Ibrahim Sultan B.

vol.

iii.,

Juz

3, p.

150, Haft
fol.

322, Majfilis
i

ul-Mumimn,
fol.

551,

Shahrukh.

Mlrza 'Abd

Ullah

succeeded

his father as viceroy of Pars in A.H. 838 ; but he was dispossessed after the death of

Shahrukh by

his cousin Mlrza Sultan

hammad

B. Mirzii Baisunghar,
dedication
fol.

Muwho had been

In the preaddressed to

Shahjahani, Redekiinste, p. 293, Ouseley, Notices, p. 131, and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 563. The Divan consists of Ghazals alpha-

and Tabakat
pare

115.

Com-

Hammer,

for five years governor of Irak.

sent copy the

is

betically arranged, with some Kit'ahs and Ruba'is at the end. The present copy has

Sultan

Muhammad,

8:
AX..*
l
->j*i

JouJi

Copies are mentioned in the Leyden Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 123, the St. Petersburg
Catalogue, p. 379, and the Munich Catalogue, Compare Haj. Khal., vol. v. p. 266. p. 36.

a few pages in the body of the volume, and two or three at the end. Other copies are noticed in the Leyden Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 119, the Vienna Catalost

logue,

vol.

i.

p.

562,

the

St.

Petersburg

Catalogue, p. 366, the Upsala Catalogue, p. 105, and the Bibliotheca Sprenger., No.
1516.

Add. 23,612.
Foil.

Add. 7788.
in.

49

8f

in.

by 6

7 lines, 3

long,

Foil.

38

8f

in.

by 5

13

lines,

2|

in.

on tinted and gold -sprinkled paper, with 'Unvan and ornamental designs on every page, probably
in a page ; written in fair Nestalik, in the 15th century. The Divan of Shahi,

long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins ; dated Rauzat un-Nabaviyyah (Medina),

end of A.H. 969 (A.D. 1562).

[Cl. J. RICH.]
first

^l

The same Divan, wanting the

Copyist
:

page.

Beg.

U o-X- V c^ia f\i U C^iy J* J^ JJJ j

L^>~*-

^j^>

j^^

vt*\

^^

originally called Ak-Malik, or Aka Malik, son of Amir Jamal ud-Dm Firuzkuhi, a scion of the princely family of

Amir Shahi,

the fly-leaf is a short Turkish notice on the poet, an English translation of which

On

has been prefixed.

the Sarbadars, was born in Sabzavar, and attached himself to Mirza Baisunghar, by

Or. 288.
13 lines, 3| in. long; dated Kaurall, Parwritten in Nestalik, ganah of Palwal, Sha'ban, A.H. 1185 (A.D.
Eoll. 36; 8 in.

some of his paternal estates in Sabzavar were restored to him. There he lived in affluence, and found full leisure to cultivate his artistic and literary The latter part of his life was spent tastes. in Astrabad, whither he had been called by
whose
influence

by 5

1771).

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

the son of his former patron, Mirza Abul-

Kasim Babur,
years old. Notices on

to design

where he died A.H.

palaces, and 857, upwards of seventy

will

some

The

same Divan, wanting the Ghazals

Amir Shahi

be found in
fol.

Daulatshah,

vii. 1,

Lata'if

Namah,

14,

Foil. 217;

Add. 7769. 9i in. by 6; 15

lines,

3 in.

POETRY.
long
;

A.H. 800100.

641

written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins; dated Samarkand,

Or. 355.
25 lines, 4f in. long; written in four gold-ruled columns, in small Nestalik, with 'Unvan, apparently in the 17th century. From the royal library of Lucknow. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]
Foil. 33;

Jumada

II.,

A.H. 955 (A.D. 1548).

[Cl. J. RICH.]

9|

in.

by

6;

"The Lamp,"
thoughts

Magnavi
life,

containing

on

spiritual

illustrated

The
copy.

first

half of the
foil.

copious anecdotes of prophets, saints, fakirs, in the style and measure of the Manavi of Jalal ud-Din Riimi.

by and

same work,

corres-

ponding to

102 of the preceding

Author
Beg.

Add. 7930.
:

Rashid, .ui^

17 lines, 2| in. long; written in Nestalik, with 'Unvans and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 17th
Foil.
;

221

in.

by 4|

In a heading written in gold on the first page the author is called Rashid ud-Din

century.
I.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Foil.

1179. The
Sabri, Turkish.

Divans of

Na'ili,

Muhammad

ul-Asfara'ini,

Vijdi,

and
Foil.

n.

181221.
*-.-_

The Divan

of Nazirl,

It is stated in

a note written on the

fly-

Beg.

*.j

leaf, and dated A.H. 1097, that he lay buried in Bahrabad, Asfara'in, with Shaikh Sa'd ud-Din Hamavi and Shaikh Azan. In the prologue the author states that he had written this work with the permission of

The
foil.

poet,
a,

who
b,

calls

216

220

^^>,

himself in two places, a native of TQs, or

his Shaikh,
dition,

who

is called,

in a marginal ad-

and that it is UjSl (j-w, <H' j*>, divided into three books, treating respectively of love, fol. 16, dissolution, fol. 74 a, and longing,
fol.

&

159

b.

Mashhad, lived in India, and most of his Kasidahs are addressed to Sayyid Shah Khalil-Ullah, on whose death he has a Mariyah, fol. 189 b, and to his two sons and successors, Shah Muhibb Ullah, and Shah ^abib Ullah. Both father and sons are described in the twofold character of warlike princes and of holy teachers. It appears from various passages that the poet had grown old in their service, but not rich, as some piteous appeals for money, food, and raiment, plainly testify.
has been before stated (p. 635 a) that Shah Khalil Ullah, son of Ni'mat Ullah Vali,
It

The date of composition, A.H.

852,
:

given in the following line at the end

went, after his father's death, A.H. 834, to the Deccan, and was received with the
highest marks of regard by Ahmad Shah Bahmani. His sons enjoyed high rank and his sucgreat wealth under that prince and
cessor 'Ala ud-Din

See Stewart's Catalogue, p. 71, and Sprenger,

Oude Catalogue,
VOL. n.

p.

542.

Shah (A.H. 838862).

E B

642

POETRY.

A.H. 800900.
to

Habib Ullah met with a violent death in A.H. 864. See Firishtah, Briggs' translation, vol.
ii.

Daulatshah,
in

in

Khiisaf, iJUji-,'
copies,

or,

as

written

some

pp. 419, 462.

We

^Ju^,

in

the

learn from
i.

the same author,

p. 628, that

Bombay

edition, vol.

Kuhistan of Khorasan, where he is said to have led the life of a peasant, and to have

Mulla Naziri was employed, with

composed his poems in the

in the

Sami'I and others, in continuing the Bahman Namah, or poetical history of the Bahmani

dynasty, which the author Azari (see p. 43 b) had brought down to the reign of Humayun

fields. He boasts, of the present poem, his epilogue proud independence. Having reduced hie wants to one barley loaf a day, he scorned

Shah, A.H. 862865.

the banquets of kings

Contents Kasldahs, fol. 181 b. Ghazals, without alphabetical arrangement, fol. 204 b. Mukattaat, fol. 212 b. Ruba'is, fol. 216 b.
:

Or. 1150.
Foil.

He
lines,

died A.H. 875, leaving, besides his

151

in.

by 6|

17

3|

in.

of the

long; written in small Nestalik, with ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century.

Khavar Namah, numerous poems in praise Imams, which are highly popular
the
Shi'ahs.
fol.

with

See

the

Majalis

ul-

[ALEX. JABA.]
extensive Divan of the same poet, slightly imperfect at the beginning, containing Kasidahs in alphabetical order,
fol.
b.

A more

555, Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Muminln, Juz 3, p. 336, where A.H. 893 is given as

the date of his death, Tabakat

fol.

139, Eiyaz ush-Shu'ara,

fol.

ShahjahanI, 23, and the

a.

Ghazals similarly arranged,

fol.

122
a.

Atashkadah, fol. 40, where he is noticed under Khwaf. Compare Hammer, Rede-

Kit'ahs, fol.

139

a.

Euba'is,

fol.

146

Add. 19,766.
Foil 362; 14
long
;

and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, pp. 19, 68, and 432. The poem was written, as stated in the
kiinste, p.

297,

in.

by lOf

19

lines,

6J

in.

written in large Nestalik, in four columns enclosed by gilt borders, with rich
;

prologue, in imitation of the Shahnamah of Firdusi, for whom the author expresses the highest admiration. Its matter, professedly

borrowed from

'Unvans
1686).

dated Ramazan, A.H. 1097 (A.D.

in painted

Bound

and glazed

covers.

Khavar Namah, a poem in the epic metre on the warlike deeds of 'All, and his companions, Malik and Abu 1-Mihjan.

an Arabic work, is pure It relates to the battles and single fiction. combats fought by 'AH and his companions, with the Shah i Kliavaran, named Kubad, with other heathen kings called Tahmas Shah, and Sisan Shah, and with hosts of Divs and dragons. The date of composition, A.H. 830, is
given in the following verses of the epilogue, in which the title of the poem appears in

Author
Beg.

Ibn Husam,

*&

Maulana Muhammad B. Husam ud-Din, known as Ibn Husam, was born, according

Khiisaf is, according to Hafij? Abru, fol. 180, a district on the edge of the desert which divides Khorasan from

Kirman.

POETRY.
the form of Khavaran

JAMI.

643

Namah, from the name

:

in the following line of a versified chronoIt is jl^i ,_Jjno ^jj j>. obtained by placing a "pearl" on the face of the " shell," in other words, a dot on the

of 'All's principal adversary

gram, j

j\i

eib

first letter

of the
:

word

u->j-o-

Contents

Kasidahs, arranged according

The Khavar Namah is mentioned by Mohl, Preface to the Shahnamah, p. 77, as the
latest of the imitations of the great epos.

to subjects, beginning **<i jf (j~r>, &}j jj* \j*J- fol. 5 ft. This section, beginning
,

o^

with poems in praise of God,

Muhammad,

A copy is mentioned in the Ouseley Collection,

No. 27.

and

'Ali, contains religious and moral pieces, partly in imitation of Khakam and Amir

The MS. contains one hundred and

six

fifty-

whole-page miniatures in the Indian style.

:

Copyist

The name of Kamal ud-Dln Khan has

been substituted
in the

subscription

for

that of the original owner.

Add. 7773.
Foil.

297

9$

in.

by 5$

17

lines,

Khusrau, several Kasidahs addressed to the reigning sovereign, Abul-Ghazi Sultan Husain, and various occasional pieces. Tarji the death of bands, including Margiyahs on the saint Sa'd ud-Din Kashghari, who died A.H. 860, of the poet's brother, and of his son, fol. 36 a. Masnavis addressed to Sultan Abu Said and his successor Sultan Husaiu, to the Osmanli Sultan Muhammad II., and the Kara Kuyunlu sovereign, Jahfmsluh, Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 54 a.
1

in.

long; written in fair Nestalik, with two 'Unvfms and gold-ruled margins ; dated
Eajab, A.H. 962 (A.D. 1497).
[Cl. J. RICH.]

beginning ^sfol. 60 ft. f4~,

'-~^

^of-\ ^>~}^

ur**"j^
ft.

<*~^

Kit'ahs, fol.

280
a.

Rubu'is

in alphabetical order, fol. 285

Copyist :

The Divan of Jami, ,^V

line
:

\Js>-**

w >th

prose preface beginning with the following

Copies of the Divan are mentioned in the Catalogues of Leyden, vol. ii. p. 120, Krafft,
p. 68, St. Petersburg, p. 379, Upsala, p. 106,

Nur ud-Din *Abd ur-Rahman

died

.Tumi,

who

Copenhagen, p. 41, Gotha, p. 102, and Munich, p. 30. Jami's minor poems have also been collected in three separate Divans,
containing respectively the compositions of his youth, middle life, and old age, on which
448, and the St. Petersburg Catalogue, pp. 371, 372. German translations of select poems have
see Sprenger,
p.

II.

898

the last of

(see p. a), may the classical poets of Persia.

17

be called

After dwelling in the preface on the high value of- poetry, he states that he had

Oude Catalogue,

youth upwards, and had until then, when he was drawing near to his seventieth year, kept his poems in Having resolved, howalphabetical order.
cultivated
it

from

his

been given by V. von Rosenzweig, Vienna,

1840, by Riickert in the Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlands, vols. 5, 6, and in

bring them into a more rational arrangement, he performed that task in

ever, to

the Zeitschrift der D.

24,

M.

G., vols. 2, 4, 5, 6,

A.H. 884. That date

is

ingeniously conveyed

25 and 29, lastly by M. Wickerhauser, Leipzig, 1855, and Vienna, 185a

E E 2

Oi4

POETRY.

JAMI.

Add. 25,816.
3f in. written in fair Nestalik, with two long; 'Unviins, gilt headings, and gold-ruled margins; dated Balkh, A.H. 976 (A.D. 1568).
;

Add. 7770.
lines,

Foil.

311

11

in.

by 6^; 17

Foil.

long ;

287; 11 in. by 6f ; 21 lines, 4J in. written in fair Nestalik, in four gold-

ruled columns, with nine 'Unvans, apparently in the 16th century. [01. J. RICH.]

[WM.

CTJRETON.]

The same Divan, with the preface. The arrangement and contents are substantially the same as in the preceding MS.

The seven Mas.navls of Jami, with a prose

preface.

Add.
Foil.

1114,.

2f

in.

7 in. by 4| ; 14 lines, about written in cursive Nestalik; long;

302

Beg. UiL. j JJi y* Jjls- v_^ lj.^9. Jami states in the preface that the above " Haft title, Aurang," was taken from the
seven-starred
constellation
so-called

(the

dated Muharram, A.H. 949 (A.D. 1542).

[01. J. RICH.]

An

earlier

collection

of

Jaml's minor

Great Bear). He then proceeds to set forth the metre of each of the seven poems, which he takes in the following order, differing from
their arrangement in the present copy: 1. Silsilat uz-Zahab. 2. Salaman u Absal.
3.
5.

poems, with a shorter preface, beginning ^ df^ &>} In the v**?\ u^-V
preface, which contains a dedication in verse to Sultan Abu Sa'Id, the poet says that he

&

&?

Tuhfat ul-Ahrar.

4.

Subhat ul-Abrar.

had reached his fiftieth year.

Contents
tion of

7.

Yusuf u Zulaikha. 6. Laila u Majnun. Khirad-Namah i Iskandari.

I.

Two religious poems in imitaKhakam and Khusrau, and a third

:

Fol. 2

b.

^j^\

iLJu,

"

The Golden

descriptive of old age,

fol.

4
3

a.

Chain," a religious poem in the metre of the Haft Paikar, dedicated to Sultan Husain.

Beg.

(jtilL-Ji (j-j*^

&

^f- o~J^ J *
1

Some Tarjf s, concludingwith a Margiyah on

the death of Maulana Sa'd

Beg.

JJ

J-J

ud-Dm Kashgharl
The poem
49
p~i
b, is

(A.H. 860), betical order,

Beg.

fol.

14
28

a.
b.

Ghazals in alpha4l\

divided into three sections

fol.

(Daftars), beginning respectively

(s

on

foil.

b,

fte

\~>\

^s\ ^}\ ^}\

and 70

b.

Kit'ahs,
order, fol.

fol.

284 a. Rubals in alphabetical

b.

See for the contents the Jahrbucher, vol.

66, Anzeige Blatt, pp.
II.

289

2026.

Or. 1218.
Foil.

265

8i

in.

by 5

15

lines, 3 in.

"The Rosary of the Righteous," a religious poem in the metre of the Nuh Sipihr of Amir Khusrau,
Fol.

85

b.

}j>$\ MS?",

long; written in a neat Nestalik,

two with 'Unvan and gold-ruled marcolumns, gins; dated Kazvin, Ramazan, A.H. 894
in

dedicated to Sultan Husain, with a short

prose preface beginning,

jj^
:

The poem begins thus

(A.D. 1489).

[ALEXANDEE JABA.]

with the same preface. The contents are nearly the same, but the

Another

collection,

arrangement somewhat

different.

The Subhah has been printed A.H. 1226, and 1262.

in Calcutta,

POETRY.
III. Fol.

J AMI.
It

645

123

ft.

^j

"
j ^i-y_,

Yusuf and

Zulaikha," a

poem

in the metre of Nizami's

Khusrau u
sain.

Slfirin,

dedicated to Sultan

Hu-

appears, from the epilogue, that this poem originally formed the last portion of the author's Khamsah, mentioned further on.

Beg.

yU^L,, "Salaman allegorical poem, in the same measure as the Mantik ut-Tair of 'Attar.
ft.

VI. Fol. 249

JLJ

u Absal," an

It is stated in the following lines of the epilogue, that the poem was completed at

Beg.

the close of A.H. 888

It is dedicated to

Shah

Ya'kiib,

i.e.

Ya*kub

Beg

B.

Hasan Beg,

of the

Ak Kuyunlu

dynasty, reigned from A.H. 883 to 896. Mr. F. Falconer has published the text, London, 1850, and an English translation, 1856.

who

VII. Fol. 255

This is the most popular of Jami's poems. It has been repeatedly printed in India, and A.H. 1279 in Persia. The text has been published, with a German translation, by V. ron Rosenzweig, Vienna, 1824. See also extracts by the same, Mines de 1'Orient,
vol.
ii.

the Free," a of the Makhzan ul-Asrar, divided into twelve

j\^\ i, A Gift religious poem in the metre

ft.

"

to

Makalahs.
Beg.
fir

p.

47, and by

P. Zingerle,

Phonix,

The prologue contains a eulogy on the then

living chief of the Nakshabandi order, Shaikh Nftsir ud-Din TJbaid Ullah, better known as

1862.

JJ, "Laila and same measure as the poem Majnun," of the same name by Nizanii.
b.

IV. Fol. 173

y^j

in the

Khwajah Ahhlr

(see p.

373

ft),

whose

sur-

name
88G.

is

alluded to in the

title.

The poem

Beg.

w ub /- t\3 y

y
.

The author

that he had

states in the concluding lines written the poem in the space of

at the end, A.H. has been edited by F. Falconer, London, 18A8. Prefixed to the last poem is a short prose
It

was completed, as stated

about four months, in A.H. 889, devoting to it two or three hours each day, and that it contains 3760 distichs. It has been translated into French by A. L. Chezy, Paris,
1805, and into zig, 1807.

preface written by Jam! for his Panj Ganj or Khamsah, a collection consisting of five

of the above poems, viz. Tuhfat ul-Ahrar, Subhat ul-Abrar, Yusuf u Zulaikha, Laila

u Majnun, and Khirad Namah

It begins

Iskandarl.

German by Hartmann,
b.

thus

Leip-

The
V. Fol. 220
ander's

contents of the Haft

^.iJ^J '-U^, "AlexBook of Wisdom," a poem in the

Aurang

are

metre of the Iskandar

Namah

of Nizami,

described by Dr. Sprenger in the Oude CataCopies are mentioned logue, pp. 442 451.
in Stewart's Catalogue, p. 65, in Ouseley's Collection, No. 132, and in the catalogues

dedicated to Sultan Husain.

of Vienna, vol.

i.

p. 564,

St.

Petersburg,
p. 31.

p. 368, Upsala, p. 107,

and Munich,

CiG

POETRY.

J AMI.
fol.

Add. 26,162.
21 lines, 2 in. with 14 lines in the margin written long, in fair Nestalik, in two columns, with 'Unvans, apparently in the 16th century.
Foil. 416;

5 a.
a.

Tarjfs,

26
;

Two

Magnavis, fol. Kasldahs in imitation of Khafol.

a.

18

in.

by 5f

kanl and Khusrau, and a third descriptive of old age, fol. 29 b. Marsiyahs and some Ghazals in fol. 38 a. occasional pieces,
Kit'ahs, alphabetical order, fol. 48 a. Ruba'Is and Fardiyyat, fol. 257 a. 255
fol.
b.
*

[WM. EESKINE.]
The same poems
viz.
:

in their original order, Salaman u Silsilat uz-Zahab, fol. 2 b.

fol.

126 b. Tuhfat ul-Ahrar, fol. 143 b. Subhat ul-Abrar, fol. 181 b. Yusuf u Zulaikha, fol. 236 b. Laila u Majnun, fol. 306 b. Khirad-Namah i Iskandari, fol. 375 b.
Absal,

The margins form a separate series, conSubhat taining the four following poems
:

ul-Abrar, fol. 1 b. Tuhfat ul-Ahrar, with Khirad-Namah i Isthe preface, fol. 92 b.

kandari,
fol.

148

b.

Salaman u Absal,

foil.

The MS. bears the name and Edward Galley.

seal

of

220

6257
:

b.

Copyist

^Vx

Or. 472.
Foil.

Add. 16,799.
23
lines,

275

10|

in.

by 6

4|

in.

long; written in small Nestalik, in four columns, apparently in the 17th century.
[GEO. WM. HAMILTON.] Another copy of the Haft Aurang, difLaila u Majferently arranged, as follows fol. 5 b. Khirad-Namah i Iskandari, nun,
:

by 6; 20 lines, 4 in. written in minute Nestalik, in four long gold-ruled columns, with three 'Unvans and
Foil. 98;
;

8|

in.

gilt

headings, probably in the 16th century.

[WM. YULE.]
Fol. 1 a. Silsilat uz-Zahab (see p. 644 b\ wanting the first page, two leaves after
I.

uz-Zahab, with the preface to the Haft Aurang, fol. 76 b. Salaman u Absal, fol. 156 b. Tuhfat ul-Ahrar, with the preface to the Panj Ganj, fol.
fol.
b'.

49

Silsilat

fol. 2,

two leaves
Fol.
b).

after fol. 72,

and two more

after fol. 78.

II,
p.

82

b. fol.

Salaman u Absal
48 b
is

(see

Subhat ul-Abrar, with a short prose Yusuf u Zulaikha, fol. preface, fol. 193 b. 229 b. A note on fol. 76 a, relating to a purchase of the MS., is dated A.H. 1053.
171
6.

645

On

found the name of

Sir

Gore Ouseley.

Add. 7772.
Foil.

192;

8i

in.

by 5; 17

lines,

in.

long;

written in cursive Nestalik;

[Cl. J.

dated

Add. 27,265.
263 llf in. by 7^ 16 lines, 3f in. with 34 lines in the margins written long, in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan and illuminated dated Rajab, A. H. 973 (A.D. headings
Foil.
; ;

Muharram, A.H. 988 (A.D. 1580).

RICH.]
Silsilat

uz-Zahab (see

p.

644

b),

wanting

six leaves after fol. 1.

Copyist

1566).

Bound

in painted covers.
[Sir

JOHN MALCOLM.]
the
preface

The Divan
Contents:

of

Jami,

with
1

Add. 23,551.
15 lines, Foil. 236; ll in. by long written in fair Nestalik, with
;

noticed p. 641 a.
Preface,
fol. b.

7;

2|

in.

Kasldahs,

gold-

POETRY.
ruled margins and four rich 'Unvans, apparently in the 16th century.

JAMI.

647

Add. 6615.
Foil.
;

182; 9

in.

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

by 6; 15

lines,

2|

in.

The same poem.

long written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan, gold- ruled margins, and illuminated borders;
probably about the close of the 15th century. [J. F. HULL.] Tuhfat ul-Ahrar (see p. 645, vii.), with a

Add. 18,416.
Foil.

in.

8| in. by 5 ; 15 and 13 lines, long, with 30 lines in the margins in

144

the latter half of the volume

cursive Indian Nestalik
;

written in

dated Ramazan,

A.H. 1057 (A.D. 1647). The same poem.

[WM. YULE.]

dulgence poem, however unworthy to be strung on the same thread as the priceless pearls of the Makhzan ul-Asrar of Nizami, and the Matla' ul-Anviir of Ainir Khusrau."
.-

short prose preface, in which Jam! claims in" for his

Beg.
Foil.

^\
61

^ip

JJ

w u.

J.

^J u.u

Add. 18,415.
Foil.

233

8$

in.

by 5
;

15

lines,

2|

in.

182, written by another hand, in the 16th century, contain the probably

long; written in

fair Nestalik,

with 'Unvan

Subhat

ul-Abrar with the preface

b, ii.).

above

and gold-ruled margins dated Lahore, Zulhijjah, A.H. 1148 (A.D. 1736).

noticed (p. 644

[WM. YULE.]
The same poem.
Foil. 166;

Add. 6616.
9i
in.

by 5|

15

lines,

in.

Or. 336.
Foil.

long ; written in Indian Nestalik, dated Jumfida I., A.H. 1025 (A.D. 1616), and

Jumada
9
lines,

II..

A.H. 1019 (A.D. 1610).

[J. F.

299

9|

in.

by 6

3$

in.

HULL.]
preface,

long; written in Indian Nestalik, probably in the 18th century. From the royal library
of Lucknow.

Subhat ul-Abrar,
fol.

with

Jami's

6.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

poem, wanting the latter part of Daftar I., the beginning of Daftar II.,

The

siime

Tuhfat ul-Ahrar, with the preface noticed in the preceding MS., fol. 105 b,

and the whole of Daftar

III.

Or. 1369,
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lines,

2J

in.

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outer margins, apparently in the 15th cen[Sir CHAS. ALEX. MURRAY.] tury.

long; written in fair Nestalik, with goldruled margins; dated Rabi' I., A.H. 980

(A.D. 1572).

[WM.

ERSKINE.]

The Tuhfat ul-Ahrar, with the same prose

preface.
lojjue O

(see p. 645, vi.), wanting the first page, single leaves after foil. 1, 24, and 26, and four leaves after fol. 44.

Salamun u Absal

wants the latter part of the proand the first two Makulahs. At the
It

rml
the

is

the author's subscription, stating that

in

Subhatul-Abrar (see p. 644, ii.), written by a later hand in the margins of

foil.

The
1

poem had been completed

A.H. 886.

44, has corresponding lacunes.

:

Copyist

ij

Foil.

78;

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lines,

2|

in.

648
long

POETRY.

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written in a fair Nestalik, with gold; ruled margins, probably in the 16th century. Tub fat ul-Ahrar, with the same preface

long, with 12 lines in the margin ; written in small and fair Nestalik, probably about the close of the 15th century.

and subscription.

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76; 9in.by5J; 12 lines, 2| in. long written in fair Nestalik, with TFnvfm, gold headings and illuminated borders; dated
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[ALEXANDRE JABA.] Subhat ul-Abrar (see p. 644 5), with the preface, and Turkish glosses written between
the lines.

Add. 26,164.
FoU. 130
;
;

A.H. 938 (A.D. 1531).

[Wn. YULE.]

91

in.

by 5

12

lines,

2|

in.

Tuhfat ul-Ahrar, with the preface. Two leaves are wanting after fol. 8, four after fol. 12, and one after fol. 21. At the

long written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan, illuminated headings, and gold designs in the margins, apparently in the 16th century.

beginning are two miniatures in style, with rich borders.

Copyist
:

fair

Indian

Bound

in gilt

and stamped

leather.

[Wn. ERSKINE.]
Subhat ul-Abrar, with the preface.
Copyist
:

slljsU,

^A

+*\j

+*f

,jrj]^I

^^

x^

Jy
style,

Poll. 62;

Add. 25,817. 9 in. by 6; 15 lines,

At the end
2|
in.

is

a miniature in Persian

with a rich border.

long

written in Nestalik, with 'UnVan

and

gold-ruled margins, probably in the 16th

century.

Or. 1225.
Foil.

[WM. CURETON.]

113

in.

by 4|

14

lines,

2|

in.

The same poem.

long; written in small Nestalik, with TJnvan and ruled margins, probably in the 16th
century.

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12 lines, 2f in. long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, probably in the 16th century.
Foil. 150;

8 in.

by 4f

[ALEXANDRE JABA.] The same poem, with the preface.

Harleian 501.
Foil.

The same poem.

Copyist:

112; 8

in.

by 4|

14

lines,

2f

in.

long; written in Nestalik; dated liamazan,

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Foil. 86; 6i in. by 4; 11 lines, 2 in. long; written in Nestalik, with two 'Unvans and

A.H. 1009 (A.D. 1601). Subhat ul-Abrar, with the

Copyist
:

preface.

jo

gold-ruled margins;

dated Agrah, Eajab,

Foil.

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150; 9|
in.

A.H. 1006 (A.D. 1598). [WM. CURETON.] The Tuhfat ul-Ahrar, with the preface.
Copyist
: <

by 6|

14

lines,

in.

long; written in neat Nestalik, with a rich 'Unvfm, gilt headings, and gold-ruled mardated Eabi' II., A.H. 947 (A.D. gins
;

Or. 1230.
FoU. 65; 7
in.

1540).

Yusuf and Zulaikha

lines,

(see p.

645

b).

by 3|

18

1$

in.

Copyist

>\

POETRY.
Or. 1221.
12 lines, 2 in. Nestalik, with 'Unvan, long; gold-ruled margins and illuminated headings, dated Sha*ban, A.H. 989 (A.D. 1581). Bound
Foil.

J AMI.

619

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167; S^in. by 4|; 13 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik; dated Murshidlong; abad, Rajab, the 5th year of Farrukhsiyar,
Foil.

177

6i

in.

by 4

written in

in gilt

and stamped

leather.

(A.H. 1129, A.D. 1717). [CHARLES HAMILTON.]

[ALEXANDRE JABA.] Yusuf and Zulaikha, with three whole-page

miniatures in Persian style.

The same poem.

Copyist
:

JJ\P vilU

Add. 7771.
Add. 6629.
lines, 2| ; 6i long ; written in small Nestalik dated A.H. 997 (A.D. 1589). [J. F. HULL.]
;

Foil.
in.

205; 8f

in.

by

5;

12

lines,

in.

Foil.

139

in.

by 4; 13

long ; written in Nestalik, with 'IJnvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated Shavval, A.H.

1177 (A.D. 1764).

Bound

in painted covers.
[01. J. RICH.]

The same poem.

The same poem, with seventy-six minia-

Or. 1368.
Foil.

tures in fair Indian style.

lines,

176; 12

in.

by 7

12

3|

in.

Copyist :

long; written in fine Nestalik, on goldsprinkled paper, with Tnvfm, illuminated borders and headings, apparently in the 16th
century.

Add. 26,165.
8^ in. by 5; 15 lines, 3J in. written in Indian Nestalik, probably long; in the 18th century. [WM. ERSKINE.] The same poem, wanting three leaves at
Foil. 140;

The same

[Sir CHAS. ALEX. MURRAY.] poem, with six whole-page

miniatures in Persian style. Foil. 3237, 138, 139 and 176 have been supplied by Muhammad Riza i Isfahan!, in
Rabi'
II.,

the end.

A.H. 1011 (A.D. 1602).

Foil.

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in.

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by 4$ ; 15 lines, 2$ in. long; written in small and neat Nestalik, with TJnviin and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century.
Foil.
;

by

6;

15

lines,

3J

in.

142

in.

long; written in Indian Nestalik, probably in the 18th century.

The same poem.

The same poem. A Persian note on the Lahore, A.1L 1042.

Add. 7778.
Foil.

first

page

is

dated

184

7i

in.

by 4

long

written in Nestalik

17 lines, 2 dated Rabi'

in.
II.,

A.H. 967 (A.D. 1560).

[01. J. RICH.|

Add. 25,902.
8 in. by 4J; 16 lines, 2J in. written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled long; margins, probably in the 17th century.
Foil. 138;

The same poem.

VOL.
II.

A Turkish commentary by Sururi (see p. 606 a) on the versified treatise on logogriphs of Mir Husain B. Muhammad ul-Ilusaini, which begins thus
:

F F

650

POETRY.

A.H. 800900.
death he settled in Shlraz, where he built a

Mir Husain, a native of Nishapur, who led the life of a scholar in the Madrasah Ikhlathe siyyah of Herat, attained eminence in He died A.H. 904. art of versified riddles. Hablb us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 3, p. 340, See Lubb ut-tavarikh, fol. 164, Taki and Ilahi, Oude Catalogue, pp. 20, 75, and Haft Iklim,
fol.

monastery called Khankah Nuriyyah. He was a friend of the famous philosopher Da van! (see p. 442 b), and lived on to the time of Shah Isma'il, who went to see him
after taking possession of Shiraz (A.H. 910). He left, besides his Divan, a commentary

upon the Gulshan

v. p.

317.
treatise

The

was

written, as stated in the

233). in the Majalis ul-Muminin, fol. 345 ; see also His son, who Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 43.

i Raz (see Haj. Khal., vol. full notice of his life is found

preface,

by

desire

of

Mir

'All

Shir,

and

submitted for approval to Jami, whose classification of Mu'ammas had been adopted.

The logogriphs given proper names, of men.

as examples relate to

Sururi says in the preface that he had previously written a commentary upon

Jami's treatise on the same subject, j& 3Ljj He states at the end that the !j*M ^i.
present commentary A.H. 965.

became celebrated as a poet under the name See Taki Kashi, of Fida'i, died A.H. 927. Oude Catalogue, p. 20, No. 143, and p. 21, No. 179, and Ilahl, ib., p 70. The above named Sayyid Muhammad Nurbakhsh, whose life is also recorded in the Majalis ul-Muminin, fol. 343, was the son of Sayyid Muhammad, of Katif, and a descendant of Imam Musa Kazim. He was born in Ka'in, A.H. 795, and was initiated in
Sufism by Khwajah Ishak Khutlani, a disciple of Sayyid 'Ali Hamadani (see p. 447 b), from whom he received the surname of Nurbakhsh. Having been incarcerated by Shahrukh in Herat for an attempted rising in Khutlan, where he had proclaimed himself Khalif, A.H. 826, he escaped from confinement, and,
after

was

completed
is

in

The Risalah

of Mir

Husain

mentioned

by Haj.,Khal., vol. v. p. 638, by Uri, p. 294, and in the Catalogues of Leyden, vol. i. p. 360, Munich, p. 43, and Gotha, p. 116.

Add. 7767.
Poll.

89;

7 in.

by 5

long

written in fair

2f in Nestalik, with 'Unvan

;

13

lines,

and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the

16th century.
[Cl. J. RICH.]

wanderings through Basrah, and Kurdistan, where ha found Baghdad, many followers, he settled in Gilan, where he remained until the death of Shahrukh. He then repaired to Rai, where he spent the His son, Shah Kasirn, who rest of his life.
long
succeeded him as head of the Nurbakhshis,

The Divan of Aslri.

whose proper name was Shaikh ud-Din Muhammad B. Yahya, of Shams Lahijan, in Gilan, was the principal Khalifah of the celebrated founder of the Nurbakhshi
Asiri,

and was treated with great consideration by Shah Isma'il Safavi, died in Rai, A.H. 927. See Hablb us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 4, p. 115. The Divan contains Ghazals alphabetically arranged, in some of which the poet addresses Nurbakhsh as his spiritual guide, and a TarjI'-baml at the end, foil. 8589. Another
!

Tarji'-band

is

written in the margins of the

foil.

order, Sayyid died in Rai, A.H. 869.

Muhammad

Nurbakhsh, who

After his master's

same folios. The margins of

38 contain the

POETRY-.
Ziid ul-Musafirin (see p.

A.H. 9001000.
betical

651

608

a),

wanting the
is

order, Rubu'is

and Fardiyyat,

fol.

eighth Makfilah. copy of the Divan of Asiri

197

a.

mentioned

Copies are mentioned in the catalogues

p. 122, St. Petersburg, 384, and Munich, p. 34, and in the Bibliop. theca Sprenger., No. 1396.
ii.

in the

Gotha Catalogue,

p. 109.

of Leydeu, vol.

Or. 1096.
2| in. written in fair Nestalik, with 'ITnran long; and gold- ruled margins ; dated A. II. 1018
Foil.
in.

The MS. bears the signature and Persian

lines,

408; 84

by

&;

12

seal of

Edward

Galley.

(A.D. 1609).

[D. FORBES.]
Foil.

Add. 16,794.
15 lines, 3 in. long; written in Nestalik, with two 'Unvans and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the
;

176

10

in.

by 5|

The Divan
Beg.
\j

of FighAni.
J\

18th century.

[Wn. YULE.]
additional section
tftie

ali/ */ JS* y

The same Divan, with an

Imams,
foil.

of Kasidahs, mostly in praise of 'All and

1
14, beginning:

Fighani was the son of a cutler in Shirftz, and originally took, in allusion to his father's
trade, the takhallus of Sakkaki.

He

created,

according to Yalih, Kiyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol.

336, a new style of poetry, which most of the subsequent poets, down to the time of

Add. 25,821.
Foil 65; 12
;

Mima

S.Vib, strove to imitate.

It

was not
left

in.

by 9

19
;

lines,

5$

in.

however

to the taste of the poets of the

court of Sultan Husain, and

Fighani

long of the Bengal Era (A.D. 1794).

written in Nestalik

dated A. 1201

Herat, where he had first tried his fortune, and repaired to Tabriz. There he won the

[WM. CURETON.]
The Divan of
Asafi.

favour

youthful of the Ak-kuyunlu dynasty (A.H. sovereign

Ya'ktil),

of

Sultan

the

883806), who bestowed upon him

title

tin-

i Sbu'ara, or "father of the After the death of his protector, he poets." settled in Abivard, and subsequently in Maslihad, \\ lii-re his poems in praise of tinImam secured him an honourable reception.

of Baba

Ehwajah
Sultan

Asafi, son of

Khwajah

Xi'ina:

Ulhih Kuhistani,

Abu

who had been Vazir to took his poetical surname Sa'id,

office (Asaf).

from his father's

He was

one

lie died there, according to the Lubb utTavarikh, fol. iso, A.H. 922, or, as stated by

of the most eminent poets of the court of llerat in the reign of Sultan Husain, and

Sam

-t (Notices Kxtraits, vol. iv. See also Maj.ilii ulp. 305), A.H. 925. Mfiminin, fol. 560, Haft Iklim, fol. 101, {land, a Century of Ghazals, ix., and the
I

Mir/.i

attached himself especially to Mir 'Ali Shir, and to the Sultan's son, Mirza Badi' uz-

Oude Catalogue,
Dufui

p. 21,

contains

No. 176, and p. 403. Ghazals in alpha-

he accompanied to Balkh. He died on the 16th of Sha'ban, A-H! 923, at the age of seventy, as stated in Habib u-

Zaman,

whom

Siyar, vol.

iii.,

Juz
F

3, p. 346, in

Lubb

ut-

F2

G52
Tavarlkh,
336.
fol.

POETRY.

A.H. 9001000.
This copy was made for Col. G. W. Hamilton, then Commissioner Superintendent of the Province of Multan.

The one of them

180, and in Haft Ikllm, fol. date is fixed by two chronograms,

said to

have been composed by Asafi himself when he felt death drawing " He measured with near, seventy steps the
road to eternity,"

Add. 10,586.
79; 8i in. by 5; 13 lines, 2| in. written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan, long gold-ruled margins, and six miniatures in Persian style ; dated Tabriz, A.H. 938 (A.D.
Foil.
;

*%,*
-

At

fc
i

-l_X>

ISj

the other due to a contemporary poet, Sultan Ibrahim Ammi

:

Amir

1532); bound in painted covers.

Sam

Mirzii

and Ilahi 20 and 71), as the date of his death. Other notices will be found in Daulatshah, viii. 6,
Latalf
fol.

and Taki Kashl give A.H. 920, A.H. 928 (Oude Catalogue, pp.

Laila and Majnun, a

Manavl by Hatifl,

Beg.

Namah, fol. 401, Memoirs

33, Khulasat ul-Akhbar,

of Baber, p. 194, Eiya?

fol.

Maulana 'Abd Ullah

son of Jaml's

Hatifl,

who was

the

ush-Shu'ara, and Atashkadah,

76.

Com-

pare Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 310. The Divan consists of Ghazals in alphabetical order, and some Ruba'is, fol. 62 b. Copies are mentioned in the catalogues of Vienna, vol. i. p. 577, St. Petersburg, p. 385,

sister, and, like him, a native of Kharjird, in the province of Jam, uas unrivalled in his day as a Manavl writer.

he did not commence his Kbamsah, upon which, although not completed, his fame chiefly rests, until he had
It is said that

and MUnich, p. in Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1370.

Copenhagen,
p. 41,

34,

and

given to his celebrated uncle proofs of his He competence, and obtained his leave. no less than forty years to the comdevoted
position

Cotton. Cleopatra A. ix.

lines, 2| by written in small Nestalik, probably long in the 17th century.
;

and improvement of the Tlmur

last

Namah, the
in.

poem

of the

Khamsah.

Foil.

65;

7 in.

4;

11

Sam Mlrza

states in his Tazkirah, fol. 88,

The same Divan, wanting three

the beginning and one at the end.

leaves at

Shah IstmVil, passing through on his return from the conquest of Kharjird Khorasan, A.H. 917, strolled to the house of Hatifl, who was living there in great
that his father
seclusion,

and,

finding

the

gate

closed,

Or. 271.
Foil. 78;

8i

in.

by 6; 15

lines,
;

3J

in.

long

written in cursive Nestalik

an entrance by scaling the garden wall. After entertaining his unbidden guest, the poet had to comply with his desire by
effected

dated

Safar,

A.H. 1278 (A.D. 1862).

[GEO.

writing a
victories.

WM.

poetical record of the Shah's Of this last poem, however,

is

HAMILTON.]

The same work.

Copyist
:

(a

copy of which

described in the St.

p.
;

Petersburg Catalogue, sand lines were written

at his death,

383) only a thou-

it

was left unfinished

place, as stated in

which took

POETRY.

A.H. 9001000.
long
;

653

the Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 3, p. 340, in the month of Muharram, A.H. 927.

See also Memoirs of Baber, p. 196, Lubb utTavarikh, fol. 181, Haft Iklim, fol. 285, Riyaz
ush-Shuara,
p. 355,
fol.

written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan, gilt headings, gold-ruled margins, and seven miniatures in Persian style ; dated Rabl* I.,

A.H. 960 (A.D. 1553).

[WM.

EESKINE.]

501,

Hammer,

Redekiinste,

Ouseley, Notices, p. 143, and Sprento

ger, Oude Catalogue, p. 421. The prologue contains an invocation Sayyid Kasim i Anvar, the patron Saint

Haft Manzar, a Magnavi by Hatifi, in imitation of the Haft Paikar of Nizami.

Beg.
c^oe. 'tsu^
c_*Jj
})

of

'jjj/jo ^\

Kharjird (see p. 635

6), in

whose

shrine,

and

*t^ j^a y Jj

through whose
the
first

inspiration, Hatifi formed conception of this poem. In the

The poet, who, in the introduction,addresses Jami as still living, designates in the epilogue
the present

epilogue he describes himself as the successor of Nizami and Khusrau, while he ranks

poem

as his third,

Majnun

as the

first,

naming Laila and Shirin Khusrau as

Jam!, who is spoken of as still living, as a fourth by the side of the three monarchs of the realms of poetry, FirdusI, Anvari, and

the second.

p.
p.

Copies are noticed in Stewart's Catalogue, 67, and in the catalogues of St. Petersburg,
383,

In conclusion he expresses a hope that this, his first poem, would be followed by four others, to complete a Panj Oanj, or
Sa'di.

Copenhagen,

p.

42,

and Munich,

p. 34.

Khamsah.
Copyist:
Foil.

Add. 7780.
122; 8i in. by 4$; 14 lines, 2| in. written in neat Nestalik, with goldlong; ruled margins, gold-headings, and eight miniatures in Persian style, apparently in
the 16th century.
[CL. J. RICH.]

Majnfm was edited by Sir Win. Jones, with a notice on the author by 'All The
Laila

Ibrahim Khan (see p. 328 a), Calcutta, 1788. It has been reprinted by Navalkishor in

Lucknow.
Copies are mentioned in the catalogues of Leyden, vol. ii. p. 121, Vienna, vol. i. p. 581, and Got ha, p. 107, in the Ouseley
Collection,

Timur Niimah, the

poetical

history of

No. 2bl, and the Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1410. A manuscript translation by Dr. J. Leyden is preserved in Add. 26,574.

Timur, by Hatifi, a Masnavl in imitation of Ni /.i mi's Iskandar Nftraah.

Beg.

The poem is sometimes

called
p.

Zafar-Namah
176),

Add. 16,801.
Foil. 71
;

(see Haj. Khal., real title is Timur

lines,
;

vol.

iv.

but

its

7 in.
in

by 4|

15

Namah, which, however,

long

written

Indian Nestalik

2* in. dated

ShVban, A.H. 1027 (A.D. 1618).

from the exigencies of the metro, the text shows only in a contracted form, -'J j

[WM. YULE.]
The same poem.

Add. 26,166.
Foil.

The author
lines,

addresses, in

the prologue,
:

90; 8J

in.

by4J; 14

2|

in.

the reigning sovereign, apparently Sultan Husain, without mentioning his name

654

POETRY.

A.H. 9001000.
p.

381, and Munich, p. 34, in the Ouseley Collection, No. 263, and the Bibliotheca
Sprenger., No. 1412.

and, after boasting of his own matchless excellence, not only in Magnavi, but also in
cares

Kasldah and Ghazal, complains that the of livelihood prevented him from
giving full scope to his genius
U|M>
j\J
:

Add. 22,703.
Foil. 87
;

ll

in.
111

by
fair

13

lines,

2| in:

long;

written

Nestalik,

in

two

columns, with illuminated borders, gilt headings, rich gold designs in the margins, and
seven whole-page miniatures, the sixteenth century.
[Sir

probably in

jb-Ui 4j~ ,>

mentions in the epilogue his three previous poems, Laila u Majnun, Shirin u Khusrau, and Haft Manzar, dwells on the contrast existing between the fabulous story of Alexander and the veracious character of his Timur Namah, and asserts that be had
strictly followed the
official

He

JOHN CAMPBELL.] same poem, imperfect at beginning and end, and wanting single leaves after foil. 16, 37, 54 and 58. It begins with the taking of Isfahan, and

A fuller recension

of the

ends with Timur's victory before Halab, corresponding to pp. 38 85 of the Lucknow
edition.

lead of the eloquent

Foil.

Add. 6618.
long
;

writers

who had recorded Timur's

authentic history, as contained in the Zafar

Nainah

2| in. written in Nestalik, with 'UnvFm, gold-

159; 9|

in.

by 6

14

lines,

ruled margins, and gold headings, apparently in the 16th century. [F. HULL.]

Ja_i

The same poem.

Or. 340.
Foil.

117

8J

in.

by 5

15

lines,

n.

**

long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, probably in tbe 16th century.
[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

The same poem.

Foil.
2,

730, 4653, 61-69

and 78-

He
life

had been spent

says in conclusion that, although his in celebrating the piaises

116 have been supplied by a A.U. 1187 (A.D. 1773).

later hand, in

of the Timurides, he had not reaped any other benefit than his world-wide renown.
.

Add. 25,829.
Foil. 161;
;

The Timur Namah has been lithographed with the title ^ita wb^, in Lucknow, 1869.
t

long dated Safar, A.H. 1085 (A.D. 1674).

8 in. by 4$; 11 lines, 2| in. written in cursive Indian character ;

]).

Copies are described in Uri's Catalogue, 116, in the catalogues of St. Petersburg,

[WM. CUKETON.]
The same poem.

POETRY.
Or. 341.
Foil.

A. H.

9001000.
In a copy of the

655

Futuh ul-Haramain,

159; 11

in.

by 6|
;

11

lines,

in.

long; written in Nestalik, with two 'Unvans dated Lahore, A.D. and ruled margins

described in the Vienna Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 122, the date of composition is expressed

1856 (A.H. 1273). The same poem.

Prefixed
is

[GEO.

WM. HAMILTON.]

by the chronogram jxo^ = A.H. 911. The Futuh ul-Harainain has been sometimes ascribed, by a very natural oversight,
to

a short notice on Timiir, with

2 b 4 a.

Jaml; see Stewart's Catalogue,

p. 66,

and

his portrait,

foil.

Sprcngor, Oude Catalogue, name occurs indeed in this

logue,
fol.

Jami'tf p. 451. line of the pro-

Copyist

10 a

Or. 343.
'

by 6; 17 lines, 3 in. long; written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and goldruled margins, apparently in the 16th cen^ urv [GEO WM HAMILTON 1
Foil.
;

41

8*

in.

but onlv in connexion with an extract from hls Tuhfat "1-Ahrar, viz. the seventh Makiilah

which treating of the same subject and being in the same metre, has been inserted in full, foil. 10 a 11 b. The author gives
> '

his

name

in the introduction, fol. 4 a

A
of

poetical description of the holy shrines

Mecca and Medina, and

of the rites of
ul-

pilgrimage, in the
Asrar.

metre of the Makhzan

and again

in the conclusion,

fol.

41 b

Author: Muhyi,
Beg.

&
LAri,

In a lithographed' edition published in Lucknow, A.H. 1292, which contains a text a native
of the island of
substantially agreeing with the present copy, the quotation from Jami has been omitted,

Muhyi
Lar
the

in the Persian Gulf, lived, according to

Kiyax ush-Shu'ara, fol. 411, from tintime of Sultan Ya'kub (A.H. 883896) to
the reign of Shah Tahmasp, who succeeded A.H. 930. He wrote a commentary upon
the Ta'iyyah of Ibn Fariz, and dedicated the present poem, on his return from Mecca, to

and the work is boldly ascribed to the famous saint, Muhyi ud-Din 'Abd ul-Kadir The contents Jilani, who died A.H. 661. of the poem have been stated in the
Jahrbiicher, vol. 71, Anzeige Blatt, p. 49. Compare Haj. Khal., vol. iv. p. 385, and Dr.

Sultan

Mu/aU'ar

B.

Mnhmiid Shah (who

That dedication
copy.

reigned in Gujrat from A.H. 917 to 932). is not found in the present

Lee's Oriental MSS., London, 1830, p. 59. The MS. contains coloured drawings of the

holy places.

Muhyi

died, as stated
p.

by Taki Koshi,

Undo Catalogue,

21,

A.H. 933.

He

Add. 7783.
Foil.

is

described by S.lm .\Inv..i, fol. 117, and the author of Haft Iklim, fol. 114, as a disciple of Davani (see p. -142 b). Compare Atash-

Ill;

in.

by 3f

11

lines,

2|

in.

long

written in Shafiai, with 'Unvan and

kadah,

fol.

137,

and Haft Asman,

p. 89.

gold-ruled margins; 1192 (A.D. 1778).

dated Rabi*

II.,

A.H.

[Cl. J. RICII.]

G56

POETRY.

A.H. 9001000.
redeemed

by

any

pretence

of

spiritual

The Divan of
Beg.
J,U

Hilfill.

y
tJUL*_J
I

+)

Badr ud-Dln

Hilali,

born in Astrabad of a

symbolism. See Stewart's Catalogue, p. 76, the catalogues of Leyden, vol. ii., p. 122, of St. Petersburg, p. 389, and of Munich, p. 35, and the Ouseley Collection, No. 526.
Copyist
:

Chaghatiii Turkish family, went as a youth to Herat, where his education was watched

^ylliM

&y^ U

Mirza, whom he often visited, states, fol. 85, that he was put to death as a Shi'ah heretic by the Uzbak

over by Mir 'All Shir.

Sam

Add. 26,168.
Foil.

34

10^

in.

by 6^

12

lines,

2| in.

invader, 'Ubaid Khan, A.H. 939.

He

left

long

Divan and two Manavis, entitled Shah u Darvish and Sifat ul-'Ashikm. A third, Laila u Majnun, is ascribed to him by Taki Auliadi, and the author of the Atashkadah
;

written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan, ; ruled columns, and tinted designs in the margins, probably in the 16th century.

but

its

existence
fol.

is

ush-Shu'ara,
vol. Hi.,

contested by Valih, Riyaz See Habib us-Siyar, 501.

350, Haft Iklim,
fol.

[WM. ERSKINE.J defective copy of the same poem, wanting two leaves after fol. 9, twelve after fol. 10, and four at the end. It bears the signature

Juz

3, p.

468,

and Persian stamp of Edw. Galley, with the

date 1783.

Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 368, and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 426. The Divan consists of Ghazals alphabetiarranged, with a few Kit'ahs and Rubfus at the end, fol. 106 a. It has been
cally

Add. 7782.
2| in. long ; written in Shikastah-Amlz, with ruled margins ; dated A.II. 1076 (A.D.1666).
Foil.

22; 9J

in.

by 5; 15

lines,

See lithographed in Cawnpore, A.H. 1281. the catalogues of Vienna, vol. i. p. 563, and Mtinich, p. 35, Bibliotheca Sprenger., No.
1414, and King's College Library, No. 186.

[Cl. J.

RICH.]

The same poem, wanting the

epilogue.

Add. 7781.
Foil. 55

Or. 307.
Foil.

long
in

; 8| by 5 ; 12 lines, 1J in. written in small and fair Nestalik,

in.

long

141; lOf in. by 6f 17 lines, 3 in. with 30 lines in the margins written
; ;

in fair Nestalik, probably in the 17th century.

gold-ruled columns, with 'Unvan, and gold-sprinkled margins dated Sha'btln, A.H.
;

JU
The Divan of Lisani.

927 (A.D. 1521.)

[01. J. RICH.]

" The King and the Darvish," a Masnavi

by

Hilali.

whose original name was Vajih udDin 'Abd Ullah, was born in ShTraz, but
Lisani,

Beg.

Ayry

j* J-l j_>

spent the greater part of his

life

in

Baghdad

and Tabriz.
This

Sam

Mirza,

poem

is

often called Shah

u Gada.

The objectionable nature

of its subject is not

his society, describes who led the life of a Darvish,

who him as

often enjoyed a pious man

states that

and

POETRY.
he died in Tabriz A.H. 941.

A.H. 9001000.

657

According to the Majalis ul-Muminin, fol. 562, he composed, chiefly in praise of the Imams, about one hundred thousand verses, most of which are lost, and breathed his last while engaged in prayer in the mosque of Tabriz, at the time that Sultan Sulaiman was marching upon
that city,
i.e.

him

in his Majalis, written A.H. 896, as a scholar and accomplished poet, who had twice sent him verses from Shiraz, and had

just composed a skilfully rhymed Kasidah in imitation of Salman. With the exception of
'

at the beginning of the year

a short stay in Tabriz, Ahli appears to have spent the whole of his life in his native city, where he died in old age A.H. 942. That
date,
is

above mentioned.
Riyaz
fol.

See Haft Iklim, fol. 100, ush-Shu'ara, fol. 397, Atashkadah,

which

is

given by

Sam

Mirza,

fol.

96, to

fixed by the following

chronogram due

133,

Sprenger,

Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 391, Oude Catalogue, p. 476, and

Zeitschrift der D.
*

M. Gesellschui't, 518 535, where several pieces from Lisani's Divan are given in text and

Erdmann,

a contemporary poet Mirak, and quoted in the Majfilis ul-Miiminin, fol. 561, and Haft See Iklim, fol. 102: ^*\ &,> \j*J* lob.
also

vol. xii. pp.

Habib us-Siyar,

vol.

iii.,

Juz

4, p. 112,

translation.

The Divan comprises, in the present copy, an alphabetical series of Ghazals, with a considerable gap after fol. 69, extending from the end of j to the beginning of , and
(

Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 28, Atashdah, fol. 119, Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 376, Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 320, Bland, a Century of
Ghazals, vii., and Erdmann, Zeitschrift der D. M. Gesellschaft, vol. xv. pp. 775785, where some specimens of Ahli's Divan are

a Masnavi entitled Sfiki Numah, See the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i.

fol.

137

b.

given in text and translation.

I.

p.

584.
Fol. 4
b.

On

the

first

page

is

a short notice on the

as above,

J^^" Lawful Witchcraft,"

:

poet, giving the

same date of death

and mentioning Vahsln, Muhtashim, and

Zamiri as his principal imitators.

the love-story of Prince Jam and Princess Gul, in Magnavi rhyme, with a short prose
preface beginning

Or. 279.
Foil.

360

in.

by 5 J

18

Beg. of the poem,

lines,
;

*-*

2|

in.

written long, with 12 lines in the margin in small Nestalik, probably in the 18th century.

Ahli wrote
in order to

it,

From

the royal library of Lucknow.

make

[GEO.

WM.

as he states in the preface, good his boast that he was

HAMILTON.]

able to outdo Katibi, by combining in one poem the artifices of metre and plays upon

works of Ahli Shiriizi. This poet is not to be confounded with his contemporary namosako, Ahli Khurasani, a native of Turshiz, who lived in Herat, and died A.H. 934 (see the Oude Catalogue,
poetical

The

words found separately in that poet's two admired works, the Majma* ul-Bahrain and
the Tajnisut. The prologue includes a eulogy addressed to the author's patron, KazI Mu'in

ud-Din

(Sa'idi)

Ahli of Shiraz, who excelled in all p. 319). kinds of poetical composition, is especially famous for the ingenious artifices of versification, in
VOL.

which he emulated and surpassed and Katibi. Mir 'Ali Shir mentions Salman
II.

658
II. Pol.

POETRY.
16
b.

A.H. 9001000.
written for a pack of cards intended for a
royal personage.

t>,

" Candle and

Moth," a Masnavi.
Beg.
*-*

Beg.
VIII.

Pol. 314

some
Ya'kub (of the Ak-Kuyunlii Dynasty, A.H. 883 to 896), and is stated, in the concluding lines, to consist The date of one thousand and one distichs.
It is dedicated to Sultan

riddles, fol.

Rubfus, followed by 351 a, and an invocation

b.

(Munajat) in verse, fol. 358 b. Copies of the Kulliyat are described in Stewart's Catalogue, p. 67, and in the catalogues of Vienna, vol. Petersburg, p. 391.
i.

of composition, the chronogram

line:

A.H. 894,

p.

585,

and

St.

expressed by J, in the following

is

Add. 27,313.
j >y
III. Pol.

37

a.

Kasidahs, arranged accord-

ing to subjects.

283 10J in. by 6| 19 lines, 2| in. written long, with 12 lines in the margin in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins dated Shavval, A.H. 1170 (A.D.
Poll.
; ; ;
;

Beg.

[DUNCAN PORBES.] 1757). Sihr i similar collection, containing fol. 1 b. Halal, wanting the last sixteen lines,

The Kasidahs
'AIT,

are in praise of

Muhammad,

the
'All

Imams,
Sa'idi,

Shah

Mu'In ud-Din

Isma'il, Khwajah Amir Sa'd ud-Din As'ad,

This section contains also some

Ya'kub Khan, and others. Tarji'- and Tarkib-bands, and concludes with a MuShir,

Amir

Sham' u Parvanah, wanting the first twelve lines, fol. 13 a. Kasidahs, fol 34 b. Riddles, Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 86 b. wanting the first page, fol. 90 a. Mukatta'at,
fol.

217
b.

b.

Ruba'is in alphabetical order,

artificial

fol.

khammas.
IV. Fol. 93
large
b.

Kasidahs, beginning respectively on foil. 237

221

Three

^M 252
b,

sAJua;',

6,

Mukatta'at, including a

number

of

chronograms on contem-

porary events.

V. Pol. 104
order.

b.

Ghazals in alphabetical

Beg.

and 268 b. The first of these Kasidahs has a prose author states that it preface, in which the in imitation of a well known was composed Kasldah of Salman Savaji, and in praise of Arnir 'Ali Shir. The second is addressed to Yiisuf Shah, the brother of Sultan Ya'kub Ak-Kuyunlu, who died A.H. 896, and the third to Shah Isma'il SafavT. The last two have
short prose preambles stating the number of In their distichs, respectively 154 and 160.
all

VI. Pol. 302

b.

*ti

JU,

a collection of

" Ruba'is, addressed to the cup-bearer,"

and

three Kasidahs the

names of the

poetical

alphabetically arranged.

Beg.

U
a.

oU-pUj, Ruba'is describing the various cards of the game, and

VII. Pol. 308

of the secondary metres which figures, and can be derived from each verse, are given in tabular form between the lines of the poem. The first page of the MS. has the signature and Persian seal of Edward Galley.

POETRY.

A. H.

9001000

659

Add. 16,796.
134; 8i in. by 4$; 17 lines, 2| in. written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and long gold-ruled margins ; dated Muharram, A.n.
Foil.
;

to have died before A. II. 970. Divan with the same beginning, and a Vaslat Namah ascribed also to Shaikh BahlQl, are noticed

in the

Oude Catalogue,

p. 370.

962 (A.D. 1554).

[Wn. YULE.]

Add. 7785.
The Divfm
Beg.
J
{J
)

of Tayyib.

n. 135; 8 in. by 5J; 11 lines, long; written in Nestalik; dated Zulhijjah,

Foil.

A.II. 1217 (A.D. 1803).

[Cx. J. RICH.]

author, who calls himself mostly Taybut in some places Shah Tayyib, is menyib, tioned under the latter name in the Nafa'is

The

The Persian Divan of

Beg.
\} x>\ >

Fuzuli.

ul-Ma'asir, a

work written A.H. 973

979,

U
Baghdad,

Oude Catalogue, p. 51. It appears from some passages of the Divan that he was a Sayyid, and a fervid Shi'ah, foil. 5 a, 51 a, 126, leading the life of a Fakir, and residing
16 6, 87 a ; but we learn 55 a, 87 a, that he had incidentally, visited Bukhara and 'Irak. The Divfin, which is entirely of a religious and mystic nature, contains Ghazals in alphabrtiral order, and some Ruba'is, fol. 129 b.
in Khorasan, foil.
foil.

Muhammad

B.

Sulaiman, of

poetically called Fuzuli, and chiefly known as a Turkish poet, wrote also Persian aud

He died at Arabic poetry with elegance. Karhalfi A.II. 970, or, according to the Riyaz See Taki ush-Shu'ara, fol. 311 a, A.H. 976. K -hi, Oude Catalogue, p. 22, Haft Iklim,
fol.

Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 300, and Hammer, Geschichte der Osmanischeu
55,

Copyist

&

Dichtkunst, vol. ii. p. 293. Contents: Ghazals in alphabetical order, with a considerable lacune after fol. 48, ex-

Or. 280.
Foil.

tending from J to J,

fol.

1.

Kit'ahs and

Manavis,
73
;

fol.
:

104

b.

7|

in.

by 3$
small

15

lines, 2 in.
;

long ; Rabi'

written
II.,

in

Nestalik

dated

Copyist

A.H. 970 (A.D. 1562).

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

The Divan has been printed

in Tabriz.

Add. 7786.
The Divan
Beg.
of Shah Bahlul.
Foil.

62;

7|

in.

by 5|; 14

lines,

in.

Ghazals of a religious nature, in alphabetical order. arranged

It contains

long; written in neat Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the IGth century. [01. J.

From
author's

the formula

j&, which follows the

name in

the subscription, he appears

The Divan of
o

Salim.

GOO

POETRY.

A.H. 9001000.
Laila Majnun, dedicated to the same sovereign. 3. Kar Namah, a poem
Isma'Il.
2.

Sultfm Salim, son and successor of Sulaiman the Great, was born in A.H. 930,

ascended the throne A.H. 974, and died A.H. 982. He uses indifferently Salim and Salimi as his Takhallus. Contents .Four poems in praise of God
:

describing a game of Chaughan played by Shah IsmaMl, and written by the Shah's 4. Khusrau Shirin, dedicated to the desire.
writer

(Sam

Mirzfi).

and Muhammad,
betical order, fol.

fol.

b.

Ghazals in alpha-

b.

See Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 285, Hammer, Geschiclite der Osmanischen Dichtkunst,
vol.
ii.

p.

436, the Petersburg Catalogue,

p. 400,

where a different beginning is given, and the library of King's College, Cam-

bridge, No. 163.

Add. 7784.
Foil.

181

104

in.

by 6|

11

lines,

2f

in.

long; written in fair Nestalik, in two goldruled columns, with 'TJnviin, gold headings, and thirteen whole-page miniatures in fair Persian Style; dated A.H. 948 (A.D. 1541).
[Cl. J. EICH.]

ud-Daulah gives in his Nafa'is ul-Ma'air, written A.H. 973 979 (Oude Catalogue, p. 46), a detailed notice on Kasim, which has been inserted in the Haft Asman, He speaks of him as still living, and p. 136. states that he met him in Kashan, when on the way to India, and that Kasim then wrote a letter to Akbar, in which he gave the following account of his poems 1. Shahnamah i Mazi, a poetical record of Shah Ismfi'Il, con2. Shah Namah i sisting of 4500 lines. Navvab A'la, a history of Shah Tahmasp in 4500 lines. 3. Shfmrukh Namah, in 5000 lines. 4. Laila Majnun, 3000 lines. 5. Khusrau Shirin, of the same extent. 6. Zubdat ul-Ash'ar, in the metre of Makhzan ul-Asrar, 4500 lines. 7. Guy u Chaughan (called also Kar Namah), 2500 lines. To these the author of the Haft Asman adds an eighth
Mirzfi 'Ala
:

poetical history of Shah. Ismail.

:

poem, entitled 'Ashik u Ma'shuk. The date of Mlrza Kasim's death is not It is stated in Haft accurately known. fol. 331, that in extreme old age he Iklim,

Author
Beg.

Kasiml,

made over
Slm'ara,

his fortune to the shrine of

Imam
138,

'Ali Eiza in
fol.

Mashhad.
367,

See also ftiyaz ushfol.

Atashkadah,
p.

Sprenger,
Mirzfi Kasim, poetically surnamed Kasiini, was born in Junabad (Yakut's Junabiz), or

Oude Catalogue,

534,

and

Gunabad, in Khorasan, of a noble family of Sayyids, in which the chief magistrature, Kalantari, of that town was hereditary. Having left that office to his brother Mir Abul-Fath, he adopted the life of a Fakir, and devoted his leisure to poetry. Ssm Mirza states in his Tazkirah, written A.H. 957, fol. 26, that Mirzfi Kasim had then
written the four following Mas.navls-: 1. A Shahnamah, or poetical history of Shah

Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 385. The poem was commenced in Shah Ismail, who is addressed

the time of
in the pro-

logue as the reigning sovereign ; but it was not finished till after his death, which forms
the subject of the last section. The prologue contains also a section in praise of the clasMas.navi writers, Nizami and Khusrau, and of their worthy successor Hatifi, and a
sical

eulogy upon the Vazlr Shams

ud-Dm Mu-

hammad Nuri. The historical portion of the poem extends from the time of Sultan Haidar

POETRY.
to the conquest of

A.H. 9001000.
oll

661

Khorasan by Shah Ismail and the peace granted by him to the Uzbaks
(A.H. 917).
Transcriber
:

face

Mold, preto the Shahniimah, p. 77, the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 638, the St. Petersburg
Ilaj.

See

Khal., vol.

iv. p. 13,

The prologue contains a dedication to Shah Tahmasp, and a mention of the author's previous poems, viz., Shahniimah, Laila u Majnun, and Shirin u Khusrau. The date of composition, A.H. 950, is conveyed in the
following line,
fol.
\

Catalogue, p. 388, Asiatisches Museum, p. 375, and King's College Library, Cambridge, No. 238.

260 a

JUS,\J JL.

On
...
is

the

first

page

is

written: "This book

III. Fol.

260

a.

wU^i., the second part

a relick of the i;n\it Sefiviyan library. It was presented to me as a token of friend-

(Daftar) of the
poetical cated to him.

Shahnamah, containing a history of Shah Tahmasp, and dedi-

ship by Fethullah Khan, son of the heroic and unfortunate Lutf AH Khan, who spent some days at my house on his way to Mecca, etc. Baghdad, December 29, 1819, Claudius James Rich." Lower down is a Persian entry written on that occasion by Fath Ullah

Beg.

e^5
is

Khan.

Or. 339.
Foil. 386;

brought down, in the present copy, to the account of the arrest of Prince Bayazid (A.H. 967) and of the correspondence which took place on that occasion between Sultan Sulaimau and Shah

The narrative

8|

in.

by 5$
large

17

lines,
;

3|

in.

long

written

in

Nestalik

dated

Lucknow, A.H. 1180 (A.D. 1767).

[GEO.

Tahmasp. The text breaks off at the beginning of the next- folio wing section, relating to the punishment of some refractory Sunnis
in Kazvin.

WM.

HAMILTON.]
:

See the

St.

Petersburg Catalogue,

p. 387.

The following three poems of Kiisimi I. Fol. 2 b. The poem above described.
This copy contains towards the end, fol. 132 b, the following line, which gives A.H. 940 as the date of the completion of the
;ii:

Add. 25,023.
Foil.

415; 9|

in.

by 6; 17

lines,

3*

in.

long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 17th century.

It is expressed by the chronogram first letter of which has to be left out.

II. Fol.

the

133

a.

*-0

a poetical his-

tory of Shiihrukh.

The collected poems of Ghazali. Maulana Ghazali informs us in his preface to the Divan, fol. 59 a, that he was born in Mashhad. As he states further on, foL 60 6,
that he had completed his 30th year in A.H. A.H. 936. 966, he must have been born about was exposed, as a Persecutions to which he drove him freethinker, in his native country,
to India,

The

title
fol.

couplet,

is contained in the following 153 a:

where he attached himself to Khan

662

POETRY.
('All

AH. 9001000.
which he had been reduced by the
loss of

Kuli Khan), one of Akbar's then Governor of Jaunpur (see generals, Blochmann, Ain Akbari, p. 319). When his patron, who had risen in rebellion, was crushed by Akbar (A.H. 974), he passed into the Imperial service, and Akbar conferred

Zaman

his Jagir, and ends with a humourous description of a sorry jade, the sole remnant of

short pieces, among which is a chronogram on the birth of Akbar's first child The first (Jahangir), A.H. 977.
3.

his property.

Some

upon him the

title

of Malik ush-

Shu'ara.
vol.
iii.

died, according to Badaoni, p. 170, on the 27th of Rajah, A.H.

He

Kasidah was written when Akbar had completed his 25th year, i.e. A.H. 975.
III. Fol. 53
a.

980, in Ahrnadabad, Gujrat. fixed by a chronogram of Faizi.

The date
1,

t_Ui)l

"
j\3T,

is

Vestiges of

See Bloch-

mann, Ain Akbari,

p.

568, note

Haft

Youth," the Divan of Ghazali, with a prose preface, the beginning of which is wanting.
(See the

Iklim, fol. 295 a, Tabakfit i Akbari, fol. 285, Mir'at ul-'Alam, fol. 488 b, Tabakat i Sliahjahani,
fol.

Oude Catalogue,
^,^9-

p. 412).

Beg. ^jJ'^o j

fs^>- ^\^t Jac- J\

*$"

234, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

fol.

319

b,

^**

Haft Asman, p. 100, and the Oude Catalogue, pp. 61 and 411. His name is Ghazali, not Ghazzali as sometimes written for the metre shows that the first syllable is short, and the poet himself says, fol. 59 b, that his takhallus was derived from ghazal, a gazelle. The present MS. has lost some leaves, and the upper half of others, which apparently
;

from the preface that the author had completed his 30th year when he arranged his poems in alphabetical order, and dedicated them to Akbar, in A.H. 966.
Contents: Preface, fol. 53 a. Kasidahs, Tarkib and Tai-ji'-bands, fol. 60 a. Ghazals

We learn

contained illuminated headings.

tents are
I.
:

The con-

91 b. fol. 260 b. Kit'abs, fol. 270 at the end, fol. 276 b. imperfect
in alphabetical order,
fol.

Masnavis,
a,

Ruba'is,

IV. Fol. 295

Ghaziili's preface to his imita-

a.

}j~>\

a Sufi tract

Fol. 1.

on mystic

love.
b.

tion

of twenty

Ghazals of Mir Hasan of

at the request of

Dehli, composed Saltanat Muhammad, of Nishapur. The preface, which wants the first two or three lines,

Rukn

us-

V. Fol. 309

f\j*2l\

OJu,

"

Sunnat ush-

Shu'ara," a collection of Kasidahs in alphabetical order, with a prose preface. Most of

followed by the beginning of the Mir Hasan's Ghazals.

is

first

of

them are addressed to Shah Tahmasp, some to Khan Zaman, and a few to Mun'im Khan,
and other Indian Amirs.

poems addressed ifj\ to Akbar, and composed by Ghazali on various occasions, when he was admitted to
II.
a.
>,

Fol. 3

B eg.

UL,.
a Masnavi

the royal presence.

VI. Fol. 347

1.

6.

Kasidahs in with a lacune at the alphabetical order, beginning, and another extending from
collection comprises

The

j-^

JtAi,

poem on mystic love, in imitation of Nizami's Makhzan ul-Asrar, with a short prose preface.

to

2.

long

Magnavi containing

moral and religious advice. In the conclusion the poet excuses his remissness in attending Court by the state of destitution to

Beg.

-i-^

v*^}

d
ad-

The prologue contains a panegyric

POETRY.

A.H.

9001000.

003

dressed to Shah Tahmasp, followed by an eulogy upon the poet's Indian patron, Khan

Zaman,
Iklim,

for

whom, according

to

the Haft

The

collected works of Vahshi.

the work was written.

vi.
iii.

Khal., vol. logue, vol.

Haj. p. 379, and the Vienna Catap. 439.

See

Vahshi, born in Bank, Kirman, spent nearly the whole of his life in Yazd, where he died, as stated by his contemporary Takl
or 992.

An

imitation of the
is

Makhzan

ul-Asriir

by

mentioned in the Haft Asmiin. p. 100, under the title of Mashhad i Anvfir, and some of the lines there quoted are found
in the present poem.

GhazTdi

Oude Catalogue, p. 35, in A.H. 991 The first of these dates is expressed "by the chronogram _J Jjl? _^tu
Kfishi,
(

VII. Fol. 377

first

b.

Masnavi, wanting the

quoted in Mir'at ul-'Alam, fol. 494. He was, according to the 'Alamarai, fol. 48, unequalled in his time either in Ghazal or Masjiavi.
fol.

a violent diatribe against one of the 'Ulamu who had attacked

lines.

It contains

It is stated in the Riyfi? ush-Shu'ara,

Ghaz.ili.

480, that he imitated the manner of Biiba Fighani, but with a more decided leaning to

VII. Fol. 383

ing the
first lines.

b.

Another Masnavi want-

It is a fierce satire against an Amir of Akbar's court (see Klnn, Blochmann, Ain i Akbari, pp. 31, 35 4), who is designated by his proper name Kilich and by his poetical surname Ulfati, and most recklessly abused, both as man and as pre-

the colloquial style. He is noticed in the Haft Iklim, fol. 76, the Atashkadah, fol. 63, and Haft Asman, p. 109. Compare Hammer,
Redekiinste,

Kilidi

388, and Sprenger, Catalogue, p. 586. The contents are as follows

p.
:

Oude

I.

Fol. 2

b.

Kasidahs

in

tended poet. This ruthless attack appears from the introduction to have been instigated and countenanced by Akbar himself.

Imams, of Shah Tahmasp, Mir ud-Dln (a descendant of Ni'mat Ullah

praise of the Miriin Ghiyas.

Vali,

who

391 a. JU. '*^_jJ, a short collection of Ghazals in alphabetical order, with a preface, the beginning of which is wanting.
I
.

Fol.

lived in Yazd; see Riyuz, fol. 435), Shah Khalil Ullah (see p. 635 a), etc., with some Marsjyahs at the end.

Beg. ^_,U

Beg.

U JV jie.

,ji

J^*

lai- \3

II. Fol.

73

b.

abode of

were extracted, as stated in the preface, from the author's first Divan,
Tln'se Ghazals

bliss,"

^j, oU, "The supreme a Magnavi in imitation of the

Makhzan
Beg.

ul-Asrar.

jS\, as specimens of the artificial manner to which he inclined in his youthful

_^ ~lM

compositions. They are not found, however, in the present copy of the Divan. The Ghazals arc followed by some K it'ahs,
fol.

It

has been edited by

W. Nassau
"

Lees,

Calcutta, 1861.

410

b,

and Ruba'is,

fol.

412

a.

Or. 326.
Foil. 251; 7J in.

90 b. y^t ly, The lovestory of Farhad and Shlrin," a Manavi in the metre of Khusrau u Shirin.
III. Fol.
_,

by 3|; 18

lines,

in.

Beg.

j 3J-i\

JijT

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 16th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]

This

jr. ** Jj ^j poem was left unfinished by the

06 i

POETRY.

A.H. 9001000.

author. It has been lithographed in Calcutta, A.H. 1249, and in Bombay, with a poem on

Add. 23,552.
Foil. 253; 7
in.

the same theme by Visal, A.H. 1265. See Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1525, Haj. Khal.,
vol.
iii.

by 4

12

lines,

2|

in.

long;

written in cursive Nestalik;

dated

p. 138, Stewart's

Catalogue, p. 72,

Shavval, A.H. 1034 (A D. 1625).

and Ouseley's

Collection,

No. 36.
" The loves of
containing
:

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]

IV. Fol. 121 a.

Nazir and Manzur, Magnavl in the same metre as the preceding, imperfect at the
beginning.

j^ a

Another collection of the poems of Vahsbi,

I. Fol. 2 b. Laudatory poems, in the form of Kasidah, Tarkib-band, and Manavl.

, jfcu,

The
vol.
i.

first line, as

vol. vi. p. 291,

quoted by Haj. Khal., and in the Vienna Catalogue,

Beg. JLfl^->1^>
II. Fol.

.xoULio

j!^

W ^Ijoli.'v ^

p. 577, is

116

b.

Ghazals, without alpha-

betical order.

Beg.

*j\^\

The date

of composition, A.H. 966, in the following lines at the end

:

is

stated

III.

Fol.
art.
ii.

178

a.

Khuld

Barin;

see

above,

IV. Fol. 204

.Q.f-isa-Z

b.

Farhad u Shirln; see

K.

r>\

above, art.

iii.

/ w
,S"i
t

Or, 318.
Foil. 82
;

*i

titf-*^ (iH-^-J

i>

<w^

11

in.

by

14
in

lines,

in.

long;

It

is

obtained either by doubling 30

gold-ruled columns, with 'Unvan, apparently in the

five

written

in

Nestalik,

four

times,

and adding

17th century.
I.

6, or

by summing

up the

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

letters o

The Divan
fol.

sldahs,

of Vahshi. containing Ka2 b. Ghazals in alphabetical

b.

Magnavis in praise of Mir Mlran and others, including also some satires, one of which is against a contemporary poet, Mulla Fahmi.
b.

V. Fol. 162

order, fol.
fol.

18

Tarji's, fol.

57

a.

Ruba'is,

60

b.

Beg.

y e^V
b.

^j^j&

^\

II.
art.

Farhad u Shlrm,

fol.

61

b.

See p. 663,

iii.

VI. Fol. 181

order.

Ghazals in alphabetical
*
,

Foil.

81 and 82 contain some Ghazals of

of Ghairat

Beg.

\j

j\y

J.i tl*\S *^

_j!i9.

jUj>

Hajl Muhammad Jan Kudsi. On the first page is the seal

some Mukatta'at, fol. 244 including chronograms on the death of Shah Tahmasp and other contemporary events; lastly a few Ruba'is, fol. 251 a,
are

At the end

Khan, an Amir of the court of Farrukhsiyar.

Add. 24,344.
Foil. 49; 6 in. by 3f; 10 oblique lines in each page written in minute Shafl'ai cha;

copy of the Kulliyat

vol.
i.

is

described in the

Vienna Catalogue,

p. 576.

POETRY. A.H. 9001000.

racter on one side only of the paper, and folding up in the manner of Oriental albums ;

G65

dated Muharram, A.H. 1174 (A.D. 1760). Farhad u Shirin ; see p. 663, art. iii.

The Divan of Muhtasham, with a preface by Taki ud-Din Muhammad ul-Husaini.

Beg. of the Preface
:

Add. 7787.
26 ; 9| in. by 64.; 15 lines, 3| in. written in Naskhi, with two 'Unvans long ; and ruled margins; dated Zulhijjah, A.H.
Foil.

Beg. of the Divan

994 (A.D. 1586).

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Maulana Muhtasham

lived in his native

by 'Usman Pasha (A.H. 993

poetical account of the taking of Tabriz see Malcolm, ;

History of Persia, vol. i. p. 520, and Hammer, Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches, vol. iv. p. 170), with a dedication in prose to

Sultan Muriid B. Salim.

place, Kashan, in the reigns of Shah Isma'il a*nd Shah Tahmasp, and was looked upon, the latter period, as the most eminent during His Marsjyah on the death poet of Persia. of Imam Husain is much admired and has remained extremely popular. He died A.H. 996, a date fixed in the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,
fol.

Author

Jamiili

B.

Hasan Shushtari,

415, by the chronogram

fol.

*~>.f?

& &.

See

Beg.

'Alam-arai, 47, Haft Iklim, fol. 388, Taki Kashi (who was a pupil of Muhtasham), Oude Catalogue, p. 23, and Sprenger, ib.
p. 500.

The author
having
expedition, he

relates in the prologue how, set sail from Baghdad on a trading

The writer of the

Preface,

who

is

better

known

as Taki

ud-Din Kashi (see the Oude

was shipwrecked and left destitute on a foreign shore, and how he was advised by Firdusi in a dream to address this Shflhnamah to the Sultan. The time of A.H. 994, is expressed by the composition, chronogram ^f xj ^ jj^. The poem, which is evidently written by a man of

Catalogue, p. 13), states that Muhtasham had, during the illness to which he suc-

inferior literary attainments, concludes with

praises of the Sultan and Vazirs, urgent appeal to their liberality.

and with an

cumbed, A.H. 996, sent for him, and requested him to collect and arrange his He then dwells on the poetical works. merit of Muhtasham, whom he unsurpassed ranks first after Khakimi, and gives a number of poems in his praise, and chronograms on his death, written by several contemIn conclusion the editor states poraries.
that, according to the poet's directions, the collected poems, oUi', had been arranged in the following seven Divans 1. Shaibiy:

An ornamental inscription, foil. 3 and 4, shows that the present copy was intended
for presentation to the Sultan.

Add. 7789.
250 9 in. by 5 $ ; 13 lines, 2$ in. with 22 lines in the long, margin written in fair Shikastah-amiz dated Ramazan, A 1207 (A.D. 1793). J.
Foil.
; ; ;

yah f>_ c _.^, God, Muhammad, the Imams, contemporary kings, vazirs, amirs, and men of letters. 2. Shababiyyah, xj^-, and 3. Siba'iyyah,
*AjU0>

containing Kasldahs in praise of

containing

Ghazals

descriptive

of

[Cl.'

RICH.]

beauty.

4. Jalaliyyah, wJiU-,

and

5.

Nakli

VOL.

II.

H H

G6G

POETRY.

A.H. 9001000.
Mail! Haravl, or of Herat,

'Ushshak, :lic JiJ, containing Ghazals descriptive of love and of the poet's beloved.
6.

whose original

Zururiyyat,

c^^jo, comprising

versified

chronograms, written at the request of his friends. 7. Mu'ammayat, L^>L**, or riddles.

of the volume, which do not tally with the above division, are as follows :

name was Mirza Kuli, belonged to the Turkish tribe of Jalair. He found a protector in Sultan Ibrahim Mirza, son of Bahrain
held a high office at the Court of his uncle Shah Tahmasp. After the death
Mlrzii,

who

The contents

of his patron he

went to

India.

This took
ul-Ma'air,

Kasidahs and Tarklb-bands, ninety-seven in number, to which is prefixed a table of their beginnings, fol. 6 b. Mukatta'at, and short Manavis, fol. 106 a. Ghazals, not alphabetically arranged, fol. 122 b.
Beg.

place, according to the Nafa'is

Oude Catalogue,

Kashi, ib., p. and adds the erroneous statement that Maili died on the road. In India he attached

A.H. 979. Taki 43, gives a later date, A.H. 983,

p. 54, in

e^r >^ yfol.

j'wUA

5'

^y
148
b.

Ruba'Is,

142

a.
fol.

Ghazals in alphabetical order, Beg. V!** j"* G J3

This
is

fUj/tf1

the usual beginning of the Divan, probably the Shababiyyah. See the Oude Catalogue, p. 500, and the Vienna Catalogue,
vol.
i.

p. 591. series of

he stayed many years, and by whose order he was eventually poisoned in Malvah. See fol. 436, Tabakat i Akbari, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 287, Badaoni, vol. iii. p. 329, and BlochAin i Akbari, p. 571. According to mann, the Atashkadah, fol. 11, Maili was born and had grown up in Mashhad. The above mentioned Sayyid Naurang Khan was the son of Kutb ud-Din Khan, an

himself to Naurang Khan, with

whom

Another
arranged,

Ghazals alphabetically

Amir

of Akbar's

reign.

He

served with

fol.

203

b.

yT jjSJja- ^* ]/ >>, no doubt, the Siba'iyyah or These are, youthful poems, as may be inferred from the
Beg.
\Jf-j

vi-J

war against Muzaffar Shah of Gujrat, A.H. 991, and received as a reward a Jagir in Malvah, and subsequently in Gujrat, where he died in the 39th year of Akbar
distinction in the

last line

yjrt

*Ua

See Tazkirat ul-Umara, fol. 201, and Maagir ul-Umara, fol. 411. The death of Maili, the date of which is

(A.H.

10023).

not recorded, happened probably some time before A.H. 1000. Contents Ghazals in alphabetical order,
:

Or. 314.
9 in. by 6 ; 15 lines, 3| in. long; dated Zulka'dah, the written in Shikastah llth year of Muhammad Shah, i.e. A.H. 1141
Foil.

fol.

2 b

61

Ruba'is, fol. 59 b. 36 a, in the margins.

b.

Kasidahs, foil. One of these is

others
to

addressed

to

Akbar,

and two

Naurang Khan.
Copies are mentioned in the Oude Catalogue, p. 497, and in Bibliotheca Sprenger.,

(A.D. 1729).

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

No. 1461.

The MS. was

The Divan of Maili.
L*
subscription,
for

written, according to the

Mir Sharaf

ud-Dm

'All,

JU

poetically surnamed Payam, a poet of the reign of Muhammad Shah (see the Oude

Catalogue, p. 276).

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1000.

667

Add. 16,793.
2$ in. long ; written in Nestalik, with TTnvans and gold-ruled margins; dated A.II. 1060 (A.D.
Foil.

III. Fol.

174

b.

imitation of the

j&fH Makhzan

^, a

Masnavi in
See

ul-Asrar.

278; 7

in.

by 4; 17

lines,

Haj. Khal., vol. v. p. 389, Haft Asman, p. Ill, and KraflVs Catalogue, p. 69.

1649).

[WM. YULE.]

Beg.

The

collected

works of 'Urfi

Shirozl.

IV. Fol. 206

story of Farhad

a.

one of the most popular poets of his time, went in early life from his native city to the Deccan, from whence he proceeded to Fathpur Sikri, then the There he won the residence of Akbar. favour and protection of Hakim Masih udTJrfi, of Shlraz,

j j\jy, the loveand Shlrln, in the metre of

y*^.

Nizami's Khusrau u Shlrln.

oJ'jyjo

Jj fj3jW
praise of

V. Fol. 217 b. ud-Dln Abu 1 fat h. Beg.

A Tarji' in

Masih

Din Abul-Fath Gllani

i

(see Blochraann,

Ain

Akbari, p. 424), and, after his death in 997, attached himself to the Khankhiinan Mirza *Abd ur-Ralum Khan (ib.
A.II.
t

VI. Fol. 221

Beg.

b.

Mukatta'at.
f^jf-

^\^-y \} v~*.
b.

followed the latter in his expediti<>n against Jitni Beg of Tattah in A.II. 999, but was carried off by dysentery, some say by poison, in Lahore in the same year, at ho
p. 334).
t

He

VII. Fol. 232

Rubifis.

VIII. Fol. 252

pieces.

A.

A
is

collection of prose

His contemearly age of thirty-six years. ii. p. 285, and vol. iii. porary Baduoni, vol. *J^ p. 286, gives the chronogram The same date is given for his death.

^f

a letter written by 'Urfi during an illness, in which he describes his state of mind in presence of death.
first

The

of these

jf

487, Mir'at ulKhayal.fol. 60, and Riyiiz ush-Shu'arii, fol. 302. See also Haft Iklim, fol. 107, Atashkadah, foL 131, Haft Asman, p. Ill, Hammer,
fol.

t^,xl in the

Mir at ul-'Alam,

Further on are some discourses on moral religious subjects, a preface to a lalNamah compiled for Akbar, a letter to a physician (Masih ud-Din) on his recovery, etc. On the first page is found the stamp of Tiket Rae, the Oude Minister, with an 'Arz-

and

Redekiinste, p. 304, Osmanische Dichtkunst, vol. iv. p. 601, Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, i Akbari, p. 669. p. 628, and Blochmann, Ain
Content*.
I.

didah dated A.H. 1206. Copies of the Kulliyat, or of portions of them, are noticed in Stewart's Catalogue, the Vienna p. 72, the Oude Catalogue, p. 628,
Catalogue, vol.
Catalogue,
i.

Fol. 1

b.

Ghazals in alphabetical order.

p. 592,

and the Munich

p. 36.

Beg.

Add. 7791.
II. Pol.

99

b.

Kasidahs, not alphabetically

Foil.

206; 91

in.

by 4|; 21

lines,

2|

in.

arranged.

p- i/ The Kasldahs of TJrfi have been edited, with a commentary, Calcutta, A.H. 1254.
j.,V

Beg-

*S-b^

$> j*

long; written in cursive Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Cl. J. RICH.]

similar collection, containing

fol.

Majma'
fol.

ul-Abkfir,

b.

Farhud u
2

Shirin,

H H

POETRY. A.H. 9001000.

35
fol.
fol.
b.

Mukatta'at, Kasldahs, fol. 45 b. 98 a. Ghazals in alphabetical order, 105 b. Eubais, foi. 194 b. The last
slightly imperfect at the

Egerton 1034.
Foil.
;

two sections are

end.

Add. 7792.
15 lines, 3 in. in Nestalik, with gold-ruled long; written margins; dated Zulka'dah, A.H. 1048 (A.D.
Foil.
;

long dated Zulhijjah, the 22nd year of Muhammad Shah, A.H. 1152 (A.D. 1740). The Kasldahs of 'Urf I, not alphabetically
104, contain miscellaneous poetical extracts, the largest of which is a Sufi Manavi by Shah Abu *AH Kalandar
9,

104 ; 9 in. by 6 ; 15 lines, 4 in. written in a cursive Indian character ;

140

in.

by 5

arranged. Foil. 2

100

1639).

[01. J.

RICH.]

(died

A.H. 724, Oude Catalogue,

p.

565),

A similar collection,
I.

containing
in

Fol. 1

b.

Kasidahs

headed I^M $\ (_>iiJ> jjJi' ^sfoil. 3 9, beginning:

sU

i_Jyi

alphabetical

order.

Beg.

\-j\3j\

It
II. Fol.

has been printed in Cawnpore, 1872.

33

a.

Mukatta'at, imperfect at

the end.
III. Fol.

Or. 365.
37
a.

order.

The

first

Ghazals in alphabetical two letters and a portion

of the third are wanting.

172; 8i in. by 5; 17 lines, 3| in. written in cursive Nestalik, apparently long ; in the 18th century ; from the royal library
Foil.

IV. Fol. 113 b. The first portion of Majma' ul-Abkar, about a third of the whole.
V. Fol. 127 a. A long Tarji', in which the poet addresses his beloved.

of

Lucknow.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

A commentary on some Kasldahs

by Mirza Jan, U

of 'Urfl,

The burthen

is

It contains, as stated in the preface, a full

explanation of

difficult verses

and rare words

in thirty select Kasldahs of 'Urfi's Divan. The date of composition, A.H. 1073, is ex-

VI. FoU. 131 b

140

a.

Kuba'Is.

pressed by the chronogram J^ See the Oude Catalogue, p. 530.

Egerton 1035.
Harleian 343.
long; written in Nestalik, apparently in India in the 18th century.
; ;

Foil. 82

in.

by 5

17

lines,

in.

17 lines, 2 in. long; ; Indian Nestalik; dated written in cursive

Foil.

107

in.

by 3J

The .Kasldahs
ta'at, fol.

of 'Urfi, followed by

Mukat-

Sha'ban,

A.H. 1013
.

(A.D.

1604)

much

75

a.

worm-eaten.

POETRY.

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069

Nuri was born in Isfahan and brought up in

Masnavi poem, containing precepts on

life.

Kazvin.

spiritual

His master, Afzal ud-Din, who settled in Kazvin A.H. 967, and was much in favour with Shah Tahmasp and Shah Isma'il II., was appointed, after the latter's death, Kazi
of Isfahan.

preceded by the following short prose preamble, in which some words

is

The poem

He
I.
/*.

Shah 'Abbas
Taki Kashi,

died in Rai in the reign of See 'Alam-arai, fol. 40, and

are obliterated

Some
411

verses of

the

present Divan are

,>

cJu

j-J\
15,

j
'

quoted in the Haft Iklim, fol. 370, and the Atashkadah, fol. 86. See also Sprenger, Oude
Catalogue, p. 625, where a line is quoted which belongs to the second Kasidah of this

copy.

would seem from the above that the matter of the poem was derived from the Masnavi of Jahtl ud-Din Ilium, written in the same metre. It is divided into seventyIt

Contents Kasidahs, two of which are in praise of Shah Isma'il (A.H. 984985), while most of the others are addressed to the
:

Vazir

Muhammad,

fol.

1
6.

b.

Ghazals in

alphabetical order,

fol.

22

eight chapters (Bab), treating chiefly of those dispositions and practices which are to be either sought or shunned by the de-

Beg.

UT

votees; the precepts are frequently illustrated by narratives. Haj. Klial. gives the title of the work, without any author's name.

Ruba'is, foL

46 b. copy of Nun's Divan with a

is

different

beginning

noticed in the

St.

Petersburg

Catalogue, p. 402.

Add. 10,585.
FolL 48
;

Or. 1222.
lines,

6|

in.

by 3

12

in.

Foil.

193; 7

in.

by 5 J

14

lines,

in.

long; written in neat Nestalik; dated Isfahan,

long; written in Naskhi, apparently in the

Jumada

I.,

A.H. 1031 (A.D. 1622).

17th century.

The Shi'ah legend

Farigh, jjU.

of 'All's

life,

[ALEX. JABA.J a poem by

The Divan of Nuri.

Beg.

Beg.

v^JJU u\
iJjJ\

iJM

41

tjipj Jib yj

calls himself Husain B. with an eulogy on Shah 'AbHasan, begins

The author, who

I.,
1
.

and

Kazi Nur ud-Din Muhammad, of Isfahan, his brother Kazi Mu'izz, were, according

bas

and

states that the

poem was

written

fol. 467, pupils of Afzal ud-Din Tarikah, of the same Khwajah The former died A.H. 1000. Taki city.

to the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

1000, the year in which Gilan, apparently his native country, had been conquered

A.

Kashi

states,

Oude Catalogue,

p. 27, that

by that sovereign. He followed a prose narrative composed by a Muhammad B. Ibrahim, whom he calls his loving friend and brother :

670

POETRY.

A.H. 9001000.
rhazals in alphabetical order, fol.

112

b,

beg.:

Kit'ahs, fol.

The poem has the heading

ij\s

<^j\jf.

See

the Oude Catalogue, p. 397. The present copy is imperfect at the end. The last sec-

tion relates to

expedition in succour of the king Saif B. Arkuvan, threatened by an

'Ali's

274 b. This section includes a Ghazal which can be read in four different measures, and some pieces consisting entirely of words without diacritical points. Chronograms, fol. 289 b. Unfinished Ghazals, fol. 293 a. Initial verses, fol. 296 b. Riddles, A short fol. 302 a. Rubais, fol. 313 a. Masnavl, fol. 380 b.
Copyist
:

army

of lions.

L?J]^^

<

jA* 6

'

^ j^f

Add. 7794.
2| in. long written in Nestalik, with three 'Unvfms and gold-ruled margins dated Rabi I., A.H. ' 1050 (A.D. 1640). [01. J. RICH.]
;

Foil.
;

381

9|

in.

by 5
;

15

lines,

Add. 23,981.
Foil.

346

in.

by 4

17

lines,

If

in.

with four long; written in a cursive hand, 'Unvans and gold-ruled margins, probably in the 17th century. The poetical works of Faizi, viz.
:

The Divan of
author.

Faizi,

with a preface by the

1004.

I.

Fol. 2

b.

Ghazals in alphabetical order.

Beg.
died A.H.
above, p. Reclekiinste, p. 400, Ouseley,
II. Fol.

Faizi

See

450

a,

Hammer,

Notices, p. 174, 126.

and Haft Asman, pp. 115

The author relates in his preface how he was called by Akbar to Court, appointed tutor to the prince, and subsequently received the rank of Amir and the title of Malik ushadds that the present Divan, about nine thousand distichs, was containing but a sample of his poetical compositions. As the Divan contains a chronogram on
Shu'ara.

106 6. J3, "Nal-Daman," a Manavi, founded on the episode of Nala and Damayanti in the Mahabharata:
Beg.
jlpljy

^
is

He

dedicated to Akbar, is stated in the conclusion to consist of four thousand distichs, and to have been written
in the 39th year of the reign, or

The poem, which

A.H. 1003

the death of Shaikh Mubarak, the author's father, in A.H. 1001, it cannot have been
collected

much
:

before the poet's

own

death,

which took place three years later. Contents The author's preface,
beginning
:

fol.

b,

Kasidahs, Marsiyahs, and Tarkibs,

fol.

b,

beginning

The author mentions in the same passage the change of his Takhallus from Faizi to
Fayyazi:

POETRY.

A.H. 9001000.
is

671

imperfect in the beginning and differs in arrangement from the corresponding portion of Add. 7794. It begins in the middle
its

of a long Kasldah, the

first line

of

which

is

according to the Akhar Nfimah, the third poem of the Kliamsuh. which Faizi had planned A.H. 993, but did
is,

The Nal Daman

(see Add. 7794, fol. 35 Kasidah beginning:

a),

and ends with the

not live to carry out. It was to consist of the following poems: Markaz i Advar, Sulai-

(see

Add. 7794,

fol.

23

Nal Daman, Haft Kishrar, and Akbar Namah. The Nal Daman was comBalkis,

man u

6).

Copyist:

by Akbar's desire, in the space of four months, A.H. 1003. See also Badaoni, vol. ii. It has been printed in Calcutta, p. 396. 1831, and Lucknow, 1846. Copies are menpleted,

Add. 7795.
by 5; 15 lines, 2 in. long; written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled columns, in the 17th century.
64;
Foil.

84

in.

tioned in Stewart's Catalogue, p. 75, Oude Catalogue, p. 402, Munich Catalogue, p. 38,

and Copenhagen Catalogue,

III.
circles,"

p. 42.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Markaz

Advar

Pol. 2306.

jVl

"The

centre of

see the preceding MS.,

art.

iii.

a Masnavi, in imitation of Nizami's

ul-Asr.tr.

Makhzan
Beg.

Add.6625.
Foil. 95; 9i in. by 5$; 26 lines, so disposed as to form the design of a star in each
is

This poem, the title of which the following line, fol. 248 a,

found in

with 'Unviin, gold-ruled margins, and 29 miniatures in the Indian style; dated Agrah, Sha'biin, A.H.
page;
in

written

Nestalik,

was the first of the above-mentioned Khamsah, and was composed by Faizi in his fortieth year, as appears from the following
passage,
fol.

1028 (A.D. 1619). Nal Daman (see

Copyist
:

[J. art. ii.). p. 670,

F. HULL.]

272 a

Add. 16,804.
Foil. 140;

8J

in.

by 5; 15

lines,

3$

in.

long;

written in cursive Nestalik; datrd

II.,

Jumada
See the Leyden Catalogue, vol. and the Oude Catalogue, p. 401.
IV. Mukatta'at,
fol.
ii.

A.H. 1176 (A.D. 1762).

[WM. YULE. J
p. 122,

The same poem.

Copyist: *JJ^iL> ^yu-

273

4.

Ruba'is,

fol.

285

a.
b.

Add. 7797.
Kasidahs.

V. Fol. 305

This

section

Foil.

51;

7 in.

by4i; 13

lines,

2g

in.

672
long
;

POETRY.
written in small Nestalik
;

A.H. 10001100.
Beg.

dated A.H.

1040 (A.D. 1630-1).

[Cl. J. RICH.]

The Divan of Vahshati.

Beg.
\J>

described by his contemporaries, Razi, Haft Iklim, fol. 468, Taki Kashi, and 'Ala ud-Daulah Kazvlnl, Oude Cata- v

Sahabi

is

Amin

U^

logue, pp. 42, 50, as a native of Astrabad. But Taki AuhadI, quoted in the Riyaz ush-

The author of the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, who

quotes several verses of this Divan, fol. 493, calls the author Maulana Vahshati Jush-

ghani (from Jiishghan, a place between Isfahan and Kashan, see Ouseley's Travels, vol. iii. p. 79), and states that he visited

213, says that, although his from Jurjan, he was born in family came Shushtar. However, he settled at an early period in Najaf, where he devoted himself
Shu'ara,
fol.

to the self-imposed task of sweeping the There he spent the holy shrine of 'AH.
last forty years of his life in seclusion

A.H. 999, and was an intimate friend of Abu Turab Beg Furkati (who died see Siraj, Oude Catalogue, A. H. 1026 The author of the Divan, who in p. 151).
Shlraz in
;

a contemporary note, at the end of this copy, is called Vahshati Kashi, is, no doubt, the " mentioned

voluntary poverty. stroyed the greater part of his Ruba'is, his favourite composition, of which, however, six thousand are still extant. He died,
according to the Khuliisat ul-Afkfu% A.H. 1010. See also Mir'at ul-'Alam, fol. 483,
Mir'at ul-Khayfil, fol. 62, Atashkadah, p. 141. Several collections of Ruba'is, including
also Ghazals, are

He

is

said to

and have de-

"Wahshy Khwajah Hosayn"

by

Taki,

Oude Catalogue,

Kashan.

p. 26, as a poet of His Divan contains a satire on a

contemporary poet 'Arshi (Tahmasp Kull Beg, of Yazd), who is also mentioned by Taki,
Catalogue, p. 35, as a living poet. Contents Ghazals in alphabetical order, This section breaks off before the fol. 1 b.
:

Oude

Catalogue, p. ger., No. 1511.

of

mentioned in the Oude 552, and in Bibliotheca Sprenseal of the reign

The present copy bears a

Muhammad

Shah, dated A.H. 1133.

end of the letter o. Ruba'is and Fardiyyat, fol. 49 a. At the end is a Kit'ah addressed to a king not named, in which the poet says that, in order to kiss his threshold, he had crossed the sea and entered the land of the infidels.

Add. 5599.
20 lines, 5 in. long; written in a cursive Indian character; dated Ramazan, A.H. 1012 (A.D. 1604).
Foil.

395

13|

in.

by

Or, 329.
Foil.

The Divan of
10
lines,

Rafl'I.

235

in.

by 5|

3|

in.

This poet,
KafI',

who

calls

long

written in Nestalik, early in the 18th From the royal library of Luckcentury.
;

Rafi' ud-Din, or Rafi'i,

himself indifferently is not to be

now.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

confounded with a contemporary and better known namesake, Mir Haidar Rafi'i of Kashan, who died A.H. 1032 (see Blochmann,
A'in
i

Akbari, p. 593, and Badaoni, vol.

"Writing in
style,

iii.

Select Ruba'is of Sahfibl, in alphabetical order.

p. 232).

unpolished

easy, colloquial, and he has not been deemed

an

POETRY.

A.H. 1000-1100.
3.

673
fol.

worthy of being recorded in the Ta/kirahs. But the following particulars of his life may be gleaned from his Divan. He was born in Khorasan A.H. 942 (fol. 370 a), travelled through Irak to India (fol. 361 a), and obtained in Dchli, A.H. 982, a financial appointment as Shikdar, and a Jagir (fol. 328 b). Having been arrested on some question of accounts, he was released by Akbar's order, after seven years of confinement, and served with distinction in the Deccan wars, A.H. 1007 9. He appears to have settled in the Deccan, where he held a Jagir, in a
place called
hanpiir.

345

Mukatta'at, fol. Bubals, fol. The Mukatta'at include chronograms on the taking of the fortress of Gavil (Gawilgurh), A.H. 1007, and of Asir, A.H. 1009.
b.

Masnavls,

338 a. 372 b.

Or. 342.
Foil.

133

in.

by 5J

long ; written in Ncstalik

15 lines, 3 in. dated Lucknow,

Jumfula

II.,

A.H. 1250 (A.D. 1834).

[GEO. Wsr. HAMILTON.]

Damarnl

JfjJv,

district of

Bur" FarhAd and Shlrin," a Magnavi.

notice on

pp. 376 tion of the valley of Kashmir, which he visited in the suite of Akbar. Sec also Ouseley's Oriental Collections, vol. L pp.

in Ouseley's Notices, 382, contains his poetical descrip-

Rafn

Author
Beg.

Kausari,
(jt/lij

^^
surnamcd Kausari,

j>^ Jo \vf&.

171

176.

Mir
as
:

'Akil, poetically

The Divan was

-

collected

A.H. 1010,

born of a family of Sayyids in Hamadan, was

stated in the following Ruba'i at the end

known for his devotion to the Imams, which won him the favour of Shah *Abbas I. He
probably did not long survive the composition of the present poem, completed A.H. 1015 ; for he says in the conclusion, that he

r
*

*?.

It includes, however, some pieces written as late as A.H. 1011 (fol. 370 a).

was then bent down by age, and saw his end draw near. He did not leave any other poem.
Tahir Nasirabadi states in his Tazkirah dated A.H. 1083, fol. 120, that he had once met Kausari's son in Isfahan, but had not been able to procure from him a single line of his father. See Riya? ush-Slm'ara, fol. 394, and

Contents

1. Fol. 1 b.
:

Ghazals in alpha-

betical order, beginning

T*'/
2. Fol.

J?

J**f

jft

^3

Atashkadah,

fol.

116.

313

a.

Kasidahs, beginning:

After a panegyric addressed to the reigning Shah, VAbbds I., the poet complains
bitterly

of the slackness

of

the

poetical

Ja
This section contains poems addressed to Akbar, to the princes Daniyal and Mur.ul, to
Almlfa/1, the Khankhanan, and other dignitaries ; also many personal narratives, descriptions of various places, and poems on

market in Iran, and declares his intention of sending his poem to that accomplished and
munificent patron of letters in India, the

Khankhanan (Mirzu 'Abd ur-Rahim Khan, who died A.U. 1036 see p. 244 a), whose
;

contemporary events.

praises had been celebrated by p. 667 a).

1 1

'Urfi

(see

674

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.
is

The date of composition, A.H. 1015,

given at the end, in the following chrono-

Masnavl dedicated to Prince Daniyal, Ill 5, beginning:

It

fol.

gram

has been printed at the end of the first volume of the Akbar Namah, Lucknow, 1284.

Add. 7816.
Copyist
:

15 lines, 3 in. long written in a cursive Indian character, apparently in the 17th century.
Foil. 96; 9
;

in.

by 5|

Or. 325.
9 in. by 5| 15 lines, 3| in. long; dated Haidarwritten in Shikastah-amiz
Foil. 31
; ; ;

[Cl. J. ETCH."]

The Divan of Shapur.

Beg.

abad,

Prom

Zulka'dah, A.H. 1064 (A.D. the Lucknow library.

1654).

[GEO.
Poetical works of Nau'l,

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Khwajah Shapur, son of Khwajagi Khwaof Teheran, jah, of a distinguished family to Tahir NaslrabadI, fol. 178, was, according

Beg.

y*

^b

13

JM

sii3 t_J j f'i

Riza Nau'I, of Khabushan, went to India in the time of near Mashhad, Akbar, and found a patron in Mirza Yusuf Khan Mashhadi, but soon after entered the service of the Khankhanan Mirza 'Abd urRahim, and stayed with him and Prince Daniyal at Burhanpur, where he died A.H. See Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 468, Ba1019.
daoni, vol.
iii.

Muhammad

a sister's son of the poet Ummldl (died A.H. 925 ; see Tuhfah i Sami), and a first cousin of Amln Razi (see above, p. 335 b, and

Blochrnann, Ain i Akbari, p. 508). He first used the Takhallus of Faribl or Karibi, which

p.

494, and Khulasat ul-Afkar,

full

361, Mir'at ul-'Alam, fol. 294.

life

fol.

he afterwards exchanged for Shapur. He twice went to India, where he enjoyed the Mirza Ja'far Asaf protection of his relative the Khanship A.H. Khan (who was raised to
993, and died A.H. 1021
;

Tazkirat ul-Umara,

account of NauYs

will be found in

and Blochmann, Ain

of Sultan

Akbari, p. 411), and

Ouseley's Notices, pp. 161

Oude Catalogue, p. Ain i Akbari, p. 606. mann,

Sprenger,

166 see also 516, and Bloch;

Salim (JahangTr).

TakI Kashi

states, Oude Catalogue, p. 42, that Shapur was in A.H. 966 in imitating the Divan

Contents: Kasidahs, fol. 2 b. Tarji' and Tarkib-bands, fol. 20 a. Mukatta'at, fol. 36 a. Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 37 6.
Ruba'Is, fol. 92 b. in praise of the

engaged of Figham.

SakI Namah, a Magnavl

Khankhanan,

fol.

99

See Haft Iklim, fol. 454, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 235, Atashkadah, fol. 94, and Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 564. Contents: Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 1 b, wanting the latter part from the
beginning of the letter

5,

Ruba'is,

fol.

86

a.

beginning

Or. 286.
Suz u Gudaz,
j\

jw

Hindu

princess
pile,

who

the story of a burned herself on her

} jy*> ,

Poll.

136

7J

in.

by 3|

19

lines, 2

in.

husband's

in the reign of Akbar, a

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.
Sultan

675

The Divan of
Beg.
J,

Sanjar.
Jti

&*+*

Kull Kutubshah, who from A.H. 988 to 1020. The author reigned refers in the prologue, fol. 20, to two previous compositions, one treating of the loves of
Parviz, the other entitled Matmah, as the first two poems of his Khamsah, the present

Muhammad

Hsshim, poetically surnamed Sanjar, was the son of Mir RafT udDin Haidar, of Kashiin, a poet who has been mentioned p. 672 b, to whom he was, in the

Mir

Muhammad

opinion of

Amin

Razi,

fol.

in poetical talent. cording to Maasjr

He
i

390, far superior went to India, ac-

being the third. He bestows upon himself, both in that passage and in the epilogue, the most extravagant praises, which he puts in the mouth of his great master Nizami, while

Ain

Rahimi, Blochmann's Akbari, p. 595, in A.H. 1000, was im-

to which prisoned by Akbar for some offence, he alludes in the present Divan, fol. 101, and,
after his release, repaired to Ibrahim 'Adil Shah in Bijiipur, where he died A.H. 1021.

he speaks in very slighting terms of earlier Magnavi writers, as the latest of whom he names Jami, Hatif i, and Maktabi. The last,
'a
first

contemporary of Ahli Shirazi, lived in the half of the tenth century of the Hijrah

see the

Oudo Catalogue,

p. 38.

See also the Oude Catalogue, pp. 150, 571, Riyaz ush-Shu'ar.i, fol. 218, and Atashkadah,
fol.

109.

fol.

Contents: Ghazals alphabetically arranged, 2 b. Kasidahs, fol. 76 b. Kifahs, fol. 105 a. Ma^navis, fol. 117 b. Of the Kasidahs several addressed to Akbar, to Ibrahim 'Adil Shah, and to Mirza
Jfini

In the prologue of the Asman Hashtum (see below, Add. 25,903) the author states that he had written the Laila Majnun in the space of seven months.
was, according to Ainal S.ilih, fol. 697, the takhallus of Mir Jumlah, t. e. Mir Muhammad Amin, a Sayyid of
Isfahan, who went A.H. 1010 to the Deccan, and was, during the reign of Muhammad Kuli Kutubshah, the virtual head of the He entered, A.H. 1027, state of Golconda. service of Jahangir, and held high offices the at the Delhi court until his death, A. El. 1047.

Ruh ul-Amin

Beg, ruler of Tattah, with

whom

the

poet appears to have stayed some time.

Add. 24,088.
Foil.

190; 9

in.

long ; written in in the 17th gold-ruled margins, apparently

ury.

2J in. with 'Unvan and Nestalik,

lines,

by 6J; 14

See Majisir ul-Umara,

f

fol.

483, and Hadikat

ul-

Alum.

vol.

i.

p. 243.

His poetical works

Taliir

[WILLIAM H. MORLEY.]

amounted, according fol. 52, to 20,000 lines.

to

Nasirabadi,

Laila and Majnun, a Masnavi, with a prose

preface.
Foil.

Add. 6617.
164; 7i
in.

Author: Riih ul-Amin,

Beg.

by 4; 12

lines, 2

in.

long

>j

written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; apparently in the 17th
;

century.

[J. F.

HULL.]

This poet.no record of whom has been found, to have appears from passages of his works been aSayyid born in Isfahan, who held a high
the court of the Kutubshahs in the Deccan. The present poem is dedicated to
office at

Another, somewhat shorter, recension of the same poem.

Beg.

jUil

II 2

676

POETRY.

A.H. 1000-1100.

Add. 25,903.
12 lines, 2 in. long; written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and 1024 gold-ruled margins dated Rajab, A.H.
Foil.

148

in.

by 4|

In a prose preface, of which only a fragment is extant, fol. 18, the author states that
this Divan, entitled Gulistan i Naz, contains five thousand distichs, and consists of Ghazals

(A.D. 1615).

written in early

life.

A poem in imitation of Nizami's Haft Paikar

and on the same
Beg.
^\J\

Add. 7799.
19 lines, 4 in. 'Unvans long written in Nestalik, with two dated Jumada I., and gold-ruled margins;
Foil.
;

subject, by the above poet.

290

10

in.

by 6|

JA

This poem, the fourth of the author's intended Khamsah, was written for Muham-

A.H. 1044 (A.D. 1634).

[Cl. J.

RICH.]

mad Kuli Kutubshah, whose

panegyric

The Divan
Beg.

of Shani.
jb'.

occupies a great part of the prologue, foil. 22 b 28 a ; but we learn from the conclu-

*j*^ji\

t*\>\

king having died its composition (A.H. 1020), it was during dedicated to his successor, Sultan-Muhamsion, fol.
b,

144

that, the

j\3

Maulana Shani, whose

original

name was

mad Kutubshah.
A.H. 1021, line, fol. 147
is

The date of completion,

conveyed in the following

:

Nasaf Aka, belonged to the Turkish tribe of Taklu, and was born in Teheran. He was the favourite poet of Shah 'Abbas I. It is
stated in the 'Alam-arai, quoted in the Zinat ut-Tavarikh, fol. 651, and the Fava'id Safa-

viyyah,

The above
fol.

title is

found in the epilogue,

that the Shah was so delighted with a Kasidah in praise of 'All, which Shani recited before him, that he ordered the
fol. 26,

139

poet to be weighed and to receive his weight This incident took in gold for his reward.
place in the ninth year of the reign (A.H. Shani spent the last yeai's of his 1004-5).

Another
^.M
t^JJj,

title,
is

with the same meaning, found in the illuminated

life

heading at the beginning.

Mashhad, where he died, according to the Khulasat Siraj, Oude Catalogue, p. 150, fol. 147, and Haft Asman, p. 132, ul-Afkar, A.H. 1023, a date fixed by the chronogram
in

Or. 284.
14 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and long gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 17th
Foil.
; ;

See also Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 234, Atashkadah, fol. 8, and the Oude Catasf*

\^lj.

185

8i

in.

by 5

logue, pp. 42, 112, 564. Contents : Kasidahs in praise of the Imams, of Shah 'Abbcls, and some personages of his

century.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Court,

15. Imams, fol. 112

fol.

A Magnavi in
beginning:

praise of the

a,

The Divan

of

Ruh ul-Amin.

*^

POETRY.
Ghazals in alphabetical order,
beginning:
Kit'shs and Ruba'is, Copyist
:

A. H.

10001100.

677

fol.

129

b,

'AH Naki Kamra'i in India. Mirza Tughra, of Mashhad, wrote a preface to it. Notices on Zuliili will be found in Haft Iklim, fol. 395,

fol.

288

a.

Mir at ul-Khayal,
fol.

fol.

53,

Riyaz

ush-Shu'ai-a,

JUy
Or. 1301,

and Haft Asman,

197, Atashkadah, fol. 91, See also the Oude p. 140.

Foil. 251

8 in. by 4J

14

lines,

2|

in.

Catalogue, pp. 41, 90. The prologue contains eulogies on Shah 'Abbas, the Vazir Mirza Habib TJllah, and
the author's patron, Mir Bakir whose request, we are told, the
written.

long; written in Nestalik, in two gold-ruled columns, apparently in the 17th century.

Damad, at poem was

The same Divan, imperfect

ning.

at the begin-

Or. 350.
Foil.

18 modern hand.
Foil.

have

been

supplied by a
litho-

The Mahmud u Ayaz has been

lines,

239; 8J

in.

by 4$; 15

2$

in.

graphed in the press of Navalkishor.

The

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [GEO. "Wii. HAMILTON.]

seven Masnavis of Zulali are mentioned in Stewart's Catalogue, p. 57, and more fully
described by Dr. Sprenger, p. 593.

Oude

Catalogue,

story of Sultan Mahmiid favourite Ayaz, a Masnavi.

The

and

his

Add. 16,797.
282; 8 in. by 44 ; 13 lines, 2| in. long; written in Nestalik; dated Rabi* I., the third year of Farrukhsiyar=A.H. 1126
Foil.

Author:
Beg.

Zulali,
.'

jbl

(A.D. 1714).

[WM. YULE.]

Maulana

Zulali, of Khwiinsar, 'Irak, lived

The same poem, with a preface by the

author.

'Abbas I., and was one of the panegyrists of the influential Sayyid, Mir Muhammad Bakir Diimad. He is chiefly
seven Masnavis, the most popular of which is the present poem.
It

in the reign of

In the preface Zulali compares his seven Masnavis with the seven planets, Sab' Sayv.irah,

knpwn by

and enumerates them

in the following
3.
3

order: l.j
4.
7.

r.J6 r^.
.

2.^,^*1-^.

was commenced, as
11.

stated by the author

in the epilogue, in A.

.xJjj
jVj.i

j >jj.

5.

jjJ^- j jiT.

6. **U

^.l
by

1001,

*?*.
also

Another short prose preamble, Zulali, is prefixed to the poem.

and finished A.M. 1024.
fixed

The

latter date is
:

by the following chronogram

Add. 18,678.
14 lines, 2 in. long, Foil. 38; 6 in. by 4 with 16 lines in the margin; written in Shi;

Xulali appears to have died shortly after; for we are told by T.ihir Nasir.tbadi in

kastah-amiz

dated

Shawal, A.H. 1222

173, that he left the and that it was put into poem unarranged, order by Shaikh 'Abd ul-Husain B. Shaikh

his

Tazkirah,

fol.

(A.D. 1807).

The

first

half of the
foil.

same poem,
of Or. 350.

corres-

ponding to

1125

678

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.
production, with a present of 9000 gold pieces. Both were killed in an See Badaoni, aifray A.H. 1024 or 1025.
their joint
vol.
p. 281, Mir'at ul-Khayal,
iii.

Add. 18,807.
Foil.

291

9J

in.

by 5
;

15

lines,

2f

in.

long

written in Nestalik

dated Muharram,

A.H. 1075 (A.D. 1664). Three Masnavls by the same.

I.

Mir at ul-'Alam,
fol.

fol.

486,

Fol. 1

6.

Mahmud u Ayaz
b.

see above.

Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 281, Atashkadah, fol. 36, and the Oude Catalogue, pp. 112, 125, 151.
57,

II. Fol.

241

&&,

the

"

Tavern," with

Zuhuri's compositions in prose and verse, which are much admired in India, are little

a short prose preamble by the author.

known

in Persia.

A notice

on the author

Beg.

\3

and some of his works, written by 'Abd urRazzak Surati, A.H. 1212, and entitled

III. Fol. 275

6.

_,

i, 8j

The Moth

Mukaddimat Zuhuri, has been lithographed

in Cawnpore, 1873. The Kulliyat, or poetical
consist of a Saki

and the Sun," with a prose preface by Zulali.

Beg.
oJj

Namah,

works of Zuhuri, dedicated to Burhan

Nizamshah, another Manavi, and the Divan. See Stewart's Catalogue, p. 68, and the Oude
Catalogue,
p.

580.
:

Add. 16,792.
Foil. 179;

Contents of the Divan Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 1 b. Ruba'is, fol. 143 b.
lines,
;

10|

in.

by 6; 23

in.

with 18 lines in the margin written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins; dated Ramazan, A.H. 1194 (A.D. 1780).
long
;

Copyist <j+*f j^* On the first page is the stamp of the Oude Minister, Tiket Rai, with an 'Arz Didah dated
:

A.H. 1203.

[WM. YULE.]

Or. 294.
Foil.

183

The Divan

in.

of Zuhuri.

by 6|

16

lines,

in.

long

written in cursive Nestalik ;

dated

Rajab, A.H. 1241 (A.D. 1826).

[GEO.
Zuhuri, whose proper name was Nur udDin Muhammad, was a native of Turshiz,
fol.

WM.

HAMILTON.]
Ghazals,
fol.

The same Divan, containing

2 a; Kit'ahs,
fol.

178 a; Ruba'is,

1786.

His contemporary Taki Kashi, Oude Catalogue, p. 44, states that he went Khorasan.
at

an early age to Yazd, from whence he proceeded, A.H. 988, to India, and settled in There he became the intimate Bijapur.
friend of another poet, Malik

Add. 26,167.
7| in. by 4; 15 lines, 2 in. long; written in Nestalik; dated Zulhijjah, A.H. 1092 (A.D. 1681). [War. ERSKINE.J
Foil. 140;

Oude Catalogue,

he married. Ibrahim 'Adilshah (A.H. 9881037), who rewarded them, according to the Futuhat
'Adilshahl,
fol.

(see 30, 151), whose daughter pp. Both stood in high favour with

Kummi

Saki-Namah, a poem in praise of Burhan Nizam Shah, and the Court of Ahmadnagar,

301, for the Gulistiin

Khalil,

by Zuhuri.

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.

679

Add. 7821.
\J

UlJUJ

>,>

Foil.

35

This poem, which is stated at the end to consist of 4500 distichs, was written shortly

written in

72 in. by 5 5 lines, 3 in. long Turkish Naskhi dated Jumada I.,

; ;
;

Burhan, who reigned from A.H. 999 to 1003. The Saki Nftmah is mentioned by Firishtah, vol. ii. p. 307. It has been lithographed
after the accession of

A.H. 1214 (A.D. 1799). The same poem.

Copyist
:

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Add. 5630.
9| in. by 5$ ; foil. 162, 10 lines in three columns, about 20 lines in four columns written in Nestalik dated A.H. 1044 (A.D. 1634). [NATH. BRASSEY HALHED.]
Foil.
; ; ;

in

Lucknow, 1849.

130

Or. 338.
201 7J in. by 4$ ; 12 lines, 2 in. written in Shikastah-umiz, with goldlong; ruled margins, and eleven miniatures in
Foil.
;

Indian style dated A.H. 1096 (A.D. 1685). From the royal library of Lucknow.
;

The Divan
Beg.

of Talib Amuli.

[GEO. WM. HAMILTON.] The same poem, with a different beginning:

Five leaves at the beginning, and a few in the body of the volume, have been supplied by a later hand.

Add. 18,419.
12 lines, 3* in. long; written in a cursive Indian character; dated Lucknow, Ramaxnn, A.H. 1205 (A.D.
Foil. 17
;

born in Amul, Mazandariin, was Kukna (p. 603 o), 3'i.) to Hakim who composed an elegy on his death. Having been induced by his relative to go to India, he attached himself to Mirza Ghazi, ruler of Sind (A.H. 101520; see Tazkirat ulTalib,

cousin (ojj

72

in.

by 4

125), and afterwards passed into the service of Jahfingir, who conferred upon

Umara,

fol.

1791.

[WM. YDLB.]

His mind, however, became deranged, and he died still young, A.H. 1035. The date is
the title of

him

Malik

ush-Shu'ara.

expressed in the MirVit ul-'Alam, the chronogram, A\J *_J\i _fj\

{

fol.

486, by

^_**

<_r--

" Bread and Sweets," a Masnavi on ascetic life, by Banal, i.e. Shaikh Baha ud-Din 'Amili, who died A.H. 1030 (see p. 25 b).
Beg.

Shahjahani, fol. 321, A.H. 1040 is given as the date of his death. See also Riya? ush-Shu'ara, fol. 274, Atashi

In

the Taba^at

kadah,

fol.

92, Khulasat ul-Afkar, fol. 158,

Oude Catalogue,
states, in

pp.

90,
9.

125,

151,

and

Ouseley, Notices, pp. 176

The author
that he

a short preamble,

had written this poem during a to Mecca and his stay there. It has journey been printed in Constantinople, A.H. 1268.
Copyist
:

Contents: Kasidahs in praise of 'All, of Mirza Ghazi, Jahangir, Nur Mahall, Shah 'Abbas, Mir Abul-Kasim, Chin Kilij Khan, and others, fol. 1 b. Tarji's, fol. 67 b. Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 69 a. Ruba'Is,
fol.

\jyofl ^f-

127

b.

680

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.
are mentioned by Garcin de Tassy, Hist, de la Litt. Hind., 2nd edition, vol. i. p. 187.

Copies are mentioned in the Oude Catalogue, p. 575, the Munich Catalogue, p. 38, de Jong's Catalogue of the Academy's library, of the library of p. 224, and in the Catalogue

See also Aufrecht, Bodleian Catalogue,

p. 404.

King's College, Cambridge, No. 172.

Foil.

Add. 6622.
11^ in. by 6| ; 25 lines, 4| in. long, in a page ; written in fair Nestalik in four gold-ruled columns, with five 'Unvans dated Rajab, A.H. 1039 (A.D. 1630).
; ;

294

Add. 17,489.
Foil.
;

41; 10

in.

long written in ruled margins, and eleven miniatures in the Indian style dated Zulhijjah, A.H. 1211
;

16 lines, 4| in. Nestalik, with Tnvan, gold-

by 6

(A.D. 1797.

The Khamsah
Ullah.

of

Hasan B. Sayyid Fath

This
poetical version of the Koka-Sastra, a Sanscrit or Hindi work, treating of the

Khamsah

sodies in glorification of
first

consists of five long rhapMuhammad, of the

various temperaments of and of sexual intercourse.

men and women,

poetically sur-

four Khalifs, and of the author's spiritual guide, Shaikh ul-Islam Shaikh Muhammad B. Fazl Ullah ul-Bakrl, who had come

Author

Muhammad Kull,

from Medina
is

narned Jami,

Beg.

poem as dead spoken (fol. 232 b}. The author boasts of his descent from Amir Khusrau: his mother was a daughter of
Piyarah, whose genealogy is traced up to the celebrated poet (fol. 235 a). The poems, which follow the metres of

to India (fol. of in the fifth

234

a),

and who

'Abd ullah Kutubshah, who reigned from A.H. 1035 to 1083. It was written, as stated at the end

The

translation is dedicated to

Hasan B.

of the prologue,

fol.

13

a,

in

A.H. 1036.

The

work, ascribed to the Vazir Koka, tf^ consisted of 34 Babs the translator has added two more.
original
;

the

Nizami's Khamsah, and are designated as first, second, third, fourth, and fifth
&iaS,
b,

Tuhfah
57
b,

119

begin respectively on foil. 1 160 b, and 228 b, as follows:

5,

Kull was born, according to his own account, at Haidarabad, one of the " sons of a Vazir called like himself " sixty

Muhammad

Muhammad

Kuli.

In the subscription the work is called L~ii\ L^>JJ, a title which does not appear in
the text, and which belongs to an earlier version of the same work by Ziya Nakhshabi
;

JiJ

see the

Oude Catalogue,
schrift der
p. 511.

Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 15, p. 80, and Pertsch,

Ilahi,

Zeit-

D. Morg. Gesellschaft, vol. xxi.

*J>\

Hindustani versions of the Koka Sastra

POETRY.
The date
of each, and the are recorded in its

A.H. 10001100.
its

681
in

number

of

The poem was written

lifetime

Imam

Kuli's

verses, epilogue, and The first was repeated in the subscription. written in two months, and completed in Safar, A.H. 1038; it contains 5314 distichs. The second was completed in Jumada, A.H. The 1038, and contains 8000 distichs. third was completed in Zulka'dah, A.H. 1038, and consists of 4225 distichs. The fourth was finished in Muharram, A.H. 1039. The fifth was finished in RabT I., A.H. 1039 it consists of 8500 disticli. The author mentions in his conclusion
;

and dedicated to him.

foil.

But a subcontains a

sequent addition,

59

65,

record of the cruel execution of that general and his children by Shah Safi, which took
place, as stated, fol. 63 Malcolm, vol. i. p. 571.
Foil.
,

in

A.H. 1043.

See

72 contain some versified chronograms of births, etc., by the same Kadri. This poet is not to be confounded with his namesake Kadri Shirazi, who died
63, 71,

in India,
-fol.

A.H. 989.
is

See Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

370.

another
in

Khamsah
of

praise

previously written by him Muhammad, his wires, his

Appended
Shirin

a fragment of a
foil.

poem on

and Khusrau,

6670.

grandchildren, Hasan and Husain, und their descendants. A Magnavi entitled *>)+** *i^ AA^I, and attributed in the Oude Catalogue, p. 419, to Muhammad Hasan, of Dehli, A.H.

Add. 19,662.
3g in. long written in Shikastah-amiz, with ruled margins dated Jumada I., the fifth year of the reign (of Shah Husain) = A.H. 1111
Foil.
;
;

1013,

is

probably a part of that work.

:

445

in.

by 6$

17

lines,

Copyist

Add. 7801.
Foil. 76;

(A.D. 1699).
lines,

11$

in.

by 7J; 17

6J

in.

long; written in Ncstalik, in four gold-ruled columns, with 'Unvan and ten miniatures in the Persian style; dated A.H. 1109 (A.D.
1697).
[Cl. J. RICH.]

The Divan of A sir.

Beg.
lib

Jarun-Nfimah, a Ma$navi on the taking

of Jarun (Hormuz) from the Portuguese by Imam Kuli Khan.

Mirza Jalfd Asir, son of Mirza Mumin, one of the Sayyids of Shahristan, and a native of Isfahan, stood high in the favour of Shah

'Abbas

I.,

who gave him one

Author
Beg.

Kadri, <j
l

He in marriage. drink, leaving a Divan,

of his daughters died young from excess of

which

consists, ac-

cording to Tflhir Nasirfibadi, fol. 80, of 8000 The date A.H. 1049 given for his lines.

Imam

Kuli Khan, son and successor of

death by

Siruj,

Allah Virdi Khan, Beglerbegi of the Province of Ears, captured Hormuz, after a siege of two months, in the 36th year of the reign of Shah 'Abbas I., A.H. 1032 see 'Alam-arai,
;

by Abu

Talib,

Oude Catalogue, p. 149, and KhuLsat ul-Afkar, fol. 15, is

An earlier date, A.H. probably correct. 1040, given in Mirat ul-'Alam, fol. 476, and
Hamishah Bahar, Oude Catalogue,
is

p.

117,

fol.

382, and Malcolm, vol.

i.

p. 546.

not consistent with the evidence of his

K K

682

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.
His Divan is logue, p. 149, A.H. 1050. stated to contain about ten thousand lines.
See Tahir,
47,

Divan, which contains chronograms on events of A.H. 1044 and 1045. See also Kisas ul-Khakani, fol. 163, Mir'at ul-Khayal,
fol.

52, Riyiiz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 49,

and Oude

and
33

188, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, Atashkadah, fol. 94.

:

fol.

fol.

Catalogue, p. 342.

Contents
fol.
b.

Kasidahs,
Kit'ahs,
fol.

fol.

2
b.

b.

Tarkibs,

Kasidahs in alphabetical order, fol. 1 b. Kit'ahs, including chronograms, fol. 57 a. Masnavis, fol. 60 a. TarjTs, fol. 73 a. Ghazals alphabetically arranged, fol. 79 0, beginning
:

Contents

47
b,

Ghazals in
:

alphabetical order,

fol.

57

beginning

Ruba'is,

fol.

136

b.

The laudatory poems

of the

y
Ruba'is in the

Imam

are mostly in praise 'All Riza and of the author's

patron, Hasan Khan. A Kasidah is addressed to Shah Saf I at the time of his accession,

same

order, fol.

438

a.

See

and a Tarkib

to the Vazir

Mir Abul-Ha'all.

Ouseley's Collection, No. 15.

Copyist

Or. 299.
Foil.

Or. 278.
Foil.
;

long

109 ; 7f in. by 4^ 15 lines, 2 in. written in neat Xestalik on gold;

148

6J

in.

by 4

11

lines,

in.

sprinkled paper, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, in the 17th century.

long the 17th century.

written in Nestalik, apparently late in

[GEO.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

WM. HAMILTON.]
The Divan
of Ghiyas..

The Divan of
Beg.

Auji.

Beg.
,}?./
(^\J

(jtJ^C-1

^>. uV" J

^ii

" U^

^J j\

u^~jo

Auji Natanzi, a native of Natanz, near He and two other Isfahan, lived in Herat.

" the confectioner," was a native of Shiraz, and a contemporary of Mulhimi and of Nizam, of Dast i Ghaib

Ghiyaga

Halvfi'i, or

Malik Mashriki, and Fasihl of Herat Oude Catalogue, (who died A.H. 1046 were the favourite companions of p. 151),
poets,
;

(who died A.H. 1039)! In middle settled in Isfahan, where he was

appreciated

life

he
lost

much

by men

of taste.

Having

Hasan

Beg

Shamlii,

the

Beglerbeg!

of

Khorasan.

This Amir,

post of his father and died about the close of the reign of Shah Safi (A.H. 10381052), was a passionate

who succeeded to the Husain Khan A.H. 1027,

his sight, he died, in consequence of a fall from the roof of his house, in the reign of Shah Safi (A.H. 10381052). See Tahir

179, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol/ 321, Atashkadah, fol. 133, and Oude Catalogue, p. 412.
Nasirabadi,
fol.

and has left a Divfrn of three thousand lines. See 'Alam Arai, fol. 368, and Tahir Nasirabadi, fol. 28 b.
lover of poetry,

Kasidahs, fol. 3 b. Saki Namah, a Magnavi addressed to the Shah, fol. 31 a. Ghazals without alphabetical arrange-

Contents

Auji died, according to Siraj, Oude' Cata-

ment,

fol.

37

&,

beginning

POETRY.

A. H.

10001100.
llasnavi on

C83

y^
Rubfus and Fardiyyat,
fol.

A
104
a.

Khusrau and
fol.

as stated in the prologue,

Shlrin, written, by desire of Shah

Saf i, and left unfinished,

are addressed to the

166 a, beginning:
a.

The laudatory poems

Imams, and

to a princely personage, only

Another Masnavi,
fol.

fol.

175

Rubins,

designated by the title of Khan. Many Kasldahs treat of moral and religious subjects in the style of Khfikani. One of them,
imitated from a well

177

b.

Or. 305.
Foil.

known Kasidah

of that

338; 10

in.

by 4$; 21

lines,

2|

in.

poet, and entitled C V" was composed in A.H. 1035, as shown by the chronogram

^j^

long; written in Naskhi, apparently in the 17th century. From the royal library of

Lucknow.
II

Poetical works of Mir

Add. 7800.
180; 9J in. by 4J ; 15 lines, 2$ in. written in Nestalik, apparently in the long; 17th century. [Cl. J. Hicn.J
Foil.

usaini,

HAMILTON.] Kflzim surnaiued Karim. poetically

[GEO.

WM.

Muhammad

author, no record of whom has been found, was, as appears from some passages of his works, a native of Irak, in the service

The

The Divan
Beg.

of Mashriki.

of 'Abd ullah Ku^ubshtth,

who

reigned in

Haidarubad from A.H. 1035 to 1083, and his father's poetical surname was Fikr. See
the

Malik Mashriki, who has been mentioned, p. G82 b, as one of the favourite
Mirza

Oude Catalogue, p. 450. The contents are as follows

I.

Hasan Khan, governor of Herat, was born in Isfahan of a family which came from Mashhad, and was one of the secretaries of the Dar ul-Insha, or chancelry, of Shah
poets of

of Ruba'is, of religious nature, in mostly alphabetical order, with a prose preface.

collection

Foil.

56

Beg. of Pref.

'Abbas

appears to have been staying in Isfahan during the reign of Shah Safi
I.

He

(A.H. 10381052) to whom several of his Kasldahs are addressed. His Divan includes a chronogram on some royal building erected

The collection comprises, as stated at the end, four thousand and eighty Rubins. n. Foil. 300 b. -'3 * " The Treasure," a Kasidah addressed to Sultan 'Abd ullah
Kutubshah, with a prose preface, beginning:

A.H. 1050. Notices on Mashriki are

be found in the Tazkirah of Tahir Nasir.ibadi, fol. 186, the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 429, and the Atashkadah, fol. 49. Contents Ghazals Kasidahs, fol. 1 b. and detached verses, in one alphabetical
to
:

In a letter to the Sultan, which is prefixed, the author alludes to his poem as a buried
treasure which
estate bestowed

he had discovered in the

series, fol.

53

a,

beginning:

upon him by the sovereign. The Kasidah, which begins thus, fol. 308 A,

K K 2

684
consists

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.
expressed by the words j Q, in the following lines, fol. 140 b
:

of upwards of a thousand lines.

is

and

as stated

frequently interrupted by long extracts from Nizarnl, Sa'di, Jami, and the author's own poems. The poet offers to the king very bold advice for the reformation of

The

text

-fe

abuses and the better government of the He adds bitter complaints of kingdom.
the neglect and niggardly treatment he had met with during seven years service, and of the exactions which reduced his scanty allowance, and threatens to leave Haidarabad
to return to his native Irak,

a eulogy on the work by the transcriber Jaikarn, in which the author is named Mauliina Haji Muhammad Riza'I.

Appended

is

See Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, Stewart's Catalogue, p. 73.

p. 544,

and

and

to the holy

shrines of Najaf.
Poll. 3 and 4 contain a notice on ten religious Masnavis of the author, with remarks on the efficacy of their recitation.
Poll.
;

Or. 323.
482
;

in.

by 4J

15

lines,

2J

in.

long 17th century

written in Nestalik, apparently in the

;

much damaged by worms. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]

Or. 337.
Foil. 143
;

The
Haji

poetical works of Kudsi,

^^ oUtf

Muhammad

Jan,

who

10

in.

by

written in Indian

in long; Shikastah-amiz ; dated

6; 17 lines, 3

name of Kudsi from the

took the surholy shrine of

'Alamgirpur, vulgo Bhilsah, Zulhijjah, the 28th year of Aurangzlb, A.H. 1095 (A.D. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.] 1684).

Mashhad, his native place, had performed He in his youth a pilgrimage to Mecca. went to India in A.H. 1041, and was patronized by 'Abd Ullah Khan. Firuz Jang, who
introduced him to the notice of Shahjahan. He soon became one of that sovereign's favourite poets, but did not obtain the

story of
:

two Sindian

lovers.

Author

Riziu, ^^oj

to

appointment of Malik ush-Shu'arii, to which he was, according to the 'Amal Salih, fol. 696, entitled above all others, because he had been forestalled by Talib Kalim. He
have been a
spent the last years of his life in Kashmir, where he died A.H. 1056, according to Siraj, Oude Catalogue, p. 151, the Sarv i Azad, and
p. 143, or A.H. 1055, as stated Shir Khan, fol. 64, and in the Khulasat by ul-Afkar, fol. 225. The first of the above dates is confirmed by a Tarkib composed by a contemporary poet on Kudsi's death, Or.

The author, who appears

to

native of Sind, states in the introduction, fol. 30 b, that the original name of tbe lover was Panun ^i', and that of his beloved,
SIsI but that, from fear of offending !_$**">, Persian ears by outlandish names, he had

Haft Asrnan,

them Nigar and Ziba. The poem is founded, as stated at the end, upon a prose narrative, due to Sayyid 'All of Thatliah, a holy personage, who was a
substituted for

351,

fol. 7,

in
:

which

it

is

expressed by the

chronogram

contemporary of the heroes of the

tale.
is

The date of composition, A.H. 1053,

Other notices on Kudsi will be found in the

POETRY.
Tazkirah of Tahir,
Shiihjahfmi,
fol.

A.H. 10001100.
i

685
left

fol.

169, the Tabakat

The

poem was

unfinished.

The

321, Padishah

Namah

of

present copy contains a confused series of

Amm,

fol.

430, Padishah
i.,

Namah
p.

of 'Abd uli

detached fragments, treating of Shahjahan's

accession, his early life, and the beginning of his reign.

Hamid,

vol.
fol.

part

2,

351, Vaki'at

Kashmir,

119,

Riyiiz usli-Shu'arii, fol.

370, and the Oude Catalogue, pp. 113, 128, and 536.

The contents are as

follows

I. Fol. 26. description of the gardens of Kashmir, a Masnavi dedicated to Shahjahan, imperfect at the beginning.

some events of The latest of these is the erection by Shahjahfm, on his return from the Deccan, of several edifices, and especially of the famous Dehli mosque, the building of which is dated by a chronogram A.H. 1017. Some of the fragments are written twice and even thrice over with some variations.
IX. Fol. 177
a.

II.

Fol. 19

b.

Tarkib-bands, mostly in

Two

pniise of

Imam

fragments, probably

Ri/.i,

beginning

The

of these was written, according to the heading, when the poet was setting out
first

Magnavi mentioned under Art. I. The first is part of a description of Kashmir the second is in praise of Shahbelonging to the
;

jahan, and begins

for Irak; another at tin- time of his departure for India.

Kasidahs, only partially arranged in alphabetical order. They are One is mostly in praise of the Imams.
b.

III. Fol.

47

Or. 351.
2| in. long written in cursive Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]
Foil.
;

addressed to Minuchilir, governor of Mash had, another to Hasan Khan, governor of limit.

68; 8^

in.

by 5

17

lines,

IV. Fol. 136

b.

Ghazals in alphabetical

order, beginning:

Some poems by
Fol. 26.

Kudsi, as follows

Kit'ah of religious character,

'All.

V. Fol. 215

b.

Preface to the Divan of

ending with an invocation to

Kudsi, written in Agra, A.H. 1018, by Jalal

ud-Din
\
!

Muhammad Tabiitaba'i
*.

(see p.

258

a).

Fol. 222
F.,1. -Ill

Rubu'is.

t>. Marsiyahs on the death of the poet's son, and other persons, in the form of Tarkib-bands.

VII.

Kasidahs addressed to Shahjahan, mostly on Nauruz festivals.

Fol.
b.

VIII.

Fol.

291

a.

JVH
in

*.tt>fc,

poetical history of Shahjahan

Masnavi

and 9 contain the Tarkib-band, composed by some poet not named, on the death of Kudsi, which has been noticed p. 684 b.
Foil.

rhyme.

Fol. 21 a.

Masnavis, beginning

uVr J?**

686

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.

This section contains poems on various palaces erected by Shahjahan, with chrono-

grams ranging from A.H. 1010 to 1048 a long description of Agrah, fol. 44 a, and
other pieces relating to events of that period. The longest, however, foil. 48 b 51 b and

by his contemporary Vari, in the third volume of the Padishah Namah, fol. 530, on the 15th
there, as stated

his task,

and he died

of Zulhijjah, in the 26th year of the reign (A.H. 1062). The same year is given as the

and death of Rajah Jajhar Singh (A.H. 1044), is not hy Kudsi, but by Kallm, and is found in the Divan of the latter, Add. 24,002, foil. 86 94 b. Fol. 61 a. Kit'ahs, most of which contain on contemporary events. chronograms
b,

21 a

26

relating to the flight

date of his death by Shir Khan, fol. 67, while Mir'at i 'Alam, and other later works, See Tazkirah i Tahir, fol. give A.H. 1061.
165, Atashkadah,
fol.

fol.

110, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

pp. 113,

385, and the

Oude Catalogue,

128, 151, and 453. The contents of the Divan are

as follows

Add. 24,002.
Foil.
in.

Kasldahs, mostly addressed to with a Tarklb-band of the kind Shahjahan, called Bahariyyah, or vernal poem, at the
b.

Fol. 2

end.
lines,

166; 9
;

in.

by 6; about 20

written in a cursive Nestalik, 85 long with two 'Unvans, and gold-ruled margins probably in the 18th century.

Mukatta'at, including chronothe dates of which range from A.H. grams, 1024, Dara Shikuh's birth, to A.H. 1054.
Fol.

Fol. 41 a.

52

b.

of

buildings

Mas.navis, mostly descriptive erected by Shahjahan, and

The Divan
Beg.

of Kallm.
sT jut (_JJa (J~f~'\
.iS

The longest, foil. recording their dates. 86 a 94 b, contains an account of the flight
if], (j~Jj5t>
Jj

JAJjuo
JAJJL*

j\

J,\

*j)

and pursuit of Jajhar Singh. The last is a Sfikl Namah composed for Zafar Khan, governor of Kashmir.
Fol. 97
b.
:

surnamed Kallm, was born in Hamadan and grew up in

Talib,

Abu

poetically

Ghazals in alphabetical order,

beginning

After completing his studies in he went to India, where, accordShlraz, ing to the 'Amal i Salih, fol. 697, he stayed some time with Mir Jumlah, poetically styled Ruh ul-Arnin (p. 675 b). Having been attached to the court of Shahjahan
shortly
after

Kashan.

i_-j

The margins
Foil.

contain

additional

Ghazals.

160

a.

Ruba Is.

that

sovereign's

accession,
Foil.

he

became his favourite ceived from him the post

Shu'ara.

poet, and reof Malik ushhis

Add. 7798.
183; 7|
in.

by 3|; 14

lines,

2|

in.

Amln
fol.

states,

in

Padishah

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the

Namah,

431, that Talib and Kudsi were

17th century.

then (A.H. 1047) simultaneously engaged upon the composition of two poetical records of Shahjahan's reign, both of which he terms

A collection

[Cl. J. RICH.]

imperfect at beginning

of Kallm's Ghazals, slightly and end. It is far

Padishah Namah. Talib was sent to Kashmir, to devote himself to the completion of

richer than the corresponding section of the preceding MS., and contains a few Ruba'is
at the end.

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Foil.

Add. 22,701. 162; 9 in. by 5; 17

Add. 25,330.
lines,

in.

long ; written in Nestalik, with 'Unviin and gold-ruled margins; dated Sha'ban, A.H

1098 (A.D. 1687). [Sir JOHN CAMPBEIL.] Another collection of Kalim's minor
poems, containing Ghazals, fol. 1 6, Ruba'is, fol. 153 b, and two Manavis, fol. 159 b.

196 ; 8 in. by 4J ; 15 lines, 2| in. written in Nestalik, on gold-sprinkled long; paper, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins;
Foil.

dated A.H. 1042 (A.D. 1632).

The Divan

of Ilahi.

Or. 306.
Beg.
Foil.

193; 9$
;

in.

by 6

15 lines, 3

in.

long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins dated Jumada I., A.D. 1814.
[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Mir Ilahi is the author of a Tazkirah, in which he calls himself 'Imad ud-Din Mahmud
Il.ilii Husaini, the contents of which have been fully stated by Dr. Sprenger, Oude He belonged, acCatalogue, pp. 66 87.

Ghazals of Kullm.

Or. 357.
Foil.

210

7^

in.

by 4

about 20 lines

written diagonally, in Nestalik, partly in three and partly in four columns, probably in the 17th century.

cording to Tahir Nasirfibadi, fol. 192, to the family of the Sayyids of Asadiibad, Hamadiin,

and lived some years in Isfahan under Shah 'Abbas I., in frequent intercourse with
then went and appears to have stayed some time in Kabul with the governor Zafar Khan, to whom several of his pieces, one of them dated A.H. 1033, are addressed. After some years spent at Court, under Jahflngir and
Shifa'i.

[GEO.

WM.

ILuiiLTON.]

the poet
to India,

Hakim

He

life

Five fragments of a poetical record of the of Sliahjahan, by Kalim, as follows:

1. Early life of Shuhjahan, concluding with the death of Jahanglr, foL 1. 2. Part of the prologue, and account of

the emperor's

forefathers

from Timur to

Shahjahan, he acccompanied Zafar Khan to Kashmir, A.H. 1041 2, and resided there till his death, the date of which, A.H. 1063,
expressed in some verses engraved on his tomb, and quoted in the Vaki'at i Kashmir, > fol. 122 a, by the chronogram tjyT ay.' See 'Amal i Sfilih, fol. 701, Mir'iit ulis
(

Hum ivim.
lii-

fol.

48

a.

Early part of Shahjahan's reign, from accession to Zafar Khan's expedition to 72 10167), Another part of the
fol.

Tibet (A. II.

4.

a.

introduction,

beginning with the Mi'raj, and ending with the birth of Shahjahan, fol. 198. 5. Description of Kashmir, foL 205.

Khayal, fol. 84, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 40, Atashkadah, fol. 115, and Oude Catalogue, pp. 150 and 435.
Zafar Khan, son of Khwnjah Abul-Hasan, was a munificent patron of letters, and no

The same work Oude Catalogue, p.

flf
Jj
i'jj*'-L.

mentioned in the 454, under the title of See also the Munich
is

mean poet

himself.

He was

appointed

Catalogue, p. 96, and King's College Library, No. 253.

governor of Kabul, as lieutenant of his father, in the 19th year of Jahangir (A.H.
1033).

Having been

sent

in

the

same

688
capacity
post
to

POETRY.
Kashmir
in the 5th

A.H. 10001100.
Jahanglr and the
first

year of

Shahjahan (A.H. 10412), he held that

Amin

states in his

years of Shahjahan. Padishah-Namah, written

down to when he was

died A.H.
374.

the 26th year of the reign, He transferred to Tattah.

1073.

See

Ma'as.ir

ul-TJmara,

fol.

A.H. 1047, fol. 429, that the Hakim had sometime previously obtained, on account of his advanced age, leave to retire and to go to Mecca, and that he was then staying at home
engaged upon the composition of his eighth His contemporary, Tahir Nasirabadl, who had seen no less than ten Divans of his composition, states, fol. 161, that he died in Kashan A.H. 1066, and adds, in order to fix
Divan.
the date, the chronogram

Kasidahs in praise of the of Shahjahfm, Mahabat Khan, and Imams, other Amirs, fol. 1 b. Tarkib and Tarji'bands,
fol.

Contents:

57

b.

Kit'ahs, including a

Marfol.
fol.

*iyah on Husain,

fol. 69 b. Manavis, 95 a. Ghazals in alphabetical order, 1 02 i., beginning

:

Ruba'is, fol.
Foil.

157

Contents Ghazals in alphabetical order. Kit'ahs, with some short Magnavls, fol. 101 b. Ruba'Is, fol. 120 b.
:

b.

7887, 173195

have been supplied

a later hand.

In the subscription the work is designated as the sixth Divan of the Hakim.

Add. 7815.
Foil. 136;

Or. 475.
lines,
;

?i

in.

by 4f

14

3|

in.

long

written in

cursive Nestalik

dated

Safar,

A.H. 1049 (A.D. 1639).

[Cl. J. RICH.]

15 lines, 2| in. written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled long margins, probably in the 17th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.] Three Mas.navls of the same poet, viz.:
Foil. 65
; ;

8J

in.

by 4|

I.

Fol. 1

b.
ufJls-

S&J+*?,
j\

Anecdotes of lovers.

The Divan of Masih,

Beg.
\j

Beg.

j^_j
J"li-

ti)b
jj j CiLo ij**

^J

fol.

The title occurs la:

UW)
U
<jjU

in

the folloAving
jj-iy

line,

Mas'ud, of Kashan, poetically surnamed Masih, who has been already mentioned, p. 603 a, left the court of Shah 'Abbas I., in consequence of a sup-

Hakim Rukn ud-Dm

j*

*s.f*af

J\

posed slight, at the time of the Shah's setting out for Mazandaran (A.H. 1006). He arrived
at the court of

is dedicated to Shah 'Abbas, and from some passages, to have been appears,

The poem

Akbar with

his

famous con-

written shortly before the author's flight. In one of these, fol. 47, he begs to be allowed

temporary, Hakim Sadra of Shlraz, afterwards Masih uz-Zaman, A.H. 1011, and stayed there in a position of great honour

and emolument during the whole reign of

then at Ra'i, and to go Kashan, in order to get healed of the scab. Further on he refers to the end of his brother poet, AkdasI Mashhadi,
to leave the Court, to

home

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.
(./JkXO

689

whose deathbed he had attended in A.H. 1003, and to the death of his own father in A.H. 1001. In another passage, fol. 55 ft, he
states that he had, at the time of writing, completed his 35th year.
II. Fol.

The Divan

of Saidi, consisting of Ghazals

alphabetically arranged.

Beg.

i--i>

56

ft.

Masnavi, entitled Saki

Namah,

in praise of

Shah 'Abbas.

Jj*
III.

Fol. 63

ft.

A Masnavi,
r^

without

title,

Mir Saidi, whose original name was Sayyid 'Ali, belonged to a family of Sayyids in Teheran, and made his studies in Isfahan. Having gone to India, he found access, A.H. 1064, to the court of Shiihjahan, and secured
.a protectrice in that

relating to the adventure of a caravan at the tomb of Hatim.

Be S-

> u!^*

u^T

first page is a Persian note stating " that this very rare work of Hakim Masih Bukna*i Kashi, the master of Sii'ib," had

On

the

emperor's accomplished daughter Jahan-ara Begam, who was then in her 42nd year (see p. 357 ft). He was scarcely more than thirty years of age when he died, in Dehli, A.H. 1069, as stated in Kisas ul-Khftkani, fol. 167 a. See also Tahir,
fol.
fol.

foL 267, Varis, Mir'at ul-'Alam,

fol.

530, Sarkhush,

fol.

78,

been presented by Ziy.i ud-Din Ahmad Khan to Col. Wm. Hamilton, at Dehli, on the 17th of January, A.D. 1867.

485, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 94, and the Oude Catalogue, pp. 112, 125, and 383. 259, Atashkadah,

Add. 7813.
Or. 1250.
Foil.

195

9|

in.

by 6$

1 4 lines, 3f in.

Foil. 75;

6J

in.

by 3$; 11

lines,

in.

long; written in Nestalik, probably about the beginning of the 19th century.

long ; written in Nestalik, apparently about the close of the 17th century.
[Cl. J. Ricu.]

The

story of

Ram

and

Situ, in

Masnavi

The

same Divfm.

rhyme, by Masih.

Add. 26,235.
Foil. 60;

10

in.

by 6|; 18

lines,

in.

The prologue contains a long panegyric on Jahangir, and the author's apology for having taken his theme from a heathenish
tale.

long ; written in cursive Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century. [WM. ERSKINE.]

Or. 293.
Foil.
;

70

7i

in.

by 4

12

lines,

2$

in.

long written in Shikastah-amiz, apparently in the 18th century ; from the royal library
of

"The troubles of India," a poetical account of the struggle of Shahjahan's sons for the empire, from the rising of Muradbakhsh in Ahmadabad to the death of Dara
Shikiih,

Lucknow.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

A.H. 10671069. Author Bihishtl,

:

690
Beg.

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.
himself to Mirza Jan Beg,
in Orissa,

who commanded

The author, who

rist

calls

himself the panegy-

of Sultan

Muradbakhsh, writes in

the interest of his master, and in a spirit of bitter animosity against the successful competitor 'Aurangzib. witnessed all the battles

under Shah Shuja', took Hijli in the 24th year of Shahjahan (A.H. 1060-61), and fought by the side of Shah Shuja' in that prince's last war (see Tazkirat ul-Umara, fol. 116). Fauji went from India to Mecca,
and, after performing the pilgrimage, returned to his native place, Nishapur, where he died, according to the Mir'at us-Safa, A.H.

He

asserts that

he had
:

he describes

The poem was evidently written shortly after the events related, and before the death of Muradbakhsh, which took place in A.H. 1071. The title is contained in the last line
;

1075, and, as stated in the Kisas ul-Khakani, fol. 177, at the age of forty-two years. See Mir'at ul-Khayal, fol. 106, where Fauji is wrongly described as a native of Shlraz,

a-eli

tX&

Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 346, and the Oude Catalogue, pp. 113 and 398. Contents Kasidahs in praise of the Imams, of Shah Shuja', and of the poet's special Ghazals in patron, Mirza Jan Beg, fol. 2 b.
:

alphabetical order,

fol.

47

a,

beginning

Or. 302.
Foil.

long

3| in. written in Shikastah-amiz, about the

;

170

10

in.

by 5J

16

lines,

Kit'ahs,

including

some

chronograms,

close of the 17th century.

library of

Lucknow.

[GEO.

From the royal WM. HAMILTON.]

which relate to contemporary events in India, and range from A.H. 1052 to 1059, fol. 151 a.
Ruba'is, fol. 153 b. in Orissa, for Mirza

A Saki-Namah,

written

Jan Beg, and two shorter

Magnavis,

fol.

157

b.

The Divan
Beg.
<c_-

of Fauji.

Or. 360.
FoU. 223; ll
in.

by

6;

21

lines,

4J

in.

J^~*~J

Mulla Mukim, or Mukima, poetically sur-

long; written in Nestalik, with three 'Unvans, and gold-ruled margins, apparently in

named

Fauji, belonged to a family of poets. His father, Mulla Kaidi, of Nishapur, a poet

the 17th century.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

nephew of the better went to India in the reign of Shahjahan, and died at sea on his return voyage to Persia, A.H. 1064, as stated in the Fauz i 'Azim, fol. 92, by Fauji's brother, Mulla 'Azlma. See the Mir'at us-Safa, fol. 223, and Tahir Naslrabadi, fol. 236. Fauji, who went also to India, attached

of some note, and a

Naziri,

known

The Divan
Beg.

of Shah.

'

Mulla Shah, originally called Muhammad Shah, and surnamed Lisan Ullah, was one of

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.

691
his relatives, after forty years'

the greatest Sufis of India, and the spiritual preceptor of Dara Shikuh, who has given a full account of his life, with many of his
fol.

was joined by
separation, in

Kashmir A.H. 1060.

and poems, in the Safinat ul-Auliya, 118 (see p. 358 a). He was the son of Mullii 'Idi, the Kazi of Ark, in the canton
letters

86

Or. 277.
177 ; 9$ in. by 5 J ; 16 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik, apparently about long ; the close of the 17th century. From the royal library of Lucknow.
Foil.

of Kustfik, Badakhshan, and, having early adopted a religious life, wandered, A.H.

1023, to India,

in

quest of

spiritual

He found one in Miyfm Mir, the guide. celebrated saint of Lahore (see t'A.), by whom
he was
initiated in

[GEO.

"Wxi.

HAMILTON.]

Sufism and

affiliated to

the Kiidiri order.

After his master's death,

A.H. 1045, he settled in Kashmir, where a vast monastery was built for him and his disciples, at the expense of Dara Shikuh and
Jahanara Begam, both devoted adherents, and where he was frequently
his
sister

The Divan
Beg.
L_ij

of Insan.

by Shahjahan. He died in Lahore, A.H. 1072, and left, besides a large number of religious Ghazals and Masjiavis, an unvi-ited

The author
that he

states in his first

finished Sufi

commentary upon the Coran.

See Mir
ki'at
foil.
i

at ul-Khayiil, foil. 'Amal i fol. 686, Mir at ul-'AJam, fol. 447, VaSalih,

8791,

was a Sayyid, originally was born in A.H. 1037, and that he had given up the world and adopted a life of religious poverty in A.H. 1060:

poem that he called Abu l-'Ala,

Kashmir,

fol.

126, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

vol.
iii.

247250, and the Dabistun,

:

p. 284.

JU
Lai

Contents Ruba'is of a religious nature, with paraphrases in Magnavi rhyme, and

comments

in prose, fol. 2 b. Another series of Rubu'is in alphabetical order, with para-

In the concluding lines he says that he had given up the writing of poetry in A.H. 1077.

phrases in Masnavi,
series,

fol.

17

b.

The same

From

his

frequent references to

Kiisi,

or

without paraphrase, fol. 130 b. Ghazals and Kasulahs, forming one alphabetical series, fol. 187 b, beginning:

Benares, he appears to have been dwelling in that city. His principal theme is the

mystic love of the Sufis, nnd he often refers to his complete enfranchisement from all
positive creed or religious law.

bb

Contents

Kasidahs, or longer poems, in

fol.

alphabetical order,

b.

The second

series of Ruba'is includes

chrono-

Ghazals in alphabetical order,

Beg.

fol.

42

b.

grams relating to incidents of the author's life, with dates ranging from A.H. 1023 to
1060. From these we learn that he wrote a Shash Ganj A.U. 1056, and a commentary on the Surat Yusuf A.H. 1057, and that he

U ulli U y,'*-

Tarjr-bands, fol. 132 a. fol. 145 a. Ruba'is, fol. 150 L L 2

A
4.

Saki-Namah,

692

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Or. 300.

A.H. 10001100.
in

which GhanT

clears himself of a

false

Foil. 70;

8i

in.

by

4;

15

lines,

2f

in.

long
first

Shikastah-amiz, in the half of the 18th century. From the

written
in

accusation of plagiarism. On the first page is a 'Arz-Didah, dated A.H. 1169.

The Divan

of

Ghani has been printed in

royal library of

Lucknow.
[GEO.

Lucknow, 1845.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

The Divan of Ghani, with a preface by

Hahir. Beg. of Pref.
&j>-j &\ji\jjj&jut

Foil.

Add. 25,819. 202; 8| in. by 6; 13

;

lines,

in.

long

dated Cawnpore, A.H. 1223 (A.D. 1808). Muharram,

;

written in Nestalik

Beginning of the

Divan

[WM. CUEBTON.]

surnamed GhanT, was a Kashrnirian by birth, and a disciple of another Kaslirnirian poet, Muhsin Film, whom he is said to have surpassed in poetical genius. (Fan! died A.H. 1082). He adopted the takhallus ^js- as a chronogram for A.H.
Tahir,

Muhammad

Yusuf and Zulaikha, a Magnavl. Author Nazim,

:

Beg.

Mulla Nazim, son of Shah Riza Sabzavari, was born in Herat, where he spent his whole
life as

1060, the date of his first poetical compositions, and died at an early age, A.H. 1079,

court poet of the Beglerbegis of that The author of the Kisas ul-Khaprovince.
178, that Niizim was then (A.H. 1076) upwards of sixty years of age, and that his Divan contained twenty-five

three years before his master.

His Diviin

kanl states,

fol.

was collected by his friend, Muhammed 'All Maliir, who composed the following chronogram on his death
:

thousand

lines.

He

died, according to Siraj,

Oude Catalogue, p. 151, A.H. 1081. See Tahir Nasirabadi, fol. 246, Riyiiz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 470, Atashkadah, fol. 85, and the Oude
See 'Amal
i

Salih, fol. 705,

fol.
i

95, Mir'at ul-Khayal,

badi, fol. 328,

Sarkhush, fol. 101, Tahir Nasirafol.

Catalogue, pp. 129, 515. After eulogies upon

Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

Kashmir, 322, 322, and the Oude Catalogue, pp. 113, 151, and 410. The editor describes Ghani, whom he calls
fol.

Vakiat

reigning sovereign, protector, 'Abbas Kull

Herat, upon the Shah 'Abbas IL, and his

Khan Shamlu,

gover-

man who by holiness of had almost become a disembodied spirit. The date of his death, A.H. 1079, is expressed
his master, as a
life

by the chronogram
Contents
:

lx

Ghazals, and longer poems, in one alphabetical series, fol. 6 b. Kuba'is, fol. 57 b. Masnavis, fol. 66 a. Fol. 68 contains a short piece in prose,

nor of Herat, the poet relates in the prologue how he had been urged by his patron to try his skill in Mas.navl, and how the theme of the present poem had been suggested to him by the same exalted personage. He concludes with an encomium on his predecessor Jaml. In the epilogue Nazim states that he had devoted fourteen years to the composition
of the poem, having commenced it A.H. 1058, and completed it A.H. 1072.

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.

093

The Yusuf u Zulaikha of Nazim has been printed in the press of the Oude Akhbar, Lucknow, A.H. 1286.

death is fixed by the following chronogram of a contemporary poet, Va'iz, Add. 7812,
fol.

245

Or. 292.
Foil.

392

8J

in.

by 4

23

lines,

2|

in.

long

written

in

Shikastah-amiz,

with

TJnvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently

in the latter part of the 17th century.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Other dates, however, are given, viz., A.H. 1080 by Siraj, Oude Catalogue, p. 151, 1081 by Sarkhush, fol. 74, 1087 by Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 290, and 1089 in Mir'at ul-'Alam,
fol.

485.

The Divan of

Sa'ib.

Notices on Sa'ib will be found in the Tazkirah of Tahir, fol. 163, Mir'at ul-Khayal,
fol.

65, Riya? ush-Shu'ara, fol. 260, Atashfol.

Mirza
Sft'ib, is

Muhammad 'Ali, poetically surnamed

by common consent the creator of a style of poetry, and the greatest of He was born in modern Persian poets. where his father, a native of Tabriz, Isfahan, was Kadkhuda, or provost, of the merchants

new

16, Ouseley's Notices, p. 227, and Oude Catalogue, p. 385. Sprenger, The Divan of Sa'ib has been lithographed in the press of Navalkishor, Lucknow, A.H. A small 1292, with the title L-A- oU)/.

kadah,

collection of select verses has been litho-

As he was, according to the Ki>as ul-Khakani, fol. 163, upwards of sixty years of age in A.H. 1076, his birth must have taken place about A.H. 1010. Having
of 'Abbasabad.
started in early life for India, he made a long stay at Kabul, where the Governor,

title

graphed in Luoknow, A.H. 1264, under the of i_Jlo y^a ^->^J \ and reprinted with
title

the

<_J0
:

^ji*,

Lucknow, 1871.

Contents

Ghazals, about 1800 in number,

MatalT, alphabetically arranged, fol. 3 b. or opening lines, in the same order, fol.

313

b.

Mutafarrikat,
fol.

or

detached
b.

lines,

/afar Khan, treated him with great kindness. He was afterwards favourably received by 8hahjnh.ni, who conferred upon him a com-

similarly arranged,

323

mand

one thousand and the title of Musta'idd Khan. He left the Court, howof

Copies of Sa'ib's Divan are mentioned in the catalogues of Vienna, vol. i. p. 597,
Petersburg, p. 398, and Munich, p. 38, and in the Ouseley Collection,

Upsala,
19.

p. 110, St.

accompany his munificent patron, Zafar Khan, to his government of Kashmir (A.H. 1041-2), and, after staying there some time, returned to Persia, where Shah 'Abbas II. bestowed upon him the title of Malik ush-Shu'ara. The latter part of his life was spent in Isfahan, where he died at an advanced age, A.H. 1088, leaving upwards of a hundred and twenty thousand lines of The date of his poetry, chiefly Ghazals.
ever, to

No.

Add. 7806.
17 lines, 2J in. long written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled columns; dated Shawal, A.H.
Foil.
;

281

in.

by 4|

1166 (A.D. 1753). [CL J. RICH.] The Divan of Sa'ib, containing Fol. 1 6. Kasldahs in praise of the Imams,
:

094

POETRY.
Safl,

A.H. 10001100.
long;
Shikastah-amlz, proin the 18th century. bably early
[Cl. J. RICH.]

and of the Shahs

'Abbas

II.,

and Sulai-

written in

fair

man, beginning:
^*^

The Divan of
Fol. 20
6.

ki

i_-V "What
a selection

should be

alphabetical Ruba'is, in one alphabetical series,

Sa'ib, containing Ghazals in Kit'ahs and order, fol. 1 b.

fol.

433

6.

learnt

by heart,"

from the Gha-

Beg.

U
\j

&iUL~* ftj*j

^\

ojj

zals, MatalT, or opening couplets, and Mutafarrikat, or detached lines, of Sa'ib, in two

alphabetical series.

Beg.
'Abbas

f^j^

J*5

^ c^
:

-J

^ ^^j*
of

Or. 1223.
Foil.

Fol. 141 a.
II.,

A Manavl in praise
_

Shah
208; 8
in.

beginning

by 4|; 21

lines,

2|

in.

long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, probably early in the 18th century.

[ALEX. JABA.]
Fol. 146.

JW

ol>, "The Mirror

of

Ghazals of
Beg.

Sa'ib, in alphabetical order.

Beauty," another selection from the Divan of Sa'ib, containing Ghazals, or detached
lines,

lAA*

descriptive of feminine charms, arranged in alphabetical order, under each of

:

the following headings

Mirror, Eyebrow,
etc.

Frown, Eye and Eye-lashes,

Beg.

are some lines by a contemporary poet, Nahifi, who states that he had collected and arranged these poems in the
author's lifetime, and had completed that task in A.H. 1066, a date expressed by this

At the end

chronogram,

In the preface of the Lucknow edition both the above titles, Mir'at ul-Jamal and
Vajib ul-Hifz, are said to belong to a selection
roof,

Add. 24,001.
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;

made

by Jamal is mentioned in Stewart's Catalogue,

p. 70.

in Sa'ib's lifetime, and under his The Mir'at ul'Amil'a of Balkh.

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lines,

3J

in.

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1166 (A.D. 1753).

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Ghazals of Sa'ib, in alphabetical order.

lines,

308

10

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by 6

16

in.

Beg.
lai-

written in a large Nestalik, about the close of the 17th century. [Cl. J. RICH.]

long

The Divan
betical order.

of Sa'ib, imperfect at the begin-

ning, and containing only Ghazals in alphaFoil. 289;

;

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489

9&

in.

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15

lines,

3 J in.

1119 (A.D. 1707).

[Wit. CUKETON.]

POETRY.
Ghazals of
Sa'ib, in alphabetical order, be-

A.H. 10001100.

G95

ginning

like the preceding

MS.

Add. 7805.
Foil. 76;

kan Khan (Muhammad Tahir), an Amir who was raised to the Khanship in A.H. 1068, accompanied Aurangzib to Kashmir in the sixth year of the reign (A.H. 1073-4), and died A.H. 1085. See Maasir ul-Umara, fol.
371.

14$

in.

by 8$; 27

lines, 2

in.

Sarkhush,

who wrote

his

Tazkirah

long,

with a large number of additional lines in the margin; written in Xestalik,

about A.H. 1100, speaks of Binish as dead. See Ihe Oude Catalogue, p. 110.
Contents
navi, in the
:

probably early in the 18th century.

[Cl. J. RICH.] of the Divfm of Sii'ib, comprisportion ing Ghazals from letter \ to letter 5, the hist

Fol. 1 6. jloj^l (j^-?. a Masmeasure of Nizami's Makhzan

ul-Asrar, treating of the virtues of the true

Fakir, dedicated to Aurangzib.

incomplete.

Beg.

Beg.

ttjl.j* ^Uxj
is

y u/ij* jl

^>j

\i

r^fcy
goes,

This collection

richer, as far as

it

Fol.

46

b.

u\y
c^-jl

The Treasure

of the

than any of the preceding. It contains marginal additions, and some Turkish glosses.

Soul," a Masnavi.

Beg.

Add. 7807.
Foil.
;

It

contains

170; 7i

in.

by 4f

15

Mirza
lines,

2J

in.

Muhammad

eulogies on Aurangzib, on Kiisim Kirmani, Diviin of

long 17th century.

written in Nestalik, apparently in the

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Kashmir, and on Mir Jarashid Kashanl, the poet's patron, descriptions of the four seasons, and a Saki-Namah. " Fol. 86 b. The Bouquet," a *^-X

The " Mirror of Beauty," a selection from the Divan of Sa'ib ; see p. 694 a.

Masnavi treating of creation, and including descriptions of Kashmir and Lahore.

Beg.

Egerton 705.
310 ; 8J in. by 4| ; 14 lines, 2J in. written in Nestalik, in the 18th cenlong;
Foil.

tury.

" JUi. Stirring of Fancy," a Manavi, dedicated to Aurangzib, containing a story of two lovers, natives of Benares, with anecdotes and a eulogy on Isfahan.
Fol.

124

b.

j,

Beg.

The

poetical

works of Binish.

Binish, a Kashmirian poet,

whose proper
177
a),

Fol.

180

b.

jj >Z,j

"
,

The String

of

name was

Isma'il

(see

fol.

went,

according to the Riyaz ush-Shu'arfi, fol. 86, and the Atashkadah, fol. 165, from his native

Jewels," a Masnavi dedicated to Aurangzib, containing the story of Amir and Gauhar,

two lovers of
Beg.

Sari in Mazandariin.

country to Hindustan, and stayed in Dehli. Some of his poems are addressed to Safshi-

960
This

POETRY.
poem
is

A.H. 10001100.
a,

stated at the end,

fol.

217

to be the last of the author's Fol.

Khamsah.
Foil. 79
;

Add. 23,613.
3J in. long written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 18th
;

220 a. Ghazals in alphabetical order.

'

8|

in.

by 4|

11

lines,

Beg.

century.
Fol. .292
b,

Kasldahs in praise of the

Muhammad Kasim, the Imams, Divan before mentioned, and of Safshikan Khan.
of Mirza

The Divan
Beg.

of Sharif.

Beg.

if

U
lxi
:

8,69

" the last page is written George Oct. 4th, 1785." Curttenden, Moorshedabad,

On

Ghazals of a religious and mystic character, in alphabetical order, with a few Ruba'Is similarly arranged, fol. 76 b. A Divan with the same beginning is deIt contains

Or. 310.
n. 8 in. by 5*; 16 lines, 3 long; written in Nestalik; dated Jainagar, Sha'ban, the 20th year of 'Alamglr (A.H.

scribed in the

Oude Catalogue,

p.

567, as

Foil. 137

containing chronograms ranging from A.H. 1089 1091. Its author is stated to have been a Vakfah-Navls, or news- writer, attached to Zabardast Khan.

1088, A.D. 1677).

[Gso.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Or. 309.
The Divan of Muhyi, containing Ghazals
of a religious character, alphabetically arranged, and a few TarjI's at the end.
Foil.

102 ;

8|

in.

by 5

21

lines, 3

in.

long; written in Nestalik, about the close of the 17th century. From the royal library of

Lucknow.
Beg.
i&^y

[GEO.

WM. HAMILTON.]

The Divan
to Piran Pir
i.e.

is

ascribed in the subscription

ul-

Mir Muhyi ud-Din Ghau

the

The Divan of Majzub.

Beg.

famous saint Muhyi udA'zam, Din 'Abd-ul-Kadir Jilam, who died A.H. 561, and to whom the best authorities do not attribute any poetical composition. It is distinct from a Divan containing the same takhallus, and ascribed to the same holy personage, which is noticed in the Oude Catalogue, p. 501, and has been
lately lithographed in the press of NavalDivan attributed kishor, without date.

o-\

Mir Muhammad, poetically called Majzub, described by Tahir Nasirabadi, writing about A.H. 1083, fol. 145, as a young scholar devoted to Sufism, whose teaching was daily
is

attended by the students of Tabriz. He i also mentioned in the Kisas ul-Khakani,

written A.H. 1073,
fol.

164, as a living poet,

to

Ghaus ul-A'zam

is

mentioned in Stewart's

Catalogue, p. 58.

born in Tabriz, who had written poems in praise of the Imams, a Manavl of 3000 lines

POETRY.
entitled

A.H. 10001100.

097

Shah Rah i Xajat, and Ghazals in which he followed Hafiz. The present Divan contains some chronograms relating to pilgrimages to Mecca and Najaf performed by the author and his father in A.H. 1060 and 1065, and to the death of the latter in A.H. 1066. At the end is found the following Rubu'i, which gives A.U. 1093 as the date of Majzub's
death
:

Beginning with a panegyric on his patron, Ilimmat Khun, to whose literary assemblies he was admitted, the poet relates how in one of these 1 immat Khan had read the touching
1

Kzlmrup, written by himself in prose, and had desired him to put it into verse.

tale of

Himmat Khan, we

are

further told,

died

shortly after, and the author found some solace in composing the present poem as a

memory. The date of its A.H. 1096, is expressed by this completion, chronogram at the end:
to his

monument

KT C

There must therefore be some error

in the

following chronogram quoted by Tahir, and in Riyiiz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 439, according to which the Shah nth Najut would have been
i

The name
Mir
first
f

of the heroine

is

inverted for
^tfUJ.

the convenience of the metre to

lsa,

completed A.H. 1006, a date which can hardly be reconciled with those above stated
:

son of Islam
title

received the

of

Khan Badakhshi, Ilimmat Khan in the

year of Aurangzib, with whom he was a great favourite, and was raised in the 24th year to the post of Mir Bakhshi. He died in

Contents
fol.
fol.

b.

Kasidahs in praise of the Imams, Ghazals alphabetically arranged,

:

10 a. Miikhammas, Tarji'-bands, Masnavis, and Kit'ahs, fol. 91 b. Rubins, fol. 986.

See the

Himmat Klmn was pasAjmir, A.H. 1092. fond of Persian and Hindi poetry, sionately and used the poetical surname of Miran. See
Maasjr ul-Umanl, ul-Umara, fol. 106.
fol.

577

a,

and Ta/kirat

Oude

Catalogue, pp. 131, 479.

The Dastiir i Himmat is ascribed to Himmat Khan himself by Garcin de Tassy, Litterature Hind., 2nd edition, vol. i. p. 213.

Add. 19,624.
Foil.

long;

115; 9J in. by (H; 18 lines, 3$ in. written in Nestalik; dated Benares,

Add. 7812.
Foil.
;

255

9J

in.

by 5

17

lines,

3J

in.

Muharram, A.H. 1182 (A.D. 1768). [SAMUEL LEE.]

long written in Nestalik, apparently about the close of the 17th century.
[Cl. J. RICH.]

The

love-story of

Kamriip and Kamlata,

Murad,
t\j

The Divan
Beg.

of Va'iz.

a Masnavi.

\*p Jjs.

y
M M

Author

Muhammad

698
Mirza Rafi' ud-Dln

POETRY.

A.H. 10001100.
long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins; dated Eabf I., A.H. 1132 (A.D.
1720).
[01. J.

Muhammad

B. Path

TJllah Kazvlnl, poetically surnamed Va'iz, lived in Isfahan, during the reigns of 'Ab-

RICH.]

bas

known

chiefly as the author of Abvab ul-Jinan, a vast collection of the traditional sayings of

II.

and Shah Sulaiman, and

is

The Divan
Beg.

of Shaukat.

volume of which has been printed in Teheran, A.H. 1374. Sarkhush, writing in A.H. 1093, speaks of him as still (fol. 137, and Oude Catalogue, p. 114) and it is stated in the Riyuzi ushliving;
the Imams, the
first

Jbj

Shu'ara, fol. 500, that he died in the early part of the reign of Sultan Husain, i.e.

The date A.H. shortly after A.H. 1105. 1082 assigned to his death by Siraj, Oude Catalogue, p. 151, is not consistent with the fact that his Divan contains chronograms as late as A.H. 1088. See also Atashkadah, fol. 107, and the Oude Catalogue, p. 587. Contents Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 1 b. Detached lines, fol. 166 b. Kasidahs, fol. 172 i, beginning
:

Khwajah Shaukat, of Bukhara, went to Herat in A.H. 1088, and entered the service of the Beglerbegi of the province, Safi Kuli Khan Shamlu. He afterwards repaired to Mashhad, where he was well received by
Mirza Sa'd ul-Din
riisan,

Muhammad,

Vazir of Khoin Isfahan,

and ultimately

settled

where he spent his latter years as a religious mendicant, and died, according to Hazin, fol. 28, A.H. 1107. See Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 250, Sarkhush, fol. 73, and the Oude
Mukatta'at, arin alphabetical order, according to ranged the rhyme and to the initial letter of each
:

Catalogue, p. 568. Ghazals and Contents

*Ujj

ji'i

This last section contains pieces in praise of Muhammad and each of the twelve Imams,

Shah Sulaiman, and a IVon the martyrdom of Husain. In one ziyah of these, fol. 215 a, the author begs the Shah to be excused from accepting an office conferred upon him at Court, and says that,
of 'Abbas II. and
after spending nearly fifty years in anxious cares, he wished to pass the rest of his life in

piece, fol. 1 b. Ruba'is, the last of which gives a chronogram for A.H. 1093, the date of the collection of the Divan, fol. 153 b. Kaslin praise of Imam Riza, and of dahs, mostly

the above-named Sa'd ud-Dln, fol. 156 b. See Krafft's Catalogue, p. 69, and Ouseley's Collection,

No. 85.

Copyist

^li- &\j*

retirement.

Or. 290.
Foil.

Ruba'is on moral and religious subjects,

fol.

209

10i

in.

by 6

15

lines,

Chronograms relating to private or public events, with dates ranging from A.H. 1030 to 1088, fol. 229 b. Three short
b.

217

3f

in.

long ; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 19th century. From the royal library of

Magnavis, fol. 248 b. See Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1517.

Lucknow. The same Divan.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Or. 347.

Add. 7810.
Foil. 79;
Foil. 176;

7f

in.

by

10$

in.

by 6; 17

lines,

8|

in.

long

written in

13 lines, 3| in. Shikastah-amiz dated

;

5;

POETRY.
Zulhijjah, the fourth year of

A. H.

10001100.

099
in

Ahmad

Shall

(A.D. 1751), A.H. 1164. library of Lucknow. [GEO.

From

the royal

The Mihr u Hah has been lithographed Lucknow, 1846.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Or. 315.
Foil.

143 ; 8i

in.

by 4

19

lines, 2

in.

The story of two Indian lovers, Manohar and Madhunvilat, a Manavi. Author: llazi,

long; written in Nestulik, early in the 18th

century.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

The Divan
Mir 'Askari, who came of a family of Sayyids settled in Khwfif, Khorasan, but was born in India, took the poetical surname of Razi from his spiritual instructor Shaikh Burhan ud-Din Riiz i Ilahi. He was an early follower and favourite companion of Prince Aurangzib, who on his accession bestowed upon him the title of 'Akil Khan.
In the 21th year of the reign (A.H. 10912) he was appointed governor of the province of Dehli, and discharged that office till his
death.

of Nasir 'Ali.

Beg.

y>.j

yl*

*j*

>j

uses sometimes Nasir 'Ali, but mostly 'Ali, as his takhallus, was born, and spent a great part of his life, in Sirhind.

This poet,

who

Two Amirs of the reign of Aurangzib, Saif Khan Badakhshi, governor of Sirhind, and
Amir ul-Umara Zulfakiir Khan, are mentioned as his patrons. He led the life of a devotee, and was as eminent in Sufism
the
as in poetry. After travelling through many parts of Hindustan and the Deccan, he took

He

died at the age of eighty-two, in

the

month of Rabi* II., A.H. 1108. 'Akil Khan left a Divan, and several Masnavis
in his youth,

abode in Dehli, where he stayed until his death. Sarkhush, who lived in his intimacy,
his

composed
in the
p. 123.

which are mentioned

and

collected his Divan, states,

fol.

88, that

Hamishah Bahar, Oude Catalogue,

He

is

also the author of the Zafar-

namah i 'Alamgiri, a copy of which, wrongly ascribed to Amir Khun, has been described
above, p. 265 a. See Tarikh i

he died on the 6th of Ramazan, A.H. 1108, a date adopted by all later writers, but adds iT a chronogram of his own composition which gives A.H. 1109. See ^^jj ij** JUj,

Mir'flt

135, ul-Umarfi, 387, Tazkirat ulUmara, fol. 69, Riyfl? ush-Shu'ara, foL 192, Ouseley'e Notices, p. 167, and the Oude Catalogue, p. 543.
fol.

khush, Ma'asir

fol.

48,

Muhammadi, fol. 235, Mirat ul-Khayal, fol.

Sar-

fil.

ul-Khayal, 313, Tarikh

fol.

fol.
i

Muhammadi,
fol.

160, Riyaz ush-Shu'arfi, fol. 235,

197,

Klmlusat
'Andalib,

ul-Afkar,
126,

Naghmah

and the Oude Catalogue,

pp. 126, 151, and 329.

religious poem called MnsIt 'altars, fol. 2 b. navi, divided into two a eulogy on contains in the prologue

Contents

The present poem was composed, as stated in the conclusion, A.H. 1065. In the prologue the author sings the praises of his spiritual guide, Shah Burhun ud-Din, and states that he had substituted in his version Milu- and Mali for the original names of the
lovers.

Aurangzib, and, further on, fol. 48, a reference to the author's age, which was then fiftyIt breaks off on fol. 53, and is followed a few short Masnavis. See the catalogues by of Leyden, vol. ii. p. 107, and of Gotha, p. 80. Kasidahs in praise of Muhammad, of the

two.

M M 2

700
Indian saint

POETRY.
Abu
'All

A.H. 10001100.

Kalandar, and of the

(Badakhshi),
fol.

author's patron, Saif

Khan

Add. 25,827.
112 ; 9| in. by 5| ; 15 lines, 3 in. written in plain Nestalik, apparently long in the 18th century. [WM. CURETON.]
Foil.
;

59

a.

Beg.

The Divan
zals,

of Nasir 'All, containing Gha-

Ghazals in alphabetical order,

fol.

67

Kit'ahs and Fardiyyat in one alpha-

a.

betical series.

Beg.

Vfb

Beg.

Ruba'Is -with a few Kit'ahs, also in alphabetical order,

fol.

118

b.

Or. 301.
has been litho-

The Divan of Nasir

graphed in

'AIT

FoU. 64
;

8|

in.

by 6

15

lines,

3|

in.

Lucknow, 1844, and A.H. 1281.

long in the 19th century.

written in cursive Nestalik,

[GEO.

a pparently

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Or. 352.
Foil. 61
;

7 in. in

by 4

11

lines,
;

2|

in.

The Divan
Beg.

of

Ghammat.

long

written

Shikastah-amiz

dated
i.e.

Benares, the 44th year of Aurangzlb,

A.H.

11111112

(A.D. 1700).
[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Muhammad Akram,

poetically styled

Gha-

Magnavis by Nastr
Beg.

'All.

^
632

nimat, a native of Ganjah, or, according to others, of Kusur, Panjab, was a Sufi of the

Kadiri order, and a pupil of the poet Muhammad Zaman Rasikh, of Lahore, who died A.H. 1107. He was some time attached to

The first contains a description of Kashmir. The longest, fol. 17 61, is a portion of the
Mas.navi above described, corresponding to a. Or. 315, foil. 3

Mukarram Khan (Mir Muhammad Ishak), who filled the post of Nazim of Lahore from
the 39th to

(A.H.
94).

HOG

the 41st year of Aurangzlb see Tazkirat ul-Umara, fol. ;

left,

10 contain the first part of a Magnavi on the love-story and Princess of Prince Manohar &i*
foil.

The margins of

Ghammat

besides his Divan, a

Madhumalat
Beg.

Ll

Mas.navi composed A.H. 1096, and entitled Nairang i 'Ishk, or Shahid u 'Aziz, which is very popular in India, and has been lithographed in Lucknow about A.H. 1263. See

Sarkhush, fol. 97, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 322, Tazkirah i Husaini, fol. 95, Mir'at
Aftfibnuma,
fol. fol.

have been taken from a Hindu poem written by Shaikh Jamman.

The

tale is stated to

146,

Naghmah

'Andalib,

133, and the Oude Catalogue, pp. 127,

consists

410.

The Divan

only of Ghazals, in

alphabetical order.

POETRY.

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Foil.
;

Beglerbeg of that province (see foil. 54 a, 55 i). Fol. 99 b. Kasidahs and Tarkib-bands,
mostly in praise of the Imams.
Beg.

[Cl. J.

RICH.]
Fol. 137 a.

Kit'ahs and Tarlkhs.

The

Diviin of 'Azim.

Fol. 142

b.

Ghazals in alphabetical order.

'Azim or 'Azima, of Xishapur, who has been as the brother of Fauji, mentioned, p. 690 lived in Khorasan, and died, according to the
,

Beg.

U j\ y W V u / y uV- a
190
b.

^ yj U ^ jifr J\
j

s*

^
on
21

y^u
Mir Abul-

Mir'at us-Safa, ful.

"2~2l\,

A.H.

1 1

10, or,as stated

'Andalib, fol. 124, A.H. 1111. The statement of the Riyaz ush-Shu'ar.i, that 'Azim was appointed Divan of Lahore

in

Naghmah

Margiyah Hasan, and a few Rubfus.

Fol.

by Shfthjahan
tin-

rests

on a confusion. Sarkhush,
Foil.

Or. 334.
3J in. long; written in Xaskhi in two columns, about the close of the 17th century.
;

poet's contemporary, asserts distinctly that he never came to India (see the Oude

242

10

in.

by 6

lines,

Catalogue, p. 113), nor is there in his Divan any trace of a residence in that country. The laudatory poems are addressed to Shah

[Gso.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Sulaiman (A.H. 10771105), and to two Amirs who resided at Nishapur, viz. Bairam 'Ali Khan, who died in A.H. 1071 (see fol. 140 a), and his son Muhammad Ibrahim. The dates of various chronograms contained in the Divan range from A.U. 1055 (fol. 140 o) to A.H. 1082 (fol. 190 b). Compare
the

sketch of general and Indian history, in the metre of the Shahniimah.

A versified

Author: Fnna'i, ^ii

Oude Catalogue, p. 358. The contents are as follows

Fol. 1
b.

a Masnavi treating of fibs- jy, the creation of the world and the nature of

This

is

the

first

volume

J^\ jl

only of

man.

an extensive work, which, according to tinprologue, was intended to comprise the history of the prophets and of the ancient kings
of Kashmir, Kabul, Sind, Bengal, the Deccan,
Ujjain, and Hindustan.

The

author,

who

is

wrote it in Kandahar (see fol. 82 b), some time after the (loath of his father Kaidi, in A.H. 1064 (see fol. 91 ). The prologue contains eulogies on the Shiih ('Abbas II.), on Mir/.i Sa'd ud-Din Muhammad, Vazir of Khorasan, and on Safi Kuli Khan (son of
:n

not otherwise known, begins with eulogies

on

his spiritual guide, Shaikh Lukmfm B. Shaikh 'Usman Khalil Sulaimfini, and on the

he refers reigning sovereign, Aurangzib. As and incidentally to the conquest of Bijfipur must have written Golconda by the latter, he
after

Zulfakfir

Khan,

governor

of

Kandahar),

A.H. 1099.

702

POETRY.

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The present volume contains an account of

from
the creation of the world, of the prophets Adam to Lukman, and of the early

The Divan
Beg.

of Makhfi.

kings of Persia.

Or. 1217.
Poll.'434; 9| in. by 5|; 15 lines, S^m. long ; written in cursive Nestalik ; dated

Makhfi

is

the poetical surname of Zib un->

A.H. 1532

(for

1132, A.D. 1720).

Nisa Begam, the eldest child of Aurangzib, a princess celebrated for her high literary attainments and her liberal patronage of men
of learning. She was born A.H. 1048, and died in Dehli on the 10th of Muharram, A.H.

[ALEX. JABA]

1114.

See Tarikh

comprising an introduction on the creed, and four books treating of the laws of purification, prayer, legal alms
treatise

A versified

Mir'at ul-'Alam, pp. 462, 539,

fol.
i

Gul
89,

237, 444, Maas.ir 'Alamgiri, Ra'na, fol. 79, Naghmah

Muhammadi,

fol.

'Andalib, p. 480.

fol.

and the Oude Catalogue,

and

fasting, according to the

Hanaf

school.

Beg.

The author, whose name does not appear, was originally, according to his own statement, an illiterate Uzbak in the king's service, but had been enlightened, and affiliated to the Nakshabandi order, by Shaikh Nauruz. He completed the first book in A.H. 1111, and the second A.H. 1112. In his conclusion he adds that he was postponing the composition of a fifth book on pilgrimage until he had himself performed that sacred
rite,

Contents Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 1 b. Tarji'- and Tarkib-bands, fol. 149 b. Kasidahs, fol. 174 b. Mukhammasat, fol. 189 a. The Divan of Makhfi has been lithographed in Cawnpore, A.H. 1268, and in
:

Lucknow, A.H. 1284.

Add. 25,826.
4 in. long written in cursive Nestalik, in the 18th
Poll. 136;
;

10|

in.

by 6^; 17

lines,

century.

[Wai. CUKETON.]
of Turner

but that he was

yet.

prevented by the

The same Divan. The first page bears the name

Macan.

prevailing state of impiety and lawlessness from carrying that design into execution.

In a lithographed edition of

this

work,
Poll.

printed in Lucknow A.H. 1290, the author is called in the subscription Sufi Ilahyar

Add. 16,790.
102; 9i in. by 6; 15 lines, 4 in. written in Nestalik, apparently in long; India; dated Jumada I., A.H. 1219 (A.D.
1804).

Khan,

li

Or. 311.
12 lines, 3 in. 9 in. by 5J long ; written in Shikastah-amiz, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, in the 18th cenPoll. 192;
;

[WM. YULE.]

The Divan
Beg.

of Ni'mat

Khan

*A1I.

v^a

A\

tury.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

POETRY.
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A.H. 11001200.

703

Khan

'All,

who has heen

already

mentioned, pp. 268 b and 272 a, was the son of Hakim Fath ud-Din Shirazi. He is stated
in the Tarikh
i

See the Oude Catalogue, p. 329. The author's Kulliyat are described in
Stewart's Catalogue, p. 74.
II. Fol. 108 b. y^, "Beauty jJLff- j and Love," a tale in mixed prose and verse.

Muhammadi,
first
life
fol.

died in Dehli, on the 1122. Notices on his

fol. 215, to have of Rabi' I., A.H.

are to be found in

the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

i

316, the Tazkirah

i

Beg.

JL_j

i.Iusaini, fol. 92,

and Naghmah

'Andalib,
It has been published in Lucknow, 1842, and 1873, and printed, with a commentary by Imambakhsh, in Dehli, 1844. See Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1621-2, and Zenker,

fol.

128.

This copy contains only Ghazals, in alphabetical order.

Divun, including also Kit'ahs, chronograms, and riddles, is described under the
title

vol.

ii.

of

o-*i

yj'j*-

in the

Oude Catalogue,

p. 51.

See Stewart's Catalogue, p. 74, the Ouseley Collection, No. 257, and Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1374.
p. 328.

Egerton 698.
Foil. 72;

9$

in.

by

6;

14

lines

written

Or. 317.
Foil.

in Indian Nestalik;

dated Zulhijjah, A.H.

203; 7i
written

in.

by 3j; 9

lines,
;

2|

in.

1218 (A.D. 1804). [ADAM CLARKE.] The M:iMi:i\i mentioned in the preceding
MS.,
art. I.
:

long;

in

Shikastah-amiz

dated

Slmhjahiinubacl, Sha'lwn, A.H. 1J17 (A.D. 1832). [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.] The Divftn of Ni'mat Kh&n 'Ali, contain-

Copyist

ing Ghazals in alphabetical order, but differing from the preceding copy in contents and arrangement.

Or. 344.
21; 10 in. by 6; 11 lines, 3^ in. written in neat Nestalik, with 'Unvan long ; and gold-ruled margins; dated A.H. 1200
Foil.

Beg.

\j

(A.D. 1700).
Copyist
:

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

<i

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Foil.

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JJ

15 lines, 4 J in. 121; 9$ in. by 6 written in Nestalik, appan-ntly in the

;

century.
ii

Two
I.

[Wii. YULE.] compositions of the same Ni'mat

:

'AH, viz. Fol. I b.

A Manavi, containing moral

tales

and apologues.

have been a dependent of Jahfmdar Shah, describes a chase in the forest of Nanparah, Oude, in which that prince, then heir presumptive, had a victorious encounter with a formidable
to

The author, who appears

Beg. u

wild elephant.
following verse,

He designates himself in the

fol.

20

b,

704,

POETRY.

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137,

Maair
fol.

Afkar, p. 368.

ul-ITmara, fol. 575, Khulasat ul30, and the Oude Catalogue,

by the name of Rahi, which may have been

his takhallus, and, complaining of his evil star which had banished him from Court,

Bazil did not live to complete his work, which is here finished by another hand.

The

original

poem comes

to

an abrupt

ter-

begs to be taken into the royal service. Jahfmdar Shah ascended the throne in

fol. 315, shortly after the account of 'Us.man's assassination. The continuator, who

mination,
calls

Muharram A.H.

1124.

himself Najaf, states in the next-follow-

ing lines that at that point the poet's

was stayed by death.

hand He adds that he had

Egerton 686.
Foil. 376;

long

by 9| 22 lines, 6f in. written in four columns in Nestalik,

13J
in.
;

apparently in the 18th century.

long entertained the thought of completing the work, when he became, A.H. 1135, the fortunate possessor of a poem written, long before Bazil's time, by a Sayyid Abu Talib in Isfahan, which contained the history of
'Ali

A poetical account
mad and the first
:

of the life of

Muham149
a).

Khalifs, principally founded

(see p.

on the Ma'arij un-Nubuvvat Author Bazil, Jib

Beg.

from the point at which Bazil had left off, and found that it tallied so well with the Hamlah, that, by adding it to the unfinished poem, he was able to produce a complete and uniform whole. This continuation, which begins with 'Ali's
accession to the Khilafat,

was apparently
but
it

brought down

to his death

breaks off

in the present copy, a little before the end.

Mirza
Bazil,

Muhammad
and entitled

Rafi', poetically

surnamed
of

The present poem

title,

is

Raft'

Khan, was the son

his brother

poetical history of 'Ali,

quite distinct from a which bears the same

Mirza Mahmud,

who with

Mu-

hammad
from

Tahir, afterwards VazTr Khan, went his native city, Mashhad, to India in the

and has been twice lithographed in This last was Persia, A.H. 1264 and 1270. written in A.H. 1220 by Mulla Bamun *A1I

Rafi', who was born in reign of Sb.ahjab.an. Dehli, was attached as Divan to the staff of Prince Mu'izz ud-Dln, whose mother was

^Jxi^

!>Lo

(Miimin

'All

?)

KirmanT, poeti-

cally called Raji,

Ibrahim Khan.

by order of the Shahzfidah See the Journal of the As.

been

a sister of his own, and subsequently obtained

the post of governor of Gualiyfir. Having lost the latter office after the death of Aurangzib, he retired to Dehli, where he died A.H. 1123 or 1124. The first date is given

Soc. of Bengal, vol. 21, p. 535. The Hamlah i Haidari of Bazil has

lithographed in

Lucknow, A.H. 1267.

The first page of the MS. bears the name and the Persian seal of General Carnac.

by

Siraj,

Oude

Catalogue, p. 150, and fixed

Poll.
;

by the chronogram ^o J&J- ^- jf> W, quoted

in the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara; the second is found in Mir'at us-Safa, fol. 222, and Tarikh
i

Egerton 1037.
312;

12^

in.

by 7|; 18

lines, 5 in.

Muhammadi,
fol.

fol.

246.

See also Mir'at Jafol.

long written in two columns, in a cursive Indian character, apparently in the 18th
century.

liannuma,

324, Mir'at Aftabnuma,

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copy.
first

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Beg.
:

705

half of
foil.

responding to

the same work, cor187 of the preceding

Turab,

Egerton 1038,
Foil.

The author, who

lines,

134; 15

in.

by 8|; 21

in.

praises

in

the

pro-

long; written in cursive Nestalik, in four columns; dated Safar, A. II. 1207 (A.D.
1792).

The second
responding
686.
to

half of the
foil.

same poem,

cor-

187
._ila5

315 of Egerton

reigning sovereign, Shah Sullogue tan- Husain, states that his purpose had been to write a strictly moral tale, fit to be read by old and young. The story, which is borrowed from the Kafi of Kullini, records the trials, and eventual triumph, of a virtuous woman, exposed to the obsessions of a wicked Kazi,
the

Copyist

tje J*

her husband's brother.

The
Foil. 360;

title

and date of composition, A.H.

fol,

Add. 25,806. Hi in. by 6| 23

;

1126, are stated in the following lines,

lines,

4J

in.

986:
r>

long; written in cursive Indian Shikastahamiz, in four columns; dated Lucknow, Zulhijjah,

cr

A.U. 1206 (A.D. 1791).

(r--*

[WM. CUBKTON.] The same work, with a continuation by

Azad,
foil.

tory of 'Ali

316 360, which contains the hisfrom his accession to his death,
:

The

fly-leaf bears the title

and begins thus

Foil. 168;

Add. 16,795. 7$ in. by 4; 12

lines,

2|

in.

has been mentioned p. 373 o, states in the prologue that, after completing his Dilkusha-Namah (see p. 719 6), he had been desired by Muhammad Fakhr udDin Khan, a cousin of B&zil, to complete
Azad,
the unfinished work of the latter.

who

long; written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, in the 18th century.

[WM. YULE.]

Copyist

^ ObU
by 4&
;

The Divan of 'Ali.

Beg. (^>*J,^

sj j\ J*

Jjb

j\

Add. 7809.
Foil. 99; 9 in.

11

lines,

2$

in.

long

written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and goldruled margins, in the 18th century.
[Cl. J.
ju_'

Mirza Abul-Ma'ali, poetically surnamed 'Ali, came of a noble family of Nishapur, which He traced its origin to Farid ud-Din 'Attar.

RICH.]

and lived at the court of Farrukhsiyar, from whom he received the title of Vizarat Khan. See

was a

Sufi

and an eminent

scholar,

jji~o

" The Model of the Chaste," a tale in Masnavi rhyme.

voi.
11.

Mushafi,

fol.

Catalogue, p. Hind., vol. i. p. 191. N

Hamishah Bahar, Oude and Garcin de Tassy, Litt. 126,

67,

706
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Kasldahs, and Kit'ahs, including chronograms, fol. 1 b. Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 23 a.
yfit, fol.

Add. 25,822.
2| in. long; written in cursive Nestalik; dated from the camp of Nizam ul-Mulk Asafjah,
Foil.

Ruba'is and Fardiy-

166; 8f

in.

by 5; 17

lines,

164

b.

some pieces addressed to Farrukhsiyar, and chronograms ranging from A.H. 1124 to 1127, and relating for the
Dlvfin contains

The

near

the fort of Ausa (Owsa), Sha'ban, A.H. 1145 (A.D. 1733).

Deccan

most part to births and marriages in the

imperial family.

[War. CUHETON.]

Selection from the Divan of Bldil.

Or, 313.
Foil.

Beg.

\j&- L-^lSS

jl

(JJIAM

dy */

149

in.

by 4^

15

lines,

2|

in.

long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, for Uzbak Khan, son of Kipchak

Khan

dated Multan, Zulka'dah, A.H. 1142,

[GEO.

(A.D. 1730).

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Mirza 'Abd ul-Kadir, poetically surnamed Bidil, is by common consent the greatest Indian poet of the last century but Persian critics find fault with him for his unidiomatic He was of Turkish extraction, phraseology.
;

The Divan of Munsif.

Beg.
\jj.>

tj-jjl

JUIS

belonging to the Chaghatai tribe of Arlat, He but was born in 'Aznnabad (Patna). is described as a man of herculean strength and proud spirit. Having been attached in
his

The poet gives his proper name, Fazil Khan, in the following chronogram, fol. 146,
relating to

youth to the service of Prince Muhammad A'zam Shah, he chose to leave it rather than
to prostitute his talent by lauding his patron, as he was required to do, and led henceforth

the building of his house in

:

Lahore, A.H. 1117

a free and independent life, dwelling mostly in Dehli, wliere his house was the common
resort of all lovers of poetry, and where he died in A.H. 1133 at the age of seventy-nine.

He
to

appears to have been attached to the service of 'Abd us-Samad Khan Dilir Jang,
several of his Kasldahs are adand to whose victory over the Sikhs, dressed, in A.H. 1127, he refers fol. 9 a. See Sprenger,

whom

His collected works are said to amount to more than a hundred thousand lines. Notices on Bldil are found in Mir'at ulKhayal, foil. 257268, Sarkhush, fol. 19, MushafI, fol. 25, HusainT, fol. 29, Tarikh i

Oude Catalogue,

p. 507.

Muhammadi,
fol.
i

fol.

253,

Riyiiz
fol.

ush-Shu'ara,
35,

'Abd us-Samad Khan distinguished himself under Farrukhsiyar by the capture of the Sikh chief Bandu, and was rewarded for his success with the Subahdari of Lahore and Multan. See Tazkirat ul-llmara, fol. 72. Contents Ghazals Kasldahs, fol. 2 b. in alphabetical order, fol. 14 b. Ruba'is fol. 132 b. similarly arranged,
:

83, Khulasat ul-Afkar,

fol.

Naghmah

'Andallb,

50.

Catalogue, p. Litt. Hind., vol.

Compare Sprenger, Oude 378, and Garcin de Tassy,

i.

p. 314.

volume

entitled

Jj.^

<^->\^,

litho-

graphed in the Nikat,

'Unsur.

Lucknow, A.H. 1287, comprises Ruka'at, Divan, and Chahar

POETRY.
The present MS. contains Ghazals
alphabetical order,
larly arranged,
fol.

A.H. 11001200.
in

707

Author
Samad,
Beg.

Maulavi 'AH Asghar B. 'Abd us-

fol.

b,

RubaMs, simi-

*d
\JU

134 a, and Mukhammasat,

foL 146

b.

UJ1 ff Jjftj

UJli-

tr-il

j ,>>

Add. 7093.
Foil.

The above
lines,

title

and author's name are

332: 9$

in.

by 5$; 17

2|

in.

long; written in Nestalik; dated Rajab, the 4th year of the reign (of Farrukhsiyar= A.H.
1129, A.D. 1716).

found in the subscription. From the following words, which are appended to the latter, J\ U*!P it would 3b^ j 3Uy J'jo A\
(.b,

appear that *Ali Asghar was alive at the date of transcription, and that the transcriber,

who

calls himself ,_^/*

,

^*^ u^^-5

poem
Bidil.

treating of Sufi doctrines,

^ <p

by

was one of

his disciples.

Beg.

Add. 5635.
It
is

divided into

numerous

sections,

each
Foil.

of which has a Masnavi distich for its rubric. The author states at the end that the

109

in.

by 4J

15

lines, 2

in.

poem

consists of eleven thousand lines,

and

long; written in Indian Nestalik, in the 18th century. [NATH. B. HALHED.)

gives the date of its completion, A. II. 1124, in the following chronogram :

The Divan of Kusim Divanah.

Copyist

page is a note stating that the MS. had been bought in A.H. 1169 by Mirza Muhammad, son of Mu'tamad Khan; also the Persian seal of Archibald S win ton,
the
first

On

with the date 1174.

Kasim, a native of Mashhad, studied in Isfahan, and became a pupil of Mirza Sii'ib. He subsequently went to India, where ho was apparently still living in A. II. 1130. See the Hamishah Bahar, Oude Catalogue,
ill l,i

Add. 7094.
15 lines, 3$ in. long ; Written in cursive Indian Nestalik dated A.H. 1135, the fourth year of MuhamFoil.

fol. 107, Riya? ush-Shu'ara, Mir'at Aftabnuma, fol. 152, Husaini, 372, foL 108, and the Oude Catalogue, p. 533.

p. 128,

Sarkhush,

fol.

167

94

in.

by 5$

nis nickname Divanah, or madman, was probably due to the use he made of that word in the first lino of one of his Ghazals
:

mad Shah

(A.D. 1719).

The "Gardens of

Insight," a

Manavi

containing precepts on spiritual life, illustrated by anecdotes of the patriarchs and

Contents: Ghazals in alphabetical order, A Ma^navi, fol. 105 b. Ruba'is, fol. 1 b.

fol.

108

a.

some celebrated

saints.

Copyist:

N N 2

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he was a native of Shushtar, fol. 194, that he had previously written a history of prophets and saints, fol. 188 a, and that he was upwards of seventy years of age when he composed the present poem, fol. 194, which he completed in the

Add. 25,805.
19 lines, 5f in. long; written in a cursive Indian hand in four columns, in the 18th century; much
Foil.
;

Hazik

states

that

172

12

in.

by 8|

damaged by

fire

in 1865.

[Wn. CURETON.]

A poem on
'All.

the

life

and warlike deeds of

space of four months, while performing a toilsome and a dangerous journey. On the first page is written, by a later hand,
the following the text
:

Author: Hikmat,
Beg.

title,

which does not appear in

The author, whose proper name was Muhibb 'All Khan, wrote this poem, as he
complete the Haidari (see p. 704 a). He was evidently a Shl'ah of the most rabid stamp, and never mentions Abu Bakr or 'Uniar without calling them hog, dog, or
unfinished
states in the prologue, in order to

Hamlah

Add. 25,831.
6 lines in a page written in Nestalik, in the 18th century.
Foil.

48

6J

in.

by 4J

M. CURETON.]

similar names.

A.H. 1143 was given

sition, is

passage of the conclusion, in which as the date of compo-

now

lost.

A collection

of detached distichs describ-

Add. 7808.
3J in. long; written in Shikastah-amlz, in the 18th
Toll. 201;

ing the charms of the female breast. Author: Allah Virdl Khan Fayyaz, A\
lines,

10|

in.

by 5|; 19

Beg,

lc

century.

[Cl. J.

RICH.]

A poem on the history of Fatimah, according to Shi'ah tradition,

The author
he

by the same Hikmat,

states in a short preface that wrote these verses in the space of a week,

with a continuation.
Beg.

at the request of a Darvlsh called

Shaukmast,

who had
this

accosted

poem, as stated in the prologue, after completing the

Saulat
i

Hikmat, who commenced

Safdari, left
it

on the river's tion, A.H. 1144,

him while he was fishing bank. The date of composi-

is expressed in a versified the words chronogram by

unfinished.
(

The
foil.

continuation, entitled

38 b

201

a, is

*OJ -j, by Hazik jiU, who in

_5

l9\J

Add. 19,620.
Foil. 100;

the prose preface prefixed to the calls himself c-A-ilaM JaKJ>

first

part

8J

in.

by 41; 15

lines, 3

in.

long
tury.

written in Nestalik, in the 18th cen-

W \UJI
Beg.
>

[SAMUEL LEE,]
of Mukhlis.

.*

Jli

The Divan

POETRY.

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Or. 281.
Mirza
lis,

Muhammad, poetically styled Mukhcalled

from his native place, Mashhad, to Isfahan in the reign of Shah Sultan Husain by I'timad ud-Daulah Mumin Khan. Hazin, who was acquainted with him, states, fol. 33, that he died in that city, about sixty
years of age. Several pieces of the present Divan are quoted in the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 444. See also Mir'at Aftftbnuma, fol. 154, Nai*h-

was

in. lines, 3 long written in Skikastah-amiz, about A.H. 1151 (A.D. 1738). From the royal library of Lucknow. [GEO. WIT. HAMILTON.]
;

Foil.
;

149

8|

in.

by 5

12

The Divan

of Sabit.

Mir
Sabit,

Muhammad

Afzal, poetically styled

mah

'Andalib, 128, 138. pp.

fol.

107,

and Oude Catalogue,

Contents

Ohazals, in alphabetical order.

Kit'ahs, similarly arranged, fol. 81 b.

Add. 22,704.
Foil.

was the nephew of Himmat Khan (Mir 'Isa), of Badakhshan, who was Mir Bakhshi under Aurangzib, and died A.H. 1092 (see p. 697 ft). Sabit, who was a Sayyid of great learning and piety, died in Dehli, his native place, on the 13th of Rabi* I., A.H. 1151. See Tarikh Muhammadi, fol. 289,
Mir'at Aftabnumii,
fol.

96

8^

in.

by 5; 14
;

lines,

in.

long;

187, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

written in Nestalik

dated Shawal, A.H.

[SIR JOHN CAMPBELL.]

1234 (A.D. 1819).

173, and the Oude 578. Catalogue, p. Contents Kasidahs, mostly in praise of the Imams, fol. 2 ft. Masnavis, including Marsjyahs on the martyrs of Karbala, fol.
fol.

95, Atashkadah,

fol.

67
^\5 v_*>, of a religious entitled " Gardens of Union," treating poem, of ascetic life.
part,

ft.

A second series of Kasidahs, addressed

most part
Ghazals, in
fol.

The second

for the

to

contemporaries,
order,

fol.
fol.

Beg.

141 ft. Kit'ahs, fol. 143 a. fol. 145 a. Mukhammasnt, The first of the above sections includes a long Kasidah entitled i_j3 *^^ fHft.

88 96

a.

alphabetical

Ruba'is,

The author, whose name does not appear, was a wandering Darvish of the Ni'matullalii
order.

He

refers incidentally, fol.

32

a,

to a

in which the poet retorts on his The Divan was collected, after Sabit's critics. death, by his pupil. Band i *Ali who writes

2139,

journey he took from Isfahan to Kirman to vi-.it the tomb of the holy founder of the order in Mahan (see p. 634 b), and to a disturbance in which his fellow traveller Mushtak lost his life. The prologue contains a long panegyric on Ahmad Pasha, who wielded an almost independent power in Baghdad from A.H. 1135 to 1159. See the Arabic
Catalogue,
p. 133.

at the end

-.

Or. 274.
Foil. 279;

in.

by o

15

lines,

in.

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long ; written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and ruled columns; dated Rain* I., the 19th year of Muhammad Shah, A.H. 1147 (A.D. 1734).

this

Azad found Afarin engaged in composing poem in A.H. 1143. See the Oude

Catalogue, p. 317.

prose version of the

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

same

The Divan
Beg.
^t

of Afarin.

found in Or. 1244. A Hindustani version, Kissah Ranjha Hir, by Makbul, has been translated by Garcin de Tassy, Revue de 1' Orient, 1857.
tale is

Add. 18,545.
Foil.

Shah Fakir Ullah Afarin, a Sufi and poet, was born in Lahore, and died there, A.H.
1154.
city,

235

in.
;

long, in a page

by 5f ; 14 lines, 3 in. written in fair Nestalik,

;

Valih, who met him in his native A.H. 1147, was much struck with his

with gold-ruled margins A.H. 1162 (A.D. 1749).

dated Jumada

I.,

genius, born in

and says
Persia,

had he only been he would have been the

that,

[H. STEINSCHUSS.]

See Riyaz ushgreatest poet of the age. Shu'ara, fol. 61, Mushafi, fol. 11, Tarlkh Muhammadi, fol. 294, and the Oude Catalogue, pp. 150, 154,

Masnavl on love and anecdotes of

:

lovers,

with a prose preface.

and 317.
fol.

Author
poetically

Muhammad, known
Zarafat, >~AJ

as

Kasim,

Contents
fol.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order,

surnamed

b.

Mukhammasat,

256

a.

RuBeg. of the Preface

Beg. of the
:

ba*is, fol.

266 a. Kasidahs in praise of Muhammad, and a Tarji-band on the martyrdom of Hasan and Husain, fol. 267 b.

Poem

Or. 348.
Foil.
;

103

in.

by 5|

11

lines,

3J

in.

long Hamilton, then Commissioner of Multan dated Zalachur, Rabi' I., A.H. 1277 (A.D.
;

written in Nestalik for Col. Geo.

Wm.

author, who lived at Lahore, says repeatedly that he had never made a study of prosody, nor written any verses before.

The

The poem, which

lines,

is

said to consist of

6268

1860).

and in which are inserted extracts

" Hir and Ranjhan," the tale of two Panjabi lovers, a Magnavi by the same poet.
J

from various works, Persian and Arabic, is divided into two Daftars, the first of which was completed A.H. 1146, and the second, An appendix, in fol. 203 b, A.H. 1149. which the poet describes a happy meeting with his beloved, is dated A.H. 1156.
This copy contains
additions.

Copyist: JUJ

numerous marginal

In the subscription the

title

is

written

Egerton 1036.
is

but in the text the heroine's name

variably written
urc^J;.

in-

Foil. 207

long

; 8i in. by 5 ; 15 lines, 2| in. written in Shikastah-amiz, in two

POETRY.

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columns, dated Zulka'dah, the 7th year of 'Alamgir II. (A.H. 1173, A.D. 1760).
Beg.
J- j\

Jj

s jlti'

The love-story of a Masnavi.

Kamrup and

Kiimlata,

Mirza
l>ash

Muhammad

Hi/a, afterwards Kizil-

Author: Anjab, t_j^1 Beg. yU *i3 o-j*

Badl' ul-'Asr,

J}

commonly

called Haji Rabi',

Khan, poetically surnamed Ummid, was Hamadan and a skilled musician. Mirza Tahir Vahid, and afterwards Mir Najat, were his instructors in poetry. Having gone to India in the reign of Bahadur Shah, he
a native of

poetically styled Anjab, gave himself out for a native of Andalus (Spain). He came in his

attached himself to the service of Nizam ulMulk Asafjah. He died in Dehli on the
'9th of

childhood to Isfahan, where he spent thirty years, and became a pupil of Murtaza Kuli

Beg Zanknah, surnamed

Valai Isfahan!. After

Jumada I., A.H. 1159. See Tarikh i Muhammadi, fol. 305, Mushaf fol. 8, Naghmah 'Andalib, fol. 43, the Oude Catalogue,
i,

long travels he settled in Dehli, where he died, it is said, upwards of a hundred years

He was a most prolific poet Muslmf who saw him some months before his death, mentions, among his works, an imitation of the Khamsah of Nizami, a Divan of sixty
old.
;
i,

pp. 153, 300, 581, and G. de Tassy, Litt. Hind., vol. iii., p. 250. Contents : Kasidabs in praise of Muham-

mad and
first

'Ali,

of

Muhammad
2

thousand

verses,

an

extensive

work on

b. Khan, and others, fol. of which is addressed to Farrukhsiyar,

Shah, Zulfakar Mukatta'at, the

fol. fol.

11

b.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order,

Imitmi tenets, a tale of the four Darvishes in prose, and a metrical translation of the
see 'Ikd eighteen Parvas of the Mahabharat a. Surayya, Add. 10,727, fol. 4 Compare Hamishah Bahar, Oude Catalogue, p. 118. Murtazii Kuli Beg, surnamed Vala, a native
;

16

b.

Mukhammassit,
fol.
:

fol.

239

a.

Mu241
a.

fradii t,

alphabetically arranged,

fol.

Rubu is,

240

a.

Copyist

of Persia, was attached to the service of Sar1m land Khan, and went, after the death of that Amir, to Bengal, where he died. See
Itiy.ix

Or. 345.
Foil.

91

OJ

in.

by 3 J

12

lines,

2g

in.

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the

The

ush-Shu'ara, prologue contains a eulogy on

fol.

600.

18th century.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

MuThe
love-tale of Prince

Shah, and upon a Khan, called Mahmiid, who had sent for the author, then
living
in

hammad

seclusion, and requested him

to

Naz, a Sufi

Niyaz and Princess allegory in Manavi rhyme.

Azad,
i>^T

put the above story into verse. The poem was completed, as stated at the end, in

Author
Beg.

A.H. 1157.

^ p\+ c=-LU> J> ^\

c/ (^

cM Jr* ^ ^
The
of
author's

Or. 304.
249 ; 9$ in. by 5 ; 15 lines, 3 in. written in Shikastah, dated Rajab, long ; A.H. 1159 (A.D. 1740). From the royal
Foil.

Sayyid, the poem was written.

Tlie prologue contains a eulogy on a holy Mir Abu '1-Vafa, by whose desire

name

library of Lucknow.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

occurs in the fol. 91 a :

first

line

the

epilogue,

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long
;

written

in Nestalik,

in

the 18th

^ b-jb
a.

Ji>- &*aJ> >i-l

j-a
;

century.
see
foil.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

as well as in

some other passages

is

22
fol.

b,

50
b,

a,

85

The
91

The Divan
found in the epilogue,
Beg.

of Hasrat.

title,

which

is

often repeated in the

same form, " Niyaz

to distinguish

The proper name

of the author,

who

desig-

u Naz," apparently intended

it

from the well-known poem " Naz u Niyaz " of Zamiri, a poet of the reign of Shah Tah-

nates himself alternately by the poetical surnames Hasrat and Ashraf, has not been

inasp.

A poet called Azad, whose proper name was

Mirza Arjumand, is mentioned by Siraj, and the author of Hamlshah Bahar, Oude CataHe was the son of logue, pp. 154, 117. 'Abel ul-Ghanl Beg Kabul, of Kashmir, who But there is died A.H. 1139, ib. p. 151. nothing to show whether the present poem should be ascribed to him, to an earlier Aziid, a native of Yazd, who died, according to
Mir'at Jahannuma, fol. 296, A.H. 950, or to some other poet of the same name.

appears from various chronograms contained in his Divan that he lived in India in the time of Muhammad Shah, and was a dependent of 'Azamat Ullah
ascertained.
It

records victories gained by that Amir over the Eohillas and the Jats in A.H. 1134, and his death in A.H. 1146. Later chronograms, which extend to A.H. 1158, relate to the rout of the army of Barhah by

Khan.

He

Mu'In ud-Dm Muhammad Khan, A.H. 1150, and to some incidents in the life of Parld ud-DIn Khan, who was apparently the
author's last patron.

Contents:

A
3

Or. 272.
Foil.
;

hammad,
11
lines,

fol.

Kasldah in praise of MuA Magnavl containing b.

125

81

in.

by 5

in.

written in Shikastah-fimiz, probably long about the close of the 18th century.

anecdotes of celebrated Sufis, imperfect, fol. 5 a. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, fol. 10 a,

beginning

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]
j
->

JJ
Kuba'is,
fol.

The Divan
Beg.
lo

of Itminan.

Kit'ahs, fol. 59 a.

62

a.

U ^js-

d\

4J
j\

^^

lkc

Or. 247.
Foil.
;

This Divan, which consists entirely of several imitations of Ghazals, contains

earlier poets, especially of Amir Khusrau. The latest of these appears to be Hilall, who

367

in.

by 5^

14

lines,

3|

in.

long written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, dated Shahjahanabad,

A.H. 1166 (A.D. 1753).

[GEO.

died A.H. 939

(p.

656

a).

No

record has

WM.

HAMILTON.]

been found of the author.

Or. 270.
Foil.

A
lines,

69; 8i

in.

by 5; 15

3|

in.

poem, in Magnavi rhyme. Author: Shaikh Sa'd ud-Din

Sufi

Ahmad,

POETRY.

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713

surnamedDiviinah, poetically styled Kuddusi,

.1

Beg.

Jl*.

^ ^U! ^ JU5
and some-

The Divan of
writing.

Ikslr, in the author's

hand-

and contemplation, in the form of comments on Arabic texts taken from the Kur*an and the Hadis, which
It treats of mystic love

are inserted as headings. The author, who uses Kuddusi,

times Kudsi.as his takhall us, appears from the

appended letters mentioned below to have been consulted by the 'Ulama of Balkh as a great authority on Sufi doctrines. He is designated thore as the author of ^Ui^N ^j* and other
religious works.
It is stated in

whose proper name is written in Muhammad 'Azim B. Muhammad Ja'far, and who was better known as Mir/a 'A/iinai Iksir, has been already mentioned p. 376 a. See also Mushafi, fol. 14, Anis, fol. 9, and the Oude Catalogue,

The

poet,

the subscription

p. 435.

the Arabic

present work

320 a, that he gave out the one of the writings of Shaikh Kuddusi ul-Munawari,
subscription,
fol.

Contents Ghazals, fol. 2 6, and Ruba'is, fol. 291 a, both alphabetically arranged.
:

as

Add. 18,583.
The following short pieces are subjoined
:

Letter of Kazi Fuzail to the author, dated Balkh, A.H. 1166, with four questions on
points of Sufi doctrine, and the answer, in

two
vari,

drafts, foil.

322

A,

and 351

b.

197; 8i in. by 4}; 17 lines, 2| in. written in Shikastah-amiz, with 'Unlong; van, gold-ruled margins, and five miniatures in Indian style; dated Sha'ban, A.H. 1161
Foil.

letter

in verse to Miyiin

Muhammad 'Umar Pasba-

(A.D. 1748).

[ADAM CLARKE.]

and other poetical pieces on Sufi subA letter of jects, by the author, fol. 328 6. the Kazis and Muftis of Balkh to the author, relating to some unguarded utterances of great Sufis, with the answer, fol. 335 b.

" Shahid and Mashhud," a love-story, by in the same handwriting. Iksir,

Some Ghazals by Kuddusi,

order,
fol.

in alphabetical

Beg.

342
.>'.

b.

Beg.

\j

The author says

in the prologue that

he

Masnavis by the same,

fol.

359

a.

had learnt the story, which is here put into verse, from his younger brother Abul-Hasan, a learned and travelled man, who told him that it was a popular tale in Egypt.

Or, 276.
Foil. 308;

long

17 lines, 3| in. written in Shikastah-amiz, with goldin.

;

Hi

Or. 296.
by 6
Foil.

171

10

in.

by 5

14

lines,

3|

in.

ruled

margins;

dated

(A.D. 1744).

From

Dehli, A.H. 1157 the royal library of

long; written in Nestalik, in the 19th cenFrom the royal library of Lucknow. tury.

Lucknow.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

[GEO. o o

WM.

HAMILTON.]

714,

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others, fol.

15

b.

Ghazals, in alphabetical
:

order, fol. 31 b, beginning

The Divan
Beg.

of 'Ishrat.

ybj

Mukhammasat,

fol.

218

a.

Chronograms

whose proper name is not stated, appears to have been a dependent of Shuja' ud-Daulah (the Nazim of Oude, A.H. 116788). In a long Kasidah addressed to the Navvab and appealing to his

The

relating to contemporary events in the reigns * of 'Alamgir II. and Shah Alam, to the births.

author,

liberality,

he describes himself as a Hindu

and deaths of Amirs, etc., with dates ranging from A.H. 1159 to 1174. Masnavis, fol. Rubais and Kifahs, fol. 278 a. 258 b. Thirty Ghazals from Mubad's first Divan, collected in Dehli, fol. 303 b. Appendix by the editor, fol. 315 b.
See the Oude Catalogue, p. 504.

Contents
fol.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order,

fol.

b.

Kasidah,

165

b,

beginning

Add. 7814.
Foil.
;

The same Divan

Catalogue, p.
Mirzii

is

described in the
it is

Oude

442, where
'Ishrat.

attributed to

'AH Riza

long in the 18th century.

210; 9 in. by 5; 15 lines, 3| in. written in cursive Nestalik, apparently

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Or. 324,
The Divan
Foil.

of Imla.

319

lOJ

in.

by 6; 13

lines,

3&

in.

long ; written in Nestalik, with three *Unvans and gold-ruled margins, in the 18th century. From the royal library of Luck-

.uu

now.

[G-EO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

The Divan consists entirely of Sufi poems. The author, who is only designated by his
takhallus, appears to have been a holy personage and spiritual teacher. Afghan, ap-

The Divan of Mubad.

Beg. b j> y O\, Prom a preface written A.H. 1180 by the we learn that poet's son, Tika Ram Zafar, Mubad, originally called Zindah Ram Pan.....

parently the author of the next following Divan, is described in the subscription as his adopted son and successor j^, J
: .

L_ki'

JJJib

dit,

was a native

of Kashmir,

and a pupil

of Mirza Girami, son of 'Abd ul-Ghani Beg Kabul (see p. 712 a) ; that he had settled in

Lucknow, where his two sons took service in the reign of Shah 'Alatn that one of these, Sita-Ram 'Umdah, died in A.H. 1173, and
;

Contents
zals, in

Two Manavis,

fol.

b.
b,

Ghabegin-

alphabetical order,

fol.

that his father did not long survive him. Contents Kasidahs in praise of 'Alij of
:

ning:
jj-*T

Jftia

J/

Shah 'Alam, Navvab Madcr ud-Daulah, and

POETRY.
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fol.

A.H. 11001200.

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194

a.

two leaves contain invocations to Shaikh Muhyi ud-Dln 'Abd ul-Kftdir Jilani.

The

last

tered as secretary the service of a youthful Amir who had a taste for poetry, Band i 'All

Khan, afterwards Shlr-afkan Khan, a son of Ghairat Khan. There he witnessed, some time later, the invasion of Nadir Shah, and
the sack of the capital. He speaks at some length of the poets with whom he became

Or. 275.
2J in. long written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, probably in the 19th
Foil. 124;
;

in.

by 5|; 13

lines,

century.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

acquainted at Dehli, especially of Shaikh Hazin (p. 372 b), and 'AH Kuli Khan Valih (p. 371 a). Having attached himself to the latter, he stayed with him until the Khan's After that event he death, in A.H. 1169. returned home, but, finding no employment

The Divan

of Afghan.

vsU

he repaired to Shams&biid, where he found a patron in Sayyid Basalat Jahfm. The above poem, which was written shortly
there,
after the author's arrival at Shamsiibad,
is

Afghan above was originally called Imam 'All mentioned, Khan. He was a Darvish living in Lucknow, and left, besides this Div&n, a Masnavi composed A.H. 1174. See the Oude Catalogue, pp. 197, 318, and Garcin de Tassy, Litt.
author, probably the

The

followed by four shorter Masnavis, foil. 63 a, 67 a, 70 a, and 73 a, the first in Hindustani,

the other three in Persian, all relating to the author's new master, whose death in A.H.

1176

is

recorded in the
fol.

last.

In the

last

but one,

70

a,

the author says that he

Hind. vol.

i.

117.
Kit'ahs,

was then past

and
series,
a.

sixty.

The Divan contains Ghazals,

detached verses, in one alphabetical and a few Ruba'Is at the end, fol. 121

Or. 322.
Foil. 446;

9^

in.

by 5|; 14

lines,
five

in.

Add. 16,805.
Foil. 81
;

'Unvfms and gold-ruled margins, about A.H. 1155

long; written in Nestalik, with
lines

6|

in.

by 4; 18 diagonal

(A.D. 1742).

[GEO.

WM. HAMILTON.]

in a page, written in cursive Nestalik, in the latter half of the 18th century.

[WM. YULE.]

JU
A
record of the author's
life,

The Divan
in Masnavl

of

Muhammad, known

as 'Ali

ul-Jilani Hazin,

rhyme. Author
Beg.

Beg.
:

jt*

*.

Gulshan,

Shaikh Muhammad 'Ali Hazin, who has been already mentioned, p. 372 b, died, according to theTarikh i Muhammadi, fol. 317, in Benares, on the 13th of Jumada I., A.H. 1180.

The author, whose proper name does not appear, tells us that he was born in Jaunpur. He went as a young man to Dehli and en-

He

is

considered in India as the greatest poet

of his time, although his pungent satires had roused against him bitter animosities. Full o o 2

716
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Prologue and epilogue of a Mas.navi called Tazkirat ul-'Ashikin ;(ib. p. 889), fol. 437 ft,
beginning:

life, with extracts from his found in Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, foil. 138150, Mushafi, foil. 3237, Haft Asman, foil. 161 4, Naghmah i 'Andalib, His foil. 6570, and Atashkadah, fol. 174.

poems, will be

memoirs and the Tazkirat ul-Mu'asirm, have been lithographed, under the title of ^^, oU/, in
collected works, including his

Epilogue of the fourth Divan

(ib. p. 1026), transcribed from the author's autograph, fol.

Lucknow, A.H. 1293.

See also the

444
&Z,

b,

sJiy

^^ ^ f-\ j* ^ J^
lai-

]>

v\
:

Oude Catalogue,

p. 424, Biblio-

Joj

^JLj.1 tdljU*

j! tj)

beginning

theca Sprenger., No. 1413, the Munich Catalogue, p. 39, and the catalogue of King's
College Library, No. 124.

The author
3
b,

states in a prose preface,

fol.

Foil. 2

and 3 contain some

lines of poetry

having previously published three Divans, he had collected in a fourth, A.H. 1155, the remainder of his detached

that, after

in the handwriting of Hazin, signed as fol-

lows

He adds that he was then past fifty of age, and residing in India. The four years Divans contain, according to his account,
pieces.

JiS.

about thirty thousand lines, and thousand one hundred and seventy pieces. Contents Kasidahs, mostly in praise of Muhammad, and the Imams, fol. 6 b, begin:

Additional pieces, written here and there in the margins of the Divan, are due to the same hand.

Or. 356.
Foil. 222;

ning

Ji*k^t>

^ L^J

c^^c-

jis-

11$

in.

by 6j

lines,

in.

Ghazals, in

alphabetical order,

fol.

62

b,

beginning

long ; written in large Nestalik, with 'Unvans and gold-ruled margins, in the 18th century.
[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

The Divan of the same

Beg.

'All

Hazm.

Fragments of Ghazals, CjU o\5^*, also in alphabetical order, fol. 340 b. Ruba'Is, fol. 363 b. Mukatta'at similarly arranged, (Lucknow edition, p. 903), fol. 389 b. A

JL\ nJLj
:

j^l^j

O/jc

jts-

Contents

Kasidahs in praise of the Imams

Manavl

called
(

^\
406

_,

^^

(Lucknow
:

edi-

tion, p. 823), fol.

b,

beginning

and on various subjects, including Mukatta'at and a Mariyah on the death of Husain, fol. 26. Chaman u Anjuman, fol. 161 b. Mukhtasar i Kharabat, fol. 178 a. Dibajah
i

Tazkirat ul-'Ashikin,

fol.

201

a.

Dibajah

Abridgment of a
(ib.

Manavl
b,
i

called
:

Kharabat

p. 839), fol.

417

beginning
'
\

*MlV* ll)

The prologue of Matmah ul-Anzar, another

Masnavi
(ib. p. 863),
J.S. fol.

432

b,

beginning

ul-Anzar, fol. 216 a. In a prose preface prefixed to the above four Mas.navis, fol. 160, the author states that the original drafts had been scattered in various countries, and that he had now written what he describes as a sample of each, in order to comply with the desire of a

Matmah

noble friend in India.

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10

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18

lines, 3

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long ; written in Nestalik, about the close of the 18th century. [W M ERSKINE.]
.

written in Shikastah-amiz, probably in the 19th century. early The Divan of Hazln, containing Kasldahs

long;

Two Masnavis by Nizam ud-Din

'Ishrat

SiyalkutI Kurashi,

ki

and Ghazals,

fol.

61

b.

The
off in

alphabetical series, although breaking the letter ,-, is richer than the corre-

Ishrat states in the latter part of his second poem that, having gone from Siyalkut,
his native place, to pay homage to Ahmad Shfih Durrani, then on his return march from

sponding section in the preceding copies.

Add. 5608.
Foil. 39 ; 12 in. by 7f ; 23 lines; written in cursive Shikastah-amiz, about A.H. 1180

(A.D. 1767).

Dehli, he accompanied the Shah to Kabul, and received from him, with many marks of favour, the necessary documents for the composition of a poetical record of His Majesty's reign, and the permission to go back to Siyalkut, in order to devote himself
to that task.

Mnsnnvi rhyme, of the British ware in Bengal, from the first

in

A poetical account,

I. Fol. 1. a poetical account (jfjiU *MU^1, of Nadir Shah's invasion in India, A,H.

year of 'Alamgir II. (A.D. 1754) to the conclusion of peace with Shfih 'Alam, and the grant of the Divani of Bengal to the East India Company (A.D. 1765).

his subsequent

1151-2, concluding with a brief record of wars and his death.

Author: Musafir,

The date of composition, A.H. 1162,

pressed in the following line
:

is

ex-

designates himself only by the above takhallus, was, it appears, with the .Marattah army in Benares, and subsequently in Dihftbidt He writes as a warm partisan of
poet,

The

who

II.

Fol. 130.
life

^*\
of

-'J^, a

poetical

record of the

Ahmad Shah

Durrani,

conquerors of Bengal, whom he hails as tin- future masters of India. In the epilogue he states that he had previously written a similar account in Hindi. The above title is given on fol. 38 b, with
tin-

from his

rise to

power under Nadir Shah to

the defeat of the Beluch chief Nasir Khan, A.H. 1173.

Beg.

the date of composition, A.H. 1180, expressed by the chronogram j&

page is the Persian Johannes Matthias Reuss (?)

first

On

the

seal of

Continuation of the above poem, dealing with Ahmad Shah's Indian campaign and his defeat of the Marattas at Panipat, concluding with the Shah's death
III. Fol.

288

b.

and the accession of Timur Shah (A.H. 1186).

Add. 26,285.
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121

124

in.

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4J

in.

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The main part

in the
life

was written
to

time of

Ahmad Shah,

whom

the

author bitterly complains of the sterility of his Jagir, and the annoyances which it entailed upon him.

" Falaknaz

" The Cypress and the Rose," also called Namah," or the story of Prince

Falaknaz, in

Manavi rhyme.

Author

Taskin,

Add. 23,982.
Foil. 64;

Beg.
lines,

7|

in.

by 4|

16

2g in.

long; written in Shikastah-amiz, apparently in the latter part of the 18th century.

The author states, in the conclusion, that he had adopted the above takhallus, because
he had found in the composition of this poem a relief (taskin) to his woes that his real name was 'Arab-Zadah, and that he was born of a family called Aulad Ya'kub, in the town of Katif. He was induced to write the present poem, as he states in the prologue,
;

The Divan
Beg.

of Niyazi.

U
\j

J>

This poet, whose proper name was Navvab Ahmad Mirza, was a son of Mirza Sayyid Murtaza, who had married a daughter of

his friend Mirzii Sharaf, who cated to him the prose narrative

by
it

communion which

is

founded, and urged

him

to complete

Shah Sultan Husain, and held in that Shah's reign the office of Sadr. Niyazi, who was
married to a daughter of his maternal uncle, Shah Tahmasp II., died in Isfahan A.H.

what
fol.

The date Ziya'i had only commenced. of composition, A.H. 1189, is recorded on
7 a.

A copy is
lection,

mentioned in the Ouseley Col-

Lutf 'All Khan, who was personally acquainted with him, composed the following chronogram on his death, Atashkadah, fol. 189:
1188.

No. 69.

Or. 1267.
Foil.
lines,
talik,

271; 8
in.

Contents
fol. fol.

b.

63

a.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, Ruba'Is, fol. 61 a. Chronograms, The chronograms, the dates of
:

3^ with miniatures in the Persian style; dated Ramazan, A.H. 1257 (A.D. 1841). The same poem, wanting the greatest part

14 long; written in cursive Nesin.

by 5f

from 12

to

of the prologue, and the epilogue.

which range from A.H. 1170 to 1187, relate to the death of some holy personages of the period, of a princess, 'Ismat Nisa, and of Shahbaz Khan.

Or. 291.
120; 81 in. by 6^; 13 lines, 3| in. written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and long ; gold-ruled margins, about the close of the
Foil.

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Toll. 205;

18th century.
8
in.

[GEO,

WM.

HAMILTON.]

(A.D. 1787).

[Cl. J.

RICH.]

The Divan of

Sani'.

POETRY. A.H. 11001200.

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'u..>

719

Jj

rently in the 18th century. library of Lucknow.

From

the royal

Nizam ud-Din Ahmad Siini', of Balgram, lived in Murshidabad, and afterwards in CalSee cutta, where he died about A.H. 1195.
Mushafi,
fol.

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

65,

Naghmah
Lilt, llind.

'Andalib,
p. 217, p. 54.

fol.

105, Sprenger,

Oude Catalogue,
iii.

and

history of Mukhtar, the avenger of Husain, a Shi'ah legend, in Manavi rhyme.

The

Garein de Tassy,
Contents
:

Author

Azad,

^J
JJ
-wjto-

A
2
b,

Tarji'-band,
b.

and three Mu-

jV
Mir Ghulam
in

khammas,
order,
fol.

fol.

Ghazals, in alphabetical
*Ali

10

beginning:

Azad, of Balgram, died

Aurangabad A.H. 1200.

See p. 373

a.

Hubuls,

fol.

117

a.

refers in the prologue to the poets who had before his time

He

numerous
sung the

Or. 321.
13 lines, 3g in. written in Nestalik, with 'Unvan and long; ruled margins, in the 19th century.
Foil.
;

praises of the Prophet's family, mentioning by name Asir, Zulali, 'Urfi, Kudsi, Sa'ib, Xuliuri, Firdusi, Buzjl, the author of Hamlah

282

in.

by 5$

Haidari, and Juyil. Inspired by the memories of Karhala, he found a new theme in the subject of the present poem, which
i

[CEO.

WM.

he commenced in the month of Safar, A.H.

1131.

HAMILTON.]

The poem is also called, from its subject, Mukhtfir Namah. See the Oude Catalogue,
The Divan of Vfik if.
ul-'Ain Vakif, son of Amanat rilah, K.i/i of Patiyalah, was a pupil of Ami (p.
p. 301.

Nur

to

At the end is found a Kasidah addressed Shah Husain Safavi, imperfect at the end.

501

6).

He

died in Dehli A.H. 1200.

fol.

See

Naghmah
nurn.i, fol.

'Andalib,
157,

191, Mir'at

Aft.,1)-

and Sprenger, Oude CataFoil.

;

logue, p. 689.

Or. 316.
373; 8$
in.

Beg.

Uj

by 5; 15

lines,

3|

in.

Contents Ghazals, in alphabetical order, with a few Kit'ahs, fol. 2 b. Ruba'is, fol. 254 a. long Tarji'-band, followed by a few Ruba'is and a Mukhammas, fol. 269 b.
:

written in fair Nestalik, apparently long in the 18th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]

The Divan of

Niziim.

Or. 354.
17 lines, 6 in. long; written in Nestalik, in four columns, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, appa;

J^iaJI
;

Foil 232

10$

in.

by 6$

The

author,

who
is

above takhallus,

is only designated by the the well-known 'Imiid ul-

720

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order.

Mulk Ghazi ud-Din Khan Bahadur Firuz Jang, grandson of Nizam ul-Mulk Asafjah,
and Vazir of

From a Kasidah addressed

to

Tippu

Ahmad Shah and

'Alamgir

II.

Sultan, shortly after his accession (A.H.1197), we learn that he was the son of Kazi Husain,

After the latter emperor's death, A.H. 1173, he relapsed into obscurity, and died about

A.H. 1200, in KalpT. Mushafi states, fol. 101, that he was still alive in A.H. 1199. See also Khizanah i 'Amirah, fol. 18, Maair
ul-Umara, fol. 392, Gulzar i Ibrahim, fol. 240 o, Naghmah 'Andalib, fol. 181, the Oude Catalogue, p. 273, and Garcia de Tassy, Litt.
Hind., vol.
ii.

and a native of Bombay. Another poem, in praise of the same prince, is stated, at the end, to have been written off Ceylon, in Zulhijjah, A.H. 1205, on a voyage to Pegu. The volume, which has the appearance of
x

a scrap-book, contains Kasldahs, Ghazals, and Manavls, mostly of a religious nature, without systematic arrangement. The latter
part contains Hindustani pieces and a few chronograms for A.H. 1206 and 1207.

p. 476.

Contents Ghazals, in alphabetical order, with two Kasidahs, fol. 2 b. Several Ghazals are addressed to Fakhr i Jahan, the author's
:

Or. 273.
FoU. 147; 8J in. by 5J; 11 lines, 3f in. written in cursive Indian Nestalik, long dated Shavval, A.H. 1209 (A.D. 1795). From
;

spiritual guide, also called

Maulana Fakhr

ud-Din
Ruba'is,
fol.

(see
fol.
b.
,

298

the Oude Catalogue, p. 273). 293 b. Tarkib and Tarji'-bands, Musaddasat of the kind called

C^-y*\3

fol.

323

b.

Mukhammasat,

fol.

330

b.

the royal library of Lucknow.

[GEO.

The

last of these is in Oriental Turkish.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Add. 26,172.
Foil. 54
;

The Divan

of Aftab.

5 in.

by 8|

about twenty lines

Aftab
is

in a page; written in Indian Shikastah-amiz, about the close of the 18th century.

the takhallus of

the Emperor

[WM. ERSKINE.]
.*u\5

cA
Mihri,

Shah 'Alam ('Ali Gauhar), who was born A.H. 1140, and died A.H. 1221.

The

Diviin consists of Ghazals, in alpha-

Poems

of Kazi

Ghulam Kasim

betical order, with a few Ruba'is at the end,

^13

b. See Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, the Munich Catalogue, p. 40, and the p. 318,

fol.

145

Beg.

Ouseley Collection, No. 68. On fol. 3 is a profile portrait

author.
is

of

the

At the beginning

found this heading

Add. 7823.
8i in. by 4|.; 17 lines, 3 in. written in cursive Nestalik, on Eurolong; pean paper, early in the 19th century.
Foil. 73;
[01. J. RICH.]

The

author,

who

uses

Kasim

as

his

takhallus,

was

affiliated to

the Nakshabandi

POETRY.

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721

gold-ruled margins, early in the 19th century.

The Divan of Kliakan. Khakan is the poetical surname of Fath

'All

affixed

Three Magnavis, ascribed, in the label to the back of the MS., to Hfyi
Shirazi,

Shah.

Muhammad Husain

The Divan of the royal author is mentioned by Sir John Malcolm, who had obtained a
copy of it in one of his missions to Persia, A.D. 1800 or 1810. See " History of Persia,"
Ouseley's Travels, vol. iii. p. 372, Asiatisches Museum, p. 377, and the catalogues of St. Petersburg, p. 403, and
vol.
ii.

The author, whose name does not appear

in the text, addresses Fath 'Ali Shah, fol. 133 a, as the reigning sovereign. He has
all

p. 647,

Wm.

the prolixity of Sufi poets, and delights in the endless repetition of the same idea

under different images.

'

Munich,

p. 41.
:

Contents Preface to the Divan by Nashat, This preface, as well as the short fol. 1 b. introductions to the various sections prose
of the Divan, and the epilogue, are found collected in the works of Xashiit (see p. 722 a), foil. 18 a 26 b. Kasidahs in praise of 'Ali

I.

Fol. 1 b.

\jis-, j-tj,

" Viirnik and 'Azra,"

a love-story.

Beg.

The author says

the hero's
love that

in the prologue that under

and of the Shah's predecessor, Aka Muhammad, fol. 6 a. Ghazals, in alphabetical order,
fol.

name he only describes burns in his own heart.

92
b.
*.tt

the holy

15

a,

beginning

II. Fol.

jilt,

" The Book of the

Camel."
Beg.

OJ/ ^title,

j\

J&te
is

Tarkib-band,

fol.

55

a.
fol.

alphabetical order,

Detached verses, in 57 a. RubaX fol.

The above
of 'Altar's

Marsiyah on the death of Husain, fol. 64 a. Masnavis, fol. 66 b. Epilogue of Nashat, fol. 71 a.
62
b.

which poems (p. 578

taken from one

b), is justified

by

frequent descriptions of the wild longings of the camel, and repeated addresses to the
camel-driver
III. Fol.

106

b.

Add. 18,544.
in. by 6 ; 15 lines, 3$ written in Nestalik, with 'Unviin and long gold-ruled margins, early in the 19th cen-

poem without

title,

beginning
in.

Foil 74 ; 10
;

j\

tury.

[II.

STERNSCHUSS. ]

This poem, which

is

is

written in continuation
it

The same Divan, wanting the Kasidahs

and the prose
prefaces.

of the preceding, without

distinguished from

any apparent break, by the change of

It belongs to the class called *~+> metre. or " adjuratory."

Add. 25,017.
188 ; 8i in. by 5 13 lines, 2$ in. long, with 26 lines in the margins written in neat Nestalik, with three TJnvans and
Foil.
; ;

IV. Fol. 114

a love-story.

ft.

tU j ^, " Mihr and Mah,"

Beg.
p P

TOL. n.

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POETRY.
sections

A.H. 12001300.
desire

The various
headings,

have extensive prose

of

the

Shah,

after

the

Eussian

showing the application of the

allegory to mystic love.

campaign (A.H. 1218), in which he had accompanied his sovereign.

collection includes pieces in Oriental Turkish, fol. 35 a, and in Arabic, fol. 36 a.

The

Add. 19,533.
FolL 187
;
;

Pol. 55
lines, 4
in.

b.

Kasldahs addressed to Path

12

in.

by ?i

15

'All

Shah, mostly on the occasion of the

festivals.

long written in Nestalik, on English paper, with the water-mark 1809.

Nauruz
Beg.

The collected works of Nashat prose and verse. Mu'tamad ud-Daulah Mirza 'Abd ul-Vahhab, poetically surnamed Nashat, was courtShah. A poet and secretary to Path 'All
letter

U-SJ, in

This section contains some Kasidahs imitated from Anvarl by desire of the Shah. It concludes with a Turkish piece and a few
Kit'ahs.

of

his

composition,

addressed

to

Pol.

75

b.

Letters

and miscellaneous

about A.H. 1220, has been George His *^& ^J^ has mentioned p. 392 a.
III.

been printed in Teheran, A.H. 1266.

Fol. 1
love,
b.

compositions in prose. Among the former are letters written in

the

name

of

Path

'Ali

Shah

to the Sultan

Masnavi treating of mystic

:

with a prose preface beginning

(in Turkish), to the Emperor Napoleon, to George III. of England, to the Vahhabi chief (in Arabic), and to other

Mahmud

Pol. 13

b.

Two Kasidahs

in praise

of

Path

princes and dignitaries. They are undated, and for the most part without headings.

'All Shah.

The second
contains

section,

Beg.

letters written

beginning fol. 104 b, by Nashat in his

own name, and

Various compositions in ornate mixed with verses. prose The most important are two prefaces, the
Pol. 17
a.
first
\j$\

other prose pieces.

Pol. 142 b. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, followed by a Tarkib-band, fol. 181 a, and

some

Ruba'is, fol.

184

a.

Q> ^\j*M ^li u-xi^ JsUM, was written for the Divan of Path 'All Shah, fol. 18 a, and the second for a poetical account of the wars of the same
of

which, beginning

sovereign, entitled

\+*>

**\3

liis>U,, fol.

39

a.

Add. 27,267.
Poll.

Prom
of the

the latter

we

learn that the author

his takhallus

250

8J

in.

by 5|
fair

14

lines,

3f

in.

poem, designated by Saba, was a native of Kashan, and a pupil of the three poets called Azur (Lutf 'All Beg), Sabahi, and Hatif (see the Atashkadah, foil. 180, 197), that he recited a Kasidah, quoted at full length, on the accession of Path 'All Shah, who appointed him Malik ush-Shu'ara, and finally that he wrote the above poem by

long

written

in

Shikastah-amlz

on

European paper, with two TJnvans and goldruled margins, about the beginning of the

19th century

bound in painted

covers.

[Sir J.

MALCOLM.]

The Divan of Valih of Isfahan.

POETRY.
Beg.
Jj_i-

A.H. 12001300.

723

Vfilih, -whose original name Muhammad Ka/im is found in the present MS., fol. 248 b,

The Divan of Mubtala, with two prose works by the same author.
Beg.
1,

under the Zend and Kachiir He was upwards of eighty years dynasties. old in A.H. 1226, when Sir Gore Ouseley saw him in his native city. See Notices of Persian Poets, Memoir, p. 67, and Sir Wm.
lived in Isfahan

->

Ouseley's Travels, vol.

iii.

p. 53.

The present MS. is apparently in the same handwriting as some signed specimens of the author's penmanship, dated A.II. 1225, and
preserved in Add. 27,271. Contents: Ohazals, in alphabetical order, A Masnavi, fol. 204 b. Mukatfol. 1 b.

Shaikh Ghulam Muhyi ud-Din Kurashl who used the poetical surnames of 'Ishk and Mubtala, was the son of a poet, Shaikh Nftnat Ullah Ni'arnl, and lived in
of Mirath,

Dehli as a dependent of Navviib Najaf Khan, an Amir of the court of Shah 'Alam. He
left,

tah poets, composed A.H. 1222.

ger,

besides his poems, a Tazkirah of RekhSee Spren-

mostly chronograms on contemporary events, with dates ranging from A.II. 11<'>1 to 1217, fol. 206 b. Kasidahs, addressed to Fat h 'Ali Shah, Xi/..-mi 'Ah Khan of Haidart,

Oude Catalogue, pp. 187, 498, and Garcin de Tassy, Litt. Hind., vol. ii. p. 45.
Ghazals in alphabetical order, Mufradat, Ruba'is, and Mukhammasat, fol. 60 b. Kasidahs, fol. 65 b. Masfol. 73 b. navis,
:

Contents
2
b.

I.

fol.

abad, and others,

Uulu'is,
fol.

fol.

233

b.

218 a. Kit'ahs and Moral maxims in Arabic,

fol. 2-48 b.

Add. 7818.
by 6 9 lines, 4 in. long; written in Nestalik, on European paper, early
Foil.
;

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hs,

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The date of composition, A.H. 1187, is expressed by the title. The work is also called See the Oude Catalogue, p. 187.
III.

^^

jT-b"

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Chronograms,

117

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yfo s'- models of letters, in on various subjects, fol. 99 a.

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[DUNCAN FORBES.]

A poetical account
Nisa Begam.
:

of the life of Zib un-

Author Lalah Gokul Chand,

Beg.

The Divan
Beg.

of

Khamush.

jJU* Jte

jfcj

A\

d^sl
tjjlj l

^/
JJis-

a/ ^\ j
j
Jiff

i_i j\ jj

Zib un-Nisa Begam, also called Begam Sumroo, was the widow of Walter Reinhard, a German soldier of fortune, better known in India by the nickname of Sombre, or Sumroo,

Sahib

Ram Khamush,

Hindu born

in

Dehli, and a pupil of Shaikh 'AH Hazin, acted as Munshi to Shah'Alam, and was subsequently

who died A.D.

1778. His wife, who succeeded to his estate and to the command of his regi-

employed as Tahsildar under Mr. Duncan in

ment, played a not unimportant part in the events of the reign of Shah 'Alam, from whom she received the title of >& &>jj, "beloved daughter,'' and died about 1825. See Francklin, History of Shah Aulum, pp. 150, Skinner's Military Memoir, 188, James
p. 279, Sleeman, Kambles and Recollections, vol. ii. p. 377, and Keene, Pall of the Moghul

The author of the Tarikh i Muzaffari, who was his intimate friend, states, fol. 500, that he died A.H. 1225. He was then upwards of seventy years of age. See the Oude Catalogue,
the district of Benares.
pp. 167, 461.

Empire, p. 297.

Contents Kasidahs and Kit'ahs, including some chronograms with dates ranging from A.H. 1180 to 1205, fol. 2 b. Magnavis, fol. 90 b. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, fol.
:

The author, who is designated in the title as the Begam's Munshi, begins with eulogies on his heroine, on Colonel George
Alexander Dyce (a son-in-law of Zafaryab Khan, the son of W. Reinhard by his first
wife),

109

b,

beginning:

Ruba'is similarly arranged,

fol.

398
:

b.

On

the

first

page

is

written

" G. C.

who had

the

management

of

the

Haughton, Eebr. 1818. From Jonathan Duncan's library."

Begam's estate, and on the Colonel's two sons, David Ochterlony Dyce, and John Thomas Dyce. He then proceeds to state
that a history of Zib un-Nisa, written in
prose by

Or. 285.
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>o
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The author was a dependent of Habib Ullali

Khan.

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to

and containing a pressing appeal liberality, is dated A.H. 1227.

Contents
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his

grandson of the Nizam Asif Jah by his daughter Khyr-ul-nisa Begum." The first of thetwo sections contained in this volume treats of the war with Tippoo, from
the rupture of the peace (A.D. 1799) to the settlement of the Carnatic (A.D. 1802). The
second, foil. 43 b 167 of the Marattah war.
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contains a record

lah Khan,

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104
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It

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poetical account of the British wars in India, in Masnavi rhyme.

Author Safdar'Ali Shah,

:

poetically styled

Munsif,

Mr. Wm. Erskine, and on Dr. Taylor, who had restored him to health. Both sections are signed by the author ^j'J 'J* ^f- j^o jju, and the subscription shows that this copy was written by him for
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name was Mahomed on renouncing worldly purMohiudin, which, He suits, he changed to Safder Ali Shah. was the son of Mozuffer Jeng, who changed his name to Kalcnder Ali Shah on becoming a Fakir (his mother was Nur-Jehan Begum, the niece of Tehniat Nissa Begum, the wife of Nizam u Doulet), and the grandson of Samander Shah of Herat, who married Tehniat
the daughter of Nawab Evaz Khan, of the Soubah of Aurungabad. She, dying while her son Mozuffer Jcng was an infant,

The author's

(in

A.D. 1801).
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Beg.

.jT

JJ

..Uj

Begum,

prologue is followed by a short account of the capture of Pondichery by the after which comes French, foil. 3 a 4 a this headin
;

The

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sister,

Syed Shah Begum,

to

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5

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Ghazals, in alphabetical order,

.

volume,

foil.

48

61

b.
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a.

The

first

page bears the author's signature.

navis,
fol.

128 a. moral verses of

Mukhammasat, fol. 119 Mas.123 b. Ruba^s and Fardiyyat, Tazmin, an amplification of some
Sa'di, in

Mas.navl,

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132

a.

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17

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The Divan

On
title,

of Mirza Katll, consisting of

*

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first

is

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:

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Beg.
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)j} f
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J j*

1226 (A.D. 1811).

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The Divan of 'Ibrat.

Beg.
l

~~>

See the Oude Catalogue, Munich Catalogue, p. 40.

p. 535,

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This poet, whose proper

name was

^lusain,
Foil. 96;

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Muhammad
lon
;

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'Unvans, and interlinear gilding throughout, early in the 19th century.

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Manavls of Shaukat The poet, who designates himself by the

.

Second Masnavi. The author is sent from Teheran to Khabushan, from whence he leads a plundering raid into the hills. The pains of absence, and love messages.

above takhallus, held a high rank under Fath 'Ali Shah, and was probably connected It appears from with the royal family. some passages, as foil. 9, 10, 39, that he had

The author's journey

pur,

and Firuzkuh.
blissful

Mashhad, NishaHis return to Teheran

to

and

meeting with his beloved.

T
i

been sent by the Shah from Teheran to Shiraz to take the government of that city, and that, during an illness which befell him there, he was lovingly tended by three members of the Shah's family, for whom he professes the most tender regard, namely Prince Husain, his mother, the first wife of the Shah, and
the Prince's
sister.

Beg.

^j^ UU
*

^\

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UU

Fol. 22 a.

The

tale of

Humayun and

Malaknaz, two lovers of Haidarabad.

Be S-

Hu>ain
'Ali

'All Mirza,

the eldest son of Fath

Shah, held during thirty-six years his court in Shiriiz, as Governor of the province
of Fan.

stay in that city,

At the time of Sir Gore Ouseley's A.D. 1811, he was about

Fol. 32 6. A dream of the Princess of China and her unhappy love. Fol. 35 a. The poet's love-sickness, and his dialogue with his physician. Fol. 30 b.

A short poem

addressed to the

twenty-two years of age, the Queen about fifty, and the Princess eighteen. See Notices of Persian Poets, p. 60, and Wm. Ouseley's
Travels, vol.
ii.

Shah

a hunting party. Fol. 37 b. The author's message from

at
6.

the palace of Shiraz to his beloved.

p. 13.

FoL 39
in this

Love-letter.

The pangs of

The poems contained

neither
titles

volume have

separation.
Fol.

desrri' >-.

nor headings. In all the poet mostly in his own person, sometimes

43
-16

b.

Discourse with a Sufi on

divine and earthly love.

Fol.
b.

under the disguise of fictitious characters, the longings and joys of true love, the pangs of separation, and the tortures of jealousy. Contents Fol. 2 6. First Ma^navi.
:

The

story

of

Yusuf and

Zulaikha.

Beg.

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illness.

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:

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rest of the

volume,

foil.

76 a

96

a,

contains

some short Masnavis, the complaints

of a deserted lover.

jLJj
\j

the margins of the last two pages are written some Ghazals by Khiikan, i.e., Fath
'Ali

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ZTrak,

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2
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a.

Ruba is,

Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 30 a. Fardiyyat, fol.

The
king

love-story of Prince Hans, son of the of Balkh, and the Chinese Princess

54

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The

Courdish

Language

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and G. de Tassy,

Litt. Hind., vol.

iii.

p. 343.

August, 1820."
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The author, who dedicates the work

to

Guran (probably from u

Captain (afterwards Colonel) George William Hamilton, relates how, having heard the tale told by a friend in a literary assembly, he

"

younger brother, to put it into Persian Khadirn Hasanain, The poem was written, as stated at verse. the end, A.H. 1256, the author being then in his 36th year.

was prevailed upon by

his

August 1820.
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Residence in Koordistan," London, 1836, i. pp. 80, 81 and 199.

is

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is,

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:

in the author's handwriting

Although spoken in Kurdistan, the dialect In its vocabulary and essentially Persian. grammatical structure it agrees in the main with the language of Iran, from which it

The poem
of 2736

consists, as stated in the last line, distichs.

by certain phonetical verbal inflexions, its prechanges, by positions, and some other peculiar words. As it does not appear to have attracted
differs,

however,
its

notice,

the

following brief

sketch of
:

its

principal features will not be superfluous

Or. 297.
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PHONETIC CHANGES.
15
lines,

Medial or

final

<s

is
'

60

9J

in.

by 6|

frequently dropped.
in.

Ex. ^b^

'

sight, face

long in a page ; written in cursive Nestalik, for Col. George Hamilton, then Com-

'more'
^5-$-*
'

'on
to

foot'

Wm.

'white'

'gave'

missioner of Multan, dated A.D. 1861.

(>>to),

saw

'quick'

POETRY.
The
if

GURAN
final,

DIALECT.
;

729
for the particle
is

aspirates

_,

and

t,

medial or

declension than Persian

is

\,

generally disappear, and a preceding vowel,

in
:

absent.

The accusative
is

a
'

closed
city,

syllable,
'

Ex. jU,

empire

lengthened. ' under(^^1), ^J

*

is

position alone,

The
'

plural

expressed by and the dative by prepositions. in for all nouns ex. u l<L-

standing' (^), ft 'poison' (jj), jy 'cruel' 4), ^U 'plain'

'seal'

stones,'

u ^l/
:

'

flowers.'

The Yae Yahdat

'

(^

'trial'
'

(c-irf),

O;y
'

'love'
*J^i

assumes before the form & ; ex. jft

Izafat, or enclitics, the

^>.

a suitable object,'

(C*.^*),
'

i\j
'

space
'

of

time
'

(t^s-j),

&&**"

'

there

is

a person.'
' '

flame

(Ui),
for

il3

taunt

J;
'

'wound*

>.j.

U
'

(il), and even 'he laid* U'y), l

'
'

PRONOUNS.

The detached personal

or

nouns are
'he, she,'

(l), /'mountain' (i/), }U advice e C^Lc), morning (^-*), oL* hour

look'
'

^
\J>

^\

I,'

'we,'

y
or

thou,'

proor ,

w \i>jl

'they.'

'

'

They are used

stead of L.

also for the accusative, in-

'

'

),

my way (^y, o^l

often replaced
'

'

'

thy soul

etc.

The
is

enclitical

forms, which

are,

as

in

Persian i
'

by

^.,

as in -^b
'

burn'

jb),
'

^Ui
'

brain' (->),
.
'

^b

garden'
'

<_, U U, OU, w Vi, are very ,., extensively used, both to express possession, and to form the complement of verbs and
Persian,
prepositions. They also play an important as will be seen further on, in the conpart,

o,

(V),
'

fi-

grief

(,.*),

he roared
'

The j stands
jl,
'

for L_> in
'

^^
'

'

enough
'

springtide
'

(j\>),

**b,

pretext
(

w^j 'tongue'
night
(^_*i),

(^bj),

y*
is

'sleep*

(iV) ^), ^1

jugation of the past tenses. Tito reflexive pronoun has distinct forms
for each person, viz.
'

and many other words.

letter

'

'

myself,'

j^j

thy-

preserved in some words in which Persian has substituted d/

for Jjj
it,
'

The same

self, ,ji> 3

himself

'

(ytJ^i-).
j\

The demonstratives are

'that'
,wl
'

(^T),

as in

round
'

'

#Jjj 'fashion, manner' (*JjO, become (i/), *Ii, (*11^),

'
' '

/,

*i, or

*JL>|

'this' (^.1),

and

'this'

(neuter).

The

interrogatives are
(...),

and J.}

to pass

(,j)-

J*f 'what?'

\f

Most Persian words beginning with have in Guran a 3 alone. Ex. ^j him' :

^
'

adjectively

((

^^ J J^).
'

and

^J who ? ',
'what?'

VERBS.
yfc

The verb
is,'

to be

'

is

represented by

self

'

(u^), olj

'

sweet
.

'

'

(uly*), jj

to eat

or

' V

corresponding to

c*>, and by

<>->> w'j <to ca 11 to read'

desired' (c Jji-).

<cW> ^

^ <he

the enclitic
heart
is

u
'

(c
(v^>-.l

1),

as

in^.1^

^^-i 'my

In a few words J appears to have token

the place of Persian Jt aa in J. 'bird' r) , j*. 'love'
(j_
'

jJ

to

'

go

u^)- Other enclitical forms are ...... or ^U for the first person, ^ ... and J for the second. The past has
sore
'

(jj),

(^),

J^
and

'cy-

press' ( Jr-), ' to turn, to

>5l

'quarter, side '(],),

'

J/
less

wander

NOUNS.

The Guran
II.

dialect has

still

they ' ' the perfect JL> has been (jijy) *>9 (^~Jy); the subjunctive y (jy), plur. ^b (jiy) ; the optative ^b (jb), ^b and the imperative *j ory
^j

was
'

'

'

(jy), ^xj
;

was

'

(^y),

'

were

VOL.

Q Q

730

POETRY.
/*,

GUEAN DIALECT.

occaThe present tense takes the prefix Thus from _Jj which, sionally written a*.
,

in striking agreement with Sanskrit, takes

the place of

we have
will

'

f>\y*

he

says,'

and

The past with the

'

prefix

..

forms the
(<J^A>

from ^.j 'to

sonal

see' yjj- (A!O

^}.

The perby
to do
'
:

imperfect

o\y
is,

was saying
has

'

inflexions

be

shown
'

the

^X
^),
'

The

perfect
:

in form, identical with the

'

following paradigm of the verb

or

infinitive
'

^^
'

done

'

(e^-il

*~*

~ ~ ^^
.:*

has seized
J-eT).

(e^wJ &J),
'

UT

'

is

come
'

j i~*~*

'

seized

(^y
is,

The pluperfect has ^Zji j^), ^j Vx> had laid (,iy

'

had

j.il^).

or

however, another form of the past, more commonly used than the first, and which is one of the" most striking

There

features of the dialect.

The ground-form

The
tive,

which is also used as subjunchas the same inflexions, but substitutes

future,
i_->

of the past remains uninflected, and the subject is expressed by the enclitical forms
of the pronouns, which are appended, either to the past itself, or to some preceding

the prefix
'

f or

'
:

^
'

wJyo

I shall do,' Jj}\j

bring,' etc.

he will bring,'
<_j

that

he may
is

The imperative, which

with the prefix
,

generally found
it,

word.

Thus we have
but
'

'

(jJj^j
'

he said
'

'

(not
),

but sometimes without

<^Ji

y*), j.jli3\j
'

they said
'

(-xiii

mostly takes in the singular the termination i Ex.: a/'do' (yio), /. 'do not' (^C.), a^ly
'
'

we

did

Oly
'

thou saidst

>

I took place'

'

say
(<^ys).

(jlS),

jxj

hear

'

'

(y-io),

3y.

read

'

set out

Plural

^j^, i/J^j

etc.

'I adopted thee

or

The past
to
as
'

adds, as in Persian, a

'

how many
i^o"^>-

taunts

did
'

hear

'

the root in the case of

strong verbs,
'

thou savedst

brought,' $} did,' O\j said,' c-iii. Weak verbs form the same tense heard.'
\

^T
,

'

'

me' (^s^
took
'

\^},

Wj u ^-\3 'they read

the letter' (jjjo^y- ^*^U),

^liiy*? 'they

in

as
U,j

li-f'

Cvy

v )>

(^J^\ L*^ 'commanded' (^0- The

'

drew

'

'

asked

'

Majnun (jJ^
'

latter

they did not sleep

formation applies to many verbs which in ' rose Persian are strong verbs, as \'

The same construction

applies
'

also

to

),

UUi

'knew' (c^Ui>), ^j 'shed'

the other past tenses, as in the following ' thou hast done (i*jf), examples cj^i.i/
:

0^ 'drove' (jit,), while other verbs occur with either inflexion, as ^,xu* or \jlx'entrusted,' ^^vioy or L~jy 'wrote.'

e desired'
'

(j.h^/^T),
'

Oj4->y
(.^-.

thou hast made a mistake

,_/

y
?'

/y^* 'when have I seen thee

'

The personal terminations

are as follows

(J

'thou hast
he was

made me mad'

POETRY.
'

GUR AX DIALECT.
'

731
took
'

*
,

saying
'

they were saying

'

^
The
Ex.:
in Persian, to

'

*i->

he was studying ' (J* he had seen (j^ .x?._>).

,

o~ -

or c~-lL-

'

(.xL-0,
;'

y t_.
pres.

takes.'

or 13U.
'

'

laid,

put down
'

aii

heard,'

u 'y.

infinitive or verbal

noun adds w as the ground form of the past.

'went' (ii),
'

they hear,
'goes';

imper.

seized

'

(^jj)

pres. 3J&*.

'eating'

(^y.),
T
),

Jj/

coming' (^J-

'seizing'

'did'; pres.

^yC; subj., 1st pers. Jo,

'seeing'

3rd pers. plur.

uyiS,

imper. f,

i^

or ,/.

Causative verbs are formed by adding u ' to the root, as in caused to tremble, Uj^J '' shook ' (AU\J)), jj* 'causes to flow, sheds
.\n

Ui')

and l^' feU

'

';

subj.
'

y^.
;

/
'

yUiU sends.' turned, wandered (jo^ pres.

',
'

or UUT

sent

'

interesting passive
' ' '

form

in

^
'

is

found

jjUi

he does not leave or

let alone.'

only in the past, as \^f was made (xL was burnt (jj; jj^), and in the
perfect,

V
^A

'went' (oi.); imper.

'stood'; imper.
'
'

i^J

>.*+?.
;

as
is

^^

'

'

is

killed

AM remained
^-li
'sat

(jjU)

pres.
i.>)
;

u 'o-iy
The

'

written'

down'

(c...

pres.

following table shows the tliinl person singular past and present, and occasionally other characteristic forma, of some
of the most
differ,
'

Ui

'

laid

down

'

(o ,i)

subj.

.^
_,^,
or

per.

common
^H).

verbs, in so far as th.-v

.

'ate'
.).
'

wholly or in part, from Persian

'

C>>);
'

pres.

Jjl

heard
'

(?

^
or ^U'

asked, desired

UT

'

came
'

(.*'),

^
';

(o-^y-)

pres.

comes
' ; '

plur. ^'o- 'they come'; fut.^j

imper

sells
'

^i\
'

wounded, hurt
thrust, planted
'

';

pres.

threw, cast
or
' '

down
'

'

subj.
;

(?) ,jy.

K->.

'

gave
plur.

(yj) f

^
^A.

pres.

or

Vi'j

called, read
'

(ji'y.)

pres. yl^..
(

gi VC8

u l.u

or

passed

(c^iO

pres.

^.^
;

first pers.

plur.

jjj, or ^0 (i.v).
'

'they give;' subj. jjo,

U 'arrived, reached' (c^iy

^j^,

or

pres.

^^j

imper.
PREPOSITIONS.

shone, sjwrkled

;'

pres.

^Ju.

They
and

are

^j
Vijl,

or
'

'

'jo

saw
'

;'

pres. ^j^,..

to say redundant,

differ

numerous, not widely from the

Nearly
all

prepared
'

Persian words of the same class.

(O-<,T).
'

Ujj

knew

'

(c

ib),

y]^.

knows

'

imper.
'

*i^>.

bj

came

combine with the pronominal suffixes, a w being in some cases inserted between the two elements. Jt which is substigenerally

out, issued.'

tuted for Persian

\~>, *.,

in all its meanings,

Q Q 2

732

POETRY.

GURAN

DIALECT.
'

forms with the pronouns the groups J 3 'to ' me,' (jbj to him,' etc. to, for, on ac'

now
snce
'

then

'

*Tl> 'when,'
' '

count
'

of,' is

also used to express the dative

it
,

now,
'longer,

with the pronouns

to thee
' ;

forms

'

there,'

so

much,'
'to-day,'

^xj

to me,'

also

^b

cJo, with the

same

further,

-yv
'
.

'thus,' j^T

meaning. The dative is likewise expressed by J, apparently borrowed from Arabic, which
occurs only in connection with pronouns, as ' ' i~5 to thee,' ^lijJ to them.' for,

ji^j)' to-night,' j* 'if 5 perhaps' (^),

'

or

'

(<>ji-

b),

also
^.i*

'

y- ..b, (only in connection

'

with pronouns, as
also'), etc.

also,'

g,\

'he

'

as in

towards,' takes also the pronominal suffixes, ' ' for me,' *>_ ^U? J for us.'

The following are a few other words peculiar

to the dialect
j-1
:

or

*i,

which does not combine with the

is

and
'

'

pronouns,
opposite

found, strangely enough, in two

viz.
is

^^\
C-^
'

Jj^y 'wandering, distracted'; a tear '; y^T or jj' fire (, JT)

'

;
'

'

meanings,

The

latter

meaning

'in,' and 'from.' more generally con-

o\jT
(jOly)
'
;

request,'

yb
'

father
'

'

';

\j>

brother
'

jy
c*arr

great
'

\^j>
'

garments
'
;

jJL^
'

veyed by -.,&-, or &- (which, however, is also sometimes used in the sense of in ')
' ;

scattered, distressed
;

(j.,11^)
;

jU
'

time

(jb)

with the pronouns

CX*.
me.'
'

^
A>' '

'

from me
' :

'

dition';

from
'

thee.'
like.'

with
'

*jj>-

(^j^, ' with

'

^
'

haste
'

'

(^f)
'

sji^a-

state, con'

liver

(jd.)
;

j^^s-

face

'

^
'

'

eye
desert
'

(^i.*)

J^'lock,

w l^.
!j

U>

'four'
(

after

JUw).

gi^.);
'

JU.

ringlet';
'

'

b and
'

are frequently affixed to a

ex.
'

noun
_,

mother';
tive'
;

tiiid

sound, voice';
;

-^j>
' ;

cap-

governed by a preposition;
into

bJbUj

j\j

speech'

^
'

'

road'

the

farer ';

desert,'

\jiti-

^^
is

upon

the

and
;

lamentation'

ground,' jjbi.

j$> 'before God.'

suffix

The pronominal

sometimes de^^ii and u ~i

'

^ woman
'
'

3-^

'day'
sad
'

^
'

^b,^
;

way'cry,

aWj

U;

bridegroom'
'

Ji

mad
;

'

tached from the preposition, and appended to a preceding word. Ex. *i) ^\y , for
:

distress,

lament'

^j much,
'

'

many
whole';
'

sj>

and i^.^, cl*^ and &f*f,

'

all,

j*^
'

*?l^> 'tell

me';

*^- JlL*>, for J*.

*by
;
'

' ;

daughter
'

Uj^
'

cheek
5

;'
'

i>/

take from me.'

old

'

(^)
'

w b/'
;
'

soul, life

There

are, besides, several

'

positions, as

^.p
to,
':

into,'

compound prew round,' Jjo Jjt

'
'

quarter

(j-)
;

s^l

side, W V) moment ;' CiiiU moon,

(
'
'

^
'

month
C^b>
jf>
'

j.lj
'

desire

'

( (jnt\^-)
' ;

.Uj>

poor
'

'amid,'

'up

towards': ^i"^ 'to him,'

'

onset

(C*U-)

}U

'

with,

by

^iU-

with him, near him

'sky';
;

^
'

^'Ifc

sigh, breath

';

'blood' (^');
'

^b

place'

(^ Lrs-i jV>

cA?j 'upon,' etc.

(SV)
outside,'
'

ib

house

(iU-).

ADVERBS.
'

y^, J^ J}
'

'out,

down,' j\^~>

off,

away,'

J^

The contents
follows
I.
:

of the present

volume are

as

n
'

'raised'
U-y)
;

(o*j),
'

rose

always,'

^^

up,

aloft,' as

(for

Pol. 1

b-

jj\-

^jf'

vlj^, the tale of

or

Khurshid, son of the king of Khavar ZamTn,

POETRY.

GURAN DIALECT.

733

and Khiraman, the daughter of the emperor

of China.

(l)
(<vj:

II. Fol.

68

6.

uy

JJ
;

v-*^, the well

known
The

story of Laili
first

and Majnun.
wanting
the next
cr*

line is

fol-

lowing are:

(y

151

J*

4>T

Both poems are anonymous. They are in popular style, and in a very form of versification. Each line is simple
written

'

composed of ten

without any fixed rule in respect to quantity, and is divided by a cesure into two hemistichs of equal length. The Izafat and the conjunction 3t when preceded hy a vowel, either short or long, form with it one syllabic. The following lines, in which the Persian equivalents are added in parenthesis, may serve as a specimen
syllables,
:

t-A.j

>

..

^.

(*) j (^

J .>.l~>

*>

Add. 7826.
Foil.

151;

in.

by 4; 12

lines,

in.

long;
i1

written in cursive

Nestalik;

dated

-Si

A.H. 1231 (A.D. 1816) [Cl. J. RICH.] a Masnavi in the Khusrau and Shirin, game dialect, and the same measure. The MS. appears to have been transcribed from an imperfect copy ; it begins abruptly
with the following lines
:

731

POETRY.

ANTHOLOGIES.

collection

of short poetical

extracts,

iiU

l_xiv--J

i^3

Arabic and Persian, classed according to subSee the Arabic Catalogue, p. 502. jects. The names of the authors are seldom given.
(j
6

Of Persian poets the following alone

mentioned:
Pirdusi,
foil.

are

29, 34,

74,

75>

Olla* Sana'i, fol. 11, the author of i/J--**^ vi. p. 57), fol. 61, Anvari, (Haj. Khal., vol.

53; long written in cursive Nestalik, early in the 19th century. [RoB. TAYLOR.]
;

Poll.

Add. 23,554. 6 in. by 4; 12

a

foil.

12, 62, 83, Nizam!,

11, 38, 59, 134.

fol.

22,

and SaMi,

foil.

lines, 3

in.

The MS., which is imperfect at both ends, and wants some leaves in the body of the
volume, begins with the rubric
:

^
and

JjJJi^ jj^j,

poem

in the

same

dialect,

treating of the love adventures of Bahrain, son of King Kishvar, and Gulandam, daughter of the

at

emperor of China. beginning and end. The

:

spurious beginning li^j^b. and false catchwords, have been added end,

It is imperfect first lines are

by a

later hand.

as follows

Add. 16,561.
Poll.

J/
Jj/

89

9 in.

by 5

17

lines,

in.

long

written in fine Nestalik, on tinted, glazed, and gold-sprinkled paper, with eleven 'Unvans, and nine miniatures of the highest degree of finish dated Shamakhi (Shirvan), Rabr II., A.H. 873 (A.D. 1468) bound in
; ;

stamped

leather.

from the Divans of twelve poets of the 8th and 9th centuries of the
Select Ghaxals

Hi) rah.

The

first

heading

is

Bog.

(f)

There are similar headings to the remaining sections, each of which contains Ghazals extracted from one Divan, and arranged in
alphabetical order. The selections are from the Divans of the

ANTHOLOGIES.
Add. 7825.
Foil.
;

following poets: 1. Kamfil Khujandl

2.

(p.

632

5), fol. 1.

159

in.

by 4|

lines,

in.

3.

long the 14th century.

written in large Naskhi, apparently in

[Cl. J. RICH.]

4.
5.

627 b), fol. 6. (p. 609 a), fol. 13. Maulanfi Kfitibi (p. 637 6), fol. 23. Maulana Ashraf (probably Darvish
Hfifiz Shirazi (p.

Amir Khusrau

POETRY.
Ashraf,

ANTHOLOGIES.
Beg.
.

735

who
and

lived

under Sultan
Ilahi,

Muhammad

B. Baisunghar; see
p. 71,

Oude Catalogue,
12.

compare
Beg.

Biblioth. Sprenger., No. 1379; Sir "Wm. Ouseley's Catalogue, No.

Tain

(of

y Samarkand, who died A.H.

152), fol. 41.

858
St.
fol.
fol.

see Taki,

Oude Catalogue,

p. 19, the
Lata'if,

c
'.

Petersburg Catalogue, p. 311, 11, and the Munich Catalogue,

86.

p.

29),

y
(p.

6.
7.

Amir Shahi

640

a), fol.

50.

Nasir (a Darvish of Bukhara, who visited Salmon Siivaji in Baghdad in the reign of

Shaikh Uvais, A.H. 757776; see Daulatshfih, v. 5, Haft Iklim, fol. 691, Taki, Oude Catalogue, p. 18, and the TTpsala Catalogue, p. 103 ; it is stated in the Tabakat i Shahjahani,
fol.

Copyist:

J
Add. 7824.

fol.

39, that

Nasir died A.H. 772),

57.

1> Jj
!;

J-

MJ

fj y
Samarkand, a
dis-

234; 8J in. by 4$; 14 lines, 2| in. written in fine Nestalik, with goldlong; ruled margins and ten 'Unvans, apparently
Foil.

in the 16th century. fCl. J. RICH.] Select Ghazals from the Divans of the fol-

8.

Maulana

Bisati (of

and the favourite poet of Sultan Khalil, A.H. 807811 ; see Daulatsh.,1.. vi. 4, Taki, p. 19, Lata'if, fol. 9, and the Upsala
ciple of 'Ismat,

lowing ten poets, ranging from the 7th to the 10th century of the Hijrah, with the i>'jM heading ^ij*~ a-i> u
:

1.

Sa'di (p.

595

a), fol. 1.

Catalogue, p. 111. According to the Tabakat i Shfihjahani, fol. 74, Bisafi died young, A.H. 808. The Mirat i Jah;.nnuma, fol.
308, gives A.H. 815 as the date of his death),
fol.

2. 3. 4.

Amir Khusrau (p. 609 Hasan Dihlavi (p. 618

a), fol. 27.

), fol.

68. 88.

5.
6.

Kamfil Khujandi (p. 632 6), Katibi (p. 637 a), fol. 109.

fol.

62.
\

who
Beg. J

Amir Humayun (a Sayyid, of Asfarain, lived chiefly in Tabriz, at the court of

There
letter
i

is

in the

a lacune extending from the above section to the letter

Sultan Ya'kub. He died near Kum, A.H. 908. See Taki, Oude Catalogue, p. 20, Sam Mirza, fol. 30, Atashkadah, fol. 35, Haft
Iklim,
fol.

in the next.
9.

503),
(p.

fol.

327, 123.

and Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

fol.

Khayali

10.

Jami

(p.

639 a\ fol. 68. 643 a), fol. 74.

Beg.

\\ eJu Ji LiJU
>

^
jj

if J\j>>
Jli

yu_>.
V3

jj\

11. Tusi, fol. 80. 'Abd Ullah Tusi, a native of Khorasan, was attached to Sultan Abul-

7. 8.

657 a), fol. 137. Baba Fighani (p. 651 a), fol. 170.
(p.

Ahli Shirazi

K.isim

r,.,l)ur,

after

whose death, A.H. 861,

of

9.

Shahidi,

fol.

190.

Maulana Shahidi,
ush-Shu'ara
in

he passed to the court of Jahfinshah. He died in old age, A.H. 869; see Daulatshiih,
vii.

Kum, was Malik

the

12, Taki, 11, etc.

Oude Catalogue,

p. 19, LatTi'if,

fol.

ivii?n of Sultan Ya'kub (A.H. 883896). After that king's death he repaired to India, and settled in Gujrat, where he died, nearly

736

POETRY.

ANTHOLOGIES.
Gharib Mirza, son of Abul-Ghazi Sultan-Husain, and died A.H. 927 ; see Oude Catalogue, pp. 21, 327, and the Vienna Catalogue,
vol.
i.

a hundred years old, in A.H. 935. See Sam Mirza, fol. 99, Haft Iklim, fol. 401, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 232, and Taki, Oude Catalogue, p. 21.

p.

578),

foil.

139,

140,
(p.

167189,
),

Beg.

231-2.

Ahli Khurasani

657

foil.

10.

Muhtasham

(p.

665

b), fol. 207.

233244, 253260, 141144. Salman 'Ismat (Khwajah (p. 624 b), foil. 144146. 'Ismat Ullah, of BukharH, who was the
favourite poet of Sultan Khalil and of Mirza Ulugh Beg, and died A.H. 829; see Daulatshah, vi. 5, Taki,

Add. 7796.
Toll. 361;

Oude Catalogue,
foil.

p. 19,

and

in. long,

12| in. by 8; 15 and 17 lines, with 30 lines in the margins

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Haft Ikllm,

fol.

592),

147163.

written in neat Nestalik, apparently in the

16th century.

A vast collection of Kasidahs

The

Add. 19,494.
Poll. 85
;

and Ghazals
81
in.

by various poets, ranging from the fifth to the tenth century of the Hijrah.
original arrangement of the MS. has been disturbed, and, as many leaves are lost

by 5J

15

lines, 3

in.

long; written in Nestalik; dated the 28th

year (probably of Shah 'Alam = A.H. 1200,

here and there, it is not possible to restore it with any degree of certainty. The Kasidahs,
followed by some Tarkib-bands, occupy the central space of the pages, without any ap-

A.D. 1786). Select Ghazals by some of the most popular poets of Persia from the 7th to the 10th century of the Hijrah, arranged in one
alphabetical series.

parent system of classification, except this, that poems composed in the same measure, and with the same rhyme, by different poets,
are grouped

The most frequently recurring names are

those of Jami, Sa'di, Hafiz, Khusrau, Salman,
Hilali, Shahi, Asafi.

But the authors' together. names are, with few exceptions, omitted. The Ghazals are written in the margins, partly promiscuously, partly in a number of
alphabetical series, each

Or. 1228.
Poll.

59; 5|

in.

by 3|

11 lines, 2f in.

by one author. These

connected series belong to the following Asafi (p. 651 b), foil. 611. Hasan poets
:

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the

of Dehli'(p. 618

a),

foil.

4263.

Kahi

(probably Kasim Kahi, of Kabul, a pupil of Jami, who died in Agra, A.H. 973; see Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 384, and Blochmann, Ain Akbari, p. 209), foil. 6373, 207211. Shahi (p. 640 a), foil. 74108. Bisati

18th century. [ALEX. JABA.] Select Ghazals by various poets, arranged in alphabetical order under each of the
following names 1 b, Jami, fol. 18
fol.
:

Khwajah
fol.

a, Hafiz,

Hasan, fol. 21 a, Shahi,

a.

35

b,

Ahli,

fol.

46

a.
fol.

Appended are
51

some Ruba'is and

Kit'ahs,

Haidar (pro735 a), foil. 108113. Haidar Kullchah-paz, of Herat, who bably died A.H. 959 see Taki, p. 22, and Sam
(p.
;

Add. 6634.
Poll.

Mirza,

fol.

106),

foil.

211230, 122138.

214;
in

Ahi

(a

Turkish Amir, who was attached to

Nestalik,

by 6^; written in three columns with about 16

lOf
in.

POETRY.

ANTHOLOGIES.
patron,

737

slanting lines in each, apparently in the latter part of the 17th century.
[J. F.

Zulfakar

Khan

(the

well-known
to

Amir of Aurangzib's

reign,

who was put

HULL.]

Select verses

by poets of the

latter part

of the 10th and of the llth century of the Hijrah. The extracts are confined, with hut few
exceptions, to one or two lines, but sometimes they form a series belonging to one poet, whose name is given in the heading. The general arrangement appears to be chronological.

death A.H. 1124), and adds in the epilogue that it was completed in A.H. 1117. The date is conveyed by the chronogram
:

The work
**j jf

is

divided into four sections termed

with minute subdivisions.

The MS.

is,

as stated at the end, the second draft written by the author himself.

be seen from an original folio'ing, beginning with 397 (fol. 188) that the MS. once formed part of a larger volume.
It

may

Add. 16,802 and 16,803.

Two uniform volumes
8$
in
in.

The more extensive

a Sufi
in the

extracts are

>*s-y*

of 429 and 453

in.
;

foil.

form of a Tarji'-band, poem j\j Kashfi (Amir Salih; see p. 154 a, and by
the
p. 456), completed, as stated at the end, A.H. 1030, foil. 8288.

by 4$

Oude Catalogue,

Lahore, Zulka'dah, A.H. 1152, and Muharram, A.H.

fair

3 Shikastah-Smiz
;

15

lines,

long dated

written

1153 (A.D. 1740).

[WM. YULE.]

a ^.j^tj i'jy,
foil.

poem by Vahshi (p. 003 b), 160180. jUf 3 >- a poem by Nau'i
674

a), foil. 180187. fragment of a fairy tale in prose, the hero of which is called Tamim, foil. 46 5k

(see p.

Persian anthology compiled by Mirza

Bidil (see p. 706 b). It contains choice pieces

by a vast number

Add. 6633.
Foil.

242; 8$

in.

by 4|; 14

long; written in fair gold-ruled margin dated Kabi'

;

2J in. Shikastah-amu, with

lines,
I.,

of poets from the age of Khiikani to the author's time, classed according to the various styles of poetical composition, and arranged, in each class, in alphabetical order according to the rhymes.

A. II. 1117

(A.D. 1705).

[J.

F. HULL.]

Poems written by different authors in the same measure and with the same rhyme are grouped together. The names of the poets
are

collection of choice verses

by ancient

given
:

in

versified

and modern

poets, suitable for quotation in

following

^jJ
:

headings like the

-\j**, "

^.^

and
3

elegant letter-writing.

Author
ud-Din

Muhammad

Sadik

B.

Shams

Contents
Ghazals,
foil.

Kasidahs, Add. 16,802,

fol.

b.

'All,

a native of Kuhkailuyah (a

ib. foil.

135429, and Add.

riddles,

10,803,
fol.

village of Garmsir, province of Fare),

1136.
Add. 16,803,
fol.

Mu'ammas, or

y
The author
had made
VOL.
II.

ouv j

**j

Mustazad, Ruba'is, fol. 139. Short pieces in fol. 212. Kit'ahs,

136.
1

200.

Masnavl

this compilation

states in the preface that he by desire of his

rhyme, fol. 2'2 Longer Masnavls by the following poets: B B

.

738
1.

POETRY.
(Muhammad
who was

ANTHOLOGIES.
time in India during the reign of Shahjahan, and spent the latter part of his life, under Shah 'Abbas II. and Sulaiman, in his native See the land, where he died A.H. 1088.

Sallm

Teheran,

Kull, a native of first attached to Mirza

'Abd Ullah, governor of Lahijan. He subsequently went to India, and found a patron in Islam Khan, an Amir of Shahjahan. He A.H. 1057. See the Oude died in Kashmir
Catalogue, p. 556, Mir'at Aftabnuma, fol. 2. Ashraf 141, Mirat Jahannuma, fol. 356). (Muhammad Sa'id, of Mazandaran, who went
to India and became the instructor of Zlb

Oude Catalogue, p. 1 50, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 89), Add. 16,803, foil. 388393. 5. *ib*
^Ui> j j^y", a contest between poppy and tobacco," a Magnavi by Mujrim (see the Oude
Catalogue, p. 183), foil. 393397. 6. Letter of Ni'mat Khan 'AH (p. 268 J) to Iradat

"

un-Nisa Begam, daughter of Aurangzib, and a favourite of Bahadur Shah. He died at Monghyr some time after the death of that See the Oude Catalogue, p. 340, prince. Haft Asman, p. 158, and Mir'at Jahannuma,
fol.

Khan
8.

Yazih,

foil.

403408.

"anecdotes of the great,"

Extracts

from ^Ls- j the same Ni'mat Khan, by 9. a TarjT by 'Urfi jj,

(

w Kj> OUH3, 408411. ^^^ ^z^-- aJU-,,

7.
foil.
foil.

411
a),

414.

^,

(p.

667

and
441.

MlrYahya(anativeofKashan, wrote a Shahnamah for and poems in praise of Darashikuh, Shahjahan and died A.H. 1074. See the Oude Catalogue,
307).

3.

other poems of the same kind,

foil.

434

who went

to India,

Add. 7822.
Foil.

p. 115, Mir'at

Aftabnuma,
fol.

fol.

157, and Mir'at

Jahannuma,
(p.

410).

4.

Hakim Rukna
(p.

185

6|

in.

by 3|

10

lines,

If

in.

688

a).

5.

Talib

Amull
293.

679

b).

Mukhammasat, fol.
388.

Manavls

long ; written in neat Shikastah-amiz, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated
Rabl*
II.,

descrip-

tive of female beauty,

by Mirza Bidil, fol. Magnavis on moral subjects by the

fol.

A.H. 1063 (A.D. 1653).

[Cl. J. RICH.] of Ruba'is by the four follow-

same,

402.

positions in fol. 411. Musaddasat,

prose, fol. 432.
chiefly to

and other comprose by Bidil and other writers,

Letters
fol.

A collection
ing poets
1.
:

423.

Riddles in

SahabI (see p. 672

5), fol. 1.

lating

Yersified chronograms rethe death of poets, and

brought down to A.H. 1121, fol. 434. A tale of a simple-minded Brahman and the wiles of his artful wife, in prose, foil. 444 451.

2. Abu Sa'id B. Abil-Khair (see p. 342 b, the Oude Catalogue, p. 309, and Ethe, " die Ruba'is des Abu Sa'id," Sitzungsberichte der

Bayer. Akademie, 1875, p. 146), Beg.

fol.

133.

The margins

contain, besides

some

addi:

tional short poems, the following pieces 1. a tract in six Babs, ascribed to (^jjjl*!! 4\j,

the celebrated Sufi, Khwajah 'Abd Ullah Ansarl (see Haj. Khal. vol. iii. p. 526), Add.
16,802,
foil.

Mulla 'Abd ul- Vasi' Ardabili, poetically surnamed Mahvi, fol. 154.
3.

1223.

2.

(_iWa), "ingenious

Beg.

ty

Cis-b

jt Jifr

,}jj

ali-b

jd

by 'Abd ul-Ahad, surnamed 3. }af\y _, JUi, Yahdat, ib. foil. 2326. " counsels and exhortations," by Nakhshabi,
observations,"
foil.

This poet,

who

Mughi Mahvi

generally called Mir Hamadani, and is celebrated

is

27

30.

4.

Jbi- rlr**>

an er

tic

poem

for his Ruba'is,

was born in Asadabad, near

in Ardabil.

by

(Mulla 'All Riza, a native of Ardakan, province of Yazd, stayed some

Tajalll

Hamadan, and studied

After a

of the stay in India under the patronage

POETRY.

ANTHOLOGIES.

739

Khankhanan ('Abd ur-Rahim), he returned to his native land, and died in Hamadan,
A.H. 1016.
p. 585,

See Blochmann, Ain

Akbari,

Haft Iklim, fol. 424, Badaoni, p. 343, Atashkadah, fol. 116, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 420. The last work mentions another

collection of elegies by various poets, on the martyrs of Karbala, with the follow" ing title Murseeah, or Lamentation for Hosein the Imam and Martyr, as recited at
:

Mahvi Ardabili, whose proper name was 'Abd ul-'Ali, and who died in Burhanpur A.H. 1025.
4. Babii

Shiraz during the rim."

first

ten days of Mohur-

Contents
1.

Afzal Kfishi,

fol.

170.

"

Death of the Prince of Martyrs," by

ShirazI,

Beg.

^y cAyU.

ijj^ j> f-. \^jj

^
fol.

U
2

H1

6.

Afzal ud-Din, of Kashan, died A.H. 707; see TakI, Oude Catalogue, p. 17, and Atash-

Beg.

kadah,

fol.

107.
2.

Leave-taking of the Prince of Martyrs

Sajjad,

from Sayyid

by Nasimi,

Or. 328.
Foil.

54

8J

in.

by 4

17

lines,

2J

in.

>~J, fol.

33

a.

long; written in Ncstalik, apparently in the 17th century. From the royal library of

Beg.
3.

ti.

Lucknow.

[GEO.

WM. HAMILTON.]

A Mukhammas,
U, fol.

beginning
b.

j\> i|

A collection
Beg. j

of satires written by various

4.

45

poets on their contemporaries.

A lamentation, uUj
An

jju

**y, beginning:

fol.

49

6.

6.

elegy, beginning:
',

lU.

The names

of the authors are not given in

7.

fol.

51

a.

the headings, but some appear occasionally in the text, as those of 'Arfisi, fol. 5 a, and
Kaidi,
fol.

Another

elegy, beginning

b.

On
:

the fly-leaf, and by a later

3

y,U

hand,

is

written

t-s-

3 <j

xli i\i i^\ j, fol. 53 6. name Akbar j^\ occurs near

The

poet's
fol.

the end,

74

a.
8.

The lamentation of Saklnah

short

The
owing

text has

many

short gaps, apparently

to holes in the

MS. from which

it

was

preceded by a fol. 75 a.

narrative in

prose,

transcribed.

Add. 24,987.
Foil.

The

poet's

name, Rafi'a UJ, occurs

82
b.

in the

last couplet, fol.

9.

157

in.

long ; written in Ewing, Registrar

April 1811.

by 5 \ ; 8 lines, 2$ in. Ncstalik for Mr. James

of

Two

narratives in prose, without

foil.

title,
b.

Bhugalpur

dated

followed by a few verses,

10. Departure of

82

b,

88

Imam Husain

for

the

K B 2

740
field
3\

POETRY.
and
his

ANTHOLOGIES.
Beg.
14.

martyrdom, A Oii^Jij Lfc*"* fol. 90 a, with a short prose

verses begin thus
'

narrative.

Another Vaki*ah on the martyrdom of

title

The

the Christian of Kiifah, without author's name, fol. 127 b.

or

couplet contains the author's iU*. Khalila, fol. 98 a. name,

.last

The
11.

Beg.
15.

JN**> w^j^j^
Vaki'ah,

without

title,

on Zu-1-

An

elegy on the

martyrdom of 'Abd

Ullah B. Hasan, by Mukbil,

JjJL
fol.

98

the horse of Husain, and his ^-^W y^ return to the tents after his master's death,
fol.
Tj

Janah

134

5.

&

,t

Beg.

The author

is

Khalila ^Jo-, whose

fol.

name

on the departure of the Holy Family from Karbala for Kufah, and the story of the mason, by Mukbil,
12. Elegy

appears at the end,

16.
(^tf*-

143

b.

A lamentation
Al,
fol.

on

Imam

Husain, *-y,

145

a.

JJU
Beg.
13.
fol.
.iJ

It is followed
'*>S\j,

Another Vaki'ah by Mukbil, J-E120 a.

without special
Scribe:

by some other lamentations, titles or author's name.

,.,U ** (__}.& ,_W

OENATE
Add. 26,300.
lines, by 4| written in Nestalik; dated Kangrah long; (Panjab), Sha'ban, the third year of Bahadur Shah (A.H. 1121, A.D. 1709). [War. ERSKINE.]
;

PEOSE,
Beg.

Poll. 139;

in.

16

n.

Ziya

ud-Dm

Nakhshabi, so called from

Discourses, in

mixed prose and

verse,

on

the

body, considered as the noblest of God's creations, and as evidence of His

human

Nakhshab or Nasaf, the modern KarshI, a town situated between Samarkand and the Oxus, led a secluded and religious life in Bada'un, and died, as stated by 'Abd ulHakk, Akhbar ul-Akhyar, fol. 91, A.H. 751. He left, according to the same writer, numerous works, among which the C)L
dJ^L., tjL+A
ijZf-,

greatness.

c^bjja- j (^->^ (the present

)

Author:

Ziya

ud-Dm Nakhshabi

work), and **'J (J3^3 are alone mentioned by name. He is also the author of Lizzat

ORNATE PROSE
un-Nisa (see p. 680 b), and the tale of Ma'sum Shflh and Naushabah, entitled Gulriz. Compare Elliot's History of India, vol. and Stewart's Catalogue, p. 85.
vi. p.

741

485,

The work is divided into forty sections called ^y>y*^, each of which treats of a distinct part of the human body. It is therefore
sometimes referred to as (jyJJ J*-. In the subscription of the present copy it is designated as js>\ (^y*'-i but the above title is that which is given to it in the preface, where
;

They turn chiefly on the changes effected in the meaning of words by removal or transposition of some letters. The author states in the introduction that he commenced the Shabistan after finishing his Husn u Dil, and gives the date of composition, A.H. 843, in the following line at
deals.

the end

ud-Din, i.e. Mubarak Shah Khilji (A.H. 717 721), is mentioned as the reign-'
ing sovereign.

Kuth

The work, which

i., is

is

generally called

divided into eight Biibs. The contents have been stated by Fleischer in the

Leipzig Catalogue, p. 399, and by

Jahrbiicher, vol.

Hammer,

Add. 18,187.
Foil.

64, Anzeige Blatt, p. 18.

10 i; 8

in.

by 4$; 11

lines,

2j

in.

See also the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 587, and the Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 31.

long; written in Nestalik, with 'Unvfm and ruled margins, apparently in the 17th century.

The Husn u Dil has been translated by Win. Price, London, 1828. See the cata*logues of Leipzig, p. 397, St. Petersburg, p. 404, Krafft, p. 49, and Vienna, vol. i. p. 419.

" The night-show of ingenuities," a collec" tion of conceits, or jeux d'esprit," in prose

Add. 7610.
Foil.

and

verse.

Author
Beg.

long
:

80; 74 in. by 4$; 12 lines, 2J in. written in Nestalik ; dated A.H. 1125
[01. J. RICH.]

Fattahi,

(A.D. 1713).

The same work.

Add. 25,868.
Yahyfi Sibak, of Nishapur, was one of the most eminent writers in prose and verse of the reign of Shuhrukh. He first adopted the
takhalliiH Tulfahi, evidently suggested

102; 8i in. by 6; 13 lines, 3| in. written in cursive Nestalik, in the long; district of Bard wan, about the close of the
Foil.

by his

18th century.

[War. CcniiTON.]

surname Sibak, but changed

Fat tain
.

it

afterwards to

lie uses also occasionally Khumari and Asrsiri as poetical surnames. His most

The prose works of Zuhiiri (see p. 678 a). The first four are in praise of Ibrahim
'Adilshah, and describe the splendours of his court and residence.

celebrated works are Shabistan i Khayiil (the pn.'sent work) and Husn u Dil. He died A.H.

852.
Taki,

See Lata'if,

fol. 9,

Daulatshah,

vi.

16,

vol. iii., Juz 3, p. 148, and Oude Catalogue, p. I'.t. The lines above quoted give a fair sample of the puerile subtleties in which the work

Hablb us-Siyar,

Zuhuri's preface to Nauras, o^>y> a treatise on Indian music composed by IbraI.

him

'Adilshah,

fol. 2.

Beg.

o-/y^ *&

njy*

u^-

JU

742
II.

ORNATE PEOSE.
His preface to

Khwan

Khalll,

Mlrza Abul-Kasim,

and spent there

the

jJ^, fol. 12.

Be.
III.
j>\j>\,

latter part of his life in great seclusion. died some years after the accession of

He
Au-

rangzlb.

His preface to Gulzar

fol. 33.

Ibrahim,

\j

Beg.

d-l Jy^V

In the Mir'at ul-'Alam, composed A.H. See Vaki'at i 1078, he is spoken of as dead. fol. 120, and Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, Kashmir,
fol.

279.

TV. Mina Bazar, J\j\) bx, a description of the Bazar so called, huilt by Ibrahim 'Adilshah in Bljapur.
Beg. ^i/yl^li.

The compositions of Tughra, which are

in India, are written in a most artificial style, and so overloaded with

much admired

V. Letters, loved, fol. 76

Beg.

S,,

of a lover to his be-

metaphors and fanciful imagery as to render the discovery of their subject matter a by no means easy task. A short notice on some of them by Ziya ud-Dln Khan will be found in
containing eighteen tracts by Tughra, and his letters, with a commentary, has been printed in
Or.

1941,

fol.

26.

A volume

The above works are popular school-books in India, and have been frequently published. The first three have been printed, under the

Cawnpore, 1871, under the

\ji\3.

title

of J* --;
1

See also Stewart's Catalogue, ^j^ix. t/ljik, p. 64, the Gotha Catalogue,
24,

OU=
vi.

Lucknow, 1846, and in Cawnpore, A.H. 1269, and A.D. 1873. The Mlna -Bazar has been lithographed with a commentary in Dehli, A.H. 1265, and in Lucknow, A.H. 1282. The fifth, known as ^,y^ **>j >, has been edited with comtitle

of

ijfjyjJ&^ii

*,

in

p.
p.

and Melanges Asiatiques,

vol.

136.

The contents of the present MS. are IJvV LTJ?- "the outpouring of the nightingale," also called ^\^\ .U** "the
standard of perception,'' in praise of the

mentaries in Cawnpore, A.H. 1280.

Divan of Hafiz, No. 5.)

Beg.

fol.

(Cawnpore

edition,

Foil. 330;

Add. 16,852. 7 in. by 4; 13 lines,

11411147
(A.D.

2J

in.

long;

written in Nestalik and Shikastah-

" the Paradisiacal," a dejuuMj^J, of Kashmir, fol. 7. (Cawnpore ediscription

II.
tion,

amlz

dated A.H.

1729-

No.

1.)
\jtj~

1735).

[WM. YULE.]

Beg.

^Z&\

J.J\ji-i j\> t/US

The prose works of Tughra, \j&>. Hulla Tughra i MashhadT, a native of Mashhad, went to India about the close of Jahanglr's reign, and, after staying some
time in the Deccan, repaired to the court of Shahjahan, and was attached as Munshi to Prince Muradbakhsh, whom he accompanied on his expedition to Balkh. He subsequently went to Kashmir, in the suite of the Divan

III. oUuftaS, or "verifications," treating of the names of the planets, and their use in poetical imagery,
fol.

23.

(Cawnpore

edition,

No.

3.)
tiiJj

Beg.

^^^.'3 ujp.
f-**^
<>

e^1

late-

u^. jl

IV.
ders,"
,

"

L->>.y<5'

collection of

won-

a description of

the lake

Kamam
8.)

fol. 26-

(Cawnpore

edition,

No.

ORNATE PROSE.
Beg.
in praise of Muradbakhsh,
edition,
fol.

743
67.

(Cawnpore

from the heading that this was the piece which first called the attention of the King of Golcunda upon the author.
It appears

No. 10.)

V. oWJ,, description of a Darbar at the Court of Jahangir, fol. 29. (Cawnpore edition, No. 7.)
Beg.

XII. ^^J, olfjli*, comparisons drawn from the spring and other seasons, fol. 77. (Cawnpore edition, No. 9.)
Beg.

y
"
,

VI.

the mirror of victories,

The author wrote

this tract, as appears

treating of the conquest of Balkh

and Ba-

from the conclusion, while engaged on the

revision of the Firdausiyyah.

dakhshan by Prince Muradbakhsh, from the I'.Hh to the 21st year of Shahjahfm (A.H. 1055 7), fol. 33. (Cawnpore edition, No. 4.)
Beg.

XIII.

**i\i 'ik-^-,

"

a diatribe against Court of Golconda,

Beg.

five
fol.

the defective quintet," personages of the

81.

VII.
fol.

"
iJ-'-Vl

the inspired," a Sufi tract,

edition,

XIV. s-^J^
ishes," a satire

oy,

"

the mirror of blem-

42.

(Cawnpore

No.

2.)

on Pulchi Khan, an Amir of

fol.

the Court of Golconda,

83.

Beg. Beg.

c~~i ^^f-

*,ib

O5j

*^

^J,)

VIII. VjJL3^ \f$, "memorial of the congodly," or eulogies on twelve eminent temporaries, Shaikhs, Kiizis, physicians and the latter poets, living in Kashmir [among are Kallm Hamadani (p. 686 a), and Mir
Ilahi (p. 687 &)], foL 53.

XV.

by Mullfi Sati' ^U to Shah Bahadur for a Jiiglr, fol. 87.

iu\i

Petition addressed

(Cawnpore

edition,

jj&j "the book of ambergris," an exposure of the plagiaries of Naslra i Ha" madani from " the late Zuhuri (p. 678 a),

XVI.

No. 14.)

fol.

89.

Beg.
manifestations," a descripbeauties of Kashmir, with a eution of the

IX.

OUU,

"

From

this tract

a versified heading it appears that is not by Tughra, but by Muklma,

logy upon Mir Husain Sabzavuri,

fol.

56.

(Cawnpore
Beg.

edition,

No. 13.)
jjte

the same apparently as Mukim Kiishi, to whom one of Tughra's letters is addressed
(see fol. 122 a).

> J-i
63.

X.

JWN

X
Shah
6.)
t

"

XVII.
the treasury of ideas,"
fol.

Fol.

99

b.

to contemporaries,

Tughra's lettersoUij such as Shfih Shuja',

in praise of
edition, No.

Shuja',

(Cawnpore

Beg.

oJ ^.ft^f-.
^.J-tN

w 'jo

t^.Ui

Kazi Nizama, Mirza Sanjar, the calligrapher ShamstijMaslh uz-Zamfin, Kazi-Zadah,KJiwajah lalah, Taliba i Kalim, Bazmi, Mirzii Abulfath, and others, fol. 99. (Cawnpore
edition, pp.

XI.

~3 "the crown

of eulogies,"

193270.)

744

OENATE PEOSE.
"
JUK,

a word of truth," a complaint of the want of liberality of the king and the king's son, fol. 178.

XVIII. j

XXVII.
jJS

*>J,

"the weeping

of

the

kalam," a description of the rainy season,

fol.

256.

Beg.

wto

V*S

^j>
"

uS^-Jjii y* ^jj*

Beg.

XIX.
"edition,

j^\ jlyl,

the lights of the East,"

fol.

XXVIII.
fol.

-U*5\

"

^y-,

the ascent of elo-

on the joys of spring,

No. 12.)

182.

(Cawnpore

quence," in praise of Sayyid Bahadur Khan,

259.

Beg.

ft}?

tA**^

^r*-

sown," on the art of writing, and on some images derived from

XX.

"

aJLLtf

iy-,

self

" the source of over^**i-, flow," a formulary of elegant addresses to the

XXIX.

(_x>.J

it, fol.

195.

Beg.

cl^uo
"
vr''',

Si?

Oli *kaJ

sovereign, preceded by a long preamble which contains a fanciful description of the Mi'raj or Ascension of Muhammad, fol. 263.

(Cawnpore

edition,

No. 17.)

XXI. **U

Ashub-Namah," in

Beg.

jijUjy^CU a/jbUob j\ .w*

praise of the poetry of Zulall (p. 677 a), whose seven Manavis are commented upon

XXX.
Beg.

^o ?ij,
e-jyj

"the medical

fruit,"

on

in turn,

fol.

207.
\

(Cawnpore edition, No.

15.)

images derived from the medical ^U, jjo

*j.^?-j>

art, fol. 294.

*j*

if (m^^- J&
containing 310.
t-yi-iJii

XXII.
sities,"

j&\j3\

sUo " enumeration

fol.

XXXI.
of curio-

^V
VJJ

a piece
fol.

metaphors taken from music,

Beg.
*la*
P

a description of eight stages on the

220.

4>3jU

J^"

*i,'i?

***i

road to Kashmir, No. 11.)

(Cawnpore

edition,

XXXII.
Beg.
I.,

lli\

io^i,

a sample of com-

Beg.

of Aurangzib, fol. 326. position," in praise

^y*-,

XXIII.
fol.

the same as No.

223.

XXIV.

addressed to *-Jj^r) a panegyric

fol.

Add. 16,875.
Toll.
;

Aurangzlb on his accession, pore edition, No. 16.)

Beg.

228.

(Cawn
\

249

8J

in.

by 5

19

lines,

in.

XXV.
Beg.

in praise j^>, "the fairy-house,"

fol.

of Shah 'Abbas II. of Persia,

241.

long the 20th year of Muhammad Shah (A.H. [WM. YULE.] 1151, A.D. 1738). Prose compositions of Ni'mat Khan 'All, U U- Ll*vo (see pp. 268 b, 703 a), with

written in Nestalik ;

dated Sha'ban,

Jit

some verses by the same,

"
(j)***
I. fol. 2.

as follows

e^JU^, spiritual banquet," in the Deccan, fol. 250. on a famine

.

XXVI.
Beg.

l>.

f\>j, a satire on physicians,

Beg.

FABLES, TALES,
II.

AND ANECDOTES.
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745

OUJ,,

letters to

Mirza Mubarak
to Mirza

TJ1-

lah Iradat
Sa'Id,

Khan Vazih,

Muhammad

83

steward of the imperial kitchen, and

fol. 5.

8i

in.

by 4|
cursive

other contemporaries,
III.
versified
fj^-s-

long; Rabi'

written
I.,

in

15 lines, 3J in. Nestalik; dated

M. YTJLE.]

A.H. 1154 (A.D. 1741).

jliJ'j

j&y-s-

jl*

olJSjtf

tories of Aurangzlb, events, fol. 16.

chronograms relating to the vicand other contemporary

includes

" Subtle Thoughts," by Mirza Badil (see

p.

706

This
satires,

section

some

5).

Kasidahs,

and Bubals.
Journal of the siege of Haidaruhiid 268 a), fol. 32.
This work, which is included in the Luckedition of the author's Kulliyiit, consists of a number of ingenious thoughts

IV.
(see p.

now

V.
nicle
(see p.

U,^V /*
272
a),

1-

*U

ill

a Court chro-

of the reign of

Shah 'Alam Bahadur

brought down in this copy to

I.,

and pointed anecdotes, bearing on religious and moral subjects, in mixed prose and
verse.

the 16th of Rabi'

A.H. 1120.

FABLES, TALES, AND ANECDOTES.

Or. 241.
Foil.

that no Persian prose

work was ever so much

admired.

The

193; 9

latter writer,

in.

by 5|; 17
Nestalik,

lines,

in.

long;

written in

apparently in

India, dated Safar,

A.H. 1094 (A.D. 1683).

[GEO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Nasr Ullah among the origin, states that he was one of the Vazirs of Khusrau Malik, the son and successor of Bahrain Shah (who died A.H. 555), and that through the intrigues of his enemies he was cast into prison, and finally put to death by
that prince's order. See Barbier de Meynard, Diet. Gdogr. de la Perse, p. 363. similar account is found in the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,

who mentions eminent men of Shiraz

The Book of Kalilah and Dimnah,

lated

trans-

from the Arabic version of *Abd Ullah B. ul-MukaftV by Abul-Maali Nasr Ullah B. Muhammad B. 'Abd ul-yamid,

fol.

449.
to

Bahram Shah,

whom

the work was by

his desire dedicated, ascended the throne in

praised as a model of elegance by Vassfif in a chapter devoted to Kalilah and Dimnah, Add. 23,517, fol. 616,
is

This version

Ghaznin A.H. 512, and, although hardly pressed by 'Ala ud-Dln Ghuri, who wrested from him his capital A.H. 522, he maintained
himself in the eastern part of his empire
s s

and Ahmad Razi says in the Haft Iklim,

VOL.
II.

fol.

88,

746
until his death, to the Guzidah,

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
hermit and the weasel,
fol.

which took place, according A.H. 644, or, as stated in the Eauzat us-Safa, A.H. 547. The exact date of composition is not stated, but it can be approximately inferred from the
author's incidental references to his
time.

125

b.

ix.
a.

the cat and the rats,

llj\,

fol.

128

x.

the king's son and the bird

b.

Fanzah,
lion

fol.

134

xi.

own

and the

Thus the death of al-Mustarshid, which took place in A.H. 529, is spoken of, fol. 11, as recent, ^& ^\ ^j. The Ghaznavi
dynasty is said, fol. 7, to have ruled 170 years, which, if counted from A.H. 366, when Subuktigin, according to the Tabakat i
Nasiri,

jackal,

^jT ^\} ju^ll, the fol. 142 a. xn. .w^>

fol.

s^j, xm.

the lion and the lioness,

i_ajui)\5

154

b.

t^X~UM, the
b.

hermit and the

\

guest, fol. 157

xJ>y j j^LM, Balar and the Brahmines, fol. 160 b. xv. jiU)\
xiv.

U1
179

established his

rule

in

Ghaznm,
Lastly,

j,

the goldsmith and the traveller,

xvi.

fol.

would come down to A.H. 536.

6.

aoU\, liiUM
fol.
b.

J>1,

the king's son

b.

when speaking
author says
years (J\~
his reign.
&>\

of al-Mansur, fol. 13, the that four hundred and odd

and

his

companions,

183

Nasr Ul-

lah's epilogue, fol.

188

_j j^*-) had elapsed since As that Khalif began to reign

&&

A.H. 136, this statement could hardly have been written before A.H. 538 or 539. A notice on the Persian translation, with extensive extracts from Nasr Ullah's preface, has been given by Silvestre de Sacy in Notices et Extraits, vol. x. pp. 94 140. See also Pertsch, Gotha Catalogue, p. 111. A full account of other versions will be found
in J. Derenbourg's Introduction to his edition of the Hebrew text.

Add. 5965.
Foil. 88
; ;

in.

by 6

13

lines,

3^

in.

long written in fair Naskhi, with 'Unvan and ruled margins ; dated Rajab, A.H. 626

(A.D. 1229).

Explanation of the Arabic verses which occur in Nasr Ullah's version of Kalilah

The work is divided into which follow the order of

No. 375 (see
ings.
I.e. p,

sixteen
S.

and Dimnah.
Babs,
Sacy's
p.

See the Arabic Catalogue,

de

478.

The

114), but bear Arabic headcontents are as follows Nasr

:

Author

Fazl Ullah B. 'Ugman B.

Mu-

hammad

ul-Asfizari,

Ullah's preface, wanting the first two leaves, fol. 3 a. Ibn ul-Mukaffa's preface, fol. 15 a.
I.

The introduction of Buzurjmihr,

Life of Barzuyah,
j,

fol.

21

a.

Beg. C

n.

fol.

24

b.

in.

.w^l
iv.

the lion and the bull,

fr

fol.

33

a.

The work

is

dedicated to the Vazir

Majd

c^a*?^', inquiry into the

fol.

conduct
1

of

Dinmah,

66

b.

v.

uj*J\ JUUJ

the
*j*tt

dove with the

collar,

fol.

81

a.

vi.

^b^j,
fol.

the owl and the ravens,

fol,

96

a.

ud-Daulah Abul-Hasan 'All ul-Mustauf I, who is called the pride of Khwarazm and Khurasan. At the end the author claims the reader's indulgence on account of his youth, and states his intention to explain also the
verses contained in the
see p.

vii. Oliar**^ j $j&\ the apes

and the
j

tortoise,

Book

of Sindbad

117

a.

viii.

(_),?

tiL-\jJ^,

the

748

a).

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
number, deal
for the

747

Add. 7620.
Foil. 136;

in.

long

written in

by 6 15 lines, 4 in. bold Naskhi with vowel;

13th century. points, apparently in the [Cl. J. RICH.]

Makamat, or narratives written in rhymed

prose, with a copious and Persian verses.

admixture of Arabic

Beg.

yi JJ'J Ui,
is

most part with scenes of personal adventure and travel, and with but dialogues between typical characters their main object is the display of an exuberant richness of diction, and of that jingling parallelism which Hariri had brought into fashion. The supposed narrator in each of them is some friend of the author, not named, introduced by the words &f c^?.K>The text agrees with the lithojjk->jj y.
;

The work

^f^^f from its Abu Bakr Balkhi, whose name, however,does not appear in the text. Hamid ud-Dln was an eminent judge and poet of the city of Balkh. His contemporary, Anvarl, addressed to him several laudatory poems (see above, p. 555 a) ; two Kit'abs composed by the same poet in praise of the Makamat are quoted in the Haft Iklmi, fol. 242. Ibn ulAs.ir,
s

commonly known as author Kazi Humid ud-Din

graphed edition, which, however, contains an additional Makamah, the twenty- fourth. The titles, many of which diner from those
of the printed text, are as follows
t,
:

i.

^
8
a.

fol.

b.

11.

w UNj
23

c_^.M

J,

fol.

17
fol.

a.

v.
a.

>m,y,
vu.

fol.

a.
-n

vi.

29

J.
ix

fol.

39

a.

vin.

who

calls

him

^^^ j
:

J,
^
xi.
b.

fol. fol.

42

a.

yl ^'JBI

50 a.
fol.

x.
a.
fol.

fol.

in the Kumil, vol. xi. p. 207, that he died A.H. 559. Haj. Khal. gives his name
in
full,

58

b.

J.LJ1

J,

62

xn.

vol. vi.

p.

57

fol.

y
fol.

67

XIH. j\~f-y\
fol.

J,
a.
fol.

73

a.
!

xiv.

*Siyij

yU\ J,
b.

82

xv.

jU\
a.

J,

Hamidi have been printed with marginal notes in Cawnpore, A.H. 1268. Copies are mentioned in Ouseley's
i

The Mak jmiit

86

xvi.

i^
a.

J,

92

xvn.
*/>a.

J
<_/,

Jxiii\
fol.

fol.
A.

97

xvni.

^jjN
fol.

Travels, vol.

iii.

707, Melanges

p. 657, Ouseley's MSB., No. Asiatiqucs, vol. iii. p. 557,

p. 30.

^
liDI

101

xix.
.V.i\

tfV^ J,
^i,
a.
fol.

106
b.

xx.

} ^..t
*ix>,

i^L.
118

110

xxi.

J
fol.

and the Copenhagen Catalogue,

fol.

xxn.
fol.
it

*>L-iN
b.

J,

The author

states in the preface that

he

125

b.

xxm. >N J,

131
is

had read with admiration the elegant Makamat of I'-adi' Hamadanl and Abul-Kasim Hariri, and had been desired by an illustrious
personage,

In the 13th

Makamah

related

how a

traveller visits Balkh,

then a brilliant and

whom

to oboy

was

to

him law,

to

match

in Persian those masterpieces of Arabic prose. Hence the present work, which -commenced in the month of Jumfula II.,

thriving city, and how returning, after some years spent in a pilgrimage to Mecca, he This evidently refinds it a heap of ruins.
fers to the devastation of the author's native

city

A.H. 551. The date of the year, which has been omitted in the present copy, is found in another MS., Or. 2004, in the Cawnpore
edition,

by the Ghuz in A.H. 548. The 22nd Makamah contains

versified lists

and in Haj. Khal., 1. c. The Makamat, which are twenty-three in

of the Khalifs in Arabic and Persian. They are brought down to al-Mustanjid (A.H. 555666), who is spoken of as the reigning
Khalif.
s s

748

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
Samarkand! was for a long time minister Oy.j t_^a-l^>) to Kilij Tamghaj Khan. He left, as stated in Haft Iklim,
B. 'Al! Katib
fol.

In an epilogue headed u_ which in the present copy follows the 21st

Makamah, hut

in the printed text

is

found at

the close of the work, the author says that, overwhelmed hy the calamities of the time,

559, the following three works

1.
2.

&*U contained in the present

MS.,

he had not found it in his heart to proceed further, but had brought his work abruptly
to a close.

X-.LJ1 (Haj. Khal., vol.

(

i.

p. 368),

and

3.

*>. jj^^\ (Haj. Khal., vol. iii. p. 619). The next-following Makamah is j<^\ The second, which is, like the first, dedicated preceded by these words, inserted by some to Kilij Tamghaj Khan, is not dated, but copyist ^Is* *><*-) c-jlSS^ \&* e^Jua*- U5 was written, as shown by its contents, after "
:

waiSj Ujj;

(j^uUAiuM,

When

I obtained

the

book I found these two additional Makamahs, and I transcribed it [sic]." On the first page is found the following title, written by the same hand as the text, in which the work is ascribed to another author, viz. to Nasr Ullah, the translator of Kalilah
this

death of Sanjar, A.H. 552.

Catalogue, vol.
little is
iii.

See the

Leyden Very

p. 14.

Turkish Khan,

known of Kilij Tamghaj, a who reigned in Turkistan in

the sixth century of the Hijrah. Ibn ulAs.ir mentions him in the Kamil, vol. xi.
early as A.H. 524, and the poet Raz! ud-Din of Nisbapur, who died A.H. 598, is stated in the Haft Iklim, fol. 307, to have
p. 55, as

and Dimnah:

>

W*

\\

^^i

been his panegyrist and favourite adviser. The present work begins with a long exordium in his praise, in which he is called

[read

J^=\

-U*k

Ji'

jikj\ ^\
is

Kb

Or. 255.
uA""!/

jki'

*P (J (^~

-B- 6

described as a great

Foil.

132

in.

by 4f

15

lines, 2

in.

long ; written in neat Nestalik, with goldruled margins, for the library of Sultan-

Muhammad

Kutubshah; dated Haidarabad, Kamazan, A.H. 1031 (A.D. 1622). [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.]

monarch, who had returned after a long absence to his hereditary dominions, and who, after vanquishing his foes in Turan in the year fifty-six (i.e. A.H. 556), had restored peace and the reign of justice in his vast
empire. In the next section, fol. 11 b, the author, whose name and titles are written as follows
:

of Sindbad, or the tale of the son and the seven Vazirs; wanting king's the first page.

The book

OUK

yjl

Author: Baha
*Ali B.

ud-Dm Muhammad
B.

B.
ul^,1^
Jj-Hx,

Muhammad

'Umar uz-Zahiri

S.5U1_,

Katib us- Samarkand!,

l,

gives
It

an account of the work

According to 'AufI, quoted in Riyaz ushShu'ara, fol. 281, Zahir ud-Dm Muhammad

called Sindbad.
says, in Pehlevi

had been compiled, he the sages of Persia, and by

FABLES, TALES,
had never been translated, until the Amir Nasir ud-Din Abu Humid Nuh B. Mansur Sumiinl ordered Khwajah 'Amid Abul-Favaris
Kanavar/i
o^Jjj'-**

AND ANECDOTES.
Add. 16,862.
Foil.

749

392

13^

in.

by 8

33

lines,

4f

in.

to turn

it

into Persian.
-3

This was done in the year 539, ^"tiy

wV-^-j (the date is obviously wrong, for Nuh B. Mansur reigned A.H. 365 387), but in bare and unadorned language; and that version had almost fallen into oblivion, when
the author undertook to write a new one, graced with all elegances of polite speech,
in

long; written in small Naskhi, with 'Unvcins and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century. [WILLIAM YULE.]

A large collection
Author
:

of anecdotes.
'Aufi, ^j

Muhammad
jiU-fl

order to immortalize the

name of

his

Beg. jyyj
sovereign.

oAw jt

tf\j^f-** ^f. j U5

which begins on fol. 17, agrees in substance with the Greek Syntipas described
tale,

The

" Essai by Loiscleur de Longchamps in his sur les fables indiennes," pp. 93 137, and
with a version in Persian verse, composed A.H. 776, and analyzed by F. Falconer in the Asiatic Journal, vol. 35, p. 169, and

The author, whose full name was Nur udDin Muhammad 'A nil, as stated in the Habib-us-Siyar, vol. ii. Juz 4, p. 163, the
Nigftristan
(see Krafft's Catalogue, p.

87),

and the Tarikh i Firishtah, vol. i. p. 117, is mentioned in the first and third of the above works as one of the eminent writers who
lived in Dehli during the reign of Iltatmish

4 and 99. An earlier poetical version by Azraki, mentioned by Daulatshah and the Bur him i KAti appears to be lost. The present version is noticed under the title of Sindbid Namah, by Haj. Khal., vol.
vol. 36, pp.
,

(A.H. 607633). In the Mir'at ul-Advar, fol. 36, and Haj. Khal., vol. ii. p. 510, he is called Jamal ud-Din Muhammad 'Aufi. He is known as the author of the earliest Persian

620, who, however, calls the author Kazvini instead of Samarkand!. There exist
iii.

p.

two other translations in Persian prose; one of them, forming part of Nakhshabi's Tiiti Namah, has been edited by H. Brockhaus, and another, by Shams ud-Din Muhammad Daka'iki, a poet of Marv, is mentioned by Haj. Khal., I.e., and in the Haft Iklim,
fol. -

Notices on the origin and early versions of the Book of Sindbad will be found in the
Fihrist, p. 305, in 8. de Sacy's Fables de Bidpai, Notices et Ext raits, vol. ix. p. -104,

<-^i a work described by Bland, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. ix. pp. 112 126, and by Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, pp. 1 6. We learn from passages of his works that he had studied in Bukhara, that his grandfather KHZ! Abu Tiihir Yahya B. Tdhir ul-*Aufi, was a native of Mavara un-Nahr (or, according to Bland's copy, of Marv), and that his maternal uncle Majd ud-Din Muhammad B. Adniin had writTa/.kirah, \~>\A,\
'

ten for Sultan Ibrahim [B.] Tamghaj Khan a history of the Turkish kings (see Jami* ul Hikayat, fol. 369, and Haj. Khal., vol. ii. p. 122). 'Aufi appears to have been a great traveller;

Gildemeister's Script. Arab, de rebus Indicis, p. 12, Benfey's Bemcrkungen fiber das Indische Original der Sieben Weisen Meister,

he was in

Nasa in A.H. 600, and

visited

Khwarazm and Kambayat. He made

Melanges Asiatiques,

vol.

iii.

Comparetti, Ricerche intorno

203, p. 188 al libro di Sin-

a lengthened stay at the residence of the Sultan Nasir ud-Din Kubachah, to whose

dibad, and Fr. Baethgen, Sindban oder die Sieben Weisen Meister.

Husain ul-Ash'arl, his Lubab ul- Albab is dedicated, and after whose
Vazir, 'Ain ul-Mulk

750
fall

FABLES, TALES,
he passed over to the court of the con-

AND ANECDOTES.
preters of dreams,
fol.

182

a.

22. Astro-

queror,

Slums ud-Dln
author's

Iltatmish.
is

The

exordium

devoted to the

23. Poets, fol. 186 b. logers, fol. 185 a. 24. Singers, fol. 188 b. Wits, fol. 189 b.

named sovereign, and of his Nizam ul-Mulk Kivam ud-Dln MuhamVazir, mad B. Abi Sa'id ul-Junaidi. Then follows an
praise of the last

account of the siege of Bhakar, in which Sultan Nasir ud-Dln Kubiichah had sought a refuge from the invading forces of Iltatmish. The fortress was taken by the Vazir above named on the 10th of Jumuda I., A.H. 625,

Anecdotes illustrating praiseworthy qualities, as modesty, humility, forgiveness, clemency, etc., in twenty-five Babs, fol. 196 b. Kism III. Anecdotes relating to blameII.

Kism

able

qualities, as

envy, avarice, covetous-

ness, etc., similarly divided, fol.

274

b.

Kism IV.

1.

and on the 19th the fugitive king perished The author, who was among in the river.
the besieged, did

of kings, fol. service of kings,

Advantages of the service 325 b. 2. Drawbacks of the

fol.

327

b.

3.

Fear and

homage

to the victorious

hope,
fol.

fol.

329
5. fol.

a.

4.

Efficacy of prayer,

Vazir, and completed for him the present work, which had been commenced by desire

331

a.

tradition,
fol.

332
7.

Prayers handed down by b. 6. Curious omens,

of Sultan Nasir ud-Din.

The JamT ul-Hikayat

dotes,

consists of anec-

fol.

334 336
a.
b.

b.

a. 9.

detached

laneous notices,
torical

narratives, and misceleither culled from his-

338 339

Escapes from persecution, Escapes from brigands, fol. Escapes from wild beasts, fol.
8.

10.

Men who

perished in the whirl-

mation.

works, or derived from oral inforIt is divided into four parts (kism),
is

each of which

subdivided into five-and:

12. Men who pool of love, fol. 342 a. from the whirlpool of love, fol. 344 b. escaped 12. Men who escaped from the abyss of
perdition,
tiny, fol.
fol.
fol.

Kism I. 1. Knowtwenty Babs, as follows 2. Miracles ledge of the Creator, fol. 5 a.

of the prophets, fol. 11 a. 3. Supernatural powers of saints, fol. 20 a. 4. Early kings of Persia, fol. 28 o. 5. The Khalifs, fol. 49 a.

354
b.

b.

13.

Wonders of

des-

358

14.

Marvels of creation,

Longevity in animals, fol. 363 a. 16. Countries and routes, a sketch of geography, fol. 365 b. 17. Account of
b.

361

15.

Excellence of justice, and stories of just 7. Lives and memorable kings, fol. 84 a. 8. Witty sayings traits of kings, fol. 92 a.
6.

Rum,
368

of kings,
fol.

fol.

100
10.

b.

9.

Regimen

of kings,
fol.
fol.

104
o.

b.

Answers to
fol.

petitions,
a.

110
12.

11. Instances of sagacity,

114

a.

Sound judgment,
fol.

123

13. Wiles
;

and stratagems,

138

b.

14.

Able Vazirs

(eight leaves are wanting after fol. 146, so that the latter part of Bab 13 and the begin-

Abyssinia, and India, fol. Remarkable buildings, fol. 371 a. 19. Strange talismans, fol. 374 20. Curious of natural objects, fol. 376 b. properties 21. Temperaments of animals, fol. 378 a. 22. Wild beasts, fol. 382 b. 23. Strange fol. 386 a. 24. Curious birds, fol. animals, 388 a. 25. Facetiousness of the great, fol. 390 b.

Arabia,
18.

b.

On

the

first

page

is

a note written in

ning of the next are

lost).

15.

Advice

given by sages and holy men to kings, fol. 16. Pithy answers, fol. 160 a. 154 a. 17. Anecdotes of Kazis and TJlainas, fol.

The Bijapur, probably in the 17th century. last seven leaves of the MS. have short gaps, apparently due to the mutilated state of the
copy from which it was transcribed. The headings of the Jami* ul-Hikayat are given in the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 410, and, from a Turkish version, in the Jahr-

Anecdotes of secretaries, fol. 173 a. 19. Favourites, fol. 178 b. 20. Physicians and philosophers, fol. 180 a. 21. Inter167
b.

FABLES, TALES,
bucher, vol. 70, Anzeige Blatt, pp. 77 82. Some extracts, with Professor Dowson's
notice
Elliot's

AND ANECDOTES.
five

751
is

Babs into which the work

are as follows
for
:

divided.

They

author, will be found in of India, vol. ii. pp. 155 203. History
vol.
iii.
ii.

on the

men
4.

Stratagems of wise warding off enemies. 2. Properties

1.

of minerals.
vices of kings.

3.

Properties
5.

of

animals.
6.

See Melanges Asiatiques,

Sir

p.

728,

Rare animals.
7.

Strange birds.

De-

Wm.

and

Ouseley's Travels, vol. the Munich Catalogue, p. 56.

p. 363,

Praiseworthy qualities of

Or. 236.
541; 11$ in. by 8; 29 lines, 6J in. written in Naskhi, apparently in the long ; 16th or 17th century. From the royal library of Lucknow.
Foil.

Witty sayings of kings. 9. Speech and silence. 10. Fidelity and good faith. 11. Longevity. 12. The seven climes, countries and races. 13. Remarkable buildings.
kings.
8.

14. Talismans.

15.

Human
17.

monstrosities.

16. Strokes of destiny. 18. Anecdotes of Kfizis

qualities.

Ready answers. and Imams. 19. Good

21.

20. Firmness.

[GEO. Wic. HAMILTON.]

Advantage of

The same work. The beginning and end

foil.

318, 536541,

of the MS., viz., are older than the

taking advice. 21. Temperaments of men. 23. Hate and envy. 24. Cupidity. 25. Anecdotes of covetous men. 26. Avarice. 27. Ly28. False prophets. ing and truthfulness. 29. Pretensions which saved men from ruin.

middle part, probably of the 15th century.

That portion was transcribed, as stated at the end, from a MS. dated A.H. 71 -'.

30.

Anecdotes

of

fools.

31. 34.

Facetiee.

32. Thieves.

33. Beggars.

Wiles of

Add. 7672.
Foil. 2.VJ,

women. 35. Instances of chastity. The work appears to have been compiled
in the seventh century of the Hijrah. Imam Muhammad 'Aufi is twice named, and several

long

10$ in. by 7; 22 lines, 4J in. written in cursive Nestalik ; dated

[Cl. J.

Zulka'dah, A.H. 1026 (A.D. 1616).

RICH.] Kism III. and Kism IV. of the same work. There are about two pages wanting at the beginning of each Kism.

anecdotes are taken from his Jami' ul-Hikayat but, on the other hand, no later dynasty
;

than that of the Khwarazmshahis

tioned.

B.

is menThe present copy, written by 'Ali Muhammad Shirvfmi, contains only an

abridgment made by him, as appears from

the subscription
j
:

Or. 1584.
8 in. by 5} about 32 lines, 3J in. written in small cursive Nestalik; long; dated Kars, A.H. 1133 (A.D. 1721).
Foil. 34;
;

[SIR HENRY C. RAWLIWSON.] collection of anecdotes and miscellaneous notices, without preface or author's

Add. 7673.
Foil.

name.
Beg.

long;

359; 11 in. by 8; 21 lines, 5 in. written in Naskhi; dated Sha'ban,

[Cl. J. RICH.]

A.H. 903 (A.D. 1498).

On

the

first

page is found the title with a table of the thirty-

Narratives of wonderful cases of deliverance

from

distress or escape

from danger, trans-

752
lated

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
B.

from the Arabic by Husain B. As'ad B. Husain ul-Muayyadi ud-Dihistani, (i

Muhammad

ul-Mada'ini, a native of Bas-

rah, lived in Madii'in,

and subsequently in where he died A.H. 224 or 225, Baghdad,

Beg.

The author states in the preface that he had been desired by the illustrious Vazir 'Izz
ud-Din Tahir B.ZingI ul-Faryumadi tf**gfl\* " who had restored peace and prosperity to a to produce a work on the distracted world,"
above subject, and, finding nothing more entitled appropriate than the Arabic work t^\ j*j by Abul-Hasan 'All B.
esu^\j
^j&\,

leaving several works treating of the history of the Arabs and of the early wars of Is-

lamism. See Ansab us-Sam'iini, the Kamil, vol. x. p. 368.

fol.

515, and"

Copies of the same version, all ascribing the original work to al-Madfi'im, are noticed
in Fleischer's Dresden Catalogue, No. 135, and in the catalogues of Munich, p. 56,

Muhammad

ul-Mada'inl, he had selected

it

Petersburg, p. 408, and Vienna, vol. iii. See also Stewart's Catalogue, p. 84, No. V.
St.

p. 451.

for translation.

There can be no doubt, however, that the

original of the present translation

In the present copy the work is divided into thirteen chapters, each containing a
large number of detached narratives. These consist for the most part of historical anecdotes relating to the times of the Umayyades and of the Abbasides down to the fourth

well-known work t^\ **> ul-Muhassin B. Abil-Kasim

called al-KazI ut-Tanukhi,
rah,

jti\

was the of Abu 'AH

'All,

commonly

who

died in Bas-

(See Ibn Khallikan's transvol. ii. p. 664, the Kamil, vol. ix. lation, p. 74, Haj. Khal., vol. iv. p. 411, and the

A.H. 384.

century of the Hijrah. The Arabic verses are given in the original language, with
metrical paraphrase by the translator, who not unfrequently adds to the text verses and

Leyden Catalogue,
khi
is

vol.

i.

p. 213.)

Kazi Tanu-

frequently named in the body of the work as the narrator, and he is distinctly designated as the author in the following
introduction to one of the anecdotes, fol. " The author of the work 261 a says as
:

remarks of his own.

Add. 7717.
Foil.

167

10

in.

follows:

My

father,

Kazi Abul-Kasim ut-

long

written in

by 5| ; 17 lines, 3f in. Nestalik ; dated Safar,

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Tanuklri, relates," etc. This evidently refers to the father of the same writer, viz. Abul-

A.H. 1074 (A.D. 1663).

Kasim 'All B. Muhammad ut-Tanukhi, who died A.H. 342 (see Ibn Khallikan, vol. ii.
p. 564).

King Kishvargir and princess Mulk-arai, a Hindu tale, written in ornate prose, copiously
interspersed with Arabic

attribution of the work to al-Madaini, a much earlier writer, appears to be an error

The

and Persian
jb\jj
is

verses.

Beg.

o-U-

<*,=-

jt,^

Jp

^
fol.

of the translator,

who probably mistook one

8

The author, whose name

b,

written,
*"$&

of the authorities quoted by Kazi Tanukhi for the writer of the book. Abul-Hasan 'AH

as follows
i_-ij/<^

^xjii

.y~*(

+a~\

.j-e .x,*!*

^L^i-b
From Faryumad, a town birthplace of Khwajah
v., 6,

_Uj

(_-*SiJl

J->JJ>A&,

describes

of the district of Sabzavar,

the

'Ala

ud-Din Muhammad,
Sa'id.
iii.,

himself as a native of Dehli, an hereditary servant of the Court, and a secretary of the
royal chanceky, lli^H
u) ^.^-

Vazir of Khorasan under Sultan

ghah,

Abu
vol.

See Daulat2, p. 61.

and Habib us-Siyar,

Juz

flowery preface, which occupies no

less

FABLES, TALES,
than forty-six pages, begins with panegyrics

AND ANECDOTES.
and

753

on the reigning sovereign Muhammad Shah B. Tughluk Shah (A.H. 725752) and his predecessor Gbiyas. ud-Din Abul-Muzaffar

ill-arranged, had requested him to rewrite it in a more attractive form. He adds

that in so doing he has in some instances substituted new stories for inferior tales.

Tughluk Shah.
account of the

Then
latter's

a detailed expedition to Tirhut

follows

(A.H. 725;

The

see Firishtah, vol. i. p. 406). author, who was in the Sultan's suite,

The work was completed, as stated in some verses at the end, in A.H. 730. This copy was written by a Pclrsi, Khwurfor Capshid B. Isfandiyur, suruamed jj&<*\
tain Aungier,

overwhelming heat and other hardships he had to endure on the return journey to Dehli. There he fell ill, and was only saved by the skill of the great Hakim
describes the

^zJ.
has been translated into

The

Tiiti

Namah

Muhammad

Khujandi.

English by M. Gerrans, London, 1792, and its abridgment by Kadiri into German by

During his convalescence the present talc was brought to him for his amusement, and, as it was written in very plain language, he was requested to draw it up in elegant prose, a task which he completed in the space of a few months, A.H. 726, being then
in his twenty-sixth year.

The latter C. J. L. Iken, Stuttgart, 1837. version contains an appendix on Nakhshabi's

work by Kosegarten. See also Pertsch, Ueber Nachschabi's Papagaienbuch, Zeitschrift der D. M. G., vol. xxi. p. 605, and
Benfey, Gottinger Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1858, A Turkish imitation of Nakhshabi's p. 529.
Tuti

He

concludes with

a grateful acknowledgment of the favours

Namah

has been translated into Ger-

showered upon him by Muhammad Shah, who for a single Kasidah had given him sixty thousand Dinars and sixty horses.

man by Georg

Rosen, Leipzig, 1858.

Add. 5627.
Foil.

The scene of the tale is laid in India. The Rajas of Ujjain and Kimiauj are the principal actors.

168

10

in.

by 5|

17

lines,

3$

in.

long;

written

in

Nestalik, apparently

in

India, early in the 18th century.

Royal 16 B. xn.
Foil. 272;

[NATH. BRASSEY HALHED], The same work, wanting a few lines at the
end.

9$

in.

by 5$

long; written in Nestalik ; in the year 1039 of Yazdajird (A.D. 1670).

15 lines, 3 in. dated Ardihihislit,

[THO. HTDB.J

Add. 6638.
Foil. 469;

in.

by 5J; 11

lines,

in.

The
XivsVi

tales of a parrot, a Persian version

written in large Nestalik, about the beginning of the 18th century.

long

by
b).

[J. F.

HULL.]

Nakhshabi, ^^xl* ,/xc (see p. 740

JjJ,

The same work, wanting about

at the end.

six leaves

The author says

great personage,
tales, originally

in the preface that

some

whom

he does not name,

fifty-two
Foil.

Add. 10,589.
149; 7i
in.

had shown him a book containing

and, as the translation VOL. n.

by 5f; 9

lines,

3|

in.

written in the Indian tongue,

was

prolix, inelegant,

the long ; written in Nestalik, apparently in 18th century. T T

754

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
Add. 16,864.
long; written in large Nestalik; dated Ilahiibad
lines,

abridged version of the TutI Namah, by Abul-Fazl B. Mubarak, u!J/f. y> J-ofl\ yt
(see p.

An

Foil. 38; 9 in.

by 6; 10

3f

in.

247

b).
tjtj.ll->

Beg. j^b

^j j

^Uj >j\^ o^x-

,jjo

This abridgment was written, as stated in the preface, by order of Akbar. It contains, like Nakhshabi's version, fifty-two tales.
preface and the first thirty-five tales have a Dakhni translation written between

Ramazan, A.H. 1194 (A.D. 1780). [WM. YULE.] Another abridgment of the Tales of a"
Parrot, in
still
5

plainer language than Kadiri's.

\j

The

Beg.

we'*

Jbf- JoJo 4

utf^'itf O-IA-* j

^
:

It contains only the four following tales

the lines.

Foil.
;

63;

Add. 12,401. 7f in. by 5; 12 lines,

The merchant's son and the bird sharak. The goldsmith and the carpenter. The four companions. The Brahman's son and
his wife.

3g

in.

written in Indian Shikastah, appalong in the 18th century. rently

Add. 16,813.
Foil.

CRAWFORD.] The abridgment of Nakhshabi's Tut! Na[J.

202

10

in.

by 5f

mah, by
Beg.

Muhammad
I

Kadirl,

<>j<>\3

A*^?.
\\

long; written in fair the 16th century.

3| in. Nestalik, apparently in

;

21

lines,

[WM. YULE.]

w l-

jjjj^ljjkj

e^i'Oj

UJ (^- (*'**-

jjo

The author says

ficult to

in a short preamble that,

A collection
and verse. Author
Beg.
:

of moral anecdotes, in prose

the style of Nakhshabi being hard and difbe understood, he had found it expedient to put his

Mu'lnl ul-Juvaini,
t_f~ j'
!

work into plain and intelThe number of the tales is ligible language. reduced from fifty -two to thirty-five.
thirty-third tale is repeated at the end, foil. 56 63, in another hand. Kadiri's TutI Namah has been printed with

c^j\

\j

The

Maulana Mu'm ud-Dln, born in Avah, near Juvain, died about the close of the eighth century of the Hijrah. He was a

an English version in Calcutta, and in LonSee Kosegarten, Anhang zu don, 1801.

Iken's TutI

man

Namah,

p. 175.

of great piety, and a disciple of Shaikh Sa'd ud-Dln Hummu'i in Sufism, and of Fakhr ud-Dln Asfara'im in sciences. See
Ilahl,

Oude

and Haft Iklim,

Catalogue, p. 85, Taki, fol. 322.

ib.,

p. 19,

Add. 6964.
Foil. 115; 9 in.
a page; written

Abu

by 7; about 15 lines in by the Rev. John Haddon

After eulogies on the reigning sovereign, Sa'id Bahadur Khan, and his Vazir Ghiyas. ud-Dln Muhammad, son of the

Hindley on paper water-marked 1806. Tales extracted from Kadiri's Tuti Namah, with the English translation transcribed from the Calcutta edition, and twd short narratives from another source.

celebrated Rashld ud-Dln, the author says that, Sa'di's Gulistan having been once

praised in an assembly of learned men in his father's house, he observed that, notwithstanding its .undeniable merit, it had the

drawback of being too well known, and that

FABLES, TALES,
was time to produce a similar work which had the charm of novelty, a task which his That father encouraged him to perform. not carried out until design, however, was much later, in A. II. 735. The title was
it

AND ANECDOTES.
Tlie Bahfiristan has

755

with a German translation, by Freiherr von Schlechta It has been printed Vssehrd, Vienna, 1816. in Lucknow without date, and, with a Turkish
edited,

heen

commentary, in Constantinople, A.H. 1252.

of a garden near Nishapiir, called Nigaristan, which the author happened to visit about that time. The

suggested hy the

name

Add. 19,810.
170 ; 8J in. by 4$ ; 13 lines, 2| in. written in Nestalik; dated A.H. 962 long;
Foil.

work

is

dedicated to Mu'ini's spiritual guide,

Sa'd ud-Din Yusuf B. Ibrahim B.

Muhammad

ul-Mu'ayyad ul-Hummu'i, a grandson of the famous Suti, Sa'd ud-Din Muhammad B. ulMu'ayyad Hummu'i, who died A.n. 650;
Bee Nafahat, p. 4'.J.

(A.D. 1584).

The same work, with Turkish

the
first six

glosses

on

pages.

The Nigaristan is divided into seven Bal>s, with the following headings:
Foil.

Add. 26,287.
83
;

6i

in.

by 4

16

lines,

2}

in.

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the

17th century. The same work.

[WM. ERSKINE.]

The
Haj. Khal., vol.
vi. p.

last

three leaves are supplied by a

later hand.

and Melanges Asiatiques,

vol.

381, Uri, p. 271, iii. p. 732.

Foil.

Add. 10,002.
137
;

Add. 7775.
Foil. 78; 7i in. long; written in

in.

by B|

21

lines,

3|

in.

by 4}; 13
Ncstalik,

lines,

in

2| in. the 16th

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century.

century.

[Cl. J. Ricu.J

Turkish commentary upon the Bahfiristan, with the text, by Sham'i (see p. 607 a).

Beg.

p~j

^Af-

/^^i-

j*

,3

o-V*

J ***

A collection
and
verse,

of moral anecdotes, in prose

(see p. 17
).

by Jami

The work is dedicated to Muhammad Pasha, Grand VazTr of Sultan Murful B. Salim
(A.H. 9821003). See the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 357, the Gotha Catalogue, p. 107, and the Munich

The author wrote it, as stated in the preface, while he was reading Sa'di's Gulistfln with his son, Ziya ud-Din Yusuf, and in
imitation of that work.

Catalogue, p. 52.

He

Add. 18,579.
by 6; 19 lines, 2| in. long; written in Nnskhi with a rich 'Unvan, gold-ruled margins, and thirty-six miniatures in the best Indian style dated A.H. 1019 (A.D. 1610); bound in stamped and gilt
Foil.

divided

it

into

eight Rauzahs, and dedicated it to Sultan II usain. The date of composition, A.n. 892,
is

426; 9J

in.

expressed in the following line at the end:

leather.

T 2

756

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
Add. 26,313.

modernized

Dimnah
Beg.
<

Kalllah and by Husain B. 'All ul-Va'iz Kashifi

version
of

Foil.

244

10

in.

by 6|

14

lines,

4|

in.

long

written by different hands, apparently

[WAI. ERSKINE.}

(see p. 9 b).

in India, in the 17th century.

The same work,

slightly imperfect at the

The author

states in the preface that, the

end.

version of Nasr Ullah (see p. 745 a) being

antiquated and

difficult

to read,

he had
Foil.

been requested by Nizam ud-Dm Amir Shaikh Ahmad, called as- Suhaili, to re-write the work in an easy and attractive style. In so doing he had left out the first two chapters, as irrelevant, and reduced the work to
fourteen.

Egerton 1106.
356
;

lOf

in.

by 7|

17

lines, 5 in.

written in Nestalik, apparently in India, in the 18th century. [ADAM CLARKE.]

long

The same work.

The above-mentioned Nizam ud-Dln Shaikh Ahmad was a Turkish Amir of the Chaghatai tribe, and a favourite of Abulghazi Sultan Husain. He received the surname of
Suhaili from his spiritual guide Shaikh Azarl,

Add. 6636.
Fol.

326

10^

in.

by 6

17

lines,
;

in.

long

written in Nestalik, in India

II.,

dated

Jumada

A.H. 1104 (A.D. 1693).

[JAMES GRANT.]
table of contents,

composed a Persian and a Turkish Divan, and died A.H. 907, according to TakI, Oude Catalogue, p. 20, or A.H. 908, as stated in
the Ataskkadah,
viii. 3,

The same work, with a

foil.

16.
:

fol. 8.

See also Daulatshah,

fol.

Copyist

and Sam
i

Mirza,,

150.

Suhaili has been printed in Hertford 1805, in Calcutta 1804, 1816, and repeatedly since. English translations by

The Anvar

Sloane 3248.
5J in. long written in Naskhi, by Salomon Negri (see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 335, note c), about the beginning of the 18th century. The tale of the hermit and the pimp, from the Anvar i Suhaili, with the Turkish version from the Humayun Namah.
;

Foil.
;

13

11$

in.

by 8

20

lines,

E. B. Eastwick and A. N. Wollaston have

been published in 1854 and 1878.

See S. de

Sacy, Fables de Bidpai, preface, pp. 42 -47. In a note on the fly-leaf Mirza Shir 'All
states that this MS., written and illuminated for Tana Shah (the last king of Golconda),

had been given him on account of pay

rate of 500 rupees.

at the

Add. 4945.
Foil.

217

10

in.

Add. 26,312.
Foil 379; 9 in. by 6; 17 lines, 3J in. long; written in Nestalik, apparently in India; dated Eajab, A.H. 119S (A.D. 1784.)
[Wir. ERSKINE.]

by 6J

19

lines,
;

3|

in.

long

written in neat Nestalik

dated Zul-

ka'dah, A.H. 1183 (A.D. 1770).

[CLAUD RUSSELL.]

The same work.

A modernized version of Kalllah and Dim-

FABLES, TALES,
nah, by Abul-Fazl B. Mubarak,
liJjU- (see p.

AND ANECDOTES.
.

757

247

t).

Author: Taj (i.e. Taj ud-Dm B.) Muln ud-Din Maliki, J^ ^oJl ^^w 'j
(

appears, from a very diffuse preface, that the author had been commanded by
It

was made, as stated in a short preamble, by order of Malik Nasr udDin (in some copies Naslr ud-Dm), fieftranslation
'

The

Akbar to re-write in plain and easy language the version of Husain Va'iz, and that he restored in his work the preliminary chapters
omitted by the
total
hitter,

holder of Shikk (?) Bihar, j/J\

J\Q>

^^\
,

^ULU

jL

jki.

yJjJ'j SJjjJ^^oi

^5^ a

prince

whose epoch has not been ascertained.

account of this version has been de Sacy in " Notices et Extraits," given by vol. x. pp. 226 261. Copies are mentioned in Stewart's Catalogue, p. 83, the Copenfull
8.

thus bringing up the

new

of chapters to sixteen. The version was completed, as stated at the

number

end, fol. 214 b, in the thirty-third year ofthe reign of Akbar, or A.H. 996. See S. de

hagen Catalogue,

p.

29,

and the Munich

Sacy, Notices et Extraits, vol. 225, Fables de Bidpai, pp. 47

x.,

pp. 197

51,

and the

Vienna Catalogue,

vol.

iii.

p. 286.

Hindustani translation Catalogue, p. 47. entitled AkhLlk i Hindi has been published in Calcutta, 1803. See Garcin de Tassy,
Literature
Hindoui,

2nd

edition,

vol.

i.

Add. 25,832,
Foil.

pp. 188, 609.

lines,

432

8J

in.

by 5*

15

3|

in.

Add. 18,408.
Foil.

long ; written in Nashki, apparently early in the 18th century. [Viu. CUBETON.]

158; 9J

in.

by 5^; 17
;

lines,

in.

The same work.

long ;

written in fair Nestalik

dated Safar,

A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1676).

[WM. YULE.]
o1\Vl

Or. 477.
334 ; 9 in. by 5$ ; 15 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled long; margins, and 38 miniatures in Indian style;
Foil.

i
t

ft

il. Vail

collection of witty sayings

'Ali

and anecul-

dotes.

dated Ramaffoi, A.H. 1217 (A.D. 1803). [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.] The same work.

Author:

B. ul-Husain

ul- Va'iz

Kaahifi, called as-Safi, b*\j\

ys-U
a).

J*

^j

j^\

JLtlrfl (see p.

353

Add. 25,833.
Foil.

Beg. uJi'^j 3

97

in.

by 5J

18

long;

written in Nestalik;

lines, 3| in. dated Bandar

Bharoch (Broach), Jumada

(A.D. 1781).

II.,

A.H. 1195

says that after his release from one year's confinement at Herat, in

The author

A.H. 939, he

[WM. CDRBTON.]

repaired, under untold hardThere he ships, to the hills of Gharjistan.

Mufarrih ul-Kulub, the Persian translation

of the Hitopadesa.

was graciously received by the Sultan ShahMuhammad, for whose diversion he completed the present work, which he had previously compiled.
Bikbs,

It is divided into fourteen

according to the persons, or classes of men, to which the anecdotes relate, as fol-

758
lows:
Kings.
Vazirs.
6. 7.
1.

FABLES, TALES,
Muhammad.
4. 5.
2.

AND ANECDOTES.
with which he speaks of Kashan make it probable that it was his native place. He states in the preface that he had begun to
arrange his long collected materials at the
instance
(Or. 238,

The Imams.

3.

Amirs,

Men

royal favourites, and of letters, secretaries, etc.

Arabs of the

desert, elegant speakers, etc.

8. PhiloKazis, etc. sophers and physicians. 9. Poets. 10. Wags. 11. Misers, gluttons, and parasites. 12.

Shaikhs, 'Ulama,

of
fol.

some
1

friends

in

A.H. 1004

Covetous men, thieves, beggars, etc. Children and slaves. 14. Simpletons,

13.
liars,

enumerates the fol- v b). works as his principal sources: Jarni' lowing ul-Hikayat by Muhammad 'Aufi, Nuzhat ulKulub, Hablb us-Siyar, Rauzat us-Safa,

He

and impostors. This copy was corrected, as stated

end, for Major Yule, by Sayyid Navaz of Dehli.

Kashb ul-Ghummah by
at the

'All

B. 'Isa (Haj.

Muhammad

The same work

title

is

mentioned under the

Stewart's

of

i_i?.ya5\

v_ML5 in

Cata-

v. p. 211), Tarikh Abu Hamfah Ibn Khallikan, Bahjat ul-Mabr,hij Dinavari, by Hasan B. Husain Sabzavarl, Nigaristan by Ghaffari, Aja'ib ul-Makhluknt, al-Faraj ba'dash-Sliiddah, Tarlkh i Yafi'i, and Tiirikh i

Khal. vol.

logue, p. 26,

and

Biblioth. Sprenger.,

No.

Hafiz Abrfi.

1035.

While following the general arrangement

Add. 8915.
Fol.
;

of the Jami' ul-Hikayat (see p. 749 b], the author has adopted a division of his own.
lines,

206

10

in.

by

15

The work
in.
;

long written in cursive Indian Nestalik dated Sha'ban, A.H. 1233 (A.D. 1818). The same work.

of which

consists of nine parts (Juz), each is divided into ten chapters (Fasl),
:

as follows

Juz

I.

1.

Knowledge of God,

fol. b. fol.

a.

2.

Or, 239.
428; 11 in. by 7f ; 21 lines, 4| in. written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan long; and gold-ruled margins; dated Sha'bfm,
Foil.

Miracles of the prophets, fol. 3 natural powers of the saints,

3.

Super8 a. 4.

Early kings of Persia, fol. 18 a. 5. Khalifs, fol. 42 b. 6. Muslim kings contemporary with
the Abbasides,
justice,
fol. fol.

85
8.

a.

7.

Anecdotes on
life

105

a.

Traits of the

and

A.H. 1079 (A.D. 1668).

[GEO.

manners

WM.

HAMILTON.]

fol. 112 a. 9. Witty sayof the great, fol. 116 b. 10. Instances ings of sagacity in kings, fol. 119 a.

of kings,

Juz

II.

1.

Instances of the divine guidance

A vast

collection of anecdotes

and

stories,

containing also historical, geographical, and other miscellaneous notices.

and their ordinances, fol. 122 a. 2. Cunning devices, fol. 124 a. 3. Penetration, fol. 134 a. 4. Stratagems, fol. 142 b. 5.
of kings
Skill of Vazirs,
fol.

Author:
Hasani,

Majd ud-Dln Muhammad

ul-

sages to kings, fol.

fol.

153 158 b.

a.
7.

6.

Advice of
fol.

surnamed Majd!,

Pithy answers,

161
a.

a.

8.

Remarkable judgments,

167
Be"JJC,.,.

u?
The author lived in Persia under Shah Abbas I. The predilection and minuteness

Anecdotes of secretaries, fol. 171 b. 10. Anecdotes of royal favourites, fol. 176 b. Juz III. Anecdotes of physicians, fol. 181 a, astrologers, fol. 183 5, poets, fol. 186 a, singers, fol. 189 a, wits, fol. 190 b,
9.

interpreters of dreams,

fol.

195

a.

Anecdotes

FABLES, TALES,
illustrating modesty, fol.
fol.

AND ANECDOTES.

759

200

a,

clemency,

fol.

199 a, humility, 202 a, mag-

the accession of Abdul-Latif Khan, in A:H. 947, fol. 405 a. 10. History of the Safavis,
fol.

nanimity, fol. 206 b. Juz IV. Anecdotes illustrating urbanity,

fol.

421

a.

The

last

section

contains a

compassion, fol. 210 fol. 212 a, munificence, God, hospitality, foL 217 b, valour, patience, fol. 223 b, gratitude,
b,

208

b, fol.

trust in

fol.

213 220

b, 6,

sketch of the reign of Shiih Ismail. In conclusion, the author, after a short reference to the accession of Shah Tahmasp and two of

fol.

224. b,

announces his intention of a separate work to the history of devoting

his
victories,

piety,

and caution, fol. 227 a. Juz V. Anecdotes relating

that Shah's reign.

to
diligence,

The present copy wants a

leaf

which con-

good faith, peace-making, secresy, probity, good temper, firmness of purpose, the taking of advice, and the diversity of men's dispositions, fol. 230 b. Juz VI. Anecdotes on envy, greed, and
silence,

tained the greater part of the preface. One leaf or more, which followed fol. 426 and

concluded the account of Shah

reign,
is

Ismii'il's

also lost.

The Zinat ul-Majalis has been printed

Teheran, A.H. 1270.

in

cupidity
stories

anecdotes of knaves, and beggars

to

few extracts are

relating

falsehood,

oppression,

avarice,

bad

faith,

and

foolishness, fol.

251

b.

given in Elliot's History of India, vol. ii. p. 506. See also Barbier de Meynard, Dictionnaire Geographique, preface, p. 20, Sir Win. Ouseley's Travels, vol. i. p. 19, and Melanges

Juz VII. Anecdotes on harshness, meanness,

prodigality,

treachery,

incontinence,

ingratitude, slander, rashness,

on

vile

men,

and on pious women, fol. 269 6. Juz VIII. Service of kings;

Asiatiques, vol. 519.

iii.

p. 679,

vol. v. pp. 216,

hope and

fear; efficacy of prayer; curious auguries; deliverance from distress ; escapes from

Or. 238.
Foil.

brigands, from wild beasts, from the pangs of love, from the whirlpool of ruin; wonderful strokes of destiny, fol. 290 b.

303

13^

in.

by 8$

23

lines, 5

in.

Juz IX.

1.

On human

monstrosities and

long; written in small Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century. [GEO. WM. HAMILTON.] The same work.

longevity, fol. 319 a. '2. Geographical sk<u-li of the world, and of Persia in particular,

854 a

Remarkable buildings, fol. (including an account of the seas u hi ch should form part of the preceding chapter, full. 355 b 358 a). 4. Talismans and wonders of the world, fol. 360 a. 5 7. Properties of domestic and wild animals, fol. a, of beasts of prey, fol. 377 a, and of birds, fol. 379 a. 8. Jokes and pleasantries, f->l. 379 a. 9. History of the Moghuls, t. e. Kluui and his successors, with the Chingi/. Chup.mi, Ilkani, Muzaflari, Kurt and Sarbadar dynasties, fol. 388 a, Timur and his successors in Iran, the Kara Kuyunlus, AkKuyunlus, and the Uzbak Khans, down to
fol.

321

a.

3.

This copy wants the latter portion of Fasl 6, Juz i. (Or. 239, foil. 1014), and Fasls 9 and 10 of Juz ix. (Or. 239, foil. 405428).

Or. 237.
320; 10i in. by 6|; 21 lines, 4| in. written in fair Nestalik, with ruled long ; margins, apparently in the 16th or beginFoil.

"

ning of the 17th century.

[GKO.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

A collection of
named Hubbi,

tales.

Author: Muhammad Ka/im B. Mirak Hnsain Muzaffari Sajavandi, poetically sur-

760
Beg.

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
The last, relating to a white snake which was saved from death by a king, and
length.

The author says in a short preamble that he was seventy years of age when he comrare and wonderful tales, tubAkpiled these Tne7 are stories which he t^o^ j i_/sV had heard told in the assemblies of the he had written down in great, and which correct and elegant language. The tales, which are mostly of considerable
the Arabian extent, are partly taken from
Nights.

turned out to be a king of the Paris, breaks off at the end of the first page. A modern table of contents occupies two
leaves at the beginning.

Add. 7095.
in. by 5J ; 20 lines, 3f in. in Nestalik ; dated Zulka'dah, long written the 45th year of the reign (of Aurangzib,

Foil.
;

167

They are the following Decianus and the seven sleepers, fol. 3 b. Mansur the jeweller, and Yusuf the barber, Mihr u Mali, fol. 56 a. Sa'd B. fol. 24 b.
:

i. e.

A.H. 1112, A.D. 1701). [J. H. HINDLEY.] The romance of Amir Hamzah,
Beg.

Mas'ud, the jeweller of Isfahan, fol. 89 b. Dallah, the wily woman, fol. 104 a. The

Hamzah, who was a son

talib,

Arab, his wife Uriyah, and his brother, fol. 117 b. The prince, his parents, and the fol. 130 b. questions of the princess of China, The wife of the builder, and the Vazirs of
the king,
fol.

and consequently
is

Abd ul-Mutan uncle of Muhamof

mad,

here converted into an imaginary

hero of romance. The narrative deals at great length with his adventures at the court
of Nushirvan,

140

b.

Prince Shahanshah,
as

who became knowji

Gul-Baghban, fol. 156 a. Shlrzad, and how the daughter of the king of Kabul fell in love with him, fol. 166 a. Solomon's debate with the Simurgh on predestination, fol. 176 b. Prince Zain
ul-Ihtisham, the king of the Jinns,
slave

wooing of that king's daughter, Mihrnigar, and his valiant deeds on various expeditions against the giant king
his

of Serendlb, the Kaisar of

Rum,

the 'Aziz of

Egypt, etc. This volume

is

divided into twelve sec-

and the

tions called jU*A each of

Salim the Mubarak, fol. 187 a. and Hajjaj B. Yusuf, fol. 198 b. jeweller, The three brothers, and how Harun urRashid enquired into their history, fol. 208 a. Eizvanshah and the daughter of the king of the Paris, fol. 217 a. Fazl Ullah of Mausil and his falling in love with the daughter of Harun urthe Ea'Is Muaffak, fol. 226 a, Rashid, Fazl Ullah B. Eabl', and AbulKasim BasrI, fol. 235 a. Khwajah Affan, the son who was born to him in his absence, and Khwajah 'tfriya, fol. 244 a. The king of Balkh and his dispute with his Vazlr about a man without sorrow, fol. 252 a. The remaining portion of the volume contains tales which gradually decrease in

some verses. Hamzah's expedition to the mountain Kaf, and his subsequent meeting with Mihrnigar
in Tanger. In the subscription the
as ly*^ jU-A

headed by The narrative concludes with

is

which

work

is

designated

and

ascribed to Shah-Nasir ud-

Din Muhammad, ^.Jlj^U l The contents correspond with the

^^

first

twenty-eight Dastans, or about the first half, of the next-following MS., Add. 7054, foil.

1155.
Copies are mentioned in Fleischer's Dresden Catalogue, where the work is ascribed
to Abul-Ma'ali, in the
p. 55,

Munich Catalogue,

the Ouseley Collection, No. 430, Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 1628, and a Turkish

FABLES, TALES,
version
vol.
ii.

AND ANECDOTES.
The volume
is

701

is

noticed in the Vienna Catalogue,

i

p. 29.

The

Dust;in

Amir Hamzah has been

lithographed in the press of Navalkishor. An enlarged version called ij_*- jyj (see
further on, Add. 24,418) has been printed in seven volumes, Teheran, A. II. 1271.

imperfect at both ends. in the middle of Dastan 8, a, treating of the fight of Hamzah with Sa'd B. Ma'di Karib and his brothers (Add. 7054,
It begins, fol.

fol.

36 b), and breaks off, fol. 261 b, in the middle of Dastan 68, in which is related the
slaying by

Hamzah

of the giant king of

fol.

Ashk, the author of a Hindustani version of the Kissah i Amir Hamzah, attributes the
See Garcin original to Mullfi Jalal Balkhi. de Tassy, Hist, de la Litt. Hind., 2nd ed.,
vol.
i.

Nayistan (Add. 7054,

A false
by a

289 6, Dastan b'6). beginning and end have been added

later hand.

p. 236.

Or. 1392.

Add. 7054.
Foil.

Foil. 317; 8| in.

by 7

14

lines,

in.

long; written in cursive Nestalik;

dated

long ;

by 6$ 17 lines, 3$ in. written in Nestalik ; dated Jumada II,

300; 9i
in.
;

A.H. 1188 (A.D. 1774.) The same romance.

Beg. j-*\

[J.

H. HINDLET.]

Chinapatan (Madras), Safar, A.H. 1214 (A.D. 1799). Another version of the same romance,
divided into eighty-two Dastans.

o^o*

*-oi

With regard
arrangement
with

to the incidents

and their
written in

this version agrees substantially

the preceding;

but

it

is

much

It is plainer and more familiar style. divided into seventy-one short sections, called

Although having some leading features in common with the preceding versions, it differs from them very considerably in the
succession,
ticulars

relative proportions, and parof the adventures, as well as in

Das tan, and Pur

i

closes with the death of the

hero, treacherously slain

by the mother of
is

language.

Hind.
called
Foil.
*'J di>-,

In the subscription the work

Add. 24,418.
330; 15i
in.

^.

li

^j- r

3i

j**\

and

is

ascribed to
in the

by 8|

30

lines,

in.

Hamzah's brother, Hazrat Abbas, who,

preamble, is stated to have written down from time to time a record of the high deeds of Hamzah. Sixteen additional leaves contain

long; written in small Shikastah-umlz, probably in India, early in the 18th century.
[Sir

An

a table of chapters written in Persian and English by the Rev. J. II. Ilindley.

enlarged version of the The narrative follows the

JOHN MALCOLM.] same romance. same general

course as in the preceding versions, but a great number of new personages and
incidents
is

introduced.

Hamzah

is

uni-

Egerton 1017.
Foil.

formly
lines,

266 ; 12

in.

by 7

13

6J

in.

Amir of the
title

written in large Nestalik, apparently in India, early in the 18th century.

long

Amir Sahib Kiran, "the fortunate conjunction," and the of Sahib Kiran is also given to two of
called

version similar to the preceding, and

VOL.
II.

divided in like manner.

on the same day as both play a conspicuous part himself, in this version, namely Mukbil, son of Khair, u u
his companions, born

who

762

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
of the King, or the dog-worshipping merchant, fol. 89. Story of the third Darvish (the second in Bcigh o Bahar), fol. 159.

a slave of *Abd ul-Muttalib, and 'TJmar, son of Umayyah, the camel- driver.

The work

is

divided into a great

is

many

sections called Dastfm, but not

The present copy, which

numbered. imperfect at both

Story of the fourth Darvish,

fol.

192.

ends, begins with an account of the misdeeds of Arghash,Vazirof Kaikubad, who is finally

The work is popularly ascribed to Amir Khusrau Dihlavl. A Kissah i Char Darvish ^
in prose is mentioned by Mushafi, fol. 6, among the works of Anjab (see p. 711 o).

put to death, and replaced by Buzurjmihr. b jJy Jl The next following rubric is
:

Ouseley in his Catalogue, No. 417, names Muhammad 'AH Ma'sum as the author of the tale.
Sir

Wm.

In the last section, Hamzah, having alighted

Manar, at forty farsangs from Khan-Baligh, the capital of Khata, sends Malik Azhdar as ambassador to King Salsfil.
in

Chihil

Add. 7677.
Foil.

107

9J

in.

by 6^

19

lines,

4f

in.

long

written in Nestalik, early in the 18th

[01. J.

The rubric

is

partly lost

century.

RICH.]

The same work.

the same.

The

text differs slightly

is

from the preceding, but the arrangement

The
b,

five stories

The language
is

of this huge composition

at

foil.

24
off

quite modern, and shows an admixture

MS. breaks
story.

begin respectively 86 a, 104 a. The a, &, in the middle of the fifth

46

of Indian words

and phrases.
is

On

the fly-leaf

written
sfc]

Add. 5632.
Foil.

106

81

in.

by 5|

13

lines,

3|

in.

Add. 8917.
Foil.

224

8|

in.

by 5

11

long ; written in Shikastah-amiz, apparently early in the 18th century.

lines,

3 in.

long;

written

in

Nestalik, with 'Unvan,

[N. BEASSEY HALHED.]

ruled margins, and eighteen miniatures in Indian style, probably about the end of the

Another version of the same tale. It is written in a more florid style than the preceding,
verses.

17th century.

and
is

is

copiously interspersed with

:

It differs also in its

which The Tale of the four Darvlshes.

Beg.
fol.

as follows

arrangement, Tale of the first Dar-

vish, fol.

22

a.

Tale of the second Darvish, Tale of the third Darvish, fol. 40 b.

b.
b.

Tale of the King, fol. 60 iourth Darvish, fol. 90 b.

story,

Tale of the

This
entitled

which has become

chiefly

known through

the Hindustani translation

tales,

Bagh o Bahar, comprises four

:

Add. 6597.
Foil. 78

in the following order Story of the first Darvish, fol. 7. Story of the second Darvlsh (the third in

long ;

lOf in. by 7 ; 17 ; written in Nestalik ; dated

lines,

in.

Jumada II.,

Bagh

o Bahar),

fol.

50.

Story

A.H. 1196 (A.D. 1782).

[JAMES GRANT.]

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.

763

The thirty-two
Beg.
,ty

tales of the throne.

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the hitter half of the 18th century.

[N. BRASSEY HALHED.]

It is stated in

had

first

the preface that the work been translated from the Hindu

Another version of the same

Author
:

tale.

by Chaturbhuj B. Mihirchand Kayat, of Sonpat, y* J*(,_fjjj*)

original into Persian

Kishandas Basdev, of the Subah

of Lahore,

**..>

[ly*

,.*'

i-r^"

-*

iV-**- .t"*,

in the time

Beg.

of Akbar, B.

and subsequently by Bharimal

Khatri,

Rajmal

during

Jahangir. present tinder Slifihjahfin, is described as an amalgamation of the two previous translations.

The

reign of version, written

the

It

is

a revised edition of the preceding

version, written for the editor's patron, Amir ul-Umara Jar-Ullah, in the reign of Aurangzib.

The author

is

called

^J* cA
"
3,

^ u*

m
:

At the end

translators,

an account of previous in which the first is called

is

another and later version, Add. 5652, fol. 139 b, his name is written as follows
AfljK

and the second

of Bisbarai

(jJ)J* yd

(At..*

Bisbarai, son

of Harigarb-das Kayath, of Kinnauj." Persian translation in prose and verse was written by 'Abd ul-Kadir Bada'uni by

have been B. Harigarb Das is stated written in the 25th year of Shuhjahan, /. /-. A.H. 1061-2.
to

order of Akbar, and with the assistance of a learned Brahman, in A. II. 982, the title
\yj\

Add. 5653.
Foil.

&f-

conveying the date of composition.

edition

30

Hi

in.

by 7$

15

lines,
1

about

A revised
rikh, vol.

was prepared by the same

See Muntakhab ut-Tava-

writer A.H. 1003.

i.

Elliot's History of Persian version by Chand, son of Miidhuram, is noticed in the Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 29, and another

p. 67, and vol. v. p. 613. India,

5 in. long ; written in a cursive Indian character; dated Calcutta, Rabl I., in the 26th year (of Shah 'Alam, A.H. 1198,

A.D. 1784).

[N. BBASSEY HALHED.] An abridged version of the same tale, without translator's name.

entitled

Gul Afshan, is mentioned in the Khulasat ut-Tavarikh (supra, p. 230 a). For an account of the Sanskrit original and Hindustani versions, see the Journal Asiatique for 1845, vol. ii., p. 278, and Garcin de Tassy, LitU'rat ure Ilindoui, 2nd ed., vol. ii. A French translation from the p. 233. Persian has been published by Baron Lescallier,

Beg.

Add. 5623.
3i in. long written in Nestalik, in Bengal ; dated A.H. 1188 (A.D. 1774).
Foil.
;

132

in.

by 6

16

lines,

New

York, 1817.

[N. BRASSKY HALHED.]

Add. 5652.
Foil.

The
lines, 3
in.
p.

story of
'

Kamrup and
u c 2

Kfimlata (see

140

in.

by 6

13

697

a).

764,

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
Egerton 1018.

In the subscription

this version is ascribed

Foil.

148

9 in.

by 5

15

lines,

3|

in.

" talented to the poet

Muhammad

Kazim,"

^? _/U

^U. A
b.

poet of that

name

long ; written in Nestalik, apparently in India, in the 17th century.

I.

lived at the court of

'Abd Ullah Kutubshah.

Fol. 1.

uUjJJ\ <_ii~

See above, p. 683

Saif ul-Muliik,

the story of and BadI' ut-Jamal, a tale

e*a$,

An

English translation
" the
loves

by W.

Franklin,

from the Arabian Nights.

Beg.

entitled

of

Camarupa

and

jjl

Camalata," has been published in London, 1793. For other copies, see Stewart's Catalogue, p. 85, the Mackenzie Collection,
vol.
ii.

j^

p. 138,

and Bibliotheca Sprenger.,

duction

This version begins with a fanciful introHasan Mlmandi, the Vazlr of Sultan
:

No. 1630.

Mahmud,

sets out

from Ghaznah

in quest of

Add. 6965.
by 7; about 15 lines, in. long; written by the Rev. John Haddon 3 Hindley, on paper water-marked 1812.
Foil.

his sovereign, amusing and finds the story of Saif ul-Muluk in a book called Ruh-afza, kept in the treasury of
tales

to entertain

328;

in.

the king of Damascus. See the Vienna Catalogue, vol.

II. Fol. 84.

ii.

p. 27.

version, copied from a MS. dated Ramazan, A.H. 1150, with a transcript

The same

*-a5, the story of

Gul and Sanaubar.

Beg.
J$

of Franklin's English translation.

Add. 18,805.
Foil. 572

Hindustani versions of the same tale are mentioned by Garcin de Tassy, Litt. Hind., 2nd ed., vol. i. p. 157.
III. Fol. 112.

long

; 12f in. by 8|; 11 lines, 3 in. written in large Nestalik ; dated Cal-

cutta, Rajab,

A.H. 1185 (A.D. 1771).

The
or, as

story of
it is

Hatim

the story of the king of Egypt, his son Azadbakht, and a maiden called Hazar-Gisu.
%ua3,
if

Ta'i, J\l,

called in the subscription, " story

tXxJJ

^u

of the seven journeys of Hatim," tl/a*

Beg.
Foil.

Harl. 502.
14 lines, 3 in. long ; written in Nestalik, about the close of the 17th century.
35
;

8 in. by 4|

The text has been edited by G. J. Atkinson, Calcutta, 1818, and an English translation
by Dr. D. Forbes has been published in London, 1828. See the Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 33, and the Munich Catalogue,
p. 55.

abridged version of the tale of Saif ulMuluk, imperfect at the end.

An

Beg.

Jo\
\3

FABLES, TALES, AND ANECDOTES.

765

Add. 25,836.
44 ; 9i in. by 6 ; 17 lines, 4 in. written in cursive Nestalik; dated long; Ramazan, the 2 Uh year of Muhammad Shah
Foil.

Beg.

III. Fol. 103.

j.tjfcj

JU y.iU*

li>

(A.H. 1154, A.D. 1741).

[Wir. CUBKTON.]
tale.

the story of Shah

Humayun Fal and Dilaram.

Another version of the same

Beg.

Add. 15,099.
Foil. 174
;

Add. 18,409.
lines,

10

in.

by 6

10

4| in/

Foil.

363

8|

in.

by 6

17

lines,

in.

long ; written in large Nestalik, with TJnvan, ruled margins, and six miniatures in Indian
style,

long

written in Nestalik

dated Ramazan,
[Wii. YULE.]

A.H. 1146 (A.D. 1734).

apparently about the close of the 17th

century.
.

<

..^

**a}
Khavar Shah,

BahAr i Danish, the romance of Jahandur Sultan and Bahravar Banu, a story which
serves as a frame for the insertion of

The
Beg.

story of Mihr, son of

many

and the princess Mah.

other

tales.
:

Sec the analysis of this tale in Garcin de Tassy's Hist, de hi Litterature Hindoui, 1st
ed., vol.
ii.

Shaikh 'Inayat Ullah, <^+> <1H (see p. 263 a). According to a chrono logical table, Add. 6588, fol. 12, he died on the 19th of Jumada I., A.H. 1088.
Beg.
ijf-.'j

Author

p. 550,

and the

St.

Petersburg

Catalogue, p. 410.

i_r*i/* L-j'JajL-*
is

*-j\z^ *4\j

The

preface

by the author's younger

Foil.

115

Add. 16,867, 10$ in. by 6; 17

in

brother and pupil, Salih,

who

states that the

lines,
;

long;

written

Shikastah-iimiz

3| in. dated

work was completed in A.H. 1061. It is followed by an introduction, in which 'Iniiyat

not his own invention. He professes to have merely given a Persian garb to a story which he had heard in the Indian tongue from the lips of a youthful Brahman.

Ullah says that the tale

is

2nd year of Ahmad Shah Durrani, A.H. 1174 (A.D. 1759-60). [WM. YULK.]
Pfmipat, the
I.

Fol. 3.

iU 3J^
*\'

j-oJ,

another version of

the same
"r DtJ 6.
T
i

tale.

t^~i

J^

(^JJj

^
\\

The work has been printed in Calcutta, 1809 and 1836 in Dehli, 1849, in Lucknow, without date, and in Bombay, A.H. 1877. It
has been translated into English by Alexander

j.b
II. Fol. 69.
<-*>>* *-*,

Dow, London, 1768, and by Jonathan

wUjU\ Saif ul-Muluk and Badi' ul-Jamol, differing from the version above mentioned, p. 764 b.
the story of

Scott,

Shrewsbury, 1799
version into
zig, 1802.

German

lastly from the latter by A. T. Hartman, Leip-

Copies are noticed in Stewart's

766

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
Bunyad, Rabi' I., in the 13th year of Muhammad Shah (A.H. 1143, A.D. 1730).
[Win. ERSKINE.]

Catalogue, p. 84, the Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 32, and the Munich Catalogue, p. 54.

Add. 25,840.
Foil. 271;

The same work.

lines,

in.

by 5; 19

in.

Copyist

Jl^

^
in.

Jj y~a

long; written in cursive Indian Shikastahamiz, apparently in the 17th century.

M.

Add. 6640.
Foil.
;

CURETON.]

292

10

by 6

17

lines,

3f

in.

The same work,

end.

slightly imperfect at the

long written in Nestalik, apparently early in the 18th century. [J. F. HULL.] The same work.

Add. 7674.
Foil.

Add. 5564.
lines,

276

9 in.

by 4J; 19

3|

in.

Foil.

144

Hi

in.

by 7

23

lines,

5f

in.

long ; written in small Nestalik, apparently about the close of the 17th century.
[01. J.

long; written in Nestalik for Capt. John Burdett dated 'Azimabad, Muharram, A.H.
;

RICH.]

The same work, wanting the

last page.

1185 (A.D. 1771). The same work.

Egerton 1019.
269 ; 8 in. by 5| ; 15 lines, 4| in. written in Nestalik, with 'TJnvan and long ; ruled margins, probably about the close of
Foil.

Add. 5607.
Foil.

324

11
in

in.

by 8

15

lines,
;

in.

long

written

cursive Nestalik

dated

the 17th century. The same work, wanting about six leaves
after fol. 2.

Zulhijjah,

A.H. 1188 (A.D. 1775). [N. BRASSEY HALHED.] The same work.

Copyist:

Add. 6152 and 6153.

Two uniform volumes
8|
in.
;

Add. 6639.
;

foil.

227 and 221

long
;

by 5

13

lines,

3|

in.

written

Foil.

238

10$

in.

by 6i

17

lines,

4
1

in.

in Indian Nestalik, in the

first

half of the

18th century. The same work.

This copy belonged to Jonathan Scott, who made use of it for his translation. An
abstract of the contents, written

long; written in Nestalik; dated Rabi II., A.H. 1190 (A.D. 1776). [J. F. HULL.]

The same work.

Add. 6968-6997.
Thirty volumes, 7f in. by 6, with an average of 90 foil, per volume, and 12 lines in a page; written on one side only of a paper water-marked 1806, by the Rev. John Haddon Hindley. The same work, with a transcript of

by

himself,

occupies the fly-leaves at beginning and end of each volume.

Add. 26,314.
Foil.

long

by 6; 17 lines, 3| in. written in Nestalik ; dated Khujistahin.

308; 9

Jonathan

Scott's translation.

FABLES, TALES,
Or. 242.
Foil.

AND ANECDOTES.

767

87; 8|

in.

by 4|; 11

lines,

in.

into the hands of Malik 'Anbar, A.H. 1021, and died two days later. See Ha'ls.ir ul-

long

written in Nestalik, on tinted and

gold-sprinkled paper, with *Unvan and goldruled margins, apparently about the close of

377, and Blochmann, Ain 496. bari, p.

Umara,

fol.

Ak-

the 17th century.

[Gto.

WM.

HAMILTON.]
Foil.

Add. 25,839.
100; 10|
in.

by 5$

long;

written in cursive

15 lines, 4 in. Nestalik; dated

;

collection of fables

and anecdotes, in

prose mixed with verses.

Bhupavar (territory of Gualior), Ramazan, A.H. 1243, A.D. 1828. [Ww. CURETON.]

Author Bahrain, son of 'Ali-Mardan Bahadur Tugh Arslan Khan, y^te d

:

Stories of wonderful escapes.

Beg.

^.1

^
which
is

The

preface,

imperfect, contains
calls
,

Author: Khwajah Rajkarn, y^r^ *?-\>The work, which has no preface, contains six tales, written in a florid style, and enti-

a eulogy upon Aurangzib as the reigning

sovereign.

The author, who

himself

(jJ^, India. The

is

tled

the scene of which

is

laid in

date of composition, A.H. 1100,

the humble Bahrain,

J^b

f\^>

and claims

an Uzbak

origin, concludes most of his narratives with a moral or religious application

expressed by several versified chronograms at the end, where the author is described as

an inhabitant of Ruhtak (Thornton's Rohtuk, forty-two miles north-west of Dehli).

conceived in true Sufi

spirit, in

the form of

an allocution to the
^ofc.

"man of understanding"
his

Several
saints.

of

anecdotes

relate

to

The MS. was written by Mirza Haidar 'Ali Beg for Doctor J. Gibson.

Indian
is

A notable
who

portion of the work,

foil.

52

71,

Add. 7619.
by 7i 26 lines, 6 in. long; written in Naskhi; dated Jumuda I., A.II. 1215 (A.D. 1800). [Cl. J. RICH.]
Foil.
;

devoted to a record of
is

some episodes

in

342

12

in.

the warlike career of 'Ali

Mardan Bahadur,

described as the most gallant champion in the service of Akbar, and especially of the prowess he displayed in taking posses-

sion of the estate of Bundi, in Rajputanah, a Jagir assigned to him by the emperor.

A collection of

moral

tales

and anecdotes.

Several Hindi couplets composed in his praise by the poet Gang are quoted. Although the hero of these adventures bears the name

Author: Barkhwurdar B. Mahmud Turkm&n Farahi, poetically surnamed Mumtax,

which the author gives to his own father, nothing is there said as to any relationship between them. 'All Mardan Bahadur, who served under Akbar and Jahangir, from A.H. 984 to his
death, distinguished himself especially in the Deccan wars. He fell severely wounded

of combut he mentions as his contemposition ; and Asporaries two Amirs, Safi Kuli Khan ian Khan, who lived in the reign of Shah

The author does not give the date

Sultan tfusain, A.H.

11051135.

See Zinat

768

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
tion, five Babs,
sion,

ut-Tavarikh, foil. 691, 693, and Malcolm's History of Persia, vol. i. p. 614.

and a Khatimah. That

is

divi-

however,

not thoroughly carried out

In a diffuse preface, written in a stilted and ambitious style, he gives an account of his life and of the origin of the work, from which the following particulars may be
gathered.

in either of our two copies. It is written in florid prose, freely interspersed with verses, mostly of the author's

own

He

left in early

life

his

native

The arrangement is, composition. the tales being grouped under systematic,
the moral maxims, or rules of they are intended to illustrate.
life,

where he place, Farah, for Marv Shahijan, of the governor, Asian entered the service

which

Two years later he proceeded to Isand became Munshi to Hasan Kuli pahan, Khan Shamlu, then filling the office of Kurclri Bashl. There he heard in some assembly a delightful tale, which he was requested by a friend to adorn with the flowers of his rhetoric, and which he consequently wrote
Khan.

On

the

first

found the

title

page of the present copy is U-Jjj U&, L-^Utf. It does not

properly apply to the whole work, for it belongs, as above stated, to the first tale written by the author, which forms the Khati-

mah of the present collection,

foil.

289

342.

down under the title of LJJ j U&, e^J^=-As he added to it in course of time a number of other stories, the work swoll into a collection, containing no less than four
large

The Mahbub ul-Kulub has been printed in Bombay, A.H. 1268.

Or. 1370.
450; 12 in. by 7f ; 21 lines, 4| in. written in Shikastah-amiz, with two long; 'Unvans, gold-ruled margins, and fifty-five miniatures in Persian style ; dated Zulka'dah,
Foil.

hundred

tales,

divided into an introduc-

Babs, and a conclusion, to which he gave the name of ^T Ji^*Some time later the author returned to
tion, eight

A.H. 1220 (A.D. 1806).

[Sir CHAS.

Farah, from whence, after some stay in Herat and in Mashhad, he betook himself to the district of Damn and Khabushan, and there

ALEX. MURRAY.]

The same work.

Copyist
:

remained three years in the service of Minuchihr

Khan

B. Karchaghfd

<j^} Khan.
Foil. 288
;

This Amir had been appointed governor of the province in order to check the inroads of a savage and predatory tribe, on which the author heaps how every term of abuse. He then relates
the Chemishkazak,

Add. 8918.
8^
in.

by
II.,

14

lines,

3|

in.

<^X,

long;

written in Nestalik, for Capt.

;

Geo.

Burnes dated Kabi' A.D. 1802).

A.H. 1217 (August,

in one of those raids

goods were plundered, and among these the precious MS. of the Mahfil-ara, on which he had bestowed so many years of labour. All attempts to recover it having failed, the author, in order to the assuage his grief, and to comply with entreaties of a friend, wrote down again such
all his

Ratan Sen, of Chitaur, and Padmavat, daughter of Gandharb Sen. Author: Lachhmi-Ram, of Ibruhlmabad

The love-story

of Rrd

(district of

Ghazipur), f^aS

u^j^
8U

(j*fr

in his memory. portions as he had retained Hence the present work, which is divided, according to the preface, into an introduc-

Beg. jya*"

01
j.5**

*-rO

j^ jXJ j**"

It appears from the preface that this prose version is founded on the poem of 'Akil

FABLES, TALES,
Bazi (see p. 699 a), entitled jj'jyj _, (see the Oude Catalogue, p. 123). The well-known tale of Saif ul-Muluk and Badi' ul-Jamal is inserted, foil. 109220, as

AND ANECDOTES.
Add. 25,834.
Foil.

769

Khan

long

by 8; 17 lines, 5 in. written in Nestalik ; dated Shavval,

in.

259; 11

by one of the actors in the main story. On the Hindi versions of the tale of Padmavat by Jatmal and Jaisi, see Garcin de Tassy, Litter. Hind., second edition, vol. ii. pp. 67, 86, and Pavie, Journal Asiatique for
told

A.H. 1154 (A.D. 1741).

[Wn. CURETON.]

A collection
Author
:

of anecdotes.
j>\

1856.

Abul-Fath B. Muzaffar, AA^

Add. 8916.
Foil. 119; 8 in.

Beg.
lines,

by 4J; 15

in.

long; written in cursive Indian Nestalik, in the 18th century.

The author says that he had compiled

work, at the request of his son

this

Muhammad
:

A collection
Author:
tled

of moral anecdotes.
Isra.i'il

from the following works Tabari, Jami' ul-Hikftyftt, Tarikh i Banakiti, Ibn Khallikun, Mau'izat-Namah, written
'Ali, chiefly

Niar

Muhammad

Sami, enti-

Nu'man Khan,

;*.;

,,

VVT

.:

by Kaika'us B. Sikandar B. Kabus for his son Gilanshah (i.^. Kabus Namah), Tarikh i Al i Saljfik, by Muhammad B. Abi 'Abdullah un-Nizam ul-Husaini, and Ma'arij un-NuHe states at the end that it was buvvat. completed in A.H. 1151.
It is divided, according to subjects, into

The work, which is dedicated to Muhammad Shah, was written in Akbarabad, A.H. 113*>, in answer to a challenge to match Sa'di's Gulistan, and was completed in eight yThe author gives his name infivo days. cidentally, fol. 34 a, when stating that he
had accompanied Aurangzib on his ezpediagainst the Rana. We learn from the Ta/.kirat ul-Umara, fol. 104, that Nu'man Khan was raised to
zih's reign,

twenty-one Hubs, as follows

1.

Muhammad

and
fol.

his miracle*,

lifs, fol.

17
6.

b.

3.

The first four KhaThe Imams and Companions,

fol. 4ft.

2.

31
*.

b.

4. Saints, fol.

55

a.

5.

'Ulama,

fol.

101
fol.

117
b.

a. 9.

Philosophers, fol. 144 b. 7. Kings, 8. Vazirs and favourites, fol.

Secretaries,

the Khanship towards the close of Aurangand died in the time of Muham-

mad

Shah.
is

The work

n Khatimah.

divided into eleven Babs, and Many of the anecdotes relate

to incidents of Indian history, especially to Aurangzib and his time; the verses are the

author's own.

On

the

first

page

is

written,

"George

Harriott, 1798." vot. n.

litterati, cup-com140 b. 10. Sages and physicians, panions, fol. 143 a. 11. Poets, fol. 151 b. 12. Arabs of the desert, fol. 154 b. 13. Interpretation of dreams, fol. 163 b. 14. Generous men, fol. 166 a. 15. Misers, gluttons, and parafol. 172 a. 16. Stories showing God's sites, mercy, fol. 178 a. 17. Women and children, fol. 209 6. 18. Simpletons, liars, and false 19. Wits (wanting the prophets, fol. 222 b. fol. 223 b. 20. Curious facts beginning), relating to animals and countries, fol. 225 a. 21. Comical anecdotes, fol. 245 a.
fol.

132

770

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
The author's name and the date of comverses position, A.H. 1157, are found in some The latter is expressed by the at the end.
chronogram, ^tiJ-a* i^V^ ^r*"* *fr^* ^' 4 and 141 167 contain forms of Foil. 2
J

This copy was written by Hidayat Ullah, for Latif Khan. The subscription is followed

by some additional

stories, foil.

250 b

259 a.

Egerton 1025,
Foil. 68;

complimentary
in.

letters addressed to a sove-

8|

in.

by

19 lines, 4

reign.

long; written in Indian Shikastah-amiz, in the latter half of the 18th century.
Foil. 79;

Or. 1244.
111
i

n by 6|
.

15

lines,

4|

in.

story of prince Bahrain, and his loveadventures with the daughter of King Darab.

The

Eai Kirpadayal, son of Rai Mansaram, Khatri of the Mangal tribe, Jbj

Author

long; miniatures in Indian style, apparently in the 18th century.

written in

Nestalik, with

fourteen

The
Beg.
*>.,{

jji-

p.

710

love-story of Hir and a), in prose and verse,

^ji-i*

Ranjhah (see by Mansaram

The author, who calls himself an inhabitant of Siyalkut, Siibah of Lahore, does not lay any
claim to the invention of the story. His work is only a new version in ornate prose, interspersed with verses, of an old tale.

Munshi,

The date

of composition, A.H. 1155, in this couplet at the end

:

is

given

from the introduction that the had been originally composed in Hindi story verse by Damodar, of Jhang Siyal, Panjab. The date of the present version, A.H.
It appears

1157,

is

expressed in the final lines by the

chronogram,

Add. 16,689.
Foil. 168;
;

Add. 10,584. 7 in. by 4; 11

Foil.
;

253

13

in.

by 9|

25

lines,

7|

in.

lines,

2|

in.

long written in small Nestalik, apparently in India, in the 18th century.

long written in Indian Shikastah-amiz, in the 18th century,

[WM. YULE.]
."

Nauruz Shah, sU.j^y n^aS, by Uditchand Kayath, poetically surnamed

tale of
'AZIZ,

The

The Garden of Fancy," a romance.

Author:

Muhammad

Taki ul-Ja'fari ul-

HusainT, poetically surnamed Khayal,

Beg.
like his protoof the Arabian Nights, takes every night type a new partner to his bed. An accomplished

Nauruz Shah, an Indian king,

Nikdukht, contrives to prolong her spell of favour by telling him captivating tales on seven successive nights.

lady, called

The author, a pupil of Sabit (see p. 709 6), went to Bengal in the time of 'All Virdi Khan, and died A.H. 1173. See the Oude Catalogue, p. 193. In this voluminous work he relates at great length, and in familiar language, the endless and rather monotonous adventures of

FABLES, TALES,
three imaginary heroes, and of a host of equally fictitious personages belonging to the world
of the Jins and Peris, as well as to mankind. The three principal personages are generally

AND ANECDOTES.
;

771

long written in large Nestalik, with two 'Unvans and gold-ruled margins; dated
Shavval, the third year of 'Alamglr II. (A.H. 1169, A.D. 1756). Two portions of the same work, both

designated by the titles of Sahib Kiran i Akbar, Sahib Kiran i A'zam, and Sahib Kiran i Asghar. Their proper names are Shahzftdah Mu'iz/. ud-Dln Abu Tamlm, Shahzildah

belonging to Bahar III. The first, which relates entirely to the adventures of Sahib

Kiran

A'zam, and

is

Khurshid Tajbakhsh, and Shahzadah Badr Munir. The three stories form as many distinct threads, which are alternately taken up. The present and the following three MSS. contain only a few detached volumes of that
bulky composition, which, according to the conclusion of Add. 4939, consists of three parts called Bahar, subdivided into volumes The entire work comprises no less (Jild). than fifteen Jilds, some of which are again
subdivided into two sections called Satar.

headed j\ 0^0

\s-\

designated at the end as the second Satar of Jild 2 of Bahar III. It occupies foil. 1277.

The second, foil. 278 152, treats chiefly of the history of Sahib Kiran i Akbar, but relates, in some parts, also to the adventures of Sahib Kiran

The first two parts (Bahar)

nine.
It

consist together

A'zam. At the end the author says that, after proceeding thus far, he had determined to make this portion a volume by itself, and to call
i

of six Jilds, while the third alone comprises

it

ji*'^k-, intending subsequently to devote

Add.
vitb

appears from the concluding lines of 2-1,935, that the romance was written

an entire volume to the history of Sahib Kiran i A'zam and his companions. But it does not appear to what volume the present
Satar belongs. It is stated at the end, fol. 452, that this copy was written for Navvab Mansur ul-Mulk
Siraj

for the entertainment of

two brothers, Nav-

Muhammad Ishak Rashid Khan Salar Jang Nawab of Ja'far Khan, Nazim of Bengal). (sons The present copy contains the third and fourth Jilds of Bahar II., both treating of the adventures of Mu'i/z ud-Dln. The first
Najiu

ud-Daulah

Khan, and

ud-Daulah Bahadur Ilaibat Jang, by his

librarian, 'Izzat-Ullah.

Add. 4939.
Foil.

of Jild 3 and the last of Jild 4 arc and the two volumes have been translost, posed in the binding, Jild 4 occupying foil. 1 1C1, and Jild 3 foil. 162253. Jild 4 begins with the heading, jJ*. j'*T
li-aves
'

415

16^

in.

long; written in fair

19 lines, 7 in. Nestalik, with two 'Un-

by 11

vans and gold-ruled margins. Two detached portions of the same romance, Bahar III.

portion of Bahar II. the title of in the **\JJM,

p. 57.

is

described under

Munich Catalogue,

The first, foil. 1118, relates partly to the adventures of the Sahib Kiran i A'zam, partly to those of the Sahib Kiran i Asghar, Shahzadah Badr Munir.
The author says
at the

end

that, after con-

Add. 24,935.
Foil.

cluding the present volume, he proposes to begin the third Jild of Bahar III., the ninth
in.

452 ; 174 "> by 11$

21 lines, 7$

of the whole work, which is to be devoted to the history of Sahib Kiran i Asghar. xx 2

772

FABLES, TALES,

AND ANECDOTES.
IV. The tale of Bihruz, the merchant of Khorasan, and the daughter of the king of

According to this the present volume would be the second Jild of Bahar III. Its contents, however, differ from those of Add. 24,935,

Kashmir,
of Khata,

fol.

44.

which belongs

same Bahar. The second portion, foil. 119 415, is called, both at the beginning and at the end, the third Jild of Bahar III. It relates entirely to Sahib Kiran i Asghar.
to the

V. The tale of Farrukh Shah, the prince who set out on his travels, and got
fol.

a kingdom,

51.

On
by

" Presented written, Claud Russell, Esq., Oct. 15, 1781."

the fly-leaf

is

VI. The tale of the king of Kashghar and the Vazir who said that there was no man in
the world without sorrow,
fol.

59.

Foil. 349;

Add. 26,291. 9f in. by 6; 17

Add. 25,838.
Foil.
lines,

214 ; 8| in. by 5
in

14

lines,

in.

long

3f

in.

long;

written in Nestalik, apparently in in the latter part of the 18th century. India, [WM. ERSKINE.] Another copy of the section designated as

Nestalik, India, about the close of the 18th century.

M.

written

small

apparently in

CURETON.]

(Add. 24,935, foU.

278452).

The
fairy

story of Prince
tale,
:

Agar and King Gul, a

following

beginning with the

Add. 7056.
FoU. 64; 10J
in.

heading
lines,

iV

U>

by 6; 19

3|

in.

long ; written in Shikastah-amiz, dated Murshidabad, the 6th year of Shah 'Alam (A.H.
1178, A.D. 1764
5).
[J.
I.

Mansur Shah, king of Khashkhash, and his Vazir Khushhal obtain children through the blessing of a Fakir. The first has a son
called La'l Padishah, the second a son, Vazir Mahmud, and a daughter called Agar. The

HADDON HINDLEY.]

of Bukhara,

Malik 'All, son of the king and Mihr-Banu, daughter of Khwarazmshah, fol. 1.
tale of
II.

The

prince having been carried away by the Pari Lai Div, Agar is substituted for it, and

The

tale of the three Darvishes, con-

same plan as the Kissah i The tale of ChahSr Darvish, and containing
structed on the
:

henceforth designated as Agar Shahzadah. The Pari princess, Mahparvar, and the king of the Paris, Gul Padishah, play also a lead-

ing part in the

the

first

The

Darvish, or Prince Hafiz of Khorasan. tale of the second Darvish, or Khalil of

Balkh, the merchant's son. The tale of the third Darvish, or Afzal Khan, prince of Marv. The tale of the king of Khorasan, Ashraf Khan, fol. 16. See Sir Wm. Ouseley's Catalogue, No. 442.
III.

homely and has a copious admixture of language, Indian words and phrases. A Kissah i Agar Gul has been printed by See Navalkishor, Lucknow, A.H. 1263.
Garcin de Tassy, Hist, de la Litt. Hind.,

tale.

It is written in

2nd

ed.,

vol.

ii.

p.

469, and the Biblioth.

Sprenger., No. 1757.

of

The tale of the daughter of the king Yam an and the two Vazirs, Asaf and
fol.

Add. 7055.
FoU. 40
;

Kamgiir,

36.

9^

in.

by 5| ; 12

lines,

in.

PROVERBS.
in the long; written in Nestalik, apparently latter half of the 18th century.
[J.

773

Add. 16,865.
Foil. 12; 7} in. by 4}; 11 lines, 2 in. written in fair Nestalik ; correctly de; long scribed on the fly-leaf as follows
:

HADDOX HINDLEY.]

A collection
to

of

amusing anecdotes.

an English note on the flyAccording leaf, it was compiled by a Munshl named Yakin for the use of his pupils.

The Kazy and the Thief, y& , ^\5 c*j\., a humorous tale in the Persian language. Copied from a MS. in the possession of the Rev. H. G. Keene by James R. Ballantyne,
1831."

"

[WM. YULE.]

Add. 25,837.
Foil.

Beg.

long ; Zulka'dah, A.H. 1225 (A.D. 1810). fWM. CURETON.]

alii

229; 8| in. by 4$; 12 lines, 3 in. written in large Indian Nestalik, dated

PROVERBS.
Or. 1613.
10J in. by 6; 19 lines, 3f in. written in cursive Nestalik, with ruled long ; margins, apparently in the 17th century.
Foil. 269;

The

Shah, adventures with Glti-Ani.

story of Mas'ud Shah, son of 'Aziz king of Isfahan, and of his love-

Beg.

Ob
local

Many
this

words and phrases show that

India.

romance waa written in

A collection of Persian proverbs.

Author:

Muhammad

'Ah Jabal-rudi,

Add. 7675.
Foil. 91;

9i

in.

by 5J

15

lines,

3}

in.

Beg.

^-

Nestalik, apparently in India, about the beginning of the 19th cen-

long;
tury.
I.

written in

[a.
Fol. 1.

J. RICH.]

The

tale of Shirzad, son

of

Gurgahan, emperor of China, and Gulshad, daughter of the Vazir Farrukhzad, wanting a
few lines
is
-at

The author states that he had come to Haidarabad A.H. 1054, in the time of 'Abd Ullah Kutubshah, and had been admitted to the literary assemblies held by the Vazir Shaikh Muhammad ul-Khatun. In one of
these the collection of Turkish proverbs by order of Sliah 'Abbus having been

the story of the nine belvederes," comprises nine talcs successively told by Gulshad to Shirzad, each in
endorsed
j

the beginning.

This

tale,

which

made men-

c^U

"

tioned, the Vazir observed that Persian proverbs should also be compiled, and the author

one of the nine belvederes of the royal palace, in order to save the forfeited life of her father.
II.

Ho undertook to comply with his desire. adds that the task had never been attempted
before him.

FoL

71.

short version of the tale of

(p.

The proverbs are

Saif ul-Muluk

and BadP ul-Jamal

761

b),

each letter forming a Fasl.

alphabetically arranged, Short verbal

imperfect at the end.

added. explanations are occasionally

Anec-

774

COLLECTANEA.
2.

dotes illustrating the origin and application of proverbs, texts from the Goran, and
poetical quotations, are introduced end of the sections.

c ^1 C

U^

by Shaikh

'All TunI, de-

at the

scribed as a contemporary of Bayazid BastamI, who died A.H. 261, fol. 20 a.

3.

The work has been printed in Teheran, A.H. 1278. See Melanges Asiatiques, vol. v.
p. 522.

The Book
p.

utf
42

of Sft'in ud-Dln 'All

Tarikah (see
4.

a), fol.

85

b.

collection of Persian proverbs has

been published by Tho. Roebuck, Calcutta,

1824.

j>, a Commentary by Shah Nur ud-Din Ni'mat Ullah (see p. 634 i), upon the

OUJ

Lama'at (see
5.

p.

594

b), fol.

124

a.

Or. 266.
fol.

Uj^\ tfil by Shaikh 'Attar (see p. 344 a),

b.

128

Foil.
;

161

&i

in.

by

19

lines,

in.
6.

long written in cursive Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century.

[GEO.

j^-t

v^ by Khwajah 'Abd
35
a), fol.

Ullah An-

sari (see p.

133

a.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

The
1.

poetical extracts are taken

:

from the

The same work, wanting the

preface.

following works

Five poems of 'Attar,

viz.

ote

**U

C^>j,

*U j~>
fol.

^,
136

a*U

j\j*\,

and

COLLECTANEA.
Add. 7611.
571; Hi by 7; 7 lines, 3 in. long; written in large Naskhi with vowels, on gold-sprinkled paper ; dated A.H. 1137
Foil.
in.

(see p. 576),
2.

b.

The

(p.

634

b), fol.

Divan of Shah 376 b.

Nimat Ullah

3. fol.

The Divan of Shaikh MaghribI (p. 633 a),

476
543
b.

4. Tarji'-band
fol.
b.

of Kasim ul-Anvar (p. 635

a),

(A.D.

17245).

[01. J.

RICH.]

5.

A collection of
Sulaiman,

Sufi extracts, compiled

by

(p.

Kalandar-Namah, by Amir 608 a), fol. 549 b.

Husaini

^
is

6.
fol.

The Divan of Shaikh

551
a.

'Iraki (p.

593

b),

designated in a nearly contemporary note on the first page as A-*

J*\&\

The author

7.

(p.

Gulshan i Baz, by 608 b), fol. 555 b.

Silsilat
a.

Mahmud

Shabistarl

8.
fol.

uz-Zahab, by Jaml

(p.

644

b),

559

He

wrote this compilation, as stated in the

The above shows that the

preface, in

order that his disciples might It consists of 292 dispense with other books.
prose-extracts and poetical pieces amounting to 3675 couplets. The former are taken from the following

whom

compiler,

of

no other record has been found, lived

century of

after Jaml, probably in the tenth

the Hijrah.

Add. 16,860,
9} in. by 5^; 21 lines, 2| in. written in Shikastah-amlz, long apparently in India, in the 17th century. [WM. YULE.]
;

works:
1.

Full. 69;

yid

uJ by Allah Bakhsh Sadr ud-Dm Bhakarl, fol. 8 a.

^S*

B. Say-

COLLECTANEA.
volume of miscellaneous extracts by Baha ud-Dln Muhammad 'Amili,

775

^Llfr

+^

(see p.

25

4).

Beg. i^U/***./

v'V
into

extracts are taken from Persian poets, and from Arabic works of history and theology,

The

ur-Rahlm. In A.H. 1027 he went to Ilahabad with his father, who was there appointed by Prince Parvlz as Divan of his household. After some years spent in studies at Patna and Jaunpur, Sadik went with his father in
the train of Prince Parvlz to the Deccan, A.H. 1035, and, after the latter's death in the

the

latter

translated

Persian.

The author frequently adds verses of his own composition, and numerous passages He from his work entitled j\~ ^y-. quotes among others, fol. 21 b, some verses written by him in Mashhad, A.H. 1007.

^o

A similar collection of Arabic

the same writer
is

extracts by

described in the Vienna

Catalogue, vol.

i.

p.

409, under the

name

of

ensuing year, joined the camp of Shahjahan, where he was appointed news- writer (Vaki'ah Navis). Having been presented at court, shortly after Shiihjahan's accession, he obtained from that sovereign a Jagir in Bengal, proceeded to Jahanglrnagar, then the capital of that province, and took part with the rank of Bakhshl in a war waged against a rebel Afghan chief by Kasim Khan, then
'

J_/(seep. 26 a).
The Kashkul of Baha ud-Dm 'Amili has been printed in Teheran, A.H. 1266, and in
Bulak.
described by Goldziher in the Sitzungsberichte of the Vienna Academy,
It is

Governor of Bengal. He incurred, however, the displeasure of that Amir's successors,

part 78. p. 108.

See Melanges Asiatiques, vol.

vi.

Egerton 1016.
Foil.
;

446; 13$

in.

by 7}; 21

lines,

6|

in.

long written in Nestalik, apparently early in the 18th century.

Jplo

A'zam Khan and Islam Khan, was kept some time in confinement in Salimabad, A.H. 1048, and finally retired into private life. Sadik gives in his memoirs copious specimens of his poetical compositions, in which he took the name of Siidiki. Ho quotes also frequently verses of his numerous literary friends, and mentions as his master, fol. 230 a, Mulhi Muhammad Husain Kashmiri, who died A.H. 1037. The author began to collect his materials, as he states in the preface, in A.H. 1054, and
he was proceeding to put them into order, he was interrupted by a distant journey, which brought him to Jaunpur, and it was only after settling in that place that he found the
spent three years upon that task.

When

large collection of extracts, moral say-

ings, historical anecdotes, notices.

and miscellaneous

Author: Sadik

li.

Salih Isfahan!,

Beg.

Muhammad

Sadik B.

Muhammad

Salih

complete the work. A.H. 1056 is incidentally mentioned, fol. 207 as the current year. The author refers in the same place to his compendium of hisnecessary leisure to
,

ul-Isfahnni ul-Aziidani has given a sketch of his own life in the 12th Matla'of the third

volume (Mujallad) of his historical compilation entitled Subh Sadik (Or. 1728). He was born, A.H. 1018, in Surat, where his father served under the Khankhiinan 'Abd
i

tory entitled j^U ^> (see Elliot's History of India, vol. vi. p. 453). The work is divided into five books (B.lb),

subdivided into numerous chapters (Fasl),and a Khatimah. A full table of the contents is

given at the end of the preface,

foil.

4a

7 a.

776

COLLECTANEA.
topics of the five Babs are as

The principal
follows
I.
:

collection &}<#? of extracts culled

from

the author's reading on various branches of

God, the Prophet,

(c-o.!s)j),

prophetship
7
a.

and

saintship

faith, Islam,
fol.

good and had

human knowledge, by Muhammad Husain B. Karam 'AH Isfahani (see p. 137 a).
Beg. j\j^

deeds, etc., in 107 Fasls,

II.

(j-U
iSjj

Sovereignty, kingly power, rules and precepts relating to good government, in

Joly

77 Fasls,

fol.

78

a.

It

appears from the preface that the work

in Mashhad, and A.H. 1224 is fol. 6 a, as the current year.
is,

III. Reason, knowledge, failings, talents, etc., in 80 Fasls, fol. 135 b.

was written
mentioned,

poverty, wealth, pleasure, sorrow, play, travel, etc., in

friendship,
b.

IV.

Love,
fol.

The present MS.

hatred,

to all appearance, the

author's autograph.

75 Fasls,

212

Contents: Astronomy, with

tables

and

V. World, time, stability and decay, death, life, spheres, elements, realms of nature, in 96 Fasls, fol. 300 a.

diagrams, fol. 4 b. Geography, fol. 17 b. History of the Prophets, Muhammad, 'All, the Imams, and the philosophers, fol. 44 b.

Khatimah; an alphabetical list of proper names of places and men, with fixation of their spelling, and short notices, fol. 408
.

Medicine, fol. 72 b. Principal dynasties of ancient and modern times, mostly in tabular form, fol. 92 b. This section concludes with a history of Fath 'Ali Shah's reign, in which
the events are chronicled year by year down to A.H. 1222. Notices on Sayyids, Vazlrs,

Three of the subdivisions (Fasls) are of

exceptional length, viz. Fasl 79 of Bab III., 238 a, which contains notices of foil. 207 b

remarkable events and of the death of

cele-

brated men, in chronological order from the Hijrah to A.H. 1042. Fasl 80 of the same

and learned men, fol. 178 b. Religions and sects; notices on some Shi'ah doctors, fol. 182 b. Arab and Persian poets, with speci-

Bab, comprising Persian proverbs alphabetiFasl 51 of Bab IV., foil. cally arranged.
b 359 a, which contains maps of the seven climates, and an alphabetical list of places, with their longitude and latitude.

331

mens of their compositions, fol. 285 b. The three realms of nature and the properties of minerals, plants, and animals, fol. 234 b. Knowledge of God ; sayings of 'Ali and the
Imams, fol. 263 b. The margins are crowded with additional
extracts.

On the first page of the MS. " R. W. Rotton, 14 April, 1791."

p. 52.

is

written

A copy is mentioned in Stewart's Catalogue,

BIBLIOGRAPHY.
;

279 with oblique long,

Foil.

Add. 7719. Hi in. by 7 17

;

lines,

Add. 16,720.
in.
;

round the margins in a small and indistinct Shafi'a written character, ornamented with rude flowery designs in the headings and margins ; dated Sha'ban, A.H. 1225 (A.D. 1810.)
lines

Foil. 20; 9 in. by 6^; 11 lines, 3 in. long; written in Nestalik, in the latter part of the 18th century. [Wn. YULE.]

An

account of the principal works treating

of Eastern, and more especially of Indian,

history.

[CL. J. RICH.]

BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Beg.

777

J*

J'.ifl

Js.

written in Nestalik, early in the 19th century.

[War. ERSKINE.]

No

title is

given in the text

but in the

list

of fifteen Persian

MSS.

relating to

table of contents the

Oa..fl.-.

work
a

is

called

li

^Ju

which appears Jtj, gjly i^lf also on the fly-leaf. The author concludes by expressing a desire for the compilation of
title

the history of India, with a detailed statement of the contents of some of them;

a history of the Moghul empire from the eleventh year of the reign of Aurangzib to the " present time," A.H. 1162.

endorsed by Mr. Erskine: "Catalogue of Persian books sent by Henry Russell, Esq." Mr. (afterwards Sir Henry) Russell was Resident at the court of Haidarabad from

At the end

is

written

jJj

yr-^

1811 to 1820. The MSS. named in the list were added to the Erskine collection, and
are

j>\

*+?j

now

in the

Museum.
roll,

B.

An
gin.

paper

2 feet by

7,

containing

English version
titles

is

written in the marpages,

foil.

the

titles of

the same MSS.

A table occupying five

shows the
the text.

2 of the works mentioned

4,

in

English translation has been pub" A Critical lished under the title Essay on various MS. works, Arabic and Persian, illus:

An

Add. 25,864.
Foil.

37;

10$

in.

by

6$;

written

in

Nestalik, early in the 19th century.

trating the history,"

etc.,

London, 1832.

[WM. CUEETON.]

A Add. 24,042.
Foil.

catalogue

Hindi MSS.

Persian, Arabic, in the library of Muushi

of

and

Rum
>

page ;

110 ; 10$ in. by 7 j ; 13 lines in a written in fair Nestalik, early in the

[n. H. WILSON.]

Dayal, with a Persian preface by the owner's son, Ram Partab Saha'i Iliihabadl, <_.>U r A

19th century.

classed Catalogue of Oriental MSS. in the Library of the College of Fort William.
titles, mostly without It includes Persian and author's name. Arabic MSS., with some in the Indian ver-

Beg.

It

is

a mere

list

of

naculars.

On the first page

26 Sept. 1812."

is

written: " T. Roebuck,

arranged in alphabetical order according to the titles, and gives in four columns the title and description of each
It is

Add. 26,321.
A.

A &

B.
;

paper

roll,

10 feet by 7 inch.

MS., the author's name, the number of leaves, and that of quires. Prefixed are two horoscopes in Sanskrit, dated Samvat 1874 and 1877 (A.D. 1817 and 1820).

VOL.

TI.

Y Y

778

DRAWINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY,

Add. 18,801.
by 9. An album of highly finished miniatures by Indian artists, mostly portraits of princes and amirs of the reigns of Jahangir, Shahjahan, and Aurangzib. It was made a "Vakf, or pious donation, by Ashraf Khan, whose seal bears the date A.H. 1072, and whose portrait is found on
Foil.

the Khanship in the 20th year of Shahjahan, and died A.H. 1073. See Ma'asir, fol. 120.
5.

44;

in.

"Muhammad

'Ali

Beg,

who came

as

ambassador to Shahjahan." 6. "The humble donor ," i.e. Ashraf Khan.

(7.

trait
8.

According to the English table, a porof Asaf Khan, now missing.) Eancy portrait of a lady in male attire de-

fol.

6 with this inscription in Shikastah, sjjj &--jwj, "portrait of the humble i_j5l_j

scribed as a European princess eiii/ ^^fcliib, a later addition. At the back is a calligra-

Notes by the same hand are to be seen at the back of the other portraits, with
donor."

phic specimen dated A.H. 1182. " Ilahvirdi Khan the elder." 9.

He was

made Khan

at the beginning of Shahjahan's

the exception of a few, which are apparently All bear later insubsequent additions.

reign, was subsequently appointed Governor See Ma'asir, of Behar, and died A.H. 1070.
fol. 50.

which do not always agree with the former, and are therefore not to be trusted. An 'English table of contents is prefixed to the volume. Mir Muhammad Ashraf, son of Islam Khan Mashhad! (see below, No. 11), received the title of Ashraf Khan in the fourth year of Aurangzib (A.H. 1071-2), was subsequently appointed to the office of Mir Bakhshi, and died A.H. 1097. See Ma'asir ul-Umara, fol. 66. In the following list of subjects, the names and designations taken from the donor's
scriptions in Nestalik,

10.

The emperor Akbar, with Jahangir

as

a child.

Navvab Islam Khan." 'Abd ul-Salam Mashhadi, afterwards Islam Khan, father of the donor, was appointed to the Vazirate in the 13th year of Shahjahan, and
11.

"The

late

died A.H. 1057.

See Ma'asir, fol. 39. 12. "Fazl Ullah Khan, son of the donor's paternal uncle." Fazl Ullah Khan, son of
raised to the

Siyadat Khan, a brother of Islam Khan, was Khanship in the first year of

autograph notes are distinguished by

verted commas.
1.

in-

"Abd Ullah Khan,

sovereign of Turan."

Aurangzib, and died in the twentieth of the same reign. See Tazkirat ul-Umara, fol. 77. 13. "Bahmanyiir Ttikad Khan, son of

Shah 'Abbas, of Persia. " Sadik 3. Khan," cousin of Asaf Khan, and father of Ja'far Khan, the Great Vazlr. Sadik Khan was Mir Bakhshi under JahanHe died A.H. 1043. gir and Shahjahan.
2.

Asaf Khan." He received the title of Ttikad Khan, with the office of Mir Bakhshi, in the 25th year of Shahjahan, and died in the 15th
year of Aurangzib.
fol.

See Tazkirat ul-Umara,

12.

See Ma'asir,
4.

fol.

368.

"

Hakim Da'ud Takarrab Khan."

He

came from Persia A.H. 1053, was

raised to

" The emperor Jahangir, the emperor the Khankhanan, and attendant." Akbar, 15 "Maharajah Jasvant Singh," the Za14.

DRAWINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY.

mindar of Jaudhpur, who fought Aurangzib in support of Dara Shikuh, but subsequently submitted to the victor and was appointed to the government of Malwah. He died in the 22nd year of Aurangzib. See Tazkirat ul27.

779
Mirza Abul-Hasan, son

Asaf Khan,

i.e.

of I'timad ud-Daulah, and Vazir of Shahjahan, who died A.H. 1051. See Ma'asir, fol. 30. " 28. Sitting of His Majesty with princes and amirs." Shahjahan sits on his throne in

Umara,

fol.

136.

16. " The emperor Jahangir." " The 17. emperor Shahjahan." " Said Khan Bahadur Zafar 18. Jang," a son of Ahmad Beg Khan Chaghatai Amir, Kabuli. He was made Khan in the loth

'

year of Jahangir, and Subahdar of Kabul in the 4th year of Shahjahan. He died A.H.
1062.

See
fol.

Ma'iisjr, fol. 302,

and Tazkirat

ul-

Umara,
19.

51.

" Ja'far Khan," son of Sadik Khan (see No. 3). He was appointed Vazir by Shahjnli.in in the 31st year of his reign, and reinstated

His four sons, who stand at his side, and the amirs who surround the throne, have their names written upon them. " 1'tikad 29. Khan, son of Asaf Khan." See above, No. 13. " Hakim Masih 30. uz-Zaman," i. e. Hakim Sadra, son of Hakim Fakhr ud-Din Shirazi. He came to India in the 46th year of Akbar, obtained the title of Masih uz-Zaman in the 4th year of Jahangir, and died A.H.
full

Darbar.

1061.

See Ma'asir,
fol.

fol.

142,

and Tazkirat

ul-

Umara,

112.

by Aurangzib.

He

died A.H. 1081.

31. "Mir Muhammad Said Mir Jumlah, who became Khankhanan in Hindustan."

See Ma'asir, fol. 130. 20. '"Ala ul-Mulk Tuni, entitled Fazil

See above, p. 266 a. 32. " Mullfi Sa'd

Khan." He was Mir Saman, or Lord Steward, under Shiihjahan and Aurangzib, and died

Ullah,

and Vazir of Hindustan," 'Allami, who was raised

i.e.

who became Khan Sa'd Ullah Khan

A.H. 1073.
21. Bakir

See Tazkirat ul-Umara,

fol.

75.

shi

A*zam Khan Savaji," Mir Bakhunder Jahangir and Shahjahan. He died as governor of Jaunpur A.H. 1059. See
Ma'asir, 22. female figure worshipped by angels, endorsed C-ya.-, 'the Blessed Mary.'
fol.

to the Vazirate in the 19th year of Shahjahan, and died A.H. 1066. See Ma'asir, fol. 303, and Tazkirat ul-

Umara,

fol.

55.

33. " Klialil Ullah

lahi," son of

Khan Shah-Nitmat-Ul-

42.

23.

Amir Timur on

his

throne, with
Mir/.ii

Mirmlran Yazdi. He was elevated to the Khanship in the 2nd year of Shalijnhan, and died A.H. 1072. See Ma'asjr,
fol.

courtiers

and attendants. 24. "Mirza Nur ul-Hasan, son of Muhsin B. Asaf Kh;,n Ja'far." Mirza

188,

and Tazkirat,

fol.

39.

34.

"The emperor 'Alamgir "

Ja'far

35.

(Aurangzib). the eldest son of "Daniyal Shah,"

Beg, afterwards Asaf Khan, Vazir of Jahangir, and governor of Prince Parviz, died A.H. 1021. See Blochmann, Ain i Akbari, p. 411.

Akbar.
" " Sha'istah Khan, son of Asaf Khan (Abul-Hasan), originally called Mirza Abu
36.
Tiilib.

Shah 'Abbas tho elder,"with hawk-brarer, hawk, and secretary. 26. "Lashkar Khun, son of Zahardast He was sent Klu'in, ambassador to Persia."
26.

Safi Mirza, son of

He became Amir ul-Umara

in the

first year of Aurangzib, and died A.H. 1105. See Ma'asir, fol. 360.

37.

" Ja'far

Khan, son of Sadik Khan "

;

by Shahjahan to 'Abbas II. to congratulate him bis accession, A.H. 1052. He died as Mir Bakh>hi A.H. 1C81. See

see No. 19.

38.
Shafl'a, afterwards Danisha native of Yazd, who held the of Mir Bakhshi under Shahjahan and Y Y 2

"Mulla

maud Khan,"
office

fol.

433.

780

DRAWINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY.

See Ma'a209.

Aurangzib, and died A.H. 1071.

Sir, fol.

" Darab 39. Khan, son of 'Abd ur-Rahiru Khankhanan Afzal Khan Mulla Shukr Ullah; Rajah Man Singh; Par viz, and one of
;

part of the llth century of the Hijrah, and Most of some princes of the same century. of them have the names added in the Persian

the descendants of Timur."

Darab Khiin, was put to death, A.H. See Blochmann, 1035, by Mahabat Khan. Ain i Akbari, p. 339. Afzal Khan died A.H.
governor of Bengal,

bearing Portuguese and and pasted at the bottom of English titles, each portrait, have in some cases been transThe subjects are as follows (the posed.
character.
Slips

transcription

of

the Persian letterings

:

is

Man Singh, Rasee Ma'asjr, fol. 36. ; of Amber, died in the 9th year of Jahanjah Parviz, son of gir ; fee Blochmann, p. 339.
1048
Jahangir, died at the age of thirty-eight years, A.H. 1035.
40.

marked by inverted commas) Shah 'Abbas II., fol. 1 a. " Shah Sulai" Ahmad Khan," foil. 2, man," fol. 1 b.
32
"
b.

"Shah 'Abbas

Muhammad

Great," fol. 3. chancellor of GolIbrahim,"

the

"The emperor

Khan (see No 9), and Shaikh mad Kavval (the singer)."

41.

Jahangir, Shir

Ilahvirdi

Muham-

" Mirza Nauzar, son of Mirza. Haidar,

and grandson of Mirza Muzaffar Husain Kandahfiri, a relative of Shah 'Abbas." This Amir, a favourite of Shahjahan, died A.H. 1074. See Ma'air, fol. 612, and Blochmanu, p. 461.

conda (see Add. 22,282, fol. 24), fol. 4. " Fath Jang Khan," a general of Aurangzib, who died in the Deccan in the 26th year of " Sultan 'Abd Ullah '' the reign, foil. 5, 23 a. (Kutubshah, king of Golconda, A.H. 1035 " The emperor Ja1083), foil. 6, 25 a, b. " " Aurang Shah (Auhangir/' foil. 7, 14.
rangzib in his youth),
foil. 9,

fol. 8.

Hindu

ladies,

The emperor Humayun, attended by Mirza Shahum, Lashkar Khan, and Khushhal Beg, with two Hiijis who recite the Fa42.

"Mirza Ahmad," son-in-law of 'Abd Ullah Kutubshah, foil. 11, 20. " The
10.

tihah (a miniature of the 16th century). 43. 'Umar Shaikh, father of Babar, in a wild hilly scenery, with attendants. " 'Izzat son-in-law of 'Abd Ul44.

Khan,

Shahjahan," fol. emperor Akbar," fol. 12. "Sultan Muradbakhsh," son of Shah13." " Dara Shikuh and Sultan jahan, fol. 13. " The Shuja'," sons of Shahjahan, fol. 14 b. " Sultan Mu'emperor Aurangzib," fol. 15 a. azzam," afterwards Bahadur Shah, fol. 15 b.

"

Khan Bahadur Firuz Jang.'' He was made Khan in the 4th year of Shahjahan, and
lah
died A.H. 1042.

See Ma'asir,

fol.

378.

The miniatures are signed by the followGovardhan (No. 3, 31), Hfmhar ing artists:
(No.
6,

Kambakhsh, the youngest son of Aurangzib, 16. Asad Khan, Vazlr of Aurangzib, who was arrested by Farrukhsiyar, and died A.H. 1127, fol. 17. " Sultan Mah mud" (read
fol.
fol.

20, 36,

9, 11, 19, 24, 29), Chitarman (No. 37), Muhammad Nadir Samarkand!

Muhammad), the eldest son of Auraugzib, " 18 a. h Mir Jumlah (see p. 266 a), fol.
b.

18

"

Muhammad Amin Khan,"

fol.

son of the

(No. 21, 25, 26, 33, 35, 40, 44), Anupchitar (No. 28, 32), Mir

Hashim

(No. 30, 41), and

Bhagvati (No. 42).

Maula Ruha, fol. 19 b. "Rajah Karn," "Rajah Man Singh/' (a portrait of the same Rajah, Add. 7964,
preceding,

19

a.

fol.

20

b.

fol.

Add.
Foil.

fol.

5254:.
[Sir

45

131 i n by 91.
.

H. SLOANE.]
the latter

inscribed "Rajah Ram Singh"), " Safshikan Khan," commander of Aurangzib's artillery, who died A.H. 1085, " Bahar fol. 21 b.

17 21

6, is

a.

Portraits of princes and amirs of the courts

of Dehli, Golconda,

7964,

fol.

and

Bijfipur, in

officer is

Rajah Singh" (see Add. where a portrait of the same 13, " lettered Rajah Bhao Singh"), fol.

DRAWINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY.

22
a.

781

"Mirzfi Ilich
as Mirza Irich

same

Khun" (probably Khan, who served in

the
the

The general arrangement also is nearly the same. The subject of the additional portrait
is

Deccan, and died as governor of Berar, A.H. " Maula 1096), fol. 22 b. Sami'a," fol. 23 b. "Shaikh Muhammad Khatun," Vazir of 'Abd

Afzal Khan, the Bijapur general,

fol.

25.

"Sultan Muhammad Kuli" (of Golconda, A.n. 988 " 1020), fol. 24 b. Sayyid Muzaffar," chan" Shah cellor of Golconda, fol. 26 a. Mirza," " chancellor of Golconda, fol. 26 b. Sayyid
Ullah Kutubshah,
fol.

24

a.

Add. 22,282.
by 5. Twenty-six porand amirs of the courts of Dehli, Golconda, and Bijapur, in the time of Aurangzib, with contemporary inscriptions
Foil. 26;

6J

in.

traits of princes

son of Sayyid Muzaffar," fol. 27 a. " Khairat " Niknfun Khan," fol. 27 b. Khiin," a eunuch, general to 'Abd Ullah Kutubshuh,, " 'Abd ul-Jabbar Vazir to fol. 28
'All,

in Dutch.

The
fol.

subjects are

Akbar,
fol.

fol 1.

Jahangir,
Shikiih,

2.

Shahjahan,
Shuja',

3.

Diira

fol. 4.
fol.

Shah

fol. 5.
fol. 7.

Murad
Sultan
fol.

a.

Abul-Hasan Kutubshah, 'Abd us-Samad, Dabir,"

fol.

fol.

Begi" 28 b. " Maula 29 a. Sultan

'

Bakhsh,

6.

Aurangzib,
fol.

Mahmud,

eldest son
9.

of Aurangzib,
fol.
'

8.

Mir Jumlah,

Muhammad Amin
10.

'Abd ul-Hasan (Abul-Hasan) Kutubshah" (of Golconda, A.H. 10831098), fol. 29 b.

Khan, son of Mir Jumlah,

Fath

" Mirza Nfisir," minister to the king of Gol" Shah conda, fol. 30 a. Rfiju," confessor to the king of Golconda, fol. 30 b. "Hasan
fol.

Jang Khan,

fol.

11.

Sivaji,

the hate Marat-

tah prince,' fol. 12. 'Ali 'Adilshah, 'late king of Bijapur,' fol. 13. 'Ali 'Adilshah, son of the preceding (called Mahmud 'Adilshah in Add.
:.^.-)t,

Khan," Vazir to the king of Golconda, 31 a. "Sharzah Khan," a general under the king of Golconda, fol. 31 b. " Husain
Khiin," Vazir to the king of Golconda, fol. 32 b. " MUSH Khan," general to the king of

fol.

33,

i,

14.

Sultan 'Abd

and Add. 7961, fol. 28), fol. Ullah Kutubshah, 'late

fol.

king of Golconda,'

15.

Sayyid Muzaffar,

'late state-chancellor of Golconda,' fol. 16.

Niknam Khan,
fol.

Golconda, fol. 33 a. "Mahroud 'Adilshah," son of 'All 'Adilshah, fol. 33 b. "Ikhlas

'late general of Golconda,'

'

17.

Shah Mirza,

late state-chancellor

Khan," general of the king of BTjapiir, fol. 84 a. "Maula 'Abd ul-Mali" (read Abul-

'Abd us-Samad, ' late of Golconda,' fol. 18. vtary of 'Abd Ullah Kutubshah,' fol. 19.
'Abd ul-Jabbar Beg, fol. 20. Sultan AbulHasan, present king of Golconda,' fol. 21. Shah Raju, priest of the king of Golconda,
'

"'AH 'Adilshah," king of Bijapur, A.1I. 10181083, fol. 35 a. The bow-bearer of Shall 'Abbas, fol. 35 b. The ten Avatars of Vishnu, foil. 36 45.
Maali),
fol.

31

b.

fol.

22.

Maduna
fol.

Pandit, state-counsellor of

Golconda,
ur-Razzak,

23.

Muhammad
fol.

Ibrahim,
24.

state-chancellor of Golconda,
fol.

'Abd

25.

Sharzah Khan, colonel,

Add. 7964.
Foil.

fol.

26.

51; 11|

in.

by

8.

Fifty-one por-

traits of Indian princes

and amirs, with the

Add. 23,609.
16 in. by 11. Twenty-one portraits of Indian amirs of the 17th and 18th centuries, and specimens of penmanship, with illuminated borders bound in stamped
Foil. 21;
;

names

in the Persian character.

The

sub-

jects of all but one are identical with those of

the preceding collection, and the treatment is in most cases so similar, that they appear to be copies derived from the same originals.

leather.

782

DRAWINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY.

The miniatures include, besides hunting scenes and fancy subjects, portraits of Indian princes and amirs of the 17th and 18th centuries, some of which are without names. The following can be identified: Akbar,
fol. 1.

The following portraits have names added in Persian, or can be otherwise identified
:

Mir Jumlah

No. 31), fol. 2. (see p. "Abd Ullah Kutubshah," fol. 3. " Faiz Ullah " SazavSr Khan," fol. 4. Khan," who died in the 29th year of the reign of Aurangzib,

779

b,

Jahanglr,
fol. 4.

fol. 2.

Parvlz, fol. 3.

Shah-v

fol. fol.

5.
'

"Guru Govind,
"

the Sikh leader,"

jahan,

7. Miyiin 'Abd ud-Hadi," fol. 9. " Nadir " Shah," fol. 10. Shuja' ud-Daulah," Navvab of Oude, fol. 11. " Iftikhar ud-

'All Khan Bahadur," fol. 12. "Safdar Jang," Navvab of Oude, fol. 13. "Mulla Dupiyazah," a caricature of a fat and dwarfish old Mulla riding an ema-

Daulah Mirza

Akbar, with followers, hunting, fol. 5. Bldarbakhsh, son of A'zam Shah, fol. 6. Ghazi ud-Dln Khan 'Inmd ul-Mulk, Vazlr of 'Alamgir II., fol. 9. Lutf Ullah Khan Sadik, the Khansamau of Muhammad Shah, fol. 10. Muzaffar Khan, brother of Khandauran,

who

fell in

fol. 13.

the battle of Karnal, A.H. 1151, Timur Shah, son of Ahmad Shah
fol.

ciated hack,

Sayyid Niyiiz Khan Bahadur, a kinsman ((_r>.j~) of the VazTr

fol.

14.

"

Durrani,
fol.

17.

Itlkad

Khan

Akbarshahl,

20.

'Aklmand Khan (Don Pedro de

Kamar ud-Dm Khan,"

son of Shahajhan,"

fol.

15.

"

Shah

Shuja',

Silva), fol. 21.

fol.

16.
fol.

hammad Sadah Khan,"

" Navvab Mu" Kam18.

'Azim ush-Shan, the second son of Bahadur Shah, fol. 23. Shah Sharaf Bu 'AH Kalandar, an Indian saint, who
died A.H. 724, fol. 25. Hazrat Kutb, i.e. the celebrated saint, Kutb ud-Dln KakI
(p.
fol.

bakhsh, son of Aurangzib," fol. 19. The calligraphic specimens, which are in Nestalik, Naskhi and Shikastah, have the
following signatures and dates
friend
:

432
27.

b),

fol.

26.

Rajah Jasvant Singh,

Plr

'AH

(a

Melanges Asiatiques, vol. ii. p. 43), fol. 3 b. Muhammad Husain, fol. 6 b. 'AH Pjaz- Rakam Khan, fol. 9 b. Riza ul-'Abbasi, (of Tabriz he died some time after Shah 'Abbas I. ; see Tahir Naslrabadi, fol. 155), A.H. 1022, fol. 11 b. Mir 'Imad Muhammad Mumin (see p. 519 b), fol. 12. ul-Husaini 'ArshI (who died A.H. 1091 see Mir'at ul-'Alam, fol. 462), A.H. 1049, foil. 14,16,17. Mir 'All, fol. 19. 'Abd Ullah, A.H. 1057, fol. 20. Mu'izz ud-Dln Muhammad ul-Husaini (of Kashan, who went to
; ;

of Jaml;

see

calligraphic specimens contain the Zarrlnfollowing signatures and dates

:

The

Rakam

(Hidayat Ullah; see p. 45 5), fol. 1.

'AH (Mir),

fol. 2. Sayyid Musavl, fol. 4. Gulzar Rakam Khan, A.H. 1175, foil. 6, 21. 'Abd Ullah ul-Husaim, A.H. 1013, fol. 7. Mir Shaikh ul-Puram, fol. 8. Sayyid 'AH ulHusainlut-TabrlzI (Javahir Rakam see below,
;

21,928,

fol. 6),

A.H. 1073, 1075,

fol.

foil.

10, 12.
fol.

Muhammad Hashim
Mir 'Abd
fol.

ul-Husaini,
18.
fol.

15.

Ullah,

Raushan-Rakam,
26.

22.

Mahdi, A.H. 1114,

Mirza

India in the reign of 'Abbas I., and died there; see Tahir NasirabadI, fol. 156, and

Muhammad Salih, fol. 27. On the cover is the Persian

Melanges Asiatiques,
986,
fol.

vol.

ii.

p.

43),

A.H.

stamp of with the date A.H. 1181. Major Polier,

21.

Add. 23,610.
Foil.

Add. 21,928.
35; 18 in. by 14. An album of miniatures and calligraphic specimens, with wide and richly ornamented borders bound
Foil.
;

28

17

in.

by 11J

a volume con-

taining thirty-six miniatures in Indian style, of the 18th century, and twenty calligraphic

specimens, with broad illuminated margins.

in stamped leather.

DRAWINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY.

The miniatures, thirty-four in number, are in the best Indian style, apparently of the 17th
and beginning of the 18th century.
Indian

783

They

miniatures of the 18th century, bearing the Persian seal of Sir Elijah Impey. Foil. 2 28 and form one uniform

5761

represent various scenes of Indian life and of Eastern fiction, and include some portraits

scries, and represent groups of figures, chiefly females, in various attitudes and different

which bear no names. Among the latter those of Jahangir and Asaf Khan (Mirza Abul-Hasan), fol. 3 b, of Akbar, fol. 4 a, of Shah 'Abbas I., fol. 5 b, of Muhammad Shah, fol. 7 b (see Add. 22,363, fol. 22), and of Shah Jahan sitting with his four youthful sons before a holy Shaikh, fol. 14 a, are easily recognized. Two miniatures, on foil. 17 b, 18 a, are evidently imitated from European
models.
calligraphic specimens, which are in Nestalik, are due to some of the best penmen of the 10th, llth and 12th centuries of

surroundings. These are the conventional symbols of the musical modes called Rags

and Raginis, the names of which are written at the back in the Devanagari and Persian
characters.

The

rest of the

volume contains favourite

subjects of Eastern fiction, as Krishna and the Gopis, Kiimrup and Kamlata, Farhad

and

Shirin,

Laili

and

Majnun,

etc.,

and
few
as

scenes of Indian
portraits,

life.

It includes also a

The

some of which bear names,

fol.

those of Jahangir,

33, Aurangzib,

fol. 3-A,

the Ilijrah.
tures

They bear the following

:

signa-

and dates

11, 13, etc. A. 1 1. 1017, foil. 2, 30.

Mir 'Ali ul-Katib, foil. 1, 8, Muhammad 'Imad ul-Husaini,

Javflhir

'Azim us-Shfm (son of Shah 'Alam Bahadur) and his son Karim ud-Din, fol. 44. At the back of some of the drawings are found
specimens of Persian calligraphy.

Rakam Khun

(Mir Sayyid 'Ali Khan, of Tabriz, writing, master and librarian of Aurangzib, died A.H.

Add. 18,800.
Foil. 12; 13 in.
leather.

1094; see Mir'at ul-'Alam, p. 463), foil. 6, 15. Muhammad Yar, master of Farkhundah Akhtar, son of Bahadur Shah, fol. 7. 'Abd ur-Rahim 'Anbarin Kalam, foil. 9, 29.

by 9J; bound

in

stamped

Muhammad
1152,
fol.

Miisfi,

fol.

10.

Vahid, A.H.

12.

'Abd Ullah ul-Husaini ut-

Tirmi

(surnamed Mushkin Kalam, see 154 a), A.H. 1011, fol. 16. Sultan 'Ali p. Mashhadi (see p. 573 a), fol. 17. Hidayat Ullah Zarrm-Rakam, A.H. 1112, fol. 18.

Eleven portraits of Indian princes, with ornamental borders, and twelve calligraphic specimens in the Naskhi character; apparently of the first half of the 18th century. Five of the portraits bear names
in

the Persian character,

viz.

Muhammad

Muhammad
Ahmad
Din

Mur.id

uI-Katih,
foil.

foil. foil.

22, 32.
23, 31.

Mir Husain ul-Husaini ul-Katib,

ul-llusaini,

23, 31.
fol.

Nur ud-

Muhammad Ahmad, Akbar PadiHasan Kuli Khan, and Nawab Husain shah, Kuli Khan. The last two are probably meant for Hasan "All and Husain 'All, the two Sayyids
Mahfuz,
of Bar hah.

Muhammad

Liihiji,

25.

MuhamShah
27.

mad Husain ut-Tabrizi

(in the reign of

fol.

Tahmasp, see 'Alamarai, 'Abd ul-'Aziz, fol. 34.

The calligraphic specimens are signed by Faiz Ullah, pupil of Yakut Rakam Khan,
Husain ud-Din Khan, and
Ullah.

44), fol.

Muhammad Shukr

Add. 11,747.
Foil. 61;

Add. 18,802.
Foil. 22
leather.
;

11 i

in.

by 7

bound in stamped

14}

in.

by 11$; a collection of

784

DRAWINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY.

style, of

Forty-two miniatures in Indian

in

The miniatures represent Indian

ladies,

the early part of the 18th century, enclosed

ornamental borders, and representing,

most part, Hindu ladies in various attitudes. There are also portraits of Aurangzib and Farrukhsiyar.
for the

and scenes of Hindu life and romance. They also include some portraits bearing the followShah 'Abbas, fol. 12. The granding names son of Tana Shah (i.e. of Abul-Hasan Ku:

tubshah), fol. 15.

fol. 17.

'Inayat'AH

Khan Bangash^
fol.

Rasul

Khan Bangash,

18.

Rajah

Add. 22,363.
by 11 J; a collection of twenty-eight large miniatures in fine Indian style, of the 18th century, with illuminated
Foil. 28; 16 in.

Man Singh, fol. 19. Nur Jahan Begam, fol. 20.

detached
(p.

Seven of the calligraphic specimens are of the Divan i Shahi leaves

640

a).

Two,

foil. 17,

18, are fragments of

borders.

the tale of Gopichand and Mirgavati, scene of which is depicted on fol. 6

a
a.

They represent subjects of Eastern fiction, incidents of the legend of Krishna, symbolical

Others

bear
fol.

the

signatures

of

Kashfi

figures
fol.

scenes.

Eaginis, and hunting There are also a few portraits, one

of

of which,

22, bears the

name
fol.

of

Muhamsigned

'Abd ul-Khalik B. Habib (p. a), Ullah ul-Haravi, A.H. 990, fol. 11 a, Muhammad Sadik, A.H. 1102, fol. 14 b, and Kiyam ud-Dln Khan, fol. 22 b.

154

a,

mad

Shah,

fol.

22.

calligraphic specimen,

5, is

Muhammad

'Abid B.

Muhammad Hashim
Foil.

KuraishI, and dated Akbarabad, A.H. 1125.

22

Add. 15,526. 18 in. by 11. A volume

con-

Add. 18,803.
Foil.

taining twenty-six miniatures in fair Indian style, of the 17th and 18th centuries, with some specimens of calligraphy.

21

14

in.

by 10

miscellaneous

Hindu miniatures of the 17th and 18th

centuries, representing mythological subjects,

The miniatures, which represent mostly scenes of Hindu life and of Eastern fiction, Chand include also the following portraits
:

female figures emblematic of the Ragims,

Bibi of

Ahmad

and scenes of Hindu

life.

The last three

are

Shah,
fol.

fol. 1.

Nagar, the wife of Farrukhsiyar, fol. 8.

'All 'Adil

Muham-

The first of these, a Moghul portraits. rior drinking, is lettered Hulaku Khan.
second, a young prince riding,
is

war-

The hawk in hand,

Raf I'ush-

J, probably Shiin, the third son of Shah 'Alam Bahadur Shah. The third, a gentleman in the Euroi&\- &
,

inscribed

u,

(afterwards Bahadur Shah), 'Alimardan Khan (of Haidarabad, who died in the fiftieth year of Aurangzib's reign; see Tazkirat ul-Umara, fol. 70), fol. Sulaiman Shikuh, son of Darii Shikfih, 12. fol. 14. Sayyid Mufeaffar, chancellor of
9.

mad Mu'azzam

pean costume of

last century,

has no name.

Some specimens

of

Nestalik writing are

signed Mirzii Salih and Mir 'Imiid.

Golconda, fol. 16. Sultan Mahnrnd (Muhammad), the eldest son of Aurangzib, fol. 17* Two European engravings, a Dutch landscape, fol. 2,

and the assumption

of the

Holy

Add. 21,154.
Foil. 24;

Virgin,

fol.

12,

have been inserted.

15^

in.

by 10$; a

collection of

Hindu miniatures

of the 18th century, and

which are in Nestalik, Naskhi and Shikastah, show the Hidayat'Ali following signatures and dates:
calligraphic specimens,
Tajalli Vilayat Rakam Haiclarftbadi, A.H. 1179.

The

calligraphic specimens.

DRAWINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY.

Rakam, A.H. 1134, Javahir A.H. 1134, Muhammad Isma'Il, Sani, Abul-Baka ul-Musavi, A.H. 1101, and Muhammad Husain B. Sharaf ud-Din 'Ali.
They
are Shlrin

7*5

Rakam

18th, and 19th centuries, containing portraits of Indian princes and amirs, and some fancy
subjects.

Add. 22,470.
Foil. 32
;

[GEO. WM. HAMILTON.] The portraits are those of Akbar, fol. 1, Jahangir, fol. 2, Shahjahan, as prince, fol. 3, Shahjahan, as emperor, fol. 4, Dilra Shikuh,
foil. 5, 6,

15

in.

by 11

an album contain-

Nur Jahan Begam, fol. 7, Muhammad

ing thirty-two highly finished Indian miniatures, of the 17th and 18th centuries, with
calligraphic covers.

A'zam Shah, fol. 8,Farrukhsiyar, fol. 9, Akbar Shah II., foil. 10, 11. Muhammad Bahadur
Shah,
Singh,
fol.

specimens; bound in painted

12,

Nadir Shah,

fol.

13,
15,

Ranjit

fol.

14,

Amir Khan,
fol.
fol.

fol.

Kamar
fol.

miniatures, which mostly represent scenes of Indian life and Eastern fiction',

The

ud-Din Khan, Khankhanan,

fol.

16, Shaistah

Khan,

17,

include also portraits of princes, amirs, and saints, to some of which names are added.

18, Ghazi ud-Din Khan, 19, Khan-Dauran Khan, fol. 20, Lalah
fol.

Hazarii Beg,

21, Shahnaviiz
'Ali

Khan,

fol.

22,

The

Hakim Muhtadi
attendants,
fol.
fol.

following can be identified sitting on his throne, surrounded by officials, to most of whom names are added,
:

Khan,

fol. 23,

the Maha-

Akbar

rajah of Udaipur, with queen

and female

fol. 4.

fol. 6.

Prince Daniyal, fol. 5. Shah Shuja*, Jahangir, with suite, crossing a river
fol.

in

boats,

13.

Farrukhsiyar,
20.

fol.

19.

Singh of with attendants, 25, Rajah Birbal, Jaipur, fol. 26, Rana Pirthi-Das, fol. 27, General Perron with wife, fol. 28, Ranjit Singh,
24, Mahiirajiih Jagat
fol.

Muhammad Amin Khan, fol.

Hasan
TJllah
'Ali

The Vazlr

Khan (afterwards Sayyid 'Abd Khan Kutb ul-Mulk), fol. 29. 'Abd
fol.

Shaikh Salim Chishti,

29, the saint Kabir, Pir Dastgir, fol. 31, fol. 32.

ul-Majid Khan,

30.

Add. 5717.
Khwajah
Ahr.tr
Foil.

The
(p.

portraits of saints, as

353 b), fol. 1, Bairagi Ramdas, fol. 11, and Shah Madar (p. 361 6), fol. 14, are probably imaginary. The specimens of penmanship are signed by Mir 'Ali, foil. 1, 24, 31, Muhammad Mur.nl

06; 13

in.

by

7}.

Miscellaneous
sizes,

Hindu drawings of various

mostly

black, or slightly tinted, of the 17th and 18th centuries; collected in Lucknow, 1785 88. They represent hunting scenes, fights of

Husain ut-Tabrizi, foil. 8, 18, 28, Minuchihr, A.H. 1075, fol. 12, Khadim 'Ali, A.H. 1189, fol. 15, Suit-in 'Ali Mashfol. 2,

Muhammad

elephants, figures of large animals cunningly made up of smaller ones, mythological subjects, scenes of Hindu life, Fakirs, etc.

hadi,
fol.

fol. 17,

Muhammad

Siilih

ul-Husaini,

27.

There are also some portraits. The folJalal ud-Din Rumi, lowing have names
:

English note on the fly-leaf states that the MS. had been taken from the library of
Iliifiz

An

foil.

44, 60, Diira Shikiih, with his son Sulai-

man
fol.

Shikuh,

fol.

45, 52.

Mir

Muhammad

Sa'id,

Rahmat

(see p.

212

a), at

the time of

46, Babar,

fol.

his death.

Add. 5027 B.
Or. 375.
Foil.

(Originally numbered Sloane 2925).

39

17

in.

by 13

a collection of
the 17th,

Foil.

44

8i

in.

by 12.
z z

Album

of Engel-

Hindu drawings of various

VOL.
ir.

sizes, of

bert Kacinpfer, containing drawings by hirn-

786

DRAWINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY.

:

self and by Persian artists, as follows Pen and ink drawings, by Kaempfer, of Yazdikhast,
fol. 1,

Riza i 'Abbasi, who lived under Shah 'Abbas I., foil. 4 J, 7 o, 11 a, 34 b, Muhammad

Hormuz,

fol. 3,

a fortress on a

hill,

without name, fol. 4, and the column of horns, Isfahan (see Amoenitates Exoticse, Native drawings representp. 291), fol. 5. a scene from Laila and Majnun, foil. ing
-

Kasim, apparently of the same period, foil. 27 a, and Bihzad, a painter of the reign of Sultan Husain Baikara (see Memoirs of Baber, p. 197), fol. 50 a.
specimens, mostly in of large Nestalik, are by celebrated penmen the 10th, llth, and 12th centuries of the
calligraphic

The

costumes of various classes in Persia countries, with Persian 21 various animals found lettering, foil. 8 in Persia and Irak, with their names in Per6, 7
;

and neighbouring

Hijrah. They bear the following signatures and dates Mir 'AH ul-Katib (see p. 531 a),
:

sian, foil.

2234, 3844.
fol.

42 the above drawings appear to have been executed for Kaempfer, in Isfahan, A.H. 1096, by Jam, son of Ustaz Bahrain. The same name and date appear on
a lady's portrait, by the same artist, fol. 37. Map of the world, transcribed by Kaempfer

From

a note on

A.H. 939, and Bukhara, without year, foil. 515, 18, 19, 49. Mir 'Imad ul-Husaim
(the first calligrapher of the time of Shah 'Abbas I. ; see p. 519 b), Isfahan, A.H. 1023,
foil.

16, 35.

'Abd ur-Rashid ud-Dailami,

Is-

fahan, A.H.

10251052,

foil.

16, 17,

2023,
Turab,

3848. Muhammad
Isfahan, A.H. 1093

Sfilih

B.

Abu

from a Persian

original,

fol.

35.

Map

of the

1120,

foil.

14, 2437.

northern parts of Persia, from Isfahan to the Caspian, with names in French, by Kaempfer.

Add. 7468.
Foil. 100;

Or. 1372.
bound in painted by 10 covers. [Sir CHARLES ALEX. MURRA.Y.] An album of miniatures and specimens of calligraphy, with rich 'Unvan, and ornaFoil.

9J

in.

by

6;

an album of calli;

51

16J

in.

cloth

graphy, with some miniatures mounted in and enclosed in painted covers.

[Cl. J.

HIGH.]

mental borders.

The miniatures, which are partly in the Persian and partly in the Indian style, represent, for the most part, fancy figures and varied scenes of Eastern life. They include,
however, a few portraits, to some of which names have been added, as follows: Hakim Shifa'i, a physician and poet of the reign of Shah 'Abbas I., fol. 7 a. Aka Hadi, with a

The specimens of penmanship in Nestalik, Naskhi, and Shafi'ai, are mostly of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. The following names are found in the signatures,
or in the notes of the collector, with the Hasan Shamlu, of accompanying dates
:

Herat (reign of Shah 'Abbas II. ; see Zmat Mir 'Imad, foil. 7, 92. ut-Tavarlkh), fol. 6.
Shafi'aul-Husainl, A.H.1148, foll.16,75. Mirza Zain ul-'Abidin (reign of Shah Sulaiman ;
see Zinat ut-Tavarikh), A.H. 1127 and 1105, foil. 19, 52. Mirza Abul-Kasim Inju ShlrazI,

10 b. Sultan 'Ala ud-Din [B.] Firuz Shah and Khwajah Hasan (see p. 618 a), fol. 15 a. Shah Salim (Jahangir), with hawk-bearer, fol. 19 a.
lady,
fol.

A.H. 1180,
fol.

foil.

23, 53.

Ummldl,
Isfahan!,

foil.

46, 47,

Muhammad Muhsin

A.H. 1149,

Four engravings, German and Flemish, of the 16th and 17th centuries, have been inserted.

See

foil.

36, 38, 50, 51.

Darvlsh Majid, foil. 60, 72, 73. 49. Mirza Hasan Kirmani, fol. 61. Mirza Kuchak, pupil of Darvish Majid (the collector

The names of the following painters are found on some of the Persian miniatures
:

speaks of
foil.

him

as

"

now "

living in Isfahan),

66, 67, 96.

DRAWINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY.

The
collector dates

787

one of his notes at

Isfa-

han, A.H. 1228. Among the miniatures, which are mostly in the Indian style of the 18th century, there
are, besides fancy subjects, portraits to which the following names are added Shahrukh,
:

Most of the miniatures represent fancy figures in the Persian style of the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the earliest, fol. 37, has

Khan 'Alam, the envoy of Jahangir, by Shah 'Abbas I., which took place in Kazvin, A.H. 1027.
for its subject the reception of

15. Ismat of Bukhara, Timur, with Bisati of Samarkand (see pp. 736 6, 735 a), fol. 32. Hflfiz, with Abu Ishak Shirazi (see p. 634 a), fol. 33. Vali Kalandar, fol. 44. Vais Hakim ul-Mulk (apparently a
fol. 14.
fol.

Add. 4832.
A
single leaf,

14

in.

by

8.

letter en-

portrait of Aurangzib), fol. 50. Khwajah 'Abd Ullah Marvarid (of Herat, a poet and calli*

dorsed by Alex. Dow, " Fine writing of Aga Reshidee Chaun Husseini, first master in this
art."

The

writer,

who

signs 'All, requests a

grapher,
fol.

who
is

died A.H. 922),

fol.

51.

Sa'di,

63.

Shahjahan (two
lettered

profile portraits,
foil.

one

of which

Akbar Shah),

continuance of friendly support for his son Muhammad Bakir. At the back is the seal of Rashid Khan Husaini, with the date

90, 91.

A.H. 1118.
subjoined.

An

English

translation

is

Add. 27,271.
Foil 18; 11J in. by 8, written on gold ground, with coloured borders, and mounted

Add. 4833.
bound up with the preceding, and endorsed by Alexander Dow, "Allaha" bad, 1763," and Benares, 1764." Four calligraphic specimens, two of which are signed Rahrn Ullah ul-IIusaini, and Mir I'.-ikhr ud-Din liusain Khan N i'matullahi.
leaves,

Four

on cloth

enclosed in painted covers.

[SIR JOHN MALCOLM.] Eighteen specimens of Persian penmanship, in the character called Tarassul, signed

Kaziun ul-Valih ul-Isfahani (sec p. 723 a), and dated A.H. 12:>:>. They contain forms of official and compli-

Muhammad

Add. 21,474.
by 12; autographs and calligraphic specimens collected by Lcwin Bowring, Esq., in Dehli, A.D. 1854. They
Foil. 13;
in.

mentary

letters, frequently repeatt-d.

14

Or. 1373.
Foil.

40 ;

If

in.

by 7|

an album of

cal-

ligraphic specimens, with illuminated borders and ten miniatures; mounted on cloth, and

enclosed in painted covers.

ALEX. MURRAT.] calligraphic specimens in Naskhi, Nestalik, and Shikastah, have the following Fazl Ullah ul-'Amili, signatures and dates: A.H. 1254, foil. 13, 14. 'Abd ul-Majid Ibn (Darvish), Isfahan, A.H. 1173, fol. 21. 'ALi ud-Din Muhammad ul-Husaini, A.H. 1199, fol. 31. Ahmad un-Nairizi, A.H. 1117, KiVim Makiim, foil. 11, 12, 35, 36. fol. 32. Shah Mahmud, fol. 40.

[Sm

('HAS.

The

by the following penmen Munshi Dipchand, of Dehli, Samvat, 1903 (A.D. 1846), foil. 1. Muhammad Kuli, of AbuzPeshawar, A.D. 1854, fol. 2, 10. /tlhr Siraj ud-Din Bahadur Shah, emperor of Dehli, fol. 3. Mirz.i Darabakht Vali 'Ahd, the late heir to the throne,' fol. 4. Mirza Muhammad Sultan Fath ul-Mulk Shah Vali
signed
:

are

'

'Ahd,

Amir

heir to the throne,' fol. 5. Muhammad Rizavi, known as Sayyid Amir, of Dehli,
'

A.H. 1270, foil. 6, 7. 'Ibad Ullah, fol. 8. Mu jizRakam Khan, of Kandahar, foil. 1113. The specimens include verses in Urdu, Pushtu, Panjabi and Kashmiri,
z z 2

788

DRAWINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY.

Add. 15,969.
Three sheets, 30 in. by 21, containing bird's-eye views by native artists of royal " Presented gardens and palaces, endorsed
:

5. Dehli audience-hall, inside the Fort. of the Fort. 6. B/auzah Munavvarah gate

Mumtaz
viewed

to Ozias

Humphrey

at

Lucknow, May llth

Mahall, or Taj Mahall (see p. 430 a), Enclosure from the Jumna. 7. of the tombs of Mumtaz Mahall and
8.

1786, by Col. Anthony Polier. It represents the inside and the amusements of the Sultan's

Shahjahan.
of

Tomb of Shahjahan.
13.

9.

Tomb'

Mumtaz

Mahall, 10

Detail of orna-

Zinnana."

ment and

inscriptions

on the sarcophagus.

Egerton 1061.

A paper slip,

42 feet by 13^

in.

Coloured

drawing, by native artists, of the cortege of Shuja' ul-Mulk, king of Kabul, with the names of the principal officers and corps

Add. 8893, Art. A single sheet, 24 in.

Nestalik.

II.,

No.
;

1.

by 26

6 lines in

added in Persian

19th century.

Fac-simile of a Persian inscription in old Dehli, stating that on the first of Rabf I., in the year 101 [read 1015], Tahir
[B.] 'Imad

Muhammad
'AH

ud-Dm Hasan

B.

^Vy*

Egerton 1062.

paper

slip,

22 feet 9

in.

long by 14

in.

panoramic view, by native artists, of the city of Benares, as seen from the river, with
of the Ghats and principal buildin Persian; 19th century. ings

the

names

^^A-*] came from Agra, in attendance the Shahzadah Sultan Khuram, visited upon the sepulchres of the saints, aud set out on his way to the court of His Majesty Nur udDin Muhammad Jahangir Padishah Ghazi in
[read

Lahore.

The

inscription relates

to the author of

Add. 22,716.
Thirteen
sheets,

the B-auzat ut-Tahirin (see p. 119 i), and shows that he accompanied Sultan Khuram,

afterwards Shahjahan,
of

when

that prince

was

the

largest

which

measures two feet and a half in breadth by 23 inches in height. They contain coloured drawings, carefully executed by native artists in

summoned by Jahangir from Agra to Lahore. The prince's meeting with his father took
place

on the 12th of Eabi*

II.,

See Toozuki Jehangeeree,

Salih, fol. 19.

p. 38,

A.H. 1015. and 'Amal i

the present century, of the principal

1. Mausobuildings of Agra, as follows: leum of Akbar at Sikandrah. 2. Gate of the

An
same

inscription in Persian verse

by the

Mausoleum. 3. Mausoleum of I'timad udDaulah (father of Nur Jahan), on the other side of the Jumna. 4. The Divan Khas, or

Tahir, dated A.H. 1014, is the tomb of Amir Khusrau. engraved upon See Aar us-San~;did, Appendix, p. 37,

Muhammad

No.

38.'

789

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS,

Harl. 500.
Foil. 138;

The author
lines,

is

not to be confounded with a

8i

in.

by 5; 17

2|

in.

later writer,

long, in a page, written partly in Nestalik, partly in Naskhi; dated from Safar, A.H. 1010, to Zulka'dah, A.H. 1012 (A.D. 1601

1604).
I.

Mauland Vahid J-^ Tabriz], a Sufi and poet, for whom Shah 'Abbas II. entertained great regard, and who died in Isfahan A.H. 1080. See Riyiiz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 497, and Hammer, Redekiinste, p. 380.
V. Foil. 108138. A versified ArabicTurkish vocabulary, without preface or title.
Beg.

Foil.

118.
2039.

The beginning of the

Tuhfah
i

Gulistan of Sa'di (see p. 597 a).

II. Foil.

Shahidi (see

p.

513

fte Jy

dU\

tJ j

j^

*US

div)^

6).

III. Foil.

4073.

AiJlfM *i-r

Persian manual in ten sections (Kism), and four chapters (Fasl), giving grammatical

forms and familiar words, with their Turkish

equivalents.

twenty-two sections, each on a different rhyme, and has no systematic arrangement of words. This is apparently the work of 'Abd ul-Latif B. Firishtah,
It consists of

known
KralFt's

as

*Hy

d*i5> or

J iJ
>

*li,j

<_

r>Ui'.

Author

Muhammad

B. Haji Ilyas,

See the Vienna Catalogue,

Catalogue, p.
7.

vol.

i.

p. 116,

and

Beg.
See Haj. Khal.,
ii.

Harl. 5446.
p. 243, Krafft's Catavol.
i.

logue, p. 6, and the p. 98.

Leyden Catalogue,
,.,

Foil.

45

in.

by 4i

14 and 11

lines,

IV. Foil.

73106. j*z#

a treatise

written in Naskhi and Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century.

I.

on Persian prosody and poetical ornaments. Author Vahid Tabriz],

:

Foil. 1

15.

An

extract

beginning,

It treats of the

magical or medicinal pro-

The author, whose

ud-Dln, wrote
it is

it

name was Vahid for his brother's son. Hence

full

designated in a Latin notice prefixed to the MS. by Solomon Negri as Braserzadeh

of various animals. perties of certain parts It also contains recipes for the keeping off of insects, and others relating to sexual inter-

course and parturition.

II. Foil.

Copies are mentioned in the Jahrbiicher, vol. 62, Anzeigeblatt, p. 11, and the

(w^jj^).

16

45.

An

abridgment of the

Book of Precious

Stones, beginning,

catalogues of St. Petersburg, p. 436, Vienna, vol. i. p. 206, Gotha, p. 14, and Munich, p. 120.

It contains twelve chapters (Bab), treating of the following stones: diamond, yakut,

790

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

cornelian, and

ruby, emerald, pearl, turquoise, bezoar, amber, lapis lazuli, coral,

jasper.

Turkish commentary upon the Masnavi p. 584 b), entitled, wJ,^ 'ijy,\&j

(see

The values are estimated in and the European (Firangi)

frequently referred
to.

florins,

^A*'

Be.
The

>i

jewellers are

>'j

^ +M)

Harl. 5464.
Foil.

author, whose name does not appear, was, according to Haj. Khal., vol. v. pp. 375, 377, Rusukh ud-Dln Ismail B. Ahmad \J>

163

5&

in.

by 4

11

lines,

If

in.
II.,

long; written in Nestalik; dated Rabl'

A.H. 1078 (A.D. 1667). A volume of miscellaneous tracts

Arabic Catalogue, partly Persian
:

Ankuravi ul-Maulavi, known as Ismail Dadah, who died A.H. 1042. The work is stated in the preface to have been compiled from two distinct commentaries
previously written by the author, entitled
J?\j

see the

p. 83.

The following are

oUoiA and c->b^ **Vdesire of Sultan Murad

pleted

was written by B. Ahmad, and comIt

I.

Foil.

67144.

The Pand Namah of

A.H. 1039.

'Attar (see p. 579 6), with Turkish glosses.

II. Foil.

146163. A short Arabic treatise

verb, with

The present fragment comprises the Arabic preface, and the beginning of the poem, down
to this line

on the conjugation of the Persian the heading, a^^\ j j^yi!!.

In the subscription it This is the
is

(Bulak edition,

p. 10)

dictionary by Muhammad B. Pir 'All ul-Birsee Haj. Khal., gavi (who died A.H. 981 vol. iv. p. 91), from, which the above tract is
;

^jaH.

designated as title of a Persian

Hundred sayings of in Persian quatrains, 'All, with a paraphrase

II.

Foil.

197213.

by Rashid ud-Dm Vatvat

III.

(see p. 553 b), in similar form. a Turkish version

Foil.

and

probably taken.

214220.

Forty sayings

of

Harl. 5468.
2| in. written in coarse Naskhi; dated Rabi' long;
lines,
II., A.H. 1069 (A.D. 1658). A volume containing Arabic prayers, with Persian rubrics, and a short Shi'ah catechism

Muhammad
Beg.

(Hadl), in Arabic, with a para-

Foil.

103; 5

in.

by 3^; 6

phrase in Persian quatrains.

entitled

^yo\ in Persian, foil. 74 See the Arabic Catalogue, p. 382.

85.

Royal
Foil.

16, B. xxi.

27; 9^

Harl. 5490.
371; 8 in. by 5|; about 17 lines; written in Naskhi and Nestalik, about A.H. 1076 (A.D. 1666).
Foil.

Oriental papers.
I.

in. by 10^. Miscellaneous The following are Persian

:

Foil.

612. An

"year of the 'hen," Jjk-J on the llth of Shavval, A.H. 1042 (March,
each day.
II.

almanack for the i/y>W, which began

A volume
Turkish.
texts
I.
:

of miscellaneous tracts, mostly

1633), giving the positions of the planets for

The following contain Persian

Fol. 12.

slip of

Foil.

19120.

The

first

part of a

lines in large Divani.

pink paper, with 16 petition addressed

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

by three native servants of the East India Company at Surat, namely Chauth, Tulsidas, and Benidas, to the King of England (Protector Cromwell), asking compensation for damages suffered during the Dutch war, " signed hy them, in the Gujrati character, dated Swally Marine, January 26th, 1655."

791

felt-cloak and other garments of Baba 'Amr, a patron of the order.

part Select pieces, mostly of religious character, from the Divans of the Lisani (p. 656 4), Dfi'I Shifollowing poets
of the Divan of Hafiz.
:

II. Foil.

76139.

Preface and

first

Ni'mat Ullah Vali he collected his Divan A.H. 865. See the Oude
razi (a disciple of
;

Lansdown 1245.
Foil.

146

9J

in.

by 5$

25 and 16 lines

and Mir'at Jahannuma, fol. 347), Khusrau (p. 609 a), Sa'di, Hafiz, Shams i Tabriz (p. 593 a), Khakani, Ahmad
Catalogue,
p.

387,

written in the 17th and 18th centuries.

[N. BRASSET HALHED.]

I.

Foil. 2

131.

A horoscope of the birth

^^M
,y*fr

Jami, Asafi (p. 651 b), i), and Sabuhi (a Sufi, of (p. Chaghatai extraction, who lived in Herat
(p.

Jam

Kasim

551 635

b),

>

of Shahjahitn, with astronomical tables.

and
KTi'

later in India.

Author

Path Ullah B. 'Abd ur-Rahmfm

or 973.

died in Agra, A.H. See Badaoni, vol. iii. p. 257,

i

He

u/.-Zubairi ul-Buruji,

4)1

AJ

Blochmann, Ain

Akbari, p. 582, and the

chiefly

Oude Catalogue, pp. 43, 125). The latter portion, foil. 132139, is
taken up by Turkish poems.
III. Foil.

Beg.

The author, who wrote during the reign of

iijnhan, bases his calculation of

140148.

A Turkish tract

on

the posi-

the Sal in ft ni order.

tion of the heavenly bodies at the emperor's birth on the statement of the contemporary
astrologers,

Egerton 695.
Foil.
I.

who had

fixed

it

at 12 Gharis

and

192

94

in.

by
12

5.

[ADAM CLARKE.
2J
in.

3 Pals of the night before Thursday, the 30th ofRabi'I., A.H. 1000.
II. Foil.

Foil.

190;

lines,

long;

written in Ncstalik, in the 18th century.

132146. An almanack

for the

year of the hare," J-_> ^ti&y, corresponding to A.H. 1172-3 (A.D. 1759), written in Bengal for Navv.ib Mir Muhammad Ja'far

The Divan
Beg.

of Asar.

Khan.

Arundel Or.
Foil. 118; 8 in.

8.

Shafi'u,

surnamcd Asar, a native of

lost his sight at the

Shiraz,

who had

3J

in.

long

by 5J ; 14 and 15 lines, written in Naskhi, apparently

75.

in the 17th century.

I.

age of nine lived in Isfahan in the time of Sultan years, Husain (A.H. 1105 1135). He was conthe
first

sidered

poet

of

his

Foil. 1

collection

of

short

especially
Lflr,

excelled in satire.
or,

time, and He died in

tracts relating to the rules and traditions of the religious order called Ahl i Futuvvat(see
p.

44

a).

They

are in Turkish, with the ex-

ception of the last two, foil. 72 77, which are Persian, and treat of the origin of the

according to Siraj, Oude See Riyiiz Catalogue, p. 149, A.H. 1124. fol. 53, Atashkadah, fol. 119, ush-Shu'ara, and the Oude Catalogue, pp. 138, 344. Contents Ghazals in alphabetical order,

A.H. 1113,

792
fol. 1 i,

MANUSCRIPTS OP MIXED CONTENTS.

Ruba'is,
fol.

80

b.

Matali', or open-

ings, and fragments of Ghazals, in alphabetical order, foil. 85 b 90. Kasidahs, in

long written in plain Nestalik harram, A.H. 1217 (A.D. 1802).

;

dated

Mu-

[ADAM CIABKE.]
I.

praise of Muhammad, 'All, and the foil. 1 b 45 &, in the margins.

II. Foil.

Imams,

Foil. 2

62.

Ll*i~o

cx

*-aS, the story

of two brothers, Sit

and Basant, a Hindu

91192;

15

lines,

3f

in.

long;

tale.

written in cursive Indian Nestalik.

Beg.

e^j,

^j\^\ 4.,^
aljaM

_,

j**\ Jjlito
a treatise

II. Foil. 63

137.

^o,
J

Letters of Shaikh Faizi

edited

(see p.

450

a),

on the religious observances of the Hindus.

Beg.

by Nur ud-Dln Muhammad.

\*

^JP^*

j* "**&-}

*^

^ u^V^

b.jjt&l JjVb was the son of 'Ain ul-Mulk, a physician of Shiraz, who had risen to high favour with Akbar, and died in the 40th year

Beg.

^u\

It is stated to

have been written for the

The

editor

use of the Hindus in A.H. 1210, FaslI 1203, A.D. 1796, and comprises the following three 1. Fast days (Brat) throughout the Babs
:

of the reign (A.H. 1003. See Badaoni, vol. ii. p. 403, and Blochmann, Ain i Akbari, His mother was a sister of Shaikh p. 480).
Faizi and Shaikh Abu'1-Fazl.

He says in his

from Chait to Phagun, fol. 64 b. Cosmogony and origin of castes, fol. 114 &. 3. Orders of Hindu devotees and their distinctive marks (Tilak), fol. 126 a.

Hindu
2.

year,

preface that, while the poems of Faizi, as Markaz i Advar and others, had been collected and arranged by Shaikh Abulfazl, his prose compositions had been neglected. In order to save them from oblivion, he made

III. Foil. U->b

jl^a-

138181.
(ir

tract beginning,

J
3.

^a^t

^U

^j

^jj^a*,

and

of the world,
fol.

1. Ages divided into four Babs, as follows: 2. The ten Avatars, fol. 138 b.

the present collection in the year indicated by the above title, i. e. A.H. 1035.

149

a.

The seven planetary

fol.

divinities,
4.

and

their invocations,

The work
a Khatimah.

is

divided, according to the pre-

face, into five Latifahs, three

Mantukahs, and
sections contain

The
fol.

first five

twelve solar mansions, fol. The last two tracts contain several Sanskrit Slokas in the Persian character.
Copyist:

169 179 a.

a.

The
.

Akbar, fol. 97 a, to Shaikhs 131 a, to physicians, fol. 157 b, to Sayyids and Amirs, fol. 174 a, and to relatives, fol. 184 a. Faizi's preface to his Divan is prefixed.

Faizi's letters to

and 'Ulama,

The MS. was written for Mr. Henry George Keene, whose name and seal are
found on the
1802.
fly-leaf,

with the date, March,

The remaining sections, which contained invocations oU\i* by Shaikh Abulfazl, letters

Egerton 1004.
Foil. 204;

of Shaikh

Abu'l-Khair (a brother of

Faizi), letters addressed to Faizi, and some compositions of the editor, are wanting in
this copy.

long

lOf in. by 6|; 18 lines, 4^ in. written in cursive Nestalik ; dated

Ramazan, A.H. 1232 (A.D. 1817).

I.

Foil.

457.

Zafar

Namah
,

'Alamgin,
a),

Egerton 707.
Foil. 181; 7f in.

by wanting the introduction.

lines,

'Akil

Khan

(see pp. 265

and 699

by 5; 11

in.

table of the Timurides

from Babar to

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Shah 'Alam, and a list of the children of Shahjaban and Aurangzib, are prefixed, fol. 3.
II.
;.

793

j>\f>.

j> i,fc-W JVK-

y
^L-j
JJL>
I

Foil.

5770.
(i.e.

Extract from the Shah

i

From

a memoir of the author's

life,

pre-

jahan-Namah

'Amal

Sfilih, see p. 263 a),

fixed by the editor,

we learn that he descended

relating to the capture of Darfi Shikuh,

and

the death of Shahjahan (corresponding to Add. 26,221, foil. 669678). Letter of Shah-

jahan to Kutb ul-Mulk (the king of Golconda), enjoining him to put down offenthe letter's answer, dated Zulhijjah, A.H. 1045. Letter of 'Adil Khan, of Bijifpiir, to Shiihjalian, and the lat-.
sive Shi'ah

from a Lahore family settled in Dchli, that his father's name was Rai Man! Ram, and that he was a pupil of Sirfij ud-Din 'All Khan Arzu (see p. 501 b). Having been driven

practices

tor's letter to 'Adil

Khun, dated the 23rd of A.H. 1045 (see 'Amal i Salih, foil. Zulhijjah,
fol.

from Dehli by the invasion of Ahmad Shah Durrani, Lachhmi-Narayan stayed some time in Aurangabad and Bareli, and settled in Lucknow, where he found a protector in Shah Madan. After his patron's imprisonment by Shah Shuja', he obtained, on the recommendation of Akhund Ahmad 'AH, employment under Navvab Muhammad Javahir 'Ali Kh;in, Nfizir of Faiz:ibad (see p. 309 b), and spent there seven years, in constant intercourse with the writer of this notice. He then passed into the service of Asaf ud-Daulah in Lucknow ; but subsequently returned to Faizubad, where his mind became deranged. Three years later, the editor obtained possession of his papers, and compiled the present collection, which he completed A.II. 1205. The dates of the letters range from A.IT.

373^375),
III.

66.

from the 373 a), comp. prising the lives of Nizam ul-Mulk Asaf Jah and his children, Burhfm ul-Mulk Sa'adat Khan, Sufdar Jang, Shuj.t' ud-Daulah and Shah 'Alam, Ahmad Shah Durrani, and Isliak Khan Mfitaman ud-Daulah (correFoil.
i

70114.

Extract

Khizanah

'Amirah (see

sponding to Or. 232,

foil.

2598).
Letter

IV.

Foil.

115125.

of

Nadir

Shah

to his son Rizit Kuli Mirza,

announcing

1183 to 1195.

Some

are

mere

rhetorical

his victory in India. Letter of Shah 'Abbas I. to Jahangir, relating to his capture of Kan-

exercises addressed to the author's pupil, Shaikh B.ikir 'Ali, sister's son to Akhund

dahar (A.H. 1031, see 'Alam-firai, fol. 380), and the hitter's answer, fol. 1 20 a. Letter of Aurangzib, on his march upon Kandahar, to
his father, Shahjahan (A.II. 1062), fol. 121.

Ahmad

'Ali

others are written in the

'Ali,

name

of Navvab Javahir

Akhund Ahmad 'Ali,

Letters of Shuja' ud-Daulah to Najib

Khan

and Shah 'Alam,

V.
Foil.

fol.

122

a.

and Bahu Begam, Hastings (Sir John Macpherson), Shah 'Alam, Asaf ud-Daulah, and others, while a few are addressed by the author in his own name to
the editor.

to the successor of Governor

126135.

Five

letters,

^^

by Maulanu Zuhuri (see p. 742 a, v.). Some Ghazals by the same author are written in the margins from fol. 115 to 122.
VI.
Foil.

A
on

tabulated index of the contents

is

given
litho-

fol.

125

b.

The work has been

graphed in Luck now, A.II. 12G5.

135204.
by
it.

Letters

of

Rajah
Foil.

Egerton 1008.
167; 8^
in.

Lachhmi-Narayan, Munshi,
{

^j ^f^
p.

_^,

edited

Muhammad

Ol*5; Faizbakhsh B.

by 6J

13

lines,

in.

long

Ghulam

Sarvar, of Kakuri (see

VOL.

309

b).

written in plain Nestalik, apparently in India, early in the 18th century. 3 A

;

794
I.

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Foil. 1

69.

t3j~,

a treatise on sexual

intercourse.

Author:

Murtaza

Kuli

Shamlu,

i JS
Beg.

written in Nestalik, apparently in India, in the 18th century. miscellaneous volume, containing, I. collection of medical prescriptions,
long;

A A

Murtaza Kuli Khan, son of Hasan Khan Shamlu, governor of Khorasan (see p, 682 a), stood in high favour with Shah Sulaiman (A.H. 10771105), who appointed him to the office of sword-hearer, ^j> ^xl*i, and to
the government of Kum. He is described as a poet of taste, and an elegant Shikastahwriter. See Tahir Naslrabadi, fol. 32, Riyaz
ush-Shu'ara, fol. 437, and Atashkadah, fol. 11. This work, written in a highly artificial

without any preamble, or methodical arrangement, fol. 2. II. Extracts relating to compound medicaments, in Persian and Arabic,*
fol.

74

b.

III.

Descriptions of

compound

medicaments, alphabetically arranged, foil. 107 6215 I. At the end of this last section are found
the words, t/
l

>jj r -J\

^^

i*^ u>.^]/

^ JS3,

which leave it uncertain whether Najib udDin us- Samarkand! is named as the author
of the treatise, or of the last prescription
only.

and ornate

style, is dedicated to

the Shah

The volume

is

(probably Shah Sulaiman). It is divided into thirty sections, which, in conformity with
its

endorsed \^r .ojJ^Ax-*

,.,.><JL>1 ^/

^j

_>A-4, but in the text Sa'd ud-Dln Tabib

is

title

Two copies are depatches." scribed in Krafft's Catalogue, p. 81, No. 232> and p. 151.
termed t^A
II.

Khirkah, or "patched cloak," are "

only quoted as the author of an observation on the use of naphtha, with which the book
begins.

Foil.

70-74.

short Arabic-HinduFoil.
r 1,

Egerton 1024.
163
;

stani dictionary of drugs.

III. Foil.

11

in.

by 7|; 18

lines,

4|

in.
;

75167.

t^Jl

a treatise on

purgatives considered in connection with the age and temperament of the patients, the season of the year, and other conditions.

long written in cursive Indian Nestalik dated Zulhijjah, A.H. 1229 (A.D. 1814).
;

Prose works of Mirza Katil (see

as follows
I.
:

p.

64

b),

Author Aman Ullah, entitled KhanahZad Khan Flruz Jang B. Mahabat Khan Sipahsalar B. Ghayur Beg,
:

Foil.

220.
Fath

Letters written from the

court of

'All

Shah

to

the author's

patron in India.
Beg.

uU^ gj

*4;1

U ^L- a/

_^^

(see p.

509

b).

Beg.

yUSJ

aLJjl

\j

dedicated to Jahangir, was written in A.H. 1036. It is divided into a Mukaddimah and six Babs,
is

The work, which

These letters deal less with public events than with personal and familiar incidents, " or what may be termed the chronique
scandaleuse " of the residence.

Their ap-

comprising

proximate date

may

be inferred from their

sixty-three Fasls.

Egerton 1009.
Foil. 218; 8| in.

a contemporary record of including, and blinding of Zamun Shah, the the capture Afghan ruler of Kandahar, by his brother
fol. 7,

Mahmud
3^
in.

by 4f

15

lines,

Shah, an event of A.H. 1217. See Brydges, Dynasty of the Kajars, p. 159. The

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title
tir

795

->-

*jj*

y^ *J^

is

written }^j a later

Persian equivalents are frequently written

in numerical figures). in

hand on the first page. A larger and later collection of Mirza Katil's letters, compiled A.H. 1232 by his pupil Imam ud-Din, has been lithographed in Lucknow, A.H. 1259-60, under the title of
printed in Cawnpore, A.H. 1264.
II. Foil.

The Chahar Sharbat has been lithographed Lucknow, A.H. 1268.

V. FoU. 132163. A treatise on Arabic grammar, without title or preface.

Beg.
-.

)\

2134.

j^\
Persian

ij*", a treatise

on the
idioms.

niceties of

grammar and
'

Beg.

la*

<_" j' *

contains the conjugation of the verb and secondary forms, a classed vocabulary of nouns, and a sketch of the syntax. In the
It
its

&>-}

This work, written at the request of S&jjid Amfm 'All, from whose name the title

subscription the treatise is called >jj? and ascribed to Mirza Katil.

^^^

was composed, as appears from the preface of art. iv., in A.H. 1200. It is
is

derived,

" divided into six " branches (*/), subdivided " " into fruits (^).

Foil. 87;
in.

Egerton 1028. 8 in. by 4; about 17

lines,

Contents
2.

1.

The three
particles.

classes of words.
3.

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in India, in the latter half of the 18th century.
I.

Ellipses
4.

of

Compounds,
Persian of
p.

Foil.

34.

Inshai

Harkarn.

See

i_AJy.

Peculiarities

of the
5.

530 a.
II.

Iran, Turan, tion.

and India.

Elegance of dichas been litho-

Foil.

35

52.

tract

on the atoning

The

Shajarat

ul-Amfini

efficacy of worship at the Siva shrines of Benares, translated from a Sanskrit original

graphed in Lucknow, 1841.

III. Foil.

entitled

Panchakrosi,

J i^.,
<

by

Kishan

3570. Kahr
71131.

ul-FasAhat (see

p.

620
IV.

b).

Singh, poetically surnamod Nasha$, son of ilai Pran Nath, Khatri of the Mangal tribe,

Foil.

v^o/. ,V. another

an inhabitant of

Siyitlkut,

treatise

on Persian composition.

on his return from Kalpi to Lucknow, after an absence of two years and a half, in A.H. 1217. at the request of Mir Muhammad, the younger son of Mir
Katil wrote
it

The Panchakrosa
Mah.itmya;
logue, p. 28.
III.

is

see Aufrecht, Bodleian

a portion of the KfisiCata-

A man
on

*Ali.

It is divided, as

its

name im-

Foil.

5357.

Itfll

^>>, a

short

plies, into four

Sharbats, variously subdivided, the following subjects 1. Persian pro:

narrative in ornate prose, written in imitation of the Shash-Jihat and the Bada'i'

sody and rhyme.

figurative phrases.

2.

Modern idioms and

3. Elegant expressions, used in India, and models of faulty phrases 4. Short epistolary composition. vocabulary and grammar of the Turk! language (the

ul-Jamal of Divan liup-Nariyan Sahib. Author: the same Kishan Singh. Beg.

ct1 ^'w* jd^ ijj^i^^jj ajU

written, as

The work was

end, in A.H. 1157.

stated at the

3 A 2

796
IV.
of
Foil.

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5886. t^oJJ
,

^>N ^y,
son
of
his visit to

Nasklt

the story the devotee

11051135).

TJdalik, tdJJbjl,

and of
,

the realm

of

Yama,

^^

apparently translated from

died in that Shah's reign, leaving about six thousand lines of poetry. See Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 440, and Khulasat ul-Afkar, fol. 277.

He

a Sanskrit original.
Beg.

VIII.

Foil.

137145.
p.

US, "Fate

and Destiny," a Magnavl by Muhammad"

Kull Salirn (see

738

a).

Add. 5622.
Foil.

Beg.
See the
lines,

(J**y 'wUy*- j^

285

8|

in.

by 5J

14

3J

in.

ul-Afkar,
p. 4, p. 163.

Oude Catalogue, p. 556, Khulasat fol. 122, the Munich Catalogue,

Earliest Persian Biography,

long; written in Nestalik, apparently India, in the 18th century,

in

and Bland,

[N. BRASSEY HALHED.]

I.

A
Riza

Masnavl of the same name, by Mir 'AH

Tajalll,

Foil.

38.

L-^jlflM

^i-^\,

satirical

sketches of some contemporaries, by Ni'mat

Khan

'Ali (seep.

268

b).

Beg.

i_pA> (j'bo j
of the objects of the author's

The names

has been lithographed in the Gulzar i Hind, A.H. 1283. press of Short pieces by IX. Foil. 145159. 1. Navvab Rusthe three following poets Makhmur (Murshid Kull Khan, tam Jang
:

of Surat.

He

satire are disguised

II. Foil.

under various

lived at the court of Asafjah,

riddles.

Journal of the siege of Haidarabad, by the same (see p. 268 a).

III. Foil.

3999.

100117.
b}.

Husn u

'Ishk,

by

the same (see p. 703

A.H. 1161, and survived him but who a few years; see the Oude Catalogue, p. 194). 2. Murtaza Kull Beg Vala (a native of Iran, who entered the service of Sarbuland Khan, and, after that Amir's death, A.H. 1090, went to Bengal, where he died; see Riyaz
died ush-Shu'ara,
p. 742 a).
fol.

IV. Foil.

117121.
,

letter beginning,

500).

3.

Tughra

(see

^Vl-Sjii (j\\j?*

**>

apparently by the

same.

X.
Foil.

Foil.

160164.
172.

Letters and

short

V.

121130.
(JUi-

Three short prose

,__a!j

prose pieces by Ni'mat

pieces, entitled s*f* j >-i- s^LL/e,

^ibli-*,

wU.

j,

and

^^i*, by Aka Abul-Kasim.

XI. Foil. 165 by the same.

Khan 'All. Some poetical pieces

letter written by VI. FoU. 130133. Tahir Naslrabadl (see p. 368 6), in answer to

XII. Foil. 172 6285. A Mas.navl containing short moral tales and anecdotes, probably by the same Ni'mat Khan.

the

Uzbak ambassador.

VII. Foil.

133137.

Beg.
Short pieces in prose
'All Mihri,

and

verse,

by Mir Sayyid

headed

Add. 5629.
Mir Sayyid 'All, whose father Sayyid Musa'id was a native of Jabal 'Amil, was born
in Isfahan, and held the office of Malik ushShu'ara under Shah Sultan Husain (A.H.
Foil.
in.

297
;

9|

in.

by 6

about 18

lines,
;

3f

long 'Azlmabad, A.H. 1153-8 (A.D. 1740-5).

written in cursive Nestalik

dated

[N. BRASSEY HALHED.]

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1-4. Arabic verses of the Divan with interlinear Persian version. Ilfilix, Exposition of the spiritual meaning attached I.

797

Foil. 1

bus

(see

of

art. 34),

the Arabic Catalogue, p. 312, with a paraphrase in Persian verse,

and a

poetical prologue

by Naki, ^aJ.

names of material objects, and glossary of some rare words occurring in the Divan. Commentary on some difficult verses of the same Divan. The title given in the subscripto the

^U iyU
IX. Foil. See p. 414 b.

jl

jjSsa

71101.

Jami'

ul-Kavanin.

tion

is til*-

IL

Foil.

1828. A

versified

Persianp.

Hindustani vocabulary, divided, according to

subjects, into

X. Foil. 530 a.
XI. Foil.

102143.

Inshcli

Harkarn.

See

twenty sections.

Beg.

j-^ yV

144192.

llttl

\u
p.

uiXijy,
a.

glossary to Inshai Yusufi.

See

529

was completed, as stated in the last line, Three additional sections at in A.1I. 990. the end are stated to be due to another author.
It

XII. Foil. 193294. Bada'i' ul-Inshu 529 a), with interlinear glosses. (see p.

The title
III. p.

in the subscription is

^Uj-o

Jj*5*.

Foil.
b.

3133.
34
41.

Khalik

Ban.

See
Foil.

Add. 5660, F.
a volume of misby 10 The following are Persian Three poems on the wickedness and wretched end of Nand Kumar, foil. 25, 26. Invocations to Muhammad and 'All, written so as to form the outline of two horses, fol. 27.

516
rV.

28 ; 15i

in.

Foil.

cellaneous contents.
:

tract

on archery,
J^,.
!'-*,

called in the subscription

uU^j
\

Beg. JL~\v\ji>

UU_> JA ^

ytt

**

V.

Foil.

41

45.

Hindustani verses.

VI. Foil. 4C 50. Two series of Ghazals, consisting of one Ghazal for each letter of the

The words ^L^Vp

letters, fol. 28.

>U

^,

in

ornamental

In the alphabet. in the second

first

the takhallus

is

iiy,

a^V
Foil.

Add. 6541.
156; 12
in.

Divan of Firishtah, called from its first words Ma Mukiinan, is noticed in the Mackenzie
Collection,
ii.

by 7$

19
;

lines,

in.

long; written in Nestalik

dated Masuli-

p.

142,

Copenhagen

patan, A.H. 1197 (A.D. 1783).

Catalogue, p. 43, and the St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 397. See the Oude Catalogue,
p. 83.
I.

[JAMES GRANT.]
Foil.
a.
full

9127.

Lubb ut-Tavarikh.

Seo

VII. Foil. 54

63.

An

alphabetical voca-

p.

104

bulary of Persian verbs, conjugated through all tenses, with the Hindustani equivalents.

A very 28.
II.

table of reigns occupies

foil.

Foil.

128156.

jr-, the Surah of David put into Arabic verse by Ibn 'AbVIII. Foil.
JS>j
'i

6470.

ut-Tahirin (see p. 119 ft), table of contents, and the

part of Rauzat viz., the preface,

first five

pages of

Kism

I.

798

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Add. 6587.
216 llf in. by 7J from 17 to 20 written by different lines, about 5 in. long dated Shavval, hands in Shikastah-amTz A.H. 1197 (A.D. 1783). [JAMES GRANT.]
Foil.
; ; ; ;

XI. Foil.
tices

120125.

Biographical

no-

on Muhammad Khan Bangash and his sons, on Sayyid Sa'adat Khan Burhan ulMulk and his successors, on 'Ali Muhammad

Khan Eohillah, Najib ud-Daulah, Mirza Najaf Khan, Ja'far Khan Nasiri, afterwards Murand his successors in Benand on some other amirs. Account of gal, the Marattahs, Sikhs, Jats, and the English. The author, whose name does not appear, wrote about A.H. 1200, as a decided partisan
shid Kull Khan, of the British rule.

I.

Foil. 3

29.
:

Malfuzat

Amir Timur

1. the Institutes, im(see p. .177 b), viz. perfect at the end (White's edition, pp. 156

390),

fol.

b.

2.

and Enterprises,
abridged,
II.
foil.

fol.

Extracts from the Designs 22 a. 3. Continuation

foil.

of the Institutes (Add. 26,191,

23

629 b.

326-347)
from
b),

XII. Foil.
the
of the

126133.

Chronological sketch

Foil.

2027.

Extracts

Muntakhab

ul-Lubfib (see p. 232

relating

Murshid Kull Khan, to the reforms effected by Aurangzib in the colto Todarmal, to

Hindu and Muslim kings of Dehli, from Judishtir ^.jxju-xi j ,iyj> ^j.W-. aUu, to the accession of Muhammad Shah, A.H.
1131
;

followed by a tabulated

list

of reigns.

lection of the revenue, etc.

III.

XIII. Foil.

133142.

Tables

of

the

Foil.

3845.

manli Sultans p. 129 a).

IV. Foil.
the Khizanah
i

History of the OsMir'at us-Safa ; see (from

dynasties of India, from the Hindu period to the sixth year of Farrukhsiyar (A.H. 1129), from the Dastur ul-'Amal of Hadi 'Ali Khan.

4690.
'Amirah

The

first

portion of
),

XIV.

Foil.

143159.

Tables

of

the

(see p.

with the notice on

Ahmad
i

ending Shah Durrani.

of
i

373

principal dynasties of the East, from the early kings of Persia to the time of Karim

V. Foil.
(from

9196.

History

Malabar
Hind, by

Khan Zand.
The length
of the several reigns
is

the Tarikh

Mamalik
ft).

given in

Ghulam

Basit; see p. 237

YL

Foil.

96104.

Account of Kuch

Bahar, and Assam, with a detailed narrative

of the campaign of

Khankhanan Muhammad
266
a.

Mu'azzam Khan;
VII. Foil.
\vanah,

see p.

Isfaparallel columns according to Hamzah han!, and other authorities, the latest of which are Habib us-Siyar, Lubb ut-tavarikh, Kauzat ut-Tahirin (p. 119 b), and Mirat us-Safa (p. 129 a).

105108.
Tibet,

and of

Account of Gondfrom the Akbar Namah.

XV.
XVI.

Foil.

160184.

History

of

the

Safavis from the Mir'at us-Safa.

Foil.

VIII. Foil. 109, 110. Account of Kashmir, and of Bijapur, from the Ikbal-Namah
of

185216.

History of Persia

Mu'tamad Khan

(see p. 255 a).

Account of Bagfrom the Ma'as.ir ul-Umara, and of lanah, Mfilvah, from the Ikbal-Namah.
IX. Foil. Ill, 112.
History of the kings of Bengal and Jaunpur (from the work of Ghulam Basit; see p. 237 a).

Shah Sultan Husain to the death of Karim Khan Zand, A.H. 1193, by Razi ud-Din Tafrishi,
from the death of
Beg. of

d>-^

X. Foil.

113119.

The author states in a short preamble that he had not at hand any record of that he been a witness of the period, nor had

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events recorded, but he had compiled this account from the information of trustworthy
persons.
states that

799

he had written this work in the 47th year of 'Alamgir's reign, A.H. 1115.

He begins his narrative with the invasion of Mahmud Shah and the proclamation of
Shah Tahmasp in Kazvin, Muharrara, A.H. 1135.
of contents, prefixed to the volume.
table
in the

month of
2
b,

Memoirs of Babar, translated from the Turk! by Mirza Payandah Hasan Ghaznavi and Muhammad
II.

Foil.

102241.

The

Kali Mughul Hisari. Beg.

This translation
is

foil.

1 a

is

earlier

than the better

Add. 6588.
Foil.

version of Mirza 'Abd ur-Rahim (see It differs from it in wording, p. 244 a). sometimes in meaning, and does not on the
lines,

known

94;

9J

in.

by 6;

12

in.

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In a preface, which the continuator, MuKuli, has prefixed to his part of the work, fol. 147, he states that a

hammad

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An

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on arithmetical notations, and the keeping

of public accounts.

Beg.

The author, who does not give

his

name,

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The

translator,

III. Foil.

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93.
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466

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1GO

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Of the third and

fourth there are

or premonitory symptoms,

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IV. Foil. 94
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801

109.

fjfcu- Ji-J*,

a manual

p.

402

a),

are as follows:

Seven

letters to

Manavi rhyme.
bl

prince

Mu'azzam

Shah 'Alam

Beg.

*&

y**

ttb
'4>

ty
L>

Seventy to prince
to prince

Muhammad Muhammad Akbar. One

to Mu*izz ud-Din.

Bahadur. A'zam. One

to

Kam-

bakhsh.

Two

Four to

The

author,

whose name does not appear,

'Azim ud-Din.

concludes his prologue with a short eulogy on Jamal ud-Din Abu Mah&mid Muhammad

One

to

Twenty-five to Bidarbakht. Shayistah Khan. Twenty-two to

B. Ahmad.

A versified astrological
rak i^Jjfr, or uFjjt, Khal. under Ji.j- ;

by Mubais mentioned by Haj. see TO!, v. p. 472, and

treatise

Asad Khan. Four to GhSzi ud-Din Khan. Four to Zulfakar Khan. Four to Chin Kilich Khan. One to 'Akil Khan. Seven to Sadr ud-Din Muhammad Khan. Five to

Add. 7446, foL 436.

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110121.

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1

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1260, under the

titli^oO * OU^,

letters addressed to

generally
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62.

122125. J\3r j*~,

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An

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^J

Familiar letters of Au-

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18th century.
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127. An

account of the Ma-

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rattah empire, compiled A.H. 1197, without preface or author's name.

contents, which are in part identical with those of the Dastur ul-'Amal Agahi (see
TOL. n.

The

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English
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Contents: Notice on the great offices of the court, viz. Pirti-Nidhl, Pandit Pardhan, Sipahsalar, Pharnavis, Mantri, etc., and on the men who held them from the time of Slvajl to the date of composition, fol. 1 a. Account of the towns, forts, and parganahs
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Beg.
IV. Foil.

85103.

Tables of the revenue

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India.

their origin to A.H. 1197, with detached notices on the leading families and chiefs, viz.

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long mad-abad, Zulhijjah, A.H. 1138 (A.D. 1726).

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10

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ylasj*

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HULL.]

t-V

I.

Poll.

195. j&\j*

a Sufi

poem by

Hashimi,
Beg.

sur,

from

his birth to

A.H. 1196.

The author, whose name does not appear,

remarks, in a short preamble, that Haidar 'All was the only man in India who had shown himself able to cope with the English

power.

traces the origin of his family to Kuh ir, jxf, a town twenty-eight Kos west of Haidarabad, in which his forefathers held the
office of

He

Ullah.

Kazi from the time of Sultan 'Abd His grandsire Dust Muhammad

Mir Hashimi Kirmani, surnamed Shah Jahangir, who was said to descend from two great saints, viz., on his father's side, from Shah Kasim Anvar, and, through his mother, from Shah Ni'mat Ullah Vail, is described as the most eminent Sufi of his time. He went from his native Khorasan to Sind in the early part of the reign of Mirza Shah Hasan Arghun and stayed some years at the court
of that prince, who gave him the greatest marks of favour. He set out for the Hijaz

settled in Kolar, district of Sura, province of

Arcot, where he married the daughter of a noble Sayyid, and had a son called Mir Fath 'All, afterwards Fath Naik, the father of Haidar 'All. The latter is said to have been born A.H. 1131.

in

A.H. 946, and was

slain

on the way by

brigands near a place designated as Klj MukSee 'All Shir Kani', Add. ran, ^\jL> ^.

At the end the author states that, at the date of writing, namely on the 29th of Zulka'dah, A.H. 1196, the chances of war were still undecided.

In the Nafa'is, Oude Catais given as the date of logue, p. 55, Haft Iklim, fol. 121, his death. Compare
25,189,
fol.

525.

A.H. 948

Riyaz
fol.

ush-Shu'ara,

fol.

520,

Atashkadah,

the

first

of

But the death of Haidar Muharram, A.H. 1197, is

'All

on

68, Sprenger,

Oude

Catalogue, p. 420,

briefly

recorded in a subsequent addition.

4084. alphabetical glosof the technical terms used in the colsary lection of revenue, compiled for the use of
III. Foil.

An

and Haft Asman, pp. 90 99. Shah Hasan (as he is called in the present poem), son of Shah Beg, reigned, according to 'Ali Shir, fol. 269, from A.H. 928 to 962. Firishtah, who calls him Shah Husain, says that he died A.H. 962, after a reign of thirty-

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

two years.
p. 621.

803

See the

Bombay

edition, vol.

ii.

Beg.

The work
in

is

dedicated

to Abul-GhazI

In a prologue of considerable extent the poet pays a tribute of praise to his predecessors

'Ubaid-ullah Bahadur

and models,

Nizaini,

Jaml, authors of the Matla' ul-Anvar, and Tuhfat ul-Ahrar, and

says that two generations (karn, i.e. sixty years) after the last of them the key of speech

Amir Khusrau, and Makhzan ul-Asrar,

Khan (who reigned Mavara un-Nahr, A.H. 939946). The

present copy breaks off at the beginning of

Bab 3. At the end

Khan,
a

is

found the seal of Nik 'Alam

ul-.Mulk

had been given to him by divine love :

dependent of Nizam with the date A.H. 1153. Asafjah,

Add. 6632.
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in.

by 6 11
;

lines,

4J

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long;
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He

concludes with a dedication to Shah

written in large Nestalik

dated

Jumada

Hasan,

A.H. 1192 (A.D. 1778).

[J. F. HULL.]

UUJ
and adds that Kliamsah
:

I. Foil.

168.

<-> 3)

s*a t the tale of

this

poem

is

the

first

of a

Kamrup. Munshi

'All Riza,

who wrote

the present

It is stated at the

end that

it

was completed

volume, professes to have translated this tale, which he calls pf^t^aS, from the llindu tongue i^jjj* wbj for Captain John Ritchie. This version, which is written in the colloquial Persian of India, is quite distinct from that which has been mentioned p. 763 b.
II.

inTattah, A.H. 940:

Foil.

69114.

The

tale of

Madhu-

id_H
9.

malat (^J'^j- *a> and Prince Manohar, in

Musjiavi (see p. 700 a).

Jrj
LL>

Beg.

jjt*s
i_A*->

The poem is divided into three Rauzahs and twenty Mau'izahs. See Haj. KhaL, vol. v.
p. 606.

jpJ
(

II.

Foil

90107.
'All

JUA^

cy-,

an
p.

The author of the Hindi original is called in this copy Shaikh Manjhan, j> ^.yl ^j )* It is stated at the end that the ^..
1

erotic

poem by Mulla

Riza Tajalli. See

738

a.

version was completed in A.H. 1059

JU-

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b).

Subhat ul-Abrar (see

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118123.

B^SN

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The Pand-Namah of

Author

Yar

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Samarkand!,

Transcriber

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195 ; 9^ in. by 5| from 12 to 15 about 3| in. long ; written in Nestalik

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and Shikastah-amlz, apparently in India, in

the 18th century.
I.

[J. F. HULL.]

Poll.

167.

The

Lilavati, translated
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Dehli, had resided for years in Benares, where his father was in the employ of Mr. Jonathan Duncan.

The author, a native of

by Shaikh Faizi ;
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lated

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68149.

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Bhagavata Purana.

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Early kings of Persia,

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112136.
i

Extracts from the

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Aulad

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203; 13
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65.

H.

Foil.
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6688.
Akbari

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Bab 4

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Yazdi, the Ma'agir i Rahimi (see Elliot, vol. vi. p. 237), the Latin version of Abulfaraj, and Pococke's supplement, relating to Timur and his successors

Zafar

136151. Namah of 'All

Extracts from the

the A'in

248

a),

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in Persia

down

to the extinction of the

English translation of some passages.

III. Foil.

Ak-Kuyunlus, A.H. 914.

IV. Foil.

89125.

The

early kings of

153161.

The
"

Safavis,

from

from the Rauzat us-Safa, with lists of kings derived from other sources, and " P. Bizari Rerum Persicarum extracts from
Persia,
historia."

Pococke's Supplement.

V. Foil.
nasties

162203.

Cosmogonical Dy,
;

anterior to

the Pishdadian," from

IV. Foil.

126203.

History of the kings

the Dabistan and the Muntakhab ul-Lughat Persian and English.

of India during the four ages of the world,

VI. Foil.

204382.

Notes and extracts

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relating to the Pishdadians, Kayfmians

805

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don Hindley on paper water-marked 1814

1818.
I.

Sassanians, from Burhan Rauzat us-Safa, etc.

Kati',

Jahan-ara,

Foil. 1

18.

"Remarks on the modern

VU.

Foil.

383387

and 41 1>

518.

The

Abhasides from Rauzat us-Safa.

VIII. Foil.

state of Afghanistan;" sketch of the history of the Afghans ; enumeration of their tribes

388415.

The Ashkanians
Timur's

and clans

from Elphinstone's Caubul.

from Jahan-ara. wars in Persia from A.H. 782 to 794, from the English translation of Zafar-Xamah.
Foil.

II. Foil.

19118.

" Illustrations of Af-

IX.

619533.

ghan history from Asiatic authors;" consisting chiefly of lists of saints from the
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;

X.

Foil.

535550.

Lists

of

Eastern

Dynasties, Persian and English. Arabic and Persian historical works.

list

of

III. Foil.

120249.

Extracts from the

Add. 6933.
Foil. 277 13 in. by 8 written by the Rev. John Iladdon Hindley on paper water; ;

Favatih of Husain B. Mu'in ud-Dln Maibudi (see p. 19 b).

marked 18111814.
Notes and extracts relating chiefly to the history of India and China, compiled about 1820. Contents Chronological sketch of a scheme towards forming an epitome of the
:

The Divan of 'Ali, IV. Foil 250362. with a Persian paraphrase by the same author (see p. 19 a).

Add. 6937.
Foil. 185;

history of Hindoostan, fol. 1. Cosmogony and early dynasties of the Hindus, from

Rev. J.

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12

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.1
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Fa/1,
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Radhakant,

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English and Persian,

steculorum post E. A. Maarsliamo,"

I.

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1176. The

fol.

"Chronicon

XIX

diluvium,
fol.

89.

analyzante Tables showing

that of

how

the Hindu,

Egyptian and Chinese chronology may be

the Bible, fol. 139. "Chinese or Khataian History, from Beidavee " (Nizam ut-Tavarikh) ; Persian and
rxluced
to

English.
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177185.

Account of Diu, and

Account of Shah Rukh's to China, from the Mat la* us-sa'dain embassy Persian and English; fol. 230. Route of John Bell, of Antermony, from St. Petersburg to Pekin, and extracts from his travels,
Latin,
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of the extraordinary adventures of Maulanii MII.M and a party of one hundred Turks, in
I
1

153.

search of the gold-mountain, dated A.H. 969, with the heading :

\

j*i* * *&rj~*
lj

U-J

M.jtft

y/J

fol.

238.

List of the kings of Khatai, Per-

sian, fol.

262.

Add. 6945.
Add. 6936.
369 13 in. by 8 ; written by the Rev. John Haddon Hindley, on paper watermarked 18051820.
Foil.
;

Foil.

362 ; 12|

in.

by 8

written by J.

Had-

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of
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:

Headings
p. 220 a), (p. 228 b),

chiefly to India, viz.

fol. 1. fol.

works relating Tabakat i Akbari (see

318.

Lubb ut-Tavarikh Hind

Two Arabic Tazkirahs (Yatimat udDahr and Dumyat ul-Kasr), fol. 322. Three Arabic poems, viz. Ya dara Mayyah, Lamiyyat ul-'Arab, and al-KasIdat utTantaraniyyah, fol. 342. Tuhfat ul-'Irakain (see p. 560 b), Persian and English, fol. 353.

10.

by Yiisuf 'All Khan (" an intimate friend of Mahabat Jang. He married a daughter of Sarfaraz Khan"), fol. 18. Tarikh i Jauhar Shahi (seep. 246 a),
fol.

Tarikh Ilah VirdI Khan, Khan, son of Ghulam 'AH

19. Siyar ul-Mutaakhkhirln (see p. 2806), Farhat un-Nazirin (see p. 131 a), fol. 22.
fol. fol.

Add. 6946.
Poll.

118

in.

by 7^

written by the

50.

Ma'air

Jahangiri (see p.

257

a),

Rev.

J.

Haddon Hindley, on paper water-

Nafahat ul-Yaman, Calcutta, 1811, fol. 62. Mujmal i Tarikh ba'd-Nadiriyyah, a history of Nadir Shah's death and of the
59.

marked 18051810.
Notes and extracts relating to the genealogy
of the Patriarchs

and

to the nations

which

subsequent period down

to the death of
fol. 69.

Ka-

rim Khan (A.H. 1193),

This work, apparently written in India, has a preface, in which the author states that it is in part
translated from Arabic records.

Eastern tradition connects with them, from the Burhan i Kati', Tarikh i Guzldah, Rauzat
us-Safa, Khulasat ul-Akhbar, Firishtah, etc., in Persian, English, and Latin.

The

first

heading
J\

is

sl>

jt>\>

y JU (_**
78.

j.

j~\3 \ <3\f>-\j\ (J^ u^ i-J j* Vaki'at i Kashmir (p. 300 ),

Poll. 286;

Add. 6947.
Rev.
J.

"Genghiz Khan Namah" (i.e. Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 1 and 2), fol. 81. Rauzat " Two volumes of treatises us-Safa, fol. 89.
fol.

9 in. by 7; written by the Haddon Hindley, on paper waternotes and extracts.

:

marked 18041816.
Miscellaneous
following are Persian

(on philosophy, mathematics, etc.), found in the fortress of Gwalior," fol. 165.
List of printed Arabic books, from 1505 to Short notices on some 1810, fol. 168.

The

tale of

The Hatim

Ta'I (see p. 764 o), with the English translation of some passages, fol. 76. Headings

of

the

following

works

treatise

on

Oriental books and MSS., fol. 178. Notes on the Persian Mahabharat (from a MS. in

four volumes,
fol.

Chetham

Library, Manchester),

186.

medicaments, classed, according to diseases, in thirty-eight chapters, Persian and English, fol. 166. The Divan of Hakim Sana'! (see 551 a), fol. 172. A medical work not p.

Headings and extracts from the following works: Ahval i Paighambaran (i.e. I'jaz i Mustafavi, by Mir Muhammad Salih Kashf T see p. 154 a), fol. 194. Tazkirat ul-Muluk, an abridgment of Rauzat us-Safa, compiled in Bijapur and brought down to A.H. 1017, with an extract on Pegu, fol. 234. Ma'agir i Rahimi (see p. 131 i), fol. 250. Kachkul (of Baha ud-Din 'Amili ; see p. 775 a), fol. 261. "Faraj ba'd az Shiddat" (see p. 751 6), The Magnavi (see p. 584 6), fol. fol. 305.
;

named (Ma'dan ush-Shifa Sikandarshahi;

see
p.

471
(see
p.

b),

fol.

200.
fol.

BadH

469

a),

Ikhtiyarat i 223. Song of a

Georgian boy, Ballad of Lutf 'AH Khan, Ghazals by Fath 'AH Shah, Muhtasham, Raklb, and Jami, with English translations.

Add.6962.
Foil.

252; 13

in.

by 8; written by the

Rev. John Haddon Hindley on paper watermarked 18101813.

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

Headings of the Masnavi (see p. 584 b), fol. 1. A portion of the Shahnamah, (Macan's edition, pp. 1030 1080), Persian and
English,
fol.
I.

807
tales in the col-

Foil. 2

35.

Detached
*"

loquial Persian of India.

Beg.

^ij
is

j^

w*-*;-^*

*5

^ u>^y~i
Sa'di's

111.

Prefixed

a note relating to the price of

shawls in Bombay.

Add. 6998.
II. Foil.

36

65.

about 9 lines, by 7 written by the I'ev. John Haddon Hindley on paper water-marked 1808.
Foil.
in.
;

236; 9

fragment of

Gulistan.

I.

Foil.

1211. The

Sad Dar (see

p.

48

b),

Add. 7608.
Foil. 184; 7$ in.
in.

transcribed from Roy. 16, B. VH., with Latin version.

II. Foil.

Hyde\

by 4f

15 or 16

lines,

3|

Tables of the Divans of Hazin (seep. 715 b\ and Ahsan. Ehwujah Ahsan Ullah, entitled Zafar Khan,

212236.

long; written in cursive Nestalik, probably in the 17th century.

[Cl. J.
I.

RICH.]

Foil.

and poetically surnamed Ahsan, governor of Kabul, and subsequently of Kashmir, under
Shahjahan, died A.II. 1073. See Ma'asir ulUmar.i, fol. 371, and the Oude Catalogue,
p. 325.

134.

^-^ r

*-^U-, a popular to the

treatise, in

twenty-two Babs, on religious

duties

and observances, according

Ilanafi school, by Isma'il B. Lutf Ullah ul-

Bakharel, uTi-

Beg.

\j

Foil. 210;

Add. 7053. 9$ in. by 5; about

15

lines,

II.

Foil.

3538.

j~

J^,

forty Hadis,

mostly written diagonally, in Nestalik, with silver-ruled margins, apparently in the 18th
[J. H. HINDLEY.] Verses from Sa'di's Gulistan, and Hustan, fol. 2. Detached verses of Mirza Tahir Va-

with a paraphrase in Persian quatrains, imperfect at the end. Beg.

*'

century.

li

id

(see p.

189

b),

fol.

42,

and of Nftnat
HI.

Khan 'All (see p. 268 b), fol. 49. Ruba'is of K udsi (see p. 684 b), fol. 55. Detached verses
and Ghazals of, Sa'ib (see and of Kalim (see p. 686
ba'is

Foil.

p.

693

a), fol. 66,

3945. $&\

5-y, forty Hadis,

6), fol. 123. of Kudsi, Sah.ihi (see p. 672 a), some other poets, fol. 155.

Ruand

in five Fasls, relating to the praise of God, compiled and translated by Jalal B. Muham-

mad

B. 'Ubaid Ullah ul-Ka'ini,

Add. 7057.
FoU. 65; 8 in. by 6; 11 lines, 4} in. long; written in Nestalik and Shikastah-amiz, on

Beg.
IV.
Foil.

45184.

full

treatise

on

European paper, apparently the beginning of the 19th century.

[J.

in India,

about

legal prayer and Hanafi school.

ablution, according to the It begins with some sayings

of

H. HINDLEY.]

Muhammad taken from the Targhib usB. Ahmad uz-Zahid; Saliit, (by Muhammad

808

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

and
is slightly

see Haj. Khal., vol. ii. p. 282), imperfect at the end.

Beg.

Add. 7615.
Foil.

Manazir ul-Insha by Khwajah Mahrmid Gavan (see p. 527 5). This copy wants a leaf at the beginning, three after fol. 79, and about twelve at the end. A spurious beginning and end have been supplied by a later hand.
II. Foil.

75179.

80

8
in

in.

by 5|

diagonally,

Nestalik

18 lines, written dated Baghdad,

[CL. J. RICH.]
c/jj*,

Add. 7649.
Foil.

A.H. 1226 (A.D. 1811).

I.

110
in.

11
;

in.

by 7

25 and 31
;

lines,

Foil.

237.

ftAAftU

an account

about 5

long

written in Naskhi

dated

of various sects.

Beg.

Ramazan, A.H. 1017 (A.D. 1608), and A.H. 1113 (A.D. 1701). [CL J. RICH.]
I.

Foil. 1
6.

96.

Nusakh i Jahan-ara.

See

was written by a Mussulman, who does not give his name, for Mr. Rich, then British Resident in Baghdad, and treats of the ancient philosophers, the Magians, Manes, Mazdak, the Jews, Christians, Muslims and Sufis.
It

p.

Ill

The

later dynasties are

brought

in marginal notes to A.H. 1193. Some additions by a still later hand come down to

down

A.H. 1226.
II.

3958. Letter of Fath 'All Sulaiman Pasha, Governor of Baghdad, relating to the raid of the Vahhabis upon Karbala (A.H., 1216), with the Pasha's
II.

Foil.

JamI
Sufi

A commentary by 97 110. on some verses of the (see p. 17 )

Foil.
sj^aoil of

Shah

to

poem X^JA

the Arabic Catalogue, p. Khal., vol. iv. p. 537).

Ibn ul-Fariz (see 401 a, and Haj.

answer.
p. 154.

See Brydges, Dynasty of the Kajars,

Beg.

Short poems by Tufan and contemporary poets. Mirza Tayyib, of Hazar-Jarlb, Mazandaran, surnamed Tufan, died in Najaf, according to a chronogram of Lutf 'All Khan, fol. 186, A.H. 1190.
III. Foil.

5963.

The commentary

is

called

j*^, and each

of its paragraphs is headed ww!s). It is mentioned under the former title by Lari in the
life
fol.

of Jami, fol. 172, and by Sam Mirza, The date of composition, A.H. 875, 82.

is

IV. Foil. 63 30. An account of the war of Alexander with Darius, compiled for Mr. Rich by Amir Ahmad ul-Hasanl ulLarljanT,

expressed in a Ruba'I at the end by the

words

^^j3
Foil.

Add. 7654.
318
; ;

Heading: ^b

11

in.

by 6J

19 and 21

lines,

Add. 7621.
FoU. 179; 5|
16th century.
I. Foil.

long written in Nestalik and Naskhi, in the 1 7th and 1 8th centuries.
in.

[CL
in.

J. RICH.]

by 3^; 12

lines,

1|

in.

long; written in Nestalik, probably in the

[01. J. RICH.]

174. The treatise of Mir Husain

versified riddles (see p.

I. Foil. 3 92. The first portion of 'Alam Arai 'Abbasi (see p. 185 a), viz., the preface, introduction, and the reigns of Shah Isma'il, and Shah Tahmasp, in the same recension

Mu'amma'i on

649

b).

as Add. 17,927 (see p. 187 a), corresponding

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

149 b of the same MS. A false beginning and end, foil. 1, 2, 9397, have been added by a later hand, that of Muhammad H usa in B. Karatn 'All Isfahan! (see
to
foil.

SOD
notices

5 b

each of

which contains detached

arranged in alphabetical order. It evidently formed part of a more extensive work, including history and biography for the author refers incidentally to his account of Alexander, fol. 366 a, of the Khalif al-Mansur, fol. 359 o, and of the philosophers and poets
;

p.

137
II.

a).

Foil.

99164.

collection of state

passed between Shah Ismail, Shah Tahmasp, fol. 108, Shah Is97, mail II. and Shah Sultan Muhammad, fol. 186, and the contemporary sovereigns of Mavarii un-nahr, Egypt, Turkey, and India. It appears, from the original pagination, to have lost the first thirty leaves.*
letters
fol.

that

of Ghaznin,

fol.

368

b.

of Azarba'ijan with a certain predilection, as though it were his native land, and his reference, under Kazvin,
fol.

The author speaks

369

b,

Zakani and
"*

to the pleasantries of 'Ubaid other friends ^.t-c. ^n. ..V> ^j*

beginning, foil. 97, 98, has been supplied by the same hand as above. Letters of 'Abd ul-.Minn in Khan to Shah
false
I.,

uV^

3 (j^j

on

^ ^habitants,

seem

to

'Abbas

and of the

latter to Sultan Sulai-

imply that he was a contemporary of that poet, and wrote before the invasion of Timur, of which no mention is made. 'Ubaid Zakani
died A.H. 772
logue, p. 18.
;

mun, are found in the margins of foil. 50

III.

62.

see Taki Kashi,

Oude

Cata-

196 318. Maksad II. of'AlamAriii (see p. 186 a), wanting the biographical notices at the end dated Rajah, A. II. 1038.
Foil.
;

The geographical

notices are extremely

inaccurate, and deal mostly in mythical legends and childish fables.

Add. 7666.
372; 9 in. by 5; 17 lines, 3| in. written in Nestalik and Naskhi, appalong; rently in the 16th century. [Cl. J. RICH.]
Foil.
I.

Add. 7667.
Foil. 368;
I. Foil.

8J

in.

by
21
;

5.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

178;

Foil.

1317.

The

written in Nestalik
latter half of the

long; dated A.H. 1022 (A.D.

(see
p.

lines,

in.

Persian translation of Ibn Khallik.m (see p. 334 a), beginning with Saif ud-Daulah

1613).

The Tub fat

ul-'Iriikain

560

b),

Ghazi B. 'Imad ud-Din Zingi, and corresponding to Add. 16,714, foil. 216409, and
to
j>.

M'Guckin de

HO
II.

Slane's translation, vol. vol. iv. p. 602.

with the preface. The hitter wants the first three pages. A false beginning has been prefixed by a later
hand.

ii.

the

Foil. 318348. An abridgment of KiUb ul-Mu'jam (see p. 811, Add. 7712). III. Foil. 349372. A compendium of

The subscription states that this copy was " the most written by Kani'i for elegant of
poets," Auliya

Beg,

geography,

beginning

with

the

heading

II. Foil. 79368 ; 17 lines, 3 in. long ; written in neat Nestalik, probably in the

It consists of

four chapters, treating of

seas, fol.
fol.

349
o,
II.

b, rivers, fol.

351

6,

mountains,
fol.

333
VOL.

countries

and towns,

356

b,

16th century. The Tazkirah of Daulatsh.ih (see p. 364 a). This copy contains at the end, fol. 303 a,
3 c

810

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

taufls,

an additional notice of a seventh contemporary poet, Amir Husain Jala'ir. It wants

the latter part, about five leaves, of the spurious conhistory of Sultan Husain. clusion has been supplied by a later hand.

Kazls, merchants, Sultans, princes,

Vazirs, etc.

Beg.

<j\

W U,I

The preface contains some remarks on the value of the art of epistolary composition, *
and general directions to
III. Foil.
letter-writers.

Add. 7685.
Foil.

111149.
lii!s)l

167

long ; in the 19th century.

I.

in.

by 5|; 18 and 16 lines, 8J written in Shikastah-amiz, early

in.

A similar collection,
j&,

with the heading

t-x***

&.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

It contains a letter of 'Urfi (see p. 667 a) to Hakim Abul-Fath, and one of Mirza Mu-

Foil.
i.

1130.
131

Lata'if ul-Lughat

see

hammad Ashraf
IV. Foil.

to Ibrahim

Khan.
Lava'ih by Jam!

p.

590

150191. The
a);

II. Foil.

159.

Three Arabic

tracts,

described in the Arabic Catalogue, p. 459.

III. Foil.

(see p.

44

dated Baghdad, A.H. 1223

(A.D. 1808.

160165;

16

lines,

3|

in. long,

in a page.

V. Foil.
Turkish.

192209.

Forms of

letters in

Account of a debate which had taken place in Isfahan, in RabI' I., A.H. 1221, between the author and Padre Joseph, and in which the former attempted to refute the doctrine of atonement.

Add. 7690.
Foil.

264

in.

by 6

13

lines,

3| in

The
treatise

author refers

which

in the preamble to a he had written after a pre-

long; written in Nestalik, India, in the 18th century.

apparently in

vious controversy with the same Padre, and in which he established the divine mission

[CL
I.

J. RICH.]

Foil.

drawn from the Pentateuch and the Gospel, Oj-i oU>\

of

Mohammad by

1138.

A*J

jfcU

\fr

olti*,

proofs

prose compositions of Mirza Tahir Vahld (see

p.

189

V).

Beg. j^^^i

wUi" J* -*^

^^*

^^

Add. 7689.
Foil.

209

8 in. by 5|

written in Naskhi

This collection, which has been printed in Calcutta, 1826, and in Lucknow, 1844, consists of letters addressed in the name of

and Shikastah-amiz, early in the 19th century.

I.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Shah 'Abbas II. to contemporary princes, amirs and dignitaries, and of prefaces composed by Tahir for various works, among
others, for his

Foil. 1

35.

Insha, or forms of letters,

own

history of

Shah 'Abbas.

in Turkish.
II. Foil.

The

royal letters are addressed to the Sultan

39111;

dated Zulka'dah, A.H.

to be written by,

of Turkey, Shahjahan,

Dara Shikuh, Murad-

1218 (A.D. 1804).

Forms
addressed

of letters
to,

or

'Ulama,

persons of various classes, as Sayyids, Daftardars, Amirs, Mus-

bakhsh, Aurangzib, the king of Bijapur, Kutubshah, 'Abd ul-'Aziz Khan ruler of Balkh, Abul-GhazI Khan ruler of Urganj, and the

emperor of Russia.

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

II.

811
i

Foil.

139241.
i),

dil (see p.

706

Letters of Mirza Biwith a short preface by the

US

III. Foil.

3345. Madkhal

Manzum;

see p. 801 a.

author.

IV. Foil. 49
is

Beg.
This

j^LJ the collection entitled

i?.x*x> jtfjb

of 'All Kushi.

97. The astronomical treatise See p. 458 a.

Copyist

^j\}\

^U;

**f

JU *+^ U^.

and published as part of the author's Kulli215. yat, Lucknow, A.H. 1287, pp. 69 Most of the letters are addressed to the author's patron, Shukr Ullah Khan, and to the two sons of that Amir, 'Akil Khan and Shukir Khan. Sayyid Shukr Ullah Khan died, as has. been stated p. 370 a, A.IL 1108. His sons are mentioned in the Tazkirat ul-Umara, foil. 69 a and 59 b. The first, Mir Karam Ullah,
received the title of 'Akil

^
in.

Add. 7707.
Foil. 295; 10 in.

by 6|

17
for

lines,
;

4|

long

written in small Nestalik

I.,

dated Ju-

mada

A.H. 27 (probably

1027

A.D.
See

1618).
I. Foil.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

1239.

Nuzhat ul-Kulub.

p.

418

a.

Khan

in the latter

part of the reign of Aurangzib.

The third Makiilah, or geographical portion of the work, is defective and out of order. It wants the greater part of Kisms n. iv.
II. Foil.

^.y. Persian proverbs, arranged in alphabetical order, by

J'^aft

III. Foil.

242264.

240295.

Favatih ul-Maibudi.

See p. 19

b.

B.

Muhammad Mahdi
dUN
is

ul-Husaini,

^\

Add. 7712.
Beg.
J!l

,w/

(i

^r j*> U
t^*

Foil.

390; 11 J

in.

by 7|
;

23

lines,

4|

in.

The work
upon
JVS^, to

based, as stated in the preamble, an earlier collection designated as

long ;

written in Naskhi

Safar,

Ramazan,

A.H. 1113 (A.D. 17011702).

[Cl. J. RICH.]
I.

which the author added, at the request of the friend who had shown it to him, such proverbs as he could recollect.

p.

Foil 469 a.

1237.

Ikhtiyarat

Badi'i.

See

II.

Foil

238319.

jlST

Add. 7696.
Foil. 97 ; 8 in. by 4| 17 and 14 lines, about 3 in. long ; written in Nestalik and Naskhi ; dated Muharram, A.H. 1065 (A.D.
;

(^ <^y*,
:

a history of the early kings of

^ U&
L. j^l

Persia, from Kayfmiars to Anushirvan. Author Fazl Ullah ul-Husaini, Ut

1051).
I.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

Beg.

*-*

^Jb

Foil. 1

24.

A
A

treatise

by Nasir ud-Din Tusi.

II. Foil.

See

p.

on almanacs, 452 b.
on horoscopes,

The author, who

in the preface,
fol.

calls

himself as above

246

b,

must have been

24

32.

treatise

beginning with the heading ljj*

a Sayyid, and was, according to the Jafol. han-ara, 138, a native of Kazvin. He must therefore be distinguished from his namesake, 'Izz ud-Din Fazl Ullah, father of the historian Vassiif, with whom ho has

It

is

divided
J*oi,

into

many

short sections

headed

but not numbered.

been wrongly identified by Haft Iklim, fol. 37, and others.

Amln
The

Riizi,

latter,

3c2

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MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

in Shiraz, Sayyid, and was born 162 a), probably before 698
(see p.

who was no
died A.H.

wanting nine leaves at the beginning, and

imperfect at the end.
III. Foil.

the composition of the present work. The Mu'jam is written in an extremely or-

63106.

U j4

fV

a philoso-

nate and laboured

style.

A wordy preface, foil.

up by a panegyric
Atiibak Nusrat ud-

phical treatise, with a Latin translation, written by the same hand as the preceding.

238247,

is

chiefly taken

Beg.

AJ* j\&>\j U^- j\

first

sf

]}^s^ u-V*

upon the reigning prince, Dln Ahmad B. Yusuf Shah, of the dynasty of Lur Buzurg, who succeeded his brother at the close Afrasyiib, slain by the Moghuls after a long and prosof A.H. 695, and died, See Guor 733. perous reign, in A.H. 730 Add. 7649, fol. 52, zidah, fol. 156, Jahanara,
and Mirkhwand, History of the Atabeks,
pp.

On
title

the

page

is

found the following

:-

"

Universum, seu, ut Persae vocant, pocu-

lum mundi, opera Georgi Strachani Mernensis Scoti in Latinum idioma traducta (sic)
1634."

6668.

who calls the Haj. Khal., vol. v. p. 628, Ullah ul-Kazvmi, author Fazl Ullah B. 'Abd a date obviously too early, assigns to the work
viz.

dedicated to a Shahzadah not named, described as the ruler of the land It is divided, as stated in the pre(Fars).

The work

is

face, into

an introduction (Fatihah), thirty The present Maksads, and a Khatimah.

A.H. 654.

p. 132,

Compare Morley's Catalogue, the Munich Catalogue, p. 78, and Sir

320
390.

Wm.
See

Ouseley's Catalogue, No. 315.

copy, however, ends with Maksad 27. Aii Arabic version has been edited with a a Latin translation, under the title of " Synopsis propositorum sapientise Arabum

III. Foil.
p.

Akhlak

Muhsinl.

443

b.

philosopliorum," by Abraham Ecchellensis, The author, who is called Kazi Paris, 1641. Zadah Husain in a copy noticed in Melanges
Asiatiques,vol. v.p.262,

Add. 7720.
from 7 to 10 123 ; 7i in. by 5 lines, about 3 in. long; written in Naskhi and Nestalik, apparently in the 17th cenFoil.
;

and Kazi Mir Husain

tury.
I. Foil.

[01. J.

RICH.]

ul-Maibudi by Haj. Khal., vol. ii. p. 499, has been already mentioned, p. 19 a. In a copy of the Persian text noticed by Uri, p. 283, the work is ascribed to a later

21.

treatise

on

logic, bei\JJ

ginning

(jJ-x* a=> wljii O~Jj3 ^^^1 >iJT jb 3oUjyO ,_Jj j& bty

U\

It
jlaiV,
p.

is

the

work known

by Mir Sayyid
a),

as ^J i^j<&\ SJUjJl Sharif JurjanT (see

Ghiyag ud-Din Mansur, who died, according to the Majalis ul-Muminin, A.H. 948. The following notice, written by Mr. Rich on the fly-leaf, relates especially to the last two articles. " This volume is a very great curiosity it contains two Persian tracts with
writer,
;

an interlinear

translation,

the work

and

noticed by Haj. Khal., vol. iii. pp. 416, 446, by Sprenger, Zeitschrift, vol. 32, i Mantik, p. 9, and printed in the Majmu'ah

522

Lucknow, 1819, pp. 1050. It is found See with a commentary in Add. 25,869.
p.

writing of Strachan, a Scotchman who lived much among the Mowali Arabs when they were the princes of the desert. He was a
friend of Pietro della Valle, in whose travels much mention is made of him. Baghdad,

440

a.

The same treatise, with 62. II. Foil. 22 a Latin translation written over the text,

sketch of Strachan's life will be " found in Viaggi di P. della Valle," Rome, 1658, vol. iii. p. 493.
1816."

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

IV. Foil.

813

107123.
the

geographical acendorsed,

count

of

Persian

empire,

Beg.

Further on the poem is described as the fourth of a Khamsah J* j

This work, which appears to

have been

written for a Begzadah called Ishiik, in the reign of Shah 'Abbas I. (A.II. 9961038),

and the poet adds that he had chosen a theme hitherto unsung in preference to the worn out tale of Shin u Khusrau
11
:

meagre enumeration of the Persian provinces, and their principal towns, with the distances between them. At the end is a table of the longitudes and latitudes'
consists of a

of the chief cities of Persia,

foil.

121123.

Add. 7721.
Foil. 277
;

known, however, that the same has been treated by two poets of the story fifth century of the Hijrah, 'Unsuri and FaIt is well

8i

in.

by 6$; written by

dif-

and by one of the tenth, Zamlri, who lived at the court of Shah Tahmasp. See
sihi,

ferent hands in various characters, for the most part A.II. 1222 (A.D. 1807).
[Cl. J. RICH.]
I.

Hammer,

Redekiinste,

pp. 42, 46,

Wamik

und Asra, Vienna, 1833, and the Oude Catalogue, p. 27.

Foil.
a.

18.
11

The

Lava'ih of Jami.

See
p.

p.

41
II.

V. Foil. 5267. Ghazals by Tufan (see 808 a, iii.), Hat if, and Mushtak.

Foil.

used by

official

Explanation of terms writers, in tabular form, with

16.

the heading, ojJ

Sayyid Ahmad of Isfahan, surnamed IJatif, was a friend of Lutf 'Ali Khfm, who speaks of him about A. II. 1190 as still living. See

^>'^\

III. Foil. 17

32.

Copies of some letters

Atashkadah, ful. 197. Some of his Ghazals have been translated by J. M. Jouannin, Mines de I'Oricnt, vol. ii. p. 307. See also
Bland, Century of Ghazals, x., and Defrdmery, Journal Asiatique, 5* ScYie, vol. vii. p. 130. Mushtak, whose proper name was Mir Sayyid 'Ali, was also a native of Isfahan and a friend of Lutf 'Ali Khan, who collected his

that passed between Fath *Ali Shah and Sulaiman Pasha, Governor of Baghdad, on the subject of the raid of the Vahhabis

upon Karbala inA.U.1217,andof letters written in the same

.

year by the governor of Baghdad to the British Consul, Mr. Harford Jones (afterwards Sir H. J. Brydges). They were transcribed for Mr. II. Jones by some person in the employ of Sulaimfm Pasha.
IV. Foil
'Azra,
Mirzii
\jie-

poems after his death. See Atashkadah, 191, and Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 442.
and

fol.

3249.

VI. Foil. 68, 69. Fragment of Majnun Laila, a Manavi, by Mirza Sadik Nami. See art. iv.
VII.
Foil.

Fragment of Vamik u

j jJ,,

a Masnavl by
Siidik; see p.

Nami

7075.
pieces.

(i.e.

Kasidah, by Tufan,

Muhammad

begins with the following lino, to the early part of the prologue

190 a). It which belongs

:

and some short

VIII. Foil.

76123.
*.

Farhad u

Shirin,

by

Vahshi.

See p. 663

814
IX. Foil.
of 'All,

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

128146.
Tarkib-band in praise
It

must be
iii.

noticed, however, that a

still

and some shorter poems.

later date, viz.

A.H. 878,

is

assigned by Haj .

X.

Foil.

147162.

jijf

J yJU

Khal., vol.

same

p. 21, to another work of the writer, also dedicated to Uvais Shah,

on the poems called jj^ia)', Zajal and Mawaliya, by Taj ud-Dln 'Abd ul-

an Arabic

treatise

namely a commentary on^s?*^ &\&>pare Krafft's Catalogue, p. 21.

Com-

Vahhab ul-BanvanT.
a treatise jU-JI v~*\ of female beauty, on the poetical description with examples from classical poets ; wanting a few lines at the beginning.

XI. Foil.

163192.

XII. Foil. 193212. A treatise on rhyme, without title or author's name.

Beg.

(.,1

Author: Hasan B. Muhammad,

ash-Sharaf,

entitled
t;

The author frequently quotes the J^ of Shams i Kais, and, among late poets,
Sa'ib,

commonly
is

called ar-Rami,

who

died A.H. 1088.

XIII.
divided into nineteen chapters treating severally of the various parts of the The contents are stated in face and body.

Foil.

212240.

\Ju*M

t^
B.

c
,

The work

treatise

on poetical figures. Author Nizam ud-DTn

:

Ahmad

Mu-

hammad

Salih

us-Siddiki ul-Husaini, J&>

the Jahrbucher, vol. 83, Anzeige-blatt, p. 23, and in the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i. p. 414.

See also Stewart's Catalogue, p. 71, and the

Beg.
It

Uljutj

UJ*

*>o\

t/

Munich Catalogue,

p. 122.

was completed,

as stated at the end, in

the author's reference, in the extant portion of the preface, to a visit paid by him to the tomb of Naslr ud-Din TusI at the time
of composition, it is evident that the was written in Azarba'ijan ; but there is

From

A.H. 1060, the twenty-fourth year of the reign of Shahjahan. The same date is fixed

work some

by a versified chronogram in the preface. The author mentions incidentally a Masnavi

entitled

U V. AT, composed by

his father in

uncertainty about
vol.
i.

its

date.

Haj. Khal.

states,

A.H. 1056.

p. 488, that it

826, and dedicated

to

was completed A.H. Abul-Fath Uvais Ba-

The work
as follows
2.
:

hadur.

At

consists of four chapters (Fasl), 1. Various kinds of composition.

that date, however, Azarba'ijan,

having been wrested from Kara Yusuf by Mirza Baisunghur in A.H. 823, formed part of the empire of Shahrukh. Shaikh Uvais, of the IlkanI dynasty, the prince to whom the work seems to have been dedicated, reigned from A.H. 757 776.
probable that this was the period at which the author lived. He refers in the preface to Auhadi, who died A.H. 738 (see p. 619 a), as a poet of his
time, as his

Word-ornaments. 3. Concetti, t/y** 4. Plagiarisms, or borrowed ideas. Appendix on technical terms. The present MS. is imperfect at the end. A complete copy is found in Add. 12,560.

^^

XIV.

Foil.

242245. An Arabic

treatise

Two

other circumstances

make

it

on philosophical terms, t*&^ LA*i!^ ^yo^\

XV.
to

Foil.

247255. An

extract relating

and further on, fol. 190 a, he mentions own master, Hasan B. Mahmud Kashi,

some curious combinations of numbers, with diagrams. The heading is, J(s ^ju

a poet who, according to Taki Kashi, Oude

Catalogue, p. 18, died A.H. 710.

XVI.

Foil.

256267.

Moral sayings of

'All in Arabic,

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

XVII.
in Alif,
Foil.

815
tract

268277.

by Mushtuk.

Ghazals rhyming Sec p. 81 3 b.

.

I.

Foil. 1

14.

A
3 u**j

on the rational

explanation of the Mi'raj.

*j-

(j

Add, 7722.
Foil. 202; 8
in.
in. by 5|; 17 lines, about 3 written in Shikastah-amiz ; dated long;

Baghdad, Muharram, A.H. 1225 (A.D. 1810).

[Cl. J. RICH.]
I.

It is commonly ascribed to Abu *Ali B. Slna. See the Dabistan, Troyer's translation, vol. iii. pp. 176 200, where extensive extracts are given, and Haj. Khal., tit. iJU,, ^yj\ vol. iii. p. 443.

Foil. 1

39.

A treatise on astronomy,
B.

II. Foil.

1548. A

philosophical treatise

by Muhammad Husain
writing.

Karam

*Ali Isfa-

on

han! (see p. 137 a), in the author's hand-

and professions, their relative importance and mutual relations, endorsed

crafts

Beg.

jt\y

j**j

The work,
j&ni,

written

^jtf il*.kfr *& A**for Aki Ahmad Lahi-

Beg.

includes
foil.

a versified treatise on the

astrolabe,
II.

2738.

In another copy, Add. 16,839,

Al>ul-Kfi>im
<

xxii.,

Amir

40 44. A treatise on the preparation and preservation of medicaments, in six Fasls and a Kh&timah, extracted from
Foil.

ul-Fandarsakl,

^-.ISJ\ ^_jl

j^\

jL>J ^2l\

is

named

as the author.

Mir Abul-Kasim, who came of a family of

Sayyids settled in Astrabad, took his Nisbah from Fandarsak, a neighbouring town (see

the u,Si\ j\Z# of Haji Zain ud-Din 'Attar (see

p.

469
Beg.

a).

V yL. jU jU.1 y jy J^i

extracts from the
(see p.

III. Foil.

4462. Two
64196.

Tub fat ul-Muminin

IV. Foil.
Arabic.

476

b).

Burhan i Ka^i'). He is described as the most eminent philosopher and Sufi of his time, and stood high in the estimation of Shah 'Abbas I., whom he is said, however, to have
scandalized by his habit of mixing with the lowest orders and attending cock-fights. He spent many years in India, and was twice introduced to Shahjahan by the Vazir Asaf

Alchemical tracts in See the Arabic Catalogue, p. 464.

V. Foil. 197207. A treatise on instantaneous cures, translated from the Arabic

of Muhammad B. Zakariyya ur-Razi, by

Mui.).

hammad Husain
Beg.

Ibn

Karam

'Ali (see art.

Khan (Abul-Hasan), namely in the first and tenth years of the reign, A.H. 1037 and lOiC. But he subsequently returned
and died in Isfahan during the reign of Shah Safi, A.H. 1038 1052. The present work, commonly designated as ii/U4>, is mentioned as the most popular
to his native country,

J^J-j* **
title

The

of the Arabic work

is

PU1

jj. 3

U\^l\j~ ^J.

See Uri, p. 288,

xcii., art. 6.

of his writings.

Add. 7723.
by 4} 19 lines, about 3 in. long; written in Shikastah-amiz and Naskhi, apparently in the 17th century.
;

119
fol.

a,

See Tahir Nasrabadi, fol. Padishah Namah, fol. 425, RiAmin,

fol.

yaz ush-Shu'ara,
86.

31,

and Atashkadah,

Foil.

78

7i

in.

[Cl. J. Ricu.]

According to the Dabistan, Mir Abul-Kasim became, through his intercourse with the disciples of Kaivan, much imbued with

816
Pars! ideas.
p. 140, vol.

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

See Troyer's translation, vol.
iii.
i.

pp. 205, 206.

craft," is taken by the author in an exceptionally wide sense, and is made to include the highest forms of human
c*e-\j~o,

The word

"

saying with regard to the existence of Adam before creation, fol. 75 a. 11. The beginning of light and the world of darkness. This last
tract
is

imperfect.

activity.

His first chapter Imams, and philosophers.

III.

treats of prophets,

Add. 7737.
253; 9 in. by 6|; 18 lines, 4| in. written in Nestalik; dated Rabf II., long;
Foil.

Foil.

4978.

Eleven Sufi

tracts,

by

Muhammad Dihdar, JJ&A +s?. Khwajah Muhammad Dihdar, son of Khwajah

A.H. 1033 (A.D. 1624).

I.

[01. J. RICH.]

Mahmud, belonged
and

to a family of

Arab

Foil. 1

72.

~~^. j^U-1, a treatise on

extraction settled in

Havizah, a town of

ethics, in prose and verse,

by Hasan B. RuzVi

subsequently in Shiraz. He went to India under Akbar, and .became intimate with the Khankhanan 'Abd ur-RaKhuzistan,

bahan, uVjjj v? tr~-

Beg.

W L*.^

j J-oflMj

J^

b oik.*!

whom several of his treatises are dedicated. He died in Surat under Jahanglr
hlm, to
(according to Dr. Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 393, A.H. 1016), leaving poetical compositions in which he took the name of Fiini,

preface contains a eulogy upon the Shams nd-Daulah Muhammad, from whose name the title is derived. The author

The

Vazir

states further

on that he had been deter-

mined, after long delays, to issue the present

and many prose works, among which glosses to the Nafahat, Rashahat, and Gulshan i Raz, and a commentary upon the preface of
Tibyan, are mentioned.
liya, fol.

See Riyaz ul-Auand Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 169,

of his tracts are noticed in the

work by the appearance of the Akhlak i Muhsim (a work completed A.H. 900; see p. 443 b). It is divided into fourteen Babs and a Khatimah.

330.

Some

Dr. Sprenger,
Zeitschrift der
xiii. p.

who

notices the

work in the

Jahrbiicher, vol. 85, Anzeigeblatt, p. 54, the Vienna Catalogue, vol. iii. p. 455.

and

D. Morg. Gessellschaft, vol. 540, calls the author Hasan B. Ruz-

subjects of the present treatises are the following: 1. Spiritual meaning of the
Zikr,
fol.

The

bahan

Shirazi.

42

b.

2.

Comments on the
Goran,
Ivi.

verse;

+j\

>V^ f~^

p.

H. Foil. 576 a.
III.

73137.

Mantik

ut-Tair.

See

74, fol.

54

b.

and predestination, fol. 56 4. Defence of Muhyi ud-Dln Ibn ul-'Arabi against 'Ala ud-Daulah (see p. 413 a), and
3. Free-will
.

Foil.
b.

137242.

Musibat Namah.

See p. 576

IV. Foil. 242-253.

p.

Gulshan

Raz.

See

Gisu Daraz (see p. 347 tion of the ideal man

fol.

b), fol.

61

b.

5.

Rela-

64

a.

6.

^ ^LJl Muhammad and

fol.

608

b.

to individuals,

soul

^s\

-jj,

66

a.

7.

the universal Relation of indiFoil.

vidual minds to the ten intellects, fol. 68 b. 8. Comparison of the insight of previous prophets and of Muhammad, fol. 69 b. 9. Mutual relations of men, and the twelve

121; lines, 5 in. written in Nestalik, in four gold-ruled long; columns, with two TJnvans, and 36 miniatures in Persian style; dated Ramazan,

Add. 7776. 12 in. by 7; 23

Imams,

fol.

71

b.

10.

Comments on

'Ali's

A.H. 1004 (A.D. 1596).

[Cl. J. RICH.]

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

I.

817

Foil.

164.

Mihr u Mushtari.

See

626 a. In this copy the date of composition, fol. 64 a, is not A.H. 778 as in the above copy, but A.H. 748, J\i U 3
p.

Kuli Khiin, an Amir of the Shamlu tribe, who, as we learn from Tahir Nasrabadi,
held the government of Kirman in the reign of Shah 'Abbas II. (A.H. 1052 Another is in praise of Shah 'Abbas. 1077).
fol. 30,

ft*

Copyist
II.

^^
65
p.

.x

II.

Foil.

64110.

Foil.

121.

Duval-Rfini

Khizr

prose pieces,

and without author's name.

Letters

other

Khun.

See
:

612

a, xiv.

Beg.

iS

eu~j

Copyist

a Ui

^
of

Add. 7802.
Foil.
in.

The letters are mostly written in the name Hasan Khan, and of 'Abbas Kuli Khan, to
the author appears to have acted as

110; 8$
;

long

by 5; 15 lines, about 3written by various hands in Nesin.

whom

secretary.

talik

and Shikastah-iimiz, apparently in the

[Cl. J. RICH.]

17th century.
I.

Hasan Khan B. Husain Khan Shamlu, governor of Khorasan (see p. 682 a), was a
a great patron of poets, and the author of Divan, a preface to which is found in the
present
collection.

Foil. 1

63.

the measure of the

letters not

Makhzan

Prologue of a Mas.navi in ul- Asr.ir, with a

His

son,

'Abbas Kuli

dedicatory epistle in prose to

some patron of

named.
>

Khan, who succeeded him in the government, was still living when Tali r Nasrabadi wrote,
i

Beg.

*.

e.

A.H. 1083

see

fol.

29.

/J
The author, who designates himself only by his poetical surname Antabc-lIT, mentions, as his models, the works of Nizami, Khusrau, Jami, and lastly the Markaz i Ad-

Add. 7819.
189; 9| in. by 5|; 19 lines, 2J in. long, with 28 lines round the margins written in small Ncstalik; dated Ramazan, A.H.
Foil.
;

var of Faizi (see

iJL-^r_j'

p.

671

a).

This

line,

jU

1056 (A.D. 1646).

I.

[Cl. J. RICH.]

^-

we-ft-

\j,

shows that he was a native

Foil.

from his appeals to the Shah's indulgence, and some references to Kirman such as this, o,^Jj ^i, fallen into disgrace, it is evident that he had and had been some time confined, much
of Khorasan, while

2164.

uwU*

/jtW

wVA

the

^J

the Divan of Naziri of Nlshapur. This poet, whose proper name was Muhammad Husain, went to India, after a stay of some years in Kashan, and became a
favourite follower of that

great lover of

against his will, to that city. 55 are occupied Foil. 39

by some Kasidahs and Ghazals, apparently by the same

poet.

poetry, the

Khankhanan 'Abd ur-Rahim

These also contain references to the

author's compulsory stay in Kirman, as in the following line: jL.j^ ^j.y-lT^L-^

Khan. After a pilgrimage to Mecca, performed in A.H. 1012, he adopted a religious in Ahmadabad, where he life, and settled See Sprenger, died A.H. 1022 or 1023. Blochmann, Ain Oude Catalogue, p. 515,
579, Haft Iklim, fol. 318, Badaoni, vol. iii. p. 355, Riyiiz, fol. 467, and Ouscley's Notices, p. 252.

c^'*^
VOL.

f$

j*

*^
v>

^a*-

OJ*P.

One
:

Akbari,

p.

of the Kasidahs fixes the period of the poet it is addressed to the Kurclri Bashi Murtaza
II.

3 D

818
Contents
:

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

Kasidahs, Tarkibs, Tarji's and
badi, fol. 176, in

A.H. 1012,

or,

as stated in

Kit'ahs, arranged apparently in chronological order, with rubrics due to the author, show-

the Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 460, A.H. 1013. Dr. Sprenger gives a later date, viz. A.H.

ing for whom and on what occasion the seve-

1030 or 1031.
pp. 91, 514.

See the Oude Catalogue,

fol.

were composed. The poems are addressed to the Khankhanan, to Akbar and Jahangir, to 'Abd Ullah Khan of Gujrat, to
ral pieces

Contents

Kasidahs,

30

a.

Ghazals,

in alphabetical order, fol. 64 a.

Ruba'is, fob

Akbar's son, prince Murad, Naurang Khan, A'zam Khan Kukah, and other Amirs. Some

117127.
V. FoU.

128154.
;

Select Ghazala from

on the death of the author's The children and of contemporary poets.

are
elegies

the Divan of Fighani (see p. 651 a), in alphabetical order wanting the latter part
of letter p and the rest of the alphabet.

section
2.

is

imperfect in the beginning.

fol.

Ghazals in alphabetical order,

:

70,

beginning

Foil.

89;

Add. 7827. Hi in. by 7; 25

;

lines,

in.
II.,

This section has two lacunes after

foil.

long

writtten in Nestalik

dated Rabi'

123 and 141, and breaks

of letter J.
II.

off at

the beginning

Foil.

155188.
664
a),

The Ghazals of Vahfirst

A.H. 997 (A.D. 1589). [01. J. RICH.] A volume of poetical extracts in Persian and Turki, including connected series of
Ghazals by the following poets Kasim i 635 a), foil. 1629. Jaml (p. 643 a), (p. foil. 3135. Nava'i (Mir 'AH Shir, p. 366 a), whom are some Tarkib-bands and a colby
:

shi (see p. letter

wanting the

part of
<.,,

letter 1, and the latter part of the rest of the alphabet.

III.

with

Anvar

Foil.

155188, and 2^30

See p. 674
:

(margins).
b.

The Divan
Contents
ginning,
!_>

of Shapur.

lection

of Ghazals
foil.

entitled

j^\
(p.
b), foil.

J>\^-

in
i),

fol.

Kasidahs, imperfect at the be155. Ghazals in alphabetical

letter
foil.

Turki,
foil.

4153. Humayun
Asafi (p. 651

735

5457.

7880.

order, with a lacune extending from

to letter

175188, 223.
(margins),

Two

Add. 7828.
Foil.
in.

Tarji'-bands,

fol.

24.

IV. Foil.

30127

^i

54

7^

in.

by 4J

about 17

lines,

*ijj JaJ> (Jt, the of Kamrah.

Divan

of Shaikh 'All Nakl,

long ; in the handwriting of Mr. Rich ; dated Dec. 25th, 1803. [01. J. RICH.]

Beg.

j^s-

,_.>

lo

(^

volume of miscellaneous extracts, containing an Arabic notice on the fire-temples,

headed

This poet and his brother UlfatI came of the family of the Shaikhs of Kamrah, a borough situate near Jarbadkan, in Irac. 'All Naki was the panegyrist of Shah 'Abbas
I.

fol. 1.

The

[Shahristani] ^U-^a'Ji u <, prologue and epilogue of Sad

^f-

Nazm (see p. 48 b), fol. 2. from Khwand Amir on the early

Dar
i

Extracts

kings of

(A.H.

9951038), and

of

Hatim Beg,

that king's Vazir during the early of his reign. He is mentioned as still part alive in the Haft Iklim, a work written A.H. 1002. He died, according to Tahir Nasra-

who was

from the Baharistan and Yusuf Persia, u Zulaikhfi of Jami, fol. 7, from the Zij i Muhammad-Shahi (see p. 460 i), fol. 16, from the Futuh Ibn A'gam (see p. 151 a), fol. 21, from the Makamat of al-liariri, fol. 24, from Sa'di, Hafiz, Firdusi, etc.
fol. 6,

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

819
diary of the siege of
a.

Add. 7938.
Foil. 49 71 by 5 and Nestalik by different hands, apparently in the 16th and 17th centuries.
;

I.

FoU. 1

39.

The
p.

Haidarubad.
in.
;

See

268

written in Divan!

[Cl. J.

II. FoU. 40218. The third volume of the Ikbal-Nftmah (see p. 255 a), wanting the concluding notices on the Vazirs and cele-

RICH.]
Asafi,

brated

men
:

of the reign.

Ghazals

by

Katibi,

Hilali,

Ahi,

Ahli, Hafiz, Jami, Shahidi, HairanI, Saifi, Hairati, foU. 2333.

and

Copyist

Kasidahs by Katibi, Khwajui Kirmani, and Ibn ljusam, foil. 35 40.

The
letters

rest of the

volume contains forms of

Foil.

Add. 8919.
86
;

and poetical extracts in Turkish.

9|

in.

by 6|

14

lines in a

page

written in Nestalik, in the 18th century.

Add. 8149.
Foil 83
;

I.

Foil.

113.
with

Alphabetical
their

list

of Perequi-

in.

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15

lines,

written in cursive Nestalik;

5$ long; dated 'Azim-

in.

sian verbs, valents.

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Hindustani

ganj, province of Murshidfibful, in the

month

of Asin of the Bengali year 1128, the fourth of the reign (of Muhammad Shah = A. II.
1134-5, A.D. 1721).
I.

FoU. 1422. Alphabetical list of Hindustani verbs, with their Persian equivalents.
III.
tifi.

FoU. 2386. See p. 652 b.

Laila Majnun, by Ha-

Foil.

128.

history of the Amir ul-Muminln Hasan and Husain from their birth to the death of the

Add. 8991.
FoU. 161 ; 9i in. by 5 ; 14 and 16 lines, 2$ and 4 in. long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century.
I.

former, poisoned by Yazid, and to the martyrdom of the latter in Karbal.i.

H. FoU. 2982.

***-

J-^

vs-i*-, his-

tory of Muhammad, son of the Hanafiyyah, from the time when the tidings of his brother

Foil. 2

126.

TheShahnamahofMirza
(see p.

Husain's death reach him to the time when he releases the bitter's son, Zain ul-'Abidin, from captivity, and finds the charred body of the accursed Yazid at the bottom of a well. The above stories are apparently detached
portions of a late composition exhibiting the Shi'ah legend in its most exuberant growth.

Kasim Gunabadi
four leaves after

660

a),

wanting

97, three single leaves after foU. 113, 117, and 121, and about four at the end.
fol.

II.

FoU. 127

140.

An
B

alphabetical series

of Ghazals, by Tahir,j\l.

Beg.

V>8-.

f*

c#

Jb

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long ; dated February,

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3 D 2

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fol.

model, and it appears from another line, that he lived in Isfahan. 128
,

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See
p.

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a.

lines;

written in Nestalik and Shikastah-

Insha of Yusufi.

529

amiz, in India.
I.

Foil.

18;

dated Muharram, A.H.

difficult verses

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15 lines, 4 in. long; written in Shikastah-amiz, about the close of
Foil.

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95 8f
;

in.

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A
p.

commentary on some
first

of the

part of Iskandar

Namah

(see

the 18th century.

1. Foil.

568

a).
:

16.

Forms of official documents

and

civil contracts.

Author Hamid B. Jamal Bukhari ul-Hasam ul-Jaunfuri,

II. Foil.
shi's

Mun^L-juaM^yUi, the models of letters manual, containing

17
54.
:

Beg. C^aa-j-e

C^O.l*;^.

O"^"" J C^ol^J

,_yi

and official papers. Author Shaikh Anis ud-Din, son of Kazi Na'im ud-Din, of the town of Chanwah,
Bardwan, ^^A-N *-o ^13 dj

The work
It is

is

dedicated to Farld ud-Din

^^

(j^\ &*>

Abul-Muzaftar Shir Shah (A.H. 946952). mentioned in the St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 439, under the title of _pl5jJ\ _iii'.
(
(

II. Foil.

49271;

dated Sha'ban, A.H.

The author was,

in

A.H. 1175, Munshi

Hijli.
after,

to

Gandarbh-Das, Naib Zamindar of

inserted in
it

He
and The

compiled the present work shortly

1149 (A.D. 1736). A commentary on some poems of Khakani by Muhammad Shadiyabadi. See p. 561 b. This copy contains only 34 Kasidahs.

many
is

of his

own

letters.

present copy
III. Foil.

imperfect.
70. Copies of letters written

55

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34 8| in. by 4& ; 13 lines, 2 in. written in Nestalik and Shikastahlong; amiz; dated A.H. 1175 (A.D. 1761-2). See I. Foil. Mi'raj ul-Khayal.
Foil.
;

to various officials in Bengal, in the time of Mir Ja'far and Clive, by a person in the

Company's employ.
IV. Foil. 7195. Danish. See p. 765

Fragment of Bahar
b.

19.

p.

738 a and 803

III. Foil.

a.

1034.

Suz

Gudaz.

See

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p.

674

a.

lines;

from 12 to 19 dated Ramazan, A.H. 1233 (A.D.

28; 10 in. by 6J;

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Foil. 242;
;

1818).
I.

Foil.
a.

117.
1823.

Nan u

Halva.

See

long in the 17th century.

I.

8f in. by 5; 19 lines, 3| in. in cursive Nestalik, apparently written

p.

679
II.

Foil.

Six Kasidahs from the

" Memorable Jilt* oUSlj events of Mushtaki," a collection of detached

Foil.

281.

Divan of
Paikar.

Sa'dl.

III. Foil.

2427. A
p.

fragment of Haft

and anecdotes relating to the sovereigns of the Lodi, Timuride, and Sur
narratives
dynasties.

See

567

a.

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Author
Ullah,
4)1
:

821
corresponding to

Mushtaki, commonly called Rizk

jj, <->f JRsl*

ut-Tavarikh (see p. 224

foil.

b),

151376

of Add. 10,580.
is

Beg.

vj^~i^-^

wl>-

The
\j

,_^l5.ib

j ^US

j &+>

last page,

dated A.H. 1089,

containing a subscription by a later hand.

Shaikh Rizk Ullah, of Dehli, the eldest son of a well-known devotee, Shaikh Sa'd Ullah (the grandfather of Shaikh 'Abd ulHakk Dihlavi ; see p. 14 a), was born A.H. 897, and became, as a child, the Murid of a renowned saint, Shaikh Muhammad Maikan, of Milavan (a town near Kinnauj), who died A.H. 906. Rusk Ullah led the wandering life of a Fakir, and associated with thousands
of holy Shaikhs. He was deeply versed in the history of saints and kings, and died at

Add. 12,560.
9 in. by 5 ; 15 lines, 3 in. long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins; dated Sha'ban, A.H. 1228 (A.D.
Foil.
;

203

1813).
I.

Foil.

283.

Majma'

us-Sana'i'.

See

p.

814

i, xiii.

ninety-two years, A.H. 989, leaving poetical compositions in Hindi and Persian. In the former he took the name of Rajan, while in the latter he S.-.takhallus Mushtaki. adopted the
the

age

of

several

Reply of Mulla Muhammad Tahir Ghani (see p. 692 a) to a charge of plagiarism founded on the discovery of a verse of his in a copy of the Tarikh i Badaoni (see p. 222 6).
II. Foil. 84, 85.

III.

Foil.

85103.
4, ii.

Firdausiyyah,

by and

notices of his

life

by

his

nephew 'Abd

ul-

Tughra.

See p. 742

Hakk, in Akhbfir ul-Akhyar, foil. 142, 215, and in his memoirs, Or. 1696, fol. 84. Compare Riya?
ul-Auliyfl,
fol.

IV. Foil.

104121.

Mi iiii Bazar, by Zuhuri.

Panj Ruk'ah See p. 742 o,

v. iv.

Khanjahuni,

121, Tarikh i 4, and Dora, History of the

foL

V. Foil. 122134. JLl^ Jf, a Masnavi on the art of wrestling, by Mir Najat.
Beg.

Afghans, p. 3. An account of the work, with copious extracts, is given in Elliot's History of India,
vol.

jy

i^j /*U

u^j* J-* V^J*5

Mir 'Abd

ul-'Al Najat, son of

Mir Muham-

translation is pp. 634 657. preserved in manuscript, Add. 20,773, foil.

iv.

mad Muni in,

128187.
The contents
following heads
:

a Husaini Sayyid of Isfahan, is described as a skilled accountant and consummate wit. He began life as Mustaufi of

are

arranged under the Bahlul Lodi, fol. 3 a. 8i-

the Sadr Mir/a Habib Ullah, discharged the same office in Astrabad, and was employed

kandar Lodi, fol. 8 a. Ibrahim Lodi, fol. 40 b. Babar, fol. 42 a. Humayun, fol. 44 b. Akbar, fol. 45 b. Shir Shah SQr, fol. 46 a. Islam Shah, fol. 66 b. Ibrahim, fol. 60 b. Character and rule of Islam Shah, fol. 74 a.

Shah Sulaiman and Shall Sultan Husain. He was about thirty years of age in A.H. 1076 (see Kisas ul-Khakani, fol. 168), and as he reached, according to
as secretary by

Muhammad

Shah, called 'Adli, fol. 76 b. Ghiyas ud-Din Khilji, of Mandu, fol. 79 b. The present copy breaks off in the last section, foL 81 6; it wants about twelve

Oude Catalogue, p. 137, the age of eighty years, he must have died about A.H. 1026. See Tahir Nasrabadi, fol. 254, Atashkadah, fol. 86, and the Oude Catalogue,
Hazin,
p. 612.

folios.

The author

of the Riya? ush-Shu'ara,

fol.

II. Foil.

82242.

portion of Zubdat

470, reflects severely on the low tone of that he shares Najat's compositions, and says,

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with Zulali
(p.

and Shaukat rasan and afterwards in Isfahan, and died see Mir'at Jahannuma, fol. A.H. 1107 362), the blame of having debased poetry by lowering it to the level of vulgar speech and
;

Jalal Asir (p. 681 b), of Bukhara (who lived in Kho-

677

a),

^jUj Ji

\j

Fakhr ud-Dln As'ad Jurjanl composed

this

poetical version of a romance, originally written in Pehlevi, in Isfahan, about A.H. 440, at the request of 'Amid ud-Dln Abul-

Fath Muzaffar, of Nishapur, who governed^

Isfahan for Sultan Tughrul, the founder of the Saljuk empire. See Guzidah, fol. 242,

trivial j.okes.

date of composition, A.H. 1112, expressed by the following chronogram in

The

is

the epilogue

o-"*gj\i>

J.ij-iy

Ojj

Ji

e^
by

Juz 4, p. 85, Haj. Khal. vol. vi. p. 468, and Haft Ddirn, fol. 465, the Oude Catalogue, p. 338, and Haft

Habib

us-Siyar, vol.

ii.,

The poem has been

elucidated in India

two commentators, Arzu and Ratan Singh, and has been printed in Lucknow, A.H. 1258.
Copies are noticed in Ouseley's Catalogue, No. 258, and the Munich Catalogue, p. 4.

Asman, p. 17. The poem has been published, from a

defective

1864.

copy, in the Bibliotheca Indica, Extensive extracts are given in the

fol.

Riyaz ush-Shu'ara,
Afkar,
fol.

323,

and Khulasat

ul-

209.

An
is to

VI.

Foil.

134

140.

<*b

*&,

a satire
imperfect

by Hakim Sharaf ud-Dln

at the end.

by K. H. Graf
schrift der

analysis of the contents be found in the Zeitvol. 23,

Shifa'i,

D. Morgenl. Gesellschaft,

pp.

375433.
present extract corresponds to pp. 269 of the printed edition, 252, 261
it

Beg.

J\j>\ ji> ezZt yi-ij j<^> <j\

The

Iskandar Beg,

who

calls

the author

Hakim

Timur

Shifa'i, of Isfahan, speaks of him, 'Alam-arai, fol. 243,. as a distinguished physician, wit, and poet, a favourite companion

248 from which, however,

siderably.

differs

very con-

but universally dreaded for his malignant epigrams and ruthless He adds that he died in Isfahan, satire.
of

Shah 'Abbas

I.,

X. Foil. 186 197. Love-letters of Laila See and Majnun, from Nizami's poem. b. p. 566
XI. FoU. See p. 656

A.H. 1037. According to others name was Sharaf ud-Dln Hasan.

fol.

his original

200203.
.

Ghazals by
:

Hilali.

See Tahir,

158, Mir'at

Jahannuma,
p.

ush-Shu'ara, fol. the Oude Catalogue,

362, Riyaz 237, Atashkadah, fol. 100,

570,

fol.

On the fly-leaf is written " Purchased of W. Campbell Richley, a soldier, who stated
to

and Haft

Asman,

p.

134.

Shifa'i's

Divan
i.

is

described in the Vienna

have been part of the plunder found within the fortress of Ghuznee, when captured by the English troops under Sir John
it

Catalogue, vol.
VII. Foil.
zami's

p. 600.

Keane, in 1839."
Extracts from Ni-

141168.
169177.

poems and
Foil.

Add. 14,374.
FoU. 109
;

Firdusi's Shahnaraah.

9 in.

by 7f

15

lines,

in.

VIII.

Love-letters

of

long
I.

written in Nestalik, late in the 18th

Duvalrani and Khizr Khan, from the See p. 612 a, xiv. of Amir Khusrau.

poem

century.
Foil.

211.

Life of

Bibi Juliana,

IX. Foil. 177185. Extract from Vis u Ramin, a Masnavi by Fakhrl Jurjani.

endorsed U

Beg.

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m~>.3j> (Gaston Bruit), Monsieur Gentil, at whose request he had written this account, had come to India in A.H. 1165, twenty-two years before

823

The author,

j^

Add. 16,701.
long; dated Zulka'dah, the sixth year of Farrukhsiyar (A.H. 1129, A.D. 1717). [WM. YULE.]
; ;

states that

Foil.

126

in.

by 5
;

15 lines, 3

in.

written in Nestalik

the date of composition (which therefore

must be A.H. 1187), and, having entered the service of Shuja* ud-Daulah, had been
settled for the last twelve years in Faiz&bad.

I.

Foil.

191.
:

ul-Hakk Dihlavi.
Copyist
II.

Zikr ul-Muluk, by 'Abd See p. 223 b.

Colonel Jean-Baptiste Joseph Gentil, the able assistant of ShujV ud-Daulah in the
organization of his army, left India shortly after that prince's death (A.H. 1188), and died in his native town, Bagnols, in a state

FolL

92126.

Account of Aurang-

zib's victories

Shikuh,
p.

over Jasvant Singh and Dara from the 'Alamgir Niimah (see

of

memoir, Blbi Juliana had been captured as a child, with three thousand Portuguese, in the early part of Shahjahfm's reign, and given as a slave to one of the ladies of the court. Having been married to a European, who soon after fell in battle, she was attached to
the household of Prince

great poverty, Bibliotlu-que Universelle. According to the present

in 1799.

See Langles,

corresponding to pp. 59 the Calcutta edition.

;

266 6)

105 of

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Foil. Ill
;

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by 5$

15 and 17
a

lines,

about 3
I.

in.

long.

[WM. YULE.]
Jki,
general

Foil.

171.
:

history of Persia from

Adam

to

Mu'azzam

(after-

wards Bahadur Shah) and his mother, whom she served with singular devotion during
their long confinement. After the prince's accession she rose to a position of great trust and influence, and maintained it

Author Kazi'l-kuzat Nfisir Sa'id 'Abd Ullah B. Kazi'l-kuziit Imam udDin Abil-Kasim 'Umar B. Fakhr ud-Dln AbU-Hasan 'All ul-Baizavi, ^\i U5J1

A.H. 674. ud-Dln Abu

during the early part of the reign of Muhammad Shah, whose deliverance from the galling yoke of the Sayyids she is said to have obtained by means of a vow to S. John.

Beg. \

^jj

She died at Dchli, in great repute of sanctity, some years after that event (according to T.irikh i Muhammadi, fol. 277, in Rabi* I., A.H. 1147), when a relative, Bibi Pasquale *!^-j, succeeded to her office and assumed her name.

The author, whoso well known commentary upon the Coran (see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 61), has made the name familar in Europe, was the son of Imam ud-Din AbulKasim 'Umar, who, as stated in the present
work,
fol.

62, held the office of chief

judge

ciUUl! Lii in

Atiibak

Abu

the kingdom of Fars under the Bakr B. Sa'd. Nasir ud-Din,

A French
E.

translation of the

work by

Prof.

who

II. Palmer will be found in the Nouvelles Annalcs des Voyages, 1866, torn. ii. pp. 161 184, and a notice on Juliana in Gentil's loires sur 1'Indoustan, pp. 307 380. II. Foil. 1280. Memoirs of Shaikh Hazin. See p. 381 a.

also discharged the functions of Kiizi in Shiraz, spent the latter part of his life in Tadied, according to the Viif I later date, bil-Wafayat, fol. 99, A.H. 685. however, A.H. 692, is assigned to his death
briz,

where he

by al-YafH (see Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 1, p. 77), and Hamd Ullah Mustaufi

824

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as

who mentions the Nb.am ut-Tavarlkh

one

et Extraits, vol. iv. pp.

672

695,

Hammer,

of his sources, states that the author died after A.H. 710.

In a short preface written on the 21st of Muharram, A.H. 674, Baiziivl says that, having composed in early life works on every branch of the sacred sciences, he now proposed to write a compendium of the history of Iran from Adam to his own time.

Jahrbiicher, vol. 81, Anzeigeblatt, p. 37, and Sir H. Elliot, History of India, vol. ii. pp. 252258. See also Haj. Khal., vol. vi. p. 354.

Copies are mentioned in Stewart's Catalogue,

p. 7, Uri, p. 215, Ouseley's

Leyden Catalogue,
ii.

vol.

iii.

MSS., No 686, p. 1, Vienna Cata-v

The work
follows
:

is

divided into four Kisms, as

i.

Adam

to

Prophets, saints, and kings, from Noah, fol. 3 b. n. Early kings of

in.

logue, vol. p. 60, and Upsala Catalogue, A Turkish translation, in which the p. 162. is brought down to A.H. 973, is prehistory served in Add. 6020. Another is noticed in
Krafft's Catalogue, p. 91.
is apparently of the 16th but the latter portion, foil. 55 71, century, which is by a later hand, is dated A.H. 1072

Persia, in four dynasties, fol. 6 b.

The

The present copy

early Khalifs, the Umayyades, and Ahhasides, fol. 32 a. iv. Dynasties contemporary with

the Abbasides, viz. Saflaris,

fol.

Samanis, Ghaznavis and Ghuris, fol. 48 a. Dailamis, fol. 61 b. Saljukis, fol. 56 a. Isma'Ilis, fol. 64 b. Salghuris, fol. 59 a. Khwarazmis, fol. 66 a. Moghuls, fol. 67 b. The time of composition is fixed not only by the date given in the preface, but also by the author's statement that the Salghuri dynasty had ruled 131 years from its origin, in A.H. 543, to the "current year," which must therefore have been A.H. 674. The last section, however, has a conclusion of later date than the preface, but apparently also due to the author, in which Abaka Khan is spoken of as dead, and the Sahib Divan as
fol.

46.

(A.D. 1662).
II.

47

a.

Foil.

7291. A

versified abstract of

Indian history, from the time of the Muhammadan conquest to A.H. 1133, by 'Abd ullah Yakin, (#30.
Beg.

The whole poem is on the same rhyme. It was written, as stated in the prologue, at
the request of Sabit Kadam Khan, an amir of the court of Muhammad Shah.

being

must A.H. 680 and 683.

is

at the height of his power. It therefore have been written between

still

The same conclusion

In the concluding lines the author claims descent from the Moghul Chakui Purlas O*^U cf/V> ^ ne grandson of Karachar, and gives A.H. 1133 as the date of composition. Shah Yakin is mentioned in Hamishah Bahar as 'now' (i.e. A.H. 1136) living in
Dehli.

found in another copy, Or. 1583. A further continuation, foil. 69 b 71, ending with the accession of Ghazan Khan, A.H. 694, in whose reign it was written, cannot be ascribed to Baizavi. This latter appendix occurs also in another MS., Or. 1859, foil. 98102. There is also an addition of later date than the conclusion in the account of the Salghuris, for it is brought down to the death of Abish Khatun, A.H. 686. The contents of the Nizam ut-Tavarikh have been fully stated by S. de Sacy, Notices

See the Oude Catalogue, p. 130. The present copy is dated in the 28th year

of

Muhammad Shah
III. Foil. 92

(A.H. 1158, A.D. 1745).

111.

a treatise on the attributes of pressed by His names.

God

as ex-

Author Bayazid Beg. O-a>- j*

:

[B.] Ibrahim, *?>

The work
called w^*.

is

divided into several sections

The present copy appears

to

be of the 16th century.

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825

Add. 16,779.
583; 10 in. by 6 ; 17 lines, 3$ in. and 38 lines in the margins ; written long, in fair Nestalik, with TJnvftn and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century.
Foil.
I.

Add. 16,800.
Foil.

long;

63 ; 5J in. by 3 ; 11 lines, 1| in. written in fair Nestalik, with two

TJnvans and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 17th century. [WM. YULB.]
I.

Foil.
p.

3583.
a.

DivSn

[WM. YULB.] Shams i Tabriz.

Foil.

155.
5663.

The third Daftar of

See
p.

Sil-

silat

uz-Zahab.

644

b.

See

593

II. Foil.

*-L^-,

"

Beg.

tract, in Mas.navi

rhyme, on the

Jamlliyyah," a filiation of

the Nakshabandi order.

At the end of the alphabetical series of Ghazals are found some Tarji'-bands, fol. 552 b, and a few Bubals, fol. 578 b.

!;

The author, whose name does not appear,

enumerates five successive heads of the order from Ehwajah Ahrar, who died A.H. 895,
time. From this it may be conthat he wrote in the hitter half of jectured the llth century of the Hijrah. The title
to his
is

The margins, which form a consecutive

text, contain
II. Foil.
:

3151.

The Divan

of SaniTi
:

own

(see p.

551

a),

with a prose preface beginning

states that

The author
to collect his

he had been induced

instances of his

contained in the following line at the end :

written on the

poem by the

friend, Ka'is Ahmad B. Mas'ud. Tin- Divan on fol. 12 a,

Sir

begins

with a long
is

Gore Ouseley's name first page of the MS.

is

Kasidah, the

first line

of which

Add. 16,806.
This

poem

is

60

a,

and

in the

quoted by Daulatshah, Haft Iklim, fol. 132.

fol.

written by various hands, apparently in India, in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Wit. YULE.]
Foil.
;

89

9i

in.

by 5J

III. Foil.

155166.
'All

Amir Sayyid
'All

Some Ghazals by Hamndfmi, who uses both

See
p.

I.

Foil

118.
1969.

yle-f-N

vUi,

an Arabica.

Persian vocabulary.
II. Foil.

See p. 604

and

'Ala'i as his takhallus.

_,

447

b.

Beg. JU-

JU;\

^Vi

viJLl*
}>

^Ui

portion of the Divan of Hafiz, extending from letter (_ to ^.

III.

Foil.
j V^laJ j

7077.
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An

extract headed

IV. Foil.

166181.

Muhammad

Ghazals by Sayyid Nurbakhsh, who has been

already mentioned, p. 650.

an( l beginj* <" j^S ning with an anecdote relating to Anisi Shamlu, a poet who lived at the court of 'Ali Kuli Khan, governor of Herat, and died

lj

At the end
and Masnavis,

are
fol.

some
176
b.

Euba'is,

fol.

175

in Burhanpur,
b,

A.H. 1014

V. Foil. 187319. The Divan of Kasim Anvar. See p. 635 b.

VOL.
1J.

Akbari, p. 578). of Mukatta'at by Ibn Yamin (Amir Fakhr ud-Din Mahmud of Faryumad, who died
i

A in

It

(see Blochmann, consists chiefly

A.H. 745

see Taki,

Oude
K

Catalogue, p. 18),

820

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above editions the preface contains a eulogy upon the reigning sovereign Shah 'Abbas II.
(A.H.

and of miscellaneous anecdotes classed under the headings of modesty, meekness, justice, beneficence, patience, and love.
IV. Foil.

10521077).
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The present fragment

189 of the Teheran

7889. Tank

5 of

Kism

I.

of

the Tuhfat ul-Muminln (see p. 476 b). The volume bears the stamp of General

corresponds to pp. edition.

Claud Martin

(see p. 2 a).

copy is described, without author's name, in the Vienna Catalogue, vol. iii.
p. 293.
III. Foil.

Foil.
lines,

217;
in.

Add. 16,819. 9 in. by 6; from

;

5573.
8186.

Nikat

Mirza Bidil

see p. 745

b.

21 to 24

4f

long

written in Shikastah-amiz,
[Wit. YULE.]
i

IV. FoU.
p.

Lava'ih by Jami

see

about A.H. 1152 (A.D. 1739).

I.

44
V.

a.

Foil. 1

4.

Extracts from Akhlak

Foil.

8995.

M\J

\jjg

the book of

Mansuri Mansur.

t/ ai* jr

j^> by Mir Ghiyas

ud-Din

the Mirza, or perfect gentleman, containing

rules of good manners.
lli\

The author was the son of the celebrated philosopher Mir Sadr ud-Din Muhammad of He held for some time the office of Shiraz. under Shah Tahmasp, but resigned it Sadr
in consequence of his orthodoxy having been impugned by the Mujtahid Shaikh 'All B.

Beg.

J^

&*G
\j

\jj*<,

!ji-

(&> fj^j*

The work, which

is

anonymous, was appa-

rently written in India.

VI. FoU.

97149. A
or preface.

collection of letters
in

and

other
title

compositions

ornate prose,

'Abd

where he died A.H. 948, leaving numerous philosophical and scientific works enumerated in
ul-'Al,

and

retired to Shiraz,

without

The
;

author's name,

Muhammad

Khalil

the Majalis ul-Muminm, fol. 380. The contents have been stated in

the

JJ^ +if, occurs incidentally on foil. 136 a, 147 a and it appears from another passage, fol. 116 5, that his takhallus was i_*-Le, and
his

Jahrbiicher, vol. 81, Anzeige Blatt, p. 29, and in the Vienna Catalogue, vol. iii.
p. 292.

surname (lakab)

'.

Several letters ad-

of Abvab an ethical work based ul-Jinan, ^UU <-~J\^, on the Goran and the moral precepts of the
II. Foil.

554.

Majlis

411

Begam, the eldest daughter of Aurangzib, seem to show that he was attached to that princess's
dressed by

him

to Zib un-Nisa

Imams, by Mirza
Kazvlni,
p.

Muhammad

Rafi' Va'iz
;

who

died about A.H. 1105

see

698

a.

The work, which is divided into a Mukaddimah and sixteen Majlis, has been lithographed in Teheran A.H. 1274, and in Lucknow 1868. The edited portion, howend as forming the first only of eight Babs, which the entire work, according to its title, was intended to comprise. In the former of the
ever, is described

There is also one written to her Shahzadah Muhammad A'zam, fol. brother, 142 a, and another to Aurangzib's head secretary, Mulla Makhdum Fazil Khan, fol. That amir received the title of Khan 147 See Maasir in A.H. 1095, and died in 1099.
service.
.

ul-Umara,

fol.

406.

The

letter addressed to

him must have been written between

two
dates.

those

by the author

at the

VII. Fol. 150.

by Shahjahan

to

Copy of a Shah 'Abbas

letter written
I.

at the time

of his reconciliation with Jahangir return to Mandu (A.H. 1032).

and

his

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VHI.
Foil.

827

153155.

exposition in Masnavi madan creed, probably by Jam! (see Bibliotheca Sprenger., No. 591 3).

*.U olSIpl, a short rhyme of the Muham-

Add. 16,824.
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ylS^l fcjE j WU>^ of the SunnI creed. exposition

:

1-92.

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175180.
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Medical advice, in
b.

by Yusufi.
T
last
J(

See p. 475

Author 'Abd ul-Hakk B. Turk ud-Dihlavi ul-Bukharl,

tgjitP

Saif ud-Din utvfl_^

Beg.

vs

a>J\
is

^SJ\

^ jil j-*
a).

(see p.

14
4il

Beg.
couplet composition, A.H. 913,

The

contains the date of

j^kH .y.

U\j* ^jJ\

expressed by the

A copy

mentioned in

x^i the Munich Cata-

logue, p. 128.

words J\j*'\

jjly.

A
volume
is

The

rest of the

occupied by

ul-.I

Hindustani translation, entitled Sabil inan, has been published in India.

short poetical pieces, Persian and Hindustani, and miscellaneous notices relating to

II. Foil.

93

108.

A treatise

on the use

medicine, the interpretation of dreams, and

astrology.

of the quadrant,

*^"
(B.) Siroj,

Author: Nur
Beg.
->'*
jj|

^US

Add. 16,821.
Foil.

It is divided into
lines,

131

7 in. by 4}

15

2|

in.

Babs, and a
III. Foil.

Kli.it

an introduction, nineteen imah.

long ; written in small Shikastah-amiz, probably in India, in the 17th century.

.

109165.
Khan
differs

The
(see p.

history of Shir

Shah, by 'Abbas
preamble, which
described.

YCLB.]

242 6), with a from the copy above

I. Foil.

299.

OWN

i-tll

(see p.

594

&),

with copious marginal notes.

II. Foil.

Beg.
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^-.

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v_j>

jJU _-^ iU- (j^f ^

is

100131.

mentary by Jam! on Sufi Bubals.

oWy ^,

a com-

A
this

doxology of four lines

followed by

heading

IV.
author, who gives his name at the end, states in the preface that in his Ruba'is on the nature of God and on His various

Foil.

166

239.

The

work

already described.

A cosmographical See p. 417 o, ii.

V. Foil. 240246. Chronological sketch of the Sultans of Dehli from the Muslim
conquest to Shah 'Alain. VI. Foil. 247254. An account of the course of the river Gomati, by Fath Chand, son of Udit Rai, a Kayath of Balgram.

manifestations he had been prevented, by the necessities of rhyme and metre, from giving his thoughts their due development,

and had therefore deemed it desirable to add some explanations in prose. See the Oude Catalogue, p. 447, and the St. Petersburg
Catalogue, p. 373.

J--N *~\ J*xj j-. j\ ** Beg. This work was written, as stated in the 3 E 2

828

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kastah-amlz, from A.H. 1165 to 1174 (A.D.

of a preamble, in A.H. 1180, at the request Christian priest, only designated as Padre
Sahib.

17511761).
Sufi
sian,

[WM. YULE.]

VII. Foil.

255266.

^..j^

j^,

a treatise

and Shi'ah tracts, in Arabic and Percollected and transcribed by Sayyid 'AH

on the technical terms of Hindu pantheism and their equivalents in Sufi phraseology.
Author: Dara Shikiih,
Beg.
*j\*>

NakI Khan B. Sayyid

ul-Mashhadl,
Radauli,

Abu

Talib ul-Husaini

who

dates successively from

<_?^>

^ ^

*&

r JV*

r*

In a preface found in another copy, Add. he had 18,404, ii., the author says that

embraced the doctrine of the

Sufis,

and

that,

Lucknow, Faizabad, Ilahabad, Ahmadnagar, Fathpur, Shahjahanabad, and Lucknow. On fol. 7 is an autograph note of the poet Hazm (see p. 372 b), stating that he had perused this valuable collection on the fifteenth of Rajah, A.H. 1172, and had given
it

having ascertained in his intercourse with Hindu Fakirs that their divergence from the
former was merely verbal, he had written the present work with the object of recon-

the

name

of

-lM jj^aN.

Foil. 2

4 contain

some verses of another

He completed ciling the two systems. in A.H. 1065, when as stated at the end,
was forty-two years
Catalogue, p. 140.
old.

see the poet, Matin (who died A.H. 1175 ; Oude Catalogue, p. 487), the last of which
is

it,

he

See the Munich

a chronogram on the birth of a son of the collector, dated Ilahabad, A.H. 1172. A table of contents has been prefixed by

'All
I.

NakI Khan on
Foil.

fol.

b.
9

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a
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long written in Nestalik, appa[WM. YULE.] rently in the 17th century.

about 3

attributes,

free will,

Mahmud
KhaL,
Beg.

Shabistarl (see
p. 79).
<s\

God and His and future life, by p. 608 *, and Haj.

vol.

Forty sayings of Muhammad, with the Persian paraphrase of Jam!. See p. 17 a. II. Foil. 1039. Risalah i Khwajah 'Abd
I. Foil.

9.

}\j&\
22

j
let-

Ullah Ansari (see

p.

35 a); dated Zulhijjah,

,jVk-j jj^b OV*S,, ters on Sufi subjects, ascribed to Bayazld BastamI (Abu Yazld Taifur, who died A.H.

II. Foil.

24.

261

A.H. 1048 (A.D. 1639).

47. III. Foil. 40 religious tract, the author of which designates himself, as in the of 'Abd Ullah. preceding, by the name

see

Ibn Khallikan's

translation, vol.

i.

Nafahat ul-Uns, ul-Muminln, fol. 287).

p. 662,

p. 62,

and Majalis

24 34. Commentary of Jalal ud-Din Davanl (see p. 442 b) on a Ghazal of

III. Foil.

Hafiz, beginning:
J-aJ

It
p.

is

endorsed
b.

See

447

Commentary of Jam! on the mystic poem of Ibn Fariz. See

IV. Foil.
p. 808,

3462.

Add. 16,832.
Foil.

Add. 7649,

ii.

long

3| in. written in Naskhi, Nestalik, and Shiin.

442; 11

by 6$; 19

V. Foil. 62
lines,

73. Jami's Lava'ih. See p. 44 a.

77.

VI. Foil. 73

r*

&> ten observa-

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on man considered as a manifestation of God, by Ni'mat Ullah Vail (see p. 634 4).
tions
id)

829

XII. Foil.
tract,

137145

^y*

j^*.,

a Sufi

by Baba Afzal ud-Din Kashi.

Beg.
Afzal

L-U-^
ud-Din

c-^t-* j <*r>\>jW <~>j

>^'

VII. Foil.

7781. jj-y
ji? aU. j\

Muhammad,

of

Kashan,

^,

.a

Sufi tract

in thirteen sections called 'Asrar,' same author.

by the

a renowned Sufi and poet, is mentioned in the Atashkadah, fol. 107, as a contemporary of Nasir ud-Din Tusi, who composed verses
in his praise,

Beg.

ur^Ai-

'^jl

and who was, according

fol.

to the

VIU.

Foil.

8186.

^\=^\ *-W

r^,

Riyiiz ush-Shu'ara,

13, his sister's son.

commentary upon
IX. Foil.

the Fatihah, by the same.

Beg. JyJljiyb "Ujt

VjSjy

^ d -^
j

v>.*&?j> y-t, a tract, addressed to the doctors of the Law, rebuking them for their hatred of Darvishes, by Sadr ud-Din Muhammad ush- Shirazi.
Beg.
ij

86105.

by Taki Kashi, Oude A.H. 707. The following Catalogue, p. 17, works are ascribed to him in the Haft k Inn, fol. 384:
died,

He

as

stated

*f> an d
p. 469, vol.
iii.

*^J

the

first

three of
vol. v.

which are noticed by Haj. Khal.,

p. 515, vol.
ii.

U-

M nil
him
dri,

Sadr ud-Din

Muhammad
called
Hiikir

B. Ibra-

The p. 582. story of his having been carried away to

Ghaznin by Sultan Mahmud Ghazi, which is related in the same work, and would make him three centuries earlier, must refer to
another person.
are

Shirazi,

commonly

Mulla Sais

a pupil of Mir

Damad,

re-

garded in Persia as the most eminent philosopher of his time. He died in Basrah, on

The Ruba'is
in

of Afzal Kashi

mentioned

Mecca, in A.H. 1050. See Zinat ut-Taviirikh, fol. 554, and Gobineau. Religions de 1'Asie, p. 84. He is often confounded with Mir Sadr ud-Din Muhammad B. Mir Ghiyaa ud-Din Mansur Shirazi, an earlier
his

Oast-ley's

way

to

Catalogue,

No. 90.

The present
the

tract is

avowedly derived from

Ghazali,

Kimiyai written about A.H. 500.

XIII.
Foil.

Sa'adat of

a work
a.

See

p.

37

philosopher and theologian. The latter, born in Shiraz A.H. 828, was slain, as stated in

146162.
life,

treatise

on

spiritual

by

Muhammad

B.
;

the Majalis ul-Muminin, by the Bayandari Turkomans. A.H. 903.

Muhammad B. Hasan
see p. 525 6).

ut-Tusi (Nasir ud-Din

X. Foil. 105133. Arabic tract by the same writer; Arabic Catalogue, p. 401. XI.
Foil.

see the

The author wrote

face,

it,

as stated in the pre-

some time
441
6),

after his

AkhlAk

Nftsiri

133137.
life,

^C
6).

J,

the ten rules

*Ali

(see p.

by

desire of the Sahib Divan,

of contemplative

by Amir Sayyid

Muhammad
Juvaini.

B. Baha ud-Din

Muhammad

ul-

Hamadanl

(see p.

447

Beg. f\U-l
It
is

Jyfojl J^S** a^j

evidently translated, but without acknowledgment, from the Arabic work of

See Stewart's Catalogue, p. 44, No. 80, and Fleischer, Dresden Catalogue, No. 348.

XIV.

Foil.

163296.

*iy

^Utf, one
Sufis,

Najm ud-Din Kubra, which is found further 344 (see the Arabic Catalogue, on, foil. 342
p. 401,
viii.).

hundred sayings of Imams and

Arabic, with
verse.

in

comments

in Persian prose

and

830

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

Muhammad
B. Murtaza, called

Author:
Muhsin, c
Beg.

This work, which

face as

t/,
Foil.

is

designated in the preheaded *\\ j JfA. It is

is

divided into twenty chapters (Fasl).

Muhsin, of Kashan, whose original name was Muhammad B. Murtaza, and poetical

XVII.
as

322330.
t_i.ii',

Refutation

of

a work entitled U3\

in

commonly known
x

surname Faiz yap, was a

Sadra
(see above,
art.

disciple of

Mulla

ix.),

who gave him

his daughter in marriage. from Kashan to Isfahan, in

He

was called A.H. 1067, by

which the author, 'Abd j^* u*f-, advocated the paramount claims of ul-'Aziz, Abu Bakr and 'Umar to the Khilafat.
Author Ghulam Muhyu-d-Dm B. Ghulam Ashraf, poetically surnamed Rif'at, 5)kp
:

Shah 'Abbas
his
society.

II.,

who took

He

great delight in followed his celebrated

master in the attempt of reconciling Sufism with orthodoxy, and wrote no less than
seventy-six works and tracts on theological subjects, besides a Divan of ten thousand
lines.

Beg.

He

In the table the work

is

called

died in

Kashan
fol.

after

A.H. 1090.
XVIII.
tracts;
articles vi.

See

Zmat

ut-Tavarlkh,

554, Kisas ul-

Khakani, fol. 156, Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 346, Atashkadah, fol. 110, and Gobineau, Religions de 1'Asie, p. 91.

FoU.
viii.

330344.

Three Arabic

see the

Arabic Catalogue, p. 401,

The date

of composition,
title.

A.H. 1057,

is

expressed by the

XIX.
Sufi

FoU.

344360.

JUsG\

U-, a

XV.
on

Foil.

296303.
God

j
in

jjjj',

a tract

work Author
Beg.

in eight sections called

:

Baba Afzal Kashi.

p>j j*jf*

the presence of
:

man.

Author Sayyid Jafar ur-Ruhi un-Ni'matullahi,

Jj^

Beg.

>^j Jj^

The author states that this is a translation work written in Arabic by himself under the same title. See above, art. xii.
of the

The date of composition, A.H. 1152, is conveyed in a chronogram at the end. The collector, 'All Naki Khan, says that he had met the author both before and after that
date.

XX.
and

Foil.

360368.

e^Jyl
by the
a).

moral,

religious precepts,

Imam Mu-

hammad
Beg.

Ghazali (see p. 37

At the end
writer

is

a commentary by the same

upon three Sufi verses of Shaikh 'Abd ul-Kaddus Ganguhi (an Indian saint, native of Gangu, who died A.H. 945 ; see Akhbar
ul-Akhyar,
fol.

tract

j JU,, a on necessity and free will, in ten chapters, by Nasir ud-Dln Tusi.
M (_
*JQ

XXI. FoU. 368378,

^\ ^
An

177).

XVI.
rection

Foil.

303

319.
life,

A tract

and future
xiii.).

on resurNasir ud-Dln by

XXII. FoU. 378381. on the same subject. XXIII.

cal tract
Foil.

Arabic tract

Tusi (see art.

381391.

metaphysi-

on consciousness and cognition,

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

headed
*-'j

831

J^,,

in three

chapters,

by

Baba Afzal Kashi

(see above, art. xii.).

Foil. 242296. Arabic tracts; see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 403, artt. xxvii. xxxiii.

XXXH.

XXIV.

Foil.

391415.
art. ix.

See the Arabic

Foil. 510;

Catalogue, p. 401,

Add. 16,837.
12^ in. by 7; 21 lines, 4 in. written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan long; and gold-ruled margins ; apparently in the
17th century.

*.U ^jV, a 415 442. metaphysical tract on self-knowledge and on the beginning and end of being, in four chapters, by Baba Afzal Kashi (see above,
Foil.
art. xii.).
T^Pf? J/ * -,

XXV.

[WM..YULE.]
several of

A large collection of Sufi tracts,

aVj *

C7~

*)\

*CjV\j

"

i-il^i i_j
tiT^*^

all

^^J

.v.^ ^**

The margins, which form a consecutive

series,

contain

XXVI.
see p. 608

Foil.
b.

938.
3883.

Gulshan

Kaz;

which bear the name of the celebrated saint and prolific Sufi writer, Shah Ni'mat Ullah Vali (see p. 634 6), whose life is also inserted, foil. 339 354. It may be presumed that those which are anonymous are duo to the same author.
I.

Foil. 1

24.

tract without title or

XXVII.

Foil.

Zad ul-Musafirin;

author's name, endorsed - ji!l **?, and consisting of Sufi comments, in prose on detached verses of the Goran.

see p. 608 a.

and

verse,

XXVIII. Foil. 8395. by Baha ud-Din ul-'Amili

;

Nan u

It begins

Halva,

see p. 679 a.

" Milk 3 j^., and Sugar," a Sufi poem by the same, with a short prose preface.

XXIX.

Foil.

95100. /I

with the first verse of the Surat ul-Fath, U* 01, which is or chap, xlviii., Ux-* \ji* followed by an exposition of three kinds of

y,

or revelations.

Beg.

w K-\
mentioned among Baha ud-Din's
FoU. 102
;

A commentary on the 59. II. Foil. 25 Lama'at of Fakhr ud-Din 'Iraki (see p. 594 b).
Beg. JU^' d/al^- *^-XT *-j
;

It

is

y ^&

4i)

j**:^

works

in the Atashkadah.

XXX.
and
tracts
artt. x.

a229.

Arabic poems

Passages of the text marked with the letcomments ter (i.e. Jj\f) alternate with
distinguished by the letter
III.

see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 402, xxvi.

Foil.

(i.e.

XXXI.

230241.

commentary
'Jr.iki

upon the Lama'at of Fakhr ud-Din

(seep. 5946).

commentary on a portion of the Fusus ul-Hikam of Muhyi udDin Ibn ul-'Arabi (see Haj. Khal., vol. iv.
Foil. 61

100.

4\j <fjV Jjjj> <jii- j o-UThe commentary is called in the subscription oUJtM yo. In another copy, Add.

Beg.

oW
fol.

p. 424).

jl ^fj>j>

Beg.

16,839,

56, the author's

name is

given.

118. Explanation of some the same work. difficult verses in

IV. Foil. 101

It is Sa'in ud-Din 'All Tarikah (see p. 42 a), and the date of composition, stated at the end, See Haj. Khal., vol. v. p. 335. is A.H. 815.

Beg.

3J

>

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128.

V. Poll. 119

Another commentary
*+o-J>

XII.
dorsed
:

Foil.

198-206.

Short tracts en-

upon the same work, endorsed

Beg.
VI.
Foil.

XIII. Foil.

207211.
V), J\je-

A treatise

on the

129

168.

Persian

para-

conventional terms of the Sufis, by Shaikh

'Iraki (see p.

of phrase of the Istilahat us-Sufiyyah

Kamal

594

*J>yo

ud-Din 'Abd ur-Razzak Kashl, endorsed

see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 400 a.

Beg.

^Ui>l

^^ f^

\j>-*fry

u^* J

XIV.
Beg.

Foil.

212246.

Tracts endorsed:

the concluding lines the work had been written dictation of Ni'mat Ullah.

From

it

appears that down from the

XV.

Fol.

247.

Filiation

of the Fakir's
ikSp-

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Ahmad

Shah,

U> iX**!

i_jk~J.

VII. Foil.
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169175.

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825

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J\3

838, had sent a deputation to Ni'mat Ullah Vali with the request to be admitted

as
vol.

one
i.

of

his

disciples.

See Firishtah,

VIIL

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176

180.

A tract on various

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XVI.

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248256.

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Beg.
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IX.

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XVII.

of 'All

Hakim

Tirmizi,

lah Vali, with the heading

jU

ci/i^j

translated

J* * from the Arabic.

SJU,,

XVIII.
Beg.
5jT

Foil.

270276.

an

UU

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UUah.
X.
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190191.

The

treatise of the

SOUl, (JflJ *5\-;

Beg. V-Jb SjU^ ^^J^

^ JU3

nlJI

J\5

. . .

XIX.
art. vi.

Foil.

281291. Commentary upon

Kamal
ud-Din.

the Istilahat of

See above,

XI. FoU. 122196. Magnavis of Shah Ni'mat Ullah. The first has the heading and begins tjp,
:

Beg.

XX.

Foil.

318323.

tract

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XXI.
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833

332335.

Answers
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I.

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16.

A treatise

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meaning

of the letters composing the

name

Mirza Iskandar, son of 'Urnar Shaikh, held the government of Fars and Kirman under Shahrukh from A.H. 812 to 816.

Author

Muhammad Kasim

B. 'Abd ul-

Kadir TunI,
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oli

XXII.
Author

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339354.
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Life

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Shah
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Ni'mat Ullah Vali, J,

:

*^i ill

O^i-

'Abd ul-'Aziz B. Shir Mulk B.

Va*izi,

end to have been written the author in his native city Tun, when by he was past fifty years of age.
It is stated at the

Muhammad
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It is

IL

Foil.

1631.

dedicated to 'Ala ud-Din

Yali

Ahmad Shah

V b

B.

Ahmad Shah
XXIII.
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(see art. XT.),

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"

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to 862.

463473.
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Revelations," O'Jili-

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Five contests, or allegorical debates, by Sa'in ud-Din 'All Tarikah (see p. 42 a), viz. between reason and love, opinion and reason, opinion

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and fancy, hearing and

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lover

and

beloved.

XXIV.

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41

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487510. The conventional Sufis *yo ^~t\**\ by Kamal

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4.

On

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6.

On three schools of Sufism, *H3 j\ On the end, JjN JL^. 7. On the splitting
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of the

^5

*JL,.

8.

Commentary
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IV.
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6, art.

6266. Jj>^, a tract in of Muhammad and 'All, and a Kasidah

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7071.

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about the close of the 17th century.

ul-'Ulum, treating of Simiya, in Arabic. See the Arabic Catalogue, p. 463 b.

VII. Foil.

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metaphysical tract on the categories of beings, by Nasir ud-Din Tusi (see p. 525 V).
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157166.
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Three Arabic See the Arabic

xiii.

Catalogue,

454, art. x.

XIX.
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Foil.

166170.

7884.
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logic
ijjj

jlU J

>^ JUj, a
writer.

U*) ^C,
1

a short

account of ancient sages and philosophers.

Beg.

by the same

Beg.' jj^-ob ^

J^- y
(1)

j>j^ ^i-*~ j.pLJta

IX. Foil.

8490.

Mahmud
16832,
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Chabistarl.

j*. by Shaikh See p. 828 a, Add.

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XX.

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cellaneous extracts.

and mis-

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XXI.

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ul-Ashraf
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^jf, on his Sufi Ruba'Is.

""
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cyUc-b,

See

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frW ^"X** J^ i** XI. Foil. 96112. c^Ufr bj r>^, a commentary by Jalal ud-Din Muhammad DavanI

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Translation of the " who is the Great, prophet Idrls," in thirteen chapters.
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205

215.

sayings of

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215226.

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Book

^ ^,

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XIII.
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See

XXIV. FoU. 226234.

mal.

Madarij ul-Ka-

119121.

Sufi

Ruba'is by

See p. 831

a, xix.
.

Salman, Mir Husaini, Jami, and Dihdar (see p. 816 a).

Muhammad
;

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-r^

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vii.

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234238.

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XV.
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XVI.

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Miscellaneous ex-

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work, originally

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one from the introduction of Jaml's Nafahat ul-Uns, and an Arabic See the Arabic Catalogue, p. 454, ix. tract.
tracts, including

written Arabic, was translated by Kamal ud-Din Husain Khwarazmi, who died A.H. 845. The present copy
in

XVII.
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151157. A tract on ascribed to Abu 'Ali Ibn Sma.

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the

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815

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tract

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title

835

long; written in Nestalik, apparently in the

16th century.

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collection of Sufi treatises, mostly *Ali Hamadani. See p. 447 b. Sayyid

by

XXVII.
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154 156. A tract on contemwith the heading i.y plation, JL^. It consists chiefly of extracts from the writings of
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IH.
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157161.
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A notice
'Ali

on Sayyid

Muhammad
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Talakanl and his spiritual pedi-

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Mir

Muhammad

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J*

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famous

Mujtahid

Muhammad
See
p.

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left

numerous works,
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Shaikh of Sayyid
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o'juJ, the present work,

and others, besides some poetical compositions in which he assumed the name of Ishrak.
See 'Alam-ar.ii,
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&.\

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on the
t\

Zikr,

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features

man,

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XXIX.
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the

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344360.

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tracts.

Arabic

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188199.

Ghazals by Sayyid

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IX. Foil.

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Rules to be observed

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'All

Foil. 207210. Answer Hamadani to some questions the name of Hamadan.

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XI. Foil.

210276. Eighteen
:

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fol.
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tt, fol.
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fol.

218.

223.

225.
L

fol.
,

228.
235.
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230.

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3U,
i_^ltf

fol.

fol.

243.

a, fol.

248

fol.

254.

according to the teaching of Sayyid 'AH, by Bur ban B. 'Abd us-Samad.

i*U-, fol. 262.

ti-, fol.

J-

i>, fol.

268.

*)U,

270.

XIX. FoU. 399

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jj^)>-^ /*fe*i $16

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This celebrated saint, a native of Khivah, ul-Uns, died, according to the Nafahat
p. 480,

XX.
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291.

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jJ- aU*J,
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following headings: oJL*, ci^aafol.

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alphabetical glossary to the letters of Abul-Fazl.

f

Foil.

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Shaikh

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Author

Muhammad 'All

Faruki,

Beg.
Beg.

XY.
and
v.

Fol. 347

385.

Two Arabic treatises.

p. 406,
artt. iv.

See the Arabic Catalogue,

dedicated to Jahanglr, was completed, as stated in the preface, in A.H. 1035.

is

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XVI.

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385389.

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II. Foil.

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Akhlak

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Author: 'Abd ur-Rahman B. 'Abd ul-Karlm 'Abbas! Burhanpuri,
Beg. e
f_
II.

837
short sketch of Nadir

FoU.

1622. A
down

Shah's history

to his return

from India

to Persia (A.H. 1052).

appendix called ^i ^Ji, foil. 121 126, contains a translation of the Arabic
'

An

lUMLX Jl-J

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or author's

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I.

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FoU. 1127. Letters of Khfinjahan Sayyid Muzaflar Khan. Beg.

together, quite irreof their meaning, such words as have spective the same final letter, or present similar

The author groups

The
to the

first letters, foil. 1

25, are addressed

emperor

(Shahjahan), and

relate

combinations of dotted or undotted

IV.
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letters.

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According to a short preamble the tract had been originally written in prose by a man called Shahbaz jV$i, for the Shahzudah, son
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Sayyid Muzaffar Khan, of Barhah, afterwards K h.mj.-il i;m, held the post of Governor of Gwalior from the accession of Shahjahan to his own death, which happened in A.1L 1055. See Maair ul-Umara, fol. 184.
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Jagat Singh, son of Rajah Basu, and Zamindar of Mau and Pathan, Panjab, relating chiefly to the expedition sent against him, under command of Khanjahan Sayyid Muzaflar

Khan,

in the 15th year of Shahjahan's

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writer (see
fol.

with some drawings.

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lak, It is dedicated to the

down

the rebels.

Jagat Singh died shortly after, A.H. 1055. See Maaqir ul-Umara, fol. 257 b.

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followed by an account of the assassination of Salabat
is

Salar

and Sayyid 'Alim.

This

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\

Singh, a Rathor Rajput, in

This notice begins with a sk etch of Jhoj bar's

and in particular of his father Barsingh Deo, the murderer of Abulfazl, and
predecessors,

A.H. 1054. It has been already noticed, p. 304 a, that a later history of Gwaliyor, by Hiraman, has been almost entirely transcribed from the
present work.

of the early career of Jhqjhar. It dwells chiefly on the expedition sent against him by

Shahjahan under command of Sayyid Khanjahan, which ended in his overthrow and death, A.H. 1044. See the account of that campaign in the Padishah Namah, ii., p. 94, and the life of
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Maair ul-Umara,
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fol.

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136.

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183. y^?

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c^-jVr>

The four

IV. Foil.

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tt

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parterres of Barahman (Chandarbhan)," or memoirs of the author's life and time, with specimens of his poetical compositions. See
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origin to

A.H. 1055, by

397
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b.

The author states that he had spent his

The work was written

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fol.

160

shortly after

A.H.

a,

1057

the restitution of Balkh to Nazr

fol.

Mu-

secretary in the service of Sayyid MuzafFar Khan, entitled Khanjahan, who had been in command of

hammad, which took

mentioned,

54

b,

place at that date, is as a recent transaction.

Gwaliyor from the beginning of Shahjahan's reign to the time of writing, viz. the 16th
year of Shahjahan, corresponding to A.H. 1050. (The date is wrong; for the 16th year
of Shahjahan began in

It is divided into four

Chamans.

The

first

contains descriptions of various festivals at Court, with pieces of poetry recited by the

author on those occasions.

Jumada II., A.H. 1052).

In the preface,
thor, after

146 b 148 a, the aumentioning the most remarkable

foil.

buildings erected at various times in Gwaliyor, and the holy men who dwelt there, states that he had taken the present account

17 b, the daily occupations of Shahjahan, his new capital Shahjahanabad, and the principal cities and Subahs of the empire. The third, fol. 55 a, contains the author's life and some

The second, fol. describes the splendours of the Court,

from a Hindi work, in which an old Brahman called Siyam had written down the local traditions.

The fourth, fol. 71 with moral and religious thoughts.

of his letters.
tional introduction.
II.

6,

deals

Another copy, Or. 1892, contains an addi-

At
foil.

the end

160

found a subsequent addition, in which the author records 166,

is

Poll.

84103.

familiar letters of Abul-Pazl to friends, col-

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lected

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edited, with

and

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vol.
i.,

u vi

(Arabic

&?;
time,

see Haj. Khal.,

p. 69), dials,

and other instruments

fol.

for the

measurement of

b.

2.

Ma-

They have been printed in Calcutta, A.H. 1238. See also the Copenhagen Catalogue,
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gical cups bbjjjl, and other devices connected with wine-drinking, fol. 123 b. 3. Magical ewers and basins, <_>\1 3 \i*>j>\ fol. 184 b.
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etc., fol. 278 a. intended for diagrams have Many spaces been left blank.
b.

103119.

mostly addressed to

Complimentary letmen of rank in

262

6.

Secret locks,

Bengal.
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122

129.

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See p. 756

295344. O^o ^y-, an

Indian

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l-'Izz

B.

IsmuM Raz-

of the 18th century.

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^U

in his preface that, after testing by experiments the devices of ancient and modern writers, with many of his own in-

The author says

"The
Ja*far

stages of victory," by

Muhammad

Shamlu, jUU. ^n*>.

I;

Beg. o-^}It

/ '*3

^3

vention, he had exhibited his results to AbulFath Mahmud B. Muhammad Kizil Arslan,
,'j.i

r?-j

^V-/

JjJ

*+*

***

*V

Atabak of AzarA.H. 582 to 587), and b.iijfm, reigned from had availed himself of the experience and
(Kizil Arslfm B. Ilduguz,

was written by desire of the Safavi prince, Abul-Fath Sultan Muhammad Shah Bahadur Khiin (see p. 133 b). The author, who calls himself a born servant of the Safavi house, states in the preface that he

advice of that master of the art in composing the present work, which he wrote under the

auspices of the reigning

Imam, Nasir Abul-

*Abbas

Ahmad, Amir ul-Muminin (A.H. 675622). The work is divided into six sections *y,
comprising altogether fifty figures treat of the following subjects
:

youth Shiihrukh Shah, a same family (see p. 194 6), and had been attached towards the end of his career to Muhammad Beg Khan Hamadani in India, but that for he had twenty-five years in middle life Durrani in his followed Ahmad Sultan successive incursions into Hindustan, and

had served in descendant on

his

his mother's side of the

J&. They
1.

had been engaged in that

prince's victorious

Hour-

encounter with Visvas Rai and Bhao on the

840
field of

MANUSCRIPTS OP MIXED CONTENTS.

queror of the realms of Caesar and Khiikan, 'J eiiU (probably Shaikh Hasan yjlSli- j j*xj
Ilkani,
It is

Panipat, A.H. 1174. He adds that his record of that battle is based upon his own observation and upon information re-

ceived from trustworthy reporters. It must be noticed, however, that his account is upwards of thirty years posterior
to the

reigned A.H. 737 757). divided into a Mukaddimah, two

:

who

event
it

suggestion
until

prince at whose was written did not reach India

;

for

the

and a Khatimah, as follows dimah treating of the pulse, hygiene, humours of the body, etc., in twelve FaslsJ Maksad i. Treatment of diseases, fol. 25 a.
sads,

MakMukad-

A.H. 1206.

Muhammad Beg Khan

in ten Babs, of the

fol.

28

a.

Maksad
a.

Hamadani, afterwards Iftikhar ud-Daulah Firuz Jang, was one of the principal officers of Najaf Khan, who died A.H. 1196, and
survived his chief several years. Both he and Sindhiah, who died A.H. 1208, are spoken of by the author as dead.

spheres, planets,
fol.

n. treating calendar, etc., in

fourteen Fasls,

44
fol.

Khatimah. Meb.

dical prescriptions,

51

A
foil.

full

table

of

contents

is

prefixed,

611.
Poll. 55

II.

66.

List of medicaments
i

The work
viz.
I.
:

consists of

two

distinct parts,

Poll. 1

10.

Description of the route

to Dehli, with notices on

mentioned in the Ikhtiyarat p. 469 a).

III.

Badi'i

(see

from Kandahar
II. Toll. 11

Poll.

the principal stages.

24.

of

names

short dictionary in Arabic, Persian, and of drugs,

71

78.

Hindi.

Account of the
is

battle

of Panipat. translation

IV. Poll. 79

174.

*>

&\ u^kj, a
See
p.

treatise

by Major Fuller

preserved

on medicaments, by Yusufl.
Beg.
f\j* f\*

475

b.

in manuscript, Add. 30,784, foil. 81100. The greater part of it will be found, with an account of the work by Prof. Dowson, in
Elliot's History, vol. viii. pp.

J^

(3^- i/<*N

J-ii

We
that
It is

it

144

157.

learn from a Kit'ah at the beginning was written for Humayun in A.H. 946. divided into two Babs, treating of simple

and compound medicaments, in alphabetical

Add. 17,955.
218 8 in. by 4^ 14 and 16 lines, written in Shikastah-amiz ; 4 in- l n g dated A.H. 1169 (A.D. 1755).
Poll.
; ;

order.

V. Poll.

174218.
and

collection of

me-

dical extracts

prescriptions.

It includes

>

1755. (jli> j^tf, a manual of and astrology. medicine Author Pakhr ul-Islam (?) B. Kutb udDin un-Nassabah ul-Husaini ul-'Ubaidl ulI.

Poll.

a treatise on the healing properties *j* of natural substances, foil. 196 211, described at the end as abridged from the Tibb Dava'iyah of

Hakim Isma'il, physician of Timur,

Arghandi ul-Khurasa.nl,

[p^L-t^]

Add. 17,958.
Poll.

63; Si

in.

by 5|; 15
;

lines,

3|

in.

long

written in Nestalik

dated Zulka'dah,

Beg.
dedicated to a sovereign designated as Shah Hasan, described as conis

A.H. 123 (probably

I.

for 1123,
<^JAU

A.D. 1711).

The work

on

239. *i^ alchemy j~\ J^,

Poll.

*&\ a

treatise

translated

from an

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

Arabic work ascribed to Abu 'All Mansur B. Nizar al-Hiikim Billah (more correctly
lines,

841

about 4
I.,

in.

dated Rabi'

long written in Nestalik the 5th year of 'AlamgTr II.

;

al-Hakim Bi Amr-illah)

(A.H. 1172, A.D. 1758).

[Wii. YULE.]

U
It
ii
is

Jstated in a short preamble that al-

1230. Translation of the Upanishads by Dara-Shikuh. See p. 54. In this copy the translator's preface is
I.

Foil.

who sat on the throne from A.H. 386 410 (the real date of his disappearance is A.H. 411; see Ibn Khallikan, de Slane's translation, vol. iii. p. 449), had written the
akim,
to
original

followed by a glossary of Sanskrit terms, and a table of the Upanishads.

II. Foil.

231248.
a, vii.

Majma' ul-Bahrain.

See

p.

828

work

for his

son

Abu

'1-Husain.

III. Foil.

248259.
life

An

abstract of con-

The

give his name, been ordered to prepare a says that he had version of that treatise, which he calls c
translator,
JJ'o

who does not

versations between

Shikuh on the
Fakirs,

Baba La'ldas and Dara and doctrine of Hindu

II.

Foil.

39

53.
in

An

alchemical tract

which each section begins, headed^l ^b, as in the preceding, with the words " O my
son,"

j-3, ^f\

III. Foil.

5462.

Another tract on the

alloys,

copy is mentioned by Prof. Palmer in his Catalogue of King's College Library, No. 14.

art of gildini;

and on various

with the

heading
Foil. 23;

Add. 18,417.
Add. 17,967.
7$ in. by 4$; 14 lines, 3 in. written in Nestalik, in the 18th cenlong;
tury.

[WM. YCLE.]
See
p.

78 ; 9 by 6| ; written by different hands, about the beginning of the 19th

Foil.
in.

Manazil ul-Futuh.

839

b.

century.
I.

Foil. 1 Foil.

10.

Alchemical recipes.
Table of the contents
Foil.

Add. 18,422.
43
;
;

II.

1121.

of

Kisms I. m. of >-&* (see p. 122 6), drawn up by Munshi Ghulam Muhammad,

in.

j\

long

7 1 in. by 6 ; from 14 to 20 lines, written in Shikastah, in the 18th

century.
I.

[WM. YULE.]

A.H. 1222.
Extracts relating chiefly to alchemy, with English notes by Doctor
III. Foil.

Foil.

128.

2178.

(see p. r), the latter part of the

II. Foil.

402

Dastur ul-'Amal Agahi wanting the first page and work.

Fouget.

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10

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by 6$; from 17 to 21

VOL.

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30 43. Account of the author's and back journey from Cawnpore to Benares, and Partabgarh to Luckthrough Jaunpur now, from the 23rd of April 1798 to the 8th of October in the same year, with descrip3 G

842
tions

MANUSCRIPTS OE MIXED CONTENTS.

and
historical accounts of the localities

traversed.

On fol. 29 b, Major Yule has written " Journal of my friend Muhumraud Buqqa j.^*) from Juanpore to Lucnow, 1798." ('Jb
:

and another work of the same writer ^fits title the date of its (_^>\j^\ expresses by A.H. 1177. composition,

The

Talif

Sharif has been lithographed

in Dehli with the Alfaz ul-Adviyah, A.H. 1265. See the Journal of the Asiatic Society

Add. 18,870.
Eoll. 4.11;
I.

of Bengal, vol. 20, p. 620, and Biblioth.. second edition, Sprenger., No. 1901.

Ofin. by

5}.

lithographed in Dehli,

Eoll.

2143;
;

written in Nestalik

15 lines, 3f in. long; dated Haidarabad, Ju-

mada

I.,

A.H. 1252 (A.D. 1836).

A.H. 1280, contains, besides, the Tuhfah i 'Alamshahi or Khavas ul-Javahir by the same author, also dedicated to Shah 'Alam, and some other medical
tracts

Acollection of medical prescriptions classed under the diseases, beginning with the heading ^ i^\
l

by the author's grandson, Ghulam

B.

Muhammad
'All

Hakim Muhammad Sadik Khan B. Hakim Muhammad Sharif Khan.

<_jJjM (J*\f\

An
64

This
dia.

a late compilation written in InGhazi ud-Dln Khan, Vazir ul-Mamalik

is

" English translation, entitled the Taleef Shereef, or Indian materia medica," has been

(A.H. 1174)

is

mentioned on
foil.

fol.

a.

published by Dr. George Playfair, Calcutta, 1833.

III.

table is prefixed,
II.

2
;

4.

Eoll.

290411;

21

lines,

3|

in.

long;

Eoll.

144289
i_Jb

written by the same

_JLV3

dated Shavval, A.H. 1101 (A.D. 1690).

hand.

>

Indian materia medica, or dictionary of simple medicaments.

work on the medicinal properties of animals, extracted from DamirFs Arabic work
called

Author Hakim Muhammad Sharif Khan, son of Hazik ul-Mulk Hakim Muhammad Akmal Khan, J
:

^^
"
:

^i- (see the Arabic Catalogue,

p. 215).

Author

Muhammad

Taki Tabriz!, son of

Khwajah Muhammad,
Beg.
X

Beg.

The author
found the

says in the preface that, having

and jy+* far from ^j>j&> ^b complete, he had undertaken to supplement them from Hindu, works, as well as from experience gained by himself and his foreHe adds that he had fathers before him.
performed that task while besieged by the unbelievers and deprived of books.
In the introduction the author says that, with regard to the names of drugs, he conforms with the usage of Shahjahanabad (Dehli). Another copy, Or. 1696, contains a
dedication to

&\

The work of Damlri having been mentioned in an assembly of learned men in the house of the author's patron, Navvab Mirza Muhammad Ibrahim, .son of Sadr ud-Din Muhammad, during the reign of Shah 'Abbas II. (A.H. 10521077), the author was desired to write the present abridgment, in which he followed the alphabetical order of the original.

See Stewart's Catalogue,

p. 96.

Add. 18,873.
Eoll.

Shah 'Alam (A.H. 11731221),

239

12

in.

by 7

25

lines,

4J

in.

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

dated long ; written in small Nestalik Kazvin, Eajab, A.H. 999 (A.D. 1591).
;

843
:

portion of the sixth volume of the Rauzat us-Safa, corresponding to pp. 1 84 of the Bombay edition.
I.

Foil.

188.

The

first

177 ft), containing The Institutes, about three pages at the beginning wanting The De(White's edition, pp. 162 408).
(see p.

signs pp.

and

Enterprises

(White's

edition,

2152).

II. Foil.
first

89239. The latter half of the yolume of Habib us-Siyar, beginning

p.

Add. 19,344.
miscellaneous Oriental papers, by George Viscount Valentia, of which the following are Persian
Foil. 24;

with

24 of Juz

2,

Bombay

edition.

collected

I.

Foil. 1

6.

Add. 18,879.
Foil.

Letters written to Lord

:

Valentia,
lines,
1
.

by the following native princes

214 ; 9

in.

by 7

13 and 11

written in Nestalik, on English paper watermarked 1809.

Letters and other prose compositions of Mirza T.iliir Vahid.
I.

Udit Niiriiyan Singh, Rfijah of Benares, apologizing for not calling upon Lord Valentia in Benares

(March 1803;

see Lord
p. 104).

Foil. 1

152.

Valentia's Voyages and Travels, vol. i. 2. Vazir ul-Mamiilik Sa'adat 'All

Beg. CJL>

iU.

*-><*** */ '*-U

sending his his portrait

3.

affectionate
;

Khan, remembrance and dated 28 Sha'bSn, A.H. 1218

See
ib.,

(December 1803).

The contents agree substantially with those of Add. 7090, i. See p. 810 b.
II.

Foil.

153214.
Insha
i

The

first

half

of
p.

Khan, dorsement Mirza Jungly, referring to the late Navvab's regard, and assuring Lord
'Ali

Shahamat

pp. 135175. called in the en-

Daftar II. of
a.

Abul-Fazl.

See

Valentia of the Bcgam's and his

ship.

own

friend-

Add. 18,882.
by 6 17 lines, 3| in. long; in Shikastah-amiz ; dated Shawal, written AJL 1081 (A.D. 1671).
Foil. 85;

Transcript of a Kit 'ah engraved on the bridge of Jaunpur, and containing the date
II.

of

in.

construction, A.H. 975. See ib., p. 124. For the rest of the contents see the
its

Arabic Catalogue,

p. 532.

I.

Foil. 1

14.

collection

of letters
Foil. 191
;

Add. 19,497.
10
in.

and short prose compositions by Nur ud-Din

Muhammad
end.

in the (see p. 792 a), imperfect

by 6

15
;

lines,

in.

long

written in Nestalik

dated Shawal,

Beg.

jt* j

^ 3J&M*~**>

A.H. 1244 (A.D. 1829). Memoirs of Shaikh MuI. Foil. 1109.

girnagar, collection includes a dedication of the **ft*U (see p. 792 a) to the author's patron,

range from A.H. 1025 to 1037. Some are written from JahanThe Bengal, others from Lahore.

The dates

of the letters

hammad
II.

'All IJazin.

See

p.

381

a.

Foil.

110191.

Notices on contem-

porary poets, by the same.

See p. 372

b.

^U Khanahzad Khan
II.

Firuzjang (see

p.

509
of

a).

Add. 19,619.
Foil. 310; 8i in.

Foil.

1585.

The memoirs

Timur

by

4.J

16

lines,

n.

3 o 2

844

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

opium, by Mahmud B. Mas'ud ut-Tabib ('Imad ud-Dln ; see p. 474 a).

long; written in Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins ; dated Jumada II., A.H. 1103

(A.D. 1692).
I.

[SAMUEL LEE.]
<_yUi

Foil.

3128.
its

^^ f V

treatise

on wine,

beneficial properties,

and

U Beg. r*Jt, ^U!\j <5Uil J* The treatise is divided into a Mukaddimah, an Asl, and a Khatimah. See Haj. Khal.,
vol.
iii.

J j^

legitimate use.

p. 368.

Author
mad,
Beg.

KazI B. Kashif ud-Dln Muham-

IV. Foil.

243247.
247262.

Two Arabic

tracts;

see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 458.

V.

Foil.

j& ^^

jJL-,, a

Mirza KazI, whose father Kashif was physician to Shah 'Abbas I., was horn in Isfahan, and became Shaikh ul-Islam in that city. He died in Ardahll A.H. 1075. See Kisas
ul-Khakani, fol. 159. This work was written, as stated in the 'Abbas I. It preface, by order of Shah
is

treatise

on China

root, by 'Imad

ud-Dln

Mahmud.
Beg- gj\j u>\j*

^ J^- &t t^3

{

^>w\v i<&j>
iii.

See above,
p.

art.

ii.,

Haj. Khal. vol.

Catalogue, p. 112, p. 44, and Fleischer's 513. Leipzig Catalogue, p.

386,

Stewart's

the

Copenhagen Catalogue,

Mukaddimah, thirty Babs, and a Khatimah, and was completed in Bajab, A.H. 1037, a few months after the
Shah's death.
II.

divided into a

VI. Foil. 263265. the same subject.

Another

treatise

on

Author

Nur

Ullah,

commonly

called 'Ala,

Foil.

129156.

on the medicinal Chub i Chinl, or China root, by the same author.

tract

a <-*,. JL. .,, properties of the

coffee,

Beg.

and

tea,

Beg. J\* ^>\M\ Jb\

**

Of>

41

*+^

The author, who wrote in A.H. 944, says that he had spent twenty years in India, and
had obtained his information on China root from a European physician. See Haj. Khal.,
vol.
iii.

(JH<>\ I^JfHtl

This work was also written in the reign of 'Abbas I.

p. 386.

The Chub

Chini, also called

^^

~>,

VII. Foil.

265270.
474
a).

A tract

on the Pa-

is here said to have been introduced T>y Europeans and to have spread in Irak at the

zahr or bezoar-stone, by 'Imad ud-Din

Mah-

mud

(see p.

beginning of the reign of Shah Ismful.

VIII. Foil.
it,

An
by
p.

earlier

but insufficient account of

" the late " 'Irnad

Nauras
stones;
disiacs,

ud-Dm Mahmud

Extracts from the Shahi on the bezoar and precious

notices

270285.

(see

474

a), is

mentioned in the preface.

is
:

on aphroweights and measures, and on China

miscellaneous

The work
three Babs
Fasls,
fol.

divided into the following in fourteen 1. China root,

2.

root.

IX. Foil.

285308.

treatise

on Ata-

3. Tea, fol.

130 a. 155 b.

Coffee,

fol.

154

a.

shak, or venereal disease, by 'Imad ud-Dln

Mahmud.
yyjtf

III. Foil.

157162.

'JU,, a treatise

on the beneficial and injurious properties of

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formerly unknown, had lately been treated of by Mir Baha ud-Daulah Nurbakhshi. The author improved the leisure he enjoyed during a stay at Mashhad

845
Bakir,

That

disorder,

hammad Taki B. Muhammad

Beg.

Jp

ijjLaj

^--y J^ lib*

to write a fuller account of

it.

This discourse was handed down, as the

translator states in his preface, by Mufazzal B. 'Umar, a disciple of Imam Jafar. In his

Add. 19,621.
Foil. 150; 8 in. by 5 with 22 lines in the
fair Nestalik
;

introduction Mufazzal relates

distressed

how he had been

2| in. long, margins; written in dated Jumiida II., A.H. 1139

;

13

one day in Medina by the bold

lines,

negations of an atheist called Ibn Abil-'Auja,

and how

his master

Imam

Ja'far, seeing his

(A.D. 1726).
I.

[SAMUFL LEE.]

Foil.

3121.
See
p.

The Divan of Kasim

b.

perplexity, had promised him comfort and assurance. This preamble is followed by the discourse addressed by Ja'far to Mufazzal,

Divanah.

707

who acts as his interlocutor.

It is

divided into

and margins of foil. 3 150. Mahmud and Ayiiz, by Zulali, with the preII. Foil. 1, 2,

four sittings (jJ^*, held on successive days.

face.

See p. 677

a.

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2$

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long; written in fair Nestalik, with 'Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the

8$

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16th century.
lines,
I.

3$ in. long; written apparently early in the 18th century.

I.

Foil.
p.

160.
a.

Khulasat ul-Khamsah.

See

575
:

Foil.

132.

Babavaih.
II. Foil.

Shi'ah creed by Ibn See the Arabic Catalogue, p. 385.

The

Copyist
II.

Foil.

61-109.
p.

Majma' ul-Abkar, by

l^} a popular of Shi'ah tenets, by Muhsin B. exposition

t

3372.

jftUl

'Urfi.

See

667

b.

Murtaza

(see p.

830

a).

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It is also called

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3 in. dated

Aurangabad, Safar, A.H. 1090 (A.D. 1679).

I.

Foil.
b.

630.
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Gulshan

Raz.

See

unity,

holiness,

of

resurrection, the terrors

prophetship, of death,

Imaraat,

p.

608
II.

heaven
Foil.

and

hell.
Foil.

jy}\

a Sufi poem,
a).

by Amir Husain!
73 162. J-ii. **?>? **,>, a discourse of the Imam Ja'far S.ulik on the proofs which the scheme of creation affords of the existence, unity, and attributes of the Creator; translated from the Arabic by MuIII.

(see p.

608

Beg
See Sprcngcr, Oude Catalogue, p. 431, Haj. Khal., vol. v. p. 25i, KrnfTt, p. 66, Ouseley's

810
Catalogue,

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No. 677, and the Gotba Cata288) the narrative 1L88.
is

brought down to A.H.

logue, p. 12.

m.

Foil.

54

87.

Zad ul-Musafirin, by
a.

An
vol.
i.

account of the work, with some exgiven in Elliot's History of India,

Amir Husaini.

See p. 608

tracts, is

Add. 21,589.
6 in. written in small Nestalik, with 'Unlong dated Rajab, van and gold-ruled margins
Foil.
;

Some chapters trans351. pp. 327 lated by T. Postans will be found in the
Journal of the As. Soc. of Bengal, vol.
vii.,

527

13|

in.

by 9J

25

lines,

pp. 96104, and 297310. It is divided into three volumes (Mujallad), the contents of which are as follows
:

A.H. 1246 (A.D. 1830).

I.

[JAMES BIRD.]
fJ^, a work

Volume

I.,

divided into a
;

Foil.

1338.

A<N

on

and three Daftars tion and Genii, fol.

fol.

viz.

Mukaddimah Mukaddimah. CreaDaftar

i.

2 a.

Prophets,

general history from the earliest times to A.H. 1180, comprising a special history of
Sind.

Author

Mir

'All Shir

Kani
xj'ji

Ancient kings of Persia, Arabia, etc., fol. 38 a. Sages, saints, and poets, anterior to the Islam, fol. 62 b. Daftar n. His Genealogy of Muhammad, fol. 73 b.
3
a.

-*JL&

Beg.

^K*

i^y5T t^ Jp>- iW-

^
'Iz-

The author, the fourth son of Sayyid zat-Ullah, who died A.H. 1161, traced

his

origin to Kazi Shukr-Ullah, a distinguished Sayyid of ShTraz, who had settled in Tattah

The first four Khalifs, fol. 87 b. The Imams, fol. 100 b. Descendants of the Imams, fol. 112 b, Daftar n., in three Tabakahs 1. Umayyades, fol. 116 b. Amirs of the Umayyades, fol. 120 b. Men who rose against the Umayyades, fol. 124 b.
life,

fol.

75

a.

2.

Abbasides,

fol.

132

a.

Abbasides

of

A.H. 927 (see fol. 316 b). 'AHslur, who was born A.H. 1140, began writing poetry at the early age of twelve, under the takhallus of Mazhari, which he afterwards changed to that He composed a poem of about 3000 of Kani distichs on. the story of Kamrup and Karnlata in A.H. 1169, another Masnavi, Kaza u Kadar
1
.

Egypt, fol. 146 b. Amirs and Vazlrs of the Abbasides, fol. 147 a. Men who rose against the Abbasides, fol. 156 b. The Karmatites, fol. 158 b. 3. Dynasties contemporary with
the Abbasides.

This last Tabakah

sections
(Asiis),

is

subdivided into nine

follows
:

as

1.

A.H. 1157, a poem entitled j=- L^JJ jl *in A.H. 1165, a Divan in A.H. 1171, and several prose works, one of which is called
in
.w-.Ufr

Saffaris, Samanis, GhazuavTs, Ghuris, Al

Tab iris, i Bu-

vaih, Saljukls, Khwarazmshahis, Atabaks, Isma'ills of Egypt, Ayyiibis, Isma'llis of Ku-

gj\3

(see fol. 498).

states in the preface that he had the present work in his 40th year, and begun that the date of composition, A.H. 1180, is

The author

conveyed by the title *y& c^Jb2- Two versified chronograms at the end give A.H. 1181

But it as the date of its completion. have received later additions ; for

must more

'Abd ul-Mumiu, Karakhita'Is of 160 b. 2. Caesars, Saljuks of Kirman, Rum, Danishmandis Salikis, Manguchakis, Karaman, Zulkadr, fol. 169 a. 3. Sharlfs of Mecca and Medina, fol. 169 b.- 4. Chingiz Khan and his descendants in Ulugh Yurt, Dasht Kipchak, Iran, andTuran; theShaibanis, and the Khans of Kashghar, fol. 169 b.
histan, Al
i

fol.

recent dates are mentioned, as A.H. 1183, foil. 195 a, 198 a ; and in one passage (fol.

Local dynasties of Iran after the Moghuls, namely, the Chauprmis, Ilkanis, Al i Muzaffar, 6. The Kurts, and S'arbailars, fol. 179 b.
5.

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

Kara Kiiyunlus,
fol.

847

fol.

183

yunlus, raur and his successors in Iran and Tiirfm,

foil.

183 b

8.

a. 7. The Ak KuThe Safavis, ib. 9. Ti-

183186.
II.

Governors under the Abbasides, fol. 261 a. Governors under the Sultans of Ghaznah, Tabakah i Ghiir, and Dehli, fol. 261 b. the Sammah Jams of Sutnarah, fol. 203 b.
tribe,
fol.

contains an Introduction (Muon the inhabited quartor of the kaddimah) globe, and seven sections (Makalah), treating
principal countries and cities belonging to each climate are enumerated, with accounts of their rulers

Volume

267

a.

Tabakah

Arghun,

fol.

269 a. Tabakah i Tarkhan, to the death of (Jhfi/i Beg, A.H. 1021, with an account of
the conquest of Sind by Akbar, fol. 272 a. Amirs of the Arghun and Tarkhan dynasties,

of the seven climates.

The

and biographical notices of their celebrated men. The contents are: Mukaddimah, fol. 180 b. First climate, fol. 187 a. Second
climate,
ib.
fol.

190 201

a.

Kings
fol.

of Bengal,
b.

Kings of the Deccan, fol. 199 b. Third Kings of Hindustan, to 'Alamgir II., fol.
last portion

climate,

from
231.

Mahmud Ghaznavi
211
b.

Amirs of the Timurides, and governors of Tattah, from A.H. 1002 to 1149, fol. 281 a. Rule of the Kalurah 'Ahhasiyyah family from its origin to A.H. 1188, fol. 284 a. Enumeration of the cities and towns of Sind, with notices of the Sayyids, Shaikhs, and other eminent men of each, beginning with Multan and closing with Tatfol.

279

a.

Princes and Amirs of the Dehli emsection,

tah, fol.
II.

288

b.

pin-, foil. 2-10 b,

this

the

(The whole of

of
Foil.

the

339447.

and the first part of the fifth, The latter part of the sing.
1

fourth, are misfoil.

filth,

lives of celebrated Shaikhs, and heads of religious orders, from the time of Muhammad

7.

treats of

Samarkand, Kash, Nasaf,

to the close of the twelfth century of the

1 1

Nakhshab, Karshi, Bukhara, etc.). Sixth Sultans of Kashghar, fol. climate, fol. 247 b. 249 a. Seventh climate, fol. 252 a. Khfitimah distances between the principal cities, fol. 253 a.
;

ij

rah,

by the same author.

U331

Beg.

vi^J*

^-^

Jj
it

'f-

]$*'

<^

This work was composed,

is

stated, in

Volume III., treating of the history of Sind. The author mentions as his sources,
an ancient record of the Arab conquest, which 'Ali B. Ham id B. Abi Bakr ul-Kufi, of Uchh, translated from the Arabic, A.H. 613 (see p. 2906), then tinhistories of Mir Ma'sum Bhakari (p. 291 a), and Mir Muhammad Tahir Nisy.mi (p. 292 A), the Arghun Namah, Tarkhfm Namah, and
in the first place,

A.H. 1202 (a date expressed by the title), when the author had nearly completed his He had written in the same year i-d year.
, :

two other works on kindred titled ji-, J^OLJ*< *** and

It contains

subjects, en-

an introduction treating of the and twelve Vilayat, or sainUhip, fol. 340 a, sections termed Mi'yar, on the following
subjects
1.
:

Holy men of the

first

Beglar

Namah
:

(see Elliot, vol.

i.

pp.

1^'J

the

four

century, namely, Khalifahs, the uncles and

first

and 300).
Contents Mukaddimah. Description of Sind, fol. 254 b. Tabakah i Rayan, or Hindu Rajahs, fol. !:>:> b. Tabakah i Barahimah, rule of the Brahmans, fol. 250 a. Conquest by

cousins of the Prophet, his principal Comtheir panions, the first three Imams and men of the 2. Holy children, fol. 341 b.

second century, including especially the founders of the fourteen Khanavads, or religious families,
fol.

Muhammad

B. Kasim,

fol.

Governors under the Umayyadcs,

fol.

257 2GO

b.

350

a.

a.

The remaining

Mi'yars, treating, in

the

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MANUSCRIPTS OP MIXED CONTENTS.

Foll.

same

order, of the saints of each succeeding century, begin as follows

:

11.

Original

minutes of the

357 a,. 4, fol. 367 a. 5, fol. 375 379 b. 7, fol. 391 ft. 8, fol. 401 b. 6, 11, fol. 428 ft. 10, fol. 421 a. 9, fol. 410 ft. 12, fol. 436 a. They all contain numerous
3, fol.
fol.

a.

examination of two troopers, Hashim Khan and Nur Khan, arrested by order of Capt. James W. Skinner on a charge of bribery, at Sikrah, Bikanir, and tried in June and July
1813.

notices,

arranged in chronological order.

III. Toll.

448 -527.

*V^ d/JUi-, notices

Foil.
I.

Add. 22,695.
159
;

on the poets of Sind, alphabetically arranged

suraccording to their names or poetical names, with copious specimens of their Mir compositions, by the same author,
'Alishir Kani'.

10

in.

in. long; lines, 4 minute Nestalik, apparently in written in

Foil.

239;

by 25

7.

the 15th century.

y* *+ The author states that, having found that the two Tazkirahs most frequently quoted in his day, namely >yi5\ c^Utf by Muhammad Afzal Sarkhush (see p. 369 a), and
Beg.
SUftLiM i'yUb <_>oi\JA :
j

U UJ^

A history of the Saljukis, from their

to their extinction in

origin

A.H. 590.
B.

Author
Husaini,

Muhammad
JJ

Muhammad

B.

Muhammad

B. *Abd ullah B. un-Nizam ul-

jj
a,

by Mir Ghulam

'Ali

Azad

(see

p.

No. 14), were very deficient with regard to the Sind poets, and that there existed no special work on that subject, he

374

Beg.

had undertaken the present composition in A.H. 1169, while engaged upon his poem of Kamrup and Kamlata, and had completed it
in A.H. 1174, a date expressed by its title. The author devotes an extensive notice to

The author, who occasionally diverted his mind from the pursuit of divinity and law
by perusing the records of
as
history, fell in,

498 509, in which he gives copious extracts from his poems and prose
himself,
foil.

works.

from the subscriptions, foil. 185 b, 338 ft, 447 ft, that this volume was written by Mihr 'All Husaim for an amir of Sind named Mir Murad 'Ali Khan Talpar,
It appears

book in which the writer, only designated as an had accomplished Imam, j\*i> J^Ai Jl j\ recorded the rise and progress of the Saljukis down to the end of the reign of Sultan Mahmud B. Muhammad B. Malakshah (A.H. 511 525), an epoch which he looked upon Conas the beginning of their decline.
stated in the preface, with a
.,

sidering,

Add. 21,625.
Foil.

however, that several mighty sovereigns of the same line had sat upon the throne during a subsequent period of nearly eighty years, the author had been

34

12

in.

by

9.

Miscellaneous

Oriental papers collected by 01. J. Kich (see the Arabic Catalogue, p. 530). The following are Persian
:

induced to compose a complete history of The preface concludes with a the dynasty.
panegyric on a just and powerful Vazir, whose name is not explicitly stated, but From this it may is said to adorn the work.

Pol. 4.

detached leaf of the Iskandar

Namah

of Nizami, containing the rubric

be supposed that its title 'Irakiyyah is de" rived from the Vazlr's surname 'Iraki."

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

written in ornate prose, freely interspersed with Arabic and Persian verses, much in the style of the well-known contemis

849
Tarikh
i

The work

Shahi by Khwajah Shihab ud-Din Abu Said; but the events which followed the death of Padishah

written under the

title of

porary writer, Vassif. The time of composition is fixed by an incidental mention of Uljaitu
as the reigning sovereign (A.H. 703 716), and a description of his splendid residence,

Khatun (A.H. 694) had not yet been recorded. At the request of some friends, who regarded him as one of the most elegant
j

namely

Sultaniyyah, which was

founded

A.1I. 705 (see D'Ohsson, vol. iv. p. 485). The earlier history referred to in the preface is probably the Saljuk Namah of Zahir

writers of the age, he took up the subject, and brought down the history to the extinction of the dynasty. The work was written at the beginning of A.H. 716, and dedicated to an illustrious Amir sent at that

ud-Din Nishapuri mentioned as one of the sources of the Guzidah. See Haj. Khal.,
vol.
iii.

time by the Ilkhani Court to Kirman, Isan

Kutlugh Nuyan u by
a noble Uighur,
Alt.

{sr^\

B.

Amir

Zingi,

p. 606.

who

traced his origin to

Khan.
:

II.

Foil.

40159;
LLJ1

15

lines,

3J

in.

long;

written in Nestalik, apparently in the 16th

Preface, including a review of the principal dynasties of Iran, fol. 40 b.

Contents

century.
history of the Kara-Khhu'is of from their rise to their downfall'.

Sketch of the early history of Kirman, fol. 64 a. (For a more detailed account of that

Kirman

period the reader is referred to the work of Afzal ud-Din K&tib Mustaufl.) Nusrat ud-

Beg.

(^UJ
is

Din

Kutlugh

Sulfm

Burak

founder of the dynasty, who

Hajib, the died A.H. 632,

The author's name, Ndsir ud-Din,

found
in the preface
;

not

after a reign of fifteen years,

fol.

67

a.

Kutb

but it occurs in the following line, the first of a poem composed in his praise by the Sadr Mayd ud-Din, and quoted on fol. 119
:

ud-Din Abul-Fath

Muhammad

B.

Jamtimur,

nephew and successor of the preceding, fol. 72 b. Rukn ud-Din B. Burak, who succeeds A. H. 633, fol. 75 a. Second reign of Kutb udDin, A.H. 650655. Regency of Tsmat udDin Kutlugh Turkan, the widow of the preMuzafFar ud-Din Hajjfij ceding, foL 86 b.
Sultan, son of K ut h ud-Din, fol. 88 a. Jalfil ud-Din Suyurghatmish, son of the preceding, who succeeds his father A.H. 681. fol. 104 a The daughter of the above, Padishah Khatun, A.H. 691691, fol. 124 a. MuzaSar ud-Din

His father, Khwiijah Muntajab ud-Din 'Umdat ul-Mulk Yazdi, had left his native place Yazd, A.H. 6-50, as stated fol. 80, to attach himsolf to Kutb ud-Din Muhammad, Sultan of K inn m, and had become the
trusted adviser of that sovereign.

Nasir ud-

Din, who was brought up by his uncle, Shihab ud-Din Abul-Hasan 'All Yazdi (see fol. 94), was appointed by Padishah Khatun, A.H. 693, although still young, to the headsecretaryship of the chancelry, UJ'^
(see
fol.

Shah, son of Hajjaj Sultan, who succeeds A.H. 694, fol. 136 b.

Muhammad
The

detailed narrative

comes

to

a close

J^j uA^ *
1

with the account of the chequered and intermittent rule of the last-named sovereign, who died at the age of twenty-nine years

129).
states in the preface that

The author
VOL.
II.

partial account of the Kara-Khita'is had been

A.H. 703). It is followed by a brief record of the appointments of Kutb ud-Din Shah Khatun (read Shah Jahan) by Ghiizan (A.H.
(

3 u

850
703),
fol.

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

155
b,
bii'is

and of Nasir ud-Din Muhammad B. Burhan by Uljaitu (A.H. 707), who was still on the throne at the time of
composition, fol. 157 b. Haj. Khal., who calls the author Nasir ud-

alphabetically arranged,
fol.

Mukhammasat,
Magnavis,
fol.

125

a.

114 Kit'ahs, fol. 131

fol.

b.

b.

141

b.

The

last section includes

Din Munshi Kirmani, speaks of an appendix coming down to the reign of Abu Said. See vol. iii. p. 618. Accounts of the KaraKhitals will be found in Tiirikh
vol.
i

of the kind called Wj*, by Mihri 'Arab, Mirza 'Abd ullah, surnamed 'Ishk.

two longer poems and

The prose portion, which is taken from some elegant writers who lived in India
under Shahjahan and Aurangzib, contains Journal of the siege of Haidarabad by Ni'mat Khan 'All (see p. 268 a), fol. 160 b. "Beauty and Love," by the same (see p. 703 b), fol. 210 b. A satire on doctors, by the same (see p. 744 b), fol. 223 a. ^s3 r^>and Love," by Tughra. Bahariyyah "Beauty
: .
(

Vassaf,

iii., where their history is brought down A.H. 694, in the Guzidah, and, with full details, in the geographical work of Hafiz Abru, foil. 147 155. See also Rauzat usSafa, vol. iv. p. 128, and Habib us-Siyar,

to

vol.

iii.,

Juz

2, p. 10.

&>j\^>,

and Murtafi'at
231
a.

ol*y, by

the same

Add. 22,789.
Foil.

(see p. 742), fol.

^^\ ^,

Muhammad
This last piece
late

Shafi'
is

340 ; 9|

in.

by 5f

long

written in Nestalik

14 lines, 3f in. dated Shaban,

Munshi, a statement addressed to the

irza by fol. 241 b.

A.H 1250
I.

(A.D. 1835).
292.
LJXr-*-

lawyers of Iran, respecting the estate of the Shahzadah (Muhammad Akbar, the
eldest son of Aurangzib),

who

died in Persia

(^&> a copious collection of select pieces in verse and in prose, compiled by Baka for Mirza Khusrau
Foil. 1

A.H. 1118, and to whose service the writer appears to have been attached.
in
II.

Beg. According to a versified chronogram at the end, fol. 292 a, the work was completed
in

Foil.

293338.

e^^l
at

ft "the

A.H. 1246

secret language of sweet-scented flowers," a description, in Masnavi rhyme, of the royal

garden

of

Sa'adat-abad,
iii.

Isfahan

(see

Ouseley's Travels, vol.

p. 19).

The

first

or

Author
poetical

portion,

although
Beg.

RamzT,
*

including verses of some early poets, deals chiefly with those who flourished in Persia

=~

.^g^yj

**

**

-**^jrfJ

J>

^***-^

about the close of the twelfth and in the

first

half of the thirteenth century of the Hijrah, as Sulaiman Sabahi (see Atashkadah,

Sayyid Muhammad Hatif (see p. 813 ft), Lutf 'All Beg Azur (see p. 375 a), Fath 'All Khan Kashi, surnamed Saba (see p. 722 a), 'Abd ul-Vahhab Nashat (see ib.),
fol.

ISO),

The author, whose proper name was Mirza Hadl, son of Mirza Habib, was a He is mentioned in the native of Kashan.
Kisas ul-Khakani, a work written A.H. 1076, fol. 170, as a poet and skilled painter, who

etc.

It contains the following divisions

a. Kasidahs, fol. Ghazals, without alphaDetached betical arrangement, fol. 57 b. in alphabetical order, fol. 85 b. Ruverses

was then past thirty years of age. After a eulogy on the reigning sovereign, Shah 'Abbas II., the poet relates how he had
been summoned to the Shah's presence in the royal garden, and desired to write a poem

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

in praise of
it.

851

The work concludes, how-

phet," consisting of moral precepts addressed

ever, witli
sain,

an address to Shah Sultan Huwho ascended the throne in A.H. 1105.

by

Muhammad
Bog.
S

to 'Ali,

and handed down by

the latter.

The present copy contains twenty-nine

coloured drawings representing the various flowers described in the poern.

two leaves contain a satire by Mirza Sharif on one of the Mustaufis of Shah Tahmasp. A table of contents has been
last

The

"Written by the same scribe as dated A.H. 848.

art.

i.,

and

prefixed to the volume,

foil. 1

3.

Add. 23,558.
Foil.

361

11$

in.

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by 7$; 21 lines, 6 in. long; written in bold Naskhi dated Shirfiz, Muharram, A.H. 847 (A.D. 1443).
Foil.
i':n>:

by 7J; 23

lines,
;

4|

in.

long

written

in

Shikastah-amiz

dated

10

Safar,

in.

A.H. 1100 (A.D. 1088). [ROBERT TAYLOR.]

I.

Foil.
o.

2243.

Ikhtiyarat

Badi'I.

See

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]
I.

p.

469

Foil.

2246

a.

The

first

volume of

the Persian Tabari

little

In the subscription of the first Makfdat, the work is designated as M iftali ul-Khaza'in,

(see p. 68), containing

more than a quarter of the work. This copy has no preface, but only a short
:

But called Ikhtiyarat i Badi'i. to another treatise the former title belongs

commonly

doxology in Persian, beginning

by the same author.

II. Foil.

See

ib.

u*\?-> a treatise on the medicinal properties of natural substances, without author's name.

243

276.

UM1

The

text
:

abridged the account of the creation of Adam (Zoten72) is condensed to berg's version, pp. 9 seven leaves, foil. 4 10. The history is

some parts considerably the introduction, which precedes

is

in

Beg.

.w^'i

^ ^ \t\ o-V- ^^ a* **!.<

^j

l_^'j

S^JUty)

It is said in the preamble that the number of Babs had been reduced from sixteen to

brought down to the death of Yazdajird

ul-

eight.

In the text, however, nine chapters

:

Asim (Zotenberg's

ver-ion, vol.

ii.

p. 104).

It is stated in the subscription that the

are found, treating of the following subjects Properties of various parts of the human

MS. was transcribed by Baha ud-Din B. Hasan B. Baha ud-Din, an attendant of the shrine of IlAji Bahft ud-Din 'Uman, near
Shiraz,

body ^LJ^ fol. 245 A,

insects,

belonged to the Sadr Ra'is Niziiri ud-Din, son of tin- Sadr Haji Fakhr
it

and that

262
fol.

a,

leaves,

244 a, of quadrupeds, 254 6, reptiles and birds, fol. 259 b, fruits and flowers, fol. seeds, fol. 270 b, herbs, fol. 271 b and stones, fol. 272 a, gums, ib.,
JU*, fol.
fol.
;

ud-Din Ahmad.
first half of a table of contents, occufour pages at the beginning, has been pying supplied by a later hand.

273

o.

The

III. Foil.

276

6294.

treatise in ten

chapters (Fasl) on hemorrhoids and three kindred diseases, jli 3 ij^^3 j**\

^-*V ^

II.

Foil.

240

-j

J*

/111,

252 b. J* y-^j *.U o^*, "the testament of the Pro-

Author
ut-Tabib,

Muhammad B.

Jamftl, called 'Ala

s-,2

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Haj. 494, and the Munich Catalogue, p. 110), and that he had drawn its matter from Greek and Arabic writers. It
(see

other work, entitled

Khal., vol.
iv., p.

^^

wytf

extract relating to the medicinal properties of various kinds of food, without title or author's name.

IV. Foil.

296305. An

is

divided into twenty-five Fasls. The author, who wrote several other works v on medicine and astrology, is stated by Haj.

Khal., vol.

The

rubrics have not been inserted.

them
a

v. p. 25, to have dedicated one of to Kilij Arslan RumI, while he com-

V. Foil. 306361. Jlil i treatise on compound medicaments. p. 473 b.

posed another,

<^J^\

wU^, for

Abul-Harig

See

Malakshah (see the Gotha Catalogue, p. 64). The former of these princes was apparently Kilij Arslan B. Mas'ud, who died A.H. 588,
nominal reign of nineteen years, during the latter part of which he had been confined in Kuniyah by his son Kutb ud-Din Malakshah. See Kamil, vol. xii. pp. 31 and
after a

Add. 23,568.
Foil. 102
;
;

7 in. by 5

from 18
in

to 23 lines,

85

in.

long

written

small

Nestalik ;

dated A.H.

889894
31.

(A.D.

14841489).

[ROBERT TAYLOR.]
I.

Wiistenfeld, Arabische Aertzte, p. 30, mentions the author without fixing his period.
57.

Foil. 2

+>.)&

commentary upon Din Tusi on the almanac, with the

p.

c^Jj* j a j<a'^ rj*> a the treatise of Nasir udtext.

The present work

Khal., vol.
vi. p.

mentioned by Haj. Ill, under the title of <i^*

is

See

452
Beg.

b.

^e\j

<o^)T

&j&\j
fol.

A*i J-

JlJb; but the author's name is altered to For similar works see the Bodleian Jalis.
Catalogue, vol.
III.
ii.

&JJI

p.

332, note
*3

i.

which the A.H. 727, it becomes probable that the commentary was
a passage,
is

From

7 a, in

Foil.

55

77.

&i^J*>

a manual

date of

Nauruz

fixed for

of astrology.

written in that year.

II. Foil.

Author

Nasir ud-Din Haidar B.

Muham-

mad

ush-Shirazi.
jl

3253.

on prognostics to be drawn from eclipses, storms, and other phenomena, according to

the time of their appearance in the solar
year.
it

^U\

Jj*1, a treatise

Beg.

CL/i C^NM\ t}J*

states
after

tS

^Ji-

O-'^* jj*"*

The author
A.H. 687,

that he had written

finishing another
It is

work

Author
ut-TiflisI,

Abu'1-Fazl Hubaish B. Ibrahim

divided into thirty called jU-N j.rf>j j. Bilbs, partly disposed in tabular form.

IV. Foil. 77

685. An

extract from a

Beg.

The work

is

intended, according to the

preface, to elucidate two books called t-jU^ ^*K one of which is ascribed to Daniel, and the other to Ja'far Sadik. The author says

with the heading It explains <_>U-,^j JLJ\ ^J JJL- oJVa*. in twenty questions and answers the origin and reasons of the terms and divisions
entitled
(itt

work

^'

-jj,

adopted by astronomers. See further on, Add. 27,261, xii., and Haj. Khal., vol. iii.
p. 512.

that he had written

it

after completing an-

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V. Foil.

853

86101.

An

account of the

Beg.

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title

This work, which has neither

nor pre-

Beg.

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face, was written, as appears from a reference to the current year, fol. 15 a, in A.H. 1203.

The author, who describes himself as a servant of the Dehli Court and an inhabitant
written this
of Lahore, states in the preface that he had work by desire of Major James

The

substantial agreement of the chapter relating to the Marattas with the Bisat ul-

Ghana'im of Lachhmi Narayan Shaflk (see is due p. 328 b) leads to the inference that it It is probably a later to the aame author.
edition or abridgment of the history of the Deccan which Lachhmi Narayan is known to

Mordaunt,
liiXita-

(J~**-

j? uHLJl^^^oi

Jjd>M

UJ^

i_^y
ar-

vZ*J^U> j<il# j!.j&\ t-x^Laibj*,

who had

rived at the capital A.H. 1197, and to whose service he was attached. He adds that he

have written A.H. 1200, a date expressed by its title <-Jj& j-JJ (see p. 238 b).
Contents: Introduction treating of the wealth of the Deccan, the manners and character of
its

had been
lah

assisted in its composition

by La&!^

'Aja'ib

Singh, of the Suraj tribe,

inhabitants,

warfare, fol. 2 a. origin to the rise

and their mode of The Bahmanis from their

of

The narrative, beginning with a short notice on Nanak and a meagre enumeration
of of his successors, becomes fuller for the time Guru Gobind, and still more so for the

Barld, fol. 3 a. The kings of Bijanagar from the accession of Tamraj to the death of his son Riimraj, in

Amir

A.H. 972,

fol.

a.

The 'AdilshahTs

subsequent period, in Avhich transactions are recorded year by year, from A.H. 1131 to 1178. The last event mentioned is the attack

of Bijapur

down to the capture of Sikandar, A.H. 1097, The Nizamshahis of Daulatabad fol. 15 b.
down to their extinction, A.H. 1040, fol. 43 b. The Kutubshahis down to the capture of GolSome chiefs conda, A.H. 1098, fol. 64 b. who attained a short lived independency, viz.
Bahadur Gilam, in Kokan, Dastur Dinar, an Abyssinian eunuch, in Hasanabad and Saghar, Fathullah 'Imad ul-Mulk in Berar, Amir Kasim Barid in Bedar, fol. 67 a.

on Ahmad Shah Durrani, during his retreat across the Satlaj, A.H. 1178. The author adds that from that time to the date of composition the Sikhs had remained in unof the Sikhs

disturbed possession of their territories.

III.
Foil.

137143.

Fragment

of

chronicle written in the reign of FarrukhIt contains an account of that emsiyar.

Asafjah Nizam ul-Mulk, and his successors, the Nizams of Haidarabad, down to the peace made by Nizam 'AH with Nana Pharnavis, The Marattas from the rise of the fol. 68 b.

and of the expedition of 'Abd us-Samad Khan, Subadar of Labore, against the Sikhs, which ended in the capture and execution of their chief Banda (A.H. 1126. See Khaf I Khan, vol. ii. p. 761).
peror's accession in Dehli,
'

It begins with the heading: i^*l-

Bhoslah family to the battle of Panipat, A.H. 1161, which is described at great length, Here the copy breaks off, the fol. 74 a. death of Jankojl being the last event recorded.
II.

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states incidentally, fol.

141

b,

that he served

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ac-

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Beg Khan,
written,

count of the Sikhs from their origin to A.H.

1178.

governor of Lahore.

Author

Budh

Singh, of the Khatri caste,

%

On the fly-leaf of the MS^ is "From Gen. Malcolm to Win.

Nov. 1811."

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sumamed Arurah,

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the death
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14

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is

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is

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and A.H. 1217 and 1218, by Munshi Yaman,

incursions of the Vahhitbis into Hijiiz
I.I.iji

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to prophets

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'Abd Ullah MakkL

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it

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name

at the begin-

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VI. Foil. 45
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232

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286.

Nuzhat ul-Arvah.

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40

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88

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I.

the leading disciples of Baha ud-Din died A.H. 802 ; See Nafahat, p. 445).

The writer

of the notice, better

known

Khwajah Muhammad

Parsa, an eminent

fol-

III.),

and a

letter to

Shaikh Abul-Fazl

by the same.

lower of the same master, died in Medina^ A.H. 822. See Nafahat, p. 448, Rashahat,
fol.

33,

and Habib us-Siyar,

is

vol.

iii.,

Juz

3,

p.

142.

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Khwajah 'Abd ul-Khalik Ghuj-

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This celebrated saint, son of Shaikh 'Abd ul- Jamil of Malatiyah, and one of the four
Khallfahs of
died

uJu? +j\> fij&i)

\jya-,

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Khwajah Yusuf Hamadam, who

Beg.

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A H.

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Namah,
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hat, foil.

See Nafahat ul-Uns, p. 431, Rasha6 and 12, and Haft Iklim, fol. 582.

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1950.

Sayings of Khwajah
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Baha ud-Din Nakshaband,

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hammad
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B.

Muhammad
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v^o]j tiy_,

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^j^V

^.uff,

by Farid Mas'ud

Abu Bakr 'Umar

the order called after him Nakshabandl, was born in Bukhara A.H. 728, and died A.H.
791.

Salah Bukhari.

Beg-

(_rJ.jj<i

*>.** .... (j^,^

See Nafahat, p. 439, Rashahat,

fol.

Vj
J

413

,xil

31,

JUxx^c JJ

i,

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VIII. Foil.

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Mu-

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863

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J1

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102104.

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a).

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14

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IV. Foil.

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Foil.
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184.
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Beg.

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S>i>\ ,xju

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The author, whose name does not appear,

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human
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111

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Maghrib, Spain, and other countries, translated from the Arabic of Sayyid 'Abd ul-Vahhab.
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Physiognomy, Author Muhazzib 'Abd ur-Eiza, l^Jl ij*

: l

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Contents Mukaddimah. Classification of the sciences, translated from Abu 'All Ibn
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RisalahiKhwajah'Abd
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<_J)/>,

with two circular diagrams; without author's

with 42 lines minute and neat Nestalik, with eleven highly finished 'Unvans and gilt headings; dated Zulhijjah, A.H. 821 (A.D. 1419).
;

by 7; 27 lines, 2 in. long, in the margins written in a

in.

name.

[Sir

JOHN MALCOLM.]

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

I.

867

The Khamsah,
:

or fivepoeins, of Nizaml

(see p. 564), viz.

1.

Makhzan

ul-Asrar, fol. 1.
is

The date

of

composition, A.H. 559, lowing line, fol. 44 b :

found in the

fol-

The
hand.
2.

first

page has been supplied by a later

Shirin, fol. 46.

Khusrau u
fol.

Dated A.H.
above,

ud-Din Ahmad, commonly called is described in a contemporary work, Or. 165, fol. 107 (see p. 873 a), as a skilled physician and elegant writer, who left, besides the present poem, treatises on Arabic and Persian prosody, a work entitled Nuzhat ul-Arvah, and an extensive Divan. He was much in favour with the
Jalal

Jalal Tabib,

576 (see p. 566 b.

3. Lailfi

160 a), as

noticed

princes of the Muzaffar dynasty, Shah Mali-

mud and Shah Shujii', and

Taki,

died, according to

u Majnun,

fol.
is

162.

The date of
fol.

composition, A. II. 584,

4.

found on

1706.
is

Catalogue, p. 18, A.H. 795. See Daulatshah, V. 11, Haft Iklim, fol. 315, and

Oude

Haft Paikar,

fol.

248.

The poem

343
is

dated, as above, p. 567 a, A.H. 593 (see fol. The name of the king to whom it b).

Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 109. The poem, the subject of which is stated in the prologue to be a story of the author's invention, is dedicated to a prince called in
the text Gluyfis ud-Din, and in the heading Ghiyas ud-Din Kaikhusrau. The date of

dedicated

is

written,

fol.

253

b,

Arslan,

5.

Iskandar Namah.

First part with the

fol. 315. Second heading ^jjjlri <-Jj^, part with the heading ^jj^L.1 **'3 JL51, fol.

*U

composition, A.H. 734, fol. 448 a :

is

stated at the end.

In the Utter both prologue and epilogue are addressed to Nusrat ud-Din, and the date of composition, A.H. 592, is found
476.
in the following lines, fol.

544 6

The record of Nizami's death mentioned

p.

Ghiyas ud-Din Kaikhusrau, son of Sharaf ud-Din Mahmud Shah Inju, held some provincial government under his father. He established himself in Shlraz A.H. 735, but was overpowered and thrown into prison by his brother Jalal ud-Din Mas'ud Shah A.H. See Shiraz Namah, fol. 89. 738.

564 b

is

not found in this copy.

:

A copy is noticed in the Upsala Catalogue,

p. 103.

The margins contain the following II. The Khamsah, or five poems, of Amir Khusrau (see p. 611 a), viz., Matla* ulAnvar (wanting the first page), fol. 2 a.
u Khusrau, fol. 66 b. Majnun u Hasht Bihisht, fol. 228 b. Laila, fol. 165 b. A'inah i Sikandari, fol. 310 b.
Shii-in

IV.
p.

Gul
a), fol.

u Nauruz, by Khwaju
449
b.

(see

622

corresponding 7758.
Copyist
:

wants the latter part, to foil. 103 117 of Add.

It

lii^y

On
A. II.

III.

j }J j> j
Jalal

j,

the

love-adventures

of

page of the MS. is a note dated 1225, stating that it was then the prothe
first

prince Nauru/. and princess Gul, in Mas.navi

perty of an

Amir

of the

Kuchar

family,

Mu-

rhyme, by

J^U,

fol.

416

b.

hammad Hasan Khan,

Ishik-Akasi-Bashi.

3 K 2

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

Add. 27,261.
546; 7 in. by 5; 25 lines, 3 in. long, and about 60 in the margins written in minute Naskhi and Nestalik, and richly ornamented with 'Unvans, gilt headings,
Foil.
;

fol.

90.

4.

Haft Paikar,
fol.

fol.

138.

The king

for
is

whom

the

poem was written (see p. 567 a)

141 a
:

thus designated,

illuminated borders, twenty-one whole-page miniatures, and some coloured drawings of smaller size, the whole of the finest work ;

dated from
to

Jumada
II.,

Jumada

A.H. 813 (fol. 110 b) A.H. 814 (A.D. 14101411). [Sir JOHN MALCOLM.]
I.,

5.

Iskandar Namah.
&*U,
fol.

^jj^-^
heading,

190.
-\i

Part i., headed Part n., with the

^^^

J^,

fol.

259.

The

This curious volume, which from its compactness and the great variety of its contents may be called a pocket-library, was written

prologue of the latter contains the dedication to the king of Mausil, 'Izz ud-Dln AbulFath Mas'ud, which has been noticed p. 569 a.

grandson of Timur, Jalal ud-Dln Iskandar B. 'Umar Shaikh, who was at that time ruling over the province of Pars as a vassal of his uncle Shahrukh, and who, having
for a

Towards the end of the same part there is a lacune corresponding to pp. 174 187 of the Calcutta edition. The next leaf, fol. 294 a,
contains the last lines of an epilogue addressed to the same king Mas'iid.
II. Foil.

rebelled against his suzerain, was vanquished and put to death in A.H. 817.

2946301. Three
of Firdusi.

The following inscription, written in the Sulgi and Kufi characters, and enclosed in a
rich border, at the beginning of the volume, contains the name and titles of its princely

the

Shahnamah

episodes from They relate to

owner

J*^ w BUi^ &W w\UJl

33,*

v\

Siyavush and Sudabah,Blzhan and Mamzhah, and Bizhan's rescue from the well by Rustam. See Macan's edition, pp. 396 399, 755760, and 795799. To the above is subjoined, without any apparent break, an extract from the Humai Humayun of Khwajii (see p. 620 b), in which it is related how Humai slew the demon Rand and released Parizad from captivity. See Add. 18,113,
foil.

16, 17.

The

first

portion of the volume was written

himself,
al-Jalali
foil.

by Muhammad ul-Halva'i, who calls from the name of his royal patron, ul-Iskandarl, and the latter portion,
542,

372

by

Nasir ul-Katib.
of the MS.,
fol.

A page

340

b,

has been

301 6309. KasTdahs in praise of Muhammad and the Imams, by the followSuzani Anvarl (see p. 554 a) ing poets ii. 10, and (died A.H. 569; see Daulatshah, Sharaf udTakI, Oude Catalogue, p. 16). about A.H. 600; see DauShafruh (died
III. Foil.
:
.

Dm

latshah,
p. 17).

reproduced by photography in the Oriental Series of the Palseographical Society, No. 49.

Oude Catalogue, iii. 6, and the Fakhr ud-Dm 'Iraki (see p. 593 b).
;

The contents are as follows I. The Khamsah, or five poems, of Nizami, 2. Khusviz., 1. Makhzan ul-Asrar, fol. 3. rau u Shlrin, fol. 28. 3. Laila u Majnun,
:

Nasir Bajja'i (of Bajjah, near Ramjird, Fars. He died A.H. 715 see the Oude Catalogue,
pp. 17, 85, Guzldah, Kisa'i (he fol. 96). 243, and Haft Iklim, was born in Marv, A.H 391, and addressed a poem to Sultan Mahfol.

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

Ghaznavi; see Riyuz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 374, Haft Iklim, fol. 221, and the Oude CataHamzah Kuchak. Futuhi (of logue, p. 3). a contemporary of Adib Sabirand AnMarv, vari; see Haft Iklim, fol. 224, and the Oude
Catalogue, p. 4).

869

mud

whom

the most frequently quoted are the

Kasidahs displaying artifices of composition, by Rashid ud-Din Vatvat (see p. 553 o) and Shihab ud-Din. Tarji's by Fakhr udDin Iraki (see p. 593 b).
IV. Foil. 309 A

Sa'di. Fakhr ud-Diu 'Iraki (see 593 b). Nasir Bukbari (p. 735 a). Ni/ari p. KuhistanI (died, according to Taki, Oude Catalogue, p. 18, A.H. 720. He is stated in the Riyaz, fol. 452, to have been a friend of Sa'di see also Daulatshah, iv. 14, and Haft His Kulliyat are noticed in Iklim, fol. 335.

following:

the St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 365).

Sal-

AiM.

g*. ^SU, Kasidah ingeniously contrived so as

Kivam ud-Din
Zul-Fakar,

313.

J ^\

man (p. 624 b). 'Imad Fakih (a holy Shaikh who lived in Kirman in the time of Shah Shuja', and died, according to Daulatshah, v. 1, and Riyaz ush-Shu'ara, fol. 298, A.H.
See the Oude Catalogue, p. 436, and Haft Asman, p. 77). Amir Kirmani, who uses Mir for his takhallus (according to Dau773.
latshah, iv. 20, a contemporary of Khwiiju).

to offer examples of all the Persian metres.

Author:

Jy

Beg.
This poet, whose proper name was Sayyid Kivam ud-Din Husain B. Sadr ud-Din 'Ali, left his native country Shirvfm for Irak, and,

Sayyid Ni'mat Ullah (p. 634 b). Sayyid Jalal (son of 'Azud ud-Din, of Yazd, Vazir of Muhammad Muzaffar. See Daulatshah, v. 9.

having been recommended by the Vazir Muhammad Mfisan to the Atabak of Lur, Yusuf Shah, attached himself to that prince, in whose praise he composed many poems. He died A.H. 689. See the Atashkadah, fol. 26,

He

died,

according to Taki, Oude Cata-

Hafiz. Khusrau logue, p. 18, A.H. 793). Dihlavi (p. 609 a). Hasan Dihlavi (p. 018 a).

VI. Foil. 340

342.

A manual of astrooU> J* ^ s*^

nomy, with the heading

Author surnamed
:

and Taki, Oude Catalogue,

Shah,

p.

17.

Yusuf

Jamshid B. Mas'ud B. Mahmiid,

who

ruled as a vassal of the Moghuls,

lived under

Abaka Khan and Arghun, and

died, according to the Guzidah, A.H. 680. An earlier date is assigned to Zul-Fakar

by Daulatshah, iii. 2, and by the author of the Haft Iklim, fol. 538, according to whom he lived under Sultan Muhammad B. Tukush Khwarazmshah (A.H. 596 617), and wrote a poetical history of his reign in the measure of the Shahnamah. The Kasidah is addressed to the Vazir Fakhr ud-Din Muhammad ul-Masari, and forms an acrostich containing his names and
titles.

The author

states in a short

preamble that

he had written this treatise by order of Sultan Jalal ud-Dunya vad-Din Amirzadah Is-

kandar Bahadur Khan (the royal owner of

the MS.).

subsequently employed by Mirzfi Ulugh Beg, as has been above stated, p. 456, in the astronomical observations commenced

He was

It

is

quoted by Daulatshah as the

atSamarkand A.H. 823, and died shortly after. The work is divided into twenty Dabs; but
the present copy breaks off in the sixth. leaves, which probably completed it, are

prototype of the artificial Kasidah of Salman

Savaji.

Six
lost.

V. Foil. 314340. Select Ghazals, about 200 in number, by various poets, among

343341. j^i^f, of geometry, consisting of a few elements

VII. Foil.

o-^ ^ ^

870 theorems from the

diagrams.
first

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

book of Euclid, with
of theHijrah; for he had dedicated his abridgment of the Suvar ul-Kavakib of 'Abd ur-Rah-

Beg.

Ji

oi>-

j>

\~+

man
436.

Sufi to Sayyid Murtaza,

'

who

died A.H.

VIII. Poll. 344, 345. an alchemical treatise, written for Sultan Jalal

years 442 and 443 of Yazdagird which are given as examples of calculations, foil.

The

ud-Din Iskandar.
j\

Beg.

MjS

viJ\-

^
**joi

IX. Foil. 345 b

348.

^^j*

&S5,

manual
Beg.

of Shi'ah law, according to 'All B. Musa ar-Riza.

Imam

444 b and 479 b, and correspond with A.H. 465, 466, were probably the current years at the time of composition ; and it must be noticed that in the chapter on eras, fol. 383, no mention is made of the Tarikh i Jalali instituted by Malak Shah A.H. 471. The archaic character of the language and spelling
is

X. Poll. 348 364. i-i^ j>\ *, a treatise on the law of religious observances according to Abu Hamfah.
Beg.

The work
variously

quite in keeping with that early date. is divided into fifteen Makalahs,

subdivided into Babs, with the

:

y*

following headings

*
(ju

r *

XI. Poll.

365372.
V

a treatise on the computation of the calendar and the use of the astrolabe, with tables of the conjunctions of the planets.

^ J\
*

J
ir
ir

Beg.

It consists of

two Babs, each of which

542.

is

The margins, which form a

contain
:

distinct series,

divided into ten Fasls.

XII.

Poll.

372 b

^
/

XIII. Poll.

^,

3112. The
See
p.

Ilahi

Namah
ii.

of

an

Parid ud-Din 'Attar.

576

a, art.

extensive treatise on astrology, in fifteen

Makalahs.
Beg. s^ii
ijjjj j

XIV.

Poll.

111142.
ib., art.
i.

Mantik
II.

ut-Tair,

by

the same.

See

It breaks off in

C^-Jl^j^^.^

^Ji- (_>Vx-*

author, who states in the preface that, although astrology

the beginning of Makalah

The

does not give his name,

XV.

Poll.

142

5287. An

anthology con-

taining select pieces of

was not his profession L^&'-J^O i *i >i>- ^fc c^~J^i, he had availed himself of a period of
l

upwards of three hun-

leisure to write this treatise for the use of

beginners, and he dwells at some length on the manifold difficulties which former works

dred poets, from the fifth to the ninth century, classed according to their subjects or metrical forms under the following headings Praise
:

presented to the student. at the end, it, as he says

He had
fol.

submitted
b,

God, jj-y. Praise of the Prophet, c^oo. Exhortation and advice, d^"x> j aias-j.*.
of

542

for ap-

Praise of 'All,
ration,

^ C^ilu.

Porms

of adju-

'AH B. proval to his master Abul-Hasan

Ibrahim un-Nasavi ; and it appears from another passage, fol. 531 5, that the last named astronomer lived in the fifth century

oL~j'.

Retirement and virtues,

Complaints of fortune
the
four
Descriptions of

j!^

,& j L^Jjc.

and the world.

seasons.

Bacchic poems,

o'j^.

Petitions,

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

and various
c->*Ju.

671

descriptions, u_ilj\ j

Beg.

Laudatory poems.
Mukatta'at.

Artifices of versification,

Ghazals. Miscellaneous subjects. Mutafarrikat. Ruba'is. TarjI's. In some of the first of the above divisions
are found select verses ascribed to poets of the earliest period, as Firdusi, Kisa'i, fol.

XXI.
treatise

Foil.

398 a

403.

^j**

'*ijot,

on alchemy, compiled by order of Sultan Jalal ud-Din Iskandar, by Ghiyas.

Kirmani,
Beg.

144 150 148 148

b,

Asadi, 116

a,

Farrukhi, 147

6, 'Asjadi,

a,
b,

Minuchihri, 146 a, 'Umar Khayyam, Xasir Khusrau, 146 a, and Azraki,

section of Ghazals,

XXII.
Auhadi.

Foil.

420504.
6.

Jam

Jam, by

a.

See p. 619
Foil.

The

by

far the

most XXIII.
504

extensive, contains alphabetical series from Salman the Divans of the following poets
:

6539.

*-U

OaU-., a

632 b). Auhadi (p. 619 b). Sayyid Jalal ud-Din 'Azud (see art v.). Jalal ud-Din 'Atiki (who died A.H. 744 ; see Taki, Oude Catalogue, Maulana Jalal ud-Din Khwafi. Jap. 18). Hafiz. Nizari Kulal Tabib (see p. 867 b). 'Imud Fakih (ib.). histani (see art. v.). Khusrau Dihlavi (p. 600 a). Fakhr ud-Din Niisir Bukhari (p. 735 a). 'Iraki (p. 693 b). Ibn Yamin (p. 825 b). Bisati (p. 735 a).
(see p.

624

b).

Kama! Ehujandi

(p.

Maguavi rhyme, containing an exposition of the Sunni creed, with Sufi comments and a refutation of heretheological treatise in
tical doctrines.

Beg.

,J-j

^ ^J>-

(J-o* j

The

writer,

who

in the prologue designates

himself only by the patronymic Ibn Karim, is no other than the well-known author of

Gulshan
vol.
iii.

Raz,

Mahmud
p.

Ibn 'Abd ul-Kariui

6,

XVI. Foil. 294302. An abridgment of the Nizam ut-Taviirikh (see p. 823 b), brought down to the reign of Abu Sa'id, son of Ulja'itu.
XVII.
Foil.

Shabistari.

See

608

and Haj. Khal.,

p. 598.

302

6332.

,-Jyn

**, an

He explains how he had been reluctantly induced by the prevailing taste of the age to stoop down to rhyming, although derogatory
from his high station, in order the better to maintain the true doctrine in the midst of
the ever increasing

anonymous compilation, in twenty -eight Bubs, treating of the properties and hidden virtues
of natural substances, of various magical and cabalistic operations, and of ingenious devices

number
The

of heresies.

The

work

consists,

he says, of eight Babs, sublatter

and recipes ment.

Begjl

for

purposes of utility or amuse*

divided into Fasls.

comprise sec-

tions (asl) alternately headed

uJuL}\

J*,

J-

L-*)\^

\j

^VSob o-V* j *+"

Madkhal Man-

XVIII. Foil. 332 6338. zum. See p. 801 a.

according as yjJLJ^, treat of the knowledge of the true docthey

.

; pj<

^., or <j--f

J&,

trine, its essence, its spiritual significance, or

XIX.
p.

Foil.

345396.
396
6

Khaf i

the false doctrines opposed to

'Alal.

it.

See

475

a.

The present copy contains only three Babs, I. Knowledge of the nature of God, in viz.
:

XX.

Foil.

398.

An anonymous
on the
diseases

treatise, in nine chapters (asl),

of the horse.

three Fasls, fol. 506. n. Attributes of God, in. God's actions, in seven Fasls, fol. 616. in eight Fasls, fol. 525.

872

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

Add. 27,317.
Foil.

It breaks off in the section headed,

lines,

173

in.

by 5

15

in.

long

written in Nestalik, early in the 18th

II.

Foil.

1077. ^oN

SfliJ*-,

a work on

century.
I.

[DUNCAN FORBES.]

Foil.

1134.

The Divan

of

Shi-

kuli,

more especially to and brought down to A.H. 1173. India, The present copy contains only the last of three volumes (Jild) of which the work congeneral history, relating
sists
;

Beg.

it

begins with the following rubric

No

J>ia.

His period
reference

record has been found of the author. is approximately indicated by a

(fol.

1088

(see p.

49 b) to 693 a),

Sa'iba,

who

died A.H.

s>\ iju-J^

The arrangement and even the headings are borrowed from the work of Firishtah, which the author, while abridging it, closely follows, and, to some extent, textually transcribes.

ft

<^J>

J/

Contents

while, on the other hand, an autograph poem written by 'Abd ul-Husain on fol. 135, and dated A.H. 1177, shows that the present

Hindus
davas.

Mukaddimah. Belief of the war of the Kauravas and Pan:

copy cannot be

later
fol.

another passage,

than that date. 133 a,

From

Early Rajas. Fa'idah. First appearance of Islamism. Rauzah i. Sultans of Lahore, or Ghaznavis. Rauzah 11. Sultans of Dehli from Mu*izz ud-Din Sam to the downfall of Iskandar Shah Sur (for the history of the Timurides the reader is referred
to the second volume). Rauzah in. Sultans of Deccan, in six dynasties. Rauzah iv. Sul-

it

appears that the poet lived in Irak.

Contents
ranged,
fol. fol.

Ghazals
2
6.

alphabetically arRuba'is in the same order,

tans of Gujrat, and so on, as with Firishtah,

down

to R-auzah zin.,

and

last,

which

treats

128 a. have been

additions.
II. Foil.

Blank spaces of a page or two left at the end of every letter of

of the rulers of Malabar.

the alphabetical series, apparently for further

The third volume was to be followed, as stated in the subscription, by the Khatimah. In the Mukaddimah, fol. 10 b, the author
refers to

135171.
a.

The Divan of Ghani.

A.H. 1173 as the current year at

is

See p. 692

the time of writing. The Hadikat us-Safa

list

mentioned in the

Or. 165.
Foil.
in.

113 9
; ;

in.

by

6;

from 27 to 32

lines,

of general histories prefixed to Elliot's Bibliographical Index, but it is not noticed in the same author's History of India. An
extract relating to the conquest of Assam has been published in the Quarterly Oriental

44 long written in small Nestalik, in the 18th century. From the royal library of

Oude.
I.

[GEO.
9.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

Magazine, vol.
III. Foil.

iii.

pp. 267

285.

Foil. 2

A fragment treating of the

Aristotle.

life

and precepts of Plato and

fragment, probably a part of the above mentioned Khatimah, with the heading
:

7879. A

Jj.lt-

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

It consists of the first

873

and second Fasls of

Bab I. They and of Logic.

treat of philosophical schools

parently belonging to the same work. It is a chapter, imperfect at the end, on the
structure of the

human

frame, with the headjl

work treating of IV. Foil. 80113. the lives and sayings of philosophers, without preface or title, beginning with the heading :

ing

W LJ1 u^

^3 j* jy J-o
Or. 207.
8i
in.

Foil. 106;

long;

3 in. written in Nestalik and Shikastah-

by 4|

13

lines,

The author, whose name is 108 b, tfjaft JU*. v> J*

,-.-, probably for Haji Ahmad ,jr,W^ 'All B. ul-Haj Jamal ud-Din Husain ul-Ansari, was a son of Zain ud-Din 'All, the author In of the Ikhtiyarat i Badil (see p. 469 a). the notice devoted to his father, the last of the work, he gives some account of himself. He was born in Shiraz A.H. 760, and had spent forty yean of his life in attendance

written,

fol.

[we] *+*.

U
B.

amiz, before A.H. 1182 (A.D. 1768). the royal library of Lucknow.

From

[GEO.
I.

WM.
372

HAMILTON.]

Foil. 3
'Ali

69.

Tazkirat ul-Mu'fisirin, by

Shaikh
II.

Hazin.

See

p.

b.

Foil.

70106. A treatise on

the chase,

designated in the endorsement as w,x-e /i>, by the same author.

Beg. ^^esc~*\j\

*\*j\

ci^J*

^<j-L5..-) (_>-U

upon

his father,

who

died A.H. 806.

He had

written the following works : Miftiih ul-Kuniiz on the names of medicaments, Dastur ul-

Mutaakkilin on sweetmeats, Tuhfat ul-Muluk on intoxicating drinks, Dastur uz-Zira'at on agriculture, Dastur us-Su'ada on the sayings
of sages, and some shorter treatises. The first Kism, the only complete portion of the work, is divided into two parts, called
Harf, as follows : I. On the value of learnNotices on ancient philosophers, fol. ing.

two Mukaddimahs, three Babs, and a Khatimah, as follows: Legal the hunting and prescriptions relating to and to those which it is killing of animals, Bab i., which lawful or unlawful to eat.
It is divided into

forms the main bulk of the work. Notices

on wild animals, arranged in alphabetical

order according to their Arabic names, fol. 78 o. Bab 11. Origin of animals, and their Bab in. Faculties of aninature, fol. 103 a.

80

b.

n. Lives

and sayings of Muslim

philo-

fol. 94 b. The last section, beginning with Muhammad and 'AH, ends, according to the list given at the beginning, with Maulana 'Ala

Khatimah. Legitimate obmals, fol. 105 a. the chase, fol. 106 b. ject of
seal of Sayyid Sibghat with the date A.H. 1182. Ullah Khan,

sophers,

The MS. bears the

ud-Din Mansur, a physician who lived about A.n. 800. A brother of the above, 'Izz udDin Mas'ud, is stated, fol. 107 b, to have died

Or. 248.
Foil. 316; 8} in. by 5; 19 lines, 3 in. long; written in small Naskhi ; dated Muharram,

A.H. 813, and one of his nephews A.H. 817, the latest date mentioned in the work. The biographies are meagre and the text extremely
incorrect.

A.H. 1130 (A.D. 1717).

[GEO. Wir. HAMILTON.]
I.

Foil.

272.

Takmil ul-Imfln, by 'Abd

See
p.

ul-Hakk Dihlavi.
II.

827

b,

i.

Spaces, probably reserved for portraits of the subjects of the notices, have not been filled.
Foil.

109

113 contain a fragment, ap-

YOL. H.

UiJI ii^, a tract on the love of worldly goods, by 'Ali B. Husam 3 L

Foil.

7277.

874
ud-Dln,

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

known
as al-Muttaki (see p.

356

a).

ul-Multanl,

Beg.
III.

FoU.

7781.

Fasls,

on

ascetic life,
\

Masnavi, in ten headed

\

Beg.

attack upon the Kadiri order having been brought under the notice of Shaikh Badr ud-Dm B. Kutb ul-Anam, a paternal

An

the author, who calls himself Shams, gives to the tract the title of -}/> J\-|, and states that it was com-

In the

last

line

uncle of the author, the latter was desired by him to write the present work in reply. He states that he had drawn largely from
the Futuhat
i

posed A.H. 757

Ibn ul-'Arabi, of 'Abd ul-Karim ul-Gilani.

Makkiyyah of Muhyl ud-Dm and from the Insan i Kamil

divided into eleven Makhzans,

If that date is correct, the

ascribed, as
p. 526, to

work cannot be has been done by FlUgel, Vienna

i.

The work

is

Catalogue, vol.

Shams
p.

Tabriz!,

who

the great mystic See died A.H. 645.

subdivided into Makams, and treating of the following subjects 1. Superiority of 'Abdul:

Kadir

to

all

other

saints.

2.

Dates

of

585

a,

and Nafahat ul-Uns, p. 535.

his birth

story of Shaikh from the Masnavi of Jalal Hallaj, ud-Din Rumi.

IV. Foil.

8187. The

Mansur

V. Foil. 87 89. An Arabic poem on wine as a symbol of mystic love, ascribed to Ghaus. ul-A'zam, i.e. 'Abd ul-Kadir ul-Jllam, with a metrical paraphrase in Persian.
Jlajtt oUJ/ i_>^' ,jUu> Beg. At the end is a short fragment of the See p. 579 a. Vaslat Namah of 'Attar.

and death. pedigree. 4. His holiness and his austerities. 6. His contemplation, oUS^. 5. His Zikrs. 9. His 8. His litanies, J,y. 7. His prayers. 10. His visions. spiritual concerts, cU~.
3. Genuineness of his

11.

His teachings on Tauhid.

Or. 282.
Foil.

95; 8|

in.

by

B|';

15

lines,

in.

long;
amiz,

written in Nestalik and Shikastah-

VI. FoU.
entitled

91114.

An

Arabic Kasidah
ul-

apparently in India, in the 18th century. From the royal library of Lucknow.
[GEO.
I.

*^\

o^U)*, by the same 'Abd

WM.

HAMILTON.]
Hairati,

Kadir, with a paraphrase in Persian verse.

Foil.

281.

The Divan of

Beg.
VII. Foil. 114 121. Miscellaneous verses

Beg.

on religious subjects, including pieces ascribed to 'Abd ul-Kadir JilanT, or addressed to him, and a Kasidah in praise of Sayyid Shah Muhammad Muklm.
VIII. FoU. 121316. a-^LLM u^jf, a of 'Abd ul-Kadir Jilani and of the defence practices introduced by him.

Hairati,

but was

called himself a native of Tun, brought up in Marv, became known

who

by his panegyrics on the Imams and his pungent satires. The former won for him the favour of Shah Tahmasp, whose displeasure, however, he frequently incurred by He spent the latter his dissolute habits.

Author: Shaikh Shams ud-Dm B. Vali UUah Shaikh Ishak B. Kutb ul-Anam AbilFath Shams ud-Dln Muhammad ul-Kadiri

part of his

life

A.H. 961 by a

fall

in Kashan, where he died from a roof. The date

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

is

875

fixed

to his

J1*ULS, due by the chronogram Muhtashim. See Sam contemporary

fol.

Mirza,

98, Haft
fol.

Iklim,

fol.

333, Riya?
fol.

and eulogies upon his great predecessors and models, Nizami, Khusrau, and Jam!.
Sifat
i

'Ashikin,

ush-Shu'ara, and Dr. Sprenger,

125, Atashkadah,

36,

II. Foil.

Oude

The Divan, which

Catalogue, p. 424. consists of Ghazals

off before

257,

margins.
:

The following

prose pieces by Tughra

Taj ul-Mada'ih (see

alphabetically arranged, breaks the end of the letter I'll. Foil.

82

95.

Two detached fragments

of the

Divan of Niyazi,
\*j**

Beg.

^\
jyL
3

p. 743 a, xi.). Firdausiyyah (p. 742 b, ii.), fol. 16 i. Tagkirat ul-Atkiyfi (p. 743 a, viii.), fol. 39 a. Mushabahat i Rabi'i (p. 743 b, xii.), fol. 43 a. Mi'nij ul-Fasahat (p. 744 J, fol. 49 b. xxviii.),

\j\

J\

The margins

of

foil.

57

79 contain mis-

cellaneous short pieces and letters by Mirza Muhammad Sharif and others.

92 a, that he had surname from his poetical master Hazin (who died A.H. 1180; see
says, fol.

The author
his

received

Or. 320.
in. by 5; 15 lines, 3J in. in Nestalik, apparently in long; India, about the close of the 17th century.

p.

715

b).

Foil.

129;

written

a marginal addition, fol. 95, a poetical encounter in which he silenced

relates, in

He

[GEO.
I.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

some

soi-disant poets in IlahabAd. This poet is not to be confounded with

Foil. 2

69.

A Sufi

Masnavi consisting

of detached anecdotes.

another Niyazi,

who

lived in

Persia,

and
Sec

Author

Ahl

Baiti, ^JLj

whose proper name was p. 718 a.

Ghazals in
foil.

Ahmad

Mirza.

Contents: Ghazals in
\,

O,

foil.

82

89.

90

95.

The poet
written

says in the prologue that he had in his youth many Ghazals and

Or. 319.
Foil. 101; 7$ in. by 4; 9 lines, 2} in. long, with 26 lines in the margins; written in Nestalik and Shikastah-araiz, with 'Unvan

Kasidahs, but had put nil' till his old age the Further on, composition of a Masnavi. fol. 6, he addresses a panegyric to the holy

Shaikh, " whose

Muhammad
presence
filled

B.

Shaikh

Ahmad,
Au-

Dehli with joy," and

in another passage, fol.

40

ft,

referring to

and gold-ruled margins A.H. 1222 (A.D. 1807).

I.

dated

Shavval,

rangzibas the reigning sovereign, he declares his intention of devoting a poem to his
praise.

[GEO.
Foil.

WM.

HAMILTON.]

2101.

vyf

J>> La' 1 " and

The present copy was written during the

reign of Aurangzib, dated A.H. 1109.
for
it

M:ijnun, a Masnavi by Hilali (see p. 656 a).

bears a stamp

The epilogue contains a reference to the author's former poems, Shah u Darvish and

The poet concludes with an appeal to the liberality of the illustrious Khan, not named, in whose service he had spent his life, and
:

with moral counsels addressed to his 3 L 2

own

son.

S7G
II. Foil.

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

69

6129.

The Divan of

Hilall

(see p. 656 a), wanting

letter
(

the latter part of the

and gold-ruled margins 877 (A.D. 1472).

I.

dated Rajab, A.H. [ALEX. JABA.]

_f.

FoU.

246.
;

Or. 1164.
Foil.

mud Shabistarl
II. Foil.

Gulshan i Raz, by Mahsee p. 608 b.

47107.

Zad ul-Musafirin,

page ;

8 in. by 5 ; about 20 lines in a written in small Nestalik, apparently

ajj

87

by Amir

Husaini; see p. 608 a.

in the 17th century.

A volume containing
I.

[ALEX. JABA.] Turkish poems, and

:

Or. 1286.
FoU. 343; 12
in.

the following Persian tracts

Foil. 57

by

6;

17

lines,

in.

63.

cu'j

%JUj, a treatise

in verse

on

riddles,

by Jami.

long ; written in Nestalik, in the latter part of the 18th century.

I.

Beg. [read

^]
Ji

Afjp
.

Foil. 1

309.

Kevalram
page.

(see p.

339

Tazkirat ul-Umara, by a), wanting the first

In the Vienna Catalogue, vol. iii. p. 542, three tracts of Jami on the same subject are noticed, but all with different beginnings.
II.
p.

II.

Foil.

310

343.

An

account of the

area, divisions,

and revenue of the Subahs of

clJJW-

Hindustan.

Foil.
a.

6473. 7578.

The
*wUJ\

Lava'ih.

See

Beg.

*-jX

f\j

J*>U

JU

_,

Ji

^b
$

44

It is stated to have

been taken from the

III. Foil.

aupl, a tract by

note-book of Rae Nundah,

sjjy.

c^W

(_?jj

Jam! on the mystic sense of the reed tioned in the first verse of the Manavi.
p.

menSee

Historical notices of each

863
IV.

a, xiii.

prefixed to tabulated accounts. was written after the death of Aurangzib,

Subah are The work

title,

FoU.

7981.

uy^iU 5L>

who
sflUj,

is

designated by his posthumous

a tract on the various degrees of existence, This tract, attributed in the *frj>\ t^Sy.

Khuld-Makan.

heading to Jami,
to Sayyid Sharif.

is

ascribed in another copy

Or. 1410.
in. long; lines, in the 18th century. written in Nestalik,
;

See

p.

864

Foil. 102

in.

a,

i.

by 8; 15

V. Foil. 83, 84.

On

the meaning of the

I.

Foil.

151. A
to,

collection

of letters
It is de-

Hadl, w,
Beg.

i__^

written by, or

the Timurides of India

J^f
a,

from Humayun
86
a.

to

Bahadur Shah.

j^J. a tract on the rule of t^flnj yjj^ Afj,

VI. Foil. 85

*\^

SJUj

Baha

signated in the contents as the

of the 'Inayat

title
first

prefixed to the table of third of the first volume

:

ud-Dm Nakshaband, by

Jami.

Namah

Or. 1226.
Foil.

long

6 in. by 3|; 12 lines, 2 in. written in Nestalik, with two 'Unvans

107

In a contemporary endorsement it is caUed Ruka'at 'Inayat Khani, J>\- (J^.U* cyU5,, from which it seems probable that 'Inayat Khan was the name of the author of the com-

MANUSCRIPTS OF MIXED CONTENTS.

He appears to have been a son of pilation. Lutf Ullah Khan Sadik, whom he calls, fol. 40 b, ^V?" j*5 ^f* j j-Z> an d to whom he gives the titles of Shams ud-Daulah Bahadur
Tahavvur Jang, conferred upon that Amir by Muhammad Shah.
Lutf Ullah Khan Sadik died, according to M;ia>ir xd-Umara, fol. 435, under Ahmad Shah. Two of his sons are mentioned, viz. 'Inayat Khan Rasikh, apparently the author
of the present work, and Shakir
p.

877
See Biblioth. Spren-

Calcutta, without date.

ger.,

No. 1593.

Or. 1433.
Foil. 253;
in.
;

in.

by 5}
;

12 and 11

lines,

3|

written in fair Nestalik, in two long gold-ruled columns dated Safar, A.H. 1147

(A.D. 1734).
I.

Khan

Foil.

1202.
p.

Yusuf u Zulaikha, by
Ui1 J* j

(see

Jami.
II.

See
Foil.

645

a.

279

b).

The

letters of

Aurangzlb, which form the

203253.

larger portion of the collection, are in part'

story of

Bahram and Gul-andam, in Magnavi

the

taken from two earlier compilations already mentioned, the Raka'im Kara'im and Kalimfit Tayyibat. See pp. 400 b, 401 a.
i'jjJU. ^LLiUetters and other prose pieces of Ainiin Ullah KhaII.

rhyme.

Foil.

52

102.

aU

nali-zud

Khan

Flruz Jang, son of Mahftbat

After a few verses in praise of God and the Prophet, the author enters at once upon

Khan
p.

Sipahsalar, collected
b.

by himself.

Sec

the story, which he

familiar language.

tells in

609
Beg.

The

very plain and hero's adventures

mostly on encounters with various and Gul-andam is not, as in the usual Divs,
turn
version, a Chinese princess, but a Peri.
is

The work
four Fasls:
equals, c^-3

1.

divided into the following Letters to superiors and

In the concluding lines the poet addresses himself by the poetical surname of Amin.

53 a. 2. Fami3 ,jai\p, fol. liar notes, ^j'jJ,, fol. 94 a. 3. Marginal notes, 99 a ' ^- Prefaces and misf"l-

u^V'

cellaneous pieces, c^'^aJU, fol. 101 a. The Ruka'at of AIM.HI Ullah have been

lithographed in Lucknow, and printed in

There are forty-one miniatures in the Indian style in the first poem, and twentyseven of inferior execution in the second.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

P. 440 a, Add. 25,869, read : Commentary upon the Kubra, a treatise on Logic, by

Sharif Jurjani.
P. 441
b, 1.

12, read

See p. 812 a. Nasir ud-D'm Tusi was

was Fath 'All Khan Kashi. See p. 850 &. P. 768 a, 1. 28, add: Minuchihr Khan succeeded
in the

born A.H. 507, and died A.H. 672. P. 551 b, 1. 35, read : A poem entitled SQz u Gudaz, by Nau*i. See p. 674 a. P. 722 a, 1. 34, add : Saba's proper name
END 0V VOLUME

Karchaghai Khiin government of Mashhad, A.H.

his

father

1034.

See

the

'Alam-arai,

fol.

570.

The Mahbub

ul-Kulub

cannot have

been written very

11.

much

later.

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