V. 35 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: ديوان قاسم الأنوار وغيره من اثاره An excellent MS. of the Diwán of Qásimu'l-Anwár, transcribed in 861/1456-7,
only 24 years after the poet's death in 837/1433-4. See my Persian Literature
under Tartar Dominion, pp. 473-486. This MS., bought of J. J. Naaman in August, 1901, comprises 268 ff. of
16.3 x 12 c. and 15 ll., is written in a clear and beautiful nasta'liq between margins
ruled in gold, and was copied by Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Khurram-Pír of
Gilán, who completed it at the end of Ramadán, 861/Aug. 21, 1457. The ghazals
extend to f. 204b, and are followed by a tarji'band (ff. 204-209), after which come
some poems in Turkish and in a Persian dialect (probably that of Gilán), fragments,
quatrains, etc., ending on f. 227b. Next follows (ff. 228b-251a), after a blank page,
a treatise entitled Anísu'l- Arifin in mathnawi verse, to which is prefixed a prose preface in which the author gives his full name as "Alí ibn Naşir ibn Hárún ibn
Abil-Qasim al-Husayni at Tabrizi, commonly known as Qasimi, which latter penname he uses alternatively with Qásim. The title of the poem is given in the
following verse (f. 235, l. 7): نسخه نامش انيس العارفين،
خوش نماید گر دهم ترتیب ازین The volume concludes with another treatise in prose interspersed with verse
entitled Anisu'l-'Ashiqin (ff. 252-266), and ends with the following colophon: قد فرغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب الشريف المبارك الميمون المنظوم العبد الفقير الحقير المحتاج الى
رحمة حضرة السبحاني محمد بن محمد بن خرّم پیر الجيلاني للبحر الزخار وسالك الاطوار
ومخزن الاسرار وسيد الاحرار وقطب الفلك الدوّار قاسم الانوار سلام الله عليه وعلى من اتبعه
الهدى فى اواخر شهر رمضان المبارك سنة احدى ستين وثمانمائة This colophon would seem to imply that the MS. was copied for Qásimul-Anwar
himself, but the chronological difficulties involved are obvious.
only 24 years after the poet's death in 837/1433-4. See my Persian Literature
under Tartar Dominion, pp. 473-486. This MS., bought of J. J. Naaman in August, 1901, comprises 268 ff. of
16.3 x 12 c. and 15 ll., is written in a clear and beautiful nasta'liq between margins
ruled in gold, and was copied by Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Khurram-Pír of
Gilán, who completed it at the end of Ramadán, 861/Aug. 21, 1457. The ghazals
extend to f. 204b, and are followed by a tarji'band (ff. 204-209), after which come
some poems in Turkish and in a Persian dialect (probably that of Gilán), fragments,
quatrains, etc., ending on f. 227b. Next follows (ff. 228b-251a), after a blank page,
a treatise entitled Anísu'l- Arifin in mathnawi verse, to which is prefixed a prose preface in which the author gives his full name as "Alí ibn Naşir ibn Hárún ibn
Abil-Qasim al-Husayni at Tabrizi, commonly known as Qasimi, which latter penname he uses alternatively with Qásim. The title of the poem is given in the
following verse (f. 235, l. 7): نسخه نامش انيس العارفين،
خوش نماید گر دهم ترتیب ازین The volume concludes with another treatise in prose interspersed with verse
entitled Anisu'l-'Ashiqin (ff. 252-266), and ends with the following colophon: قد فرغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب الشريف المبارك الميمون المنظوم العبد الفقير الحقير المحتاج الى
رحمة حضرة السبحاني محمد بن محمد بن خرّم پیر الجيلاني للبحر الزخار وسالك الاطوار
ومخزن الاسرار وسيد الاحرار وقطب الفلك الدوّار قاسم الانوار سلام الله عليه وعلى من اتبعه
الهدى فى اواخر شهر رمضان المبارك سنة احدى ستين وثمانمائة This colophon would seem to imply that the MS. was copied for Qásimul-Anwar
himself, but the chronological difficulties involved are obvious.
1. ff. 1-227b
Title: Dīvān-i Qāsim al-Anvār
Title: ديوان قاسم الانوار
Language(s): Persian, with some poems in Turkish and Persian dialect
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 268
Dimensions: 16.3 × 12 cm.
Layout
15 lines
Hand(s)
nasta'liq
History
Origin: 861 AH; 1456-7 CE
Record Sources
Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.
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