V. 9 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: دیوان كمال الدين اسمعيل A fine old MS. (incomplete at end and undated, but apparently of the 14th century of the Christian era) of the Díwán of Kamálu'd-Din Ismá'íl of Isfahan, for whose death dates ranging between 628/1230-1 and 639/1241-2 are given by different authorities, though Dawlatsháh and most other historians and biographers say that he perished in the massacre made by the Mongols in 635/1237-8. See Rieu's Persian Cat., pp. 580-581, and my Literary History of Persia, vol. II, PP. 540-542, etc. A list of his chief patrons is given in both places. Others to whom poems are addressed in this volume include: الصاحب السيد نظام الملك (f.31) الصاحب تاج الدين على بن كريم الشرف (f.32) صدر الدين عمر الخجندی (f.120) ، الصاحب نظام الدين محمد (f.126) ، الصاحب فخر الدين بن نظام الدين (f. 129) ، الصاحب عميد الدين الفارسی (133.f) الامير ضياء الدين البيابانكي (f. 136) الصدر بهاء الدين عبدوس ( f. 138) الصاحب شهاب الدین عزیزان الساوى (f. 141) ضياء الدين رنگی (f.163) The qasidas (ff. 1-174) also include an elegy on the death of his father Jalálu'd- Din 'Abdu'r-Razzáq (f. 55) and an "answer" to a qasida by Ruknu'd-Din Da'wvá- dár (? Dawidar: 153). There is also a mathnawt (ff. 174-177) satirizing the Ra'is-i-Lunbán, beginning: تا زبانم بکام جنبانستدر ثناء رئيس لنبانست چه رئیس آن خسیس پر تلبیسماية ظلم و سایه ابلیس The "Fragments" (Muqatta'at) occupy ff. 177-242, and include panegyrics on Zaynu'd-Dín as-Suhrawardí (f. 216) and the Amír Náşiru'd-Din al-Mankalí (f. 218). The Odes (Ghazaliyyát), not arranged in alphabetical order and containing no takhallus, occupy ff. 242-275, and the Quatrains (Rubayyatt) the remainder of the volume.The MS., acquired from the Belshah collection in January, 1920, comprises 290 ff. of 24,2 x 16,9 c. and 24 ll., and is written in a clear but ungraceful old naskh with rubrications. The spelling as well as the writing is archaic. To the initial qaşídas, which are in praise of God, is prefixed, instead of the Bismillah, the illuminated heading:و لذكر الله اعلى واجل
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 290
Dimensions: 24.2 × 16.9 cm.
Layout
24 lines
Hand(s)
A clear but ungraceful old naskh with rubrications. The spelling as well as the writing is archaic.
History
Origin: 8th century AH; 14th century CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Acquired from the Belshah collection in January, 1920.
Bequest of E. G. Browne.
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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