Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1374 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Poetic anthology, 6 items (a-f)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Significantly defective, yet extremely rare fragment of an early recension for an untitled anthology of poetic compositions in varied forms and genres closely resembling the But'khānah, originally compiled from the works of under a hundred ancient and modern poets (omitting biographies) by the poet Muḥammad Ṣūfī Āmulī Māzandarānī takhalluṣ Muḥammad and Ṣūfī (d. 1035/1625-6) along with Mīrzā Ḥasan Bayg takhalluṣ Khākī, in RY 49 of the Timurid (Mughal) Emperor Akbar I (d. 1014/1605), equating to 1010/1601-2. The work was later revised and amplified, but there is no evidence in the present copy of later additions, especially the reviser’s preface, as well as the altered number and order of poets. The substantial introductory portion is missing, beginning midway into the selection for Khusraw, and is equally defective at the end. Not dated at end. Intermittent foliation in pencil. Part of a much larger volume with Persian foliation beginning 527 and ending 634. Text arranged on two columns flowing into outer margins, written in alternating diagonal orientations. Neat to rough scribal nastaʿlīq-i khafī. Occasionally, rubrication is in two nastaʿlīq and shikastah āmīz hands written in at least two phases. Lacking original binding. Paper dust wrapper (BEIC legal publication on Regulation XVII for September 1817); partial watermarks (S & C Wise, 1814); labels, torn and stained. Folios unbound; cropped, water and fungal stains, extensive wormholes, later repairs. The central area of the manuscript appears to have been injured very early, with paper patches applied and missing text supplied in a hand very close, if not identical, to that of the original scribe. Condition extremely fragile.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

1. ff. 1r-23r
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Delhi Persian 1374a.

Fragment of the selected poems by Amīr Abū al-Ḥasan Yamīn al-Dīn Dihlavī takhalluṣ Khusraw (d. 727/1327).

Defective at beginning.

Not dated at end.

Author: Khusraw خسرو
2. ff. 23v-52v

Delhi Persian 1374b.

Selected poems by Shaykh Awḥadī Marāghī Iṣfahānī (d. 738/1337-8).

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
3. ff. 53r-57v

Delhi Persian 1374c.

Selected poems by ʿImādī al-Dīn Shahriyārī takhalluṣ ʿImādī (d. 573/1177).

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
4. ff. 58r-65v

Delhi Persian 1374d.

Selected poems by the Sufi Muḥammad Shīrīn Tabrīzī takhalluṣ Maghribī (d. 809/1406-7).

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
5. ff. 66r-73r

Delhi Persian 1374e.

Selected poems by the Bābā al-Shuʿarāʾ Bābā Fighānī Shīrāzī takhalluṣ Fighānī (d. 925/1519).

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
6. ff. 73v-106v

Delhi Persian 1374f.

Selection of poems beginning with Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar Samarqandī takhalluṣ Rūdakī (d. 329/941), but expanded to comprise selections of varying length from the works of many other poets, including Sharaf al-Zamān Abū Manṣūr ʿAz̤adī Tabrīzī takhalluṣ Qaṭrān, Amīr al-shuʿarāʾ Shihāb al-Dīn Bukhārī takhalluṣ ʿAmʿaq, Sayf al-Dīn Isfarangī takhalluṣ Sayf, […], Iftikhār Bukhārī, Minūchihrī Shaṣtgallah Dāmaghānī, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin Sharaf al-Dīn Iṣfahānī takhalluṣ Shufurvah, Sirāj al-Dīn Qumrī Āmulī, Shihāb al-Dīn Samarqandī, [Rūḥī] Lāhijī, Muʿīn al-Dīn Sijzī (?), Shams al-Dīn Ḥidādī, Rūhī Shāristānī, Sayf al-Dīn Bākharzī, Z̤iyāʾ al-Dīn Fārsī, Asadī Ṭūsī, Ibn Yamīn, ʿAyn al-Quz̤āt Hamadānī, Ḥakīm Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ṣandūqī, Kamāl al-Dīn Zanjābī (sic, read Rayḥānī), ʿIzz al-Dīn Shirvānī, Badīʿī Mūsīqī, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Ganjaʾī, ʿImādī al-Dīn Shahriyārī, Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī Bākharzī, [Nāṣir] Bukhārī, Nizārī Quhistānī, Mawlānā Fakhr al-Dīn Hindūshāh, Humām Tabrīzī, Badr al-Dīn Shāshī, Imām Shihābī Sulṭānī, Shams al-Dīn Ṭāhir Nakhkhās, Abū Saʿīd Buzghush Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Rāfiʿī, Shaykh Khusravānī, Imāmī Hiravī, ʿAtīqī Tabrīzī, Jalāl Ṭabībī (?), Khaṭīb Ganjaʾī, ʿAbd al-Majīd, Ḥusām al-Dīn Bakhshī, Khvājah Naṣīr Ṭūsī, Imām Rāfiʿī Qazvīnī, Abū ʿUbayd Allāh Muḥammad Khujandī, Shams Ṭabasī, Nāṣir Bachchah (sic), Shaykh Niẓāmī, Murshidī, Abū al-Faraj Balkhī, Masʿūd Turkmān, ʿUluvvī Turbatī, Shāh [Dāʿī] Shīrāzī, [Mubārak Shāh] Ghūrī, Niẓām Astarābādī, Khvājah Naṣīr Ṭūsī, Ashharī, Shāh ʿAlī, LA ADRĪ (?), Shaykh Amīn al-Dīn Kāzarūnī, Shaykh Awḥadī Kirmānī, Khvājah Afz̤al Kāshī, and Zakī Marāghahʾī.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 106 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 337 × 179 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1650 - 1699 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

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