IO Islamic 4627 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
A commonplace book
Contents
A valuable collection of miscellanea, of which the chief items are as follows:
Poems by Khwājū Kirmānī, d. 753/1352, خواجو كرمانى , foll. 3-16b (3) [with margins foll. 3-9, followed by (I) the Munājāt of Qāz̤ī Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʼl-Faz̤l Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ṣanʻānī, قاضی ابو الفضل احمد بن محمد الصنعانی , foll. 10-14; (II) selections from Qirān al-saʻdain by Amīr Khusraw, أمير خسرو , foll. 15-27 ], and by Khāqānī, d. 595/1199 خاقانى , foll. 16b(4)-18b(11) (II) Selections from the Mirʼāt al-ṣafāt by Amīr Khusraw, أمير خسرو in foil. 18b(12)-27b(11), and his Daryā-ʼi abrār, foil. 27b(12)-31a(4) [margins, selections from the poems of Ẓahīr Fāryābī, d. 598/1201, ظهير فاريابى in foll. 28-32]. (III) Selections from the poems of Jāmī, جامی , foll. 31a(5)-33b [with margins, foll. 33a-b ]. (iv) The " ornate qaṣīdah " of Salmān Sāvajī, d. 779/1377, سلمان ساوجى , with marginal glosses, foll. 34-44a [margins, the Sāqā-nāmah of Nargisī, d. 921/1515 نرگسی . (v) The " ornate qaṣīdah " of Sharaf al-Dīn Qazvīnī, شرف الدين قزوينى , foll. 44b-47b [margins, selections from Amīr Khusraw, أمير خسرو ]
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Poems by Saʿdī, سعدى , Anvarī, أانورى , Amīr Khusraw, أمير خسرو , et. al.
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Each one called bāriqah, which may therefore be identical with the anonymous Bawāriq
The margins contain 1) an account of the Qarmaṭī heresy, entitled Manshaʻ-i maz̲hab-i mulhidīn ( ملحدين مذهب منشاء ) , by " Zain al-Dīn", presumably an extract from one of Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī's anti-Qarmaṭī works, ff. 98-101; 2) Najm al-Dīn Nasafī's Persian Risālah on erring Ṣūfī sects, ff.102-3
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Extracts from this work
The margins contain 1) A Tarjīʻ-i band ( ترجيع بند ) , by Jāmī, 1414-1492, ff.105v-109r; 2) A Tarjīʻ-i band ( ترجيع بند ) , by ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, d. 1289?, ff.109v-112r; 3) Poems of Kamāl al-Dīn Ismāʻīl Iṣfahānī, ca. 1172-1237; 4) Various poems in a later hand dated 1191, ff.132v-135vr
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An anonymous and untitled epitome of geography, in which a succinct account is given of the various towns occurring in each clime
The margins contain 1) Poems by Ibn-Yamīn, ff.157r-159r; 2) The Muqaṭṭaʻāt ( مقطعات ) of Ibn-Yamīn, ff.157r-159r
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Physical Description
Layout
Many folios written diagonally in columns
Hand(s)
The first hand, a scholarly Persian taʻlīq, dated 986
The second hand, a modern Persian nastaʻlīq, dated (fol. 212b) 1233
Other hands elsewhere
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