Persian MS 626 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

A prior record describes this as a spurious work misattributed to Timurid-era poet Jāmī, instead of Mullā Jāmi‘ī. While that author and his oeuvre await investigation, he appears to be the same as ‘Mullā Jāmi‘ī’ who compiled a collection of ornate prose correspondence during ‘Alāmgīr's reign, entitled Khāṣṣ al-Īnshā' (see Storey and Ethé catalogue), the title for which provides a chronogram indicating that he ironically completed it the exact same year as the present work. Ikhlāṣ Chand and Bindraban Das Khvushgū, both report a poet of that name in Kashmir, who studied under Rashīd Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Ghanī Bayg Qabūl, the probable author of Persian MS 575, Bahāristān: Sharḥ-i Gulistān (Garden of Spring, A Commentary on the Rose Garden of Sa‘dī, see Sprenger catalogue, Dādbih), and Ikhlāṣ Chand Hamīshah Bahār (Rylands Persian MS 323, folio 24b) and Safīnah-'i Khvushgū (see Sachau and Ethé catalogue).