DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11112847
title: [IO Islamic 1265] اشعار متفرّقه

description: Ash’âr-i-Mutafarriḳah

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1747 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1265 here with notations and hyperlinks].


1747

Ash’âr-i-mutafarriḳah (اشعار متفرّقه).

A collection of Persian poems, chiefly extracts from lyrical and didactical works, and rubâ’îs, by various old and modern poets. The authors represented in this ‘Safînah’ are the following ones (compare the index on the fly-leaf):

Shaikh Abû-alḥasan Kharaḳânî (died A.H. 425), on fol. 1b.

Shaikh Abû Sa’îd bin Abû-alkhair (died A.H. 440), on fol. 1b.

Khwâjah ‘Abdallâh Anṣârî (died A.H. 481), on fol. 2b.

Ḥakîm Sanâ’î (died probably A.H. 545), on fol. 3a.

Shaikh Saif-aldîn Bâkharzî (died A.H. 658), on fol. 12b.

Shaikh Majd-aldîn Baghdâdî (died A.H. 607 or 616), on fol. 12b.

Shaikh Sa’d-aldîn Ḥummû’î (died A.H. 650), on fol. 12b.

Shaikh Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr (died A.H. 627), on fol.12b.

Jalal-aldîn Rûmî (died A.H. 672), on fol.23a.

Shaikh Aḥmad-i-Jâm (died A.H. 536), on fol. 34a.

Shaikh Abû Sa’îd Buzghush (the father of Shaikh Najîb-aldîn ‘Alî of Shirâz, who died A.H. 678), on fol. 34b.

Shaikh Abû-alḳâsim, the son of Yâsîn (according to the Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 4, col. 302 in the Bodleian Cat., an elder contemporary of Abû Sa’îd bin Abû-alkhair), on fol. 34b.

Shaikh Abû-alfaḍl of Mahnah, on fol. 34b.

Khwâjah Abû Sa’îd of Mahnah, ib.

Khwâjah Abû-alnaṣr of Mahnah, ib.

Khwâjah Abû-alḳâsim of Mahnah, ib.

Shâh Ni’mat-allâh Walî (died A.H. 834), ib.

Shaikh Fakhr-aldîn ‘Irâḳî (died A.H. 686 or 688), on fol. 36b.

Shaikh Abû Hâmid Auḥad-aldîn Kirmânî (died A.H. 697), on fol. 37b.

Shaikh Auḥadî Marâghî (died A.H. 738), on fol. 38a.

Sayyid Nâṣir bin Khusrau ‘Alawî (died A.H. 481), on fol. 41b (twenty-five verses from his extremely rare سعادتنامه , edited by M. Fagnan, Z. D. M. G., vol. 34, pp. 643-674).

Shaikh Najm-aldîn Dâya Râzî (died A.H. 654), on fol.42a.

Bâbâ Afḍal-aldîn Kâshî (died A.H. 707), on fol. 42a (a rich collection of his rubâ’îs and also a rare tarjî’band).

Shâh Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr (died A.H. 837), on fol.45b.

Shaikh Najm-aldîn Kubrâ (died A.H. 618), on fol. 46b.

Shaikh Abû ‘Alî Daḳḳâḳ (died A.H. 405 or 406), on fol. 46b.

Mîr Sayyid ‘Alî Hamadânî (died A.H. 786), ib.

Pîr Jamâl Ardastânî, on fol. 47a.

Shaikh ‘Alâ-aldaulah Simnânî (died A.H. 736), ib.

Shaikh ‘Izz-aldîn Maḥmûd Kâshânî (contemporary with the following Shaikh Kamâl-aldîn), ib.

Shaikh Kamâl-aldîn ‘Abd-alrazzâḳ (died A. H. 730), on fol. 47b.

Shaikh Auḥad-aldîn ‘Abdallâh bin Ḍiyâ-aldîn Mas’ûd Balyânî (died A.H. 680 or 686), on fol. 47b.

Shaikh Abû Zarbûzjânî, ib.

Shaikh Ḳuṭb-aldîn Abû-alfaḍl, ib.

Shaikh Najm-aldîn Zarkûb, ib.

Shaikh Muḥammad Lâhijî Asîrî Nûrbakshî (died after A.H. 910), ib.

Bâbâ Kamâl Jandî (pupil and companion of Shaikh Najm-aldîn Kubrâ, who died A.H. 618), ib.

Shaikh Raḍî-aldîn ‘Alî Lâlâ, ib.

Shaikh Aḥmad Ghazâlî (died A.H. 517), ib.

‘Ain-alḳuḍât Hamadânî (died A.H. 533), on fol. 48a.

Shaikh Maḥmûd Shabistarî, author of the گلشن راز  (died A.H. 720), on fol. 48a.

Shaikh Maghribî (died A.H. 807 or 809), on fol. 48b.

Shaikh Muṣliḥ-aldîn Sa’dî (died A.H. 690), on fol.48b.

Khwâjah Ḥâfiż (died A.H. 791), on fol. 54a.

Maulânâ Saḥâbî of Astrâbâd (died A.H. 1010), on fol. 60a.

Amîr Ḥusainî Sâdât (i.e. Fakhr-al-Sâdât, died A.H. 718), on fol. 68a.

Shaikh ‘Imâd-aldîn Faḍl-allâh, on fol. 68b.

Shâh Dâ’î Shîrâzî, pupil of Shah Ni’mat-allâh (died after A.H. 865), on fol. 68b.

Shaikh Rûzbahân Ṣûfî (probably identical with Rûzbahân Shîrâzî, who died A.H. 606), on fol. 68b.

Imâm Nûrbakhsh (i.e. Sayyid Muḥammad, the founder of the Nûrbakhshî order, died A.H. 869), on fol. 68b.

Shaikh Kamâl Khujandî (died A.H. 803), ib.

Amîr Khusrau of Dihlî (died A.H. 725), on fol. 70a.

Amîr Ḥasan of Dihlî (died A.H. 727), on fol. 84b.

No date.

No. 1265, ff. 85, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 113/8 in. by 63/4 in.