Persian-Poetry
This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1755 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 902 here with notations and hyperlinks].
1755
Another rough album of Persian poetry, beginning with an incomplete copy of the famous little mathnawî سوز و گداز by Nau’î (died A.H. 1019; see above, No. 1485), the first hemistich of which runs here thus: الهى سينه ام را نالگى ده الخ. The remaining portion of this MS. contains extracts from the dîwâns of well-known lyrical poets, Âhî (died A.H. 927), Kalîm (Abû Ṭâlib, died A.H. 1062), Nâṣir ‘Alî (died A.H. 1108), Fuḍûlî (of Baghdâd, died A.H. 970), Mîr Siyâdat (Jalâl-aldîn, flourished about A.H. 1081), Jalâl Asîr (died A.H. 1049), Mullâ Munîr of Lâhûr (died A.H. 1054), etc.
No. 902, ff. 64, 3 or 2 coll. in a page; written by different hands in Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; many leaves left blank, others partly filled; injured and effaced in many places; illuminated frontispiece, partly damaged; size, 93/8 in. by 51/4 in.