
Tuḥfat-al’irâḳain. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 954 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 2791 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 954 A slightly defective copy of the same. This copy begins abruptly in the prose preface, on fol. 1a, with the words:..... در آسمان بر مساكين گشاده دارد الخ, corresponding to No. 262 (952 above), fol. 2a, l. 3 ab infra (one leaf missing). Beginning of the mathnawî, on fol. 3a. At the end on fol. 77a a short epilogue in prose, giving an account of the six maḳâlas into which the poem is divided,- viz.: 1.عرائس الفكر و مجالس الذكر (here beginning on fol. 3a). 2 معراج العقول (here on fol. 6b). 3.فى وصف بلاد عراق و همدان و مدينة السّلام بغداد و مدائح اصحاب هؤلآء البلاد تسمّى سبحة الاوتاد الخ (here on fol. 23a) 4.فى اوصاف الكوفة و المدينة و هؤلآء البلاد و يسمّى موارد الاوراد و خزانة الاوتاد (here on fol. 33a). 5. فى وصف مدينة الرسول الخ و هى تسمّى بهداية الهدى الخ الى المهدى (in the epilogue مدينة الهدى الى المهدى) (here on fol. 42b). 6 فى وصف الشام و الموصل و اصحاب هؤلآء البلاد الخ (here on fol. 53a),- and the number of baits in each. Dated, as it seems, A.H. 1078 (A.D. 1667, 1668). The copy is greatly injured in many places, but as carefully mended as possible. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2791, ff. 77, 2 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/8 in. by 51/8 in.
India Office, Poetry, IO Islamic 2791
India Office, Poetry, IO Islamic 2791
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