mmm Wmm Hi 4 SUPPLEMENT PERSIAN dtfj TO THE CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from Getty Research Institute https://archive.org/details/supplernenttocata00brit_0 SUPPLEMENT TO THE CATALOGUE \ OF THE PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY CHARLES RIEU, Ph.D. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES TLontion : SOLD AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM; AND BY Messrs. LONGMANS & CO., 39, Paternoster Row; B. QUARITCII, 15, Piccadilly, W. ; A. ASHER & CO., 13, Bedford Street, Covent Garden; KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road; and HENRY FROYVDE, Oxford University Press, Amen Corner. 1895. LONDON : PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED , st. John’s house, clerkenwell, e.c. PREFACE. The present Supplement deals with four hundred and twenty-five Manuscripts acquired by the Museum during the last twelve years, namely from 1883, the year in which the third and last volume of the Persian Catalogue was published, to the last quarter of the present year. Por more than a half of these accessions, namely, two hundred and forty volumes, the Museum is indebted to the agency of Mr. Sidney J. A. Churchill, late Persian Secretary to Her Majesty’s Legation at Teheran, who during eleven years, from 1884 to 1894, applied himself with unflagging zeal to the self-imposed duty of enriching the National Library with rare Oriental MSS. and with the almost equally rare productions of the printing press of Persia. By his intimate acquaintance with the language and literature of that country, with the character of its inhabitants, and with some of its statesmen and scholars, Mr. Churchill was eminently qualified for that task, and he availed himself with brilliant success of his exceptional opportunities. His first contribution was a fine illuminated copy of the Zafar Namah, or rhymed chronicle, of Hamdullab Mustaufi (no. 263), no other MS. of which is known to exist. His last was a rich collection, including original Firmans of the Sovereigns of Persia from the Ak-kuyunlu dynasty to the present Shah (nos. 401-2); numerous autographs of celebrated statesmen, scholars and poets (nos. 400, 403) ; and, finally, portraits of Nasir ud-Din Shah and some of his ministers (no. 412). Mr. Churchill’s MSS. abound in rare, or altogether new, materials for the study of Eastern, and more especially Persian, history. The following are a few of the most valuable: The general histories of Elclii e Nizamshah and of Haidar Razi (nos. 32, 33) ; Rauzat us-Safaviyyah, a history of the Safavi dynasty, written by a follower of Shah b VI PREFACE. ‘Abbas I., and brought down to the accession of Shah Safi (no. 58) ; three works, treating chiefly of the reign of Shah Tahmasp, and respectively written by Amir Mahmud, son of Khwandamlr (no. 53), by Hasan Beg Rumlu (no. 55), and by an anonymous writer, whose work is entitled Afzal ut-tavarlkh (no. 56) ; Khuld i Barln, an official record of the reigns of Shah Safi and ‘Abbas II. (no. 34) ; Gulshan i Murad, a history of Karim Khan Zand and his immediate successors (no. 66) ; two contemporary accounts of the reign of Fath ‘Ali Shah, one by his son, Mahmud Mirza, the other by his secretary, Fazlullah Khavari (nos. 70, 71) ; a history of ‘Abdullah Khan Uzbek, by Hafiz Tanish (no. 73) ; local histories of Kum, of Baihak, and of the conquest of Kirman by Malik Dinar (nos. 88 — 90) ; geographical works, with historical notices, by Zain ul-‘Abidm Shlrvani (nos. 139 — 141) ; lastly, the best copy known of Ta’rlkh i Jadld, the history of the Babis, lately translated by Mr. E. G. Browne (no. 15). Poetry will be found to be still more largely represented than history. Mr. Churchill’s collection is especially rich in Tazkirahs, a favourite branch of Persian literature, combining biographies of poets with more or less extensive specimens of their compositions. It contains one of the earliest works quoted under that head, the Chahar Makalah of Nizami ‘Aruzi (no. 390) ; a large volume of the rare Khulasat ul-Ash‘ar, by Taki Kashi (no. 105) ; three' otherwise unknown works of the same class, entitled Bazm-arai, Maikhanah, and Ivliair ul-Bayan (nos. 106 — 8) ; and a whole host of later Tazkirahs, illustrating the revival of Persian poetry under the Kajar dynasty (nos. 115, 118 — 129). Early copies of the Divans, or collected works, of ancient poets will be found under nos. 211, 220, 222, 240, 243, 246 ; and those of modern poets described under nos. 340 — 373 were almost exclusively supplied by Mr. Churchill. Nor should we leave unnoticed the unique “Mu'ajjam” of Shams i Kais (no. 190), the earliest treatise extant on Persian metres. Not the least curious of Mr. Churchill’s acquisitions consisted of eight MSS. written in Persian, but in the Hebrew character. Two of them, being transcripts of Muslim works, have found place in this Supplement (nos. 230, 272). The others, belonging more properly to Jewish literature, have been reserved for the Hebrew Catalogue now in course of preparation. Having concluded this brief sketch of the Churchill MSS., we now proceed to enumerate, in chronological order, the main sources from which the remainder of the present collection has been derived. PREFACE. vii A number of Oriental MSS. brought together by the genial author of “ Histoire des religions et des philosophies dans l’Asie centrale,” Comte de Gobineau, during his resi- dence as French Envoy at the Persian Court, were sold by auction, after his death, in Paris in the year 1885. Nine of the most valuable were secured for the British Museum. These included the gem of the collection, a finely written and tastefully illuminated volume comprising the best text known of Asadi’s Garshasp Namah, and three other epic poems hitherto scarcely known by name (no. 201) ; further, a volume of the great historical work of Hafiz i Abru (no. 27) ; the Persian translation of Narshakhi’s history of Bukhara (no. 87) ; the history of Tabaristan, by Ibn Isfandiyar (no. 92) ; and Ihya ul-Muluk, a curious and otherwise unknown history of Sistan (no. 97). In the same year eleven Persian MSS. were purchased of the sons of the Rev. Henry Aaron Stern, who had acquired them during his missionary journeys in Persia in the years 1847 — 52. The only one that calls for a special notice here is a copy of the Shah namah in two large folios (nos. 196-7), containing a number of additional episodes and later poems grafted on the original text of Firdausi. Eleven MSS. acquired at the same date originally belonged to a distinguished Persian scholar, the late Nathaniel Bland. Besides a copy of the Atashkadali, a Biography of Poets, which he had been the first to make known in Europe, they include the Yusuf u Zulaikha of Firdausi (no. 200), the only copy of that rare poem which contains the full text of the prologue ; the history of the Moghols, by Rashid ud-Dln (no. 25) ; an early MS. of the Ivhamsah of Nizami (no. 226) ; and a profusely illuminated copy of the Hamlah i Haidari (no. 336). The collection of Alfred von Kremer, purchased in 1886, is essentially Arabic, and has been described in the Preface to the Arabic Supplement. The most interesting of the nine Persian MSS. which it includes is a volume containing a large collection of letters written by Baha-ullah, the late head of the Babis, to his followers in Persia (no. 13). At the sale of the MSS. of the late Thomas Fiott Hughes, Secretary to the British Embassy at Constantinople, which took place in London in the year 1890, the Museum became possessed of seven choice MSS. remarkable either for their early dates or their exquisite calligraphy. The Risalah of Kushairi (no. 16) and the Akhlak i Nasiri (no. 147) are dated respectively ATI. 601 and 680. A Gulistan (no. 249) and a b 2 PREFACE. viii Divan of Jami (no. 287) are also early copies, as well as fine specimens of Persian penmanship. The last accession consists of eleven MSS. purchased in the present year from the family of the late Major-General Sir Henry C. Rawlinson. Of these the most note- worth yare the following : a fair copy of the Shahnamah, including the Garshiisp and the Barzu Nam ah s (no. 195) ; Ta’rikh i Khairat, a hitherto unknown work on general history (no. 423) ; and a volume of Ta’rikh i Alfi, the great chronicle compiled for Akbar (no. 424). The gradual changes of Persian writing and orthography form an interesting subject which has not yet received sufficient attention. Although the present collection cannot boast of any document of an exceptionally early age, it will be found to contain valuable materials for the study of Persian palaeography. The following list of early dated MSS. has been brought down to the ninth century of the Hijrah, that being the period during which the characteristic features of the old spelling such as o for d, J for a/. j>\ for C as?!, &c., gradually disappeared and the modern orthography came into general use : A.H. Nos. A.H. Nos. A.H. Nos. 601 16 841 220 882 284 680 147 c — 260 883 43 697 211 844 246 — 265 732 391 855 154 886 249 741 392 857 280 888 275 774 243 861 145 889 236 779 17 864 282 892 296 807 263 868 288 893 143 800 201 873 222 — 237 811 240 875 283 — 425 816 189 877 235 894 287 835 89 C — 281 895 225 f — 146 — 420 ( 896 255 878 226 PREFACE. IX Undated MSS. of the seventh or eighth century of the Hijrali will be found under nos. 190, 257 and 393. Some of the MSS. included in the above list, namely nos. 201, 225, 226, and 235, are also of some importance for the study of Persian art, as containing miniatures with precise dates, while two richly illustrated copies of the Vaki'at i Babari (no. 75) and of the Darab Namah (no. 385) are fair specimens of the MSS. which were illuminated by Indian artists for the Emperor Akbar. I cannot conclude without expressing my great obligation to Mr. Robert K. Douglas, Keeper of the Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS., for his valuable assistance in the revision of the proof-sheets. CHARLES RIEU. BitrrrsH Museum, October 12, 1895. TABLE OF CONTENTS TnEOLOGY Slit 1 ah ivories Babi books Sufism Appendix to Theology . Law Hinduism History. General history . Muhammad and the Imams Moghols Muzaffaris Timur Safaris Nadir Shah Zands Kajars Uzbeks Afghans India Local histories .... Biography Lives of Sufis .... Tazkirahs or Lives of Poets Memoirs and Travels Cosmography and Geography . 1 4 6 9 13 13 14 15 29 33 33 33 34 43 43 45 49 51 51 58 68 70 71 96 98 Sciences. Encyclopaedias 102 Ethics and Politics 105 Astronomy 110 Mineralogy 112 Medicine 113 Farriery 114 Music 114 Philology. Persian Lexicography . .116 Arabic Lexicography and Grammar . 120 Various Lexicographical works . . 120 Rhetoric and Insha 121 Prosody 123 Riddles 126 Poetry 127 Anthologies 232 Tales and Fables 238 Collections of Anecdotes .... 243 Letters, State Papers and Autographs . 253 Paintings 260 Inscriptions 263 MSS. op Mixed Contents 264 Latest Accessions 270 Alphabetical Index of Titles Index of Persons’ Names Classed Index of Works . 285 . 299 Numerical Index 305 SUPPLEMENT TO THE CATALOGUE OF THE PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS. THEOLOGY. 1. Or. 4379.— Foil. 384; 12f in. by 8£ ; 27 lines, 6 in. long ; written in Nesklii by two bands, apparently in tlie 17th and 18th centuries. [Wallis Budge.] The Persian commentary of Husain Va‘iz Ivashifi upon the Coran. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 9 5, and Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, nos. 1805 — 8. The MS. contains the first part of the work. It breaks off in the middle of Surat ul-A‘raf, vii., v. 149. The latter part of the volume, foil. 132 — 384, contains a portion of the Arabic com- mentary entitled Ma‘alim ut-TanzIl. See the Supplement to the Arabic Catalogue, no. 1266. 2 . Or. 2983. — Foil. 550; 12 in. by 7f; 20 lines, 4] in. long ; written in small, neat and close, Nestalik; dated Thursday, 20 Rabi‘ II., A.H. 1085 (A.D. 1674). ' [H. A. Stern.] The first volume of an extensive ShTali commentary upon the Coran, without title •or author’s name. It is imperfect at the beginning, com- mencing abruptly in the middle of comments on the first words of the Fatihah as follows : A=*-j jl 3 ~ 1 ** j 1 '* j The commentary upon Surat ul-Bakarah begins, fol. 4a, as follows: u >) ayuh y) ‘ - ‘ ^ v 1 A*--, t ‘ * L— A-U j s j 3^3 1 iO 1 ^ .C The next-following Surahs begin respec- tively as follows : A1 ‘Imran, fol. 125a ; a.l-Nisa, fol. 1866 ; al-Ma’idah, fob 231a; al-An‘am, fob 2755; al-A‘raf, fob 312a; al-Anfal, fob 360a ; al-Taubah, fob 3675 ; Yunus, fob 4105; Hud, fob 4305; Yusuf, fob 4485 ; al-Ra‘d, fob 4695 ; Ibrahim, fob 4785; al-Hijr, fob 4855; al-Nahl, fob 492a ; Bani Isra’Il, fob 506a ; and al- Kalif, fob 5295. The commentary includes the text of the Coran in rather long passages consisting of one or more verses, followed by a Persian paraphrase. It deals chiefly in traditions B THEOLOGY. o 4J and legends. Although quite distinct from the Khulasat ul-Manliaj by Fath-ullali B. Shukr-ullah Kashani (see the Persian Cata- logue, pp. 12a and 10776), it contains much matter in common with it. The ShTah character of the work is shown by frequent references to the interpretations of the Imams, such as and The title written on the outer edge, both at the side and at the bottom, is Jj*A AU It is probably due to a con- fusion of the present work with that con- tained in the preceding MS. Copyist: ^ CLo s+z? 3. Or. 3208. — Foil. 55 ; 8j in. by 5 ; 12 lines, oj in. long; written in Nestalik, apparently in India ; dated Monday, 29 Jumada I., in the sixth year (of Anrangzib’s reign) and A.H. 1072 (A.D. 1661). [Kremer, no. 211.] Answers of Muhammad to questions put to him by the Jews. Beg. j>&\ r AU ^ a lAhj ^ 1 jjj ^>\ A. The last, fol. 45a, is : j> K b j^>- 1 i * “*iV ^ ^*3 '.2-- b dAc* j The answer to this last consists of the Story of Balukiya, foil. 45a — 74, which con- cludes the work. For other copies see Pertsch, no. 218. 4. Or. 2842. — Foil. 246; 8 in. by 5^-; 10 lines, 2| in. long ; written in large and elegant Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and ruled margins ; dated Dar us-Saltanah (Teheran), Sunday, 15 Safar, A.H. 1221 (A.D. 1806). [Sidney Churchill.] A translation by Musa B. Ayyub B. Ahmad Nasrapuri of the Shir‘at ul-Islam, a trea- tise on religious duties and rules of life founded on the precepts and example of the Prophet. See the Arabic Supplement, no. 178. Beg. • • • \j ^ a' . . . j*13n)\ x A 5 b i The preface of the translator includes a dedication to Amir Khusrau Khan and a long panegyric upon him in prose and verse. The work consists of a Bab, or introductory chapter, on the duty of following the Sunnah, and of fifty -nine sections (Fusul) fully enumerated in tlie preface. The contents agree with the analysis of the original work given by Krafft, no. 929. Copyist : ^lAil ^ (J* THEOLOGY. 3 5 . Or. 4507. — Foil. 186; 8-| in. by 6; 17 lines, 3|- in. long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated 10 Safar, A.H. 1034 (A.D. 1624). [Raveety.] iyjo A controversial treatise against heresies, by the great champion of Sunni orthodoxy among the Afghans, Shaikh Darvizah Nin- garhari. See the Persian Catalogue, pp. 28 and 1078a, and Raverty’s Pukhto Grammar, 2nd edition, p. 33. This copy wants about three pages at the beginning. The first words extant, aM A j i j\ AjO ! b j ^ \ a *.— 1 \ A work treating of the holiness and pre- rogatives of the descendants of the Prophet, imperfect at beginning and end, without author’s name. The first page contains the last two lines of the doxology, and the beginning of the preface, which commences thus : LI (_£ <5 &A J 8aL OjAx/o j V 'i b '. aAJ ^ ^ &*a.A** After dwelling at length on the duty in- cumbent on every believer to love and honour the descendants of the Prophet, the author states that the work comprises fourteen sec- tions called Hidayah, subdivided into chapters termed Jilwah, a table of which concludes the preface. The MS. contains only the first of those fourteen Hidayahs and a portion of the second. The first treats of the pre-eminence of the Prophet’s descendants, and has the following lieading : BLabj u-AA i /fc Ao ijA** ij, fjosbj \bs*a3 It is divided into eighteen Jilwahs, enume- rated at the beginning, fol. 7a (there are only seventeen in the body of the volume). Of the second Hidayah J which is divided into seven Jilwahs, the MS. contains only the first three and the last two, foil. 78 — 89. The author purposely suppressed his name, lest it should be placed before those of the holy Sayyids, as he states himself : ^b j ^ , \ b-' ^ w Kmrb xJ} ^ t ,4 \j 1 AwA 5 J* ^ a aIL "byo j*b aj .uiUj bj * ^bo. That he was a Sunni is abundantly proved by the contents. He de- votes a whole chapter, foil. 32 — 45, to the refutation of the Rafidis or Shl‘ah, and in another passage, fol. 8b, he says that whoso- ever places ‘Ali above Abu Bakr and ‘Omar is a heretic, and whosoever denies their claim to the Khilafat and abuses them is a Kafir, b 2 4 THEOLOGY. or unbeliever. He cannot have lived earlier than the 8th century of the Hijrah ; for he quotes Sa'di, and Khulasat us-Siyar, the author of which died A.H. 694. The margins contain miscellaneous notes and extracts in a later hand. 8hi‘ah Works. 7 . Or. 2971. — Foil. 114; 9f in. by 5^ ; 25 lines, 3^ in. long; written in clear Neskhi; dated Ardabll, 26 Rajab, A.H. 1096 (A.D. 1685). [Sidney Churchill.] * \ bjjc l-o An account of the tenets of various re- ligions and of the sects of Islam, ^considered from a Shi ‘ah standpoint, by Savyid Murtaza ‘Alam ul-Huda, who lived about A.H. 653. See the Persian Catalogue, pp. 140, 1081a. Beg. Li.fr I ^ j\ \j yQ The work has been lithographed, together with Kisas ul-‘Ulama, Teheran, A.H. 1304. For MSS. see Rehatsek, Mulla Firuz Library, p. 188 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 228 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1766. In the last two works the Persian headings are given in full. Copyist : In a note written at the end, S. Churchill states that in the colophon of another copy the author was called Sayyid Murtaza Razi. 8 . Or. 2812. — Foil. 164; 81 in. by 5; 14 lines, in. long; written in elegant Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins; dated Monday, 17 Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1092 (A.D. 1681). Bound in painted and glazed covers. A collection of prayers, handed down by tradition from the Imams, and appointed for stated times of day and night, translated from the Arabic work Miftah ul-Falah, of Balia ud-Dln Muhammad al-‘Amili (died A.H. 1030), w r ith explanations and additions, by Jamal ud-Diu Muhammad B. Husain Khwansari. Beg. 1 j ^ bio (-11 (_5 s^jb j The work is divided into six Babs, accord- ing to the appointed times of prayer from the rise of dawn to the hours after midnight. The text of the prayers is Arabic, with an interlinear Persian version. The preface concludes with a wordy and stilted pane- gyric upon Shah Sulaiman Safavi. The present MS. was transcribed from the ori- ginal draft of the translator, who is spoken of in the colophon as being still alive. Copious marginal notes. The Miftah ul-Falah is mentioned, as well as the translation of Aka Jamal Khwansari, in a full notice of Balia ud-Din ‘Amili, Kisas ul-‘Ulama, pp. 174 — 84. See also Sama un- Nujum, pp. 26 — 34, and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii. , p. 8. Aka Jamfd Khwansari was one of the disciples of Mulla Muhammad Taki Majlisi, who was himself a disciple of Shaikh Balia ud-Dln ‘Amili and died A.H. 1070. See Kisas ul-‘Ulama, p. 172. 9 . Or. 2993. — Foil. 281 ; 9 in. by 4f; 20 lines, 2^- in. long ; written in small and neat Nestalik ; dated 1 Zulkijjali, A.H. 1060 (A.D. 1650). [Sidney Churchill.] Z\jC JbjS A treatise on metaphysics and Slh‘ah THEOLOGY. 5 theology, by ‘Abd ur-Razzak B. c Ali B. al- Husain al-Lahiji. Beg. CDjCs The author, an eminent disciple of Mulla Sadra Shirazi, lived in Kum under Shah Safi and ‘Abbas II. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 32; Nujiim us-Sama, p. 87 ; Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 27 ; and Gobineau, Re- ligions de l’Asie, p. 92. The present copy contains a fuller text than the previously described MS., Add. 26,289, and has annota- tions written by another hand in a cursive character on the margins and on inserted slips. Foil. 39 — 52 have been supplied by the same hand to fill up a lacuna of the original MS. Copyist : ^ab y! ^A Foil. 268 — 280, written in the cursive character above mentioned, contain two ad- ditions, namely : 1. A Persian tract on the fate of souls after death, and on the Day of Judgment ; being the original draft of the anonymous author, dated Safar, A.H. 1100; imperfect at the beginning. 2. An Arabic tract on the question whether Rukayyah and Zainab, wives of ‘Usman, were daughters of Muhammad ; also anonymous ; beginning (fol. 2745) as follows : GUI ^ ^ sf- u \jo (■jS' o.G.f G1 ... 10 ajks^j i’s A Shi ‘ah work tending to establish the immunity from sin of the Prophets and the Imams, by Muhammad B. Sayyid Ahmad al- ‘Alavi al-‘Amili, commonly called ‘Abd ul- Hasib al-Husaini al-Fatimi. U=- i— ’Gf" j' Us- sAi jt> ^ y* \j JU ( vjUj! G [ wUwi j • . . The work is divided into a Fatihah, or in- troduction, and twenty chapters called Tak- dis, subdivided into sections termed Tamjid. The contents are as follows : Fatihah treating of the necessity of Pro- phets and of their attributes. Takdis I. Im- pescability of Prophets and Imams, fol. 8a. Refutation of doubts and objections arising from apparent sins ascribed to the following fifteen Prophets, to each of whom a special chapter (Takdis) is devoted, viz. : Takdis II. Adam, fol. 17a. III. Null, fol. 27a. IY. Ibrahim, fol. 33a. Y. Ya‘laib, fol. 45a. VI. Yusuf, fol. 46a. VII. Ayyub, fol. 65 5. VIII. Shu‘aib, fol. 665. IX. Musa, fol. 675. X. Da’u d, fol. 885. XI. Sulaiman, fol. 925. XII. Yunus, fol. 97a. XIII. Lut, fol. 1005. XIV. Zakariyya, fol. 103a. XV. ‘Isa, fol. 1045. XVI. Muhammad, fol. 1055. XVII. Evidences of the Imarnship of ‘Ali, fol. 1 14a. XVIII. Evidences of the legitimacy of the Imams, fol. 1955. XIX. Refutation of doubts raised by the Sunnis as to the impecca- bility of the Imams, fol. 211a. XX. The fundamental points of the creed and the Day of Judgment, fol. 221a. Or. 4133.— Folk 243; 9^ in. by 4^; 23 lines, 2f in. long; written in small and neat Nesklii, with red-ruled margins; dated 1 Zulhijjah, A.H. 1073 (A.D. 1663). The author refers incidentally to two other works of his, entitled and ^G* U^jUb [Sidney Churchill.] Copyist: ^Gh 6 THEOLOGY. Babi Boobs. 11 . Or. 2813.— Foil. 98 ; 9J- in. by 5 ; 15 lines, 2| in. long; written in fair Persian Neskhi, with gold-ruled margins ; dated 1st Rabk II., A.H. irv, probably for 1127 (A.H. 1715). [Haji Ivhan.] A short guide to prayers and religious obligations, according to Shl‘ah practice, by Muhammad Bakir B. Muhammad Taki, with the heading : d\j sxfipb $!■***, Beg. solo joo IA ... j^\ l all Jib ji\> A- .A JaU. The author, Shaikh ul-Islam Mulla Mull. Bakir Majlisi, who died in Ispahan A.H. 1110 (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 20), extracted this manual, as stated in the preamble, from his previous work, Zad ul-Ma‘ad (Persian Catalogue, p. 21, and Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, no. 210) for the benefit of such persons as could not procure the larger treatise. It is divided, according to the preface, into five Babs and a Khatimah ; but in the body of the volume there are four Babs and two Khatimahs. The contents are as follows : Bfib I. Observances for each month, fol. 2a. Bab II. Adsitation of (the tombs of) Muhammad and the Imams, fol. 6b. Bab III. Prayers not appointed for special days or months, fol. 29 b. Bab IV. Ordinances re- lating to the dead, fol. 465. Khatimah : Laws relating to tithes _j ’ijj) and to religious retreat (<_J\£ls9), fol. 765. Second Khatimah, treating of expiations (o^liA), fol. 91a. The author states at the end that he wrote the work in Ispahan, in the months of Sha £ - ban and Ramazan, A.H. 1107. Copyist : ^ Al ^ 12 . Or. 2819. — Poll. 166 ; 8^ in. by 5 ; 19 lines, 3 in. long ; written in neat Neskhi ; dated A.H. 1299 (A.D. 1882). [Sidney Churchill.] A Babi book without title or author’s name. Beg. A? ^3 ^,9 9 ^ ] i AJ hLwl A flO j ^ * ■ .,9 It is the work known as the Persian Bayan, i J**> *Laij sj£ J A' 8 13 . Or. 3116.— Foil. 127 ; 8} in. by 7^; 14 lines, 44 in. Iona" ; written in cursive and rather indistinct Shikesteh, in the latter part of the 19th century. [Kremeb, no. 126.] THEOLOGY. 7 I. Foil. 1 — 67. The Ikan, by Baha-ullah (Mirza Husain ‘Ali, who died A.H. 1309). See the supplement to the Arabic Catalogue, no. 222, and p. 935a. II. Foil. 67 — 77. An epistle treating at length, and in true Sufi spirit, of mystical love and of the seven degrees by which the devotee tAilAi rises to complete detachment from self and from the world, and finally obtains perfect union with the Beloved. Beg. as ^aJ^ aJJ a-A^ Oc j*A&M ^3. am ^ . yC | 0 '.jA^ From the Arabic introduction, which oc- cupies the first two pages, it appears that the author, whose name is not given, wrote this epistle in answer to a disciple already advanced in spiritual life, whom he addresses in the course of the work sometimes as brother, sometimes as son. The doxology includes the usual blessings invoked upon Muhammad and his family. The Persian text begins as follows : j\ \j jx~> AA ^ 5 A^*J o ^ 1 ( ^ b- j ^a*A aailA- aA*ja {j~& l> ui2 L> a 31 j Ai'i A^Lj jQJ &A aA-A j 3 j' _j It ends, fol. 77a, with these words ; J O -jCsLi A^Wj jA jJa AA^A A£^ The next page contains a letter addressed to a Shaikh not named, and alluding to im- pending persecution and martyrdom. It begins as follows : 3 ^/ \j &aa=^ Ab»- ^liuo \j &aa +•£> ^IjLa JJa ^a) _j 3 ^A Af=- AJ.IL a.^ ,A>J r* d • IxA jA aaIA bfl=- k^ls? aIa j\ ^ ^a) The last words are ; aljli As- &:>V, (_)A j After this comes an explanation of the mystic meaning conveyed by the letters composing the word £\Ljf \ jCs £>Jaa j\ &s 2 \ AjA.LL ^ 0 ( c\A i_ Jj jX.< ^Jjb III. Foil. 78 — 127. A collection of Persian letters by Balia-ullah. They are mostly letters of admonition or encouragement written to followers of both sexes ; a few others are addressed to outsiders or opponents, with the object of convincing them of the truth of the new revelation. They generally begin with a formula which contains an allusion to the writer’s name, 0 _$.a^)\ (jaaj^ *«~a or ^bs-^ (_^aW\ In several instances, however, the heading is ^LV-s- i—aj^s .” 0 The letters are too numerous to be in- dividually noticed. The beginnings of the first seven are as follows : Fol. 78a. Jj*^ jbbM y& jA t. A ? * AJ A=- ^,-O.A &A 4 \ AA AA^aAA jA aj ^ j£so j aajIA jA CaUK A^J Ai)^y- J »A^J CAjA'j Fol. 79a. dill j *— j ^s^A-oVj j (^Us-b A aj LoaA ^ ( jl*aj^ u l*'' aJ^J 3LA Afi SAJ.Ly alfi u^>k» A jb.A j Jbj j\ (jbj Ib. i^a***jA p lb i_ *jbs r 'A j*ld j a 3^ j J" 0 !? u~5/ l/**- u* a' 3 *- 8 THEOLOGY. Fol. 796. ^$>81 *111 \ ) J (*j8 ^ (_s4^j4? ^buo i3■ a*> ^)l$ (3^ Fol. 80a. ^4^ ^3^ ^ ^ ^ jb lli> cjr& ! ' (j^.^ (j^ J L$y-**« lb. f A*)\ j-rtN <*ti\ r ^ j3\ 3 33l« j* l) ^ •) c^,Va«*X*o ^<- 4^ i" ^ Y i.^ , s\ &>3ji &>• j£/q ; ^jL>j<\j ^ tV **» sr i_r LU Fol. 806. ^^81 ^Ls-81 <*J3\ ) \xs*^ ^ 1 ^ *ia j^~ c ^**d ^j3) ^ *' t *? 1 _g i^joj^ o^- ^rfjjtfl &S>- JOg.i- j-> U^~J '— J j* a - X ^ oA '&^^*+xx< _5 All ^8 ^lAlA Further on, foil. 87 — 89, is a long letter, addressed to one of the Persian ‘Ulama, in which the writer gives his proper name, Husain ‘Ali. It is an urgent appeal to his correspondent to accept the new faith. It begins : { ^*~i u?8A ^Ua^l ^ ^_djY U* ,^^.\ All J\ lLU\ [J&] J\ JjS ,*(p ->" 81 ^j>dS\ 8 j*jAa51 jYtd 1 ''vS?” 5»1 y>jx)\ All ^jic jb- &A jX^] j\h.x\\ ^J1 j<3>all tillU aiil ^88 ^j/C LiJjvAff- b«- lJLU A similar, but shorter, appeal is addressed further on, fol. 104a, to the father of the writer. It begins : j (J) (3J_l/CjfiwO J 6 ' <£ j^\ J$2>\ J'G-V J jYi } X\ J\a- id j? 1 Jj3$> 3 jlr*' i j fc j Jy 1) Jy>>' &>- _j G*!^Ao (_^8 ^ lA '-y^=- »_?jy There is at fol. 1166 an important passage, in which Baha enjoins on his correspondent the duty of collecting and reading the pre- viously revealed Persian letters : uj 8 i s**i Jjb tjz 1 y 1 ^.1^9 JXxx) t — Jj '^ tfC The last letter begins as follows : ( jl»‘i iiJll SjS' ^ j j*o\v yjl 1 Q-*gj ^0 j f r &^y (3*4*^^ ccVWI V>J3 (AIjj aOh (^yhy The names of the persons to whom the letters are addressed are rarely given. We have only noticed the following : Rizii, fob 1016; ‘Abdullah, foil. 1036, 116a; Yusuf, fol. 105a ; Muhammad ‘ Ali, 3^ J>y ^* s ~ r0 (probably the poet Nabll), fol. 1066 ; ‘Ali Akbar, j^>\ JJ> 3*, fol. 110a. One of the letters, fol. 82a, is addressed to the writer’s cousin, j ~~ >• 14 . Or. 3115. — Foil. 30; 7 in. by 4 J ; written in Neskhi and Nestalik, in the latter half of the 19tli century. [Kremer, no. 125.] Letter of Baha-ullah to the Shah, written in Arabic with passages in Persian. See the Supplement to the Arabic Catalogue, no. 224. 15 . Or. 2942. — Foil. 177 ; 8 in. by 5 ; 16 lines, 2| in. long ; written in neat minute Nestalik; dated Rajab, A.H. 1298 (A.D. 1881). [Sidney - Churchill.] THEOLOGY. 9 JOJc* A history of the Bab and of his early disciples, by Mirza Husain Hamadani, who died A.H. 1299. Beg. ji) (jbjo s sj*- ^ £ xa \} X ) ^ ^ j 1 ti.jjlii u1a**»1j fi The “ New History ” is based upon a con- temporary account due to Haji Mirza Jani, of Kashan (who died as a martyr A.H. 1268), a copy of which was brought home by Comte de Gobineau, and is now in the Paris Library. The present work, which differs from the original by excisions, alterations, and con- siderable additions, bears no author’s name. It is known, however, to have been written, at the request of the Parsi Manakji, son of Llmji Hushang, w r ho died about A.D. 1890, by Mirza Husain Hamadani, who submitted it for correction to one of the earliest dis- ciples of the Bab, Sayyid Jawad Karbala’ 1 (d. about A.H. 1301). Mirza Abu ’1-Fazl Muhammad, of Gulpaigan, wrote the preface, and Manakji several additions. An English translation, under the title “ The Ta’rlkh-i-Jadid, or New History of Mirza ‘Ali Muhammad the Bab,” was pub- lished by Dr. Edward G. Browne, Cambridge, 1893. A full account of the composition of the work will be found in the preface, pp. xxxv. — xliii., and in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1892, pp. 440 — 44. The present MS., on which Dr. Browne’s translation is principally based, was described by him in “A Traveller’s Narrative,” vol. ii., pp. 192 — 97. Another copy is noticed by Baron v. Rosen, Collections Scientifiques, vol. vi., p. 244. On the first page is written : “ Tarikh i Jedid. Henry L. Churchill. 1882.” Sufism. 16 . Or. 4118. — Foil. 280; 9| in. by 6J ; 15 lines, 5 in. long ; written in large bold Neskbi ; dated Baghdad, 5 Zulhijjah, A.H. 601 (A.D. 1205). [T. Fiott Hughes.] j\ A Persian translation of the celebrated Sufi work known as Tazkirat ul-Kushairi, by Abu ’1-Kasim ‘ Abd ul-Karlm B. Hawazin al- Kuskairi, who died A.H. 465. See the Arabic Supplement, no. 227. The following title is prefixed by the hand of the transcriber : < A'jfi j—HN dbU\ ss>\fi\ jJUll £L)\ Beg. all After the Arabic doxology, which is simply transcribed from the original text, the trans- lation begins as follows : , ( aJfi jCz-, N 5, r ~ i! ' p' JLi &S+& L L ^ \j eJofio op] The headings of the chapters and the poetical quotations are left in the original language. The order of the chapters lias been partly interverted. Their ordinal num- bers, which have been added by a later hand, go from the first (wj!l c_j\j) to the fiftieth. In the following table of headings the word has been, for brevity’s sake, omitted : ^ Jp. Lj shfiaW sAa> Jl L*jd ,j 10 THEOLOGY. pdaxi fol. 12a; uy> jjX> Lldfi ^ ,ai Ji(A> U (jL-.'j &flLki\ sAfc, fol. 51a; fol. 786; fol. 636 ; DyAlj S^lAi, fol. 87a; t/jHih, fol. 90a ; ^)\, fol. 936 ; fol. 96a ; Cl*+*a)', fol. 99a ; fol. 103a ; \>J\, fol. 1076 ; u jU, fol. llla;^fjj la) li' 0 fol. 112a; s jisd\, fol. 113a; LAyill, fol. 1166; jlil, fol. 1246; AiAj fol. 1276 ; 8>n, fol. 133a; i>V\ fol. 1356 ; s\ed\, fol. 139a; JJM, fol. 1406; fol. 149a; fol. 152 a; jLJ)\ ,j p^&sd, fol. 1556 ; fol. 162a ; fol. 1656 ; hi Y \ c t\*c- fol. 180a ; fol. 1866 ; wA', fol. 1906; fol. 1976; i sY'U (Jjy j ^\L\\ _• y'i Li=-, fol. 204a (here a folio is missing ; the lacuna corre- sponds with p. 196, line 9, to p. 197, line 5, of the Bulak edition, A.H. 1284) ; fol. 205a;' L^Jl OU/ o>L$l, fol. 2116; pjHll hjj, fol. 220a; iX-U, fol. 227a ; aujwdl, fol. 228a; &W, fol. 230a; fol. 2316; /D\, fol. 237a; fol. 240a; fol. 2426 ; fol. 2456 ; Uh, fol. 247a ; eJdjxx)], fol. 2516; 8^91, fol. 2536; aAHjLj^ fol. 258a; fol. 2596; fol. 261a; hU, fol. 2626 ; fol. 265a; /s)\, fol. 2666 ; fol. 277a. The author states at the end that the dictation of the Risalah was completed at the beerinning of A.H. 438. Copyist ; j>.^\ O o. Three pages at the beginning of the volume and two at the end are occupied by a Sufi tract of ‘Abdullah Ansari, . . . written in a very cursive and crowded character of nearly the same date as the Risalah. The first few words are partly obliterated. The next passage reads 0^=- b Cbu~LaS &-»- The first section begins as follows : L^b ^ ^ fcb>> ^ Jb> The first of the above passages is the beginning of the Munajat. See Pertscli, Berlin Catalogue, no. 2, 4. 17 . Or. 3242.— Foil. 132 ; 9| in. by 7 ; 23 lines, 5f in. long ; written in large, distinct Neskhi ; dated Rustak Kajur, in RCiyan, Saturday, 20 Muharram, A.H. 779 (A.D. 1377). [Sidney Churchill.] •'C ♦ > A treatise on Sufism by Najm ud-DTn Ibn Shahavar, called Dayah, who died A.H. 654. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 386. This copy has lost the first leaf. It begins abruptly with this passage of the preface : pAwdl OjL L_tb '.gs- iNIj 1 dii cAh- 151^ i—A, b, which is found at fol. 36, line 4, of Or. 258. In the epilogue the author calls himself Abu Bakr ‘Abdullah B. Muhammad Shahavar al-Asadi al-Razi, and says that he completed the work in Sivas, on Monday, the first of Rajab, A.H, 620. A copy is mentioned by Etlie, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1248, and an abridged Arabic version is described by Ahlwardt, Berlin Catalogue, no. 3006. Copyist : ^ ^ ^ ^ y ' THEOLOGY. 11 18. Or. 3547. — Foil. 219 ; 9J in. by 5 ; 17 lines, 2 1 in. long ; written in neat Nestalik ; dated Thursday, in the last decade of Shavval, A.H. 1077 (A.D. 1667). [Sidney Churchill.] A Sufi work consisting of religious precepts exemplified by anecdotes in prose and verse, chiefly derived from the works of Maulana Jalal ud-Din, by Ahmad Rumi. Beg. Ua> ... uyujl ^L*fi < £ ^ t ^ o ^ ,fi a bV' k r ^Ji JLL.fi This is the work contained in Or. 251 (Persian Catalogue, p. 39) under an inverted form of the above title, vhib BliL.. In a preface, not found in the latter copy, the author gives a short notice of Jalal ud-Din, son of Maulana Muhammad Balkhi, and says that, some Fakirs having applied to him for some words conducive to salvation in the next world, oj- 1 Jp j\ he wrote for them the present work, under the above title, in eighty Fasls. The date of composition, A.H. 720, is given in the epilogue in the following verse, omitted in the other copy : r L3 JU Copyist : ^ ^ For another copy see Aumer, no. 329. 19. Or. 3649. — Foil. 177 ; 8^ in. by 5^; 17 lines, 2f in. long ; written in neat Nestalik, with red-ruled margins, apparently in the 17th century. [Sidney Churchill.] jyu, iyy sjyi A treatise on theology and Sufism, by ‘Ala ud-Daulah Ahmad B. Muh. al-Simnani, who died A.H. 736. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 413a, and Haj. Khal., vol. iv., p. 197. Imperfect at the beginning, commencing abruptly with the latter part of the preface, as follows : ^*3 J L_T jij bm The preface concludes with a full table of the contents. The work is divided into six Babs, with the following headings : Fol. 35. tiyob I. J-’ 3 cP- Fol. 205. &alisi' 0 JJfi ^Lo ^pb jBy ^ II. oWfi ^Lo tUS A (Here the author expounds and discusses seventy-seven tenets of various sects with regard to God’s nature and attri- butes, to Creation, &c.) Fol. 81a. (_£jj III. A 5 ” A j OAk (Jb>- In the extant portion of the preface, the author, after expatiating on the sanctity of the Aurad, relates, as an instance of their efficacy, a vision which came to his Shaikh, Kutb ul-Aktab £ Imad ud-Din, while thrown into an ecstatic state by their recital. The Arabic text of the Aurad is included in the commentary. It begins as follows : It concludes with some prayers for Mu- hammad, the last of which begins : ^3 baxij 13 ,yx+*» i 8 ^ ^ 13 i The author of the Aurad is the famous Saint, Sayyid £ Ali Hamadani, who died A.H. 786, and the commentator appears to have been an orthodox Sufi of the Sunni sect. The commentary bears a marked Sufi character ; but the Hadiths quoted are taken from the canonical books of the Sunnis. The latest authorities cited are Shaikh Nur ud-Din Ja £ far, a disciple of Sayyid £ Ali Hamadani, and the work entitled Fasl ul- Ivhitab, apparently that of Khwajah Parsa, Nakshabandi, who died A.H. 822. The Aurad, which are entitled &A 5 have been lithographed at Lahore, A.H. 1289, and at Cawnpore, A.D. 1876. The commentary, which is the work of Muhammad Ja £ far Ja £ fari, has been litho- graphed at Lucknow, A.D. 1876. It begins as follows : ^ £-i (jrJb ^4 4)3 y > -^' ' * ' 8^ol ^31*4 4)fi (_£X*^h The author, who in his verses designates himself by the Takhallus ‘Aziz, says that he began this work A.H. 1151, being then thirty-six years of age. The work is divided into seventeen Babs. The headings of the first eight are as follows : 1. *il u b_> a) 9 x*^° 4)9 J 2. ^1*4 d*iri _jX 5 3. ^jL-4 5 _j^j 5 4. 5 5. ^b-4 ; 6* - jd sL~*-« *s2~ J x ; -»j JA'q 4il\ X*fi X4**» 4)3 j>j& \ Sj*S\ Jx3\ XX >\j> Appendix to Theology. 22 . Or. 4738. — Foil. 26 ; 7f in. by 6 ; 9 lines, 3f in. long ; written in fair Nestalik about A.D. 1860. Beg. ^ > Ixj.'o cxflo i A> 3 olBK3 The author’s position is that belief in one supreme God is common to all men, and therefore rooted in their very nature ; whereas belief in the various religious systems rests only on authority and education. As these religions are mutually antagonistic, and as there is no rational ground for adopting any of them in preference to the others, ho concludes that they are all equally false. This thesis is first briefly stated in Arabic and afterwards developed in Persian. On the first page is written : “ Tuhfatul Muwalihidin, or a Gift to the Deists ; in the original Persian, transcribed from the second edition published in 1859 in Calcutta, by his son Ramaprasad Rai.” Ram Mohan Rai was born in Burdwan in 1780, and died in Paris on the 27th of September, 1833. See notices of his life by Dr. Lant Carpenter, 1835, and by K. S. Mac- donald, Calcutta, 1879. LAW. 23 . Or. 3512. — Foil. 598 ; 12^ in. by 8 ; 28 lines, 5 in. long ; written in small, neat and close, Nesklii, with ruled margins, probably in the 18th century. [Presented by B. B. Portal, j A Persian commentary by Muhammad 14 THEOLOGY. Taki B. £ Ali al-Majllsi, upon the Sln'ah treatise on law of Ibn Babawaih, entitled (Arabic Supplement, no. 330). Beg. J> j\& AU< _j Ao.A*- A*^ 1A ... ^ *** ^3*** 3 A A (J 6 - ^ (JiJ ^AJ ^ Mulla Muhammad Taki B. Maksud £ Ali Majlisi, a disciple of Balia ud-Dln ‘Amili, was born A.H. 1003 and died A.H. 1070. See notices of his life in Nujiim us-Sama, p. 59, and Kisas ul- £ Ulama, p. 172, where the present work is mentioned and said to have been left unfinished. In the preface, after a pompous panegyric upon Shah ‘Abbas II., the author says that, when he had entered upon the seventh decade of his life, he had written a full Arabic commentary [entitled LA>j] upon the work called Kitab man layahduruhu ’1-Fakih, and had dedicated it to the Shah, who ordered him to translate it into Persian. This he did in the present work, which is also dedicated to ‘Abbas II. The preface is followed by twelve pre- liminary chapters called with the following headings: 1. Uc- cJoAi fob 3 5; 2. Js- i_AL L_Ay>_j jd, fol. 4a; 3. ^ A-b A fob 45 ; 4. jA iJAa-j JaI, fob 65; 5. jA £ jA fob 85 ; 6. jA Aid j\ cS~ ( _^->.A i fob 9a ; 7. fob 11a; 8. ajUd jA, fob 13a; 9. i_aLT j ^bJ 3 ^ ^1 wAy 3 e;b fob 15a; 10. aI^AA 0*a« ^ ALA s\j\ j, fol. 165; 11. c~oa=» ob-tMsAjA, fob 19a ; 12. pis> t_J B ^a CAy j 3 i fob 205. The commentary proper, which begins with the Basmalah, fol. 24a, extends to the end of the first Juz of the original, treating of purification and prayer. The present volume consists of five sections, each of which has a separate doxology. The second begins with CA.^1 J— ^ y->b, fob 1595; the third with iyLafi u-AyV, fob 2475; the fourth witli^Aih Xa^a° fol. 4115; and the fifth with Lv»U uyyyj Lyb, fob 4835. At the end of the second is a colophon, apparently transcribed from the author’s original draft, stating that he finished the writing of it in Shavval, A.H. 1065. The Arabic text is included in the commentary and distinguished by a red line drawn over it. A MS. described in the Petersburg Cata- logue, no. 253, contains only the first part, ibl^kh of the same commentary. HINDUISM. 24 . Or. 4561. — Foil. 161 ; 9J in. by 6 ; about 18 lines, 4 in. long; written in cursive Indian Nestalik ; dated 25 Muharram, the second year of the reign of ‘Ali Gauhar Padishah (be. A.H. 1175=A.D. 1761). Asvamedha Parva, the fourteenth Parva of the Mahabharata, translated into Persian. Beg. i!> uyliA" j\ i__y. jlc-T aAj L_yg \ j A aa^A l yy. saa^A $ *~r &A-6 A»- b.s~\j HISTORY. 15 ul) J ^“AA’' ^ A £*■**> jjli l-e j' The contents correspond substantially with those of the same section in the version pre- pared for Akbar, Add. 5640, foil. 160 — 360 (see Persian Catalogue, p. 57) ; but the trans- lation is shorter and couched in a plainer style. The MS. was written for Lalah Bhawani Par shad. Copyist : » A? HISTORY. GENERAL HISTORY. 25 . Or. 2927.— Poll. 256 ; 13 in. by 9 ; 27 lines, 6f in. long ; written in small and neat Nes- talik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated the 20th of Aban in the 31st Ilahi year of Akbar, corresponding with the 29th of Zulka‘dah, A.H. 994 (A.D. 1586). [Nath. Bland.] l>- The first volume of the great historical w T ork of Rashid ud-Dln Fazl-ullali Tablb. Beg. i— >L.=- j cAT j IB j The contents correspond with the latter half, foil. 404 — 728, of the large folio, Add. 7628, described in the Persian Catalogue, pp. 74 — 78. They are as follows : Preface of the Jami‘ ut-Tavarlkh (Quatre- mere’s edition, pp. 4 — 60), fol. 3 5. Preface of the first volume called Ta’rlkh i Ghazani (the latter part of this preface is given in Quatremere’s edition, pp. 60 — 82), fol. 75. Origin of the Turks and history of their tribes, fol. 10m Ancestors of Chingiz Khan, fol. 39a. Chingiz Ivhan, fol. 525. Ukutai Ka’an, fol. 106a. Juji Khan, fob 1195. Cha- ghatai Khan, fob 1255. Tului Khan, fob 130a. Kuvuk Khan, fob 1325. Mungga Ka’an, fob 136a. Kubilai Ka’an, fob 1435. Timur Ka’an, fob 1575. Hiilagu Khan, fob 161a. Abaka Khan, fob 176a. Takudar, or Ahmad Khan, fob 187a. Arghun Khan, fob 1915. Kaikhatu Khan (wanting in Add. 7628), fob 1975. Ghazan Khan, foil. 1995 — 286. At the end there is a ‘Arz-Dldah dated in the 49th year of Akbar (A.H. 1013). On the first page is impressed the seal of Maha- raja Tikait Rai. A full table of chapters, in a modern hand, occupies three pages at the beginning. O O To the copies mentioned in the Persian Catalogue may be added one of the same first volume in the Bodleian, Etlie, no. 23. A considerable portion of the second volume is preserved, as shown by Baron Rosen, in two Petersburg MSS. bearing the mislead- ing title Zubdat ut-Tavarlkh. From the analysis given in “ Collections Scientifiques de l’lnstitut,” vol. iii., pp. 83 — 111, it ap- pears that the portion of those MSS. which extends from the beginning of the life of Muhammad to the end of the history of China, is in verbal agreement with the corre- sponding part of the complete copy of Rashid ud-Dln’s work, Add. 7628, foil. 58 — 336. 16 HISTORY. 26 . Or. 2885. — Foil. 422 ; 13! in- by 7f ; 21 lines, 5^ in. long; written in small and neat Nes- talik; dated 28 Rajab, A.H. 1030 (A.D. 1621). [Sidney Chukchill.] I. Foil. 1 — 363 a. Another copy of the first volume of the Jami‘ ut-Tavarikh. Contents; Preface of the Jami‘ ut-Tavarikh, fol. 15. Preface of the Ta’rikh i Ghazani, fol. 7b. Turks and their tribes, fol. 12a. Ancestors of Chingiz Khan, fol. 535. Chingiz Khan, fol. 66a. Ukutai, fol. 156a. Juji, fol. 181a. Chaghatai, fol. 1935. Tfilui, fol. 2015. Kuyuk, fol. 206a. Mungga, fol. 2125. Iyu- bilai, fol. 2255. Timur, fol. 2485. Hulagu, fol. 252a. Abaka, fol. 271a. Ahmad (Takfi- dar), fol. 2835. Arghun, fol. 2885. Kaikhatu, fol. 293a. Ghazan, foil. 296a — 363a. II. Foil. 3635 — 422a. Continuation of the above history, comprising the reigns of Ul- ja’itu Sultan Muhammad Khudabandah and of his son Sultan Abu Sa'Id, A.H. 703 — 736. Beg. U! . . . ijdbQl iibjjOb b Sx) \J*t . . . It is stated in a short preamble that Shah- rukh, being fond of history, and having read the great work completed A.H. 704 by Khwa- jah Rashid ud-Din Fazl-ullali al-Tabib, de- sired the writer, who does not give his name, to compile a sequel to that work, and to bring it down to the death of Sultan Abu Sa‘Id, events subsequent to that date being included in the history of Amir Sahib Kiran (Timur), which was then being written afresh for His Majesty. The author says at the end that this record had been compiled from several books and trustworthy narrators not further specified : jxix* j JjZ j\ . It is written on the same plan as Rashid ud-Din’s work, the Dastan devoted to each reign being also divided into three Kisms. The Dastan of Abu Safid begins fol. 3905. A Paris MS. containing the same continua- tion is mentioned by Quatremere in his pre- face, p. lxxx. 27 . Or. 2774.— Poll. 369; 13 in. by 9J; 20 lines, 6 \ in. long; written in large and neat Neskhi, apparently about the close of the 15tli century. [Comte de Gobineau.] An imperfect volume of an extensive work on universal history, without title or author’s name. It begins abruptly with the following passage of the doxology : j\ \j zjt jx> j\ j c . ^ bx>,‘ It proves to be the first of the four volumes of the Zubdat ut-Tavarikh, a vast historical work compiled for Prince Baisungkar Baha- dur Khan, son of Sultan Skahrukh, by Nur ud-Din Lutf-ullah, known as Hafiz i Abru, who died A.H. 834. See the Persian Cata- logue, p. 4215, and Quatremere, Histoire des Mongols, p. ciii. A MS. containing the first two volumes is mentioned by Dorn, Petersburg Catalogue, no. 268. The contents of the same MS., desig- nated by C, and of two others have been fully described by Baron Rosen, Collections Scien- tifiques de l’lnstitut, iii., pp. 52 — 111. That detailed analysis and the accompanying ex- tracts enabled us to ascertain that the present MS. agrees closely, as far as it goes, with Rosen’s MS. C. There is, however, a curious discrepancy between the two with regard to the date of composition. While the Peters- HISTORY. 17 burg MS. gives A.H. 828, our copy has 830, namely, in the following passage, fol. 3 a : SSj uoj j ,gjb J 1 -*' •* The latter date is confirmed by another pas- sage, fol. 66, where the author states that twenty-three years had elapsed from the death of Timur (A.H. 807) to the time of writing : sf ^ j i*lx>}s- jfy jii j y y 0 fol. 9a. The history proper begins, fol. 13a, with a chapter on Creation and the history of Adam, without heading. In the subsequent sections there is some evident confusion in the desie:- nations of the several chapters and in their ordinal numbers, as stated in the headings. The following is a list of the headings as they appear in the text : Fol. 22a. *y\ j\ ajo ^ J\jX^ j'ji y Jjl i*j'**j kAff- A)! iAff- xCm\ j*b\ Fol. 257a. Fol. 261a. (•JD ^ (*j'Ar D 18 HISTORY. Fol. 261 6. of jfd jd |*^v J*ai iAJeb ClAy 13 j^xCm\ j\ fol. 626; VI. fol. 736; VII. fol. 856 ; VIII. fol. 976; IX. fol. 106a ; X. fol. 1226 ; XI. fol. 1256 ; XII. fol. 1646 ; XIII. fol. 207a. This chapter includes the Ashab i Kalif, fol. 270a ; Yunus, fol. 2726 ; Shamshun ‘Abid, fol. 276a; Jirjis, fol. 2766. Fol. 279a. j\ aluL jfz ^ ^'.-.2 1 > Y . *>3 b .' History of the Sassanides, imperfect at the end. It breaks off shortly after the heading of the reign of Hurmuz, son of Anushirvan. 28. Or. 2775.— Foil. 228 ; 9j in. by 5; 19 lines, 2f in. long; written in elegant Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins ; dated Rajab, A.H. 949 (A.D. 1542). [Comte de Gobineau.] £ ■•u'A' Copyist : ^ i_iAAh For other MSS., see the Leyden Catalogue, no. 907; Aumer, Verzeichniss, 1875, p. 183; Rosen, Institut, iii., no. 9 ; and Ethe, Bod- leian Catalogue, no. 34. 29. Or. 3643. — Foil. 108 ; 8-| in. by 5f ; 15 lines, 3^ in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik, in the 19th century. [Sidney Chuechill.] eJjUl JL A work treating of the institutions, founda- tions, and wise sayings of kings and ancient sages, by Ghiya§ ud-Dln Khwand-amir (Per- sian Catalogue, p. 966). Beg. liAAi Ols?^ 5 t-nj A compendium of Muslim history, brought down to A.H. 855, by Shukr-ullah B. Shihab ud-Din Ahmad. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 884. This copy wants about twelve leaves at the beginning, and has some folios transposed. The folios are to be taken in the following order : 213—220, 5—58, 3, 4 (after which two leaves are lost, corresponding with foil. 1146 — 1176 of the previous copy, Or. 1627), 59—212, 227, 221—226, 228. The text begins abruptly with these words, fol. 213: | *U> Jh*» z'^v U T (jliM ^ (Or. 1627, fol. 196, line 9). The next page has the heading _j Jiff- Jjl J.*aj which belongs to the first of the thirteen Babs into which the work is divided. The subsequent Babs begin as follows : II. fol. 29a; III. fol. 41a; IV. fol. 506; V. ijis j jfiii ZiiJo \*\ . . . . 1 jff- A 1 This work, which is mentioned by Haj. Khal., vol. v., p. 350, is probably the earliest of the celebrated author of Habib us-Siyar. He does not refer in it to any previous com- position of his own, and he speaks of his grandfather, the author of Rauzat us-Safa, as still living. In the preface he states that he had some time contemplated writing a book on the above subject, and was encour- aged to carry out that plan by his illustrious patron, Nizam ud-Daulah wad-Dunya wad- Din Amir ‘Alisliir, to whom he devotes a long panegyric. The first chapter, fol. 4a, is entitled &A- j>z treats of the institutions and maxims of the ancient kings of Persia from Kayumars to HISTORY. 19 Anushirvan. The second chapter, fol. 26a, relates to the patriarchs and ancient sages from Adam to Buzurjmihr ; the third, fol. 3 75, to Muhammad and the Imams. The remain- ing chapters follow the usual arrangement of historical works. They treat of the Umay- yades, fol. 52a, of the ‘Abbasides, fol. 62a, and of the independent dynasties, Tahiris, Samanis, Ghaznavis, &c., down to the Kurt dynasty. The last section, which relates to the Khakans of the Turks, breaks off at the second page. 30 . Or. 2928. — Foil. 410 ; 8^ in. by 5J ; 15 lines, 3| in. long; written in small and neat Nestalik ; probably about the close of the 18th century. [Nath. Bland.] The first volume of the well-known his- torical compendium of the same Khwand Amir. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 96. Contents : Preface, fol. 75. Makalah I. Prophets, fol. 16a. II. Philosophers, fol. 125a. III. Kings of Persia, &c., fol. 133a. IY. Muhammad, fol. 2185. Y. Early Khalifs and Imams, fol. 293a. VI. Umayyades, fol. 3555. 31 . Or. 2677. — Foil. 361 ; 14 in. by 9J ; 35 lines, 6^ in. long ; written in small and neat Nestalik; apparently in the 16th century. [H. G. Keene.] The third volume of the great historical work of Khwand Amir. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 98. Beg. U . . . ^ j*j b*> b A aJ A £ h b . ° ( y jbjo ^ L. J A Contents : J uz I. Khans of Turkistan, Chingiz Khan and his successors, fol. 15. Juz II. Contemporary dynasties, fol. 735. Juz III. Timur and his successors, fol. 1 225. Juz IV. Shah Isma‘11 Safavi, fol. 3075. The following particulars, taken from the present work, may be added to the notice of the author in the Persian Catalogue, p. 96. His father, Humam ud-Dln Muhammad B. Khwajah Jalal ud-DIn B. Burhan ud-Dln Shlrazi, was Vazir to Sultan Mahmud Mirza, who succeeded his father Abu Sa‘Id in Mavara-annahr, and died in Samarkand, A.H. 900. Khwand Amir was living in retirement in Busht, a village of Gharjistan, when Muhammad Zaman, son of Sultan Badl £ uz-Zaman, came to that country, A. H. 921, and took him into his service. That prince sent him later on, A.H. 923, to the rebel Amir, Urdushah, with the object of inducing him to submit and to surrender Balkh. See Habib us-Siyar, Bombay edition, vol. iii., Juz iii., pp. 194 and 369 — 71. 32 . Or. 3535. — Foil. 409 ; 13^ in. by 8 ; 32 lines, 6^ in. long ; written by several hands in more or less cursive Nestalik ; apparently in the 18th century. [Sidney Churchill.] The great historical work of Khwurshah B. Kubad al-Husaini, known as Elchi e Nizamshah, who died A.H. 972. See the Persian Catalogue, pp. 107 — 111. Beg. 1 A'g o CL-jI Ji jT j Fob 1715. Fob 1935. Fob 1975. Fob 2095. t The MS. breaks off, seven lines after the last heading, with the rubric : jjU- u!p-' J* J The latter half of the MS., foil. 210 — 355, contains the last portion of Bab I., namely, Fusul 18 — 37 of Gosche, nos. 15 — 34 of Pertsch. It begins abruptly in the middle of the history of al-Muwahhidln, with an ac- count of the revolt of the Ghumarah tribe after the death of £ Abd al-Mumin, and of its suppression, A.H. 561. The succeeding head- ings are as follows : Fol. 212a. Fol. 213a. j 5 _13 (Aiy Fol. 224a. Fol. 2316. 16. Fol. 2366. Fol. 255a. Fol. 2556. Fol. 256a. tit) Lmm Fol. 257a. 2 ^ Ip* j Fol. 2596. Fol. 2626. Fol. 281a. U-Jjp JL jbo Fol. 318a. The history of the Circassians, or Mamluk, sultans of Egypt is brought down to the Turkish conquest, and concludes Bab I. 34 . Or. 4132. — Foil. 290 ; Ilf in. by 7f ; 17 lines, 4|- in. long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated Muharram, A.I4. 1247 (A.D. 1831). [Sidney Churchill.] A work on general history. The present volume is the last and most valuable portion of what must have been a very voluminous compilation. It consists of two parts respec- tively designated as the sixth and seventh Hadikah of the eighth Rauzah. They con- tain a full and contemporary record, drawn up in the pompous style of a court chronicle, of the reigns of Shah Safi and Shah ‘Abbas II. The history of the latter is brought down to A.H. 1071, apparently the year in which the work was finished. The author does not give his name ; but it appears from several passages that he was a brother of the well-known historian of Shah ‘Abbas II., Mirza Muhammad Tahir Vahid (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 189). Under A.H. 1056, for instance, fol. 182a, he records the appointment of the latter, whom he calls his “excellent brother” to the office of Majlis-navis, and adds that, owing to his protection, he (the author) obtained the post of writer of the royal letters, In the next following lines it is stated that Mirza Tahir was subsequently raised to the Vazirate, and that at the time of writing, viz. A.H. 1103, he was still hold- ing that office. This, however, must have been inserted after the author’s time ; for, in another place, fol. 19 16, the latter states that in A.H. 1058, when he accompanied Shah ‘Abbas in the campaign which resulted in the taking of Kandahar, he was already upwards of seventy years of age. The sixth Hadikah begins as follows : AoT lAA" JA>- ZAJ, jl It commences with an account of the accession of Shah Safi, which took place in Isfahan on the 4th of Jumada II., A.H. 1038. The events of his reign are recorded year by year, on the same plan as in the ‘Alam-arai ‘Abbasi, that is to say, according to the Turkish cycle of twelve solar years. Each HISTORY. 23 year begins with the Nauruz, or festival of the vernal equinox, and the corresponding day of the Hijrah year is given in the preamble. In the following table of the years included in this Hadikah, the figures in parenthesis refer to the corresponding folios in the next following MS., Or. 3481. Fol. 46. Yilan-yil, beginning 25 Rajab, 1038 (fol. 4a). Fol. 2 66. Yunt-yil, 6 Sha'ban, 1040 [read 1039] (fol. 23a). Fol. 416. Kui-yil, 17 Sha‘ban, 1041 [1040] (fol. 36a). Fol. 506. Bichin-yil, 20 [27] Sha'ban, 1042 [1041] (fol. 44a). Fol. 69a. Takhaku-yil, 9 Ramazan, 1043 [1042] (fol. 60a). Fol. 82a. It-yil, 21 Ramazan, 1044 [1043] (fol. 716). Fol. 916. Tunguz-yil, 2 Shavval, 1044 (fol. 806). Fol. 103a. Sichkan-yil, 12 Shavval, 1045 (fol. 896). Fol. 109a. Ud-yil, 23 Shavval, 1046 (fol. 94a). Fol. 1136. Pars-yil, 5 Zulka‘dah, 1047 (fol. 98a). Fol. 1246. Tushkan-yil, 14 Zulka c dah, 1048 (fol. 107a). Fol. 1296. Lui-yil, 27 Zulka'dah, 1049 (fol. 111a). Fol. 1326. Yilan-yil, 8 Zulliijjah, 1050 (fol. 114a). Fol. 136a. Yunt-yil, 28 Zulhijjah, 1051 (fol. 117a). Besides the headings denoting the above years, there are also rubrics for the principal events recorded. The narrative concludes, fol. 137a, with the death of Shah Safi on Monday, 12 Safar, A.H. 1052. Ten additional chapters, termed Manzar, contain biographical notices of the prominent men of the reign, classed under the following heads: 1. Kurji-bashis, fol. 1376 ; 2. Vazirs, fol. 1386 ; 3. Sudur or Shaikh ul-Islam, fol. 141a ; 4. Ishik-akasi-bashis, fol. 1416 ; 5. Other officials, including physicians and astrologers, fol. 1426 ; 6. Artisans, fol. 1466 ; 7. Secretaries and accountants, fol. 149a ; 8. Emirs and Khans, fol. 150a ; 9. Vazirs of provinces, fol. 155a; 10. Holy Sayyids and ‘Ulama, fol. 156a. The seventh Hadikah begins, fol. 1586, as follows : ^ ^ Ms- Oli> C-A sOjj It commences with a record of the acces- sion of Shfih ‘Abbas II., on the eve of Friday, 16 Safar, A.H. 1052, and of the events of the first year of his reign. The subsequent years are as follows : Fol. 171a. Kui-yil, 9 Muharram, 1053 (fol. 147a). Fol. 1746. Bichin-yil, 20 Muharram, 1054 (fol. 150a). Fol. 177a. Takhaku-yil, 1 Safar, 1055 (fol. 152a). Fol. 1816. It-yil, 11 Safar, 1056 (fol. 156a). Fol. 189a. Tunguz-yil, 24 Safar, 1057 (fol. 162a). Fol. 190a. Sichkan-yil, 25 Safar, 1058 (fol. 163a). Fol. 2066. Ud-yil, 6 Rabk I., 1059 (fol. 1766). Fol. 2116. Pars-yil, 18 RabT I., 1060 (fol. 1806). Fol. 215a. Tushkan-yil, 28 Rabk I., 1061 (fol. 184a). (Lui-yil is not entered.) Fol. 217a. Yilan-yil, 20 Rabk II., 1063 (fol. 1856). 24 HISTORY, Fol. 221a. Yunt-yil, 1 Jumada I., 1064 (fol. 189a). Fol. 2336. Kui-yil, 12 Jumada I., 1065 (fol. 1996). Fol. 241a. Bichin -yil, 23 Jumada I., 1066 (fol. 2066). Fol. 2546. Takhaku-yil, 4 Jumada II., 1067 (fol. 217a.) Fol. 263a. Ifc-yil, 15 Jumada II., 1068 (fol. 224a). Fol. 2696. Tunguz-yil, 27 Jumada II., 1069 (fol. 2296). Fol. 283a. Siclikan-yil, 8 Raiab, 1070 (fol. 2406). Fol. 289a. Ud-yil, 18 Rajab, 1071 (fol. 245a). The last incidents recorded are a complaint made to the Shah by the Hindu merchants of Ispahan of exactions committed by the governor of Bender Abbasi, and the sending by the Shah of stores of corn to relieve a famine raging in the capital. The history of the reigns of Safi and ‘Abbas II. in the Fava'id Safaviyyah (Persian Catalogue, p. 133) is avowedly abridged from the present work, and is brought down to the same year. Copyist : ^ 35 . Or. 3481. — Foil. 246 ; lOf in. by 6f ; 19 lines, 41 in. long ; written in small and close Nesklii; dated Shavval, A.H. 1278 (A.D. 1862). [Sidney Churchill.] Another copy of the same portion of the Khuld i Barin. The contents are identical with those of the preceding MS. Copyist : jLo ^>\ 36 . Or. 3498. — Foil. 254; 13 in. by 8; about 25 lines, 4-| in. long ; written in small, cursive, and not easily readable Shikesteh, partly in two columns, and in the tabellated form called Siyak ; apparently about the middle of the 18th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A work on general history, by Muhammad Muhsin, Mustaufi of Nadir Shah, Beg. j \jJ) j jojj J 1 XXjO In the preface, which contains a pompous panegyric on Nadir Shah, and od his son Riza Kuli Mirza, the author states that the work was compiled by order of the former for the use of the latter. It was written, as incidentally mentioned, fol. 2156, A.H. 1154 ( i.e . two years before that unfortunate prince was blinded by his father). The contents are as follows : Adam and the Prophets, fol. 8. Muhammad, fol. 30. Khulafa i Rashidin, fol. 33. Hasan and the Imams, fol. 81. Ancient kings of Persia, fol. 100. Bani Umayyak, fol. 110. Dynasties contemporary with the Abbasides, from the Tahiris to the Karakhitai’s of Kirman, fol. 112. The Abbasides, fol. 125. The Moghols, fol. 129. Five subsequent dynas- ties, viz. Chaupanis, Ilkanis, Abu Ishak Inju and Muzaffaris, Kurts, and Sarbadars, fol. 134. Timur and his descendants in Iran and India, fol. 140. Kara Kuyunlus and Ak-Kuyunlus, fol. 140. Safavis, fol. 151. HISTORY. 25 (The latter portion of this last chapter is of special importance, as being a contemporary record of the decline of the Safavi dynasty and of the rise of Nadir Shah down to the time of his assumption of the regal title. It includes the following reigns : Sultan Husain, fob 175 ; Tahmasp II., fol. 182, and the puppet-king ‘Abbas III., fob 188.) The Afghans Mir Yais, Mahmud and Ashraf, fob 196. Christian kings, foil. 196 — 205 and 208. Seljuks of Rum, fob 206. Ancient kings of India, foil. 207, 209—211, 215-216. Kings of Israel, fob 212. The contents of the latter part of the volume are very miscellaneous. They relate to the seven climes, fob 217 ; to the Pharaohs and the ‘Adites, fob 218 ; to Lokman, fob 222 ; Barsisa, fob 224 ; Harut and Marut, fob 225 ; and to the wonders and curiosities of the world, fob 250. They include a version of the story of Yudasaf and Bilauliar, a-A b j foil. 226 — 249, extracted from the Kama! ud-DIn of Ibn Babavaili (see Or. 3529). The MS. is probably due to the pen of the Mustaufi himself, or of one of his secretaries. The headings are written throughout like entries in an account-book, in an almost illegible hand, and a perusal of the text requires a fair practice in Shikesteh. 37 . Or. 3288; 11^ in. by 7f ; 15 lines, 4f in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with two ‘Unvans and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 18th century. A work on general history, with special reference to India, by Khushhalchand, son of Jivanram Kayath, secretary to the Divan of the Province of Delhi. JA^- jd jSj O— For the division and contents of the work see the Persian Catalogue, pp. 128, 894, and Elliot’s History of India, vol. viii., p. 70. The present volume begins with a preface relating to the decliue of the empire, its causes and remedies, and concluding with a notice of the author’s father, fob 66. It contains, besides, two detached portions of of the work, namely, the first Ivaifiyyat of Makfdah I., and the latter portion of the first Matla‘ of Makalah II. The contents of Kaifiyyat I. are as follows : Prophets from Adam to Muhammad, fob 136. Ancient kings of Persia, fob 46a. Descend- ants of Japliet down to ‘Umar Shaikh, father of Babar, fob 766. Early Khalifs, fob 120a. Umayyades, fob 1266. Abbasides and contemporary dynasties, fob 12a. Safavis, fob 1476. Descendants of Ham in India, fob 155a. The Matla‘ begins with a new ‘Unvan, fob 1596, as follows : slA:>b J\ 3 A-J sbo jjrti pAijj Jly bjJ j\ fiiib j. It comprises the following chapters : Reign of Shahjalian. Reign of ‘Alamgir, fob 2606. His death, his sons, his officials, and contemporary kings, fob 344a. Contemporary Shaikhs, fob 351«. ‘Ulama, who flourished from the time of Akbar to the reign of ‘Alamgir, fob 3536. Calligraphers, fob 3586. History of the period extending from the death of ‘Alamgir to the defeat of A‘zam Shah, fob 3646. Reign of Shah ‘Alam, fob 374a. Contest of his sons, fob 384a. Reign of Jahandar Shah, fob 387a. Reign of Farrukhsiyar, fob 396a. Reign of Rafl‘ ud-Daulah, fob 416a. Reign of Muhammad Shah, foil. 418a — 4266. This last chapter, which has been supplied by another hand, does not appear to belong E 26 HISTORY to the original work. It contains a very brief account of the reign of Muhammad Shah down to his death on the 27th of Rabi‘ II., A.H. 1161. The contents of foil. 159 — 341 agree sub- stantially, in spite of many variations, with those of Add. 24,027, foil. 418 — 601, and the contents of foil. 364 — 417 correspond with Or. 1654, foil. 7 — 139. A few extracts from the present work have been given, but under the title of Ta’rikh Bahadur Shahi, and without author’s name, in Elliot’s History of India, vol. vii., pp. 565 — 67. A MS. described by Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, no. 495, contains the latter part of Matla‘ I., and the whole of Matla‘ II. of Makalah II. 38 . Or. 3400. — Foil. 154 ; 7-| in. by 4 ± ; 14 lines, 2J in. long ; written in neat minute Nestalik ; apparently in the 19th century. Bound in painted and glazed covers. [Sidney Churchill.] ujUN A manual of Muslim history, by Haji Muhammad Kuli Kajar. It begins with a versified prologue, the first line of which is : b The author describes himself as a native of Ganjah, there designated as the greatest of the cities of Turkestan, ^ ^Jad, and as descended ,from a family which for several generations had given soldiers to that land. Although his military duties left him little leisure for study, he had brought together some historical works, and was induced to compile from them an easy and comprehen- sive abridgment, by means of which any reader could without difficulty ascertain the date and length of the reign of any king, from the origin of Islamism to the time of compo- sition. As a matter of fact the history stops somewhat short of the date of composition, which is expressly stated, fol. 966, to be A.H. 1097. The work is divided into twenty-three Fasls as follows : I. The fourteen Ma'sums, 1. e. Muhammad, ‘All and the Imams, fol. 4 a. II. The three accursed usurpers of the Khilafat (i.e. Abu Bakr, ‘Omar and ‘Osman), fol. 146. III. Banu Umayyah, fol. 166. IY. Banu ‘Abbas, fol. 21a. V. Banu Lai§ Saffar, fol. 34a. VI. Samanis, fol. 35 6. VII. Tahiris, fol. 38a. VIII. Gliaznavis, fol. 396. IX. Ghuris, fol. 426. X. A1 i Buvaih, fol. 436. XI. Saljukis, fol. 48a. XII. Khwarazmshahis, fol. 556. XIII. Ata- beks, fol. 586. XIV. Isma'ilis, fol. 61a. XV. Karakhita’is of Kirman, fol. 65a. XVI. Ckingizkhan and his descendants, fol. 666. XVII. Sarbadars, fol. 726. XVIII. Timur and his descendants, fol. 75a. XIX. Kara Kuyunlus and Ak Kuyunlus, fol. 84a. XX. Sultans of Rum, down to Muhammad IV., fol. 906. XXI. Uzbaks from Shahi Beg to the death of ‘Abd ul-Latif Khan (two leaves added for the continuation of this chapter have been left blank), fol. 946. XXII. Safavis from Shah Isma‘11 to the death of Shah ‘Abbas I., A.H. 1038, fol. 966 (there are five blank pages at the end). XXIII. Persian poets, fol. 130a. This last Fasl contains notices of 220 poets, divided into three Babs, viz. 1. Sixty ancient poets from Rudagi to A.H. 900, in chronological order (the last is Vali Kalandar, a poet of the time of Sultan Baisunkar). 2. Thirty poets of the time of Sultan Husain, bemnninff with Sultan Husain himself, and ending with ‘Abd ul-Jalil Va‘iz, fol. 139a. 3. One hundred and thirty modern poets, HISTORY. 27 fol. 144a. First come six princes from Shall Isma‘11 to Shah ‘Abbas II. The remaining poets are given in alphabetical order. The notices are short and mostly confined to a verse or two ; a few only have dates. Copyist : ** 1 ’j Ar** 39 . Or. 3202. — Foil. 293 ; 12 in. by 8; 25 lines, 5 in. long ; written in small and neat Nestalik; dated Diir us-Saltanah (Tehran), A.H. 1220 (A.D. 1805). [Kremer, no. 56. J The first volume of ZInat ut-Tavarikli, a general history compiled by order of Fath ‘Ali Shah, by Mirza Muhammad Razi Tabrizi. Beg. ^ j y J.& 40 . Or. 3333. — Foil. 176; 8^ in. by 4^; about 15 lines, 2| in. long in a page ; written in Shikesteh ; dated 1st Rajah, A.H. 1260 (A.D. 1844). [H. A. Stern.] A compendium of general and Persian history from the earliest times to A.H. 1 220, drawn up for the most part in tabular form, with the heading : ^ w \jt>U»sb gjo ho'&s- ^UjA j\ jji ■ ** ■■ ^ j slA (JlAlalwJ There is no preface or author’s name. After a tabulated index of contents occupying six pages, the text begins, fol. 5 a, as follows : (j? <■— **"* u? cF ^ \ “ 1 1 j Ac- AAwj ^ J ^ The author, poetically called Bandah, was son of Muhammad Shaft 4 Tabrizi, Yazir of Azarbaijan. He held the office of Munslii ul-Mamalik, and was one of the favourites of Fath ‘Ali Shah. He was assisted in the compilation of the Zinat ut-Tavarikh by Mirza Ibrahim Ishtihardi. He died in Teheran A.H. 1223. See Nigaristan i Dara, fol. 83, Anjuman i Khakan, fol. 405, and Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 80. The present volume contains the first half of the work, namely the Preface, the Intro- duction (Aghaz), and the first of the two Pirayahs into which the work is divided. Its contents are identical with those of Add. 23,514, described in the Persian Cata- logue, p. 135. This copy is due to the pen of Aman-ullah, with the takhallus Nazir, a poet of some note, who died A.H. 1226. See Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 527. The date of composition is given, fol. 169a, as A.H. 1250 ; but the history of the reign of Fath ‘Ali Shah is not brought further down than Ud yil = A.H. 1220. The main divisions are as follows : Ancient kings of Persia from Kayumarg to Yezdegird, fol. 5. Kings of the Arabs, fol. 29a. Muhammad, the first Khalifs and Imams, the Ummayades and Abbasides, fol. 39a. Dynasties contem- porary with the Abbasides, fol. 69a. Moghols, fol. 92a. Muluk ut-Tava’if, fol. 98a. Timur and his successors in Iran, fol. 108a. Kara Kuyunlus and Ak Kuyunlus, fol. 114a. Uzbeks, fol. 119a. Safavis, fol. 120a. Af- ghans, fol. 131a. Safavi pretenders, fol. 134a. Russian invaders, fol. 136a. Afshars, fol. 137a. Zends, fol. 150a. Kajars, fol. 157a. The last events recorded are the death of Ibrahim Khalil Khan and the expedition of Husain Khan Kajar and Isma‘il Khan Duma- pdiani against Mustafa Khan Shirvani in e 2 28 HISTORY. Karabagh, A.H. 1220 (or A.H. 1221, accord- ing to the Ma’agir i Sultaniyyah, Brydges’ translation, pp. 267 and 287). 41 . Or. 2837.— Foil. 204 ; 12} in. by 7} ; 19 lines, in. long ; written in fair Nesklii, apparently about A.H. 1260 (A.D. 1844). A compendium of general history, with special reference to Persia, from the earliest time to the date of composition, viz. A.H. 1257, by ‘Abd ul-Vahhab B. ‘Ali Ashraf B. ‘Ali B. lsma‘11 B. Muh. Mahdi Shirazi. Beg. j t-Afcjh ^I'U all (jls- . . . t— The work is divided into a Mukaddimah, six ‘Unvans, and a Khatimah, as follows: Mukaddimah : Creation and Adam, fol. 10a. ‘Unvan I. Prophets, fol. 135. II. Pre-Islam- itic kings, fol. 475. III. Life of Muhammad, fol. 58a. IV. Persian kings in Muhammad’s time, viz. Anusliirvan and his successors, fol. 1285. Y. Lives of Fatimah and the twelve Imams, Umayyades, and Abbasides, fol. 131a. VI. Dynasties contemporary with the Abba- sides and posterior to them, down to the ac- cession of Muhammad Shfih Kajar, fol. 1425. Ivhatimah : Reign of Muhammad Shah Kaiar, fol. 199a. The most valuable part of this manual is the latter section, Maksad 2, of ‘Unvan VI. It treats of the dynasties which rose in Iran after the Abbasides, under the following ten heads (Ta’ifah) : I. Moghols, fol. 1535. II. Muluk ut-Tava’if, viz. Chupanis, Ilkanis, Abu Ishak, Muzaffaris, Kurts, and Sarbadars, fol. 1565. III. Gurganis, fol. 1625. IV. Turco- mans and Uzbeks, fol. 1665. V. Safavis, fol. 169a. VI. Afghans, fol. 173a. VII. Various pretenders who rose after the downfall of the Safavis, fol. 1745. VIII. Afshars, fol. 176a. IX. Zands, fol. 1835. X. Kajars, fol. 188a. The Khatimah contains a brief account of the reign of Muhammad Shah. The last event recorded is the rising of Aka Khan in Kirman, which took place A.H. 1257. A full table of contents occupies foil. 1 — 8. At the beginning is a marginal note, dated Rajab, A.H. 1260, in which the author de- scribes the MS. as his autograph draft. 42 . Or. 3378. — Foil. 118 ; 13f in. by 8-| ; 14 lines, 5 in. long; written in fine large Nestalik, in in the latter half of the 19th century. [Sidney Chukciiill.] A history of those dynasties who traced their origin to the ancient kings of Persia, by Riza Kuli Khan, poetically surnamed Hidayat, who died A.H. 1288. Beg. ^ ^ The work was written at the request of the author’s Parsi friend, Manakji Limji Hiishang Haturiya, and after the Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, which is often referred to. It is divided into a Mukaddimah, eighteen Taba- kahs, and a Khatimah. The Mukaddimah treats of the five old dynasties mentioned in the Dabistan, and of historical documents bearing upon the ancient king's of Persia. The eighteen Tabakalis re- late to the following dynasties : I. Saffaris, MUHAMMAD AND THE IMAMS. 29 fol. 76. II. Samanis, fol. 13a. III. A1 i Bavand, fol. 216. IV. A1 i Buvaih, fol. 25 b. V. A1 i Kakavaih, fol. 33a. VI. A1 i Ziyar, fol. 35a. VII. Second Bavand line, called Gaoparah, fol. 40a. VIII. Kings of Nlmriiz or Sistfrn, fol. 746. IX. Third Bavand line, fol. 77a. X. Al i Fazlavaih in Shabankarah, fol. 79 a. XI. The Badusis of Mazandaran, fol. 82a. XII. The Bahmanis of Gujarat, fol. 83a. XIII. Kings of Shirvan, fol. 84a. XIV. Kings of Nur, fol. 86a. XV. Kings of Kajur, fol. 87a. XVI. Kings of Laristan, fol. 88a. XVII. Kings of Hurmuz, fol. 89a. XVIII. The Jams of Sind and Multan, fol. 93a. The Khatimah, foil. 93 — 118, beginning with a sketch of Muhammad’s life, consists of chronological tables extending from the Hijrah to A.H. 1203, where the MS. breaks off. They are written in two columns, and are made up of brief notices of historical events and obituary notices of poets and saints. For the life and works of the author, see Churchill, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 18, pp. 196 — 204, vol. 19, p. 163, and Ch. Schefer, Relation de l’Ambassade au Kharezm, p. xvi., and Chrestomathie Persane, vol. ii. , p. 79. Muhammad and the Imams. 43 . Or. 2969.— Foil. 191; 9J in. by Gi ; 23 lines, 3| in. long; written in small, neat, and close Neskhi, with ‘Unvans and gold-ruled margins ; dated 28 Rajab, A.H. 883 (A.D. 1478). [Sidney Churchill.] A history of Muhammad and the Khalifs, brought down to the extinction of the Abba- side Khalifs of Baghdad, by Mahmud B. Mu- hammad al-lji, called Najlb. Be S- J r *i) L Jc 4)] (j (J^" ^ ‘-f !; ^ i^j> ji jiu aih j 3 lyA xl' ; > ' I The author, who was a Sunni, lived ap- parently about the middle of the ninth century of the Hijrah. One of his latest authorities, quoted fol. 6a, is Shaikh ul-Islam ‘Imad ud-Dln B. Kathir ad-Dimashki (d. A.H. 774), of whom he speaks as dead. He gives his own name in the following Isnad, fol. 136 : Aj.aU bJj jj.aa.ii Jyb Jji j *>\ 3 -^L\\ iv.V i xJAM laA- and at the beginning there are the words 30 HISTORY. written in ornamental Kufi within an illumi- nated border. Both titles are inadequate and misleading. 44 . Or. 3641. — Foil. 304 ; 10^ in. by 6 |- ; 17 lines, 3 J in. long; written in small Neskhi; dated Monday, 16 Ramazan, A.H. 1260 (A.D. 1844). [Sidney Churchill.] Tazkirat ul-A’immah, or Memorial of the Imams, by Muhammad Bakir B. Muhammad Taki (Majlisi), who died A.H. 1110. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 20. Beg. (j all JIJ j'5'0 A-%^° (jIaxaA i\j - The author says that the chief scope of the work is to establish the divine mission of the Prophet and the holiness of the Imams by evidences drawn from the sacred books of the Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Greeks, and he gives in his preface a rather fanciful enumeration of those books, from which numerous extracts in Hebrew, Chaldee, Ar- menian, and other tongues, but transliterated in the Arabic character, are given, with inter- lineary Persian version, in the body of the volume. The author writes in the most un- mitigated Shl‘ah spirit, and is lavish of curses upon the predecessors of ‘Ali and on the antagonists of the Imams. The work is divided into a Mukaddimah, fourteen Babs, and a Khatimah, as follows : Mukaddimah : Advent of Muhammad as fore- told in the sacred books, fol. 3a. Bab I. Life of Muhammad, fol. 10a; events which fol- lowed his death, fol. 53 6 ; exposition of Muslim sects and of the tenets of Jews, Christians, Brahmins, Magians, and philo- sophers, fol. 67a. Bab II. Life of Fatimah, fol. 98a. III. Life of ‘Ali, fol. 1046 ; events which followed his death, the Ummayades, fol. 1586, and the Abbasides, fol. 1866. IV. Hasan, fol. 1996. V. Husain, fol. 2026; events which followed his death, fol. 2106. VI. Zain ul-‘AbidIn, fol. 2166. VII. Bakir, fol. 203a. VIII. Sadik, fol. 2256. IX. Iva- zim, fol. 240a. X. Riza, fol. 244a. XI. Ja- wad, fol. 247a. XII. ‘Ali Naki, fol. 249a. XIII. Hasan ‘Askari, fol. 250a. XIV. Sahib ul-Amr, or Mahdi, and his future advent, fol. 251a. Khatimah : The Imams in general and evidences in support of their legitimacy, fol. 300a. The sectarian and controversial matter occupies throughout the work more space than the history proper. The Tazkirat ul- A’immah is mentioned among the works of Muhammad Bakir in the Nujiim us-Sama, p. 366, and in the Kisas al-‘Ulama, p. 158 ; but with the remark that it is not included in the authentic list of Muhammad Bakir’s works drawn up by Muhammad Salih Mazan- darani. 45 . Or. 2881. — Foil. 265 ; 11-| in. by 7 ; 25 lines, 4-f in. loug; written in small Neskhi; dated A.H. 1228 (A.D. 1813). . [Sidney Churchill.] A history of the sufferings and martyrdoms of Muhammad and of the holy Imams, by al-Haj Muhammad Hasan B. al-Haj Ma'sum al-Kazvml. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 1556. Beg. loxh 1 • \A ... *' j MUHAMMAD AND THE IMAMS. 31 The author was a disciple of Aka Bakir Bahbahani, who died A.H. 1205 (v. Nujum us-Sama, p. 342). In the introduction he dwells on the trials and persecutions under- gone by the prophets from Adam to Mu- hammad, and shows that the sufferings of the latter and of his descendants have far surpassed those of his predecessors. Com- passion with these sufferings being a great means of gaining favour with God, and of progressing on the path of piety, he was induced to record them fully in the present work, which is divided into thirty Majlis. The above introduction is preceded by a preface, the beginning of which is lost. It contains a wordy panegyric upon Fath ‘AH Shah and upon his son Husain ‘Ali Mlrza, 1 whose just rule had restored Fars to a state of unexampled prosperity, and to whom the work is dedicated. At the end of the preface is a table of chapters, fully stating the contents of the four Majlis contained in the first volume. The contents of the first volume are as follows : Majlis I. Life of Muhammad in four Fasls, viz., 1. From the creation of his “ Light ” to his mission, fol. 76 ; 2. From his mission to his flight, fol. 286; 3. From his flight to his last pilgrimage, fol. 416 ; 4. His death, fol. 666. Majlis II. Life of Fatimah in three Fasls, viz., 1. Her birth and her merits, fol. 766 ; 2. Her marriage, fol. 846 ; 3. From the death of Muhammad to her death, fol. 89a. Majlis III. Life of ‘Ali in five Fasls, viz., 1. His birth and supernatural gifts, fol. 996 ; 2. Hadiths in proof of his Imamsliip, fol. 108a* 3. His virtues and merits, fol. 1576 ; 4. His trials after the 1 Husain ‘Ali Mirza had been Farman-Parma or governor of Fars from A.H. 1214 to 1250. He failed in the at- tempt to seize upon the throne, A.H. 1251, and was put to death by Muhammad Shah. See the Persian Cata- logue, pp. 727a and 11555. death of Muhammad, fol. 184a. 5. His martyrdom, fol. 231a. Majlis IV. Life of Hasan in four Fasls, viz., 1. His birth, fol. 246a ; 2. Proofs of his Imamship and his miracles, fol. 249a ; 3. His dealings with Mu'awiyah, fol. 254a; 4. His martyrdom, fol. 2606. Copyist : l *5, 46 . Or. 2882— Poll. 248 ; 12 in. by 7f; 25 lines, 4^ in. long; written in Neskhi, with silver- ruled margins ; dated Wednesday, 14 Zul- ka'dah, A.H. 1238 (A.D. 1823). [Sidney Churchill.] The second volume of the same work, containing eighteen Majlis, the first seventeen of which relate to the lives aud martyrdom of Husain, his relatives and companions, and the eighteenth to their avenger, Mukhtar. The contents are the same as those of Or. 1293, described in the Persian Catalogue, p. 1556. Copyist: 47 . Or. 2883.— Foil. 223 ; 12 in. by 7| ; 27 and 28 lines, 5-[ in. long ; written in neat Neskhi, early in the 19th century. [Sidney Chur-chill.] The third and last volume of the same work, containing the last eight Majlis, num- bered here (in continuation of the twenty- two Majlis comprised in the first two volumes) from 23 to 30. They treat of the later Imams as follows : Majlis XXIII. Zain ul-‘ Abidin, fol. 16. XXIV. Muhammad Bakir, fol. 16a. XXV. Ja'far Sadik, fol. 366. XXVI. Musa Kazim, fol. 64a. XXVII. ‘Ali 32 HISTORY. Riza, fol. 965. XXVIII. Muhammad Jawad and e Ali Naki, fol. 1275. XXIX. Al-Hasan al-'Askari, fol. 1515. XXX. Al-Mahdi and his future advent, fol. 167a. In a colophon apparently transcribed from the original MS., the author states that he finished this third volume on Thursday, the 12th of Sha‘ban, A.H. 1227. 48 . Or. 2904.— Foil. 243 ; 12 in. by 8 ; 21 lines, 4\ in. long; written in small and elegant Shikesteli-amiz ; dated Friday, the last day of RabT II., A.H. 1258 (A.D. 1842). [Sidney Chuechill.] J'M ji. A history of Muhammad and the Imams, by £ Ali Akbar Shlrazi, Sadr of the province of Fars. Beg. <> J»\j> difi L_Ak> The author, Haji ‘Ali Akbar Navvab, son of Aka ‘Ali Nakib, was the chief of the ‘Ulama of Shiraz and a great favourite with Husain ‘Ali Mirza, Farman-farma of Fars. In his poetical compositions he took the name of Bismil, and his account of contem- porary poets entitled Tazkirah i Dilgusha (Berlin Catalogue, no. 667) is one of the sources of Majma‘ ul-Fusaha. The author of the latter work, writing A.H. 1283, says that ‘Ali Akbar had died a few years pre- viously. See vol. ii., p. 82. The work was commenced, as stated in the preface, on the 28th of Shavval, A.H. 1256. It was planned on a large scale, and was to consist of fourteen volumes containing the lives of as many holy personages, viz. Muhammad, Fatimah, and the twelve Imams, each volume concluding with a sketch of con- temporary sovereigns. The only volume ex- tant, perhaps the only one ever written, is the first, namely, the present MS., which contains a very full life of Muhammad ac- cording to Shi‘ah tradition. It was finished at the end of Zulhijjah, A.H. 1257, and the present copy was made from the original draft by the author’s son, Abu Talib. It is divided into thirty-seven Babs of very unequal extent and a Khatimah. The first five Bfibs treat of Muhammad’s birth, fol. 3a; his suckling, fol. 85 ; his marriage with Kha- dijah, fol. 12a; his names and qualities, fol. 13a ; and his miracles, fol. 145. Babs 6 — 15 relate to his mission, to the revelations he received, and to the beginning of his apos- tolate. The fullest and most important chapters are those which treat of the Hijrah and subsequent events, related year by year as follows : Bab 16. Muhammad’s flight to Medina, fol. 34a. Bab 17. Events of the first year of the Hijrah, fol. 415. Bab 18. Second year, fol. 44a. 19. Third year, fol. 625. 20. Fourth year, fol. 795. 21. Fifth year, fol. 92a. 22. Sixth year, fol. 114a. 23. Seventh year, fol. 1325. 24. Eighth year, fol. 150a. 25. Ninth year, fol. 1765. 26. Tenth year, fol. 190a. 27. Eleventh year and Muhammad’s death, fol. 2005. Babs 28 — 37, foil. 217a — 234, contain mis- cellaneous notices, the last Bab relating to Muhammad’s horses and camels. The Kha- timah, foil. 235 — 243, contains a sketch of the kings of Persia, more especially of those who reigned in Muhammad’s lifetime. The author frequently inserts pieces of Persian verse of his own composition. On the first page is a Wakf, or deed of donation, and a verbose eulogy on the w r ork, written by the author’s son, Abu Talib, A.H. 1261. HISTORY. HISTORIES OF SPECIAL DYNASTIES OR REIGNS. Moghols. 49 . Or. 2970. — Foil. 284; 9 in. by 5; 25 lines, 3|- in. long ; written in small and distinct Nestalik, with ruled margins, A.H. 1067 (A.D. 1656-7). [Sidney Churchill.] The first three volumes of Ta’rikh ul- Vassaf, ending with the first portion of the reign of Ghazan. The contents have been described in the Persian Catalogue, p. 162. They correspond to pp. 2 — 391 of the edition lithographed in Bombay, A.H. 1269. The second book begins fol. 9 66, and the third fol. 1796. Copyist : (j—U y! ^ For other copies, see Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, no. 434, and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 147. Muzaffaris. 50 . Or. 2886.— Foil. 187 ; 9± in. by 5| ; 21 lilies, 3J in. long ; written in small and neat Neskhi, apparently in the 19tli century. [Sidney Churchill.] A history of the Muzaffari dynasty, by Mu‘in i Yazdi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 168. P e -v t/lAJ j tArj' jp [corrected to ^a.] The above beginning differs from that of 33 the previously described copy, Add. 7632, by the omission of five lines after j In other respects the two MSS. are in close agreement. A copy beginning precisely like the present one is described by Ethe, Bod- leian Catalogue, no. 286. Timur. 51 . Or. 4722. — Foil. 145 ; 8f in. by 5j ; 13 lines, 2f in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with red-ruled margins ; dated 9 Sha £ ban, A.H. 1161 (A.D. 1748). [Presented by G. J. Nicholls, Esq.] Tuzuk i Timuri, the pseudo-memoirs of Amir Timur, by Abu Talib al-Husaini al- ‘Arizi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 1776. Beg. _J yllal— 1\ ^UaUl OUilj v J5 IA*>- lii «.l Contents : Abu Talib’s preface, fol. 36. The Memoirs, beginning with an introductory chapter treating of Timur’s rules of conduct and of the presages of his future greatness (pp. 4 — 20 of Clias. Stewart’s translation), fol. 56. The life proper, beginning with Timur’s seventh year, A.H. 733, foil. 316 — 145a. The narrative comes to an abrupt termination in a passage relating to the advance of Amir Musa, with ten thousand horse, against Karshi (Stewart’s translation, p. 105). This is followed by a detached fragment occupying a page and a half and relating to the mission of Amir Jaku to Malik Husain ( ib ., p. 107). p 34 HISTORY. At the beginning and end of the MS. there are several impressions of a large seal bearing the following inscription : ^=4 \^\ lW l=» (jjjlsv jliob jX^X^ with the date 1167, This was a son of the celebrated Khandauran who fell in the battle of Karnal. He received his father’s title from Ahmad Shah, and was appointed Amir ul-Umara by ‘Alamgir II., in whose reign he died. See Ma’agir ul- Umara, Add. 6565, fol. 223. So f avis. 52 . Or. 3248. — Foil. 307 ; 10 in. by 6^ ; 16 lines, 4f in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik, with double-page ‘Unvan, gold- ruled margins, and twenty-one whole-page miniatures in fair Persian style, apparently in the 16th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A history of Shah Isma‘11 from his rise to his death, without title or author’s name. Beg. J*j's 3 ^ • • ■ • *— bbe J\ J j*'- j\ A \j JjVjl \ S>\ The work was written under Shah Tah- masp, and probably shortly after his acces- sion, to which the author refers in his con- clusion as a recent event. But it must have received subsequent additions, for in the body of the volume there is a mention of A. II. 947. This occurs under A.H. 923, fol. 277ft, where the author, having spoken of Muhammad Zaman Mirza, gives a short sketch of that prince’s subsequent career in India, stating that, during the retreat of the emperor Humayun from Bengal in A.H. 947, the Mirza was drowned in the Ganges. The history of Shah Isma‘11 bears a striking likeness to the corresponding portion of Habib us-Siyar, from which it was evidently copied with some verbal alteration and with- out any acknowledgment. Matter and ar- rangement are the same ; the headings of chapters and the inserted verses are all but identical. On the other hand, there are here and there in the present work additional details, which point to independent sources of information. The relation between the two works will be fully discussed by Mr. E. D. Ross, who is preparing an edition of our text. The work begins with a genealogy of Shah Isma‘11, carried up to the seventh Imam, and with a rather legendary account of the Shah’s forefathers, partly taken from the Safvat us-Safa, in the following order : Flruz Shall, fol. 26 ; ‘Ivaz ul-Khavas and his son Sayyid Mull. Hafiz, fol. 3b ; Salah ud- Din Rashid, fol. 4b ; Kutb ud-Dln, ib . ; Sayyid Salih, fol. 5 a ; Sayyid Jibrll, fol. 5 b ; Safi ud-Dln Isliak, fol. 65 ; Sadr ud-DIn Musa, fol. 116; Sultan ‘ Ali Siyahpush, ib. ; Shaikh Ibrfihlm, fol. 166 ; Sultan Junaid, fol. 17ft ; Sultan Haidar, fol. 206. With this last, the father of Shah Isma‘11, the history proper begins under the following headings : Rise of Sultan ‘Ali, Ismafil’s elder brother, after the death of Sultan Haidar, fol. 236. Escape of Sultan ‘Ali and his brothers from Istakhar, fol. 256. Death of Sultan ‘Ali, fol. 276. Ismafil’s flight to Gllan, fol. 29ft. His stay in Lahljan, fol. 32a. Death of Rustam Turcoman and accession of Ahmad Beg, fol. 376. Isma‘Il proceeds to Ardabll, fol. 416. His march into Shlrvan, fol. 536. His victory over Farrukh Yasar Shirvanshah, fol. 57ft. Taking of Badkuyah, fol. 61ft. The Shah’s march to Gulistan and into Azarbaijan, fol. 64ft. Contest with Amir Alvand, fol. 66ft. SAFAVIS. 35 Events of A.H. 907, fol. 68a. Isma'il’s entry into Tabriz and bis accession, fol. 72a. The further events of the reign are told year by year as follows : A.H. 908, fol. 79a ; 909, fol. 91 5; 910, fol. 106a ; 911, fol. 114a ; 912, fol. 120a ; 913, fol. 1 22a ; 914, fol. 134a ; 915, fol. 1515 ; 916, fol. 177a ; 917, fol. 1975 ; 918, fol. 208a ; 919, fol. 218a ; 920, fol. 2435 ; 921, fol. 256a ; 922, fol. 262a ; 923, fol. 273a ; 924, fol. 2775; 925, fol. 2795 ; 926, fol. 282a ; 927, fol. 2865; 928, fob 2975; 929, fol. 300a ; 930, fol. 3025. Accession of Sbfdi Tahmasp, fol. 3055. No title is given to the work in the pre- face ; but in his conclusion the author designates it as follows : &!> ssiysi 0 ^ y\J> L— bo -\ iLe. Further on he invokes blessings upon the reigning Shah, whom he describes as a youthful sovereign who had but recently succeeded to the throne : jqb 3 The last line contains the name of Mu- hammad ‘Ali B. Nura, ^ jUhw ijd ^ , but without any w ord to explain his connection with the MS. He was probably the copyist or the owner. The Cambridge University Library possesses a copy of the same work, w T hich will be described in the forthcoming catalogue by Mr. E. Gr. Browme. 53 . Or. 2939. — Foil. 245 ; 9^ in. by 54; 15 lines, 34 in. long ; written in neat Nestalik ; dated Wednesday, 21 Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1012 (A.D. 1632). [Sidney Churchill.] A history of the reigns of Shall Isma'Il and of Shah Tahmasp, brought down to A.H. 957, by Amir Mahmud B. Amir Khwandamir. The writer w r as a son of the well-known author of Habib us-Siyar, to whom he refers as his father in the present work, fol. 112a. He appears to have lived in Herat, and he deals especially with the events that occurred in that city and in the province of Khorasan, especially with the fierce and protracted struggle of the Shahs with the Uzbek invaders. His work is written in the same florid style as the Habib us-Siyar. It is noticed in the Riyaz ush-Shu £ ara, fol. 153a, and in the Rauzat us-Safaviyyah, Or. 3388, fol. 3a, as the main authority for that period. The preface, which is imperfect at the beginning, is dated A.H. 955. It contains a wordy panegyric on Shall Ismafil and on the reigning sovereign Shah Tahmasp, and a dedication to Muhammad Khan, i.e. Sharaf ud-Din Ughli Teklu, who was then governor of Khorasan. The first chapter, fol. 7a, treats of the merits and eminent qualities of Shall Ismafil, L-fiy y\ slAjb , jhsjl j\ begins as follows : lib 20 ' ^ y 1 ** ‘b.jb i w £■ ^ Uff- This is followed by a chapter on the Slialrs genealogy, identical with the corresponding portion of the preceding MS., Or. 3248, fol. 15 — 2a, and beginning : u-iAs-* 3 ^[^b ClAAc- j'oT j jLi-i ^ urU Then comes a longer chapter, foil. 95 — 19a, on the merits and supernatural manifesta- tions of the sainted ancestor of the Safavis, Shaikh Safi ud-Dm of Ardabil, f 2 36 HISTORY. ' t J ^***bu® &•++> J jJ AJ ajJ.C’ After sliort notices of Sadr ud-DIn Musa, Shaikh 6 Ali Khwajah, Ibrahim, Junaid, and Haidar, comes the history of Shah Ismail, which begins at his birth, fol. 266, and is carried on to his death, fol. 114a. The narrative is not divided by years, but by rubrics indicating the chief events recorded. The author observes, fol. 606, that, his main object being the history of Shah Tahmasp, lie confined himself with regard to Ismail, both for brevity’s sake and from want of sufficient information, to a record of his conquest of Khorasan and a few other events. That portion of the work is avowedly abridged from the Habib us-Siyar. The history of Shah Tahmasp is told in great detail, especially with regard to Khora- san, and occupies foil. 1166 — 2296. It con- cludes with the siege of Herat by the Uzbeks, A.H. 957. The last incidents recorded are the death of their chief, Shah Muhammad Sultan, and the raising of the siege on the 29th of Jumada I. of that year. Foil. 230 — 214 contain a chronological table of the principal events of Persian history from the birth of Shah Ismail, A.H. 892, to the death of Shah ‘Abbas I. 54 . Or. 2776. — Foil. 164; 9 in. by 6; 17 lines, 3^ in- long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated 27 Zulhijjah, A.H. 983 (A.D. 1576). [Comte de Gobineau.] Another copy of the preceding work, wanting the preface and a portion of the introduction. It begins abruptly in the middle of the notice of Shaikh Safi ud-Dln with a passage corresponding with the third line of fol. 126 in the preceding MS. 55 . Or. 4134. — Foil. 193; 10 in. by 6|- ; 21 lines, 3| in. long ; written in small and neat Nes- talik ; dated Ramazan, A.H. 1024 (A.D. 1615). [Sidney Churchill.] History of the reigns of Shah Isma‘11 Safavi, of Shah Tahmasp, and of Shah Is- ma‘11 II., by Hasan Beg Rumlu, grandson of Amir Sultan Rumlu. Beg. ^ ^UaL*! j j j j The author states, fol. 1156, that he had followed the train of Shah Tahmasp from the time of the Dizful campaign (A.H. 948) to the year in which he was writing that part of his history, viz. A.H. 980, and that he had witnessed most of the Shah’s battles. In A.H. 985, when Muhammad Khudabandah was proceeding from Shiraz to Kazvin to take possession of the vacant throne, the author paid homage to him in Kura, and was taken into his service. See fol. 189a. The author follows a strict chronological order from A.H. 900 to the end of A.H. 985, when the work was completed. Under each year he gives first the political and military transactions in Persia and neighbouring countries, then some miscellaneous occur- rences, and lastly obituary notices. The following are the principal dates as stated by Hasan Beg : Death of Shah Isma‘11 in the night preceding Monday, 19 Rajab, A.H. 930. Accession of Tahmasp on Monday, 19 Rajab, A.H. 930. Death of Tahmasp in the night before Tuesday, 15 Safar, A.H. 984. Accession of Isma‘11 II. on Wednesday, 27 Jumada I., A.H. 984. Death of Isma‘11 II. in the night before Sunday, 13 Ramazan, SAFAVIS. 37 A.H. 985. Accession of Muhammad Khuda- bandah on Thursday, 5 Zulhijjah, A.H. 985. The work concludes with the accession of Muh. Khudabandah and the record of a victory gained by Karakkan Beg over a Turkish troop sent by the Pasha of Erze- roum against Shiirah Gil. But the main part of the history was written during the reign of Shah Tahmasp, and the preface con- tains a dedication to Isma‘11 II. as prince. The Ahsan ut-Tavarikh is mentioned in the ‘Alam-arai ‘Abbasi, Add. 16,684, fol. 22, as the best authority for the reign of Tahmasp. For other copies, see the Petersburg Cata- logue, no. 287 ; Wm. Ouseley’s MSS., no. 346 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 287. Ex- tracts have been given by Dorn, Ausziige, pp. 375 — 421, and by Schefer, Chrestomathie, vol. ii., pp. 81, 87, 108, and 124. The last two folios of the MS. contain notices of Shaikh Safi ud-Dln Ishak and of Shaikh Sadr ud-Din Musa, by a later hand. 56 . Or. 4678. — Foil. 275 ; 13^ in. by 7-| ; 20 lines, 4 in. long ; written in large, cursive, and straggling Nestalik ; dated Tuesday, 24 Sha‘- ban, A.H. 1049 (A.D. 1639). [Sidney Ciiuechill.] History of the reign of Shah Tahmasp, from his accession to his death, without author’s name. This is only a portion of a larger history treating of the Safavi dynasty and composed during the reign of Shah ‘Abbas I. Of the preface to the present volume, the last nine lines only are extant. In these the author says that after recording the reign and death of Shah Isma‘11 II. and the reisrn of Sultan Muham mad Khudabandah , which lasted twelve years, his intention was to chronicle, if life were vouchsafed to him, the events and con- quests of the reign of Shah ‘Abbas, that being the main scope and object of his composition : Jb- \j . . . j^>- i slA Jj'i! i _ C_ JU Jd Olis Jo uJfib j\ j OUjAo /\ ... . C^~>\ j&z* e;"'” JU& J, I Ail) js*' The first chapter relates to the accession of Tahmasp and to the appointment of Mirza Kasim as Poet Laureate. It begins as follows : j^d.*** ^ Ll'j* 1 ^ t^° r>j* The present volume is designated, fol. 146, and again at the end, fol. 274a, as the first Daftar of the second Jild of Afzal ut-Tavarikh, and the second Daftar was to treat, as stated in the latter passage, of the events which followed the death of Tahmasp. Contents : Accession of Tahmasp, and of- ficial appointments, fol. 2a. Attack of ‘Ubaid Khan Uzbek upon Herat, and his defeat by Sam Mirza, fol. 46. Burning of the Vazir 1‘timad ud-Daulah Jalfd ud-Din Mahmud Tabrizi, and appointment of Kazi Jahan to the Vazirate, fol. 86. Chronological summary of the reign of Tahmasp, fol. 96. Detailed history of the same reign, in strict chrono- logical order according to the years of the Turkish cycle, from Yunt-yil, corresponding with A.H. 931, to Tunguz-yil = A.H. 984, foil. 15a — 274a. There is, however, a lacuna 38 HISTORY. extending from the middle of Bichin-yil = A.H. 969, fol. 243, to the latter part of Sichkan-yil = A.H. 973. The last three pages contain a table of the children and grand- children of Shah Tahmasp and of the officials of his reign. It is imperfect at the end. 58 . Or. 3388. — Foil. 402 ; 9-| in. by 6 ; 23 lines, 3| in. long ; written in small and neat Nes- talik ; dated (fol. 385) Zulhijjah, A.H. 1052 (A.D. 1643). [Sidney Chukchill.] The author appears to have had access to State papers. He frequently quotes royal letters, firmans of investiture, and bulletins in extenso. As to previous histories, he refers to Habib us-Siyar, to Ahsan ut-Tavarlkh (no. 55), fol. 32a, and to Maulana Nujumi Haravi, the historian of Khorasan, foil. 17^, 50a. 57 . Or. 3549. — Foil. 259 ; 10 in. by 6 ; 22 lines, 34 in. long ; written in cursive but distinct Nestalik ; dated 25 Ramazan, A.H. 1106 (A.D. 1695). [Sidney Churchill.] History of Shah ‘Abbas I., from his birth to A.H. 1020, including the reigns of Shall Ismafil II. and Sultan Muhammad ; by Jalfd ud-Din Munajjim Yazdi. This is the work described in the Persian Catalogue, p. 184. This copy wants about twenty folios at the beginning. It com- mences in the middle of the account of the siege of Turbat, A.H. 991. The first line, corresponds with fol. 32 b, line 3, of the former copy, Add. 27,241. On the other hand, the defective portion of the latter MS., towards the end, is usefully supple- mented by the present copy. The margins contain extensive extracts from ‘Alain arai ‘Abbasi. The MS. is en- dorsed, “The wli of Molla Jalal Mo- na jj ini. ” Copyist : ^ ySLsG tJ \ A history of the Safavi dynasty, from its origin to the beginning of the reign of Shah Safi ; by Mirza Beg B. Hasan Hasani Juna- badi. The first page of the preface has been supplied by Mr. Churchill’s care from a copy dated A.H. 1113 in the library of Sank ud- Daulah. It begins as follows : y ajo yyall ^Ail. After a long doxology, the preface proper begins, fol. 4b, with these words : y U\ The author says in the preface that he had first applied himself to philosophy and poetry, but, feeling unequal to composition in either, he turned to history, as not requiring talent of the same order, and it occurred to him to compile a record of the Safavi dynasty, “the crowning glory of the Sultans of the world, and the standard-bearer of the sacred law.” The preface concludes with a wordy pane- gyric on Shah ‘Abbas I., the reigning prince. Further on, fol. 6a, we are told that the work was commenced A.H. 1023, while towards the end, fol. 355 b, A.H. 1028 is incidentally given as the date of composition. It was not finished, however, till a few years later, for it concludes, in its original shape, with a record of the attempt of Hafiz Ahmad Pasha to retake Baghdad, an event of A.H. 1035. In an appendix written after the death of Shah ‘Abbas, the author gives, fol. 387a, the following account of his authorities. For SAFAVIS. 39 the earliest period and the reign of Shall Isma‘Il, down to the battle of Chaldiran, he followed the appendix of Habib us- Si jar by Khwandamir ; for the end of the reign and for that of Shah Tahmasp down to the war with ‘Ubaid Khan Uzbek, the work which Khwajah Mahmud, son of Khwandamir, wrote for Muhammad Khan Sharaf ud-Din Ughli Taklu (no. 53) ; for the subsequent period down to the time of Kazak Khan B. Muham- mad Khan Taklu (governor of Khorasan, who died A.H. 973), the ISTusakh i Jahanara of Kazi Ahmad Ghaffari Razi (Persian Cata- logue, p. 111). From that date to the acces- sion of Shah ‘Abbas he relied on information orally received from trustworthy witnesses. Lastly, for the reign of Shall ‘Abbas he depended only upon his own observation, having been, he says, an ocular witness of the most important events, especially of the conquest of Azarbaijan, in which he followed the royal train. The work is written in a flowery and metaphorical style, not unlike that of the Habib us-Siyar. It is not divided by years, but the principal events are marked by rather prolix headings. It is very sparing of dates, and the few that are given are, with few exceptions, confined to the bare mention of the Hijrah year, without day or month. The first heading is as follows : i jLojl Contents : Qualities of Shah Isma‘Il, fol. 6a. His genealogy, fol. 7a. Life and miracles of Shaikh Safi ud-Din Ishak, fol. 8a; of Sadr ud-Din Musa, fol. 136, and Sultan J unaid, fol. 17a. Birth of Shah Isma'il and his early life, fol. 19a. His accession in Tebriz, A.H. 906, and history of his reign, fol. 416. Accession of Tahmasp and history of his reign, fol. 1256. Reign of Shfdi Isma‘11 II., fol. 225a. Events which followed his death, fol. 2306. Reign of Sultan Muhammad, fol. 2316. History of Shah ‘Abbas during the reign of Sultan Muh., fol. 238a. His first Julus and subsequent events, fol. 2426. His second Julus and history of his reign, down to the repulse of Hafiz Ahmad Pasha from Baghdad, foil. 268a — 385a. This is the conclusion of the original work. At the end the copyist has given the date of transcription, A.H. 1052, in the following verse : j>- 1 sto j,} j j I ! j>- i Ax)' JiAj First Appendix, in which are related the events of the concluding years of the reign and the death of Shall ‘Abbas, which is said to have taken place in Ashraf, on the third of Rabl‘ I., A.H. 1038, and to have been kept some time secret (strangely at variance with the ‘Alam-arai ‘Abbasi, which places the same event on the 24t»h of Jumada I. of the same year), foil. 385a— 3876. Second Appendix. — Enthronement of Shfdi Safi on the 4tli of Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1038, and beginning of his reign, foil. 3876 — 4026. This continuation, which is due to the same author, has a preface of its own, beginning : sUj jos* sl£>ob j L>b .... ajlfcy* Afi jlA l ^ ^ ^ ****** ^ The MS. is imperfect at the end. The last extant chapter relates to the attempt made by the Khan of Bukhara, Imam Kuli Khan, to possess himself of Merv, when the Persian general, Murtaza Kuli Khan was 40 HISTORY. made prisoner by the Uzbeks, and subse- quently set free by the Khan of Bukhara (A.H. 1041-42 ; see Khuld Barm, fol. 55-56). The copy breaks off after the heading of the next following chapter, which relates to the invasion of Khorasan by the troops of Balkli, jL-j The Rauzat al-Safaviyyah, by Amir Beg, is one of the authorities quoted in the Majma‘ ut-Tavarlkh of Muhammad Khalil (A.H. 1207). See Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 436. 59 . Or. 3272.— Poll. 355 ; 13 in. by 7^ ; 23 lines, 54 in. long ; written in neat Nestalik ; dated (fol. 279) Friday, 26 Shavval, A.H. 1060 (A.D. 1650). L S\) jJW History of Shah ‘Abbas I., by Iskandar Munshi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 185. Beg. ^J\j T oAiImj This fine copy, written only twenty-two years after the completion of the work, w r ants the Mukaddimah and the first Sahifah. It contains only the history of the reign of Shah ‘Abbas, as follows : Sahifah II. The first thirty years of the reign, namely, from Tunguz-yil = A.H. 996 to the end of Lui-yil = A.H. 1025, fol. 16. Maksad II. The last twelve years of the reign from Yilan-yil = A.H. 1026 to Lui-yil = A.H. 1037, fol. 2806. In this last section there is a lacuna ex- tending from the middle of Yunt-yil=A.H. 1027 to the middle of Takhaku-yil = A.H. 1030. It corresponds with foil. 3656 — 372a of the complete copy, Add. 16,684. There are also about two pages wanting at the end, namely, the last lines of the biographical notices and the Khatimah. For other copies see Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, nos. 441 — 46, and Etlie, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 289 — 299. 60 . Or. 2940. — Foil. 247 ; Ilf in. by 6 ; 16 lines, 3f in. long; written in elegant Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated 28 Jumada I., 101 , for A.H. 1152 (A.D. 1739). [Sidney Chuechill.] History of the reign of Shah ‘Abbas II., by Mirza Tahir Vahid. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 1896. This copy contains much more than the previously described MS., Add. 11,632. The portion corresponding to the latter occupies foil. 2 — 156 of the present MS. Foil. 1566 — 247 contain a continuation which extends to Tushkan-yil, the twenty-second year of the reign, corresponding with A.H. 1073-74. The last events recorded are the journey of Shah ‘Abbas from Teheran to Isfahan ; the arrival at Court of envoys of the king of Abyssinia and of the Imam of Yemen ; lastly, the appointments of ‘Ivaz Beg as Divanbegi, and of Murtaza Kuli Khan as Beglerbegi of Karabagh. The author occupied the post of Vezir under Shah Sulaiman and Shah Sultan Hu- sain. The date of his death is doubtful. Riza Kuli Khan says in Riyaz ul-‘Arifin, fol. 93a, that he died in Isfahan A.H. 1108, while the Zubdat ul-Ghara’ib, fol. 242, refers the same event to A.H. 1110. Both dates SAFAVIS. 41 are probably too early. Fafcli ‘Ali Klian suc- ceeded him, according to Zinat ut-Tavarikh, in A.H. 1120. One of his letters, dated A.H. 1111, in which he takes the title of ‘Imad ud-Daulali Muh. Tahir, is mentioned in the Turkish Catalogue, p. 896. In a copy of the same work described by Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 301, the last date mentioned is A.H. 1064. 61 . Or. 3332.— Foil. 211 ; 11J in. by 6± ; 15 lines, 3f in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 18tli century. [H. A. Stern.] Another copy of the history of Mirza Tahir Vahid, with the same contents as the pre- ceding, except that it wants about ten folios at the besdnninff. o O 62 . Or. 2941. — Foil. 250 ; 10-| in. by 6J ; 14 lines, 4 in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 18th century. Partly stained by damp and obliterated. [Sidney Churchill.] A history of the reign of Shah Sultan Husain, by Muhammad Ibrahim B. Zaiu ul- ‘Abidin an-Nasiri. Beg. A" JUjU OM\\ til! l XSL3? This is a court chronicle, written in a pompous and turgid style of the most weari- some prolixity. After a doxology which oc- cupies no less than twelve folios comes the preface proper, . From this we learn that the author came of a family which had been for several genera- tions devoted to the dynasty, and had been re- warded with high offices, such as the custody of the sanctuaries of Najaf and Mashhad, the Vizarat i Divan, Inslia i Mamalik, Istifa i Mamalik, &c. After having been for a long time out of employment, the author was re- instated in his office of court historiographer. In another passage, under A.H. 1110, fol. 239, he records his appointment as Majlis-navis. There he styles himself Mirza Muhammad Ibrahim Nasiri, grandson of the late Talib Khan, Vazir i Divan i A‘la. In a Persian note written, A.H. 1302, on the first page, it is stated that Nasiri was the Nisbah of the descendants of Naslr ul-Din Tusi, several of whom rose to high posts under the Safavis. The history begins, fol. 146, with an account of the Julus of Sultan Husain, which took place in the A’inali Khanah on the eve of Saturday, 14tli Zulhij jah, A.H. 1 105, in the Turkish year of It yil. The motto of the new coin is given as follows : jj o~i j3 ji u l>j] UaL*> A :-Vj This is followed by a record of the events which took place during the remainder of the above Turkish year. The succeeding years begin as follows : Fol. 68a. Tunguz yil= A.H. 1106, the second year of the reign. Fol. 786. Sichkan yil=A.H. 1107. Fol. 1466. Ud yil=A.H. 1108. Fol. 1786. Pars yil=A.H. 1109. Fol. 2326. Tushkan yil=A.H. 1110. The last year is imperfect at the end. The MS. breaks off at the fifth page of a chapter headed uLbW'® j *-0 The extant portion of that chapter relates G 42 HISTORY. to the expedition of Isma‘11 Pasha, governor of Baghdad, against an Arab chief, Shaikh Salman, in Kerbela. 63 . Or. 4509. — Foil. 97 ; 8J in. by 5 ; 12 lines, 3 in. long ; written in Neskhi, with ruled margins ; dated Thursday, 26 RabF II., A.H. 1278 (A.D. 1861). [Sidney Churchill.] A history of the Afghan invasion, trans- lated from Turkish by Ibn Najaf-Kuli ‘Abd ur-Razzak (see no. 68), with the following heading : j jO Beg. sALA sL£> (jl-cj jti t&*i\ Ic- jd lAL j\ tJi ^bX) y <■ -P J cJ '■'** U"*** J (A*— JO <0 ‘ij 5 k- ^ j aoy CJA j aa ^ It is stated in the preface that in the time of Shfih Sultan-Husain a Christian traveller came to Isfahan, where he resided close on six and twenty years, and, being a keen ob- server of current events, and especially of the Afghan invasion, wrote in Latin a de- tailed account of the latter. This was trans- lated into Turkish and printed at Islambol by an Osmanli official, Ibrahim by name, who gave to his version the title of A copy, having been brought to Persia, was read by the Heir Apparent (Yali ‘Ahd), by whose order the present translation was made by his servant. It is a faithful, but rather condensed, trans- lation of the well-known history of the Jesuit missionary, Judas Thaddams Krusinski, originally written in Latin under the title of “ Tragica vertentis belli Historia.” The Turkish translation, ^k ^ ^.L-s was printed by Ibrahim Mutafarrikah at Constantinople, A.H. 1142. It has been subsequently translated into Latin by J. C. Clodius, and from Latin into English by Gr. N. Mitford, London, 1840. See Fliigel, Vienna Catalogue, no. 973, and Krafft,no.262. 64 . Or. 3602. — Foil. 101 ; 8^ in. by 5f ; 14 lines, 3^ in. long; written in Shikastah in the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A history of Sayyid Muhammad Mirza (Shah Sulaiman II.) and his family, by his son Muhammad Hashim. Beg. iO \j (_jU3 j a-?” This is the identical work which in another MS. described in the Persian Catalogue, p. 1916, bears the title of ayk Jl ; but the present copy contains the Khatimah, which is wanting in the other. The four parts of which the work consists begin as follows : Mukaddimah, fol. 2 6 ; Makalah I., fol. 216; Makalah II., fol. 446; Khatimah, fol. 866. The Khatimah has this heading : Ali- i aJ_j j La j aA> j j 6 &!> ijyp- _j i jjii _j j OW'U j) j i_JA i jO £,__)*>[) aA CLaXs* j\ j jiNA It contains copies of old title-deeds, dona- tions, legal decisions, &c., relating to estates belonging to the author’s family, with dates ranging from A.H. 1021 to 1153. In Makalah II. there are towards the end some additional notices brought down to A.H. 1226 ; but the account of the author’s ZANDS. 43 children, with which the Makalah was to conclude, is wanting, and a blank space of three pages has been left for its insertion. Nadir Shah. 65 . Or. 4775. — Foil. 97 ; 13 in. by 8 ; 16 lines, 5f in. long ; written in fair large Shikastah- arniz ; probably early in the 19th century. The history of Nadir Shah, by Mirza Mahdi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 192. This MS. contains little more than the first half of the work. It breaks off in the middle of the chapter relating to the siege of Ganjah, A.H. 1147. The last incident men- tioned is Nadir’s narrow escape from a cannon shot which killed a man by his side and splashed him with brain and blood. See the Tebriz edition of A.H. 1263, p. 520, and Sir William Jones’s abridged translation, London, 1773, p. 59. Zands. 66 . Or. 3592. — Foil. 229 ; 14 in. by 8^ ; 22 lines, 51 in. long; written in close and neat Nes- talik, A.D. 1887. [Sidney Churchill.] A detailed history of Karim Khan and his successors down to the death of Ja £ far Khan, A.H. 1203, by Ibn Mufizz ud-Din Muhammad Abu ’l-Hasan al-Ghaffari al- Kashani al-Mustaufi. Beg. j 5\j< W ^ &ju*Ajo 1 ^ i ^ **G**j j The author says in the preface that at the age of seven he had learnt the art of painting, which he cultivated during two years. He then met his father’s friend, Mirza Muh. Burujirdi, who advised him to qualify himself for the profession of official writer, in which his father had attained eminence. In obe- dience to that advice, he applied himself in the first place to arithmetic and account- keeping, pis-, and then to the art of elegant composition, The project he formed at the time of writing the annals of the reigning sovereign, Karim Khan, was delayed for four years. It was not before A.H. 1198, in the reign of £ Ali Murad Khan, that he was able to put his hand to the work, which, in honour of the then reignin^ prince, received the title of Gulshan i Murad. A versified chronogram by Saba (Fath ‘Ali Khan), inserted in the preface, conveys the same date, A.H. 1198, as that of the com- position of the work. It must, however, be taken as relating to its beginning only, for, further on, fol. llOu, A.H. 1206 is incidentally mentioned as the current year at the time of writing, and it appears from the colophon that it was not finished till A.H. 1210. The author’s father, Mirza Mu £ izz ud-Din Ghaffari, was governor of Kashan in the time of Karim (see fol. 5a). The work is divided, according to the preface, into a Mukaddimah treating of the g 2 44 HISTORY. pretenders who rose after the death of Nadir Shah, and three Makalahs devoted respec- tively to the reigns (1) of Karim Khan, (2) of Abu ’l-Fath Khan and £ Ali Murad Khan, and (3) of the reigning sovereign, whose name is left in blank. This last Makalah, however, does not appear in the body of the volume, and there is, moreover, a considerable lacuna, without any apparent break, at the beginning of the work. The Mukaddimah comes to an abrupt end after the first page and a half, fol. 4 a, and Makalah I., which was to commence with the geuealogy and first rise of Karim Khan, begins equally abruptly, in the course of the Turkish year It-yil = A.H. 1167-8, the sixth year of the reign, with the march of Karim Khan from Shiraz to Irak and the taking of Isfahan, AfaLAl l ly ^l^s- l JjlHA'"*^ ALL J The events of the remainder of the reign are then fully narrated, unfortunately in a very florid and prolix style, under the follow- ing Turkish years, each of which begins with a long poetical description of Spring : Fol. 5 6. Tunguz yil, beginning on the 7th of Jumada II., A.H. 1168. Fol. 106. Siclikan yil, 18 Jumada II., A.H. 1169. Fol. 13a. Ud yil, 29 Jumada II., A.H. 1 170. Fol. 15a. Bars yil, 11 Rajab, A.H. 1171. Fol. 166. Tushkanvil, 21 Rajab, A.H. 1172. Fol. 266. Lui yil, 2 Sha'ban, A.H. 1173. Fol. 346. Yilan yil, 13 Sha‘ban, A.H. 1174. Fol. 396. Yunt yil, 24 Slia'ban, A.H. 1175. Fol. 536. Kui yil, 5 Ramazan, A.H. 1176. Fol. 636. Bichi yil, 16 Ramazan, A.H. 1177. Fol. 706. Takhaku yil, 27 Ramazan, A.H. 1178. Fol. 756. It yil, 9 Shavval, A.H. 1179. Fol. 786. Tunguz yil, 20 Shavval, A.H. 1180. Fol. 81a. Sichkan yil, 1 Zulka'dah, A.H. 1181. Fol. 84a. Ud yil, 11 Zulka'dah, A.H. 1182, Bars yil, Tushkan yil and Lui yil. Fol. 86a. Yilan yil, 26 Zulhijjah, A.H. 1186. Fol. 876. Yunt yil, 8 Muharram, A.H. 1188. Fol. 92a. Kui yil, 18 Muharram, A.H. 1189. Fol. 976. Bichi yil, 29 Muharram, A.H. 1190. Fol. 1026. Takhaku yil, 3 Safar, A.H. 1191. Fol. 1036. It yil, 13 Safar, A.H. 1192. The account of the death of Karim Khan, which took place on Tuesday, the 13th of Safar, A.H. 1193, is followed by an enumera- tion of his children, fol. 110a, and of the eminent men of his reign, especially of the poets, whose notices, alphabetically arranged under their poetical surnames, occupy foil. 113a— 1266. Makalah II., fol. 1266, begins with the installation of Abu ’l-Fath Khan on the throne, and the assumption of sovereign power by Zaki Khan, but it is mainly taken up with the doings of ‘Ali Murad Khan. The heading is; why CAkl ^ J'd jd ^ AH* ^lj k** j L-riy j y 1 '-y Uiol j yjjj A— yb j (jli- AylC’ y jjL- yl r -y\y cA-Aj a—* y l^ob yly u-oly j aIIL jA j' o (jLj (j ’ y V 3 3 1 KAJARS. 45 It comprises the following years : Fol. 127a. Tunguz yil, beginning 29 Safar, A.H. 1193. Fol. 145a. Sichkan yil, 13 Rabi £ I., A.H. 1194. Fol. 161a. Ud yil, 24 RabF I., A.H. 1195. Fol. 1845. Bars yil, 5 Rabl‘ II., A.H. 1196. Fol. 1965. Tuslikan yil, 17 Rabi e II., A.H. 1197. Fol. 1985. Lai yil, 28 Rabi £ II., A.H. 1198. The death of £ Ali Murad Khan, which happened during his march from Teheran to Isfahan on the 30th of Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1199, is recorded at fol. 205a. Then follows the accession of Istizhar ud-Daulah Muhammad Ja'far Khan, fol. 208a. The events of his reign are told under the following years : Fol. 2085. Yilan yil, 8 Jumada I., A.H. 1199. Fol. 215a. Yunt yil, 19 Jumada I., A.H. 1200. Fol. 2205. Kui yil, 1 Jumada II., A.H. 1201. Fol. 2255. Bichi yil, 12 Jumada II., A.H. 1202. The last events recorded are the march of Ja‘far Khan to Isfahan and the flight of £ Ali Kuli Khan K ajar, fol. 2265; the flight of Murtaza Kuli Khan, son of Muhammad H asan Khan Kajar, to Gilan, fol. 227a ; lastly, the death of Ja £ far Khan, who was assassinated in his palace at Shiraz on the 25th of Jumada I., A.H. 1203, and the assumption of sovereignty by Sayyid Murad Khan, who maintained himself only seventy days, fol. 228a. In a conclusion, due apparently to the author’s son, it is stated that, the author having died soon after the events of the last reign, the work had been completed by Muhammad £ Ali Ivhan Shlrazi, who had been a witness of some of the transactions and campaigns recorded. He finished the work in Kashan on the 6tli of Sha'ban, A.H. 1210, in the reign of (Aka) Muhammad Khan, at a time when that sovereign was preparing for his campaign to Khorasan. Then follows a colophon transcribed from the original MS., which had been written for the author of the continuation, Muham- mad £ Ali Khan, and completed on the 5th of Zulhijjah, A.H. 1210. Mr. Churchill writes at the end : ££ This copy was made for me by Molla Aflatun, the Zoroastrian, and completed on the 19th July, 1887, from a copy belonging to the Etimad us-Sultaneli. In January, 1888, Molla Afla- tun turned Musselman, and is now known under the name of Mirza Mehdi.” Iiajars. 67 . Or. 3551.— Foil. 180; 12 in. by 7^ ; 15 lines, 5 in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; written about the close of the 18th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A history of the rise of the Iyajars and of the reign of Aka Muhammad, by Muhammad B. Muhammad Taki as-Saru’i. The contents are identical with those of Add. 27,243, described in the Persian Cata- logue, p. 199a. Like the latter, the present MS. concludes with a poetical eulogy on the work by Fath ‘Ali Khan Kashani, Ala 1 i k ush-Shu £ ara, takh. Saba, who died A.H. 1238 (Majma £ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 267). 46 HISTORY. 68 - 69 . Or. 3278-79. — Two uniform volumes, con- sisting respectively of foil. 128 and 116 ; 8 in. by 5-| ; 15 lines, 3^ in. long ; written by the same hand in cursive Nestalik, and forming a continuous text ; dated 9 Zul- ka'dali, A. II. 1236 (A.D. 1821). A History of the rise of the Kajars, and especially of the reign of Fath ‘Ali Shah from his accession to the end of A. FI. 1229, by Ibn Najaf Kuli ‘Abd ur-Razzak. Beg. i j i This is the work which has been trans- lated by Sir Harford Jones Brydges under the title of Dynasty of the Kajars, London, 1833. An edition of the text published in Tabriz, A.H. 1241, is the first book printed in Persia. It has no pagination. Tbe con- tents of the work have been described by Hammer in the Jahrbiicher, vol. 53, Anz. Blatt, p. 58. A copy consisting of three parts, and ending also with A.H. 1229, is mentioned in Morley’s Catalogue, nos. 151—53. The author, £ Abd ur-Razzfik Beg, son of Najaf Kuli Khan Dunbuli, Beglerbegi of Tabriz, was a favourite of the Na’ib us- Saltanah ‘Abbas Mirza. He died A.H. 1243, leaving, besides the present history, a Taz- kirah and some poems. His Takhallus was Maftun. See Tazkirah i Muhammad shahi, fol. 2126; Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 483 ; and Zinat ul-Mada’ih, Or. 2877, fol. 134. The Tazkirah above mentioned, called Nigar- istan i Bara, Or. 3508, concludes with the life and poems of the author. The first volume of the present copy contains the rise of the Kajars and the reign of Agha Muhammad, foil. 1 — 15 ; the acces- sions of Fath ‘Ali Shah, fol. 16 ; and the following years of his reign : A.H. 1213, fol. 21 6; 1214, fol. 30u; 1215, fol. 42a; 1216, fol. 486; 1217, fol. 626 ; 1218, fol. 666; 1219, fol. 696 ; 1220, fol. 87ft ; and 1221, fol. 105ft. The second volume comprises the follow- ing years : A.H. 1222, fol. 4ft; 1223, fol. 15ft ; 1224, fol. 346; 1225, fol. 55a; 1226, fol. 706; 1228, fol. 99ft ; and 1229, foil. 111ft— 116. After fol. 73 there is a lacuna indicated by eight blank pages. It corresponds with 29 pages of the Tabriz edition, consisting of the latter portion of A.H. 1226, and nearly the whole of A.H. 1227. The chapter immediately preceding that lacuna relates to the arrival of Sir Gore Ouseley, whose merits are dwelt upon in glowing terms, a passage omitted in Brydges’s version. The conclud- ing part of the latter version falls within the above lacuna. The Tabriz edition has, in addition to the contents of our MS., the years A.H. 1230 — 1241, occupying the last seventy-four pages of the volume. Ou the fly-leaf at the end of Or. 3279 is written: “Wm. Oliver, Esq., Civil Indian, with Wm. Monteith’s compliments.” 70 . Or. 2876. — Foil. 153; Ilf in. by 7 ; 15 lines, 4-| in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with gold- ruled margins, A.H. 1248 (A.D. 1832 — 33). [Sidney Chubchill.] A history of the reign of Fath ‘Ali Shah, from his accession to A.H. 1248, with an introduction treating of the rise of the Iiajar dynasty, by Mahmud Mirza Kajar. KAJARS. 47 Beg. Oli ^ dycj 'Ac- oWj^ Oy j The author, the fifteenth son of Fath ‘Ali Shah, was born A.H. 1214. He was ap- pointed governor of Nehavend, and left, besides the present work, a Tazkirah called Safinat ul-Mahmud (no. 122), an anthology entitled Bayan i Mahmud, and a work called Gulshan i Mahmud, treating of the lives and poems of the sons of Fath ‘Ali Shah (no. 121). See Zu T-Karnain, Or. 3527, fol. 358a ; Anjuman i Khakan, fol. 33 b ; and Maj ma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 56. He says, in the preface, that the Shah, being dissatisfied with the prolixity and abstruse phraseology of the chronicles com- posed by the court Munshis, selected him among the princes on account of the literary skill displayed in his previous compositions, to entrust him the task of writing the present history, to which the Shah himself gave the above title. The work was commenced in the last decade of Rabl‘ II., A.H. 1248, and completed, as stated at the end, on the 14tli of Rajab of the same year. The author states in the preface that from his boyhood he had enjoyed the tuition of the Sadr i A‘zam, Mirza Muhammad Shafb. The work begins with the following pre- liminary chapters : Genealogy of the Kajars, fob 2a. History of Fatli ‘Ali Khan, fob 2 b. His expedition in aid of Shah Sultan Husain Safavi, fob 3a. History of Muhammad Hasan Khan, fob 4a. History of Husain Kuli Khan, father of Fatli ‘Ali Shah, fob 6a. History of Muhammad Shall, told in great detail, year by year, from A.H. 1193 to his death, foil. 8b — 57. This concludes what the author calls the first volume (Mujallad). The second volume, which forms the main part of the MS., foil. 58 — 153, is devoted to the reign of Fatli ‘Ali Shah, from his acces- sion in A.H. 1212 to A.H. 1248. It is divided according to the years of the Hijrah, which form the main headings. The last year in- cluded, A.H. 1248, begins at fob 1446. The last event recorded is the coming of the Shahzadah Saif ud-Daulah Sultan Muham- mad Mirza from Isfahan to Teheran in the first decade of Rajab. From notes written on the first page of the volume, it appears that it was presented A.H. 1248 to Baba ud-Daulah Bahrnan Mirza, son of Fath ‘Ali Shah, and passed, A.H. 1261 , into the possession of ‘Ali Kuli Mirza, grand- son of the Shah. 71 . Or. 3527. — Foil. 460 ; 12J in. by 8J ; 23 lines, 5 in. long ; written in large, but stiff and in- elegant, Nestalik, in the latter half of the 19th century. [Sidney Chueohill.] A history of Fath ‘Ali Shah, from his early life to his death, by Fazl-ullah al-Muushi, poetically surnamed Khavari. Beg. aJLu, j A **'5 ^3 The author was only fourteen years of age, and still at school, when he first saw Fath ‘Ali, then governor of Fars, and con- ceived the wish to enter his service. He was employed as secretary under the Sadr i A‘zam, Mirza Mull. Shafb, and was afterwards at- tached during ten years to a Shahzadah whom he does not name. 1 He subsequently became private secretary to the Shah. Having heard on some occasion His Majesty saying that a historian ought not to make a display of his skill in fine writing, but should use plain language and adhere strictly to truth, 1 This was Humayun Mirza, to whom the author was appoiirted Vazir, as stated in Majma‘ ul-Fusaha. 48 HISTORY. he resolved to carry out the suggestion. Muh. Razi Tabrlzi had chronicled, in his Zinat ut-Tavarikli, the first ten years of His Majesty’s reign, and Mirza Mull. Sadik Marvazi had related, in his Tarikh i Jalian ara, thirty- six years of the reign ; but the latter had omitted much weighty matter, especially the negotiations and treaties with Turkey and European powers. The author, therefore, who had been nearly thirty years in the service of the Shah, wishing to leave a record of himself in prose, as he had already done in poetry by his Divan entitled J1; <, wrote the present work, which is divided into two volumes (Jild) and a Kha- timah. Each of the two Jilds bears a special title. The first is called &*\3, the second Contents: Jild I. The realm of Iran, fol. 4 a. Genealogy of the Kajars, fol. 66. History of Fath ‘Ali Khan, fol. 7b. Muham- mad Hasan Khan, fol. 8b. His children, fol. 10a. Birth of His Majesty (Fath ‘All Shall) on the 6th of Jumada I., A.H. 1186, fol. 106. Brief account of the reign of Agha Muhammad, fol. 12a. Appointment of Fath ‘Ali as heir apparent, fol. 19a. Death of Agha Muhammad and accession of Fath ‘Ali Shah, fol. 19a. Events of Yunt yil, begin- ing in A.H. 1212, fol. 25a, and of the subse- quent Turkish years to the end of It yil, A.H. 1241, which completes the first Kara, i.e. the first thirty years, of the reign. Jild II., foil. 242 — 345, begins with Tun- guz yil = A.H. 1242, and contains the history of the last eight years of the reign, down to Yunt yil = A.H. 1249. It concludes with the death of Fath ‘Ali Shah, on Thursday, the 19th of Jumada II., A.H. 1250, and with the subsequent events down to the accession of Muhammad Shah. The Ivhatimah, foil. 3455 — 413, beginning with a chapter on the fair qualities of Fath ‘Ali Shah, contains a full account of his children and relatives. It agrees substan- tially with another MS., Or. 1361, described in the Persian Catalogue, p. 201, which wants only a short epilogue. The volume concludes with a very copious selection from the Divan of the author, foil. 414—460. The author, who at the beginning of Jild II., calls himself Fazl-ullah B. ‘Abd un- Nabi Shlrazi, was a prolific poet. He fre- quently inserts in the course of his history rhymed chronograms and other extensive pieces of his own composition. Riza Kuli Khan, who wrote A.H. 1283, mentions the present work and speaks of the author as still living. See Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 126. For other notices see Saflnat Mahmud, fol. 219; Anjuman i Khakan, fol. 526; Ni gar is tan i Dara, fol. 91a; and Tazkirak i Muhammad shahi, fol. 184a. The first Jild was written in the life-time of Fath ‘Ali Shah and completed, as stated at the end, on the 6tli of Rabi‘ II., A.H. 1249. The colophon of the original copy in the author’s handwriting, transcribed in the same place, is dated Shiraz, 14 Zulka'dah, A.H. 1262. At the end of the abstract of his Divan the author states that he finished the whole work on the 13th of Rabl‘ II., A.H. 1263. 72 . Or. 4108. — Foil. 123; 85 in. by 5f; 11 lines, 31r in. long ; written in fair, rather cursive, Nestalik ; dated 15 Shavval, A.H. 1304 (A.D. 1887). [Sidney Churchill.] Memoirs of the Court of Fath ‘Ali Shah, by ‘Azud ud-Daulah Sultan Ahmad. Beg. *,-*■> O (J-woj ^.,[,.0 .XXAK ^ UZBEKS. 49 There is no preface. The author’s name is found in an epilogue entitled He was the forty-sixth son of Fath ‘Ali Shah, and was, at the time of writing, governor of Hamadan. He composed the present work in obedience to an order of the present Shah, conveyed to him by the minister of the press, Utimad us-Saltanah, Mirza Muhammad Hasan, and he completed it in Jumada I., A.H. 1304. He says that he was only ten years old at the time of Fath ‘Ali Shah’s death, and that his record is based partly on his own recollection and partly on what he was told by older members of his family. The work is written in an unpretending gossiping style, and abounds in characteristic anecdotes of the Shah and his entourage. The arrangement is not very methodical. The main contents are as follows : Notices of the wives and concubines of Fath ‘Ali Shah, and of free women and slave girls attached to the Harem, fol. 16. Etiquette relating to the attendance of the princes at Court, to the rank of the prin- cesses, &c., fol. 25 a. Principal eunuchs, fol. 316. Wedding festivals of the royal princesses, fol. 33a. Anecdotes showing the Shah’s regard for the Kajar chiefs, fol. 496. Account of the Harem, fol. 546. Notices of the Yazirs of the reign, fol. 63a. Reception of Zill us-Sultan by the Shah; notices and anecdotes relating to the Shah’s sons and courtiers, fol. 71a. Character and moral qualities of the Shah, fol. 98a. Good qualities of Muhammad Shah and his treatment of his relatives, fol. 1096. Number of the descen- dants of Fath ‘Ali Shah, fol. 1196. Epilogue, fol. 1226. The work has been lithographed in Bom- bay, A.H. 1306, under the title Uzbeks. 73 . Or. 3497. — Foil. 261 ; 14 in. by 8f ; 31 lines, 5 tt in. long ; written in fair Neskhi ; dated Thursday, 8 Jumada I., A.H. 1304 (A.D. 1887). [Sidney Churchill.] A history of ‘Abdullah Khan from his birth to A.H. 997, by Hafiz Tanish B. Mir Muhammad al-Bukhari, kib- crj*?' Beg. *i)l _5 j'-b ClWija j ‘Abdullah Khan, son of Iskandar Khan, is the greatest of the Shaibani sovereigns. Born A.H. 940, he became the virtual ruler of the Uzbek empire long before he assumed the sovereign title at the death of his father, Iskandar Khan, A.H. 991. He died A.H. 1006. The scantiness of the hitherto avail- able sources on his eventful career is evidenced by the sketchy character of the accounts given of it by Vambery, History of Bukhara, pp. 282 — 96, and by Sir Henry Howorth in his History of the Mongols, Part II., Division II., pp. 730 — 38. The present work is the only full and authentic history of his life, written by a contemporary witness, who was attached to the Khan’s suite ; but its undoubted value is to some extent marred by the pompous verbosity of its style and the too frequent absence of precise dates. The work is often called ‘Abdullah Namali. It has been noticed by Desmaisons in his translation of Abu ’1- Ghiizi Khan, p. 193, note 3. An edition promised by Yeliaminof-Zernof has never appeared (v. Zeitschrift der D. Morg. H 50 HISTORY. Gfesellsch., Band 38, p. 235). A notice of the work in Schefer’s Ckrestomatkie Persane, vol. ii., p. 216, has been the subject of some observations by S. Churchill, Indian Notices and Queries, vol. iv., no. 41, p. 93. From a prolix and verbose preface we gather that the author, who from his early youth had been ambitious of distinguishing himself by some historical composition, did not begin to write until ‘Abdullah Khan had established his rule over Mavara-annahr and had made Bukhara his capital. It was then that the author, now in his thirty-sixth year, undertook the compilation of a full record of the Khan’s early life and of his victories. But it was only after he had been admitted to the presence of the great Vazir, Amir Kulbaba Kukaltash, and encouraged by that generous patron of letters, that he set about collecting his rough drafts and brought them into their present shape. He then gave the book the title of Sharaf Nam ah i Sbahi, which, as stated in the following lines, forms a chronogram for A.H. 992, the date of composition : J Si i sUjXJ (JLo d-AxijZi j Lilli j*b j I i ^y-<«b j b ^ &>- Lu It will be seen, however, presently, that the work was brought down to a later date. According to the preface, it was to consist of the following parts : Mukaddimah treating of the Khan’s forefathers from Noah down to his father Iskandar Khan, with a notice of his religious teacher Khwajah Juibari. Makalah I. History of ‘Abdullah Khan from his birth to his accession to the throne. Makalah II. His history from his accession to a subsequent date, which is left undefined. Khatimah, on the distinctive qualities of the sovereign, on the holy Shaikhs, ‘Ulama, men of letters, poets, Amirs, Yazirs of his reign, on his pious foundations and the public buildings erected by him. Of the above four parts the present MS. contains only the first two, namely : 1. The Mukaddimah, foil. 9a — 31a, comprising a genealogical sketch of the descendants of Chingiz Khan, with a fuller account of the Shaibani branch, and concluding, fol. 27a, with a notice of the great saint Khwajah Muhammad Juibari, of the Nakshabandi order, with his spiritual pedigree, and an account of his son, Khwajah Kalan Khwajim. 2. Makalah I., which begins with the follow- ing heading : b OJ'Jj :\ Jjy. A?.' ^ j3^ eAt; 3 A j J t J t j. b b— (Jl)* j J JV*' This Makfdah, which forms the main bulk of the volume, foil. 315 — 2595, is brought down to a later date than the above heading indicates ; for the death of Iskandar Khan, at the beginning of Jumada II. (A.H. 991) and the subsequent Julus of ‘Abdullah Khan are recorded in chapters beginning respectively at fol. 2035 and fol. 2055. The rest of the volume is devoted to a record of the next following six years. It concludes with a detailed account of the taking of Herat, which fell after a siege of nearly nine months. The city, we are told, was taken by storm on Monday, the third of Rabl‘ II., when a scene of general pillage and slaughter en- sued. On the fifth the commander, ‘Ali Kuli Khan, who had retired to the fortress of Ikhtiyar ud-Dln, surrendered, and was treacherously massacred with his Iyizilbash followers. The year in which that event took place is not stated in the narrative, AFGHANS. 51 but in a long Kasidali composed by the author on that occasion, the date is given in the following chronogram : JU sj* l $/> j-h-Z* & This would give A.H. 999, which is obviously wrong. According to Jalal Munajjim, the fall of Herat took place in A.H. 997. In the ‘Alam arfii ‘Abbasi, the same event is placed in the Sichkan yil, beginning in Jumada I., A.H. 997, and ending in Ju- mada I., A.H. 998. In his conclusion, fol. 2595, the author says : “ Here ends Makalah I : it will be followed by Makfdah II.” Whether the latter or the Khatimah were ever written is un- certain. The present copy appears to have been made from a MS. written by Mirza Khush Muhammad B. Tash Muhammad Bai Kat- ghan, whose colophon is transcribed at the end. It is dated 19 Jumada I., A.H. 1239. Copyist : A full table of chapters occupies five pages at the beginning. CD O Afghans. 74 . Or. 3550. — Foil. 197 ; 1 1^ in. by 6^; 15 lines, 4 in. long ; written in neat Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated 12 Jumada II., A.H. 1305 (A.D. 1888). [Sidney Churchill.] A history of the Durrani dynasty of Af- ghanistan, from the rise of Ahmad Shah to the death of Shah Shuja £ , A.H. 1257, trans- lated from Hindustani into Persian by Sayyid Husain Shlrazi Karbala’i, son of Aka Sayyid Rizai Shlrazi, Urdu translator of the Dar ut-Tarjumah, Teheran. It begins with three Baits, the first of which is : (jj jO ^ ^ ^ \Ai j (jUsl Then comes the prose doxology, beginning : From a note written on the fly-leaf by the translator, we learn that the Urdu original, entitled Okilj, was the work of Muham- mad ‘Abd ur-Rahman B. Haji Muhammad Rushan Khan, and had been printed in Kanpur. Some omissions in that work were supplemented and some discrepancies cor- rected by reference to ^k* and to zJo by ‘Ali Kuli Mirza 1‘tizad us- Saltanali, son of Fath ‘Ali Shah. Contents : Genealogy of the Saduzais ; dis- turbed state of Afghanistan and invasion of Nadir, fol. 45. Death of Nadir and reign of Ahmad Shah (A.H. 1162 — 85), fol. 115. Reign of Timur Shah down to his death on the 7th of Shavval, A.H. 1207, fol. 465. Reign of Zaman Shah down to his deposition, A.H. 1216, fol. 77a. Reign of Sultan Mahmud till his death, A.H. 1244, fol. 1275. History of Shall Shuja‘ from his accession to his death, A.H. 1257, fol. 148a. Topography of the Duabs and of Afghanistan, foil. 176a — 197. India. 75 . Or. 3714. — Foil. 528 ; 12^ in. by 7\ ; 12 lines, 4 in. long ; written in large and elegant Nes- talik, with gold-ruled margins, and profusely h 2 52 HISTORY. ornamented with miniatures and illuminated borders, apparently about the close of the 16th century. Bound in painted and glazed covers. The Memoirs of Babar, translated from the Turki original by ‘Abd ur-Rahlm Khan. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 244. Beg. \ - 20 ^ 3 ^j\ j&scj s U j o ajlsy Oj'Jj The four detached portions of which the Memoirs consist begin respectively as fol- lows : I. A.H. 899 — 908 (Erskine, pp. 1 — 122), foil. 1 — 156a. II. A.H. 910 — 914 (Erskine, pp. 127 — 234), foil. 1566 — 2966. III. A.H. 925 — 926 (Erskine, pp. 246 — 284), foil. 297a— 348a. IV. A.H. 932 — 936 (Erskine, pp. 290 — 425), foil. 3486—5286. This fine volume contains sixty-eight whole- page miniatures in the most highly finished style of Indian art, and forty-eight pages have coloured drawings of smaller size repre- senting various animals and trees. These miniatures are, with few exceptions, signed by the artists, most of whom bear Hindu names. The following are the names which recur most frequently : Klsu, Sanwlah, Mahls, Jagannath, Bhurah, Tliirpal, Nand Gwaliyari, Bhawani, Slvdas, Tulsi, Tiriya, Pars, Bhag- wan, Dhanraj, Sunkar Gujrati, Banwari, Pada- rat, Ramdas. The first four are mentioned in A’ln i Akbari, translation, vol. i., p. 108, among the masters of the art at the court of Akbar. There are also some Muslim names, such as Ibrahim Kahhar, Mansur Nakkash (Nadir ul-‘Asr, see Tuzuk Jahanglri, p. 235), and Farrukh, the last also mentioned in the A’ in i Akbari. For other copies see Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, nos. 180 — 183. 76 . Or. 3271. — Foil. 138 ; 8-| in. by 5J; ; 15 lines, 3 in. long; written in fair Nestalik in the first half of the 18th century ; damaged by damp and partly discoloured. I. Foil. 2 — 45. 2 ub jx{\ A continuation of Akbar Namah, comprising the last four years of the reign of Akbar, by ‘Inayat-ullah B. Muhibb ‘Ali. Beg. £j'y t±xZij> The same beginning is found at fol. 12 of another copy, Or. 1854, described in the Persian Catalogue, p. 929a. The author’s name is given in the following endorsement, apparently in the hand of the copyist : oVi) j \SSj\j\ ,3 s - t— as? The same ‘Inayat-ullah B. Muhibb ‘Ali is mentioned as the author of a Takmilah i Akbar Namah in Ta’rikh i Muhammadi, Or. 1824, fol. 1316. The present work is quite distinct from a similarly entitled history ascribed to Shaikh ‘Inayat-ullah, extracts of which are given in Elliot’s History of India, vol. vi., pp. 103 — 115. While in the latter the murder of Abu ’1-Fazl is told in a few lines, and without any direct implication of Jahangir in the crime, the author of the present work narrates the same event in the most circumstantial manner, and distinctly states that the mur- derer, Barsingh Dev, acted at the bidding of Jahangir. He dwells at length on the courage displayed by Abu ’1-Fazl in the fatal en- counter, on the sad loss entailed by his INDIA. death, and on the overwhelming grief of Akbar. II. Foil. 46 — 138. History of Shahjahan, from his birth to his accession, ascribed in a contemporary endorsement to Mu‘tamad Khan : iS-A** U» J'yU It begins, without any preface, with the following heading : j s'. A J The text begins : iO l**> IP <.} J \ ^ ^ j (J-?b 3 The dates are given throughout with great precision according to the days of the Ilahi months, with the corresponding dates of the lunar months. The work concludes with the arrival of Shahjahan at Agra, his Julus on the 8th of Jumada II., 1037, and an enumera- tion of the stages of his journey from Junlr to the capital. Some verses inserted after the account of the J ulus end with this line : A-S ^ Ax-c jp yip 1 i3jq ^b 3 ^ ii*** which shows that the work was written during the reign of Shahjahan. Mu'tamad Khan, if such be the author’s name, must be a distinct person from his namesake, the author of the Ikbal Namah. The latter, when referring to himself, uses such a phrase as “ the present writer,” while in corresponding passages our author men- tions Mu‘tamad Khan by name. In a note written on the first page of the volume Mirza Muhammad B. Mu £ tamad Khan states that in Zulhijjah, A.H. 1157, he re- ceived the above two works from ‘Inayat Khan Rasikb, son of Shams ud-Daulah Lutf- 53 ullah Khan Bahadur Tahavvur Jang. This same ‘Inayat Khan is mentioned in the Per- sian Catalogue, p. 87 66, as the editor of a collection of royal letters. 77 . Or. 3276.— Foil. 314 ; 10i in. by 5§ ; 15 lines, 3 in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 17th century. I4?- The Memoirs of Jahangir. Beg. Oc-bAo Obis- [^3] ^Jj\ Ob As j\ J jiF (AAfc jl ^<3^- • The contents agree substantially with those of Add. 26,215 described in the Persian Cata- logue, p. 2536, and with the edition printed at Ally Gurh, 1864, under the title of (_^Ao '4=-. The first part of the Memoirs, comprising the first twelve years of the reign, ends at fol. 3006, and is followed, without any heading or break in the text, by the second part, beginning with the thirteenth year. The MS. breaks off in the middle of that year at a passage relating to the painter Mansur, and corresponding with p. 235, line 32, of the Ally Gurh edition. On the first page and within an ornamental border is found this misleading title : &*b si*** li^ps ^jbb»- j! For other copies see Etlie, Bodleian Cata- logue, nos. 219—20. 78 . Or. 3287. — Foil. 134 ; 10^ in. by 6| ; 19 lines, 41 in. long; written in fair Nestalik in the 17th century. 54 HISTORY. i sJllaJ J • Account of the siege of Kandahar by Dara Shikuh. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 2645, and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 238-9. x>cg. The author, whose name does not appear in the work, was Badl‘ uz-Zaman Rashid Khan, who died, as Divan of Shah ‘Alam, upwards of eighty years old, in Agra, A.H. 1107. See Ta’rlkh i Muhammadi, Or. 1824, fol. 2345, and Or. 1937, fol. 155. This copy wants about a page and a half at the end. On the first page is a Wakf, or pious dona- tion, of the book by Mirza Mahdi B. Mirza ‘Ata-ullah ul-Husaini, dated Muharram, A.H. 1109 (A.D. 1697). On the same page is an impression of the seal of General Carnac. 79 . Or. 3610. — Foil. 20; 16 in. by 11 ; 12 lines, 6f in. long ; written in fair large Nestalik, with fourteen whole-page and two double- page miniatures, apparently in the 1 8th century. Detached fragments of a historical work relating to the reigns of Bahadur Shah and Jahandar Shah. Fol. 1 relates to the death of Bahadur Shall, and begins as follows : 5 j shtfl ^0 sLe &**» j 1 . ' ^ ' Y d l AJJ The work appears to have been composed during the short reign of Jahandar Shah. It is written in rather florid prose interspersed with verses, and is very circumstantial, but quite destitute of dates. The subjects of the remaining fragments are as follows : Foil. 2 — 3. Kambakhsh orders Mir Malang (Ahsan Khan) and other Amirs to be executed. His defeat and death (A.H. 1120). Foil. 4—8. Rising of the Sikhs under Banda. Expeditions of Vazlr Khan and of Prince Mu'izz ud-Dln against them (A.H. 1120 ). Foil. 9 — 20. Victory of Mu'izz ud-Dln Jahandar Shah over his brothers. His ac- cession. Poetical description of his mistress La‘l Kunwar and of his mad passion for her (A.H. 1124). Bound up with this volume is a large sheet containing a deed of sale relating to a private house in Lucknow, dated 13 Zulka‘- dah, A.H. 1264 (A.D. 1848). 80 . Or. 3281. — Foil. 86; 8 in. by 4f ; 15 lines, 3 in. long ; written in small and close Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century. History of the reign of Muhammad Shah down to the 14th year. This is the anonymous work designated in some MSS. as JLsl three copies of which have been described in the Persian Catalogue, viz. Or. 1900, p. 940a ; Or. 1656, II. , p. 1008a ; and Or. 1747, VI., p. 10155. Compare p. 10555, VIII. The present copy has two additional chapters at the beginning. The first begins all ^ j eAz J'j 1 ^yC >J.^— It relates to a vision seen by Bigam Sahib, mother of Muhammad Shall, six days after his birth. The second is a record of that birth, which took place in INDIA. 55 Ghaznln on tlie eve of the 23rd of Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1114. The third section, which begins fol. 75, is identical with the first section of Or. 1900. From that point the contents of both copies are in substantial agreement ; but towards the end the present MS. gives in full Muhammad Shah’s correspondence with the Persian court, much abridged in the other. It contains, moreover, the appendix (Tazyil) on the Indian seasons mentioned in the Persian Catalogue, p. 10085. On the fly-leaf is written : “ For Captn. Scott with Mr. Polier’s compts.” 81 - 2 . Or. 4609 and 4608. — Two uuiform volumes consisting respectively of foil. 140 and 283 ; 9 lines, 4^ in. long ; written in cursive and straggling Indian Nestalik, about A.D. 1796. [G. Cecil Renouaed.] A collection of Akhbar, or news-letters, relating to daily occurrences at the Courts of Delhi, Lucknow, Rampur, and the camps of the Mahratta generals from the 18th of Safar, A.H. 1210, to the 23rd of Rajab in the same year (September, 1795 — January, 1796). The news-letters appear to have been received and compiled in Lucknow. Those which relate to the Court of the Yazir ul- Mamalik Asaf ud-Daulah are dated on con- secutive days. They are the most circum- stantial and the latest in date. The others are from the Court of Delhi, from the camps of the Marattah generals, viz. Daulat Rao Sindhya, Takoji Ilolkar, Kashi Rao Holkar, from the camp of Navvab ‘ Ali Bahadur (the Oude general), and from the seat of Nasr- ullah Khan of Rampur. Beg. ^jVjo • jib fr? tty \. 3 ? 2 ^jOj ^ axlaJ j *— The first volume ends with the Akhbar of Asaf ud-Daulah on the 23rd of RabT‘ T. The second volume, Or. 4608, begins with the Akhbar of the Delhi Court on the 26th of Rabl‘ I., and ends with a news-letter from the camp of Lakhwaji Pandit, dated the 17th of Rajab, and imperfect at the end. The MS. passed from Renouard’s hands into the possession of Dr. John Lee, in whose catalogue it is noticed, p. 57, no. 174. 83 . Or. 4776. — Foil. 345; 12j in. by 6^-; 12 lines, 4 in. long; written in cursive Nestalik, apparently in India in the 19th century. I. Foil. 1 — 56. Revenue tables of the Subahs of Hindostan, written in Siyak, by Muhammad Latlf, son of Muhammad ‘Ali B. Muhammad Shah, of Broach in Gujrat. Beg. Cel .... all ^jOj A ^ 40 1 The preface contains verses in praise of Abu T-Fazl and of Shah ‘Alam, a celebrated saint who died A.H. 880, and whose tomb in Ahmadabad is an object of pilgrimage. The author appears to have been a devout- worshipper of holy personages. Further on, under Ajmir, he breaks out again into a panegyric on Mu‘in ud-Din Cliishti, a great saint buried in that city. The date of 56 HISTORY. composition is not given, but a reference to Aurangzib, fol. 3 b, shows that the work was written after his time. The tables, which begin, fol. 5 a, with Gujrat, end with Multan. Another copy is mentioned by Rehatsek, Mulla Firuz Library, p. 102, no. 58. II. Foil. 57 — 78. History of the kings of Gujrat, extracted from the work entitled b which was written A.II. 1196 by Ghulam Basit. This chapter corresponds with foil. 946— 102a of the MS. Add. 27,250, described in the Persian Catalogue, p. 237. See for another copy Rehatsek, ib., p. 76, no. 15. III. Foil. 79—345. 'if S3 A general history of India, treating more especially of the ‘Adishahls of Bijapur, by RafF ud-Din Ibrahim Shlrazi, who wrote about A.H. 1020. See the Persian Cata- logue, p. 316, and Rehatsek, ib., p. 73, no. 11, where the contents are described. The portion of the work contained in the present MS. corresponds with foil. 46 — 206 of the complete copy previously described, Add. 23,883. It consists of chapters (Fasl) <1 — 9, beginning with the kings of Gujrat and ending with the Timurides, as described in the Persian Catalogue. But Fasl 9 is not bi'ought down further than the early part of Akbar’s reign. The last section relates to the murder of his Vazir, Atakah Khan, which took place A.H. 970. On the last leaf is the name of a former owner, John W. Watson. 84 . Or. 2692. — Foil. 393 ; 12J in. by 7f ; 24 lines, 4 1 in. long; written in neat Nestalik; dated (fol. 2636) 12 Sha'ban, A.H. 1258 (A.D. 1842). [E. B. Eastwick.] I. Foil. 1 — 263. i History of the Kutubshahis and of the Nizams of Haidarabad, by Mir Abu ’1-Kasim, surnamed Mir ‘Alam. See the Persian Cata- logue, pp. 323 — 25. Beg. l£*'° 3 .Uajol sf* cilL JKi (• uawi 3 ^' 0 (*'■ 01 * ( L*» uJ’jj ^ The contents agree with those of the edition lithographed in Haidarabad, A.H. 1266. The second Makalah begins at fol. 136a. This copy was written, as stated at the end, by Muhammad Vazir for Mir Muhammad H usain Musavi, whose seal dated 1249 is impressed on the first page. The MS. was presented A.H. 1285, to whom is not stated, by the latter’s daughter, Husaini Begam. II. Foil. 264—393. lid Account of Shushtar and of the author’s travels in India, by £ Abd al-Latif B. Abu Talib Shushtari. See the Persian Catalogue, pp. 383-4. Beg. ^jXsljo The work was composed A.H. 1216. An appendix added by the author, A.H. 1219, is written separately, foil. 389 — 393. At the end is a notice by Ahmad ‘Ali, stating that the author died in Haidarabad on the eve of Monday, the 6th of Zulka‘dah, A.H. 1220; but some verses written by the same hand give for the same event the chronogram jT i.e. 1221. For other copies see Mulla Firuz Library, p. 69 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 98 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 323. 85 . Or. 4688. — Foil. 222 ; 12 in. by 7-g- ; 17 lines, 5 in. long ; written in neat Nestalik, with INDIA. 57 ‘Unvan and ruled margins, apparently in the 19th century. A history of Kashmir, by Badl‘ ud-Dln Abu ’1-Kasim Muhammad Aslam, poetically surnamed Mun'imi, son of Maulavi Muh. A'zam Kul, with the takhallus Mustaghni. Beg. j (j*)) The author mentions in his preface the following two works as his principal authori- ties : 1. The work of Khwajah Muh. A‘zam Dldahmari, son of Kliair uz-Zaman Khan, entitled cA*slj, and brought down to A.H. 1160 (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 300), the author of which had somewhat curtailed his account of kings so as to devote more space to the lives of Sayyids, saints, and poets. 2. The Nur Namah, a collection of the in- spired utterances of the holy Shaikh Nur ud-Dln Vail, written down in the language of Kashmir by one of his disciples, and afterwards translated into Persian, with the title of cJy, by Maulana Ahmad ‘Alla- mah, a panegyrist of Sultan Zain ul-‘AbidIn. In A.H. 1188 the author, having proceeded from Lucknow to Etawa with the Vazir’s army, met there a descendant of the Chak kings of Kashmir, and obtained from him the autograph MS. of the above-mentioned translation, from which he extracted most of the contents of the first section of his work. For the thirty or forty years which had elapsed since the conclusion of the Vaki'at, he relied on information obtained from trustworthy persons and on his own memory. This would bring the date of composition of the present work to A.H. 1190 — 1200. Further on, fob 65, there is a full list of sources (given in extenso by Ethe, no. 320) which appears to have been bodily taken from the Yaki‘at i Kashmir (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 3005). The preface concludes with a dedication in prose and verse to Shah ‘Alam, and with a table of chapters. The title, which in the preface, fol. 9a, is is given as above, appears in a somewhat different form, namely s- j in the dedicatory verses, fob 7b. The work is divided into a Mukaddimah, six Tabakahs, and a Khatimah, as follows : Mukaddimah : Peculiarities of Kashmir, its climate and noteworthy sites, fob 9a. Taba- kah I. Origins of Kashmir, conflicting tra- ditions of Muslims and Hindus, and ancient kings, in two Kisms, fob 165. The second Kism, beginning fob 32a, treats of the Da’udi line and the Pandus. Tabakah II. Hindu Rajahs, fob 545. Tabakah III. Muslim kings, fob 84a. Tabakah IY. Kings of the Cbak line, fob 1325. Tabakah V. Timurides, fob 168. The fifth Tabakah, which is the last ex- tant, comes to an abrupt termination with A.H. 1150. The last event recorded is the struggle of the Naib, Abu T-Barakat Khan, with rebels headed by Mir Muhammad Ja'far, resulting in a battle fought by the con- tending parties on the 14th of Muharram, A.H. 1150. See the Yaki'at i Kashmir, Add. 26,282, fol. 285a, and Newall’s abstract- in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Ben- gal, vol. xxiii., p. 413. A copy described by Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 320, breaks off at the same point, which makes it probable that no more was written. 86 . Or. 2699. — Foil. 112 ; 10 in. by 6^; 15 lines, 3-| in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik ; dated 12 RabT II., A.H. 1247 (A.D. 1831). A history of Kashmir, with an account i 58 HISTORY. of the neighbouring countries, by c Abd ul- LOCAL HISTORIES. Kadir Khan B. Kazi’l-Kuzat Maulavi Vasil ‘Ali Khan. ' 87 . Beg. LAI sS- sS .wii « li- Ai* AjO j iS " J J j (Jjjjj ao ^ j tHyCjS For an account of the author and his work see the Persian Catalogue, p. 1016, v. The history was completed, as stated at the end, at Benares, A.H. 1245, A.D. 1830. The main authority followed by the writer for the history of Kashmir is the work of Muham- mad Badi c ud-Din Abu ’l-Kasim Aslam, poeti- cally surnamed Mun'imi, son of Maulavi Muh. A‘zam, surnamed Kid (see the preceding MS.). It was written, he says, about the beginning of the reign of Asaf ud-Daulah under the title jt ^ . The work is divided into four Cham an s and a Khatimah, as follows : Chaman I. Account of Kashmir, fol. 65, .ii J_j\ ^ t-|, J jjj V L **2la. J\ ^ Ancient history and Hindu Rajahs, fol. 65. Muslim kings, fol. 29a.. Subadars under the Timurides down to the conquest by Ahmad Shah Dur- rani, fol. 55a. Curiosities and wonders of Kashmir, fol. 725. Its trade and manufac- tures, fol. 755. Chaman II. Description of Tibet and Kal- makistan, including an account of the religion of the Tibetans and of the painter Mani, fol. 81a. Chaman III. Account of Badakhshan, fol. 90a. Chaman IV. Description of the highlands of Afghanistan, namely, Pagli(P), Ghur,Ghaz- nin, and Kuh i Sulaiman ; with a brief history of the Afghans, fol. 935. Khatimah : A short review of the just rulers of India, concluding with a eulogy on the Company’s rule, fol. 111a. Or. 2777. — Foil. 199; 8|- in. by4f; 13 lines, 2^ in. long; written in neat Nestalik, with a highly finished ‘Unvan and colour-ruled margins, apparently in the 19th century. [Comte de Gobineau.] History of Bukhara, translated from the Arabic work of Abu Bakr Muhammad B. Ja‘far an-Narshakhi. Beg. jAJ *I.**jj The original author, an-Narshakhi, was born A.H. 286, and died A.H. 348 (see al-Sam‘ani, fol. 558 a). He wrote the history of Bukhara, A.H. 332, for the Samani king, Amir Hamid Nuh B. Nasr. The work was translated into Persian, A.H. 522, by Abu Nasr Ahmad B. Muh. B. Nasr al-Kubavi. The present MS. contains an abridgment of the latter version made A.H. 574, for the Mufti of Bukhara, Taj ul-Ma‘ali ‘Abd ul- ‘Azlz B. Husam ud-Din ‘Umar, by Muham- mad B. Zufar B. ‘Umar. This abridged version has been edited by M. Charles Schefer, Paris, 1892. A con- siderable portion of the work had been pre- viously published by the same scholar in the first volume of his Chrestomathie Persane, pp. 9 — 55, re-n*. A short extract was given by Lerch in the Transactions of the Congress of St. Petersburg, tom. ii., pp. 424 — 9. The contents have been described by Vambery, History of Bokhara, p. xii. For other copies see Morley’s Catalogue, p. 151, and Khany- kov, Melanges Asiatiques, vol. ii., p. 437. Contents : Preface of Muh. B. Zufar, fol. 15. Kazis of Bukhara, fol. 3a. Extract from the LOCAL HISTORIES. 59 Khaza’in al-‘Ulum of ‘Abd ur-Rahman B. Muh. an-Naishaburi (printed in the Chresto- mathie Persane, vol. i., pp. 11 — 14), fol. 5a. The Kliatun, queen of Bukhara, fol. 8b. Description of Bukhara, its environs and public buildings (Chrestomathie Persane, pp. r.-Tt 1 ), fol. 126. Silver coinage of Bukhara (published by Lerch, l.c., pp. 426 — 8), fol. 396. Muslim conquest, fol. 42a. Division of Bu- khara between the Arabs and Persians, fol. 486. Rule of Kutaibah B. Muslim, fol. 506. Origins of A1 i Saman, fol. 69a. Rise of Mukanna', foil. 77a. History of the Samanis, fol. 916. This last section is brought down by an-Narshakhi to the accession of Nidi B. Nasr, A.H. 331, fol. 1156, and briefly con- tinued by the translator to the death of Mansur B. Nasr, A.H. 365. The text is in close agreement with M. Schefer’s edition, pp. 2 — 99. 88 . Or. 3391. — Poll. 138 ; 12^ in. by 7^ ; 17 lines, 4 in. long; written in neat Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 15th century. [Sidney Chukchill.] 5 A historical and topographical account of the city of Kum, written A.H. 378 by Hasan B. Muhammad B. Hasan Kummi, and trans- lated from Arabic, A.H. 825, by Ilasan B. al-Hasan ‘Abd ul-Malik al-Kummi. The translator’s preface begins : <*13 isy^j Jc-U- C— >Ua=- ^>\ . . . . iXS’ L j he \j :>■ 4JJ ^ libs- jiuo\ uliai The translation of the original work begins, fol. 26, as follows : sijf ^x=r J.J.U L—*S -bo J*lfl The work is dedicated to a mighty Vazir, Sahib al-Jalll Kafi T-Kufat, whose proper name does not appear. It was apparently Ibrahim B. ‘Abbad, the famous Vazir of two successive sovereigns of the Buvaihi dynasty, viz. Mu’ayyad ud-Daulah and Faklir ud- Daulah, who died A.H. 385. The latter prince is named in the preface as the reign- ing sovereign, and in other passages, foil. 56 and 9a, mention is made of the Vazir’s father, Shaikh al-Amin Abu T-Hasan ‘Abbad B. ‘Abbas, who is described as the Vazir of Rukhn ud-Daulah, and is stated to have died A.H. 330. In the preface the author dwells at great length on the merits of his patron, and especially on the benefits conferred by him upon the city of Kum, on the magni- ficence with which he enriched its holy Sharifs and its ‘Ulama, on the copious water- supply created by him, on the number of books placed by him at the disposal of students, and generally on his just and beneficent administration. The author was induced to write this book by the fact that his brother, Abu ’1-Kasim ‘Ali B. Muh. B. al-Hasan al-Katib, then governor of Kum, had searched in vain for a history of that city. He compiled it from a number of scattered notices and from oral tradition. Two of the historical chapters are brought down to A.H. 378, evidently the date of composition. The work is divided into twenty Babs, subdivided into sections (J_j*s6) amounting altogether to fifty. Of those Babs only the first five are extant in the MS. The head- ings of all the twenty Babs, given at the end of the preface, foil. 9 and 10, are too long to be quoted in full. The heading of Bab I. begins as follows : j J> jd Jjl i_^t> i 2 60 HISTORY. d*;»=>-l3 ^3 yo J J j*J J*,\ ^>'&£ Ji i J Jjk j> d _J ^lk'j\ Oil T >l^j6\ j ,jT J j l^]; <5^ j w ' <*^ j L^r 5, j -3^ C ^ ^^ u * 1 J ^ j I^JlYa/c &k:»- j S*SU jii I J (^j ! 1*>* C—aSj J >L^Mj j iijk j d****! ( - )>^'^ j*^ Lf‘^** 1 * Jj' _/^ jJyj t/jj^ yw 8&\ l> L/idM li)\)*^ J Id ^Jd 1 Jib _J lio J,>J> ,**ls- ^rtf**'® Briefly stated, the contents of the twenty Babs are as follows : I. Name and origin of Kum ; its topography and principal buildings, fol. 10 b. II. Surveys of the land ; tribute and taxation, fol. 545. III. Descendants of Abu Talib, fol. 1015. IV. Arab settlers of the family of Malik B. ‘Amir Aslrari, fol. 113ft. (After fol. 112 there is a lacuna, without any apparent break in the text, so that the end of Bab III. and the beginning of Bab IY. are wanting.) V. The Ash‘aris after their conversion to Islam, foil. 123 — 138. (This Bab concludes in the present MS. with an account of the taking of Sus by Abu Musa al-Ash‘ari.) VI. Genealogy of the Arabs of the race of Kahtan. VII. Arabs who held sway in Kum. VIII. Cele- brated battles of the Arabs. IX. Arabs and Persians who ruled in Kum, and some re- nowned secretaries of the Divan. X. Intro- duction of Islam and notice of some celebrated Persians. XI. Chronicle of the governors of Kum from A.H. 89 — 378. XII. Kazis of Kum. XIII. General chronicle of the Khalifs from the time of Muhammad to A.H. 378. XIV. Estates belonging to the Sultan. XV. Estates belonging to Kum and to private persons. XVI. ‘Ulama. XVII. Men of letters. XVIII. Poets. XIX. Jews and Magians. XX. Peculiarities of Kum and miscellaneous historical notices. The Persian translation was made A.H. 825 by desire of a personage whose name is pre- ceded by a string of almost royal titles, Khajah Fakhr ud-Dln Ibrahim B. ‘Imad ud- Din Mahmud B. Shams ud-Din Muh. B. ‘Ali Safi : UiMj A** 1 u-As*h u? idklya 5l»o 4lfi, who was probably governor of Kum or Kashan under Shahrukh. On the first page is a circular illuminated border enclosing a title which has been oblite- rated. Above is wntten . ^ j b £j g U~- 0*^0! 89. Or. 3587. — Foil. 179 ; 8| in. by 5 ; 19 lines, 3 in. long; written in small and neat Nes- talik; dated 1 Jumada II., A.H. 835 (A.D. 1432). [Sidney Churchill.] A History of the district of Baihak, by Abu ’1- Hasan ‘Ali B. Shams ul-Islam Abu ’1- Kasirn Zaid B. Shaikh ul-Islam Abu Sulaiman Amirak Muhammad, &c., al-Baihaki. Beg. j &s^ j JG) J ^ f^\xu» j t 1 ^ 4 ^ \j (3^ Ijlaii _j slAafi Jl?r £ ci' The author belonged to the ancient family of the Hakimis, which had given eminent divines and Kadis to Baihak. In the preface he traces up his pedigree to Huzaimah B. Thabit, one of the Companions of the Prophet, and from him upwards to Shem, son of Noah. He completed this work on the fifth of Shav- val, A.H. 563, in the village of Shashtamad. LOCAL HISTORIES. 61 He occasionally refers to two works previously written by him in Arabic, namely, l->\J i_AaMj, treating of tire genealogy of the descendants of the Prophet, and being a continuation of Ta’rikh i Yamlni. An extract from the latter, relating to Sultan Shah of Khwarazm, and quoted by Ibn ul-A§Ir in his Kamil, vol. ix., p. 249, is brought down to A.H. 595. He wrote also a continuation of the Dumyat ul- Kasr of al-Bakharzi, entitled (Ibn Khallikan, De Slane’s version, vol. ii., p. 323, and Haj. Khal., vol. iii., p.238, vi.,pp.442,510). The two works which he mentions as his principal authorities are the Ta’rlkh Naisha- bur, in twelve volumes, by al-Hakim Abu ‘Abdallah Muh. B. ‘Abdallah (d. A.H. 405), and Ta’rikh Baihak, by ‘Ali B. Abi Salih al- Khuwari. In a long preface the author laments the decline of sciences in his day, especially of those which are the special glory of the Arabs, namely, Hadith, genealogy, and pro- verbs ; after which he dilates on the charm and importance of a study of history. The work is rather a collection of biographical notices than a history proper. The contents are as follows : Preface, fol. 16. Principal countries of the world, fol. 11 a. Standard works of his- tory, fol. 116. Histories of towns, fol. 13a. Eminent peculiarities of Baihak, fob 136. “Companions” who came to Baihak, fob 15a. Muslim conquest, A.H. 30, fob 15a. Climate, fob 156. Things in which various countries excel, fob 17a. Plagues peculiar to each country, fob 176. Capitals of various coun- tries, fob 186. Dependence of climate on the elements, fob 19a. Etymology of Bai- hak, its limits, and its division into twelve districts, called £>j, fob 196. Foundation of Sabzavar, and memorable events which took place there from the time of Bahman B. Isfandiyar to A.H. 455, fob 22a. Ancient families of Baihak, in the following order : Sayyids, fob 306 ; Tahiris, fob 37a ; Samanis, fob 38a ; Mahmudis, fob 396 ; Saljuks, fob 40a ; Nizam ul-Mulk and his descendants, fob 41a ; Muhallabis, fob 476 ; Fiiladvand and his descendants, who were the hereditary Ra’is of Baihak, fob 526; Hakimis,the author’s family, fob 576; the Baihakis, fob 616; Mukh- taris, fob 65a ; Mlkalis, fob 676 ; and a few more families, the last being that of Muh. B. Ibrahim Ibn Slmjur, fob 77a. Notices of ‘Ulama, Imams, and other eminent men who were born in Baihak, or dwelt there, fob 79a. Memorable events in Baihak, from the incursion of Hamzah Azarak, A.H. 213, to the author’s time, fob 156a. Remarkable things peculiar to Baihak, fob 162a. Siege of Sabzavar by Mu’ayyid ud-Daulah Malik ul-Mashrik, A.H. 561-2, foil. 166a. This last chapter breaks off, foil. 1666, without any visible gap in the text, and is immediately followed by some moral pre- cepts and anecdotes, which conclude the work. The MS. was apparently transcribed from a copy which was defective at the end. The latter part of the volume, foil. 171 — 9, contains three additional pieces written by several hands, namely : 1. Fath Namah, or bulletin addressed to Muh. Sufi Tarkhan at Herat on a victory gained over Iskandar at Sultaniyyah. 2. Notices of Ahmad B. al-Husain al- Bailiaki and of al-Farra, in Arabic, from the Muhimmat of al-Isnawi. 3. Nasab Namah i MIkaliyyah, or genea- logy of the Mikali family, by Naslr ud-Din Tusi ; copy dated A.H. 896. The Ta’rikh i Baihak is mentioned by Haj. Khab, vol. ii., p. 122. A MS. described by Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 535, has the same title as ours, but a different beginning. 62 HISTORY. 90 . Or. 2887. — Foil. 93 ; 9 in. by 5^; 12 lines, 3 g in. long; written in fair large Nestalik, with neat ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated 15 Zulhijjah, A.H. 1286 (A.D. 1870). [Sidney Churchill.] A history of the conquest of Kirman by the G-huzz chieftain, Malik Dinar, A.H. 581 — 3 ; by Afzal ud-Din Ahmad B. Hamid Kirmani. Beg. JS ^ jjbo «*» / 3 J;j' ^ ™ *— 3 (_> J ^ ut . . . j.'lff' i- r J W s ’ A J3 ^ (*^ j jlij' L a D jIa—j jAy ^ This is the shorter recension of the pre- face. It has been given by Veliaminof- Zernof in the appendix to the second volume of his edition, pp. 2 — 5. Contents : Mukaddimah. Origin of the Kurds, fol. 3a. Salnfah I., in five Fasls, viz. : 1. Jazirah and Diyarbakr, fol. 56. 2. Dinavar and Shahrazul, ib. 3. Fazla- vaihs, or Lur i Buzurg, fol. 66. 4. Lur i Kuchak, fol. 96. 5. A1 i Ayyub, fol. 176. Sahifah II., in five Fasls, viz. : Ardalan, fol. 286. 2. Hakkaris, fol. 31a. 3. ‘Imadiyyah, LOCAL HISTORIES. 65 fol. 32a. 4. Jazirah, fol. 355. 5. Hisn Kaif, fol. 49a. Sahifah III., comprising three Firkahs, as follows : Firkah I., in nine Fasls, viz. : 1. Chimishkazaks, fol. 53a. 2. Mirdasi, fol. 58a. 3. Sasun, fol. 635. 4. Kliizan, fol. 695. 5. Killls, fol. 735. 6. Shiravan, fol. 77a. 7. Zaraki, fol. 80a. 8. Suvaidis, fol. 855. 9. Sulaimanis, fol. 895. Firkah II., in ten Fasls (three of these, numbered 7 — 9, are wanting in this copy as in all known MSS.), viz. : 1. Suhran, fol. 94a. 2. Babans, fol. 975. 3. Makri, fol. 101a. 4. Baradust, fol. 1035. 5. Mahmudis, fol. 105a. Dun- bulis, fol. 108a. 10. Galhurs, fol. 1105. After this comes an unnumbered section, fol. 1115, relating to the Galbaghi Amirs, and corresponding with the text given in Veliaminof’s Appendix to vol. ii., pp. 36 — 45. Firkah III. Kurds of Iran in four Shu‘bahs, fol. 1135. Sahifah IY. Amirs of Bitlls, in a Fatihah, fol. 118a, and four Satars beginning re- spectively at foil. 126a, 128a, 130a, and 143a. The fourth Satar breaks off, fol. 148a, at a passage corresponding with p. 414, line 15, of the first volume of Veliaminof’s edition. After this, and without any apparent break in the text, comes the latter part of the Khatimah, or history of the Osmanlis, beginning in the middle of A.H. 987, and corresponding with pp. 258 — 308 of the second volume of Petersburg edition. The first part of the same Khatimah, imperfect at the beginning and correspond- ing with pp. 8—258 of the same volume, occupies the remaining portion of the MS., foil. 169a — 2655. At the beginning of the MS. there is a table of contents in the Syriac character. A French translation of the whole work, with a copious introduction and notes, was published in St. Petersburg, 1868 — 75, by F. B. Charmoy. Two Turkish versions have been described in the Turkish Catalogue, pp. 70 — 72. For other MSS. of the text see the prefaces of Veliaminof, pp. 16 — 19 ; and of Charmoy, p. 4 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 312 — 14. 96 . Or. 4900. — Foil. 358; Ilf in. by 7^; 19 lines, 4 in. long; written in fair Nestalik; dated RabT I., A.H. 1251 (A.D. 1835). [Sir Henry Rawlinson.] Another copy of the preceding work. This MS. has the longer preface beginning 1 a '5 jX A 1 o .o .aaj LI as in the Petersburg edition, and its contents agree closely with Veliaminof’s text. The principal sections begin as follows : Sahifah I., fol. 10a. Sahifah II., fol. 41a. Sahifah III. : Firkah I., fol. 81a. Firkah II. comprising eight Fasls, numbered 1 — 6 and 10-11, viz., 1. Suhran, fol. 133a. 2. Babans, fol. 1365. 3. Makri, fol. 1405. 4. Baradust, fol. 1445. 5. Mahmudis, fol. 147a. Dun- bulis, fol. 1515. 10. Galhurs, fol. 155a. 11. Banah, fol. 157a. Firkah III., fol. 158a. Sahifah IY., fol. 1635. Fatihah, fol. 164a. Satar 1 , fol. 275a. Satar 2, fol. 177a. Satar 3, fol. 1795. Satar 4, in four Vajhs beginning respectively at foil. 194a, 1965, 1995, and 210a (about a page at the beginning of Vajli 2 is wanting). Zail, fol. 215a. Kha- timah, foil. 2205 — 3585. 97 . Or. 2779 ; 9f in. by 5| ; 19 lines, 3f in. long ; written in small, close, and cursive Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Comte de Gobineau.] e G6 HISTORY. Cdi I^LJ\ A history of Sistan from the earliest times to A.H. 1028, by Shah Husain B. Malik Ghiyas ud-Dln Muhammad, of the Saffari line. Beg. jXXXt 0 1 J Jx£> tj \. —=>-j yclh> UL.il £j! (^L-l ^ (A 1 L&1>* The author belonged to the princely family of Sistan, which was represented in his time by Malik Jalal ud-Dln Mahmud Khan B. Malik Jalal ud-Dln Muhammad. In his account of the genealogy of that prince, which he carries up through sixteen genera- tions to ‘Amr B. Laith of the Saffari dynasty, fol. 9a, the author gives his own pedigree as follows : Shah Husain B. Malik Gliiya§ ud- Din Muhammad B. Shah Mahmud B. Shah Abu Sa‘id, this last being the ancestor in the fifth generation of the above reigning prince. In the preface the author mentions a history of the kings of Sistan, written in Arabic by Abu ‘Abdullah in the reign of Shah Kutb ud-Din B. Shah ‘Ali, and trans- lated into Persian by Abu Muhammad. A later extensive history, compiled by a ma- ternal grandsire of the author, Amir Mu- hammad B. Amir Mubariz, in the reign of Malik Nizam ud-Din Yahya, was no longer extant. The author wrote the greater part of the present work in A.H. 1027, and finished it in 1028. The latest date men- tioned is the 25th of Shavval of the latter year, when the author was in Isfahan in the suite of Shah ‘Abbas. He refers incidentally to another work of his, a Tazkirah entitled xxWjyi- (Or. 3397). The work is divided into a Mukaddimah, three parts called Fasl, and a Khatimah, as follows : Mukaddimah, treating of the founder of Sistan (Garshasf), of its scholars, traditionists and poets, of its peculiarities, of its names, its revenue, and the genealogy of its kings, fol. 2 5 ^ iiL j ^ 1 l2j\x*0 J * ^ Fasl I. Rulers of Sistan from Garshasf to the introduction of Islam and Arab governors, fol. 10a. Fasl II. Descendants of Kisra, who settled in Sistan after the Muslim conquest, down to Ya'kCib B. Lai§ and Khalaf B. Ahmad. The history is subsequently brought down to Malik Taj ud-Din Abu ’1-Fazl, the first who assumed the regal title, and, in a further continuation to Malik Kutb ud-Din Muham- mad, fol. 25a. (This Malik Kutb ud-Din was appointed by Timur, A.H. 805, as suc- cessor of his father, Shahshahan Shah ‘Ali, in the government of Sistan.) Fasl III. From the time of Malik Kutb ud-Din Muhammad to the date of composi- tion, fol. 48a. Khatimah. Career of the author, his travels, and the wars in which he took part, foil. 1885 — 2165 (beginning with the author’s presentation to Shah ‘Abbas in Kazvin, A.H. 1027). The Ihya ul-Muluk is one of the authorities quoted by Riza Kuli Khan in his Nijad Namah, no. 42, foil. 75, 765. A Persian note on the first page states that the MS. was acquired by Comte de Gobineau in Teheran, A.H. 1273 (A.D. 1856-7). LOCAL HISTORIES. 67 98 . Or. 4901. — Foil. 126 ; 8^ in. by 6 ; 14 lines, 4|- in. long; written in fair Nestalik; dated Friday, 16 Sha‘ban, A.H. 1255 (A.D. 1839). [Sir Henry Rawlinson.] A3 jji+jiyZi A history of the city and province of Sliushtar, by Sayyid ‘Abdullah B. Ni‘mat- ullali Shiishtari. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 2146. Sir H. Rawlinson wrote on the fly-leaf : “ Copied for me at Baghdad from a MS. of Col. Taylor’s [Add. 23,534], Oct. 20, 1839.” 99 . Or. 3603. — Foil. 200 ; 8| in. by 6f ; 17 lines, 4^ in. long ; written in neat Neskhi ; dated Dar ul-Khilafah (Teheran), Sunday, 9 Rajab, A.H. 1304 (A.D. 1887). [Sidney Churchill.] r''' A geographical and historical account of Kaslian, by Mirza ‘Abd ur-Rahlm B. Muh. Ibrahim al-Kasani, poetically surnamed Suhail. Beg. (jU> j ^ Jt The author belonged to the Zarrabi branch of the ancient Dunbuli family, to the history of which he devotes an extensive section of the present work, foil. 131 — 152. He was a descendant in the fourth generation of Mirza Haji Riza’i, a brother of the celebrated Malik ush-Shu‘ara Fath ‘Ali Khan. He wrote the present work in answer to a questionary drawn up by the Parsee Manakji, and sent by order of Shah Nasir ud-Dln to the governors of the various provinces of Iran. Jalal ud-Dln Mirza Ihtisham ul-Mulk, who was then governor of Kaslian, entrusted the task of drawing up the answers to Mirza ‘Abd ur-Rahlm on the 9th of Rabi‘ II., A.H. 1287. The latter spent nine months on the work, which was finished in Muharram, A.H. 1288, at the time when the prince was suddenly recalled to Teheran. The questionary, the arrangement of which is here followed, consisted of six Babs, each of which contained nine questions. Some of the questions, having no application to Kaslian, received only negative answers. Contents : The author’s introduction on the state of the country of Kum and Kaslian at the time of the Arab conquest, fob 116. Bab I. Ancient and modern names of Kaslian and its founder, fol. 13a. Its limits, fob 146. Mountains and rivers, fob 276. Torrents, springs and aqueducts (kanat), fob 40a. Jungles and deserts, fob 526. Climate, fob 54a. Bab II. Castles, towns, agriculture and population, fob 56a. Gardens, fob 82a. Pasture-grounds, fob 866. Snow, rain, hail, &c., fob 87a. Plagues and locusts, ib. Earthquakes, famines and floods, fob 90a. Wars and revolutions, from the Afghan invasion to the present time, fob 91a. En- demic diseases, fob 94a. Bab III. Animals, trees, vegetables, cereals, edible roots, minerals, handicrafts, trade and taxes, fob 946. Bab IV. The principal merchants, fob 99a. Bodily features, stature and longevity of the inhabitants, fob 101a. Their disposition and manners, creed, costume, &c., fob 1016. Marriage laws and condition of women, fob 105a. Wealth, measures and weights, fob 114a. Ancient families and celebrated scholars, divines and officials, fob 115a. 68 HISTORY. Bab Y. Governors from tlie time of Nadir to the date of writing, fol. 1626. Longitude and latitude, fol. 1636. Distances and routes to the frontiers of Persia, fol. 165a. Amount of cultivated land, revenue, and police, fol. 166a. Bab YI. Public buildings and places of pilgrimage, fol. 1676. Travellers, and ac- commodation supplied for them, fol. 168a. The author answers this last question in a mystic sense, describing at length the stations of wayfarers on the road to spiritual truth. Khatimah. Eulogy on the governor Jalal ud-Din Mirza ; rewards promised by him to the author ; and Kasidah composed by the latter in his praise, foil. 195 — 200. Copyist : ^ The following pieces are prefixed to the work : 1. Two notices relating to the present copy, by the author and by Zain ul- c Abidin ul-Ghaflari, in Shikastah, foil. 1, 2. 2. A table of contents in Neskhi, fol. 3. 3. A notice of the work, written at the re- quest of Mr. Churchill, by the author, who here styles himself : ^ 1^-4' ij'jA 3 Ai-'Y J-A-4 It is written in Shikastah and dated Saturday, 3 Sha‘ban, A.H. 1304, foil. 7 — 10. BIOGRAPHY. 100 . Or. 4658. — Foil. 284; 9^ in. by 6J ; 21 lines, 4 in. long ; written in fair small Nestalik ; with ruled margins ; dated 12 Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1088 (A.D. 1677). I. Foil. 2—128. v_iU A+C History of ancient and modern philoso- phers, translated from the Arabic work of Shams ud-Din Muhammad Shahrazuri by Maksud ‘ Ali Tabrizi. Beg. ^ ^ \ y The proper title of the original work is j lojjj Aqp Al'j . It was written by Shams ud-Din Muhammad B. Mahmud ash-Shahrazuri about A.H. 600, and consists of two parts treating respectively of the ancient and Muslim philo- sophers. A MS. of the first part is described in the Leyden Catalogue, no. 1488. A com- plete copy is noticed by Sachau, Chronologie Orientalisclier Ydlker, p. l. The translator says in his preface that, the work having been brought to the notice of the sovereign, only designated as ^UaLJl (evidently Shah ‘Abbas I.), he received his Majesty’s commands to trans- late it into Persian, A.H. 1011. Contents : Introduction treating of the value of philosophy, of the ancient Greeks (Yunan), and of their philosophers, fol. 3a. Notices of the ancient sages as follows : Adam and Seth, fol. 126 ; Hermes, fol. 13a ; Tat, fol. 21a ; AEsculapius, fol. 22a; Empe- docles, fol. 23a ; Pythagoras, fol. 246 ; Socrates, fol. 33a ; Plato, fol. 506 ; Aristotle, fol. 56a ; Theophrastus, fol. 626 ; Eudemus, fol. 63a ; Democritus, Hippocrates, Cebes, Aristippus, fol. 636 ; Plutarchus, Suidas, Alexander Aphrodisiensis, Euthamtius(?) and Ibn Iskandar, Shaikh Yunani, fol. 64 ; Zaradusht, fol. 65a; Diogenes Cynicus, fol. 656; Hippocrates, fol. 69a; Homerus, fol. 716; Thales, fol. 72a; Solon, fol. 746; BIOGRAPHY. 69 Zeno, fol. 765 ; Iskandar Zulkarnain, fol. 78a ; Ptolemasus, fol. 88a ; Basilius, fol. 90a ; Lukman, fol. 90 b ; Galenns, fol. 98a. Catalogue, no. 2748 ; Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, no. 1013 ; Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 454; and Mulla Firuz Library, p. 230. The second part devoted to Muslim philo- sophers begins, fol. 104a, with Hunain B. Ishak, Ishak B. Hunain, Hunain Tabib, Thabit B. Kurrah, Muh. B. Zakariyya Razi, &c. The notices are too numerous and too short to be fully enumerated. The last and longest is that of Ibn Sina, which begins at fol. 1265 and breaks off at fol. 1285. 101 . Or. 4107. — Foil. 157 ; 9^ in. by 5^ ; about 21 lines, 3^ in. long ; written by several hands in cursive Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Sidney Churchill.] II. Foil. 129 — 278. An extensive collec- tion of anecdotes and historical narratives, imperfect at beginning and end. It begins with the latter part of an anec- dote relating to Abu Nasr Farabi as musician. The next paragraph begins : ^ s^T ^511? J*b\ jd J J ^ JJr ^ \j* 1 ^ j 1 f S ' The anecdotes follow a rather loose chrono- logical order. They relate successively to the Ghaznavis, Buvaihis, Saljuks, Khwarazm- shahs, Atabeks, Moghols, Ilkanis, Muzaffaris, Sarbadars, Timurides down to Sultan Husain, and Kara-Kuyunlus. The extracts begin mostly with such headings as or or Authorities fre- quently quoted are the following ; ObKii, blo_j, i *?•[. o fjj £/>, (jdb • Wjc, A-el^aL. The latest works quoted are Rauzat us-Safa and Habib us-Siyar. III. Foil. 279 — 284. A fragment of the Lata’ if ut-Tava’if, by ‘ Ali B. Husain Kashifi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 7575. The fragment consists of the main part of Bab XIII. and of the whole of Bab XIV., corresponding with foil. 144 — 158 of Add. 18,408. For other copies see the Lejden J *1)3 Lives of celebrated Vazirs by Saif ud-Dln Haji B. Nizam al- c AkTli, dedicated to the Vazir Khwajah Kivam ud-Dln Nizam ul- Mulk al-Khwafi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 9695, and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 347. Beg. ^ \j OASo j uil The work is divided into two Makalahs, the first of which contains notices of past Vazirs chronologically arranged in twelve Bfibs, under the following heads : The first four Khalifs, fol. 5a. Ancient kings of Persia (beginning with Pythagoras, Vazir of Gushtasp, and ending with Buzurjmihr, Vazir of Anushirvan), fol. 55. Umayyades, fol. 105. Abbasides, fol. 14a. A1 i Saman, fol. 71a. Ghaznavis, fol. 72a. A1 i Buvaih, fol. 93a. A1 i Saljuk, fol. 955. Kliwarazm- sliahs, fol. 121a. Chingizkhan and descend- ants, fol. 123a. A1 i Muzaffar and Muliik i Ghur, fol. 1325. Timur and his descendants down to Abu Sa‘id, fol. 134a. Makalah II., devoted to the author’s patron, is divided into four Babs, namely, 1. Character and superior merits of Kivam ud-Dln Nizam ul-Mulk, fob 1415. 2. His career previous to his appointment as Vazir on the 26tli of Jumada II., A.H. 875, fob 1445. 70 BIOGRAPHY. 3. His Vazirship (chiefly taken up by his ordinances, which are given in extenso), fol. 146a. This third Bab breaks off at fol. 1505. Bab 4, which was to commemorate the favours bestowed on the Vazir by the sove- reign, is wanting. The date of composition is given, fob 141a, as A.H. 803, )> whom he describes as the object of the special favour of Daulat Shah. Contents : Preface, with table of chapters, fob 2 b. Mukaddiinah treating of Takiyyah (concealment of Shfiali faith from motives of prudence) and of the means of arriving at a fair judgment and discrimination respecting the ‘Ulama and ‘Urafa, j Oljj j &jA3 s.*Lslo l sys- J 'Ac- xs^ j yLisx jxx+i fol. 6a. Notices of ninety-six ‘Urafa, in as many numbered Fusul, alphabetically arranged according to the leading names, fob 25a. The first five are Abu Zarr Ghaffari, banished from Medina by Osman, fob 25a ; Uvais Ka- rani, who died A.H. 36, fob 255 ; Ibrahim B. Da’ud Rakki, who died A.H. 326, fob 31a ; Ahmad B. Muhammad Magliribi, who died A.H. 397, fob 32a ; and Abu ’l-‘Abbas Mu- hammad B. Ishak, fob 335. Khatimah : Discussion of the views of some modern divines for or against Sufis, with extensive extracts from their writings, fob 228a. The writers chiefly quoted are Mulla Ahmad Ardablli, the alleged author of Hadlkat ush-ShI‘ah (d. A.H. 993), Mulla Bakir Majlisi (d. A.H. 1110), Muhammad Hasan Kashani, and Shahid i Sani (Zain ud-Dln B. Nur ud-Dln ‘Ali al-‘Amili, who was put to death A.H. 966). The Khatimah concludes with an alphabetical list of Sufi TAZKIRAIIS. 71 writers known to the author, fol. 279, and with a tract of al-Haj Zain ul- ‘Abidin, called Mirza Kuchak Na’ib us-Sadr, on the division of Muslim sciences, and in glorification of ‘Ali, foil. 287—290. On the first page there is a former owner’s note, dated A.H. 1296. Tazlcirahs, or Lives of Poets. 103 . Or. 8490. — Foil. 121 ; 9^ in. by 5f ; 17 lines, 3^ in. long; written in small and neat Nes- talik ; dated end of Shavval, A.H. 976 (A.D. 1569). [Sidney Churchill.] Notices of contemporary poets, by Sam Mirza, son of Shah Isma‘11 Safavi. Beg. JA A) f\fb (J J p' J*** • • • This valuable copy, written in the author’s lifetime, agrees substantially with the MSS. described in the Persian Catalogue, p. 367. The following table shows the beginning of the various divisions of the work and the name of the first poet noticed in each : Sahlfah I., Shah Ismafil, fol. 3 b. Sahlfah II., Safhah 1, Mir e Abd ul-Baki, fol. 136. Safhah 2, Kazi Mir Husain, fol. 28 b. Sahlfah III., Mirza Shall Husain Isfahani, fol. 33a. Sahl- fah IV., Khwajah Shihab ud-Din ‘Abdullah Bayani, fol. 37a. Zail. Maulana Shah Mah- mud, fol. 47a. Sahlfah V., Matla‘ 1, Mau- lana Jami, fol. 50a. Matla‘ 2, Maulana Sharaf Muh. Sabri, fol. 84a. Sahlfah VI., Amir Nizam ud-Din ‘Allshlr, fol. 106a. Sahlfah VII., Ahmadi, fol. 115a. The first page has been supplied by a modern hand. Two copies are described by Pertsch in the Berlin Catalogue, no. 643. 104 . Or. 3396. — Foil. 101 ; in. by 4-| ; 13 lines, 2| in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, ap- parently in the 17th century. [Sidney Churchill.] The Tazklrah of Mir ‘Ali Shir, translated from Turki into Persian by Shah ‘Ali B. ‘Abd ul-‘Ali. Beg. oAlc. Ji jjot fxk { 1 sblkb For the original work, see the Turkish Catalogue, p. 273, and, for another transla- tion, the Persian Catalogue, p. 366. In a short preface the translator says that, Persian being preferred, both in speaking and in writing, by men of letters, the less polished Turki language was generally neg- lected, especially under the present ruler, Sultan Din Muhammad. Complying, there- fore, with the desire of some friends, he had turned into Persian the Tazkirat ush-Shu‘arii of Mir ‘Ali Shir. Din Muhammad, son of Jani Beg and of a sister of ‘Abdullah Khan Uzbek, ruled over part of Khorasan during the reigns of ‘Abd- ullah and ‘Abd ul-Mumin Khan. After the death of the latter, A.H. 1006, he was pro- claimed Khan in Herat, but soon after he was defeated by Shah ‘Abbas, and died during his flight. See Mir’at ul-‘Alam, fol. 170a, and Ho worth, History of the Mongols, part ii., p. 739. The MS. contains only seven of the eight Majlis into which the work is divided. They begin respectively as follows : I. Kasim i Anvar, &c., fol. 3. II. Sharaf ud-Din Yazdi, &c., fol. 15. III. Nur ud-Din Jami, &c., fol. 39. IV. Pahlavan Muh., &c., fol. 65. 72 BIOGRAPHY. Y. Amir Daulatshah, &c., fol. 86. VI. Ahmacl Haji Beg, &c., fol. 91. VII. Amir Timur, &c., fol. 98. This last Majlis breaks oft’ iu the middle of the sixth notice, that of Ulugh Beg. 105 . Or. 3506. — Foil. 567 ; 10J in. by 7\ ; 26 lines, 4f in. long; written in small neat Nestalik, apparently in the 1 6th century, with the exception of some leaves supplied by a modern hand. [Sidney Churchill.] jKft) isJoj j j\ aootitas. A portion of the extensive Tazkirah so called by Taki ud-Dln Muhammad B. Sharaf ud-Dln ‘Ali al-Husaini al-Kashani. The work has been described by Bland, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. ix., pp. 126 — 134, and by Sprenger, Oude Cata- logue, pp. 13 — 46. An abridgment is noticed by Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 647, and a MS. of the third Rukn is described, without author’s name, in the Petersburg Catalogue, no. 321. The present MS. contains only a small portion of that voluminous anthology, namely, the introductory chapters and the first volume (Mujallad) of the first of the four Rukns, or main divisions of the work. The first folio, supplied by a modern hand, has the following beginning, differing from that which is given by Sprenger and by Pertsch : \jj \j j j! vJIaSLE:*- j) \j ^ J The next folio contains, in a fair imitation of the original old writing, a eidogy on the reigning sovereign, Shah Tahmasp, also noticed by Bland, p. 127, which must have have been written before A.H. 984. It is followed by a later dedication to Shah ‘Abbas, at the end of which the author says that the work was completed at the beginning of A . H . 996 i j ( . y^x***)^ ^ 1 • * * auib J; ^j>\ Fol. 3, the first of the original MS., con- tains the end of the preface and a full state- ment of the division and contents of the whole work. Contents of the present MS. : Mukaddimah, treating of the need of anthologies and of the reasons for writing this work, fol. 4 a. Four chapters (Fusul), beginning respectively at foil, ha, 7b, 8b, and 165, treating of Love (see Bland, p. 128), and concluding with Arabic verses by ‘Ali B. ‘Abi Talib, accom- panied by a Persian paraphrase, fol. 195. Lahikah, or appendix, on poetry in general, and on the first beginnings of Persian poetry, fol. 28a. Rukn I., containing in its first part (Mu- jallad) notices of early poets who lived under A1 i Subuktigln, or Ghaznavis, with very copious extracts from their compositions, occupies the main part of the present volume, foil. 30 — 559. The notices are arranged in the order indicated in the preface, fol. 3a, differing from that which Sprenger follows. They relate to the following twenty-two poets : ‘Unsuri, fol. 305. Minuchihri, fol. 535. Farrukhi, fol. 59a. Asadi, fol. 675. Nasir Khusrau, fol. 73a. Kataran, fol. 1025. Abu’l-Faraj Runi, fol. 1355. Mas‘ud B. Sa‘d B. Salman, fol. 1525. Azraki, fol. 1985. Adlb Sabir, fol. 2165. Amir Mu'izzi, fol. 2365. e Am‘ak Bukhari, fol. 2795. Sana’i, fol. 2855. Mukhtari, fol. 325a. Lami‘ i Jur- jani, fol. 351a. Suzani, fol. 361a. ‘Abd ul- Vasi‘ Jabali, fol. 396a. Hasan Gliaznavi, fol. 4275. ‘Imadi Shahriyari, fol. 4495. Rashid Vat vat, fol. 4685. Falaki Shlrvani, fol. 500a. Anvari, fol. 512a. The last notice breaks off in the course of the poetical ex- tracts, fol. 5595. TAZKIRAHS. 73 A notice on Khakani, which, according to tlie preface, was to begin the second Mujallad of Rukn I., has been appended by a modern hand, foil. 560 — 564. The Tazkirali of Mir Muh. Taki Kashani is one of the authorities mentioned by the author of the Majma‘ ul-Fusaha in his preface. 106 . Or. 3389.— Foil. 208 ; 12 in. by 8} ; 25 lines, 6 in. long; written in Indian Nestalik lean- ing to Shikastah-amlz ; apparently early in the 17th century. [Sidney Churchill.] Lfl? (# A Tazkirah of ancient and modern Persian poets, by Sayyid £ Ali B. Mahmud al-Husaini. Beg. iX?" j j J \j oAs ji)ls j v J y* jt** The author praises in the preface Jalal ud- Din Akbar as the reigning sovereign, and dedicates the work to his special patron, the Khankhanan (‘Abd ur-Rahlm B. Bairam Khan ; see the Persian Catalogue, p. 244a). The date of composition, A.H. 1000, is given at the end, fol. 208a, as follows : jAuad j ^ I. m 1 ~ ^ It is fully confirmed by internal evidence ; for ‘Urfi, who died A.H. 999, is spoken of as dead, while Faizi, who died A.H. 1004, is referred to as still living. The notices are mere rhetorical displays, almost bare of bio- graphical detail and wholly destitute of dates. The work is stated in the preface to consist of a Mukaddimah, seven chapters (Fusul) and a Khatimali ; but the Mukad- dimah does not appear in the text. The contents are as follows: Preface, in which the author mentions only two previous Persian Tazkirahs, namely those of Daulatshah and of Sam Mlrza, fol. 6 5. Fasl I. on the excellence of poetry, fol. 75. Fasl II. on the meaning of the word ydi, fol. 85. Fasl III. on the first attempts at metrical speech, ib. Fasl IV. on the first who made Persian verses, fol. 9a. Fasl V., Notices of the kings who composed verses, beginning with the Samanis, and ending with Malik Ikhtiyar ud-Dln Shaibani, a contemporary of Sultan Sinjar, fol. 95. Fasl VI., Notices of Vazirs, Sudur, and other great men who indulged in poetry, beginning with Abu T- Kasim Ahmad B. al-Hasan Maimandi, and ending with Shaikh Abu Sa‘Id Abu ’1-Khair, fol. 165. Fasl VII., Notices of poets from the time of the Samanis and Sultan Mahmud, fol. 465. This section, which forms the main bulk of the volume, is arranged in a loose chronological order. It begins with Abu ’1- Hasan B. Shahid al-Balkhi, Abu ‘Abdallah B. Muh. Rudagi, Kisa’i Marvazi, ‘Unsuri, Farrukhi, ‘Asjadi, Azhari, Abu ’1-Fath Busti, Asadi Tusi, Firdausi, &c., and ends with Kasim Junabadi, who lived under Shah Tahmasp. Khatimah. Notices of Sultans, Amirs, men of letters and poets, who lived in the time of Akbar, some of whom were personally known to the author, beginning with Khan- khanan Muh. Bairam Khan (father of the author’s patron), Sultan Ibrahim B. Bahrain Safavi, Khan Ahmad of Grllan, &c., and ending with Ramzi Isfahani, Dava’i Sabzavari, and Ru’i Savaji. A full table of the notices included, in a modern hand, fills seven pages at the beginning. L 74 BIOGRAPHY. 107 . Or. 3537. — Foil. 380 ; 151 in- by 8-| ; 31 lines, 5^ in. long, with additional slanting lines in the margins ; written for the most part in four columns in small Nestalik, by Zain ul- ‘ Abidin B. ‘Ali Hamadani for the Shahzadah Tahmasp Mirza, and dated (fol. 337 5) 5 Sha‘- ban, A.H. 1227 (A.D. 1812) ; but embodying some leaves of an earlier MS., written ap- parently in the 17tli century. [Sidney Churchill.] A Tazkirah of Persian poets, by Hasan B. Lutf-ullah Tihrani Razi. This work is quite distinct from the “ Maikhanah u Butkhanali ” of Mulla Sufi Mazandarani, mentioned by Bland, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. ix., p. 165 (see also the Oude Catalogue, p. 88 ; Ethe, no. 366; and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 38). The preface, which has been misplaced, fol. 925, begins : u_ sdU^ 5 The author states that he wrote this work by desire of his noble patron Hasan Beg, 1 who, being fond of poetry, had collected a great number of rare Divans, and that his friend, Sayyid Amir Muh. Husain Tafrishi, prefixed to it a Dibajah, or laudatory pro- logue. He adds that his father, Khwajah Lutf-ullah, having been appointed Vazir of Khorasan by Shah Tahmasp, proceeded to Herat A.H. 968, he being then a boy of tender age, and that after his father’s death, A.H. 981, he succeeded to the same office. 1 Hasan Beg Shamlu, Beglerbegi of Khorasan, A.H. 1027 — 1050. See the Persian Catalogue, pp. G82a, 1091a. The preface is imperfect at the end, but the date of composition is found in a passage of the table of contents in which the author says that his account of the Safavi dynasty was to be brought down to the present year, namely A.H. 1040 (fol. 495, margin). Earlier dates found at the end of some sections — ■ namely, A.H. 1018, fol. 119a; A.H. 1025, fol. 1505; A.H. 1029, fol. 83a; and A.H. 1030, fol. 57a — show that the author had been for many years engaged in his com- pilation. According to a first table of contents, fol. 45, the Maikhanah is divided into a Fatihah, four Makalahs, twenty-eight letters of the alphabet (i.e. notices in alphabetical order), and a Khatimah. The Fatihah con- tains Arabic poems classed under four heads, namely: Fasl 1, ‘Ali B. Abi Talib. Fasl 2, Saints and Imams. Fasl 3, Panegyrists of the Prophet and of the holy family. Hashiyah, Other poets. Of the Persian portion there is a fuller table further on, foil. 47 — 49. It consists of three Makalahs, of the alphabetical series of notices, and of a Khatimah, as follows : Makalah I., with this heading : j l)Uu> tAJ_jbo j. It treats of kings endowed with literary talent, beginning with Amir Falak ud-Dln Ibrahim Samani, and ending with Kaidu Khan B. Kashin B. Okotai Ka’an. Makillali II. Saints and great Shaikhs, from Sultan Abu Yazid Bastami to Khwajah Baha ud-Din Nakshaband. Ma- kalah III. Celebrated Vazirs, beginning with Abu T-Kasim Ahmad B. al-Husain and end- ing with Amir Abu ’1-Fatih ‘Abd ul-Karim. Alphabetically arranged notices, a full list of which is given, beginning with Abu ‘Abdallah Mull. ar-Rudagi as-Samarkandi and ending with Khwajah Yusuf Jami. TAZKIRAHS. 75 The Khatimah, comprising two sections called ‘Ikd, the first of which treats of poetesses, the second of the author’s life. The present copy, however, is very far from fulfilling the expectation raised by the above programme. Several sections are altogether omitted, while others are sadly curtailed, and the original order of the notices, partly owing to misplaced folios, is completely disturbed. The actual contents are as follows : 1. Prologue (the Dibajah above mentioned), fol. 2 6. It begins with a Ruba‘i, the first line of which is : y j' j u?' The prose text begins : The first table of contents, a/ X fol. 46. 2. The Arabic section, without any divi- sion, fol. 66. It begins with this line : The poems are written for the most part consecutively, without any break or heading. The following author’s names are added in the margins: al-Farazdak, Abu ’l-‘Ala, Abu ’t-Tayyib (al-Mutanabbi), Abu Tammam. The margins are full of glosses. In the latter part there are a few headings to poems of Ibn al-Farid, to the Burdah of al-Busiri, and to pieces by Abu ’1-Fath al-Busti and by ‘Amid ud-Din As‘ad B. Nasr ash-Shirazi. 3. Table of contents of the Persian section, fol. 47a. 4. Makalah I. Origins of Persian poetry and notices of kings, namely, Ibrahim B. Nuh Samani, Abu Mansur B. Null, Mahmud B. Subuktigin, Abu Muh. B. Sultan Mahmud, Malik Shah B. Alp Arslan, and Sinjar B. Malik Shah (breaking off before the end), fol. 496. 5. Notices of Persian poets, foil. 516 — 380. They fall far short of the number exhibited in the table of contents, foil. 47 — 49, and the original alphabetical order is frequently inverted. They consist mainly, and in several instances exclusively, of poetical extracts. The latter are often of considerable extent. Those taken from the Divan of Mufizzi, for instance, fill no fewer than 67 folios, 261 — 327. The earliest Tazkirahs, those of ‘Aufi and of ‘Aruzi Samarkandi, are occasionally quoted. The extant notices relate to the following poets : Abu ‘Abdallah Muh. Rudagi, fol. 516. Abu Salik Gurgani, Abu ’1-Hasan Shahid Balkhi, fol. 536. Abu Sarakah ‘Abd ur- Rahrnan B. Ahmad Balkhi, called Amin Najjar; Abu ’1-Faraj Runi, panegyrist of Amir Abu ‘Ali Simjur (died A.H. 466), fol. 54a. Abu ’1-Faraj Sistani ; Abu Hanlfah Askfini ; Abu ’1-Fath Busti ; Abu ’1-Muhakkik Bukhari, Abu ’1-Muayyad Balkhi, fol. 58a. Amir Abu Muh. B. Yamin ud-Daulah Sultan Mahmud ; Amir Abu Muzaffar Tahir B. al- Fazl al-Jafani ; Saif ud-Daulah Abu ’1-Hasan ‘Ali B. ‘Abdullah Jafani ; Abu ’1-Kasim Ahmad B. Ahmad al-Maimandi ; Shah ‘Ali Abu Raja Ghaznavi, fol. 586. Abu ’1-Kasim Firdausi, fol. 59a. Abu Yazid Bastami, fol. 60a. Mirza T-Mulk Mashriki, fol. 606. Ashraf al-Asamm Kashani, fol. 61a. Sharaf ud-Din Fazl-ullah Kazvini, fol. 626. Asadi Tusi (writh extracts from the Garshasp Namah), fol. 63a. Agir ud-Din Akhsikati, fol. 70a. Agir ud-Din Aumani, fol. 78a. Imami Ilaravi, fol. 84a. Azraki Haravi, fol. 91a. Shaikh Azari, fol. 94a. Auhad ud-Din Anvari, fol. 96a. Auhad ud-Din Mamarghi, fol. 99a. Abshiir Marghuzi, fol. 106a. Ibn Khatib Fushangi, fol. 107a. Badihi, fol. 1076. Sayyid Hasan Ashrafi Samarkandi, fol. 108a. Pur Balia Jami, fol. 110a. Auhad ud-Din Gurganji, fol. 111a. Shihab ud-Din Ahmad Ashrafi, fol. 112a. l 2 76 BIOGRAPHY. Baha ud-Din Marghinani, fol. 114a. Baha ud-Din Zanjani, fol. 1146. Burkani, fol. 115a. Baha ud-Din Mull. B. Khwajah Shams ud- Din Sahib Divan, fol. 1166. Badr ud-DIn Jajarmi, fol. 117a. Jamal ud-Din Samar- kand! ; Ja £ fari Hamadani, fol. 119a. Nasir Ja‘fari, fol. 1196. Taj ud-Din Hasan Gkaz- navi, fol. 120a. Afzal ud-DIn Khakani, fol. 1286. Amir Khusrau Dililavi, fol. 141a. Rafl £ ud-Din Mas‘ud Lunbani, fol. 148a. Rashldi Samarkand!, fol. 151a. Ruhi Shari- stani, fol. 152a. Razi ud-Din al-Khashsliab Samarkandi, fol. 153a. Zain ud-Din Sijzi, fol. 155a. Amir Zaini £ Alavi, fol. 156a. Razi ud-Din Naishapuri, fol. 157a. Rashid ud-DIn Vatvat, fol. 159a and fol. 195a. Rafi £ i Naishapuri, fol. 160a. Visal Shlrazi, fol. 1606. Sana’i Ghaznavi, fol. 161a. Sa £ d ud-Din Sa £ Id Haravi, fol. 182a. Siraj ud- Dln Sijistani, fol. 183a. Saif ud-Din A £ raj Isfarangi, fol. 189a. Sharaf ud-Din Skufur- vah, fol. 190a. Shams ud-Din Khalid, fol. 192a. Shams ud-Din Sharafshah, fol. 193a. Sa’in ud-Din Shlrazi, fol. 194a. Sadr ud- Dln £ Ali Fakhr Shushtari, fol. 1946. Adlb Sabir, fol. 198a. Farid ud-Din ‘Attar, fol. 202a. £ Abd ul -Vasi £ Jabali, fol. 203a. ‘Am‘ak Bukhari, fol. 204a. £ U§man Mukh- tari, fol. 205a. Hamid ud-Din ‘Umar B. Mahmud Mahmudi Balkhi, fol. 213a. Hamid ud-Din £ Ali B. ‘Umar Mahmudi, fol. 2136. H usam ud-Din Muh. Nakhsliabi, fol. 214a. Husam ud-Din Bukhari, fol. 2146. Hasan Mutakallim, fol. 215a. Hasan Dihlavi, fol. 216a. Shikab ud-Din Muayyad Nasafi, fol. 217a. Abu T-Kasim Firdausi, fol. 218a. Hakim Kataran, fol. 223a. Nasir Adlb, fol. 229a. Kamal ud-Dm Isma‘11, fol. 230a. Kadiri, fol. 238 a. Minuchihri, fol. 239a. Mas‘ud i Sa‘d i Salman, fol. 240a. Mujlr Bailakani, fol. 241a. Nasir i Khusrau ‘Alavi, fol. 248a. Nur ud-Din £ Abd ur-Rahman Razi, fol. 260a. Amir Mu‘izzi Samarkandi, fol. 2616. Mu‘In ud-Din Shahristani, fol. 328a. Nasir ud-DIn Tusi, fol. 329a. Ni- zami, fol. 330a. Jauhari Zargar, fol. 333a. Jamal ud-Din Ashhari, fol. 334a. Ibn Ja- jarmi, fol. 335a. Abu ’1-Ma‘ali Nahhas Razi, fol. 3356. Pur Hasan Isfara’ini, fol. 3366. Sayyid Hasan Isfahani Mijmar, fol. 3376. Zakir ud-Din Fariyabi, fol. 3646. A list of the notices in the order in which they appear in the MS. has been written by a modern hand at the beginning, fol. 51a. It may be noticed that in a note appended to a Kasidah of Jamal ud-Din Samarkandi, fol. 119a, and dated Lahore, A.H. 1018, the author designates his anthology by another title, viz. Kliarabat : ^ c—o-bo s ^=- cA-As- ‘ **-»•*-*> 108 . Or. 3397. — Foil. 467 ; lOf in. by 6-| ; 19 lines, 3^ in. long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated 20^Rabl £ I., A.H. 1041 (A.D. 1631). [Sidney Churchill.] A Tazkirah of Persian poets, ancient and modern, by Husain B. Ghiya§ ud-Din Mahmud (the author of Ihya ul-Muluk, no. 97). Beg. The author, having been often requested by his friends to compose a Tazkirah, deter- mined, at the time of his setting out for Hijaz, to comply with their wish. The work was commenced, as stated at the end, A.H. 1017, and completed on his return from that journey in Ramazan, A.H. 1019. It was subsequently carefully revised and enlarged, A.H. 1035 (see fol. 304a), and received further additions A.H. 1036 (see fol. 130a). In a highly florid and stilted preface the TAZKIRAHS. 77 author says that he was left fatherless in early life, and had attained his twentieth year when Malik ‘Akibat Mahmud, his pro- tector, fell a victim of his own relatives and of foreign foes. He was himself imprisoned with his brothers, but escaped and joined the son of that prince, Jalal ul-Islam wa’l-Mus- liman, who, with the help of some valiant men of Nimruz, succeeded in avenging the death of his father, but was compelled by the invasion of the Turkistanis into Khorasan to take refuge in the mountains, and ulti- mately to repair, accompanied by the author, to Kandahar. When, however, the ruler of Turan died, and Shah ‘Abbas drove the enemy out of Herat and Khorasan, the author re- turned to his native land and paid homage to his Majesty, to whom the present work is dedicated. It appears from incidental pas- sages in the Mukaddimah that the author accompanied Shah ‘Abbas in his campaign of Khorasan, A.H. 1008, and in other expe- ditions. The work is divided into a Mukaddimah, two Fasls, and a Khatimah, as follows : — Mukaddimah. History of Muhammad, of the twelve Imams, and of the Safavi dynasty down to A.H. 1033, fol. 9 6. Fasl I. Notices and select poems of the great poets of the past, in loose chronological order ; taken from Daulatshah and Jami’s Bekaristan, with many additions, fol. 416. The order is nearly the same as in Daulatshah. After a few Arab poets we find Rudagi, Ghada’iri, Asadi Tusi, Abu’l-Faraj Sijzi, Minuchihri Shast Gallah, Pindar Razi, ‘Un- suri, ‘Asjadi, Mas‘ud B. Sa‘d, Firdausi, Far- rukhi, Mu‘izzi, &c. The last notice, which is that of Najib ud-DIn Jurfadakani, is followed, fol. 1276, by the names of a few poets, Kisa’i and others, of whom the author knew nothing but a few verses. Appendix, added A.H. 1036, consisting of select verses with the bare names of the authors, extracted from two Jangs, or antho- logies, sent from India to the prince of Sistan, fol. 130a. Additional notices relating to Mas‘ud B. Sa‘d, Suzani, Azraki, &c., fol. 141a. Notices of great Sufis, Bayazid Bas- tami, Abu Sa‘Id Abu ’1-Khair, ‘Abdullah Ansari, Najm ud-Din Kubra, and others, fol. 1906. Continuation of notices of poets, beginning with ‘Ismat Bukhari and ending with Jami, fol. 204a. This portion was completed in Jumada I., A.H. 1018. Fasl II. Notices of modern poets, with a preface beginning j AA, axiit xio, and divided into four Asls as follows : Asl 1. Poets who lived from the end of the reign of Sultan Husain to the end of the reign of Shah Isma‘11 Safavi, fol. 216a. They are Baba Fighani, Ahli Shirazi, Nasibi, Hatifi, Maktabi Shirazi, Hilfdi, Bina’i, Umidi, Mali, Lisani, Shahidi, Sharif Tabrlzi, Mushfiki Baghdadi, Idraki Hamadani, Ahli Khurasani, Zamlri Hamadani, Kazi ‘Isa, Kazi Yahya Lahiji. Asl 2. Poets who lived from the accession of Shah Tahmasp to the middle of his reign, fol. 2246. They are Zamlri Isfahani, Fuzidi Baghdadi, Sharaf Jahan Kazvini, Kasim Junabadi, Shaikhzadak Lahiji, Ghazali Mash- hadi, &c. Asl 3. Poets who lived from the middle of the reign of Shah Tahmasp to the rise of Shah ‘Abbas, fol. 2366. They are Vail Daskt- bayazi, Husain Sana’i, Maili Mashhadi, Muh- tasliam Kashi, Nur ud-Din Isfahani, Hisabi Natanzi, Timur Munshi Farahi, &c. Asl 4. Poets who lived from the birth of Shah ‘Abbas to the date of composition, with a preface beginning ^ j fa j> pUil j\ t^' ) fol. 2796. They are ‘Urfi Shirazi, Faizi, Naziri Naisha- 78 BIOGRAPHY. puri, Zuhuri, Shifa’i Isfahani, Rukn ud-Din Masih Kashi, Fasihi Ansari,‘Ali Naki Kamra’i, Mulhimi Shirazi, ‘Ata’i Janpiiri, Mashriki Mashhadi, Shapur Firibi, Talib Amuli, Sahiri Tuni, Abu ’1- Kasim Kazaruni, Malik Kummi, Abu Turab Beg, Kami Sabzavari, Nau‘i Khabushani, &c. The last is the author, Shah Husain, poetically surnamed Hadi, who refers for a full account of his life to his historical work Ihya ul-Muluk. Khatimah. Kings and Amirs who made verses, beginning with Toghrul Shah Saljuki, Sultan Sinjar, ‘Ala ud-Din Tukush, Tughan Shah, Sultan Husain, Sliahbeg Khan Uzbek, ‘Abdullah Uzbek ; and ending with Murshid Kuli Sultan Jala’ir, fol. 4105. Beg. tji S) 8 ,-aA Jj 16 It was written in Herat and finished in Jumada I., A.H. 1019. Khatm i Khatimah. Some great ‘Ulama who were not professed poets, as Baha ud- Din Muh. ‘Amili, Mir Muhammad Bakir (takli. Ishrak), Shaikh ‘Abd us-Salam, &c., fol. 43 1&. A collection of Hadig, pious sayings, and moral precepts, with the heading S\j->\ foil. 445^ — 467a. Khair ul-Bayan is one of the authorities mentioned in the preface of the Majma‘ ul- Fusaha. 109 . Or. 4510. — Foil. 324 ; 10 in. by 5^ ; 21 lines, 3^ in. long ; written in cursive and close Neskhi, apparently in the 18th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A defective copy of the same work, want- ing some of the notices. Contents: Preface, fol. lb. Mukaddimah, fol. 65. Fasl I., fol. 315. Fasl II., fol. 159a. Asl 1, fol. 1595. Asl 2, fol. 1675. Asl 3, fol. 176a. Asl 4, fol. 205a. Khatimah, fol. 299a. Khatm i Khatimah, fol. 312a. This last section breaks off, fol. 3165, at the end of the notice of Mir Jalal ud-Din Hasan Sala’i (Or. 3397, fol. 439a). Fol. 317 is a misplaced leaf belonging to Asl 4. Foil. 318 — 324 contain miscellaneous poetical ex- tracts. After fol. 175 there is a lacuna cor- responding to foil. 234a — 237a of Or. 3397. 110 . Or. 4671. — Foil. 285 ; 9^ in. by 4f ; 21 lines, 2^ in. long ; written in small and neat Nestalik ; dated 9 Jumada II., A.H. 1097 (A.D. 1686). [Sidney Churchill.] A Tazkirah of contemporary Persian poets, compiled A.H. 1083 by Muhammad Tahir Nasrabadi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 3685. Contents: Mukaddimah. Kings and Princes, fol. 55. Saff I. Firkah 1, Amirs and Khans of Iran, fol. 95. Firkah 2, Amirs and Khans of Hindustan, &c., fol. 305. Firkah 3, Yazirs, Mustaufis and Katibs, fol. 395. Saff II. Sayyids and noblemen, fol. 54a. Saff III. Firkah 1, ‘Ulama and litterati, fol. 825. (This section breaks off in the middle of the notice of Najiba, the last but four, corresponding with fol. 154a of the other copy, Add. 7087. The last two Firkahs are missing.) Saff IV. Firkah 1, Poets of Iran, imperfect at the beginning, fol. 104a. (The first extant notice is that of Hakim Ruknai Kashi, the second of that section ; see Add. 7087, fol. 161a. After fol. 125 there is a lacuna extending from the notice of Mulla Zaki Hamadani to that of Mirzii Faslhi, cor- TAZKIRAHS. 79 responding with foil. 178a — 1866 of Add. 7087.) Firkah 2, Poets of Mavara-annahr, fol. 2296. Firkah 3, Poets of Hindustan, fol. 2366. Saff V. The author’s family, fol. 2406. Khatimah. Chronograms and riddles, fol. 250a. For other copies see Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, nos. 648-49, and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 373. 111 . Or. 4672. — Foil. 229 ; 12 in. by 7f; 22 lines, 5 in. long ; written in fair Nestalik Shikastah- amlz, A.H. 1252 (A.D. 1836). [Sidney Churchill.] AJ Tazkirah of Persian poets by Khushgu, arranged in alphabetical order by Durri Shuslitari. Khushgu, whose proper name was Bin- draban, received his poetical surname from his master, Muhammad Afzal B. Muhammad Zfihid (born A.H. 1050, died A.H. 1126), as he relates himself in the full notice devoted to his teacher, fol. 69a. The Saflnah, com- piled A.H. 1137 — 1147, consists, according to Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 130, of three volumes, treating respectively of ancient, mediaeval and modern poets, in chronological order. The contents of the second volume have been stated in full detail by Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 376. Copies of the first and second volumes are mentioned by Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, nos. 652-3. The third is not extant. In the preface of the present recension, the editor gives the following curious account of the discovery of the original work. (It has been extracted by Mr. Churchill from a copy in the Madrasah i Nasiri, at Teheran, the preface being imperfect in the present MS.) : In the month of Muharram, A.H. 1228, the river flowing by Shushtar was swollen to a torrent by excessive rains. One day, whilst watching the waters, somebody perceived a dark object floating past him, seized it and found that it was a book, which had suffered not a little from immersion, having lost its beginning and end, as well as the back of the binding. He took it home and laid it by him, where it might have remained without further harm, but for his wife and children, who made use of it when wanting paper. A year later, however, it was laid before Sayyid Muhammad B. Sayyid ‘Abd ul-Karlm al-Musavi, who recog- nized its importance and ordered the editor to read it daily to him. In a second preface, fol. 5a, the same writer states that Amir ‘Alikuli Khan Karrus, who was sent, after A.H. 1236, to restore order in Khuzistan, having been shown at Shushtar the water-carried Saflnah, found it inconveniently arranged for reference, and desired the editor to re-write it in alpha- betical order. Hence the present recension, which, in allusion to Saflnah (ship), received the title of Shira* (sail). It is said to contain 991 notices. These notices range over the whole field of Persian poetry from the earliest time to the period of Khushgu, and are consequently taken from all three volumes of the original work ; but they form one alphabetical series, and are distributed under the letters of the alphabet quite promis- cuously and without any regard to the chro- nological arrangement adopted by Khushgu. This will be seen from the following list of the first twenty-one notices under letter Alif. Mir Jalal ud-DIn Asir Shahrastani, who died A.H. 1069, fol. 86. Shaikh Allahhuli Isfahaui, fol. 96. Navvab Zafar Khan Ahsan, 80 BIOGRAPHY. who died A.H. 1073, fol. 10a. ‘Inayat Khan Ashna, who died A.H. 1077, fol. 10 6. Mir ‘Abd ur-Rasul Istighna Kashmiri, who died under ‘Alamglr, fol. 11a. Kazi Asad Ka- shani, fol. 11 b. Mir Ajri, one of the Husaini Sayyids of Yazd, ib. Mirza ‘Abdullah Ulfat Khurasani. Azhari Kuhpayahi. Sayyid Amir Khan ‘Alamglrshahi, who died at the beginning of Muhammad Shah’s reign. Mirza Arjumand Azdd (also Junun ), son of ‘Abd ul-Ghani Beg, who died A.H. 1143, fol. 12a. Mir Lutf-ullah Ahmadi, of Balgram, who died A.H. 1143. Asaf Kummi (Muh. Kuli), who cametoIndiaunderShahjahan,fol. 126. JJlfati, son of Husain Saji, who came to the court of ‘Abdullah Kutubshah. Mir Afsar, son of Mir Sinjar Kashi. ‘Abdullah Amani of Kir- man, who entered the service of Mir Jumlah, fol. 13a. Shaikh Auhadi, disciple of Shaikh Auhad ud-Din Kirmani, who died under Ghazan Khan, fol. 13a. Abu ’ l-Hasan Manjik, of Tirmid. Ibn Nasuh, of Fars. Shaikh Sharaf ud-Din Abu \ Ali Kalandar, under Tughluk Shah. Imam ud-Din Rafi‘i, who died A.H. 633, fol. 136. A full alphabetical list of all the notices included in the volume occupies six pages at the end of the preface, foil. 6 — 8. The alphabetical series concludes with two notices relating to Yahya Khan, son of Ahmad, Tabib, and to Yamini Simnani, after which the above-mentioned Amir, ‘Ali Kuli B. Shah- var Karrus, states that the work was finished on the 12th of Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1241. This is followed by a few additional notices accident- ally omitted, foil. 2016 — 203a. Foil. 2036 — 2276 form a separate appendix. It consists of Kasidahs by Nasir B. Khusrau ‘Alavi and by Abu ’l-Faraj Runi, fol. 213a, after which come a few pieces by two modern poets, Mirza Abu T-Kasim Hamadani, fol. 2146, and Mirza Muh. Taki ‘Ali-abadi, fol. 2186. 112 . Or. 2693. — Foil. 478 ; 12 in. by 8 ; 24 lines, in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, for the Sind Amir, Murad ‘Ali Khan Talpur; dated 19 Rabi‘ II., A.H. 1216 (A.D. 1801). [E. B. Eastwice.] The Tazkirah of ‘Ali Kuli Khan Daghi- stani, poetically called Valih. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 371 and p. 1086a. Other copies are described by Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, nos. 656-7, and by Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 377. 113 . Or. 4709. — Foil. 342 ; 14 in. by 8^; 24 lines, 6|- in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik in the 19th century. An incomplete copy of the preceding work. It breaks off in the middle of the third notice under letter - Ia.) jl— =^j &b>lAc xj.=» From the notice of the author’s life with which the work concludes, we learn that he was born and educated in Merv Shahijan. When that place was laid waste by the Uzbeks, he repaired to Kerbela and Najaf, and thence to Ivashan, where he studied poetry under Sabahi (d. A. H. 1206). A history of the Kajar Dynasty, which he wrote under the title of Ta’rikh i Jahan-ara, brought him to the notice of Fath ‘Ali Shah, who appointed him Court Chronicler, *Ajj J&>. When the Shah set out on his cam- paign against the Goklan in Khorasan, he left the author behind with the task of compiling the present work. Notices of Huma in Nigaristan i Dara, Or. 3508, fol. 137 ; Anjuman i Khakan, Or. 3390, fol. 105 ; and in the Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 572, do not give the date of his death. It must have taken place after A.H. 1233, the year to which the Ta’rikh i Jahan-ara is brought down (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 2005, and Morley’s Catalogue, nos. 154-55). In the Tazkirah i Muhammad Shahi, written A.H. 1247, he is spoken of as still holding the office of Vaka’i' Nigar. ZInat ul-Mada’ih is one of the sources of Majma‘ ul-Fusaha ; see preface, p. 6. In the preface, which is chiefly taken up with a wordy panegyric on Fath ‘Ali Shah, the author says that the work comprises poems composed from His Majesty’s acces- sion to the seventh year of his reign (A.H. 1218). It was compiled by order of the Shah, who gave it the above title, and consists of four parts, respectively called Arayish, Pirayah. I., Pirayah. II., and Zivar. Contents : Arayish. Poems of Fath ‘Ali Shall, fol. 7a. Plrayah I. Notices and com- positions of the following Court poets, ar- ranged in alphabetical order, with the excep- tion of the Malik usli-Shu‘ara, who takes precedence : Saba Fath ‘Ali Khan, of Kaslian, Malik ush-Sliu‘ara, fol. 18a. Bazi, son of Mirza Muh. Shafi‘, Mustaufi of Azarbaijan, fol. 9 7b. Sahab, Sayyid Muh., son of Hatif, of Isfahan, fol. 1065. Sabur, Mirza Ahmad, nephew of Fath ‘Ali Khan, fol. 1205. Maftun, ‘Abd ur-Razzak Beg, son of Najaf Kuli Khan Dunbuli, fol. 134a. Nasluit , ‘Abd ul-Vahhab, Kalantar of Isfahan, fol. 136a. Pirayah II. Compositions of other poets, namely Bazmi, Sayyid Sadik, of Bidgul, Kaslian, fol. 152a. Khavari , Ma‘sum, of Kuzah-kunan, Tabriz, fol. 153a. Sharar, Husain ‘Ali Beg, son of Lutf ‘Ali Beg Azur, fol. 158a. Sabahi, Sulaiman, of Bidgul, fol. 160a. McCil , Muh. ‘Ali, son of Muh. Kazim, Mustaufi, fol. 1625. Mijmar, Sayyid Husain, of Isfahan, fol. 1645. Zivar. Life and poems of the author, fol. 1665. The introductory notices, prefixed to most of the poems, and showing on what occasion they were composed, are of some historical interest. TAZKIRAHS. 85 119 . Or. 8399. — Foil. 221 ; 11 in. by 7 ; 15 lines, 4f in. long ; written in fair Shikastah-amlz, with silver-rnled margins, in the 19th cen- tury. Bound in painted and glazed covers. [Sidney Churchill.] A sequel to the preceding work, by the same author. Beg. jd y ^*13 13 Abb yyis- yii yiti jh/3 Abb t_Aioj A jjT j 8^ ^ 0-J.i It is designated in the preface as the second volume of the work, and contains further pieces of the same poets and com- positions of a few new ones. It was compiled, as stated fol. 208a, A.H. 1223, and is divided into five parts termed Minu, Ghurfah, Rau- zah I., Rauzah II., and Hadikah. The con- tents are as follows : Minu. Poems of Fath ‘Ali Shah, fol. 4 5. Ghurfah. Poems of Shahzadah Muhammad ‘Ali Mirza, the eldest son of the Shah, poetically surnamcd Daulat (died A.H. 1237), fol. 115. Rauzah I., divided into seven Gulbuns. Poems of the following seven Court poets : Saba, fol. 225. RazI, fol. 89a. Sahab, fol. 92a. Sabur, fol. 1275. Mijmar, fol. 144a. Nashat, fol. 176a. Arabic Kasi- dah by Mirza Muh. Husain, son of Mirza Muh. Kazim Mustaufi, fol. 182a. Rauzah II., in sis Gulbuns. Poems of sis other poets, viz., Harif, Abu’l-Hasan, of Jandak, fol. 1835. Kliavari, Ma‘sum, fol. 186a, Sahib , daughter of Shahbaz Khan Dunbuli, fol. 1935. FarruJch , Khanlar, son of ‘Ali Murad Khan Zand, fol. 195a. Nashati , ‘Abbas, of Hazarjarib, fol. 197a. Natik , Sadik of Isfahan, fol. 201a. Hadikah. Poems of the author, slightly imperfect at the end, fol. 2075. 120 . Or. 3390. — Foil. 204 ; 11^ in. by 7f ; 17 lines, 44 in. long; written in fair Shikastah-amlz, with gold-ruled margins, A.H. 1234 (A.D. 1819). [Sidney Churchill.] Tazkirah of the poets who lived in the reign of Fath ‘Ali Shah, by Muhammad Fazil, poetically surnamed Ravi. Beg. ob .A* The author tells us in the last chapter that he belonged to the Turcoman tribe called Bayandari, and was born in Karrus, a district of Hamadan, A.H. 1198. Having lost his father A.H. 1214, he repaired to Teheran and studied poetry under the Malik ush- Shu‘ara Fath ‘Ali Khan. His master recom- mended him to the Shah, who made him his favourite and reciter of his verses. See Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 142, where it is stated that he died A.H. 1252, and Taz- kirah i Dara, Or. 3508, fol. 925. In the preface the author says that Fath ‘Ali Shah had long desired to see the compo- sitions of the poets of his time collected into one volume, that the task had been under- taken by some scholars, who had failed to carry it out, and was ultimately, A.H. 1234, committed to himself. The Anjuman i Kha- kan is one of the sources of Majma‘ ul- Fusaha. The author is mentioned as still alive, A.H. 1247, in Tazkirah i Muhammad Shahi, fol. 1875. The work consists of four sections, called Anjuman, and a Kkatimak, with the following contents : Anjuman I. ^l3T j Jlyd j\ jO Jj\ 86 BIOGRAPHY. jUjSI uji )> j> An account of the prede- cessors of Fath ‘Ali Shah, and of his reign, ■with some specimens of his poetry, fol. 35. Anjuman II. Notices of the following royal princes and Khans : Muhammad c Ali Mirza Dciulat, fol. 25 b. Muhammad Kuli Mirza, Khusravi, fol. 29a. Husain ‘Ali Mirza, Far- man-farma, fol. 295. Muh. Taki Mirza Shau- kat, fol. 30a. ‘Ali Shah, fol. 305. Shaikh ‘Ali Mirza Slidpur , fol. 315. ‘Abdullah Mirza Dura , fol. 32a. Imam-virdi Mirza, fol. 33a. Mahmud Mirza, fol. 335. Muh. Riza Mirza Afsar, fol. 345. Haidar Kuli Mirza Khavar , fol. 355. Humayun Mirza Hishmat, fol. 36a. Zahlr ud-Daulah Ibralhm Khan Tughrul, fol. 365. Muh. Kasim Khan, Shaukat, fol. 37a. Sulaiman Khan ‘Izzat, fol. 375. Allahyiir Khan, Hajib, fol. 38 a. Anjuman III. Notices of the following thirty-nine Court poets : Binava, Da’ud B. Malidi at-Tusi, fol. 395. Bandah, Mirza Muh. Razi, fol. 405. Bismil, Aka ‘Ali Akbar, fol. 415. Bald, a Sayyid of Isfahan, fol. 42a. Bidil, Muh. Rahim, fol. 425. Mirza Buzurg Mu’taman ud-Daulah, fol. 435. Parvdnah, Mirza Ahmad, fol. 46a. Hasrat, ‘Ali, fol. 47a. Husain, of Sari, fol. 475. Khavar, Mahmud Khan, fol. 48a. Khdvari, Sayyid Fazl-ullali of Shiraz, fol. 525. Sahdb, Sayyid Muh., son of Hatif, fol. 555. Sultdni, Riza Kuli of Nava, fol. 62a. Sakha, Mull. Zaman, fol. 625. Shihnah, Muh. Malidi Khan, fol. 63a. Saba, Fath ‘Ali Khan, fol. 63a. Sahib Muh. Taki Mazandarani, fol. 785. Sabur, Ahmad, nephew of Fath ‘Ali Khan, fob 79a. Tarab, Mirza Yusuf Shaikh ul-Islam, fob 80a. Talar, Hasan Klian, fob 805. Zarif, Mull. Hasan, fob 82a. ‘ Ishrat , Muh. Malidi al- Husaini, fob 825. Farrukh, Mull. Hasan Khan, son of ‘Ali Murad Khan, fob 83a. Fikrat, Sayyid Ni‘mat-ullah, fob 835. Kau- kab, ‘Abd ul-‘Ali, fob 84a. Maftun, ‘Abd ur- Razzak Beg, fob 85a. Mijmar, Sayyid Husain of Ardistan, fob 855. Mansur, Muh. Riza, fob 89a. Mail, Muh. ‘Ali, fob 895. Munis, Muh. Riza, fob 90a. Mahrum, Aka Husain ‘Ali, fob 90a. Muhit, Ma‘sum B. ‘Isa, fob 905. Manziir, Muh. Ibrahim, fob 915. Mushir, Abu T- Kasim Farahani, fob 92a. Nashut, ‘Abd ul-Vahhab al-Musavi, fob 94a. Nadim, Muh. of Barfurush, fob 101a. Nasr- ullah Klian, fob 101a. Nashati, ‘Abbas of Hazarjarlb, fob 1015. Nusrat, Sultan Husain, ib. Vafd, Husain Farahani, fob 1035. Vafai, ‘Abdullah Beg of Tafrlsh, fol. 104a. Humd, Muh. Sadik, fob 105a. Anjuman IV. Notices of a hundred and twenty other poets, in alphabetical order, from Azur, Lutf ‘Ali Beg to Yaghmd of Jandak, fob 1075. A table of contents is prefixed, fob 107a. Khatimali. Life and poems of the author, fob 2015. 121 . Or. 3553. — Foil, 66 ; 11 in. by 7^; 15 lines, 4f in. long ; written in large Nestalik, with ruled margins ; dated 28 Rabl‘ I., A.H. 1239 (A.D. 1823). [Sidney Chukchill.] y Notices of forty-eight sons of Fath ‘Ali Shah, with specimens of their poetry, by one of them, Mahmud Mirza (see above, no. 70). Beg. The work was compiled, as stated in the preface, by order of the Shah, A.H. 1236. The preface includes a Kasidah in praise of the Shah, concluding with the following chronogram for the date of composition, which gives only 1235. TAZKIRAHS. 87 Contents : Preface, fol. 16. Glories of the Shah’s reign and number of his children, fol. 6a. His poems, fol. 8a. Notices of the following 47 sons of Fath ‘Ali Shah, with specimens of their verses : Muh. e Ali, fol. 106 ; Muh. Kuli, fol. 136. Muh. Vali, fol. 15a; ‘Abbas, fol. 166; Husain ‘Ali, fol. 186; Hasan ‘Ali, fol. 196; Muh. Taki, fol. 206; ‘Ali Kuli, fol. 226 ; Shaikh ‘Ali, fol. 236 ; ‘Ali Khan, fol. 246 ; ‘Abdullah, fol. 266 ; Imam-virdi, fol. 30a; Muh. Riza, fol. 31a; Haidar Kuli, fol. 326 ; Humayun, fol. 34a ; Allah-virdi, fol. 36a; Isma‘11, fol. 37a; Ahmad ‘Ali, fol. 376 ; ‘Ali Riza, Kaikubad, fol. 396; Bahram, fol. 406 ; Shahpur, fol. 41a ; Malik Kasim, fol. 416; Minuchihr, Hurmuz, fol. 42 ; Iraj, Kaika’us, fol. 43; Shakkuli, Muh. Mahdi, fol. 44; Kaikhusrau, Kayiimarg, fol. 45; Jahan- shah, fob 46 ; Sulaiman, fol. 47 ; Fath-ullah, Malik Mansur, fol. 48 ; Bahman, fol. 49 ; Sultan Muh., Sultan Salim, fol. 50 ; Sultan Mustafa, Sultan Ibrahim, fol. 51 ; Saif-ullah, fol. 52 ; Yahya, Zakariyva, Muh. Amin, fol. 53 ; Sultan Hamzah, Sultan Ahmad, Tah- m uras, fol. 54. Six sons of Husain Kuli Khan, brother of Fath ‘Ali Shah, fol. 55. Memoir of the author and his poems, foil. 57a— 64. 122 . Or. 3545. — Foil. 299 ; lOf in. by 6y ; 21 lines, 3-| in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with an ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, probably about the middle of the 19th century. Bound in painted covers. [Sidney Chuechill.] A Tazkirah containing notices and select compositions of the poets of Fath ‘Ali Shah’s reign, by Mahmud Mirza, author of the pre- ceding work. Beg. 6b jAJj Jj\ 6'y - 3 The author, who mentions in the preface his proficiency in various sciences and in the art of calligraphy, gives the following list of his works : Saflnat ul-Mahmud (the present work) ; on the life and miracles of the Prophet ; a biographical account of the sons of Fath ‘Ali Shah (no. 121) ; on the lives and miracles of saints ; **'i i containing anecdotes and moral precepts ; a Risfilah on the true dreams and prognostics of Fath ‘Ali Shah ; ^Ua3, advice to his son Mas‘ud Mirza; dy+sz* 1 ' 1 jjd, his poetical compositions ; and (see Or. 3552). The preface concludes with a piece of verse at the end of which is a chronogram for tho date of composition, A.H. 1235 : Majma‘ i Mahmud is the specific title given by the author to his Safinah, fol. 36 : AjA-j A second and later preface begins, fol. 46, as follows : ^ ^ yK £yS*y d,XX3.Mi ul*— ijV There the author states that in A.H. 1240 he received the sovereign’s com- mands to compile an account of contemporary poets, several works previously written on that subject having failed to satisfy the fas- tidious taste of the Shah ; and that the latter gave to the book, even before its completion, the name of Saflnat ul-Mahmud. The work is divided into four parts called Majlis, viz. : I. Lives and poems of the Shah and of the royal princes, fol. 66. II. The Vazirs and great office-holders. 88 BIOGRAPHY. namely, Nashat, fol. 24 6 ; Mirza Buzurg, fol. 33a; Saba, fol. 336; and Farrukk, fol. 476. III. Poets of Iran, in tbe following five sections, termed Martabah, in each of which the notices are arranged according to the Abjad : 1. Irak, about two hundred notices, fol. 496. 2. Fars, 33 notices, fol. 198a. 3. Khorasan, 36 notices, fol. 2236. 4. Gilan and Tabaristan, 32 notices, fol. 243a. 5. Azar- baijan, 18 notices, fol. 257a. At the begin- ning of each Martabah is a table of the poets it includes. IV. Life and select compositions of the author, fol. 274a. Safinat ul-Mahmud is one of the sources of the Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, as mentioned in the preface. 123 . Or. 3508.— Foil. 212 ; 12 in. by 7 ; 23 lines, 4^ in. long ; written in minute and elegant Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, in the 19th century. Bound in painted and glazed covers. [Sidney Churchill.] A Tazkirah of the poets who lived in the time of Fath ‘Ali Shah, by ‘Abd ur-Razzak B. Najafkuli. Beg. ]pb jj* The author’s historical work, Ma’asir i Sultaniyyah, nos. 68-69, has been mentioned above. The present work was written A.H. 1241. The preface gives an account of a meeting which took place in that year in Sultaniyyah, between Fath ‘Ali Shah and his son, the Na’ib us-Saltanali ‘Abbas Mirza. The former having expressed a desire for the compilation of a Tazkirah comprising the poets of the period, the prince pointed out the author as a competent person for the task. Hence the present work, which is divided into five parts called Nigarkhanah, or Aivan, as follows : I. History of Fath ‘Ali Shah and speci- mens of his poetry, fol. 26. II. Royal princes and noble Amirs, ar- ranged according to the date of their birth, fol. 5a. These are the sons, grandsons and nephews, of Fath ‘Ali Shah, as follows : Daulat, Muh. ‘Ali Mirza. Ehusravi, Muh. Kuli Mirza. Shaulcat, Mull. Taki Mirza. ‘Aclil, ‘Ali Sliah. Vala, ‘Alikuli Mirza. Shdpur, Shaikh ‘Ali Mirza. Dura, ‘Abdullah Mirza. Imam-virdi Mirza. Mahmud Mirza. Humayun Mirza. Khdvar, Haidar Kuli Mirza. Baiza, Allah-virdi Mirza. Julian, Jahanshah Mirza. Ahmad, Ahmad ‘Ali Mirza. Bish- mat , Mull. Husain Mirza. Surur, Tahmasp Mirza. Ziya, Kazar ‘Ali Mirza. Tughrul, Zahir ud-Daulah Ibrahim Khan. Shaulcat, Muh. Kasim Khan. ‘Izzat, Sulaiman Khan. Hajib, Allahyar Khan. III. Favourites of the Shah and of the princes, men of letters, Vazirs and other officials, fol. 86. Saha, Fath ‘Ali Klian, heads the list as Malik usk-Shu‘ara, with extensive extracts from his poems, fol. 96. The others are arranged in the alphabetical order of their names or takhallus, as follows : Abu ’l-Kasim, Sayyid ul-Vuzara, fol. 71a. Abu ’l-Kasim Hamadani, fol. 806. Ibrahim Munshi, of Tabriz, fol. 81a. Ashraf, ‘Ali Askraf of Azarba’ijan, fol. 816. IshraJc, Mirza Muh., of Buriijird, fol. 826. Ummid, Abu ’1-Hasan Khan, of Kuhavand, ib. Bandah, Muh. Razi B. Muh. Shafl‘, fol. 83a. Bidil, Muh. Rahim, fol. 84a. Bismil , ‘Ali Akbar, fol. 866. Cliakar, Hasan ‘Ali Khan, ib. Bali, Fath ‘Ali Beg, fol. 87a. Basrat, Muh. Taki, fol. 88a. Mulla Hasan, master of Mahmud Mirza, fol. 886. TAZKIRAHS. 89 Mirza Husain B. Mirza Kazim Mustaufi, foi. 89a. Mulla Husain Saravi Kazi ‘Askar, ib. Mirza Husain, of Kuzahkunan, ib. Khavar, Mahmud Khan Dunbuli, fol. 896. Khavari , Fazl-ullah Shlrazi, fol. 91a. Ravi, Muh. Fiizil, fol. 926. Sarshar, Najafkuli Khan, fol. 936. Sipihr, Aka Muh. Taki, of Kashan, fol. 95a. Sahab, Sayyid Muh., of Isfahan, fol. 956. Sakha , Muh. Zaman Khan, fol. 1006. Shihnah, Muh. Mahdi Khan, ib. Shifa , Mulla Riza, of Tabriz, ib. Sahib, Muh. Taki B. Mirza Zaki, ‘Aliyabadi, fol. 105a. Sabiir, Ahmad, nephew of Fath ‘Ali Khan, fol. 106a. Safa’i, Ahmad B. Mulla Mahdi Naraki, fol. 108a. Sadra, Sadr ud-DIn Muh. Tabrizi, fol. 1086. Tuti, Abu ’l-Fath Khan, ib. Td’ir, Hasan Khan, fol. 109a. Tarab, Muh. Yusuf, brother of Abu T-Kasim of Karmanshahan, ib. ‘ Ishrat , Mahdi Farahani, ib. Mirza Buzurg, ‘Isa B. Hasan Farahani, fol. 110a. ‘Aziz, Yusuf Beg, of Lahljan, fol. 1106. Farrukh, Muh. Hasan Khan, fol. 1116. Fikrat, Sayyid Nibnat-ullah, of Larljan, ib. Kdbil, Husain ‘Ali Khan, ib. Kausar, Mulla Riza, ib. Kaukab, ‘Abd ul-‘Ali B. Muhsin Yazdi, fol. 112a. Ma’il, Muh. ‘Ali, of Shiraz, ib. Mijmar, Sayyid Husain, of Ardistan, fol. 120a. Mansur, Muh. Riza, of Isfahan, fol. 123a. Manzur, Ibrahim, of Shiraz, fol. 1236. Mahram , Aka Husain ‘Ali Afshar, fob 124a. Munis, Muh. Riza, of Barfurilsh, ib. Nashdt, ‘Abd ul-Vahhab, of Isfahan, fol. 1246. Nadim, Muh., of Barfurush, fol. 1286. Nasliuti, ‘Abbas, of Hazarjarlb, ib. Nnsrat, Sultan Husain Beg, of Tfilish, ’ fol. 129a. Navd'i, Muh. Taki B. Riza Kuli, ib. Vafd, Muh. Husain Husaini, ib. Vafa’i, ‘Abdullah Beg, of Tafrish, fol. 137a. Huma, Muh. Sfidik, of Merv, fol. 1876. IV. Notices of about 120 other poets, also in alphabetical order, beginning with Azad, Mirza Muh. ‘Ali, of Kashmir, and ending with Yaqlimd, Abu T-Hasan, of Jandak, fol. 140a. Y. Life and poems of the author, fol. 1806. Appendix. Notice of ‘Andalib, Muh. Husain Kashi, son and successor of the Malik ush- Shu'ara, fol. 209a. The work is mentioned in the preface of Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, p. 6, as a/ao , iJJjo 124 . Or. 3250. — Foil. 224 ; 14 in. by 8J ; 21 lines, 5f in. long ; written in fair Nestalik with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins for Aka ‘Ali, Mahram i Harlm i Shahinshahi, A.H. 1257 (A.D. 1841). [Sidney Churchill.] tX+s? bj> Jo A Tazkirah of Persian poets, by Bah man Mirza, son of Na’ib us-Saltanah ‘Abbas Mirza. Beg. l-A jS> co j . . . tjALh <*11 After a panegyric on the reigning sove- reign, Fath ‘Ali Shah, and on the Na'ib us-Saltanah, the author says that he was N 90 BIOGRAPHY. residing in Ardabll, to the government of which lie had been appointed by his father, when he was invited by his elder brother, Muhammad Shah, to join him, and, at his request, compiled the present work. The date of composition, A.H. 1247, is conveyed by this chronogram : JL-j dj sAys- CJji li tjrbjOO It is stated at the end that the work was completed A.H. 1249. Mr. Churchill states in a letter that Bahman Mirza subsequently fled to the Caucasus and died there a few years ago. The work is divided into three parts called Rishtah, and a table of all the poets noticed is found at the end of the preface, foil. 3-4. The contents are as follows : Rishtah I. Notices of about 150 poets of the past, i.e. from the earliest times to the end of the twelfth century of the Hijrah, arranged in alphabetical order, fol. 4a. A few Arabic verses by ‘Ali B. Abi Talib are prefixed. The alphabetical series begins with Asadi and ends with Yamini, a Sayyid of Kashan. The notices are short, and too much space is taken up by extensive extracts from such well-known poets as Hafiz, Sa‘di, Maulana Rumi, Firdausi and Nizami. Rishtah II. History of the Kajars and of Fath ‘Ali Shah, with specimens of his poetry, fol. 173a. Notices of the following royal princes: Daulat, Muh. ‘Ali Mirza ; Khusravi, Mull. Kuli Mirza ; Shaulcat, Muh. Taki Mirza ; ‘ Adil , Ziil i Sultan ; Dura, ‘Ali Naki Mirza; Shapur, Shaikh ‘Ali Mirza ; Vala, ‘Abdullah Mirza ; Imam-virdi Mirza ; Mahmud Mirza ; Malik Kasim Mirza ; Tuglirul , Zakir ud- Daulah Ibrahim Khan ; Hajib, Asaf ud- Daulah Allah yiir Khan, fol. 1765. Rishtah III. Contemporary poets, also in alphabetical order, as follows : Abu’l-Kasim B. ‘Isa Farakani, Ka’im Makam, fol. 179a. Asliraf, of Tabuh, Azarbaijan, fol. 182a. Asad-ullali Khan B. Haji Ibrahim Khan. Efendi, Husain Kuli Khan, fol. 1826. Azad, Mirza Muh. ‘Ali, of Kashmir. Akbar, Mirza ‘Ali Akbar, of Isfahan. Aklitar, Ahmad Beg, of Gurjistan. Aslr, Muh. Husain, of Tabriz, fol. 183a. Blnava, Mirza Da’ud, of Khorasan. Bandak, Muh. Razi, of Tabriz. Bldil, Muh. Rahim Tablb. Baki, Sayyid ‘Abd ul-Baki, of Isfahan. Bldil, Muh. Amin Khan, fol. 1836. Mirza Taki, Tablb. Mirza Husain B. Mirza Kazim Mustaufi, Mirza Husain, of Kuzahkunan. Hasrat, Muh. Taki, of Hamadan. Harlf, Sayyid Abu T-Hasan, of Jandak. Mulla Husain ‘Ali, of Kazvln, fol. 184a. Mulla Hasan, of Nukavand. Khavari, Sayyid Fazl-ullah, of Shiraz. Ivkurram, of Azarbaijan. Zarrak, ‘Abd ul-Ghani, of Tafrish, fol. 1846. Ravi, Fazil Khan, fob 1876. Riza, son of Mirza Razi Tabrlzi, fol. 188a. Sarshar, Najaf Kuli Khan. Saliab, Haji Sayyid Muh., of Isfahan. Saghar, Shaikh Muh., of Shiraz, fol. 1886. Sliihnak, Muh. Mahdi Khan, of Mazandaran. Sha’ik, Hadi Beg, of Luristan. Saba, Fath ‘Ali Ivhan Malik ush-Shu‘ara. Safi, Haji Mulla Ahmad, of Narak, fol. 2086. Sabur, Mirza Ahmad, brother of Fath ‘Ali Khan. Tuti, Abu ’1-Fath Khan B. Ibrahim Khalil Khan. TAZKIRAHS. 91 Ta’ir, Hasan Khan, nephew of Haji Ibrahim Khan. Tabib, Mirza Muh., of Burujird. ‘Isa, Mirza Buzurg, Ka’im Makam, fol- 209a. ‘Andalib, Muh. Husain Khan, son of Fath ‘Ali Khan, fol. 2096. ‘Ali, Muh. Husain, Kalantar of Shiraz. ‘Ajiz, Khalifah Muh., of Garmrud. Fikrat, Sayyid Ni‘mat-ullah, fol. 211a. Fardi, Safar ‘Ali Beg Zand. Kabil, Husain Kuli Khan. Kausar, Mulla Riza, of Hamadan. Ivaukab, Mirza Bakir, of Ivhorasan. Ma’il, Muh. ‘Ali Mustaufi, fol. 21 16. Maftun, ‘Abd ur-Razzak Beg Dunbuli, fol. 2126. Mijmar, Sayyid Husain Muzahhib, of Ardi- stan, fol. 213a. Muznib, Shaikh Rahim, fol. 2156. Mansur, Muh. Riza, of Isfahan. Nashat, Sayyid ‘Abd ul-Vahhab, of Isfahan. Nasr-ullah, of Ardabll, fol. 2206. Nazar ‘Ali, Hakim Bashi, of Kazvin. Nava, Darvish Husain, of Kaslian, fol. 221a. Naslb, Aka Muhammad. Huma, Mirza Muh. Sadik. Valih, Aka Muh. Kazim, of Isfahan, fol. 2216. The Tazkirah i Muhammadshfihi is the last of the sources enumerated in the preface of Maj ma‘ ul-Fusaha, p. 6. 125 . Or. 3524. — Foil. 268 ; Ilf in. by 8 ; 24 lines, 51 in. long; written in fair Nestalik in four columns, about A.H. 1250 (A.D. 1835). [Sidney Churchill.] An extensive Tazkirah of Persian poets, by Riza Kuli Khan, poetically surnamed Hidayat. Beg. \aa*j ^ (X) 1*^3 \j t i p T.-U [ !>*** \j A jc This MS. contains an early recension of the work which was completed by the author A. H. 1284, and has been lithographed at Teheran, A.H. 1295. The preface differs from the printed text, and contains a dedi- cation to Muhammad Shah, whose accession is described as a recent event. It concludes with a table of the ancient poets included in the work, beginning with Abu ‘Abdullah Faralavi and ending with Yusuf Ghaznavi. The work proper begins, fol. 7a, with the notice of the former, and breaks off in the middle of the extracts from Nizami Ganjavi, the contents corresponding with pp. 65 — 639 of the first volume of the Teheran edition. Foil. 191 — 212 are in a Shikastah character, which is, according to Mr. Churchill, the hand- writing of the author. On the first page is a note by Prince ‘Abd ul-Husain Kajar, stating that in A.H. 1294 he received this volume as a gift from O .*&=>- afij apparently the Shah his father. 126 . Or. 3536. — Foil. 146 ; 14 in. by 8f ; 25 lines, 6 in. long; written in fair close Nesklii in the latter half of the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] Notices of Sufi poets, with copious ex- tracts from their compositions, by Riza Kuli B. Muhammad Hadi, poetically surnamed Hidayat. It begins with a Ruba‘i, the first line of which is ^ The prose N 2 92 BIOGRAPHY. begins as follows: 3 jos? ^j^b. jl L^jiai _j C-^*a=*- [, ^J^-o SpLioA Ol •OjXi The author remarks in the preface that previous writers on the lives of saints, such as ‘Attar in bis Tazkirat ul-Auliya, Jami in his Nafaliat ul-Uns, and Nur-ullah Shushtari in his Majalis ul-Mu’minln, had confined their selections to utterances in prose. This in- duced him to compile tbe present collection of the holy men’s poetical effusions. The work is dedicated to the reigning sovereign Abu ’1-Muzaffar Sultan Muhammad Shah. It was written, as appears from the concluding section, fol. 140&, A.H. 1260, when the author was forty-five years old. It is divided into one Hadikah, two Rau- zahs, a Firdaus, and a Khuld, as follows : Hadikah. An introduction treating in six chapters, termed Gulbun, of Sufism, of the mode of life adopted by Sufis, and of the conventional terms they use, fol. 4 b. Rauzah I. j Vfj. c- jJ Notices of theosopliists and holy Shaikhs who composed verses, arranged in alphabeti- cal order, fol. 9a. The notices, a table of which is prefixed, are about 170 in number. They begin with Aba Yazid Bastami, and end with Yusuf Batini Hindi. Rauzah II. (^aas? 3 Notices of eminent poets and philosophers who were at times under mystical inspiration, fol. 62a (about 100 notices, alphabetically arranged, beginning with Abu ‘Ali Sina, and ending with Yahya Lahiji). Firdaus. j jd. Notices of modern and contemporary Sufi poets, also alphabetically arranged, about 70 in number, beginning with Agah Shirazi, and ending with Hamdam Shirazi, fol. 93a. Ivhuld, or conclusion, being a notice of the author’s life, with ample extracts from his poetical works, fol. 1405. The author states that he was born in Teheran on the 15th of Muharram, A.H. 1215, and that his father, Muh. Hadi, who was treasurer to Aka Muhammad Shah Kajar, died in Shiraz, A.H. 1218. He gives a full list of his numerous works in prose and verse, including the three volumes added to Rauzat us-Safa and the Majma‘ ul-Fusaha (which was not completed until A.H. 1284; see the preface). At the end is a Masnavi by Mirza Ibrahim Kazaruni, takh. Nadiri, in praise of the present work. 127 . Or. 4511. — Foil. 355 ; 12 in. by 7 ; 23 lines, 4J in. long; written in neat Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, A.H. 1259 (A.D. 1843). [Sidney Churchill.] A collection of poems in praise of Mu‘- tamad ud-Daulah Minuchikr Khan, with notices of their authors, compiled by Mu- hammad ‘Ali, poetically surnamed Bahar. Beg. j The work was compiled, as stated in the introduction, by desire of Minuchihr Khan (see fol. 3 7b). The author gives at the end a short account of his life, from which it appears that he was a son of the late Aka Abu Talib Muzahhib (or illuminator), of Isfahan, and that, having no taste for study, he took to his father’s trade and to poetry. To the present work he prefixed a memoir of Minuchihr Khan, composed by “ the late ” TAZKIRAHS. 93 Aka c Ali Rashti, who appears to have written it in the lifetime of Fath ‘Ali Shah and of the Na’ib us-Saltanah ‘Abbas Mirza. That celebrated general was originally brought to Persia as one of the captives taken by Fath *Ali Shah in his Georgian campaign, A.H. 1219. Having won the favour of the Shah, he was placed, as Ich-Akasi Bashi, in com- mand of the royal Harem, and subsequently sent, with one of the royal princes, to rule over Gllan. As a reward for distinguished services in the Russian war, A.H. 1240, he received the title of Mu‘tamad ud-Daulah, and was afterwards actively engaged in military operations in Fars, Kirmanshahan, Arabistan, and other parts. The memoir, which is written in a wordy and stilted style, is brought down by the compiler, fol. 3 66, to the 20th Rajab, A.H. 1259, when Minuchihr Khan, returning from Court, entered Isfahan, the seat of his government. The notices, which are mostly rhetorical exercises with a minimum of fact, are accom- panied by considerable poetical specimens. They relate to the following poets : Aka ‘Ali Rashti, fol. 38a. Adib, Muh. ‘Ali, of Teheran, fol. 39a. Adab, Mull. Taki, of Kirmanshahan, fol. 43 6. Ummid, ‘Abbas, of Mazandaran, fol. 45a. Akhgar, ‘Abd ur-Rashid Khan, fol. 4 76. Anjuman, Mirza Isliak, of Shiraz, fol. 49a. Afshan,Mirza‘Abdullah, of Furushan, fol. 51a. A‘ma, fol. 53a. Bidil, Haji Muh., of Kirmanshahan, fol. 53 6. Baslr, Aka Muh. Ibrahim, of Isfahan, fol. 55a. Bismil, Mirza ‘Ali Akbar, fol. 57a. Bahjat, Aka Muh. Bakir, of Isfahan, fol. 5 76. Partav, ‘Ali Riza, of Lanjan, fol. 58 6. Parvanah, Muh. Sadik, of Rum, fol. GOA Parvanah, Muh. Husain, of Lanjan, fol. 61a. Tishnah, Muh. Taki Khan, fol. 62a. Taraj, Aka Muh. Husain, of Isfahan, fol. 69 6. Taraj, of Shiraz, fol. 70a. Sakib, Muh. Husain, fol. 706. Chakar, Sayyid Muh. Hadi, of Kashan, fol. 73a. Chakar, Muh. Kasim Khan, of Mazandaran, fol. 74a. Chakar, Nasr-ullah, of Burujird, fol. 745. Hakim, Muh. Yusuf B. Muh. Husain Nuri, fol. 78a. Khurram, son of Pasha Kasim Khan, of Kajur, fol. 79a. Khavar, Mahmud Khan, of Azarbaijan, fol. 80a. Khavari, Muh. Bakir, of Herat, fol. 826. Ivhavari, Fazl-ullah, of Shiraz, fol. 876. Khadirn, Sayyid Isma‘Il, of Kum. Darya, Lutf-ullah B. Mirza Katrah, fol. 886. Zauki, Fath-ullah, of Khorasan, fol. 896. Zablhi, Isma‘Il Mirza Afshar, fol. 99a. Riza’i, Muh. Riza, of Mazandaran, fol. 102a. Rif‘at, Fath-ullah Mirza, son of Muh. ‘Ali Mirza, fol. 104a. Rushan, Aka Muh. Sadik, fol. 108a. Raunak, Muh. Hashim, fol. 109a. Zargar, Aka Muh. Hasan, fol. 110a. Sima, ‘Abd ul-Karlm, of Talikhuni, fol. 1106. Saghar, Muh. Ibrahim, of Isfahan, fol. 117a. Shihab, Nasr-ullah, fol. 118a. Shahln, of Kashan, fol. 147a. Shihab, Aka Muh. Tahir, of Isfahan, fol. 148a. Shurisli, fol. 157a. Sahib Divan, Mirza Muh. Taki, of ‘Aliyabad, fol. 1576. Saba, Malik ush-Shu‘ara Fath ‘Ali Khan, fol. 159a. Safa’i, Mulla Muh., of Isfahan, fol. 160a. Safa, ‘Abd ul-Vasi‘ B. Muh. ‘All Vafa, fol. 161a. 94 BIOGRAPHY. Ziya, Mulla Muh. Husain, of Isfahan, fol. 1626. Tahir, Muh. Tahir, of Hamadan, fol. 1686. ‘Andalib, Muh. Husain Khan Malik ush- Shu‘ara, fol. 1696. ‘Anka, Muh. Rahim, of Kkorasan, fol. 1726. ‘Ali, Haji £ Abd ul-Ghafur, of Isfahan, fol. 174a. Gbazal, Muh. Muhsin, of Kirman, fol. 175a. Glia ib, Aka ‘Abbas, of Burujird, fol. 1806. Ghaugha, ‘Abdullah, of Mazandaran, fol. 1816. Fida, Muh. Sa‘id, of Ardistan, fol. 184a. Furugh, Muh. Munajjim Bashi, fol. 190a. Fida, Muh. Husain, of Isfahan, fol. 202a. Fana, Mulla ‘Ali Lur, of Lanjan, fol. 2036. Faizi, Mirza Ahmad, of Luristan, fol. 225a. Fili, fol. 226a. Ka’ani, Habib B. Mirza Gulshan, fol. 2266. Katrah, ‘Abd ul-Yahhab, of Isfahan, fol. 231a. Kaukab, Muh. Bakir, of Khorasan, fol. 242a. Muh. Kasim Khan, son of Saba, fol. 249a. Miskin, Muh. ‘Ali, of Isfahan, fol. 2616. Manzar, ‘Ali Asghar, fol. 276a. Malijub, Aka Haidar ‘Ali, of Shiraz, fol. 282a. Muti‘, of Mazandaran, fol. 2966. Malijur, Husain Kuli Khan, fol. 3046. Mirza Muhammad Khan, brother of Mull. Yusuf Hakim, fol. 309a. Aka Sayyid Muh., of Lanjan, fol. 3106. Munshi, Muh. Hasan B. Muh. Nasir, fol. 314a.’ Mirza Muh. Khan, son of Malik ush-Shu‘ara, fol. 317a. Majnun, of Teheran, fol. 319a. Mashrab, Muh. ‘Ali, of Na’in, fol. 322a. Mazlum, Haji Muh. Hashing fol. 3226. Mahram, Muh. ‘Ali, of Shiraz, fob 3236. Mirza Riza Kuli, of Hamadan, fol. 324a. Naghmah, Riza Kuli, of Mazandaran, fol. 325a. Nadim, ‘Ali Akbar, brother of Ka’ani, fol. 3296. Natik, Muh. Hasan, of the family of Saba, ’ fol. 3326. ’ Nashiiti Khan, fol. 3356. Visal, Muh. Shafi‘, of Shiraz, fol. 336a. Vafa, Muh. ‘Ali, of Ardistan, fol. 3366. Hilal, Sayyid Abu Talib, of Kashan, fol. 3376. Huma, of Shiraz, fol. 3396. Memoirs and poems of the author, foil. 3466 — 355. A tabulated index of the lives occupies two pages at the beginning, foil. 1-2. This MS. was apparently the copy pre- sented to Minuchihr Khan, whose portrait is found inside the original painted cover. 128 . Or. 4512. — Foil. 357 ; 13J in. by 8 ; 23 lines, 4-f in. long ; written in small and neat Nestalik ; dated Isfahan, the last day of Shavval, A.H. 1263 (A.D. 1847). [Sidney Churchill.] A later enlarged edition of the same work. The historical introduction is brought down from A.H. 1259 to the death of Minuchihr Khan, which took place on the fifth of Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1263, foil. 31—35. It concludes with a Kasidah in the Khan’s praise, ending with a chronogram for his death. There are nineteen additional notices re- lating to the following poets : Aslmftah, Haji Muh. Kazim of Shiraz, fol. 446. Asafi, Muh. Ja‘far, son of Safi, fol. 546. Anjum, ‘Ali Akbar Khan, fol. 556. Tazarv, Faraj-ullah of Azarbaijan, fol. 786. Hayat, Mull. Mahdi Ka’ini, fol. 876. Khadirn, of Isfahan, fol. 1016. Rakhshan, Yusuf, son of Knyaz Melikof, fol. 117a. TAZKIRAIIS. 95 Zari‘, Aka Rajab ‘Ali of Isfahan, fol. 1225. Ska’ik, Mulla Hasan of Isfahan, fol. 1595. Tuba, Sayyid Hasan of Kaskan, fol. 180a. Ghazali, fol. 1935. Kudrat, Sayyid Muh. c Ali of Kashan, fol. 250a. Kami, Sulaiman, son of Knyaz Melikof, fol. 252a. Malik, Muh. Mahdi of Farahan, fol. 2595. Mazhar, Murtaza Kuli Mirza, fol. 2605. Maktiim, Hakim, fol. 274a. Mirza Muh. Mahdi of Khui, fol. 2815. Hijran, Aka Fath ‘Ali B. Muh. Karim Khan, fol. 344a. Or. 2943.— Foil. 272 ; 9J in. by 5f ; 14 lines, 3 in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik ; dated 4 Rajab, A.H. 1266 (A.D. 1850). [Sidney Churchill.] A Tazkirah of the poets of Sinandij, the chief town of Persian Kurdistan, 1 by Mirza ‘Abdullah B. Muhammad Aka, poetically surnamed Raunak. Beg. jUSl j jjliT j JjAU (jh j JL~>T The author says in his preface that he had from his childhood devoted himself to the study of poets, ancient and modern, and that, having perused three or four Tazkiraks, he was indignant at finding in them no record of the poets of Sinandij. From a desire to supply that deficiency, he spent ten years, from the twentieth to the thirtieth of his age, 1 The place commonly called Sinna, and described by Rich in bis Narrative of a Residence in Kurdistan, pp. 199 and 208, where its proper name is said to be Sinendrij. during the governorship of the late Governor, Khusrau Khan, in collecting their select com- positions. But the work was not completed until A.H. 1265, after the accession of the latter’s son, Aman-ullah Khan II., in whose honour he gave it the above title. Khusrau Khan, son and successor of Aman- ullah Khan I., 2 held the Vali-ship of Kurdi- stan, as we learn from the present work, from A.H. 1240 to his death, A.H. 1250. His son, Aman-ullah Khan II. was appointed to the same government by Muhammad Shah Kajar, A.H. 1262, at the age of three and twenty ; was deposed after a year’s tenure, and re- instated by Nasir ud-Dln Shah, A.H. 1265. From the autobiography which concludes the present work we learn that the author was born in Sinandij, where his grandsire, coming from his native city, Hamadan, had settled, A.H. 1120 (read 1220) ; that his father, left an orphan at the age of nine, was raised to rank and wealth by the Vail Khus- rau Khan ; and that he (the author) was appointed Munshi Bashi, or Head Secretary, by Aman-ullah Khan II. Compare Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 150. The work is divided into the following sections : — Khivaban. A short account of Sinandij, fol. 95. Gulban I. Life and poems of Aman-ullah Khan XL, with the poetical surname Vali, fol. 11a. Gulban II. Notices of poets, thirty-nine in number, in alphabetical order, fol. 295. Juibar. Notices of two female poets, fol. 221a. Guldastah, or Kliatimah. Life and poems of the author, fol. 2395. 2 Aman-ullab Kban I. was forty-seven years of age when Rich visited Sinna in 1S20(A.H. 1235). See zb., p. 211. 96 BIOGRAPHY. The present copy was written by Nasr- ullah B. Aka Ibrahim Sinandiji for his pater- nal uncle Mirza ‘Abdullah Munslh BashI (the author) one year after the date of compo- sition. Memoirs and Travels. 130 . Or. 3203. — Foil. 79 ; 8J in. by 6 ; from 13 to 18 lines, 4f in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik, early in the 19th century. [Kremer, no. 57.] Life and teachings of the Indian saint Mu 11a Shah, by his disciple Tavakkul Beg Kulali. Beg. Ujo\ \j ^ ^ \j JS Oli ,jl J lIo.Ujo ^ .... **/j3 \*> Jji idlijlff- s!i The author says in the preface that he had become in his sixteenth year a disciple of Mulla Shah in Kashmir, and had for forty years, with some interruptions, availed him- self of his teaching. He adds that he had recorded in the present memoir only what he had himself witnessed or heard from his master’s lips. The date of composition, A.H. 1077, is expressed by the above title ; but, by some accidental slip in the text, Shah- jahan appears in the preface (instead of ‘Alamgir) as the reigning sovereign. Mulla Shah was born, as stated at the end, A.H. 992, and died in Lahore on the eve of the 15th of Safar, A.H. 1072. See also the Persian Catalogue, p. 6905. An abstract of the present work was pub- lished by A. von Kremer in the Journal Asiatique, 1869, i., pp. 105 — 159. The MS. belonged originally to Capt. Wm. Deuce, whose name is written in the Persian character on the fly-leaf. In 1834 it passed into the hands of G. C. Renouard, and in 1868 it was purchased for Kremer in London. 131 . Or. 4733. — Foil. 357 ; 8-| in. by 5f ; 15 lines, 34 in. long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated A~.H. 1281 (A.D. 1864). [Sidney Churchill.] Mir’at ul-Ahvid, or Memoirs of Ahmad B. Muhammad ‘Ali B. Muhammad Bakir al- Bahbahani. This copy agrees with a former MS., Add. 24,052, the contents of which have been fully described in the Persian Cata- logue, pp. 385-6. Its various sections begin respectively as follows : Summary of the whole work, by the author, fol. 26. Preface, fol. 17a. Matlab I., fol. 19a. Matlab II., fol. 266. Matlab III., fol. 36a. Matlab IV., fol. 48a. Matlab V., Maksad 1, fol. 696; Maksad 2, fol. 96a ; Malysad 3, fol. 234a. Kkatimak, fol. 327a. The author’s colophon, transcribed at the end, is dated ‘Azimabad (Patna) in the third month of the fifth year of the third decade of the third century of the second thousand of the Hijrah, i.e. Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1225. Foil. 69 — 79 contain in the margins ad- ditional notices by Muh. Sadily B. al-Sayyid Muh. Mahdi B. Amir Sayyid ‘Ali, written in small Neskhi in the reign of Nasir ud-Din Shah. MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS. 97 132 . Or. 3523. — Foil. 220 ; Ilf in. by 7f ; 21 lines, 4 in. long; written in fair Neskhi leaning to Nestalik, in the 19th century. [Sidney Chukchill.] J\ j&\ aoL-o j \j>Y\ Memoirs of ‘Abd ur-Razzak B. Najaf Kuli Diinbr.li, with notices of his contemporaries. Beg. j> Vi oyjj Wiaui The author, three of whose works, Ma’a§ir Sultaniyyah, a translation of Krusinski, and a Tazkirah, have been already mentioned (nos. 68, 63, 123), '"as born, as he states here, fol. 315, in Khui, A.H. 1176, and was taken as a boy to Tabriz, where his father resided as Beglerbegi. After the latter’s death in A.H. 1199, he repaired to Shiraz and afterwards to Isfahan. The present work was written, as stated fol. 215a, A.H. 1228, and in another passage, fob 1315, the author says that he was then fifty and some years old. The style is ex- tremely diffuse and artificial, being half Persian and half Arabic, and largely made up of poetical pieces. Contents : Preface, including a panegyric on Fath ‘Ali Shah, fob 35. Account of the author’s clan, the Dunbulis, and of its eminent men, especially of the author’s father, who served with distinction under Nadir and under Muhammad Hasan Khan Kajar, and was confirmed by Karim Khan in the go- vernorship of Tabriz, fob 15a. Birth of the author, and his early life, fob 315. His arrival at Shiraz ; notices of eminent ‘Ulama in Shiraz and Isfahan, fob 415. Notices of the following contemporary poets, with ex- tensive extracts : Mushtak Isfahani, fob 69a ; ‘Asliik, Aka Muh. Isfahani, fob 76a; Azur Begdili Shamlu (Lutf ‘Ali Beg), fob 83a; ‘Uzri Begdili Shamlu (Ishak Beg), fob 965; Hatif (Sayyid Ahmad Isfahani), fob 975 ; Sabahi (Baji Sulaiman), fob 111a; Sahba (Aka Muh. Taki), fob 1255; with shorter notices of Tablb, fob 126«; Asiri, Bajat, Rafik, Safi, Tufan, fob 128 ; Ghalib, Firibi, Darvish ‘Abd ul-Majid, Nashat, fob 129 ; Nasib, Niyazi, Hijri. Continuation of the author’s life, fob 130a. Extract from Mahdi Khan Simnani’s history of the reign of Nadir, fob 1325. Events after Nadir’s death ; Zand and Lur dynasties, fob 1435. War between Aziid Khan and Fath ‘Ali Khan Afshar, fol. 1515. Shiraz under Karim Khan, fob 1545. Continuation of the author’s life, fol. 160a. His conversation with friends in a garden at Shiraz, and conclusion of the memoirs, foil. 163a— 2195. 133 . Or. 2769. — Foil. 200; 10|in.by6|; 11 lines, 4} in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, partly in tabulated form ; dated 11 Rabi‘ II., A.H. 1249 (A.D. 1833]. [Presented by Wm. Weight.] Itinerary of Sayyid ‘Izzat-ullah through Tibet and Turkistan, A.H. 1227-8. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 982. Beg. Vi j\ Jj'Ao G-xoii j yli? 134 . Or. 4908. — Foil. 10; 9 in. by 7 ; 12 lines, 44 in. Iona; ; written in fair Nestalik about A.D. 1860. [Sir Henry Rawlinson.] A personal statement addressed by the Raja of Rewari to the Indian Government, with the object of proving his loyal attitude during the Mutiny, in the hope of being- restored to his former position. o 98 COSMOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY. Beg. jd u-obP' j.b^)\ pl<£ jl jd jA—j j tb) soy \jj j tdlLo *11 '* 5t)^> \&Vo &* o . X 3 COSMOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY. 135 . Or. 4383. — Foil. 183 ; 13J in. by 8 ; 25 lines, 5 in. long ; written on blue-tinted paper in cursive Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins and miniatures ; dated 17 Sbavviil, A.H. iro, apparently for 1205 (A.D. 1791). Bound in painted covers. [Wallis Budge.] o\j ^ t-A 5 1 s? “ The Wonders of Creation ; ” translated from the Arabic of Zakarlyya B. Muhammad al-KazvIni. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 462. Beg. 4)1 After an Arabic doxology, different from that of the original work, the author’s name is given at the bottom of the first page as follows : 0 p,_jja)l ^ a *3 U1 3.2 Ab a.1 «jy_j abasu i9y. After this there is an extensive lacuna involving the loss of the preliminary chapters. The next three pages contain the Arabic table of chapters (p. 13, line 21 — p. 15 of Wiistenfeld’s edition). The text begins, fob 3 a, as follows : j JU’r'ill »3 utlli j (jlil ^.A 3 . Lb The author seems to have been a man of liberal views, vast experience, and large sympathies. He shows a predilection for strange religions and heretical sects, of whose tenets he gives a fair presentment, as, for instance, in his notices on the Ibllsis, fol. 19a; Yazidis, fol. 51; Nanakshahis (or Sikhs), fol. 536 ; on the followers of Zar- dusht, fol. 72a; on the Christian sects, fol. 1436, &c. He was himself a Sufi of the Ni‘mat-ullahi order, in which he was initiated by Muh. Ja‘far Karaguzli, known as Majzub ‘ Ali Shah, and he gives, foil. 151 — 59, a full account of the Sufi system and of the various branches of the sect. His biographical notices relate mostly to great saints and gnostics (‘Urafa). COSMOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY. 101 From a rather diffuse preface we gather ' that the author was transferred in early childhood from his native land to the holy places (Kerbela), where he studied for twelve years under his father and others. At the age of seventeen he started on his travels, visiting the learned, and associating with high and low in every land. At the time of writing he had reached his fifty-fourth year, and he says that the chronogram, = 1248, indicates the year of both the com- mencement and the completion of the present work. At the end, however, it is stated that it was finished in Shiraz on Thursday, the 27th of Shavval, A.H. 1247. The work is divided into an introduction called “ Sair,” twenty-eight “ Gulshans,” corresponding with the letters of the Arabic alphabet, and a conclusion called “ Bahar.” Contents : “ Sair ; ” introductory remarks bearing chiefly on the ignorance, the spirit of intolerance, and the narrow-mindedness pre- vailing among Muhammadan writers, fol. 4a. The twenty-eight Gulshans form a geogra- phical dictionary, occupying the main part of the volume, foil. 5 — 322. The leading words are mostly names of countries or towns, sometimes names of races or sects, as Tatar, Tajik, fol. 8 76 ; Rus, fol. 1296 ; Yunan, Yusufzai, fol. 321 ; ShTah, fol. 143 ; and even, in a few instances, words expressing abstract notions, as JjLai, fol. 181a, OA>j, fol. 3036. In the case of names of places, the author is always careful to distinguish those he had visited from those which he only knew from hearsay. Gulshan I. begins, fol. 5a, with Ail Jd , a description of the seven climes. Then come the follow- ing articles : Azarbaijan, fol. 156 ; Alamut (with an account of the Ismafilis), fol. 16a; Albustan, fol. 1 9a ; Aclii (Achin), fol. 21a, &c. In the absence of conspicuous headings, the following list will not be superfluous. It gives the folio at which each of the remaining Gulshans begin and the first article in each. II. Bab ul-Abvab, or Darband, fol. 596. Panipat, fol. 85a. III. Tashkand, fol. 876. IY. Thalj, fol. 936. V. ^ Ja- balsa and Jabalka, fol. 94a; ^Ckach, fol. 1006. VI. ^ Haji Tarkhan (Astrachan), fol. 1026. VII. ^ Khandes, fol. 109a. VIII. o Darab- jird, fol. 115a. IX. 3 Zahab, fol. 1256. X. j Raz, fol. 126a. XI. j Zabul, fol. 130a. XII. Samirah, fol. 132a. XIII. Sham, fol. 1396. XIV. Salih-abad, fob 148a. XV. ,> Zila‘, fol. 160a. XVI. B Ta’if, fol. 160a. XVII. B Zaflr, fol. 162a. XVIII. £ ‘An ah, fol. 1626. XIX. ^ Ghazipur, fol. 1736. XX. ,_i Fas, fol. 176a. XXI. J Kahirah, fol. 190a. XXII. A) Kabul, fol. 2176; d/ Gagri, fol. 228a. XXIII. J Lar, fol. 249a. XXIV. f Mahan, fol. 259a ; (under Medina is found an account of Mu- hammad, the Imams, and the early Khalifs, foil. 264—275). XXV. ^ Nabulus, fol. 2876. XXVI. j Vasit, fol. 3026. XXVII. » Hashi- mah, fol. 308a. XXVIII. ^ Yafa, fol. 3166. “ Bahar,” the concluding section, is di- vided into four Gulzars, viz., I. Interpreta- tion of dreams, fob 323a. II. Stages tra- versed by the author on his journeys and their distances, fob 337a. This section concludes with an or apology. The author excuses any deficiency in the work on the following ground r while passing through Kumshah on his way from Shiraz to Kerbela, A.H. 1241, he had been shame- fully robbed of all his belongings, including his travelling notes, by Muh. Kasim Khan Kajar, governor of that place. III. Mis- cellaneous traditions and narratives, fob 3406. IV. The author’s epilogue in praise of the work, fob 3466. For other MSS. see Melanges Asiatiques, vol. i., p. 556, and vol. vi., p. 403. 102 SCIENCES AND ARTS. 141 . SCIENCES AND ARTS. Or. 3666. — Foil. 443 ; 13f in. by 8^ ; 17 lines, 6j-in. long; written in Neskhi on blue-tinted paper ; dated 5 Ramazan, A.H. 1273 (A.D. 1857). [Sidney Churchill.] An earlier and shorter edition of the pre- ceding geographical dictionary. Beg. ^ o*»'j**J _j U5 j The work is stated at the end to have been completed in Shiraz on Saturday the 18th of Zulhijjah, A.H. 1242, that is to say in the same year as the second volume of the Riyaz us-Siyahat (no. 139) by the same author, and the preface contains the same dedication as the latter work, although the name of the prince has been left out in the present MS. This first edition is considerably shorter than the later one, and the arrangement is dif- ferent. The alphabetical order of entries under the same letter which obtains in the latter is not observed in the present one. The work is divided into a Bustan, twenty- eight Hadikalis, and a Gulistan. The Bustan, fol. 4 5, is identical with the Sair of the pre- ceding MS., and the Hadikalis correspond with its Gulshans. The first eight begin as follows: I. 1 pAi’b fol. 6a. II. ^ seas, fol. 8 75. III. O Tiling, fol. 126a. IY. Thalj, fol. 1345. V. ^ Jabalsa, fol. 135a. VI. ^ Habash, fol. 148a. VII. ^ Khita, fol. 1565. VIII. o Dimash k. The last two are XXVII. j Venice, fol. 4265. XXVIII. Yunan, fol. 4345. At the end are found the same jUJ&h or apology, as in the pre- ceding MS., fol. 442a, and the Gulistan, a short epilogue, fol. 4425. Encyclopaedias. 142 . Or. 2972. — Foil. 188 ; 9^ in. by 6 ; 17 lines, 3 1 in. long ; written in clear Neskhi, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins; dated Shav- val, A.H. 977 (A.D. 1570). [Sidney Churchill.] An encyclopaedia of Muslim sciences, by Fakhr ud-Dln Muhammad B. ‘Umar ar-Razi, who died A.H. 606. Beg. si-ijL'b 'jyl _j W^)\ fol. 41a ; JUjN fol. 47a ; fol. 496 ; ^\k\\ fol. 62 6; ^ fol. 646 ; i ij*aA\ fol. 67a ; fol. 706 ; JIAS3 fol. 71a; Ji,^\ fol. 746; (jlyill fol. 80a ; ^jUj fol. 83a ; o fol. 85a; fol. 88a; oL*jukil fol. 92a; jju*jkh fol. 956; LAyih fol. 1006; t_Mah fol. 102a; fol. 114a; jojuuah fol. 1176; fol. 1206; jyJ ill fol. 1216; j>\£ fol. 1246; oAJKh fol. 1276; fol. 132a; fol. 133a ; fol. 134a; Sjj*M ^ fol. 1366; fol. 1386 mentioned in the table, is here missing, owing to the loss of some leaves) ; Jla3S3j=- fol. 141a; fol. 1436 ; fol. 146a ; fol. 147a ; fol. 1496 ; Ju-jU fol. 1516 ; SLfttt fol. 155a ; fol. 1586 ; fol. 161a ; ^\yi\ fol. 1636 ; fol. 1686 ; M Jjb\ oSIH* fol. 171a; fol. 173a; eyULJl fol. 1756 ; JpA fol. 178a; ^ fol. 1806; ^ fol. 183a ; fol. 185a. For other copies see the Leyden Catalogue, vol. i., no. 16 ; Ethe, l.c. ; and Pertscb, Berlin Catalogue, no. 92, where the work is men- tioned under the same title as in the next MS., viz.^-All jiUL- jjJW 143 . Or. 3308.— Foil. 132 ; 7 in. by 4f ; from 18 to 23 lines, about 3^ in. long ; written in small and cursive Nestalik ; dated Tuesday, 20 Ramazan, A. II. 893 (A.D. 1488). [Sidney Churchill.] Another enlarged edition of the same work. With the exception of the new title, the preface is identical with that of the preceding MS. In the body of the work there is also complete agreement, with the exception of the following three additional chapters : 1. oST ^ fol. 105a, coming after ; 2. j fol. 108a ; and 3. jJLs=-, fol. 1096, both placed after There are also a few variations in the headings. The chapter headed ^\>\\ (fol. 666) is identical with the^*~3\ ^ of the preceding MS. ; the chapter here called jxD\ (fol. 67a) corresponds with the j-*U\ of the latter ; and instead of iLLVl we have, fol. 112a,^LU4l 144 . Or. 3648. — Foil. 406 ; 9f in. by 6 ; 25 lines, 3f in. long; written in small and neat Nes- talik, apparently about the close of the 16th century. [Sidney Churchill.] Ail encyclopaedia of Muslim sciences, by Husain ‘Akili Rustamdari (see foil. 176, 686). Beg. J (3^0 d-joj j tX?~ In a preface of inordinate length, written in prose copiously interspersed with verses, the author says that he had been twenty years travelling through Iran and other parts of the world in quest of knowledge, and gives a full list of all the standard scien- tific works which he had studied. In A.H. 978 he left Shiraz, stayed a short time in Isfahan, and repaired to Kazvin, then the royal residence, where he expected to find a gathering of masters of science. In this hope, however, he was sadly disappointed. The greater part of the preface is taken up by a violent diatribe against the ‘Ulama of Kazvin, who are taxed wdth crass ignorance, 104 SCIENCES AND ARTS. greed, envy, and every kind of wickedness. At last the author, having been prevailed upon by some faithful friends to display to the world his stores of learning, undertook the present work, which he commenced in Muharram, A.H. 979, and finished in Rabi‘ II. of the same year. In the introduction he refers to the preceding work of Eakhr ud- Dln R azi, which he designates as on account of the sixty sciences with which it deals, while he calls his own as including ninety sciences. It must be con- fessed, however, that the arrangement is un- methodical. Many sections are jumbles of heterogeneous subjects. There is ample evidence of the author’s having held extreme Shl‘ah views. The work is divided into a Fatihali, twelve Rauzahs, and a Khatimah. The Fatihali comprises three Hadikahs, viz. : 1. Criticism on the work of Razi, enumeration of the sciences with which it deals, and a full table of contents of the present work, fol. 20 b. 2. Showing that Amir ul-Muminin (‘ Ali) was the originator of sciences, fol. 22 a. Commentary on a Khut- bah of ‘Ali called Khutbah i Shiksliikiyyah, fol. 26a. Rauzah I., in sixteen Makals, treating of the Prophet’s traditional saying about seventy-three Muslim sects, showing that the one saving sect is the Imamiyyah, and containing an exposition and refutation of other sects and religions, fol. 39 b. Rauzali II., in three Maksads. A summary of history from Adam to the time of compo- sition, fol. 1086. Rauzali III., in fourteen Bayans, fol. 146a, the subjects of which are stated as follows : J ... i ^ ^ ^tp j pl-P j J i — i yO j jJ-P j i tfi s&J j j (J j j b j \j 0 Lp j \}\*o j j Qj j} j j j j Rauzah VII., in twelve La’ihahs, treating of the properties of precious stones, agri- culture, and various practical arts, fol. 2726. \j> r Sp j ^ J (*^ J 8 '•5* jAs- j JA3 j-p- ^ j ^Aj> pip j j (_>*>;&> J ij y+A* (JO J J Rauzah VIII., in eight Dauhahs, treating of riddles, music, prosody, &c. ^ j j j- c j j j ETHICS AND POLITICS. 105 Rauzah IX., in ten Thamarahs, treating of meteorology, charms and incantations, al- chemy, magic, implements of war, &c., fol. 311a. & jo j |A® 3 3 = 3‘ i ** 1*1®' j ^l® j p>^® 3 jA® 3 1*1® j ^J® j j pt) ^*1® 3 ul lAs-^jo A® j L^j jA® _j 1 x*ji**» ^J® _j /A® j oUl J® j o^T Rauzah X., in eight Manzars, treating of geometry, arithmetic, optics, and terrestrial astronomy, fol. 338a. j J® ^bo Jt i (A & j ‘-^*~** j , — j j (A® j ^ j o |A® ^ ^*1® J A>lH/o ^ A 5, Rauzah XI., in three Asls, treating of ab- struse questions of physics and metaphysics, fol. 359a. A/c ^ ++±rC ^Iaj 3 AU 3 (A 3 >— fihii 0 CA J> 3 Rauzah XII., in three Hikmats, treating of the existence of God and his attributes, fol. 371a. jS- &iu ;0 t— odj J1 edlL ^)bd &jaL*> oAsto ObA . £ - j Khatimah, divided into a Mukaddimah, a a Kalb, and three Makamahs, treating of the technical terms and the system of the Sufis, foil. 385a — 406&. At the end is a notice of the death of Shahzadah ‘Abd ul-‘Az!m, son of Shah Sulai- man, in Teheran, A.H. 1084. Ethics and Politics. 145 . Or. 3252. — Foil. 146 ; 8^ in. by 5J ; 15 lines, 2f in. long; written in elegant Nestalik, with neat ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated Rabl‘ II., A.H. 861 (A.D. 1457). [Sidney Churchill.] &< 13 li Moral precepts and rules of conduct, written by ‘Unsur ul-Ma‘ali Kaika’us B. Iskandar B. Kabus for his son Gilanshah. Beg. i >j dll iaA>1 ah A ' 0 3 A 6, ^ ^ij^® c— A aA i sjo LI . . . nV>h ^ A> < jA,* - 3 The author states at the end that he com- menced this work A.H. 475, and that he had then been living up to the age of sixty-three, according to its precepts. The above date, found in all known copies, shows that the statement of Habib us-Siyar, vol. ii., Juz 4, p. 59, and of Jahan-ara, fol. 61&, that Kai- ka’us died A.H. 462 and Gilanshah A.H. 470, is incorrect. The text has been edited by Riza Kuli Khan, in one volume with the Tuzuk i Tlmuri, Teheran, A.H. 1285. A French translation by A. Querry, based on an edition dated A.H. 1275, was published in Paris, 1886. For other MSS. see the Leyden Catalogue, vol. iv., p. 207, and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 266. For Turkish translations see the Turkish Catalogue of the Museum, p. 116. 146 . Or. 3632. — Foil. 269 ; 9^ in. by 6 ; 21 lines, 4 in. long ; written in small and archaic Neskhi, with gold-ruled margins ; dated 3 Zulka'dah, A.H. 835 (A.D. 1432). [John Lee.] A translation of an Arabic treatise on ethics, entitled ayo^fih, by p 106 SCIENCES AND ARTS. Abu T-Kasim ar-Raghib al-Isfahani. See Haj. Khal., vol. iii., p. 334, and Fliigel, Vienna Catalogue, no. 1839. The author, whose full name is Abu T- Kasim al-Husain B. Muh. B. al-Mufaddal al- Isfahani, is chiefly known by another work entitled £j\j*o Is?, and is stated to have died about A.H. 500. See the Arabic Cata- logue, p. 333 ; the Vienna Catalogue, no. 369 ; Ahlwardt, Verzeichniss, no. 1116 ; and the Berlin Catalogue, vol. v., p. 6. The present work was, according to Haj. Khal., held in great esteem by al-Ghazzali. The Persian translation is designated in the colophon by this title: j ycj ^ 0 b \ J a. la 5- ^j.£> i ji - The next-following folios, 5 — 8, contain the last four lines of the preface and a full table of contents, occupying eight pages. The work is divided into seven sections (Fusul), in full agreement with the headings given by Haj. Khal., namely : I. Treating of man, his faculties, his pre- eminence and moral dispositions, in thirty-five Babs, fol. 85 : uilAxA? ^ j II. Treating of intellect and speech, in fourty-four Babs, fol. 1025 : jkij Jas- ^ III. Treating of sensual appetites, in fifteen Babs, fol. 167a: ^ IV. Treating of angry passions, in twelve Babs, fol. 190a : jbcu j By* V. Treating of justice and injustice, love and hate, in ten Babs, fol. 206a : VI. Treating of crafts and trades, of ex- penditure, liberality and avarice, in twenty- two Babs, fol. 216a : jlA e^\ jj iJjli cb*; j J j i j VII. Treating of human actions, in six Babs, fol. 2315: JU «\ ^ Appendix by the translator, fol. 235a, with this heading : L_->U3-b aj J>' J .oj Ha It is divided into three sections (Namat), containing respectively maxims and moral precepts handed down by Arabs, Greeks (fol. 246a), and Persians (fob 2525). The translator’s conclusion, foil. 267a — 269a. Copyist : ^ ^ Sultan Muhammad Kutubshah states, in an autograph note on the fly-leaf, that he purchased the MS. in Haidarabad, A.H. 1027. ETHICS AND POLITICS. 107 147 . Or. 4119. — Foil. 160 ; 9^ in. by 6|- ; 17 lines, 4f in. long 1 ; written in fine bold and archaic Persian Neskhi; dated Monday, 5 Jumada II., A.H. 680 (A.D. 1281). [Tho. F. Hughes.] The celebrated ethics of Nasir ud-Din Tusi, who died A.H. 672. See the Persian Catalogue, pp. 441 b, 1088a. Beg. j ^ ^ jjj bAb e « J»' This valuable copy, written within eight years of the author’s death, has, like most MSS., the second preface. For other copies see Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, no. 268, and Etlie, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1435. Colophon : <_ bA JA sKxJUb C o.i. ' i i« > (_)A» ^ A* ^ cA~*^ i j jii , ,-A A l o« *> bjb i ib^i£ jjbp ^.1 ^ «Ajy«A 148 . Or. 2863.— Foil. 187 ; 8£ in. by 5| ; 15 lines, 34 in. long; written in fair Neskhi, apparently in the 15th century. [Sidney Churchill.] Another copy of the preceding work, wanting the last page. 149 . Or. 4109. — Foil. 156 ; 10 in. by 6J ; 21 lines, 4 in. long ; written in small and elegant Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins, A.H. 947 (A.D. 1540.] [Sidney Churchill.] A work on ethics, by Husain B. Hasan. The MS. is imperfect at the beginning. The first page contains the last eleven lines of the doxology, followed by this passage : j J^^j3 P/ L "-Jjjcls- j\ o cP e£~=- k.];j ^]yb sj;j L_jb j 1 ^JkLo j> —<« Jb'b- j l— CIaA J _} 1.XO J C— Akil^V <— A’bl t “-i ml The author, who designates himself by his proper name and patronymic as above, is better known as Ivamal ud-Din Husain Khwarazmi. A later work of his, JuaiA, was dedicated to Ibrahim Sultan, son and successor of Amir Shah Malik, viceroy of Khwarazm (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 144). He died during the invasion of that country by the Uzbeks, A.H. 833. In the preface, after some remarks on the necessity of a teacher and the requisite qualities of teacher and pupil, the author passes on to a eulogy upon the above-men- tioned Amir Shah Malik. On Friday, the eighth of Rabl‘ I., A.H. 829, two days before that prince’s death, the author was sent for by the princess, and wrote in the Amir’s name two letters to the reigning sovereign, Shahrukh, and to his son, prince Ulugh Beg. He subsequently took down in writing the dying injunctions and admonitions addressed by the Amir to his son Ibrahim Sultan and to his own wife, who was then forty -four years of age. After the Amir’s death, and in com- pliance with the prince’s desire, he expanded those precepts into the present work. It is divided into two books, Alsu, con- taining jointly twenty Babs. Makalah I., p 2 108 SCIENCES AND ARTS. with this heading : j*\j\ JIaaA JAAi ^ 0 fi>Uo j j\ l-AaasJ _j, contains eleven Babs treating of the following subjects : 1. Know- ledge of God, fol. 66. 2. Science and Intellect, fol. 30a. 3. Exhortation to asso- ciate with the virtuous, fol. 466. 4. Justice, fol. 546. 5. Piety, fol. 63a. 6. Account kept of men’s actions, fol. 66b. 7. Humility, fol. 706. 8. Meekness and forgiveness, fol. 75a. 9. High-mindedness, fol. 79b. 10. Placing God’s law above human lust, fol. 85a. 11. Vigilance, fol. 91a. Makalah II., uoT ^ j , comprises nine Babs, on the following subjects : 1. Faithfulness and loyalty, fol. 104a. 2. Obedience to kings, fol. 110a. 3. Gratitude and fair service, fol. 1146. 4. Deference to parents, fol. 1226. 5. Discrimination of men’s worth, fol. 128a. 6. Resignation to fate, fol. 134a. 7. Ad- vantage of religious guidance, fol. 141a. 8. Trust in God, fol. 1466. 9. Khatimah, fob 152a. The moral precepts are copiously illus- trated by Arabic texts, verses and anecdotes. In the conclusion, fob 1546, the author refers to a previous work of his, entitled jAiiD jyV jrj j 150 . As &k, jA, »(X«T j u^.Ui ^ j> A ^C-b IA .... Ai* ■ w y , ... ^ Mir Ghiyas ud-Dln Mansur, son of Mir Sadr ud-Dln Muhammad Shirazi, died A.H. 948. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 826a, and the obituary notice in Ahsan ut-Tavarlkh, Or. 4134, fob 1166, where the present work is noticed. This work was, as stated at the beginning, the first treatise of the third part of the Jam i Jahan-numa, a philosophical en- cyclopedia, which apparently was not com- pleted, and is not mentioned in the notices of the author among his works. Haj. Khal., who gives the title, vol. ii., p. 499, does not appear to have seen the work. The present treatise is divided into two Majallahs, subdivided into a number of Taj- liyalis, the headings of which are given by Fliigel, Vienna Catalogue, no. 1860. 151 . Or. 3546. — Foil. 121 ; 8 in. by 5-| ; 15 lines, 2f in. long; written in fair Neskhi; dated Shushtar, Muharram, A.H. 1287 (A.D. 1870). [Sidney Churchill.] Or. 2996. — Foil. 67 ; 7\ in. by 4]-; 13 lines, 2i[ in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, A.H. 956 (A.D. 1549). [Sidney Churchill.] A treatise on ethics by Ghiyas, commonly known as Mansur. Beg. ^>6 k Jj\ j asiP cX-?- o 5 J l A treatise on ethics, by Muzaffar al-Husaini at-Tablb al-Kashani, poetically surnamed Shifa’i, who died A.H. 963. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 474a. Be°:. [ w— l-*c 0 aff* ( « h a^o bJ kb jX+eSyyi \ j&i i^*Jj . . . ETHICS AND POLITICS. 109 j i ** .ci c l z *) t_ L^pUaj.A*»\ The author wrote this work by desire of an eminent religious teacher, ^+*0 whom he does not name, and dedicated it to Shah Tahmasp. It is divided into two Ma- kalahs, treating respectively of virtues and of vices. The first, fol. 66, contains the fol- lowing twenty-one Babs : 1. 2. 3. (in ten Khaslats); 4. 5. J£y; 7. Loj ; 8.y^; ; 10. d*£kJ; 1 1 . ; 12. ; 13. ; 14. s- j \ij ; 15. 5 16. j ’ 17. ‘-* 41 ^ \ 18. i—AjT ; 19. j <_ibL\ ; 20. ; 2 1 . j * The second Makalah, fol. 74a, comprises the following seventeen Babs : 1. 2. 3. 4. a.— =~ y 5. (Jy; 6.j*6 3 ^ 9 7* ^ 3. ^ 9 0« 9 10* J * 11. l j 12. 13. ^-5 14^; 15. ; 16. oil/^ 5 17 • Copyist : 11^—=- ^ 152 . Or. 2739. — Foil. 220 ; 11^ in. by 6f ; 25 lines, 5 in. long ; written in fair Neskhi, with ruled margins ; dated Thursday, the last day of Rabl‘ II., A.H. 1106 (A.D. 1694). A work containing moral and religious o O precepts, by Muhammad Rafi £ Va‘iz. Beg. ^yi & JS* ylL Jj' y> ^ . . . . J U^Jj 3 0'°'” y 2 The author, a native of Kazvin and cele- brated preacher, poetically surnamed Va‘iz, wrote the present work under Shah ‘Abbas II., who is praised in the preface as the reigning sovereign, and died at the beginning of the reign of Sultan Husain Safavi, i.e. A.H. 1105 or shortly after. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 826a; Nujum us-Sama, pp. 148 — 50 ; and Riyaz ul-‘Arifin, fol. 926. The present volume is only the first of eight, of which the whole work was to consist. A MS. containing the first two volumes is described by Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1472, and the third was seen by the author of Nuj um us-Sama, l.c. Whether the remaining five volumes were ever written is doubtful. The first volume is popular and frequently to be met with. It was one of the first books issued by the Tabriz press about A.H. 1240, and a lithographed edition ap- peared in Teheran A.H. 1274. It has also been lithographed at Lucknow, 1868. The headings of the first volume have been given in full by Ethe, l.c . ; by Fliigel, Vienna Catalogue, no. 1861 ; and by Pertsch, Beilin Catalogue, no. 282. The contents of the present copy are as follows : Preface, fol. 16; Mukaddimah, treating of religious admonition, in three Matlabs, fol. 5a. Bab I., on the transitory world and its pernicious influences, in three Fasls, viz., 1. Definition of the love of the world, fob 10a. 2. On the fickleness of the world, fol. 126. 3. O11 love of the world in its various aspects and ramifications,, fol. 196. This third Fasl, which forms the main bulk of the volume, is divided into the following fourteen Majlis : I. Love of rank and power, fol. 20a. II. Love of wealth, fol. 27a. III. Desire of sumptuous dwellings, fol. 34a. IV. Sexual lust, fol. 386. V. Desire for dainty viands and drinks, fol. 53a. VI. Desire for costly apparel, fol. 61a. VII. Frivolous society, fol. 65a. VIII. Pride and conceit. 110 SCIENCES AND ARTS. fol. 83 6. IX. Hypocrisy, fol. 986. X. Hate and envy, fol. 113a. XI. Covetousness, fol. 127a. XII. Avarice, fol. 142a. XIII. In- justice and tyranny, fol. 1736. XIV. Ill- temper and harshness, fol. 198a. 153 . Or. 351G. — Foil. 419; 8 in. by 4]-; 15 lines, 2f in. long; written in fair Neskhi, about A.H. 1152 (A.D. 1739). [Presented by B. B. Portal.] A treatise on rules of conduct and on daily observances, by Muhammad Bakir B. Muhammad Taki, who died A.H. 1110. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 20a, and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 284, where the headings of chapters are given. For lives of the author see Nujum us-Sama, p. 160, and Kisas ul- ‘Ulama, p. 152 ; and, for a list of his works, Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 17. A full table of contents prefixed to the MS., foil. 1 — 8, is dated Sha'ban, A.H. 1152. Astronomy . 154 . Or. 3315.— Foil. 83 ; 7} in. by 5» ; 20 lines, 41 in. long ; written in small cursive Neskhi, A.H. 855 (A.D. 1451). [Sidney Churchill.] A treatise on astronomy, by Sharaf ud- Dln Muhammad B. Mas'ud al-Mas‘udi, with this title prefixed in the hand of the copyist : a2\3 LAs pU- S!> Beg. j ji- * jo^Aw* [ . tel ... i j (j oAiblh This is a Persian translation, by the author, of his own Arabic work al-Kifayat fi ‘ilm al- Hai’at (see Haj. Khal., vol. v., p. 223). It is stated at the end of this copy that the work was finished on Thursday, the 14th of Sha'ban, A.H. 643. A MS. described by Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 328, is dated A.H. 669 ; but a later date of composition, A.H. 672, appears in a MS. mentioned in the Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1497. The author wrote also a treatise on Hanafi law, (Haj. Khal., vol. vi., p. 470). The work is divided into two Makalahs, the subdivisions of which are fully enume- rated in the preface. The first comprises twenty-three and the second fourteen Babs. They begin respectively on foil. 4a and 55a. The original headings are given by Pertsch and Ethe, l.c. The Jahan Danish is one of the authorities quoted by Hafiz i Abru. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 4236. The latter part of the MS. contains the following two articles: 1. A table of the 360 Juz into which the Coran is divided, fol. 786. 2. A treatise of Najm ud-Dln Kubra on the rules of religious life, in seven Babs, foil. 806—836. Beg. a*ju*» J* .... 8JJ& lAo Cjs\j\ \j iAjS* t-ob . . . jo' jo Jo The tract is known as IAs. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 836a. 155 . Or. 2818. — Foil. 118 ; 7f in. by 4 ; 22 lines, 2| in. long; written in minute Shikastah- ASTRONOMY. Ill amlz ; dated Isfahan, Friday, 14 Ramazan, A.H. 123 (i.e. 1123, A.D. 1711). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 1 — 4. bduA Jyi.fi 4)1' jjt&. A short Arabic treatise on the nature of God’s knowledge, by Muhammad B. Mur- taza, called Muhsin, { ^ r ~^ See the Persian Catalogue, p. 830a. The author died A.H. 1091, as stated in Mir’at ul-Kashan, Or. 3603, fol. 1156. Beg. ^ l_^o ^ C^fi 4)1 Sjd Jlaio It was composed, according to the pre- amble, for the author’s son Muhammad, surnamed ‘Alam ul-Huda, and is divided into short sections called J*a\. II. Foil. 46 — 17. The treatise of Nasir ud- Din Tusi on the construction and use of the astrolabe, known as BIst Bab. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 453a. III. Foil. 18 — 25. Astrological fragments, in prose and verse, on the influence of the planets, signs of the zodiac, and first days of the year. IV. Foil. 26 — 30. Another treatise on the astrolabe, divided, like the first, into twenty Babs, but distinct from it ; without author’s name. Beg. J J\ LLm>j UJ [er3J'] 4 )) bfi .... doL-M JU- Jhw,b LJs- JAi'j j, jd ‘ **-*•- J illujj j 0^)1 Jj' i»yb j t >b 3 V. Foil. 306 — 108a. The commentary of ‘Abd ul-‘Ali Birjindi on the Bist Bab of Nasir ud-DIn Tusi. See the Persian Cata- logue, p. 4536. The latter part of the MS., foil. 1086 — 118, contains astrological notes relating chiefly to the influences of the signs of the zodiac. At the end is a table of the latitude and longitude of the principal cities of the East, fol. 116a, followed by elaborate tables of the Ikhtilajat, or omens to be drawn from throb- bings in various parts of the body, foil. 1166 — 118a. Copyist : ^Aliifi ^ 156 . Or. 2841. — Foil. 220 ; 10 in. by 6f ; 19 lines, 4]r in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik, ap- parently in the 15th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A commentary on the Zij of Ulugh Beg (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 4556), without preface or author’s name, endorsed in an old hand, g?j The original text is given in rather long sections preceded by the word in red ink, while the commentary is introduced by the word also in red ink. The first two pages are taken up by the beginning of Makalah I. down to the heading of Bab I. The commentary begins at the bottom of fol. 2 as follows : j si* <— Abi ' i— «b. j 3 *— ■ Aht> j3j j^sF 3 " 3 ^ ’ &s2lb>- 3 jjj ^4 j j bo Lb-’X-o s'* 4 3 tS^jb Jjj ®Djb j' bw> b ( >lbfi b j' sbo The four Makalahs begin respectively at foil. 16, 30a, 1196, and 210a. The last words of the commentary are : ^ ^ 3 +^ by-bo ^bbj' (j,b^ja *3 y ,_bjo-\ f m j j ^ 1 **»*>' jo Jj'a=*- ^°3 3 3 A? 112 SCIENCES AND ARTS. A Bodleian MS. described by Ethe, no. 1519, which has, we are informed, the same beginning and end as the present, contains a note ascribing the commentary to Maulana ‘Ali Kushji, and assigning to it the title of w Minera logy. 157 . Or. 2864. — Foil. 45 ; 8f in. by 5f ; 15 lines, 3^ in. long; written in fair Nestalik, ap- parently in the 17th century. [Sidney Churchill.] jo A treatise on minerals, by Nasir ud-Din Tusi. Beg. ^Le j y UA ,*r'.'4*ah Jk>'j dll jj-*" ^ bd .... ^ _J The author states in a short preamble that he had written the work by desire of Hulagu Khan, and had given it the above title because it was customary to offer rarities as presents to sovereigns : ^*b &*Ujv-A5 \j j jbjjl . (Tansuk is Turkish for a rare and valuable object suit- able for a present. It corresponds with the Arabic lz£.) The Tansuk Narnah, which was known to Haj. Khal., is mentioned in the Habib us- Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 1, p. 61, as one of the works of Nasir ud-Din Tusi. It is divided into four Makalahs, namely : I. On tohe elements of which minerals are composed and on the causes of the formation of mines, fob 26 : &Ur y A Lo jS> j Obbjjui II. On precious stones, their origin, pro- perties, value, &c., fol. 6a: j j j J *u=-j j u— O c_a*a* j 1 ^ 1 j tX*jjb cy ^ | ^ b III. On metals, their origin and uses : *, j dk jb cLji&s- ClAs- j ^\y \ y CIaxOTo J u 1 J O 3 OjAx j IY. On perfumes: J\ Jlid j The MS. was evidently transcribed from a copy which was defective and in a state of confusion. The copyist himself writes in the margin of fol. 25 that some leaves were missing in the original. The beginning of Makalah II. is wanting, and most of the contents of Makalah III., the heading of which is found at fol. 256, have been trans- ferred to fol. 416. 158 . Or. 3277. — Foil. 73 ; 8|- in. by 4f ; 15 lines, 2-| in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, ap- parently in the 16th century. A treatise on precious stones and other minerals, by Muhammad B. Mansur. Beg. \j ^ •>* <3^0 • . • . Ijk^ ^ ^ jya^o y aidiU i Ja &aJ,U Jil jy° ^ MEDICINE. 113 See the Persian Catalogue, p. 464 b, and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1877. The MS. wants three or four leaves at the end. It breaks off at the end of the article on Iron, corresponding with fol. 75a of the previously described copy, Add. 23,565. The work has been wrongly assigned to the seventh century of the Hijrah. Abu ’n- Nasr Hasan, mentioned in the preface as the reigning sovereign, was the first ruler of the Ak-Kuyunlu dynasty, whose original seat was Diyarbekr. He reigned over Persia A.H. 873 — 882. His son Sultan Khalil, for whom the work was written, was in his father’s lifetime viceroy of Fars. He suc- ceeded to the throne after his father’s death, but reigned only six months. See Ta’rikh i Jahan-ara, foil. 190 — 92, and Riza Kuli’s continuation of Rauzat us-Safa, vol. viii. Medicine. 159 . Or. 4691. — Foil. 35 ; 6 in. by 3 ; 18 lines, If in. long; written in minute and neat Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century. A treatise on the composition and use of the antidote called Tiryak i Faruk, by Kamal ud -Din Husain Tabib. Beg. AGLl ^ 1 jus" The author was physician to Shah Ni‘mat- ullah Yazdi (grandson of the famous saint Shah Ni‘mat ullah Vali). After the death of his patron he went to Court, where he became celebrated for his wonderful cures. But Shall Tahmasp held him in scant esteem, because he was addicted to wine. After the acces- sion of Muh. Khudabandah (A.H. 985), he entered the service of Khan Ahmad in Gilan, where he spent the last years of his life. See ‘Alam-arai ‘Abbasi, fol. 43a. The treatise is dedicated to the author’s first patron, Shah Nur ud-Din Ni‘mat-ullah, and is described in the preface as follows : W (J s-YJ y>. J-AA op ^yls It is divided into a Mukaddimah, three chapters called Rukn, and a Khatimah. 160 . Or. 2865.— Foil. 166; lOfin. by 7; 17 lines, 4f in. long ; written in a cursive Indian character, probably in the 18th century. [Sidney Churchill.] An exposition of the Indian system of medicine, by Muhammad Kasim Hindushah, commonly known as Firishtah. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 225. Beg. i?j L j> y> .... J'jp The author is the well-known historian of India, who died after A.H. 1033. He says in the preface that, after reading the medical works current in Iran, Turan and Arabistan, he was desirous of studying the writings of the physicians of Hindustan, and, finding them extremely trustworthy and accurate, he was induced to write, for the benefit of his Muslim brethren residing in India, the present summary of their teaching. Q 114 SCIENCES AND ARTS. The work is divided into the following parts : Mukaddimali, treating of the con- stituent parts of the body and its humours, in nine Fa’idahs, fol. 2 a. Makfdah I. Pro- perties of simple drugs and aliments, in alphabetical order, fol. 10a. Makalah II. Compound medicaments, in fifteen Babs, fol. 59a. Makalah III. Treatment of dis- eases, in 160 Fasls, fol. 99a. Khatimah, treating of the six tastes or savours, and of the Indian classification of land with regard to the supply of water, fol. 1645. For the Persian headings see Mehren, Copenhagen Catalogue, p. 11 ; Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1601 ; and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 611. In the last-named MS. the work is entitled Farriery. 161 . Or. 3483. — Foil. 185; 12^in. by7^; 241ines, 4. ^ in. long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated ATI. 1263 (A.D. 1847). [Sidney Churchill.] Translation by Faklir ud-Dln B. Ahmad B. al-Maula Khizr ar-Rudbari of an Arabic work on the horse, its diseases and their treatment, entitled aylifi ay&fi Beg. O-fijj \j Ay. yP 3 [j y- : j j ^ ... ^ * h Ay IT .... O The Arabic original is the work of al-Malik al-Mujahid ‘Ali B. al-Malik al-Mu’ayyad Daud, of the Rasuli dynasty, who reigned A.H. 721 — 764. It has been described in the Arabic Supplement, no. 816. The translator says that in A.H. 1253, when Riza Kuli Khan, son of Khusrau Khan, took his seat as governor of Kurdistan, his Yazir, Mirza Hidayat-ullah, son of the late Mirza Ahmad (noticed in Hadlkat Aman- ullaki, no. 129, fol. 213a), sent for the writer and requested him to translate the above work, to which some additions were made by the translator. The translation begins fol. 5a, and the five discourses (Jy), of which the work consists, begin respectively at foil. 86, 19a, 636, 100a, and 1396. Music. 162 . Or. 2361. — Foil. 269 ; 9f in. by 5|- ; 25 lines, 31 in. long; written in small and neat Nes- talik, with ‘Unvans and gold-ruled margins ; dated Shahjahanabad (Delhi), A.H. 1073 — 75 (A.D. 1662— 64). [Sayyid ‘Ali, of Haidarabad.] A collection of treatises on music, written for Diyanat Khan, an Amir of Aurangzib’s reign. The contents are mostly Arabic, and have been described in the Arabic Supple- ment, no. 823. The following are Persian : I. Foil. 26 — 15a. A treatise on the law- fulness of music, by Muhammad B. Jalal Rizavi, who wrote it A.H. 1028. Beg. ^yly Ajiff- \j ^Ls- t__jl )J\ CLwJjly jUj jd (JL*— A all-*) .ay IT ... C — >} a hit* j i i_yb ji3 lyi ybio 3 & I » jA ITjl Jlyl jtfi \j*\ j\ MUSIC. 115 j s’ cP s -+^ t^jj T ^\j> . . . i — The author expounds very fully the opinions pro and contra of the great Sunni legists and of the most celebrated Sufis. He concludes with a Khatimah, fol. 13 5, on the proper rules to be observed in the practice of sacred music, II. Foil. 15a — 175. A tract on the lawful- ness of sacred music and on terms used by Sufis, by ‘Abd ul-Jalil B. ‘Abd ur-Rahman. Beg. Jjjp Jyi £■ A The work is dedicated to Navvab Maslh uz-Zaman (d. A.H. 1061 ; see Persian Cata- logue, p. 779, no. 30), in whose honour it was entitled Masihi L jrT'°- It is divided into two books IS, the first of which treats, in four Fasls, of the lawfulness of music, the second of the terms used by Sufis and of the verses sung by them. The present copy contains only the first three chapters of Book I. III. Foil. 157a — 1615. A chapter on music, extracted from the Danish Namah i ‘Ala’i. See the Arabic Supplement, p. 5595, vn. Beg. IV. Foil. 2405 — 246a. A treatise on the divisions of the strings in musical instru- ments, by Kasim B. Dust ‘Ali al-Bukhari, entitled l and dedicated to tlie emperor Jalal ud-Din Akbar. Beg. \j LI ->L*jO *x»o ••• s \jui jjfi sUfi> (3* d***»jii It is an exposition of the sixth Makam of the work entitled ^sl< which Darvish Haidar Tuniyani dedicated to Humayun Padishah. V. Foil. 2475—2695. A treatise on music, without author’s name. See the Arabic Supplement, p. 561, xiv. Beg. ‘-ir®*’ j'jIt e?' kff- i 3 y , contains an allegory on the travels of Fikr and Khayal, and concludes with a panegyric in prose and verse on the author’s patron, Ghiya§ ud-Dunya wa’d-Din, whose titles show him to have been a Husaini Sayyid of princely rank. The date of composition is indicated at the end by the following Ruba‘i : pp C w *4'° x ^p ^ 3 ^ on the composition of melodies. IV. Fol. 2566. \j J j>\ Jt > J\ jKj, useful advice to students of the art, and appropriate verses. The last section contains several pieces by Sa'di, whose name is written throughout, ,_5 PHILOLOGY. Persian Lexicography . 163 . Or. 3299. — Foil. 306 ; 12 in. by 7^ ; 10 lines, 4f in. long ; written in large and elegant Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled mar- gins, apparently in the 16th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A glossary of the rare words and proper names occurring in ancient Persian poets, by Muhammad B. Da’ud B. Muh. B. Mahmud Shadiyabadi. Beg. ji'&L* Ajj j Jl*/ ( XjO Ud ... \j ^ Si Dy ' 0 ijSoSSJj -2+3? The author has been mentioned in the Persian Catalogue, pp. 55 6a, 5616, as a com- mentator of Anvari and Khakani. He had applied himself from his youth, as he says in the preface, to the study of the old poets, such as Khakani, Mu'izzi, Anvari, Nizami, Zahir, Isfahani and Sa'di. In A.H. 873 he compiled the present glossary from the fol- lowing works: ilU, jj &A5 cdlhy The work is divided, according to the initial letters, into twenty-two Babs, and each Bab is subdivided according to the final letters. The words are briefly explained in Persian, sometimes with poetical quotations ; and in several instances Hindu equivalents are added. Some articles are illustrated by coloured drawings, which according to a Persian note on the fly-leaf, are 187 in number. The first three of the author’s sources are mentioned by Salemann in his Beilage V., Melanges Asiatiques, vol. ix., pp. 505 — 577, under nos. 7, 3 and 11, and the last two under nos. 10 and 13 ; but of the Mafatih ul- Faza’il and the Sulalat ul-Afazil no notice has been found. The first lines under fol. 5a, are as follows ; IjT ij\i j Mil* j (jiA-J 1 -jT \j Ka) j jxIAJ \jT SS>^ \j jljT The work has been noticed by Churchill, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xviii., p. 203, note, and, after him, by Sale- mann, Melanges Asiatiques, tom. ix., p. 517. 164 . Or. 3398. — Foil. 185 ; 8^ in. by 5f ; 15 lines, 3f in. long ; written in small Turkish Neskhi, A.H. 982 (A.D. 1594). [Sidney Churchill.] A Persian-Turkish dictionary, often desig- nated as by Lutf-ullah B. Abi Yusuf al-Halimi, who died after A.H. 886. See PERSIAN LEXICOGRAPHY. 117 the Turkish Catalogue, p. 1376. Compare Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, nos. 141-2 ; Etlie, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 1G88 — 90 ; and Salemann, Melanges Asiatiques, tom. xix., p. 515, no. 22. At the end, foil. 157 — 185, is a fragment of a Persian-Turkish vocabulary. 165 . Or. 3653. — Foil. 147 ; 8-f in. by 6J ; 21 lines, 4^ in. long ; written in Turkish Neskhi ; dated Amasia, Sha‘ban, A.H. 948 (A.D.1541). Another copy of Lughat i Hallmi, with marginal additions. Copyist : 4ll\ jjs- ^ 166 . Or. 3216. — Foil. 105 ; 6^ in. by 4]- ; about 15 lines, written in Neskhi, apparently in the 18th century. [Kremer, no. 90.] The Persian-Turkish vocabulary of Shahidi, in tabulated form, with the addition of Arabic equivalents. See the Turkish Catalogue, p. 1406. 167 . Or. 3521. — Foil. 75; 8^ in. by 6^; 12 lines, 3]r in. long, with about 25 slanting lines in the margin ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated Wednesday, 2 Rabk II., A.H. 1288 (A.D. 1871). [Sidney Churchill.] Glossary of the Persian poets, by Husain al-Vafa’i, endorsed jii Be g- er’V- j ^ j j ^ jii Cl* — 6 IA . . . . J « It was written, as stated in the preamble in the reign of Shah Tahmasp, A.H. 933, and was compiled from the following works : 1. A treatise by Muh. B. Hinduskah Munshi, dedicated to Khwajah Ghiya§ ud-Din [B.] Rashid (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 499a). 2. The Mukhtasar composed by Shams i Fakhri for Shaikh Abu Ishak B. Amir Mah- mud Shah Inju (i.e. edited by Sale- mann). 3. The rough draft of a glossary by Shams ud-Din Muh. Kashmiri. The first of the above works is the authority chiefly followed. The last is also quoted by Sururi. See Salemann, Melanges Asiatiques, tom. ix., p. 534, no. 35. The glossary is divided into twenty-eight Babs, in which the words are classed accord- ing to their final letters. The Babs are sub- divided into Fasls according to the initial letters. The Risalah, or Farhang, of Husain Yafa’i is one of the sources of the Farhang i Jahan- giri and of the Majma‘ ul-Furs of Sururi. The work has been described, with extensive extracts, by Salemann, Melanges Asiatiques, tom. ix., pp. 454 — 493, and p. 522, no. 46. A copy is mentioned by Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 119. Foil. 686 — 75 contain a letter of Navvab Muhsin Mirza and miscellaneous notes. 168 . Or. 2937. — Foil. 429 ; 10 in. by 6^; 24 lines, 3| in. long ; written in small and neat Nes- talik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated Sunday, 12 Safar, A.H. 1111 (A.D. 1699). [Natii. Bland.] The great Persian dictionary of Jamal ud- Din Husain Inju, who completed it A.H. 1017. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 4966. 118 PHILOLOGY. Contents: Mukaddimah, fol. 46. Dictionary proper, fol. 176. Khatimah, fol. 3626. Compare Lagarde, Persische Studien, pp. 45 — 49 ; Salemann, Melanges Asiatiques, tom. ix., pp. 537 — 41 ; Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, no. 123 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 1734. Copyist: 4JJlya3 — ii jS 1 ^ 169 . Or. 3517.— Foil. 109; 10$ in. by 7$ ; 17 lines, 3f in. long ; written in Nestalik, apparently in India, in the 18th century. [Presented by B. B. Portal.] I. Foil. 1 — 48. A treatise on Persian grammar and on the language of Persian and Indian poets, by Shaikh ‘Abd ul-Basit. Beg. Ci «* . ■» ^ 1 'r — ^ 4 b& ay- j\ 'jj i ^jo ... . ^Ijbb aV Jy JU jXk^aJ ^b j ^.A LiJ la**>\jkh <1.7 j In the above passage the date of the author’s birth is fixed by a chronogram for A.H. 1099. He evidently lived in India: his poetical quotations are mostly taken from an Indian poet, Nasir ‘Ali, who died A.H. 1108. The work consists of seventeen Babs, enumerated in the preface ; but the present copy contains only the first seven, which treat of the following subjects : I. Meanings of letters and their permutations, fol. 3a. II. Grammatical forms of Persian, fol. 146. TIT. Persian syntax, fol. 196. Compound words, fol. 24a. V. Letters elided by poets, fol. 30a. VI. Words used as last members of compounds, fol. 32a. VII. Differences in style and phrases between ancient and modern poets, fol. 34a. VIII. A glossary of words and phrases used by modern poets, in alphabetical order, foil. 37a — 486. The remaining Babs treated chiefly of various kinds of poetical compositions. II. Foil. 49 — 61. A glossary to the letters of Abu’l-Fazl, with the heading i Allay cdJjA* AAih yl , A—? : ^ jv-J' Beg. (jyb^-AJb jjbj « aJ^)\ c) Y** The words, chiefly Arabic, are arranged in Babs under the initial letters ; but within the Babs no further alphabetical order is observed. The explanations are mostly con- fined to a single equivalent. III. Foil. 62 — 68. Commentary on Surah xlviii., from the third Daftar of the Muka- tabat of Abu’l-Fal , with an interlinear Persian gloss, j*yu*> yij J^sf a^-lyy jl jlff-T 131 ijy* yuA_ 3 y aV AoiM yl IV. Foil. 69 — 109. A glossary of Arabic words occurring in the letters of Abu ’1-Fazl, G-AA yj lAL A y. Beg. £« Jjl b l *ajj\ cJWl w/b ybCh y iW" ^»yi* J 5 AxJ Vcl . . . I \^j*** £ ( ,3 .^5*° \j&0 j ^ L^b^\ 3 lk-^.0 0 A A>-' 3 Js^jyt- Z 1.3 Jj After praising the reigning sovereign, Fath £ Ali Shah, and his son ‘Abbas Mirza, who had been sent as governor to Azarbaijan, and had shown himself a wise ruler and a liberal patron of letters, the author says that the latter prince, finding that existing Persian dictionaries were ill arranged, redundant in some respects and defective in others, had desired him to compile a new one, which would bear his name. In obedience to that command, the author wrote the Farhang i ‘Abbasi, which was commenced A. II. 1225. He extracted the definitions of words from the Burhan i Kat,i‘, omitting, however, the poetical quotations, and relegated the meta- phors and words containing the eight ex- clusively Arabic letters to a Khatimah, which does not appear in the present MS. The words are arranged according to the final letters, for the convenience, the author says, of poets looking for rhymes. To each letter a main section, or Bab, is devoted, and each Bab is subdivided, according to the initial letters, into sub-sections called Fash A Mukaddimah comprises six preliminary chapters, termed Numayish, treating of the following subjects : 1. Superiority of the Persian language and its dialects, fol. 3 b. 2. Character of the language, distinction between ^ and 5, and grammatical forms, fol. 4a. 3. Pronouns, fol. 4 b. 4. Servile letters, fol. 5a. 5. Suffixes, fol. 6a. 6. Per- mutations of letters, fol. 6b. 171 . Or. 4680. — Foil. 188 ; 14 in. by 8f ; 21 lines, 5 in. long ; written in fair cursive Nestalik ; dated 8 RabT II., A.H. 1257 (A.D. 1841). [Sidney Chuechill.] A Persian dictionary, by Muhammad Karim B. Mahdi Kuli. Beg. . . . (jboh j jjli- aj] t jX<\ ■ *• ■* y> j The author was, as appears from the preface, preceptor to Prince Bahman Mirza, son of the Vali ‘Ahd ‘Abbas Mirza. While the Prince was engaged in composing his Tazkirah i Muhammadshahi for his brother Muhammad Shah (i.e. A.H. 1247 — 49; see no. 124, he desired the author to write also a book as a suitable offering to the same prince. In compliance with that command, the author compiled the present work, which he de- scribes as an abridgment of the Farhang i Jahangiri, with some additions from the Burhan i Kati‘, and presented it to Muham- mad Shah, who desired him to add poetical examples in the margins. The work is divided into a Mukaddimah, consisting of ten preliminary chapters termed Tiraz, fol. 2a, and twenty-four Babs forming the bulk of the dictionary and following the arrangement of the Farhang i Jahangiri, foil. 6b — 188. A later edition, with an enlarged preface, and a new title a ,lay, was lithographed in Tabriz, A.H. 1260. It is stated at the end to have been collated by the author and written by his brother, Riza Kuli. It is mentioned by Salemann, Melanges Asiatiques, tom. ix., p. 563, and by E. G. Browne, “ A Year amongst the Persians,” p. 554. 120 PHILOLOGY. Arabic Lexicography and Grammar. 172 . Or. 3273 — Foil. 257 ; 8$ in. by 5{ ; 17 lines, in. long; written in cursive Indian Nes- talik, apparently in the 16th century. An Arabic dictionary explained in Persian, by Kazi Khan Badr Muhammad, of Dhar. See the Arabic Supplement, no. 877. 173 . Or. 4195. — Foil. 362 ; 9| in. by 7 ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated A.H. 994 (A.D. 1586). [Lane.] An Arabic-Persian dictionary, by Muham- mad B. ‘Abd ul-Khalik. See the Supple- ment to the Arabic Catalogue, no. 878. A Persian paraphrase of, and commentary upon, the Shafiyah, a treatise on Arabic accidence, by Ibn ul-Hajib. See the Arabic Catalogue, p. 2346. Beg. ^ j *** ^ [ w . 2 2o j ^ \d& Sjo . . . ^1 s- iy&\^s j jjrplyJ ^ The commentator is Muhammad [B.] Sa‘d, who in the colophon, adds to his name the takhallus Ghalib. The commentary includes the text in short passages distinguished by a black line drawn above them. After a eulogy in prose and verse on Ibn ul-Hajib and his work, the author begins with the explanation of as follows ‘. p-(« j • ** ■ .A ^ lo jii j j ^3tXo pAuO J> The MS. is endorsed 174 . Or. 3520. — Foil. 599 ; 12 in. by 7 ; 25 lines, 4 in. long ; written in small Nestalik, ap- parently in the 18tli century. [Sidney Churchill.] An anonymous Arabic-Persian dictionary, with a preface by Mahmud Mirza. See the Arabic Supplement, no. 881. 175 . Or. 3515. — Foil. 142 ; 9 in. by 6 ; about 20 lines, 4^ in. long; written in cursive Nestalik; dated 2 Kamazan, A.H. 1186 (A.D. 1772.] Various Lexicographical Works. 176 . Or. 2892.— Foil. 369 ; 15$ in. by 10 ; 27 lines, 6f in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik and Shikastak-amiz, in the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A dictionary of Oriental Turkish explained in Persian, by Mirza Mahdi Khan, completed A.H. 1173. See the Turkish Catalogue, pp. 264 — 66, and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1760. [Presented by B. B. Portal.] 177 - 86 . Or. 2959 — 68. — Ten large folio volumes of the Thesaurus of Arabic, Persian and Turkish, RHETORIC AND INSHA. 121 by James William Redhouse, in the hand- writing of the author. See the Turkish Catalogue, pp. 147 — 9. 187 . Or. 4905.— Foil. 61 ; 8-| in. by 6-| ; 14 lines, 4f in. long ; written in fair, partly vocalized Nestalik ; dated 12 Zulhijjah, A.H. 1276 (A.D. 1860). [Sir Henry Rawlinson.] A versified English-Persian vocabulary, composed on the same plan as Nisab us- Subyan, Tuhfali i Shahidi, and similar works, to facilitate the acquisition of English by Persian students ; by Shahzadah Na’ib ul- Iyfdah Farhad Mirza, with the following heading : wfiy Jb Is- ^\'x> j\ ^ jl&y sAyli* A short prose preamble explaining the dis- position of the work begins : euU) JiS\ aAAy j jAxi’d * ** y laiL> ' EfiL) y>\yc <1 ** * The vocabulary begins with the following lines : ^y^A/c ^ ^ ^ ^ < y>'^s\s _y &Aai ^>\ Oy Ol«) j\ __ G 1 G GO^ G 9 G ^ yj Lr^ j A* _j u cyy cyy The words included in the text are again written in three columns beneath each verse, namely, the English in the Roman character on the left, the Persian in the middle, and the Arabic equivalents on the right. The work was completed on Saturday, the 26th of Sha‘ban, A.H. 1269, corresponding with the 4th of June, A.D. 1853, as stated in the concluding lines : L. JAy S^O j\ * CG— y • A ■ JL*> she r ^ rR m3 (J^J jic / Farhad Mirza was a son of Na’ib Sultanah ‘Abbas Mirza, consequently a brother of Muhammad Shall and an uncle of the present Shall. He showed himself an able, but stern ruler in his government of Fars and Irak, and had the title of Mu'tamad ud- Daulah conferred upon him. He wrote, besides the present work, a Persian com- mentary on the Khulasat ul-Hisab of Balia ud-Din al-‘Amili, and a Geography entitled Jam i Jam, and dedicated to the present Shah. See Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 46 — 52, and Browne, “A Year amongst the Persians,” pp. 105 — 8, where the Nisab i Ingilisi is described, and the author is stated to have died A.D. 1888. The present copy was written, by order of Farhad Mirza, by Muh. Isma‘11 ‘Ali-abadi Mazandarani. Rhetoric and Insha. 188 . Or. 2944. — Foil. 124; 84 in. by 5-| ; from 9 to 12 lines, 2f and 3 in. long; written in R 122 PHILOLOGY. fair Nestalik, witli ‘Unvans and ruled margins; dated (fol. 77) A.H. 1264 (A.D. 1848). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Poll. 2—77. j ^ A treatise on figures of speech, by Mu- hammad B. ‘Abd ul-Jalll al-‘Umari, called ar-Rashid. Beg. ^ LAs- ^>=61 L (3* <*11 s-j.X'Cj tjoLU l L^lbo .*A***^)1 *— AA ^ j fi I -aL.V; ^ ****** The author, a well-known poet, surnamed Yatvat, died A.H. 578. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 553a. He wrote the present work, as stated in the preface, for his sove- reign, ‘Ala ud-Dunya wa’d-Dln Abu ’1-Muzaffar Atsiz (A.H. 535 — 551), in order to supersede an earlier work on poetical figures entitled Tarjuman ul-Balaghah, which had been shown to him by that king, and which he found to contain ill-chosen artificial verses, and not to be free from errors. See Haj. Khal., vol. iii ., p. 21, and, for other copies, the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i., p. 205, and Pertscli, Berlin Catalogue, no. 9, art. 6, no. 22, art. 3, and no. 39, art. 1. The work has been lithographed in Teheran, A.H. 1302, in one volume with Divan i Ka’ani. II. Poll. 78 — 124. Prefaces of Nashat to the Divan of Path ‘Ali Shall and to the Shahinshah Nam ah of Saba, with some other prose compositions by the same writer. Beg. (A>6> The preface of the Shahinshah Namah, fol. 9 lb, begins : Jy+> j' A The last piece is the marriage contract of Navvab Husain ‘Ali Mirza, fol. 119a, which is imperfect at the end. The author, Mirza ‘Abd ul-Vahliab, poeti- cally surnamed Nashat, belonged to the family of the Musavi Sayyids of Isfahan, and was first Kalantar of that city. He subsequently became the favourite secretary of Fath ‘Ali Shah, who conferred upon him the title of Mu‘tamad ud-Daulah. He died A.H. 1244. See Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 509 ; Zinat ul-Mada’ih, fol. 136a; Anjuman i Khakan, fol. 94a ; Safinat ul-Mahmud, fol. 24 b ; Nigaristan i Dara, fol. 124& ; Tazkirah i Muhammadshahi, fol. 2 1 57> ; and the Persian Catalogue, p. 722a. Nashat was a friend of Sir Gore Ouseley, who devotes to him a very flattering notice, quoted in full in Ethe’s Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1200. The above prefaces are probably unequalled examples of the turgid, stilted, and de- sperately prolix style which may be called Persian Euphuism, and which still finds admirers in the East. 189 . Or. 3344. — Foil. 392 ; 9f in. by 5f ; 19 lines, 4 in. long ; written in small Neskhi ; dated Wednesday, 9 Safar, A.H. 816 (A.D. 1413). [Sidney Churchill.] The secretary’s manual, or rules and models of epistolary composition, by Muhammad B. Hindushah, called Shams, al-Munshi al- Nakhjuvani. Beg. (JjLo j iA>-[ i ~ i ^ LI ... iNjho ^ PROSODY. 123 The author mentions in the preface the following great masters of the art : Rashid ud-Din Vatvat, Balia ud-Din Muh. Bao-h- dadi, Nur ud-Din Munshi, and Razi ud-Din Kkashshab, but adds that their style had become antiquated. After a panegyric on the reigning prince, Shaikh Uvais Bahadur Khan (the second prince of the Ilkani dynasty, who reigned A.H. 757 — 776), he says that he had not had the honour of kissing the royal threshold, but was, from his distant home, invoking blessings upon His Majesty, and had written the present work, in his old age, as a tribute of homage to his sovereign. He adds that he had formerly been invited by Khwajah Ghiya§ ud-Din Muh., in the reign of Abu Sa £ id, to write a similar work, but had not been able to accomplish that task. Ibn Hindushak is also known as the author of a Persian glossary entitled and dedicated to the above-mentioned Vazir, Khwajah Ghiya§ ud-Din. See Pertsch, Gotha Catalogue, p. 36, and Melanges Asiatiques, tom ix., p. 36. Contents of the present work : Preface, fol. 15, concluding with a full table of chapters, foil. 9 a — 1 6b. Mukaddimah, fol. 1 6b, Ivism I., comprising four Martabahs, viz., 1. Letters to Sultans, royal ladies (Khatuns) and princes, fol. 19a. 2. Letters to Amirs, Yazirs, Sayyids, Shaikhs, &c., fol. 131a. 3. Letters to ‘Ulama, physicians, professors, &c., fob 209a. 4. Letters written by Sultans, Amirs, Vazirs, &c., to each other, fol. 2475. Kism II. Edicts, diplomas of investiture, and other official documents, in two Babs, beginning respectively at fob 2805 and 357a. Kkatimah, fol. 383a. The contents have been described in full by Hammer, Handschriften, no. 185, pp. 171 — 177. Two copies noticed in the Ley- den Catalogue, no. 290, and in the Vienna Catalogue, no. 244 (Hammer’s MS.), are later than the present. Copyist : ^ Prosody. 190 . Or. 2814. — Foil. 191 ; 9f in. by 6^ ; 21 lines, 4 in. long; written in Neskhi, apparently in the 14th century. [Sidney Churchill.] ^.oU-o j*^*'*'^ A treatise on Persian metre, rhyme, and poetical figures, with copious quotations from old poets, by Shams i Kais. The preface, the beginning of which is lost, contains a panegyric on a king, whose name does not appear. He is spoken of as a young sovereign sUob, whose seat was Shiraz, and who had lately added to his empire Kish with its dependencies, parts of the Hijaz, Bahrain, ‘Oman, the harbours of the Persian Gulf, and the littoral from Basrah to the borders of India. This evi- dently applies to the Atabek Abu Bakr B. Sa‘d B. Zingi, who reigned A.H. 623 — 658, and whose conquest of Kish, Katif, Bahrain and ‘Oman took place, as stated in the Jahan-ara, fob 1045, A.H. 628. The present work must have been written shortly after the latter date. Other passages confirm that inference and throw some light on the career of the author, who appears to have spent the early part of his life in Bukhara. He speaks in the Khatimah of a Fakili and would-be poet, who came to him in that city, A.H. 601, where he stayed with him five or six years, and whom he subsequently met again in Rai, A.H. 617. R O 124 PHILOLOGY. In the preface, when stating the origin of the present work, the author relates how a treatise, which he had formerly written on the same subject, had been lost with other precious books, at the time of the invasion of the infidels (the Moghols), in the rout of the army of the Sultan (Muhammad Khwarazm- shah) and of his sons before the fortress of FarzTn in the month of Jumada of the year 17 (A.H. 617). Some quires of that book were subsequently recovered and shown by him to the learned men of Shiraz, who, while pleased with it, objected to the use of the Arabic language in treating of Persian poetry. In compliance with their urgent request, he extracted from it and turned into Persian those parts which treated of that subject. The work is divided, fol. 6a, into two parts (Kism), treating respectively of metre and of rhyme, ^ j d JA The first Kism is subdivided into four Babs, with the following headings : Jjfcl if fol. 66. d (J-zcW fol. 14(2. jii ^ Ji's jO 3. ^ ^ fol. 17a. j \ , e j j ^ 4 . cAA fol. 29a. The second Kism, treating of rhymes and of poetical criticism, contains six Babs, as follows : j &>■ j j j*** 1. ^ fol. 84a. fol. 876 j ciA-ils i_j ijj> j>f 2. ^' B+ *n\ j j ■ ** j - * '■ J* ^ J ^ 3. Ldb fol. 113a. Coj ^ j fol. 1146. ^ sjoja~~> b j ,jiy 5. jail fol. 1186. c " j' (Ap 3 j c^*"^ 0 J* j* 6- yj j fol. 1356. There is, besides, a Khatimah, foil. 179 — 191, containing the author’s advice to in- tended poets. The work is copiously illustrated with poetical quotations. The most frequently quoted poet is Anvari, and one of the latest is Kamal Isma‘11 (d. A.H. 635), a contem- porary of the author. There are also verses of ‘Unsuri, Daldki, Farrukhi, Minuchihrl, Ghaza’irl, Azraki, Abulfaraj Rum, Mas'ud i Sa‘d, Sana’!, Mufizzi, Mukhtarl, Sayyid Hasan Ghaznavl, Rashid, ‘IraadI (Shahriyari), Khakani, Mujir Bailakani, Zahir, Sharaf ud- Din i Shufurvah, and others. The jjW, by Shams i Kais, ap- parently an abridgment of the present work, is quoted in a later treatise on rhyme, noticed in the Persian Catalogue, p. 8146, xii. Two other works of Shams i Kais are quoted by Fakhri ; see Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 1371. An anonymous work jb**> treating also of metre and rhyme, and composed A.H. 649, is much shorter than the present work, from which it is quite distinct. See the Leyden Catalogue, vol. i., p. 119, and the Persian Catalogue, p. 525a. The word in the above title is pro- bably to be read Muhajjam, in the sense of “ turned into Persian.” The author refers, fol. 1146, to his previous work as “ the book written in Arabic.” The usual PROSODY. 125 meaning of Mu'jam, “ alphabetically ar- ranged,” does not apply to this work. The margins are covered throughout the volume with glosses explanatory of Arabic words, written by a later hand and without any connection with the text. 191. Or. 2980. — Foil. 115; 9f in. by 7^; from 15 to 18 lines, 4§ in. long; written in small and fair Nestalik ; dated 25 Rajab, A.H. 1123 (A.D. 1711). [H. A. Stern. J I. Foil. 1 — 23. ( Jo^ A treatise on prosody, by Saifi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 5256, and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, nos. 56, 5, 115, 5. II. Foil. 24, 25. A short tract ascribed to Rashid ud-Dln Vatvat, giving examples and scansion of sixteen favourite Persian metres. Beg. ^ j> ALA jAlj jjlff- I3ji j aLly . . . The first example, ,JL» ^js> begins as follows : jj' 0 ^y- J' \> ty* j>.'} \ 3 1) y) jA III. Foil. 26-35. A treatise on rhyme by ‘Ata-ullah B. Mahmud al-Husaiui. Beg. *A y> Al >Ua & yib y&j»- -y) &.{ &C-lLA\ Amir Burhan ud-Dln ‘Ata-ullah, born in Naishapur, studied in Herat, and became an accomplished master of prosody and poetical figures. He was for many years engaged in teaching in the Sultaniyah and Ikhlasiyyah Madrasahs, and his treatises on rhyme and on poetical ornaments are popular. Towards the end of his life he lost his sight and retired to Mashhad, where he died A.H. 929. See Habib us-Siyar, vol. iii., Juz 3, p. 345 ; Majalis ul-Mu’minln, fol. 76; and Baber, Pavet de Courteille’s translation, vol. i., p. 404. The present treatise is extracted, as stated in the preamble, from the Makta‘, or final section, of a comprehensive work on the art of poetry, entitled X&U-afi J-Ao, which the author had written by desire of Mir ‘All Shir. (See Haj. Khal., ii., 399, and iii., 425.) It is divided into nine sections called * ijs- } with the following headings : 1. Fol. 27a. cJoyo 2. Ib . (_5jj i_-? ^ &yl£ i 5j j>- iAxA y ltA ^ by Mir Husain B. Muhammad al- Husaini (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 6495), with a commentary. It is stated at the end that the author, Mir Husain Naishapuri, died on the 9th of Zulka‘dah, A.H. 904. The commentary is mixed up with the text, without any distinction. The commen- tator calls the author his master, and gives at the end chronograms of his own composi- tion for A.H. 912 and 914. He does not explicitly state his name ; but he designates himself in the following chronogram by the takhallus Rukni : <-5^ j>\ <— A L r-3^ j* 3 ‘-r’'-** 5 ” u^-3 x - The above chronogram gives A.H. 916 as the date of composition of the commentarju VI. Foil. 109 — 111. Tables of divination u. alleged to have been written by Aristotle for Sultan Sikandar. VII. Foil. 112—115. An anonymous treatise on the twelve musical moods, on their relation to the twelve signs of the zodiac, and on their subdivisions. It is en- dorsed and begins with a quatrain containing the names of the twelve musical moods, the first line of which is : The treatise is divided into short unnum- bered sections, with the heading 192 . Or. 3249. — Foil. 26; 8 in. by 4^; 12 lines, 2f in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated Shav- val, A.H. 1245 (A.D. 1830). [Sidney Churchill.] A treatise on rhyme, by ‘Ata-ullah B. Mahmud al-Husaini. See the preceding MS., art. 111 . Beg. Riddles. 193 . Or. 3509. — Foil. 200; 7 in. by 4; 15 lines, 2^ in. long ; written in Neskhi, apparently in the 15th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A treatise on Mu'amma by Sharaf ud-Din ‘Ali Yazdi, author of the Zafar Namah, who died A.H. 858 (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 173). Beg. r W J 1 • • • • 'b&J) ^ J J>3±> ^ 3 J3~~> ^ The MS. is endorsed, 13*^ jA ^ a3L», ^ Ir*- This is evidently the work entitled Hulal i Mutarraz, Ji=-, on which Jarni based his own treatise on the same subject, inscribed JU Lb>. See Haj. Khal., vol. iii., p. 108, vol. v., p. 638 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 32, art. 2 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 894, art. 32. An abstract of the same work, subsequently made by the author, is designated as JL- See the Bod- leian Catalogue, no. 1345. Although the title JL- is not actually found in the POETRY. 127 text, it undoubtedly applies to the present work, and is easily accounted for by the fact that its main sections are called JU, while their subdivisions are designated by the word j\Jb. The preface begins with some considera- tions on human speech in general and on the literal and the hidden meanings of the Coran. After these the author states that in A.H. 832 his royal patron, Abu’l-Fath Ibrahim Sultan (son of Shahrukh and Viceroy of Fars) marched at the head of an army from Shiraz to Azarbaijan, and displayed the most brilliant generalship and prowess, especially in a battle fought before Salmas, in which the rebel Iskandar Turcoman 1 was defeated. A portion of Ibrahim Sultan’s troops were then dismissed to Shiraz, and the author, who had accompanied the prince on that campaign, returned with them, and, pining at his master’s absence, he sought solace in the composition of this work. It treats of the art of composing verses which enclose words, mostly proper names, disguised in some ingenious fashion. Contents : Preface, fol. 2b. Two prelimi- nary chapters called Asl, fol. 10a, viz., 1. cJ js&> 3 hj JW* 3 '-*3f~ j3*° uW j-S and u' 3' Mukaddimah, fol. 5 6b. Five main sections called Hullah (*1>), subdivided into chapters termed Tiraz. The headings of the Hullahs are given in the Mukaddimah, fol. 5 7b, as follows : (Jjl I. Jjbo ^3^3 3 f3^ ‘ i “- r"' |*J &-> $ &i> m • •ij*- JJJO j$£>\ j 6^ L ^>'^ y. jd al»- V. The first four Hullahs begin respectively at foil. 58 b, 94 a, 11 7b, and 181a. The early part of the second is wanting, owing to the loss of one or more leaves after fol. 93. The fourth Hullah is slightly imperfect at the end, and the fifth is missing. 194. Or. 3241. — Foil. 60 ; 9^ in. by 6J ; 13 lines, 2-| in. long ; written in small and neat Nes- talik, with an illuminated border enclosing the first two pages, and gold designs on tinted paper margins; dated A.H. 925 (A.D. 1519). [Sidney Churchill.] A treatise on the same subject, by Mir H usain B. Muhammad al-Husaini, who died A.H. 904. See no. 192, art. v. Beg. *— _j o LU3 j! &SoT j.11) Copyist: ^bs jU> POETRY. 195. Or. 4906. — Foil. 642 ; 12-| in. by 8 ; 25 lines, 4>\ in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, in four gold-ruled ruled columns, with ‘Unvans and 1 Amir Iskandar B. Kara Yusuf was routed by the united forces of Shahrukh on the 17th of Zulhijjah, before Salmas (Matla‘ us-Sa‘dain, Or. 1291, foil. 158 — 63). 128 POETRY. thirty-eight miniatures in rather inferior Persian style, apparently in the 17th century. [Sir Henry Rawlinson.J The Shahnamah of Firdausi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 533. This copy contains upwards of sixty thou- sand distichs, or at least ten thousand above the usual number. The excess is accounted for by the following extensive additions to the original text : I. The Garshasp Namah of Asadi, in two parts, occupying respectively fol. 10a, line 24, to fol. 685, line 22, and fol. 73a, line 25, to fol. 1015, line 20. The first part begins with this line : wliich in the Gobineau copy, described under no. 201, is found at the end of the prologue, fol. 35, line 6. It is brought down to the death of Atrat, father of Garshasp, and tlie latter’s accession, ending with this verse : J J' which occurs at fol. 35a, line 27, of the above- mentioned MS. This first part is separated from the second by a portion of Firdausi’s text relating to the history of Faridun, and corresponding with pp. 31 — 48 of Macan’s edition. The second part of the Garshasp Namah begins with the line which in the Gobineau MS. follows immediately the last quoted verse, namely : Jjjj \) cA— “* It differs in contents and arrangement from the text of the Gobineau MS., and has some additional matter at the end. The death of Garshasp, with which the latter copy concludes, is recorded here in the first lines of fol. 100a. This passage is followed by three sections relating to the mourning of Nariman, to a letter of condolence written to him by Faridun, and to the festive banquet given in his honour by the latter. The epilogue which follows, contains the date of composition, A.H. 458 : the name of the poet, Asadi, ^j\y> ji a a ! tj>- A~fi JIaa and the statement that the poem consists of nine thousand Baits, and had been composed in the space of two years : &i> (_£*£> A.*! a At the end is a versified colophon dated A. H. 748, evidently transcribed from an earlier MS. The next two pages, fol. 102a and 5, are occupied by a prologue to a collection of select verses from the Shah- namah, classed, according to subjects, in thirteen Babs. It was compiled by one ‘Ali B. Ahmad, and dedicated to Malik Shah. IT. The Barzu Namah, inserted after the episode of Bizhan, and occupying foil. 261a —303a. Beg. &jc L 5 ^ y e/° j' < 05 *^ *P j j T j' ji Ji. This poem, the author of which is not known, has been described by Mohl in his preface to the Shahnamah, p. xliv., and by Macan in his introductory remarks, pp. xxv. — xxx. The present text agrees with that printed by Macan in the fourth volume of POETRY. A.H. 400—500. 129 his edition of the Shahnamah, pp. 2160 — 2296. The history of Barzu is briefly told in Ihya ul-Muliik, Or. 2779, foil. 13 — 15. The poem is found inserted in another copy of the Shahnamah, Add. 27,258, foil. 2526, 261a — 3016, and a fragment is noticed by EtlY, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 511. The Barzu Namah is ascribed in one of Anquetil’s MSS. to a poet Atai. See Macan, p. xxix. In the epilogue of the Shahnamah, fol. 6416, the early date of composition, A.H. 384, noticed in the Persian Catalogue, p. 5346, is given in these words : fsicd xa zU xA-o zU..> The ordinary conclusion of the epilogue is followed here by about thirty distichs not noticed in other copies. They begin with a reference to the well-known incident of the sum given away by the poet to the beer- seller. The following line and a few more are evidently taken from the famous satire upon Sultan Mahmud : j] (_Y ^ i\j> ^loi u-j See Macan, p. 65, and Mohl, Preface, p. xci. Prom a somewhat mutilated note on a partly torn fly-leaf, it appears that the MS. once belonged to Timur Mirza, and was pur- chased by Sir Henry Rawlinson in Baghdad, A.D. 1839. On fol. 4466 there is a Rubafl written by a former owner, A.H. 1157. 196 . Or. 2926. — Poll. 349; 16|- in. by 111; 25 lines, 7f in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik, in six gold-ruled columns, with nine miniatures ; dated A.H. 1246 — 49 (A.D. 1830—33). [H. A. Stern.] The first half of the Shahnamah, brought down to the accession of Luhrasp, with the preface of Mirza Baisunghar. (See the Per- sian Catalogue, p. 536a.) This copy contains a considerable amount of extraneous matter, amounting in the aggregate to about twenty thousand distichs. It consists of various poems and episodes of later date, inserted at suitable places of the Shahnamah, without any break or special heading, so as to form in appearance a con- tiuuous text with the genuine poem of Fir- dausi. These additions are as follows : I. Foil. 15a, line 23 to fol. 54, line 6. Gar- shasp Namah with this begin- ning : x r ' sxjA,^ Ao x/ ^x* See the Gobineau MS., no. 201, fol. 36, line 20. It concludes with the death of the hero and a brief mention of the letter written to his son by Farldun. The last lines are : ex-- - ' -0 <_*S v \j -* l (_£ l A. iV-7 See Or. 2878, fol. 110a. II. Foil. 63a, line 16, to fol. 93a, line 25. Sam Namah beginning, in continua- tion of Firdausi’s text (Macan, p. 96, line 23), with these lines : Lr*\) (* 1 ) ^ y xrY V u* ^ aX j j 0 zlA s 130 POETRY. The last line is : 8 J 1 t-K^J i\*X> ^ j 3 c • 0 t i The Sam Namah is a very late composi- tion ascribed, probably falsely, to Khwaju Kirmani. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 5436, and Rehatsek, Molla Firuz Library, p. 152. Compare Spiegel, Eran, vol. i., p. 559, and Etlie, Litteraturzeitung, 1881, no. 45, col. 1736. III. Fob 1076, line 23, to fob 1126, line 19. The episode of Rustam’s fight with Kuk Kuhzad, beginning : _??■ r--3^- It is printed in the fourth volume of Macan’s edition, pp. 2133 — 2158. It is also found in Add. 27,258, foil. 596 — 676, and an abstract of the story is given in Ihya ul- Muluk, fob 116. IV. Fob 1126, line 19, to fob 123a, line 4. Episodes of the Indian tiger slain by Rustam, of the birth of Faramurz, and of the sea- monster Batyarali sJAjo , also destroyed by Rustam ; beginning : (»b\ jjj V. Fob 146a, line 6, to fob 1676, line 2. Episode of Shabrang, son of Div i Sapid, and of the encounters of Rustam and Fara- murz with him and other Uivs in Mazan- daran, beginning : j J+) ^Ll-o i 2.0 (JL (_?4 f, &*■%,§> Serv Azad, of Merv, is one of the authori- ties of Firdausi. See Mohl’s edition, preface, p. xix., vol. iv., p. 701. VI. Fob 1676, line 3 to fob 1796, line 25. Faramurz Namah in substantial agreement with a separate copy, no. 199, n. ; beginning : J. See Mohl’s preface, p. lxiii. The two pre- ceding articles may be fragments of the same poem. The last line is : jb Xx& j\ jj'Xji VII. Fob 191a, line 2 to fob 1926, line 17. A sequel to the episode of Suhrab, in con- tinuation of this line of Macan’s text, p. 376, line : jl)* 5 3 j 33 l3.xXXj> The next lines in our text are : Ab 1 ” 3 , h li ch-' ^-3* ]/ LjU/ , agreeing with no. 195, art. ii. IX. Fol. 2496, line 7, to fob 251a, line 19. An episode relating to the warlike daughter of Rustam, Banu Gushasp, beginning : Jxid ^ \ j*j3y»- b — — j.WJ f , b ^ The last line is : jXjX (5U iO.L &*>S aj b j?,*** X) POETRY. A. II. 400—500. 131 This short episode is probably a frag- ment of the poem entitled Banu Gushasp Namah, described by Mold in his preface, p. lxiii. A copy mentioned by Ethe, no. 509, has a different beginning from the above. The preface of Baisunghar, which occupies foil. 1 — 10, and is in the same handwriting as the bulk of the volume, is dated Rabl‘ I., A.H. 1249. The last leaf of the volume, written by another hand, is dated Safar, A.H. 1246. Half-page miniatures in late Persian style are found at foil. 106, 129, 130, 133 — 35, 137, 153 and 214. Many blank spaces reserved for miniatures have not been filled in. 197 . Or. 2976. — Foil 275 ; uniform with the pre- ceding and written by the same hand ; dated Shiraz, 1st Jumada I., A.H. 1252 (A.D. 1836). [H. A. Steen.] The latter half of the Shahnamah, written in continuation of the preceding volume, and containing the following additions : I. Foil. 595 — 62 a. Part of the Azarbarzin Namah, a history of Azarbarzin, son of Zal [sic], and of the daughter of Sur, king of Kashmir, wdtli this heading : jlsd Beg. J&f jjr ] J j' ^ As the story begins with the birth of Azarbarzin and ends with his death, the text here given cannot fall much short of the whole poem. It appears to be an abridged version of the history of that hero, whose career is related at much greater length in the next-following poem. II. Foil. 62a — 133a. Bahman-Namah, a poem treating of the wars of Bahman with the heroes of Sistan, and especially with Azarbarzin, son of Faramurz. The contents have been described by Mold iu his preface to the Shahnamah, p. lxvii. The heading is : &*b ^jb«»b jS* 1 j ; J v j Beg. jA ^Ab d\> l^ob db j (Aj j j-. A. The poet, whose name does not appear, says in his prologue that ten years had elapsed since the death of Malik Shah : b J', id *\ *J> (j He was writing, therefore, A.H. 495. He describes the troubles which followed the death of Malik Shah, and the prowess with which his son succeeded in putting down rebels and establishing his rule. The author approached the royal throne, he says, in Isfahan, and invoked blessings on the sove- reign. The prince here referred to can hardly be any other than the son and suc- cessor of Malik Shall, Barkyaruk, who reigned A.H. 486 — 98. The name of Mahmud, which appears in the above heading and at the end, fol. 133a, would seem to have been intro- duced by some confusion with Sultan Mah- mud, the patron of Firdausi. There was, indeed, a son of Malik Shah called Mahmud, but he was only four years of age when raised upon the throne after his father’s death, and he died himself about a year later. 132 POETRY. The same poem is found in another MS., Or. 2780, no. 201, iit., with a different pro- logue, addressed to Muhammad Shah, brother and successor of Barkyaruk, about A.H. 502. The narrative begins, fob 62 5, line 12, with these verses (corresponding with Or. 2780, fol. 136, line 9) : liVp (jiao (j \i it The two texts are in close agreement down to the fight of Bahman with the dragon and to his death, fob 1325, line 6 (Or. 2780, fob 1875, line 5). The concluding lines in the present copy relate to the return of Azarbarzin to Sistan, and to the death of Zal, while the concluding portion of Or. 2780 describes the reception by Humai of the tidings of Bahman’ s death and her installa- tion on the throne. An abstract of the contents of Bahman Namah will be found in Ihya ul-Muluk, Or. 2779, foil. 19—21. Poll. 133a — 275 contain the latter part of the Shahnamah, from the accession of Humai to the death of Yazdagird (Macan, pp. 1248 — 2089), wanting the last two sections and the epilogue. This volume contains nine half-page minia- tures on foil. 66, 69, 72, 74, 80, 127, 128, 132, 136, and several blank spaces left un- filled. 198 . Or. 4384. — Folk 307; 13^ in, by 10; 27 lines, 7| in. long; written in small and neat Nes- talik, in six gold-ruled columns, with ‘Unvans, apparently about the close of the 15th century. [Wallis Bodge.] The Shahnamah, with the old preface. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 534a ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 702; and Eth6, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 497. The MS. is somewhat imperfect at the beginning. The first folios, which must be taken in this order, 2, 3, 1, 5, contain the main part of the old preface, corresponding with pp. 54 — 68 of Wallenbourg’s transla- tion, and the summary of the four Persian dynasties (ib. pp. 70 — 75). Pol. 4, which should come after fob 219, belongs to the history of Bahrain Gur, and corresponds with pp. 1517 — 23 of Macan’s edition. The last six folios should be taken in this order : foil. 302, 3065, 306a, 303, 304, 305, 307. In the epilogue, the early date of com- position, A.H. 384, noticed in the Persian Catalogue, p. 5345, is also found, but some- what differently expressed, in the following line ; j Aimj& iXo ci j The number of Baits in the MS. is about 48,500. There are nine half-page miniatures, of inferior Persian style, at foil. 31, 51, 85, 93, 129, 158, 192, 239, and 276. The poem is divided into two equal parts, the second of which begins, fob 1415, with the accession of Lulirasp. Or. 2946. — Foil. 109; 9^ in. by 4-*- ; 19 and 13 lines ; written in cursive Nestalik, ap- parently in India, in the 18th century. [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 2 — 49. Bizlian Namah, an episode of the Shahnamah, with the heading, &W jlff-T Beg. \j> ^ <■ 1 . The text corresponds in substance with POETRY. A.H. 400—500. 133 Macan’s edition, pp. 755 — 805 ; but it is swelled by interpolated verses from about 1400 Baits to 1900. The last section, how- ever, relating to the return of Rustam to the Court of Kaikhusrau, is shorter than the original text, and differs from it considerably. An appendix of 50 Baits, written in a smaller character, treats of the reception of Manizhah and Blzhan by Farangis, and con- cludes with this line : This copy, as well as that of the following poem, was probably written by a Parsee, as appears from this substitute for the usual Bismillah : ^Uj Two separate MSS. of the above episodes are noticed by Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 1978-9. 200. Or. 2930. — Foil. 240 ; 9|- in. by 5f ; 15 lines, 4 in. long ; written in fair Nestalik in two columns ; dated Friday, 7 RabF II., A.H. 1244 (A.D. 1828). [Nath. Bland.] Wj j Yusuf u Zulaikka, by Firdausi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 545, and Ethe, Bod- leian Catalogue, nos. 505 — 6. Beg. p y II. Foil. 50 — 109. J Faramurz Namah, a history of the expedition of Fara- murz, son of Rustam, to India, one of the episodes grafted upon the Shahnamah. Beg. usjt S- The fourth line, ^ V J 3j S-. J? u]j bo —Ll is identical with the beginning of another copy above mentioned, no. 196, art. vi., and the two texts are in close agreement. The last line common to both, Sjthj j is followed in the present copy by four Baits, in which Faramurz is said to return to Jaipal : cAj; 'Ajj <_£} ) JWr J ^ Id This copy is the only one known which contains the full prologue of Firdausi, espe- cially the important account given by the poet, foil. 7a — 95, of his two predecessors, Abu ’1-Muayyad and Bakhtiyari. That pro- logue has been edited by Ethe, mainly from the present MS., in his “ Firdausi’s Y usuf und Zalikha,” 1887, pp. 20 — 23. The verses in praise of the Padishah i Islam, ib., p. 24, are not found in the present MS., but it con- tains, with some variations, the other two extracts given by Ethe under no. iii., namely, the first from fol. 35, line 11, to fob 4a, line 14; and the second from fob 25, line 10, to fob 3a, line 6. For MSS. and printed editions, see Ethe, ib., pp. 7 and 12. An elegant translation of the poem in German verse was published by Freiherr von Schlechta - Wssehrd, Vienna, 1889. 201 . Or. 2780. — Foil. 243 ; 10 in. by 6-|; 23 lines, 4f in. long ; written in minute and neat Persian Neskhi, in six gold-ruled columns, 134 POETRY. with four rich double-page ‘Unvans of the most highly finished style, gold headings, and miniatures ; dated Safar, A.H. 800 (A.D. 1397). [Comte de Gobineau.] I. Foil. 1 — 40. i l Garshasp Nam ah, the history of Garshasp, the hero of Sistan, written in imitation of the Shahnamah of Firdausi ; by Asadi (see no. 196, art. i.). Beg. <_sb.' ^ j j\ s!> The author’s name is not found in the text; but in the endorsement, j\ &*b the poem is as- cribed, in conformity with Eastern tradi- tion, to Hakim Asadi Tusi. As the latter was the senior contemporary and master of Firdausi, and died, at an advanced age, about A.H. 421 — 32, the authentic date of the present poem, A.H. 458, noticed under no. 195, and found in the Paris and Oxford MSS. (see Ethe’s Catalogue, no. 507, and Mohl’s Preface, p. lv.), renders that attribu- tion untenable, and makes it evident that the Garshasp Namah is the work of a later poet who had adopted the same poetical surname as his predecessor. It would be rash, however, to infer from this identity of names a close relationship between the two poets (see Etlie, Yerhandlungen des fiinften Orientalisten Congresses, 2ter Theil, p. 64). It is well known that names of that class are strictly personal, and do not pass from father to son. Abu Nasr (or Abu Mansur) ‘Ali B. Ahmad al- Asadi al-Tusi, author of the earliest poetical glossary, is probably identical with the later Asadi. See Majalis ul-Mu’minm, Add. 16,716, fob 579, and Salemann, Me- langes Asiatiques, vol. ix., p. 507. The same name, with another Kunyali, is found in a MS. of the Garshasp Namah described by Pertsch, Gotha Catalogue, no. 40, art. 2 . What we learn from internal evidence, in addition to the above-mentioned date, is that the author composed this poem for Abu Dulaf, prince of Arran (to whose name the Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, i., p. 107, adds the Nisbah from Ivarkar, a town of Arran) : ijjy oj 1 a) tj) Lfbbo cdJb (jVjl L^_o- and that before writing it he was not known as a poet. This appears from the following verse in the epilogue : sbi J-& lw» The contents of the poem are described by Mohl, Preface of the Shahnamah, pp. lv. — lviii. ; they are briefly stated in the Iliya ul-Muluk, Or. 2779, foil. 10—11, and by Rehatsek, Molla Firuz Library, p. 164. Extensive extracts are given in Majma 1 ul- Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 110 — 139. After a prologue, which occupies four pages and a half, the narrative begins, fob 35, as follows : 5UJ A-Aj./C i&Jx-Aj-ua ob j C W ( ^ A 5b \j ibJLs-* 0 a In the present copy the poem concludes with the death of Garshasp (Majma‘ ul-Fu- saha, p. 135, line 23). The subsequent sec- tions and the epilogue are wanting. The first portion of the poem, from fob 35, line 21, to fob 6a, line 20, corresponds with the text printed in the fourth volume of Macan’s edition of the Shahnamah, from p. 2109, line 23, to p. 2133, line 9. 1 The above is the reading of the Majma* ul-Fusaha, p. 113. In the present MS. the second hemistich is: POETRY. A.H. 400—500. 135 II. Foil. 41—132. Shahanshah Namah, a rhymed history of Chingiz Khan and his successors down to A.H. 738, by Ahmad of Tabriz. Beg. yyT ,Jjj The title of the poem and its dedication to Abu Sa‘Id are found in the following lines of the prologue, fol. 425: w?.' r b r -y &*b A sib \) aAr 3 F 'j > j u )[*ji j ^ ■A) =. lAFj - 5 ' The narrative begins with Japhet, son of Noah, and a sketch of his descendants in the Moghol line down to Timujin, afterwards Chingiz Khan. The headings of this intro- duction are as follows : Fol. 425. &As- ^_y euib yjLrio Fol. 44a. 1 ^$ I ji lb. j3^ 3 ^b8 lb. j CF''® &jj*2 Fol. 45a. y (^81 15. JA jUob y &by u i»JA lb. ^ Fol. 46a. u/jbb b Fol. 465. ( y^*~ j jA«y Fol. 47a. y j^yb- .5 ^3~3 r * i ^AA\d The history of Chingiz Khan is told at great length down to fol. 69a. The subjects of the next-following sections are Okotai, Tuli Khan, fol. 70a ; Jalal ud-Dln Khwarazm Shah, fol. 73a; Jaghatai, fol. 795 ; Kuyuk Khan, fol. 815; Mung Ka’an, fol. 825; and Hulagu Khan, fol. 84a. The rest of the poem is taken up with the wars of Hulagu and the reigns of his suc- cessors in Persia down to the author’s time. It appears from the epilogue that the author commenced the work by order of Abu Sa'Id, spent eight years upon its com- position, and completed it A.H. 738, two years after the death of his royal patron, when Shaikh Hasan Buzurg had raised Muhammad Khan to the throne. The date of composition and the poet’s name are found at the end : ^ L b? f b„.) ^ uH^^y \j - 8y ply! A b_Ab jlc-T yb The prologue is much longer than in the preceding copy, and contains a panegyric on the reigning sovereign, Muhammad Shall , brother and successor of Sultan Barkyaruk. The poet describes at length two events which took place in the early part of his reign. The first is the capture of Shahdiz, a stronghold held by the Isma'Ilis, close to 136 POETRY. Isfahan. It was taken by storm after a year’s siege, and the chief was flayed alive (A.H. 500 ; see Kamil, vol. x., p. 299). The second is the great battle in which Muham- mad Sliah routed and slew Malik ul-‘Arab, i.e. Amir ul-‘Arab Saif ud-Daulah Sadakah B. Mazyad (A.H. 501 ; see Kamil, ib., p. 306). Here the poet describes a huge dragon which came down from the sky before the battle, and was taken as an omen of victory. The same incident is mentioned in Ta’rlkh i Guzldali. The beginning and conclusion of the narra- tive have been given above under no. 197, ii. This copy is dated in the last decade of Rabi‘ I., A.H. 800. The poem is ascribed in the endorsement, to Hakim Azari. This is, apparently, owing to a confusion with a later Bahman Namah, a history of the Bahmanis of Deccan, by Shaikh Azari, who died A.H. 866 (see the Persian Catalogue, pp. 43a, 642a). The Mujmil ut-Tavarikh, translated by Mold, Journal Asiatique for 1843, i., pp. 395 to 418, mentions a Bahman Nameh written in verse, by Hakim Iranshan (^lAdy)) B. Abi T-Khair ; but the line there quoted is not found in our MS. In Majma‘ ul-Fusahii, vol. i., p. 110, it is stated that the Bahman Hamah was attributed by some to Jamali Mihrijirdi. In another place, p. 494, the latter poet is explicitly called author of Bahman Namah, and is mentioned as one of the contemporaries of Lami‘i, who lived about A.H. 500. IV. Foil. 188—243. Ivusli Namah, by the author of the pre- ceding poem. Beg. u'Jj Ir* uJj edj' u'dP In the prologue the author, whose name does not appear, gives again a poetical de- scription of the great battle in which his sovereign defeated and slew the king of the Arabs. He refers to the preceding poem and to the princely reward he had received for it, and in token of gratitude dedicates the present one to his royal patron. He then passes on to the subject-matter of his poem in the following lines, fol. 190a : y j> y-=r (_yy y jr* ^ j j* (jj j : lJy j J The hero of the poem, Kush, surnamed Pildandan, “ the elephant-tusked,” is repre- sented as a contemporary of Zohak and Faridun, and his warlike exploits range over all the known world from China to Maghrib. According to the Mujmil ut-Tavarikh, Kush Pildandan B. Kush was a brother’s son of Garshasp. See Mold, Journal Asiatique, 1843, i., pp. 391, 414. Some episodes of the Kush Namah have been described by Comte de Gobineau, Histoire des Perses, vol. i., pp. 139 — 144. In the endorsement the poem is ascribed, like the preceding, to Azari. Copyist (foil. 132, 243) : y y o-*s? lailii tS*** > The MS. is ornamented with eleven minia- tures in good Persian style. They occupy two-thirds of the page or more, and are found at foil. 14, 18, 29, 44, 49, 61, 89, 163, 171, 202, 213. The contents of this MS. have been briefly POETRY. A.H. 400—500. 137 noticed by Comte de Gobineau in tbe Me- langes Asiatiques, vol. vi., p. 404. They were more fully described in the Athenaeum, 31 May, 1884. 202 . Or. 2878.— Foil. 119; 121 in. by 8; 17 lines, 41 in. long ; written in four columns in elegant Nestalik, with ‘Unvan, gold-ruled margins, gilt headings and miniatures, ap- parently in the 16th century. Bound in stamped leather covers. [Sidney Churchill.] Another copy of tlie Garshasp Namah (see no. 201, i.). The prologue is abridged to fifty-two Baits, and does not contain the name of Abu Dulaf. The narrative begins at the top of the third page, fol. 35, and the record of the death of Garshasp, with which the former copy concludes, is found at fol. 112a. It is followed by several sections relating: to Nariman and to his conflict with Ra‘d i Ghammaz, Lord of Sipand Kuh (partly printed in the Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, pp. 135 — 138). The epilogue, foil. 118-19, consists only of reflections on the transitory nature of worldly greatness and of prayers, without any mention of the poet’s patron. In the colophon is found the curious notice that the author, Maulana Asadi, was the sister’s son of Firdausi: t—AA’ ^ jAA \j^) yc sAj The MS. contains two whole-page minia- tures in Persian style at the beginning, and six half-page miniatures at foil. 13, 40, 52, 82, 96 and 108. Copyist : 203 . Or. 2945. — Foil. 94 ; lOf in. by 6 ; 16 lines, 3-| in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik in two ruled columns ; dated Jumada II., A.H. 1275 (A.D. 1859). Bound in painted and glazed covers. [Sidney Churchill.] Selection from the Divan of Farrukhi, with this heading: wit: _j sjoj Beg. bq j J < Farrukhi, whose original name was Abu’l- Hasan ‘Ali B. Kulu c , was a native of Sistan, distinguished alike by musical skill and poetical genius, and a dependant of the local ruler, Amir Khalaf B. Ahmad (deposed A.H. 393 by Sultan Mahmud ; see Kamil, vol. ix., p. 122). Leaving his native country in search of fortune, he repaired to Balkh and won the favour of Amir Abu ’1-Muzaffar Tahir Chaghani, by whose liberality he was enabled to appear in state at the Court of Ghaznah. There he became one of the favorite poets of Sultan Mahmud, and died A.H. 429, leaving, besides numerous poems, a treatise on rhetorics entitled Tarjuman ul- Balaghah. See Majma £ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 439 — 65, where extensive extracts from his Divan are given, and Khair ul-Bayan, Or. 3397, fol. 515. The date 470, assigned by Taki Kashi, Oude Catalogue, p. 15, to Farrukhi’s death, is evidently much too late. The contents of the present MS. are an alphabetical series of Kasidahs with headings indicating to whom they were addressed, fol. 25, three Tarjk-bands, fol. 865, KiFahs and Ruba‘is, fol. 91a, and an appendix containing some Ghazals and additional Ruba‘is, foil. 925 — 94a. Most of the Kasi- dahs are in praise of Sultan Mahmud, of his sou Muhammad and of his brother, Amir Yusuf. A notice of the poet is prefixed, foil. 15— 2a. The MS. was written by a student called Abu ’1-Kasim, for Muh. Mahdi B. Mustafa al- Husaini al-Tafrishi, surnamed Bada’i‘-Nigar. T 138 POETRY. The same Selection was subsequently edited by the same Muh. Mahdi B. Mustafa, poetically surnamed Mukhlis, Teheran, A.H. 1301, with a preface which includes the biographical notice above-mentioned. The contents of that lithographed edition are identical with those of the present MS., with the exception that the additional pieces of the appendix have been inserted into the body of the work. Another edition of Farrukhi’s Divan was lithographed in Teheran, A.H. 1302. It contains Kasidahs, in alphabetical order, more numerous than in the first edition, but without headings, and two short Ghazals at the end. Some pieces have been edited by M. Schefer in the second volume of his Chrestomathie persane, pp. 247 — 52. A translation of Riza Kuli Khan’s notice of Farrukhi will be found in the same volume, p. 242. 204 . Or. 3246. — Foil. 286 ; 11 in. by 6f ; about 19 lines, 3f in. long ; written in two red- ruled columns in cursive Nestalik; dated (fol. 262) Tuesday, Ramazan, A.H. 1248 (A.D. 1833). Bound in painted and glazed covers. [Sidney Chuechill.] I. Folk 1-212. ^y.x The Divan of Farrukhi ; see the preceding MS. Beg. by Contents : Kasidahs in alphabetical order, partly agreeing with the Teheran edition of A.H. 1302, but much more numerous. Tarjl‘- bands, fol. 202a, beginning : xx 1 ^ x**>b ^ sA y Ghazals, fol. 207a, beginning : til*— .x y d**~jx y ellA'Ua \j*i tA lia- Rubafis, fol. 2106, beginning : ^y^yx 5 XxX 1 Ir? 5 X_}_&X II. Foil. 213 — 262. yyx The Divan of ‘Unsuri. Contents ; Kasidahs in alphabetical order, fol. 2136, with the same beginning as in no. 205. Additional Kasidahs not alpha- betically arranged, fol. 2506. Rubafis, fol. 261a, beginning : *})? y jj l/Xy ly; jXiS- III. Foil. 263 — 286. A collection of Kasi- dahs alphabetically arranged, designated in the colophon as the Divan of Rudagi : C*x ( ^Xjj yl ^lyiXh Beg. UAl C-zA <_Fy> y Jx b bA I xxb^x b i xxx ( j x It is stated, however, in a note at the beginning, that the poems are by Kataran, and have been wrongly ascribed to Rudagi, as they are found in the Divan of the former. In fact most pieces are found in the Divan of Kataran, no. 207. The same writer, who signs himself Bah- man B. ‘Abdullah Mirza B. Fath ‘Ali Shah, makes an exception in favour of two pieces which he says are really by Rudagi. The first is a Kasidah beginning, fol. 277a, as follows : ^b J> xx b x^S \j jXl/o (In Majma‘ ul-Fusaha it is given under Rudagi, vol. i., p. 238, but said to be really by Kataran). The second is the well-known piece be- ginning : O XX T ^b jb ,jry ^ xxl xb Copyist : y' POETRY. A.H. 400—500. 139 205 . Or. 2843. — Foil. Ill ; 8|- in. by 5J ; 12 lines, 3^ in. long ; written on blue-tinted paper in neat Shikastah-amlz, with ‘Unvan and gold- ruled margins ; dated Teheran, 28 Zulhijjah, A.H. 1278 (A.D. 1862). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of ‘Unsuri, Malik ush-Sliu‘ara at the Court of Sultan Mahmud, who died A.H. 431. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 103U, ii. It is alphabetically arranged, and begins with a Ivasidah in praise of Sultan Mahmud, the opening line of which is : V j y \xjO , The alphabetical series of Kasidahs is followed, fob 102 a, by three Kit‘ahs and Ghazals, and, fob 104a, by an alphabetical series of Ruba'is, beginning : The Divan includes a Ivasidah of Abu Zaid Ghaza’iri (who died A.H. 426; Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. i., p. 368) and a “replica” by ‘Unsuri, foil. 59 — -65. A similarly arranged Divan with nearly the same contents was lithographed in Persia without date. A later and fuller edition, probably lithographed in Teheran, is dated A.H. 1298. Copious extracts are given in Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 355 — 67. MSS. noticed by Sprenger, Oude Cata- logue, p. 528, and by Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 521, are not in alphabetical order. They begin with a Kasidah in { j\, which is found in the present MS., fob 70. Copyist: ao ^ 206 . Or. 2844. — Foil. 81 ; 8^ in. by 6^ ; 15 lines, about 4 in. long ; written in cursive Shi- kastah-amlz, A.H. 1274 (A.D. 1857-8). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Minuchihri, with the heading & « (J> . Be g- SV t l - ^ \sbjXxs- y Abu ’n-Najm Ahmad of Damaghan, sur- namecl Shast Gallali, took the poetical name Minuchihri from his first patron, Amir Minu- cliihr of Gurgan, who succeeded his father Amir Kabus, A.H. 386. After that prince’s death in A.H. 411, he repaired to Ghaznali, paid his court to the Malik ush-Shu‘ara ‘Unsuri, and became one of the panegyrists of Sultan Mahmud and of his son and suc- cessor, Sultan Mas'ud. He died A.H. 432 (see Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 542) or A.H. 439, as stated in the Teheran edition of the Divan. The first edition of his Divan was pub- lished in Teheran by the learned Riza Kuli Khan, who prefixed to it a biographical notice of the poet. A second edition was lithographed in Teheran, A.H. 1297. M. A. de Biberstein Ivazimirski, who had published in 1876 a specimen of the Divan, drawn from a MS. in his possession, has since edited the whole text, enlarged from the Teheran edition, with translation and notes, Paris, 1886. This edition contains an extensive historical in- troduction on the reign of Sultan MasTul, pp. 17 — 142, and Riza Kuli’s biographical notice in text and translation, pp. r-t^ and 143—147. t 2 140 POETRY. The contents of the present copy differ by some additions and changes in the arrange- ment from those of the Teheran edition of 1297, and agree on the whole better with that of Kazimirski. The Musammatat begin, fob 645, with this line, j I j> : j (Kazimirski, no. 58), and are followed, fob 795, by a few Kit'ahs and Ghazals. 207 . Or. 3317.— Foil. 254; 8 in. by 4| ; 18 lines, 2f in. long ; written in small and neat Nestalik in two gold-ruled columns, with ‘Unvan, apparently early in the 19tli century. Bound in painted and glazed covers. [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Hakim Kataran. Beg. Ibii dj> ^ \3 Kataran was a native of Jabal, or the Dailami Highlands, and lived in Tabriz, where Nasir i Kliusrau met him A.H. 434 (see Schefer’s translation of Sefer-Nameh, p. 18). He addressed most of his poems to the Sultans and Amirs, who held sway in Azarbaijan under Sultan Toghrul I., es- pecially to Amir Fazliin and Shah Abu Nasr Mamlan (appointed governor of a district of Azarbaijan, A.H. 450 ; see Kamil, vol ix., p. 448). Kataran is called Tabnzi in the earliest Tazkirah, that of ‘Aufi. See Riyaz ush-Shu‘ara, fob 3685, Haft Iklim, fob 5095, and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 466. A.H. 465 is given in the last work as the date of his death. Some pieces of the Divan will be found in Schefer’s Chrestomathie Persane, vol. ii. , pp. 240 — 47. The Divan consists for the most part of Kasidahs in alphabetical order, without headings. These are followed, fob 202a, by Tarji‘ bands and Kit'ahs, beginning : jf?** OS* j* ^ At the end, fob 2455, is a series of Ruba'is without alphabetical order, beginning : 2 y j '- 0 The MS. is endorsed but this has been corrected in a note showing that the mistake arose from a confusion between Abu Nasr Mamlan, patron of Kataran, and Nasr B. Ahmad Samani, patron of Rudagi. 208 . Or. 2879. — Foil. 81 ; 8 j in. by 5 ; 17 lines, 2f- in. long, with additional slanting lines in the margin ; written in neat Nestalik, ap- parently in the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A smaller collection of the poems of Kataran. Beg. The first Kasidah is found at fob 173 of the preceding MS. The Divan concludes with another Kasidah, which occurs at fob 94 of the latter copy, and begins thus : j (_)£ j-l j j L — ^ b d^ (•"* j An appendix, foil. 725 — 815, contains some additional pieces beginning : POETRY. A.H. 400—500. 141 On the first page is a note of a former owner with the date A.H. 1278. 209 . Or. 2845. — Poll. 160 ; 8J in. by 4f ; 23 lines, 2f in. long ; written in minute and very neat Nestalik, apparently early in the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Nasir i Khusrau ‘Alavi. Beg. sh j!> j ^ Ao IJo ciAa c_AK &'x> j $ Nasir i Khusrau was born in Kubadiyan, near Balkh, A.H. 394, and died in Yumgan, in the province of Badakhshan, A.H. 481. For notices of his life, see the Persian Cata- logue, p. 10866 ; Ethe, Actes du sixieme Congres, Leide, 1885, Part 2, pp. 171 — 237 ; and Majma £ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 607 — 633, where copious extracts from the Divan are given. A lithographed edition of the Divan, alpha- betically arranged, with an abridgment of the alleged autobiography of the author, was printed in Tabriz, A.H. 1280. The contents of the present MS. are not in alphabetical order, although they begin with the first Kasidah of the Tabriz edition. The second Kasidah of the MS., beginning jJj' u>.j is found at p. 230 of the Tabriz edition. The last complete Kasidah in the MS., beginning j L -^ 5 3 u 3 ) V occurs at p. 272 of the same edition. The MS. breaks off at the tenth Bait of the next piece, which is not found in the lithographed edition, and begins : soAjb Jb*- 210 . Or. 3323. — Foil. 333; 8jin.by6J; 14 lines, 3]: in. long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated 9 Jumada I., A.H. 1296 (A.D. 1879). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of the same poet alphabetically arranged. Beg. Two prose pieces are prefixed, viz., 1. A notice of the poet, by Taki ud-Din Muh. al-Husaini (no. 105), fol. 16. 2. The auto- biography of Nasir i Khusrau, foil. 46—206. The contents of the Divan are much fuller than those of the Tabriz edition. The alpha- betical series of Kasidahs, which ends fol. 317a, is followed by two longer pieces, the beginnings of which are as follows : O O Fol. 317a. ji 3 03 X: ? ^ Fol. 321a. e;A/T jyo Jo (jly \j bU»- At the end, fol. 326a, are some Kit £ aks beginning : A?.j *ji~ i 3'* V** 3 3 &3? */° 3 j' 211 . Or. 3713. — Foil. 179 ; 11£ in. by 7f ; 31 lines, 6 in. long ; written in distinct Persian Neskhi, 142 POETRY. in four red-ruled columns, with gilt ‘Unviins ; dated Tabriz, from Tuesday, 6 Rabi‘ II., A.H. 692, to Friday, 5 Safar, A.H. 697 (A.D. 1293 — 98). [Sidney Chuechill.] I. Foil. 2b— 17a. /J! yl ^ The Divan of Abu ’l-Faraj Runi, who died about the close of the fifth century of the Hijrah. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 547 ; Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 523 ; and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 70 — 78. Beg. j The Divan is not in alphabetical order. The Kasidahs are followed, fol. 16a, by Mukatta'at beginning : iib LLb’Aja and, fol. 165, by Ruba‘is beginning : Sx+G- j\j } \ j* (JbMii jbjjj II. Foil. 175 — 18a. Ruba'is by Majd ud- Din Darn gar, ^iiib b iN X J i„ Hamgar was a native of Shiraz, who traced his origin to Anushirvan. He was a pane- gyrist of the Atabek of Fars, Sa‘d B. Abu Bakr B. Zingi, and of the great Sahib Divan, Shams ud-Din Muhammad. He died A.H. 686. See Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 478 ; Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 678; and Majma 4 ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 594 — 8. The Ruba'is are in alphabetical order, and break oiT in letter O. For the continuation see below, artt. iv. and vn. III. Foil. 185 — 355. (Jjj! The Divan of Azraki. Jb I jji Zain ud-Din Abu Bakr Azraki lived at the Court of Tughan Shah, the Saljuk prince of Nishapur, and died in Herat, A.H. 526 or 527. See Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 366 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 711 ; and Majma* ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 139 — 52. The Divan consists almost entirely of Kasidahs, many of which are addressed to Tughan Shah B. Muh., to Miranshah B. Kavurd, who reigned in Ivirman A.H. 487— 494, and to several Yazirs of the same period. They are not in alphabetical order. At the end, fol. 345, are Ruba‘is beginning : IV. Fol. 355 — 36a. Ruba‘is of Majd ud- Din Hamgar, continued from fol. 18, with the heading : J( a abiT Jt i ^)ii jb*> V. Foil. 365— 125a. ^ The Divan of Anvari. See no. 215, V. Beg. a>*>b ^ ^ j* b-^>b l=b***>ii _j (Jli Contents : Kasidahs not alphabetically ar- ranged, but grouped under the persons to whom they are addressed. Mukatta‘at, fol. 83a, beginning : l ** A T <— lDti*« POETRY. A.H. 400—500. 143 Ruba'is, fol. 118a, beginning: r r Uai ,J1 J&y Jj j\ A* 1 ® >. ^S' y\y \j a'.-*-) 5 0 VI. Foil. 1256 — 1736. ^yS> The Divan of Mukhtari. See no. 215, vn. Beg. ^ 1/ ^jbx*»ii3JJ& ^,bO ^ Sb*i &/ol3 Kasidahs arranged under the persons in whose praise they are written. Hazaliyyat and Ghazaliyyat, fol. 1656, the latter of which begin as follows : ‘ K 1 " Ji sJlff - j y •— Masnavis, fob 166a, the first of which is entitled sJo and begins : c^j ^ y*^>- 0 ^ yy ^y- J'““* Rubafis, fob 170a, beginning : \jUb (j-ii (corrected to &b« 0-*£>) lDR Cl»£bo tW> ^ u-*f**> d-'la.S’ VII. Foil. 1736—1796. Rubafis of Majd ud-Din Hamgar, continued from fob 36, and extending from & to 3 ^jUaL** j>- It consists entirely of Kasidahs, the last of which begins as follows : j ^ ^^bL^bl; si*** ^ IV. Foil. 446 — 75a. uW ^ y&r J &b»- t_Wjj ^ j j ^ 3j It consists of two series of Kasidahs, the first of which is in alphabetical order. The second, which is not so arranged, begins, fol. 57a, as follows : c^j-bA ij'hs-j *jjbU» Lil .*> ^ .i* ~ 1 j* «^**> Qi. v ***j i. ch Y. Foil. 756 — 119a. <_£^>y*o The Divan of Minuchihri ; see above, no. 206. This is the text edited by Riza Kuli Khan, with his notice of the poet at the beginning, foil. 756-766, revised and enlarged by Muh. Husain B. Aka Muh. Mahdi Arbab Isfahani, poetically surnamed Adib. The contents are the same as those of the Teheran edition of A.H. 1297. 213 . Or. 2995. — Foil. 179 ; 8| in. by 5 ; 14 lines, 3^ in. long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated Friday, 10 Ramazan, A.H. 1264 (A.D. 1848). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 26 — 87a. j\ The Divan of Azraki, with the same beginning, and generally the same arrange- ment, as in a preceding copy, no. 211, hi. The Ruba'is begin, fol. 816, as follows : ib d'j by i \j) sl>y II. Foil. 876— 148a. The Divan of Imami Haravi, who lived in Kirman and Isfahan, and died in the latter place, according to Taki Kashi, A.H. 686. See Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 17, no. 46, and p. 439; Daulatshah, hi., 10 ; Haft Iklim, fol. 1946 ; Riyaz ush-Shu c ara, fol. 156 ; Atashkadah, fol. 76a; Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 676; and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 98 — 101. Contents : Kasidahs, not alphabetically arranged, beginning : b*^ Mukatta‘at, fol. 1326, beginning: iSjbjk-o \j ^ 3 ZdJ J III. Foil. 1486— 1756. ^ bl uj ^ The Divan of Farid ud-Din Ahval, a con- temporary of Imami and of Majd ud-Din Hamgar, and panegyrist of Atabek Sa‘d B. Zingi. See Daulatshah, n., 13 ; Riyaz ush- Shu‘ara, fol. 3326 ; Haft Iklim, fol. 355 ; Oude Catalogue, p. 397 ; and Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 377 — 80. It consists exclusively of Kasidahs, with- out alphabetical order or headings, and begins as follows : JAo b 3y> Jy JAe IV. Foil. 176a — 1796. Three additional Kasidahs ascribed in the heading to Imami POETRY. A.H. 500—600. 145 Beg. ^ j j¥ }*?* The MS. was written for Malik ush- Shu'ara Mirza Sarkhush, by Ja‘far Kuli B. Muh. Taki Jajarmi. 214. Or. 3302. — Foil. 227 ; 7\ in. by 4f ; 15 lines, 3j in. long ; written in distinct Neskhi, before A.H. 1280 (A.D. 1863). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Hakim Sana’i, with a preface by the author. See the Persian Catalogue, pp. 549 — 551. Beg. of the Preface : \j tf*** y j dj> The most probable date is that given by Taki Kashi, Or. 3506, fol. 286, viz., A.H. 545. It has been adopted in the Atashkadah and in Riyaz ul-‘Arifin, fob 75 ft. The preface, foil. 2 — 12, agrees substan- tially with that which in other MSS. (Persian Catalogue, p. 550 ft, and Bodleian Catalogue, no. 530) is prefixed to the Hadikali. The author, who calls himself Majdud Sana’i, describes the state of despondency from which he was roused by his spiritual guide, Ahmad, son of Mas‘ud, and, after some reflections on the vanity of all science, shows that real charity consists in imparting to the sad and weary such spiritual knowledge as will make their hearts glad. The preface concludes with a table of the ten Bfibs into which the Divan is divided, viz. : j [ 1 j Jli-cl j j i^As-y jXd I. i ''' 5 *Q.- \ Si^a-Aj V _j liljkifc edir jd II. jd i VVy ^J{) j iSx^iS ubb j j — ^ ^ lib L r=~j **> iO S> t±i.s> ^1 j ^J\j^ IV. 1 | ^1 j i_)bA _j jO V. \ isx^i ^y\ jfi> \ I. (4 eo aY ic^xxo a A 3 iuolla.« VLI. C' • J \ 5 ^ ^ I j Cjc- j VI VIII. iMrf J ^ U ! J J* j 1 IX. , &AA> « &HA.U (j X. 146 POETRY. The actual contents of the MS. fall far short of the above programme. The divi- sion into Babs is not observed, the matter is considerably curtailed, the seventh Bab and the tenth (the Hadikah) are omitted, and the order of others is inverted. Contents : Religious and moral Kasidahs, fob 13 5. Kasidahs in praise of Bahramshah, of his father and predecessor, Sultan ‘Ala ud-Daulah Abu Sa‘d Mas‘ud (A.H. 492 — 508) and others, fol. 365. A Sufi poem, entitled j y>j j fob 625, beginning : cP- j '*r*j* s (mentioned in Nafahat ul-Uns, p. 697, under the title UA91 j,*,). Other Sufi poems in Kasidah form, fob 76a. Ghazals, fol. 75 a, beginning: ^>94 CJ~>j JS b 9* J 3 ^ & (.11* A) b and some laudatory and miscellaneous pieces. Elegies fob 137a. Satires, fol. 146a. Ghazals, fol. 1465. Rubafis and Kit‘ahs, fob 1745, beginning: J 3l\l3 The Masnavi entitled ^\\ ^J\ Ma*3\ jx±» (designated in the table as Bab III.), foil. 1865 — 221a, beginning: I J\ j i ■ I j\ An appendix, foil. 221a — 227a, contains anecdotes and letters of Sana’i. Copyist : ^bbly- 0 U r =-j y ALJ\ aas- 215 . Or. 4514— Foil. 153 ; 9} in. by 61- ; 35 lines, 4-| in. long, with additional lines round the margins ; written in a very minute Nestalik in six columns; dated from Jumada I., A.H. 1009 (fob 1165) to 14 Rabi‘ II., A.II. 1023 (fob 765) (A.D. 1600—1614). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 3a — 405. The Hadikah of Sana’i, to which is prefixed the preface of Muham- mad B. ‘Ali al-Raffa, imperfect at the begin- ning, followed by that of Sana’i, fob 4a (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 550 ; Ethe, Bod- leian Catalogue, no. 528 ; and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 717). II. Foil. 405 — 42a. Another Masnavi by Sana’i, with the heading i jy»J\ AjBj 0 -»~ \\ See above, no. 214, fol. 186. III. Foil. 425 — 76a. The Divan of Sana’i ; see no. 214. Beg . ^ y oli y* 03 I*) Co zSjp? The Kasidahs, which are not in alphabetical order, are followed, fol. 66a, by Ghazals be- ginning : and, fol. 74a, by Mukatta‘at beginning : O^ M L$3J 3* 3 O^j 3 d In the colophon the preceding articles are designated as yl • • • Syi' OL& i_^ 3 1 i ^ b**> * 3 1 IV. Foil. 765-775. An extract from the Persian translation of Yamlni entitled ^b'91, by Abu ’1-Sharaf Nasih B. Zafar B„ Sa‘d POETRY. A.H. 500—600. 147 al-Munshi al-Churpadakani (Persian Cata- logue, p. 157), or rather from the translator’s continuation. It relates to the events of A.H. 582, and, first, to the great cataclysm which had been foretold for that year. Y. Foil. 785 — 1165. The Divan of Anvari, alphabetically ar- ranged, with the usual beginning. See further on, no. 218. The Mukatta'at begin on fol. 96a, and the Ghazals on fol. 108a. VI. Foil. 1175 — 1345. (_ (jj*** 5 * - The Divan of Sayyid Hasan Ghaznavi, who died A. PI. 565. See the Persian Cata- logue, pp. 9995, 979a, Or. 3506, fol. 427, and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, pp. 192 — 6. Beg. ^ jijs- Jy l* ^9 l ->j b A biographical notice of the poet, by Taki ud-DIn Kashi, is prefixed to the Divan. The latter begins with an alphabetical series of Kasidahs without headings. These are fol- lowed, fol. 127a, by Tarklb-bands and TarjPs beginning : sDiCs bU- and, fol. 1295, by Mukatta'at beginning : dji Op) a/ \±> o ;J T Further on, fol. 131a, are found Ghazals beginning : e/° ltD" 0 ^ and, fol. 133a, Ruba'is beginning ; •A° ji ltI.j lD o'-?" iXAf'O i-t’*' 1 3 9^) i Q. 5 ^ ( ^ \ VII. Foil. 1355—1535. The Divan of ‘Usman Mukhtari, who died A. II. 544 or 554. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 543a, Or. 3506, fol. 325, and Majma* ul- Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 598 — 607. Beg. j j 1 \j> j£Zi jO lC - The Divan consists chiefly of Kasidahs in alphabetical order, with headings indicating in whose praise they were composed. Most of them were addressed to Arslan Shah B. Kirmanshah, the Saljuki prince of Kirman (A.H. 494 — 536). There are also some in praise of the Ghaznavi Sultans, Arslan Shah B. Mas'ud and his brother and successor Bahramshah, and others addressed to ‘Azud ud-Daulah Dailami, to Tamghaj Khan, and to some contemporary Vazirs. The Kasidahs are followed, fol. 1505, by Mukatta‘at beginning : c^J>- At the ends are some Ghazals and Rubafis, fol. 1515, and a few Masnavis, fol. 152a. 216 . Or. 3374. — Foil. 127 ; 9f in. by 6 ; 12 lines, 3f in. long ; written in fair Nestalik in two columns; dated A.H. 1287 (A.D. 1870). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Mukhtari, see no. 215, vii. Beg. s B y> This first Kasidah is in praise of Arslan- shah Saljuki of Kirman. It is given in Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 599. The Kasidahs are not in alphabetical order, and have no headings. The Ghazals begin, fol. 1185, as follows : J uA?=- ^ A ^ *'» £> At the end are a few Kit‘ahs and Ruba'is. u 2 148 POETRY. 217 . Or. 3320.— Foil. 149 ; 9^ in. by 4f ; 20 lines, 2f in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik in two gold-ruled columns, with ‘Unvan ; dated 23 Rabl‘ I., A.H. 1016 (A.D. 1607). [Sidney Churchill.] u\ r .£- Beg. (jV u*G-=- u~^3 j$°3 L r^3 3 3 3 The poet, a native of Gharjistan, lived mostly in Herat and Gliaznin, and was a pane- gyrist of Bahramshah Gliaznavi and of Sultan Sinjar Saljuki. He died, according to Taki Kashi, Or. 3506, fol. 397, A.H. 555. See Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, pp. 16 and 444; Daulatshah, n., 2 ; Haft Iklim, fol. 260a ; Riyfiz ush-Shu‘ara, fol. 96a; and Majrna' ul- Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 185 — 192. A MS. of the Divan with the above beginning, is fully de- scribed in Ethe’s Bodleian Catalogue, no. 538. Contents : Kasidahs, not alphabetically arranged, mixed with some Kit'ahs, fol. 16. Ghazals, fol. 127a, beginning : 818 5 \j& pUAl b) Ruba'is, fol. 140a, beginning : to jAjjo 0 5* — Copyist : ^ibbyli- ^ \j^ ^ 218 . Or. 3233. — Foil. 422 ; 9-| in. by 5-| ; 18 lines, 3 in. long ; written in very neat Nestalik in two gold -ruled columns, with four rich ‘Unvans ; dated Thursday, 20 Rajab, A.H. 1154 (A.D. 1741). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Anvari. See above, no. 215, v. ; the Persian Catalogue, p. 554 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 713 ; Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 543 ; Majma' ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 152 — 167 ; M. Ferte, Journal Asiatique, 1895, 1 . ; and Zhukovski’s Essay on Anvari’s life and poetry, published in Russian, St. Petersburg, 1883, and reviewed by Pertsch, Literatur Blatt fur Orientalische Philologie, Band II., pp. 10 — 18. In this MS. the Divan is divided into four parts, marked by separate ‘Unvans, contain- ing respectively the Kasidahs, the Mukatta'at, the Ghazals, and the Ruba'is. In each part the contents are arranged in alphabetical order. The initial verses of the four parts are as follows : I. Fol. 16. \j ^ Ji ^ cb * 3 ^ 5j 13 8 tNC-b \j jji" y j j< (_?_J II. Fol. 2076. *■ — ji?. ^3 III. Fol. 3196. IV. Fol. 3916. [|U> jjlAi jXjo bj [U Ja* es In the first two parts the poems have headings indicating their subject and metre. At the end of the third part are found a satire, fol. 3866, and a Masnavi, entitled ^ Jsjih’-s } 3 \j^ fol. 3876. Copyist : (jrjUA ^ 3 - « s+s? POETRY. A.H. 500—600. 149 219 . Or. 3312. — Foil. 149 ; 6 in. by 4 ; 18 lines, 2 in. Iona 1 ; written in small and cursive Nestalik ; dated Zulhijjah, A.H. 132 (pro- bably for 1132, A.D. 1720). [Sidney Churchill.] A commentary upon the Mukatta'at of the Divan of Anvari, by Abu ’1-Hasan al-Husaini Farahani. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 556i, where the same author’s commentary on the Kasidahs is described. Both commentaries are mentioned by Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 557. Beg. \j OjUff- y J\ .v-c C {.*** K '^'* j ob .v>- jdfi f . . . . 1) A- JJj j lA> . . . The author refers in the preface to his previous commentary on the Kasidahs, and prefixes to the present work an introduction on the six kinds of Persian poetry. The commentary follows the alphabetical order of the Mukatt.a'at. The first line quoted is : S'o y b \j <_dll i (see Or. 3233, fol. 209a). Only such pas- sages are cited as require explanation. In conclusion the author claims the indulgence of the readers on account of his youth. For other copies see the Oude Catalogue, p. 332, no. 100, and Melanges Asiatiques, vol. iv., p. 54. Copyist : s+s? 220 . Or. 3486.— Foil. 540; 13; ill. I.y Of ; 15 lines, 3f in. long in the centre of the pages, and about 31 oblique lines round the margins; written in large and elegant Kestalik, with gold -ruled margins, a rich double -page ‘Unvan and gold headings ; dated A.H. 841 (A.D. 1437-8). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil, lb — 327F ^yl ^yy The Divan of Anvari, to which is prefixed, foil, lb — 3a, a prose preface by an anony- mous editor. Beg. of the preface : y j j Mjli O-fiy _j yhfi j\ A=- .>-*>■ jyXMiJ Cl a— i After a pompous eulogy on the poet, whom lie calls ^*>^1 oUp ygfij y .... the editor says that, having found Anvari’s poems, especially those of his latter days, scattered and exposed to loss, he deemed it incumbent upon himself to collect and ar- range them, and to compile a table in order to render the search for them easy. There is, however, no such table in the MS. The Divan begins, fol. 3 b, with a Kasidah in praise of Sultan Sin jar, "with the heading: 5 NJy j y j £*** (J5, the opening line of which is : j CL***>0 j J* The arrangement is not alphabetical. Some Kasidahs at the beginning have head- ings indicating their subject. The Mukatta'at begin, fol. 203 b, as follows : yLisi b Jlyl &5U- b j*j> \j j ^ ^ Jo ^ ''•Jo I lyKj Then follow six Gliazals, fol. 32 lb, be- gin nin" : O O d*a«CS’ pC- V° JJ j J j y '*** > ‘ 3 s 8/ 150 POETRY. and Ruba'is, fol. 323a, beginning: ij^ pil.ff’ j- o b> (?) jii \j j*yy yy ib II. Foil. 3285 — 5405. b^y« The Divan of Saif Isfarangi, who died according to Taki Kashi, A.H. 666, or, as stated in Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 252, A.H. 672, at the age of eiglity-five. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 5815. Beg. The first section contains Kasidahs and TarjT-bands, many of which have headings indicating their subjects. They are generally arranged under the names of the persons in whose praise they were composed. The remaining sections are two Mxikatta‘at and one Ghazal, fol. 536, beginning : \]3 j it) (_5j Job) ^ ^ ebb- ^ Ruba'is, fol. 5375, beginning: iiji- j' yi*j piT j> aAujjo oy j) yl&j 0^ J The margins throughout the volume form a continuous test, consisting of the following works : III. Foil. 15— 343a. b^c The Divan of Salman Savaji, who died A.H. 779. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6245 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 837 ; Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 807 ; and Majma c ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 19. Beg. Oib Jl^° J ji> Cblb Jb j>j jii Contents: Kasidahs or TarjT-bands, partly provided with headings indicating the persons to whom they are addressed, without alpha- betical arrangement. Mar§iyahs, fol. 195a, beginning : I 20 Jj s S*uS> I jXXm sbb yy\ diu Mukatta £ at, fol. 205 a, beginning : &i.o la-s* [£p..ji Jb- &•*&> Another series of Kit'ahs sAaafij, fol. 3295, beginning : Lo i q^>T 0 fcj Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 243a, beginning : \j y i >'ib y s». J>\ i J 6 ' j? Jk Rubafis, fol. 334a, beginning : t_AA> yi cibT (_D 1 -* ■ -■■ x } ) X'Z*” j> ^ IV. Foil. 3435—5405. oUj* Ghazals of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi (Persian Catalogue, p. 609), alphabetically arranged. Beg. 4)1 w bj y yj This first piece is the opening of the Divan entitled Syi A k«jj (see Oude Catalogue, p. 468, and Ethe, no. 753), from which most of the contents of the present collection are taken. The first three pieces, which are in praise of God a.A=-yh o lA . . . j Ji' The author says in the preface that, although he was aware that commentaries had been written on Khakani’s Divan, he had not seen any. He therefore thought it expedient to give his own explanations of rare words and phrases occurring in the Kasidahs, Tarklbs, Margiyahs and Mukat- ta‘at. He wrote the present commentary in the days of the Fast, and in the midst of engrossing occupations. He concludes by stating his intention of writing later on a commentary upon Tuhfat ul-‘Irakain. For other commentaries on the Kasidahs of Khakani, see the Persian Catalogue, pp. 561-62 ; Oude Catalogue, p. 462 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 742 ; and Etlie, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 572-3. Copyist : 222 . Or. 3325. — Foil. 106 ; 6f in. by 5 ; 17 lines, 2f in. long ; written in small and fair Nes- talik ; dated beginning of Ramazan, A.H. 873 (A.D. 1469). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Zahir Fariyabi, with a preface. Beg. of the Preface: j ^ o-'^*** Beg. of the Divan : Ojl—o ^ 3 **^ ^~^3 yyj 3 ’ 3 ~ After some considerations on the noble gift of speech and on the relative merits of prose and poetry, the unknown author of the preface says that untoward circum- stances had torn him away from his native place and from his parents, and that his great desire was to meet Zahir ud-Din Tahir B. Muh. al-Fariyabi, and to gather from 152 POETRY. converse with him knowledge and wisdom, but he was balked in his purpose by adverse fate, and, ere he could reach him, the poet had departed for the abode of bliss. The writer was fain to collect the scattered poems of Zahir in a Divan, which he dedi- cated to the Yazir Majd ud-Daulah wa’d-Din Ahmad B. Muhammad. The same preface is noticed by Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 579, and by Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 582. Contents of the Divan : Kasidahs not alphabetically arranged, with a few Tarkib- bands, some of which have rubrics indicating to whom they were addressed, fol. G6. Mukatta'at, fol. 685, beginning: Ghazals, fol. 975, beginning : Ruba'is, fol. 9965, beginning : i ->• 4* * ^ i lb ^ ^ * *3 For notices of Zaliir, who died A. II. 598, and of MSS. of his Divan, see the Persian Catalogue, p. 5625; Schefer’s Chrestomathie, vol. i., p. 112 ; Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 330 — 36 ; Rosen, Institut, p. 205 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, nos. 691, 747-8 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 582 — 4. The Divan was lithographed at Lucknow, A. H. 1295. This copy was written by Yusuf B. ‘Abd ul-‘Aziz for the library of Amir Bakari Beg B. Iskander Beg. 223 . Or. 3301. — Foil. 124; in. by 4 ; 15 lines, 2 in. long ; written in neat Nestalik, with two ‘Unvans and gold-ruled margins, ap- parently in the 16th century. Bound in stamped and gilt covers. [Sidney Churchill.] Another copy of the Divan of Zahir Fariyabi, with the same preface. The contents of the Divan agree to some extent with those of the preceding copy. The Mukatta'at begin with the same piece, fol. 59a ; but there are further on, fol. 92a, a few Ghazals, and some additional Kasidahs. The Ruba‘is, foil. 1175 — 124a, have the same beginning. 224 . Or. 2880. — Foil. 370 ; Ilf- in. by 8 ; from 18 to 22 lines, about 4^ in. long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated from Muharram to Jumada I., A.H. 1245 (A.D. 1829). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 15— 117a, The Divan of Zahir Fariyabi (see no. 222), with the usual beginning : >- \I) 4 3 5 j»y>- j\ dill *3 I The same beginning is found in many copies. See Add. 7733, Persian Catalogue, p. 563 ; Oude Catalogue, no. 542 ; Ethe, no. 584 ; and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 747. The Kasidahs are followed by Mukatta‘at, fol. 1145, beginning: <— jO I j The Ghazals begin on fol. 805, which should immediately precede fol. 1145, as follows : (it*** ^ ^*3 (^1 POETRY. A.H. 500—600. 153 Rubafis begin, fol. 1146 : bbA" uP-' lAj 3 b ^3 Lr^y II. Foil. 1186— 140a. aY t CL a>o.— > ^lyii The Divan of Minuchihri. See no. 206. Beg. byiy \fc_j5j3 ^b r,^ 0 -*a> h&y*C* ^bic It consists only of select Kasidalis without alphabetical arrangement. III. Foil. 1406 — 1976. Jy\ ^yb The Divan of Azraki. See no. 211, hi. Beg. JbL*3 &y.l y.jj 1 1 ^ i j . j x ^ ) Kasidalis, not in alphabetical order, fol- lowed by a few Kit'ahs, and, fol. 1916, by Rubafis beginning : o O O'***!; ^Jvb &>■ jS> J j> \s*l IV. Foil. 1986—3416. ±xs> y.y jy ^yA The Divan of Jamal ud-Din Isfahani, whose proper name was £ Abd ur-Razzak, He was a contemporary of Khakani and Mujir Bailakani, and father of a better known poet, Kama! ud-Din Isfahani. He died, according to Taki Kashi, A.H. 588. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 581a, and Majma £ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 177 — 183. Beg. jh ^y 0 Ab ^ys The Divan of Niir ud-Din Isfahani, poeti- cally surnamed Nuri, who died A.H. 1000. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 669a. Beg. *>J t>y y y jg y 1 y>- J'jb ysy i c^3 Contents : Kasidalis without alphabetical order. Ghazals, fol. 354a, beginning : J>$ y\yy bis? y sib VI. Foil. 3255 — 374a. The second part of the Iskandar Namah, with the heading: ft^ob JLA It contains in the prologue, fol. 329a, that dedication to Malik Kahir ‘Izz ud-Din Mas‘ud B. Nur ud-Dln, of Mosul, which has been noticed in the Persian Catalogue, p. 569a, and begins J *oyc Al-Malik al-Kahir succeeded his father at the end of Rajab, A.H. 607 (Kamil, vol. xii., p. 193). This dedication, if really written by Nizami, would show that the poet was still alive some time after that date. The epilogue is also addressed to Malik ‘Izz ud-Dln Mas‘ud. An English translation of the first part of the Iskandar Namah was published by H. Wilberforce Clarke, London, 1881. Copyist ; ^ 226 . Or. 2931. — Foil. 504; 9 in. by 6 ; 21 lines, 2-| in. loug, with 16 slanting lines in the margin ; written in elegant Nestalik in two gold-ruled columns, with five highly finished double-page ‘Unvans, ornamental gold head- ings, and twenty-one half-page miniatures in fair Persian style; dated (fob 439) 3 Zul- ka‘dah, A.H. 878 (A.D. 1474). [Nath. Bland.] The same five poems in the following order : Makhzan ul-Asrar, fol. 25. Khusrau u Shlrin, fol. 435. Laili u Majnun, fol. 1455. Haft Paikar, fol. 2295. Iskandar Namah, POETRY. A.H. 500— GOO. 155 Part I., designated in the colophon as LoU fjlli, fol. 3215. Part II., with the heading JU', fol. 4395. The date of Ivhusrau u Shlrln, fol. 1445, is A.H. 579 instead of A.H. 576 as in the Persian Catalogue, p. 566a : The name of the king of Shirvan, fol. 1535, is written ybiivA, and that of the king for whom Haft Paikar was composed appears, fol. 235a, in this line : yy*> _j ,-^bo Ayl ^ The date of the same poem, fol. 321a, is A.H. 593, as in the Persian Catalogue, p. 567a : ^Js &**» oy j A.o5b j\ The second part of Iskandar Namah has, fol. 444a, the same dedication to Malik Kaliir £ Izz ud-Dln MasTid, of Mosul, as in the pre- ceding MS., beginning : jL i fjh The epilogue is also addressed to the same ‘Izz ud-Din Mas‘ud. 227 . Or. 2932.— Foil. 380; 11} in. by 17; 19 lines, 3| in. long ; written in small and fair Nestalik in four gold-ruled columns, with a rich double-page ‘Un van and five single-page ones, with ornamental headings white on gold, and miniatures, apparently in the 16th century. Bound in painted and glazed covers. [Nath. Bland. ] The same five poems, viz., Makhzan ul- Asrar, fol. 15 ; Khusrau u Shlrln, fol. 335 ; Laili u Majnun, fol. 1165 ; Haft Paikar, fol. 1765. Iskandar Namah, with the heading , ijLi, fol. 2425 ; Part II., also called <— jy, fob 3325. The last poem has, fol. 336a, the dedica- tion to Malik Kakir ‘Izz ud-Din MasTid B. Nur ud-Din, as noticed in the preceding copies. This volume contains twenty whole-page miniatures in fair Persian style, fifteen of which belong to the original MS., while five, foil. 199, 210, 214, 225, 229, have been inserted at a later date. 228 . Or. 4385. — Foil. 314 ; 11 in. by 6f ; 23 lines, 4 in. long ; written in small Nestalik in four gold-ruled columns, with four ‘Unvans and gilt headings ; dated (foil. 147, 314) A.H. 1005, and Sha'ban, A.H. 1006 (A.D. 1597-8). [Wallis Budge.] The same five poems in the following order: Makhzan ul-Asrar, wanting: the first page, fol. la. Khusrau u Shlrln, fol. 265. Haft Paikar, fol. 935. Laili u Majnun, fol. 1485. Iskandar Namah, Part I., fol. 1985. Part II., with the heading oy- In the dedication of the Haft Paikar, fol. 96a, the prince is designated as follows : y y*> j *11 j\ y Copyist : yyfi as." 0 ~»tsy! y\ 229 . Or. 4386. — Foil. 381 ; 12 in. by 8 ; 19 lines, 54 in. long- ; written in fair Nestalik in four ruled columns, with six ‘Unvans; dated Wednesday, 1 Sha‘ban, A. FI. 1237 (A.D. 1822). [Wallis Budge.] The five poems of Nizami in the following order : Makhzan ul-Asrar, fol. 35 ; Khusrau x 2 156 POETRY. xi Shinn, fol. 346 ; Laili uMajnun, fol. 1236; Haft Paikar, fol. 1816 ; Iskandar Namah, Part I., fol. 2466 ; Part II., fol. 3346. Written for Muhammad Sultan B. Mustafa Kuli Khan by Mustafa B. Ahmad Siyahkuhi. 230 . Or. 4730.— Foil. 141 ; 8-f in. by 51 ; 15 lines, 3^ in. long ; written in the Hebrew cha- racter, apparently in the 18th century, with miniatures. [Sidney Churchill.] The Haft Paikar of Nizami, imperfect at beginning and end. Pol. 1, the lowest third of which is alone extant, begins with the following verse, which belongs to the latter part of the prologue (Lucknow edition of A. Id. 1290, p. 12, line 19) : -rriN'D rubi ro 113 DSN T TQ ID [tijjU jji ^.to \ b ^ The same leaf has been patched with the upper two-thirds of a folio, the contents of which belong to the latter part of the poem, and begin with the heading : bnN dV?i 3 o p~d rcNDiy See the Lucknow edition, p. 101. The first extant heading of the original text, fol. 56, is that of the last section of the prologue (Lucknow edition, p. 16), viz. : tui iNTins rm’n po ~n [^S J ofib; jO] The latter part of the poem is lost. The last heading of the MS., fol. 140a, corre- sponds with the first heading of p. 98 of the Lucknow edition. It is as follows : idid 5 ttniiy m pm' iddi D*nra pond The MS. contains twelve rather rude and faintly painted miniatures, some of which are more or less rubbed and obliterated. 231 . Or. 2933. — Foil. 99 ; 12J in. by 8J ; 12 lines, 3 in. long ; written in fair Nestalik in two gold-ruled columns, with an ‘Unvan, rich gold designs covering the margins through- out the volume, and sixty-three miniatures, mostly whole-page, in the best style of Indian art ; dated 25 Muharram, in the 8th year of Muhammad Shah, corresponding with A.H. 1139 (A.D. 1726). Bound in painted and glazed covers. [Nath. Bland.] An abridgment of Khusrau u Shlrin, a poem of Nizami. It is stated at the end that the original poem, as read by Kabil-ram, had 6500 Baits, while this selection consists only of 1522 Baits. A table of the miniatures occupies three pages at the beginning. 232 . Or. 3513. — Foil. 365; 8-| in. by 6; 15 lines, 3§ in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, ap- parently in India at the close of the 18th century. [Presented by B. B. Portal.] A commentary upon the first part of the Iskandar Namah, by Siraj ud-Dln ‘Ali Khan, poetically surnamed Arzu, who died A.H. 1169 (Persian Catalogue, p. 5016). Beg. (jd LI . . . jdJ A-*U (Vob jAv L AjA j LI*— d . . . j*' j b 1 POETRY. A.H. 600—700. 157 Although many commentaries had been written by learned men, ancient and modern, upon this poem, none of them was found sufficient to explain the difficult verses and phrases of the text. This induced the author, as he states in a short preamble, to write the present commentary. The text is not given in full. The verses commented on are only indicated by the initial words. Arzu’s commentary has been given in ex- tenso, with a few additions, in the margins of the Iskandar Namah lithographed at Bombay A.H. 1277. It forms the basis of the glosses in the Calcutta and Lucknow editions, as stated by Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, no. 426. For another MS. see Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, no. 736. Copyist: *juas 233 . Or. 2934. — Foil. 134 ; 10 in. by 54; 21 lines, 3f in. long ; written in small and neat Nes- talik, apparently in the 17th century. [Nath. Bland.] A commentary upon Makhzan ul-Asrar, by Muhammad B. Kivam B. Rustam al-Balkhi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 5735. This copy has lost the first page of the preface. It begins with a passage corre- sponding with Add. 26,149, fol. 3 a, first line. At the end, fol. 1345, is a note of purchase dated A.H. 1091. In the margins and on the fly-leaves are a few notes in the handwriting of Sir William Jones. 234 . Or. 3376. — Foil. 129; 9 in. by 5f ; 15 lines, 2 in. long, with about 30 sloping lines round the margins ; written in fair Nestalik on green-tinted paper ; dated Thursday, 2 Zul- ka'dah, A.H. 1002 (A.D. 1594). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 15 — 27a. ^bbb^ Divan of Najlb Jurpadakani. Beg. \j>- ciJOj A Sprenger states in the Oude Catalogue, p. 513, that Najib ud-Din Churbadgany lived towards the end of the Seljiik dynasty and under the Khwarazmshahis, and that he died probably A.H. 625 or 635, the date 665 found in Taki Kashi’s Tazkirah being evi- dently due to a clerical error. This is fully confirmed by the present Divan. It contains a Kasidah, fol. 3a, in praise of Uzbak, the last Atabek of Azarbaijan (A.H. 607 — 612) : A (^Jko &*** j> j\ and other poems addressed to ‘Ala i Daulat u Din, i.e. ‘Ala ud-Din Tukush Kliwarazm- shah and to ‘Iraad ul-Mulk, general of the Khwarazmshah (see Kamil, A.H. 614, vol. xii., p. 206). Najib witnessed the Moghul invasion to which he alludes in this line, fol. 45 : CL W ■ b A i . ' A b^p j 'jXSi} b 1 A' But he cannot have survived it long, for in the same piece he refers to his age as being over seventy : Cyp A I A^ ^j/o * j Aw I T Contents : Kasidahs and a few Kit‘ahs in alphabetical order, breaking off at fol. 215, before the end of letter ^ . (The initial verses quoted by Sprenger and by Etlie, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 637, occur in our 158 POETRY. MS. respectively at fol. 21a and fol. 216.) Ghazals, fol. 22a, beginning : \ “ ■ .. Yi J; ^ j ^ / A)‘ ' V *?i A* <_£"*]; Ruba‘is in alphabetical order, fol. 25a, beginning : t “ ^ For notices of Najlb see also Haft Ikllra, fol. 394a; Riyaz ush-Shu‘ara, fol. 449a; and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 634. II. Foil. 25 6 — 1086. An anonymous Divan, which proves to be that of Rashid Vatvat. See above, no. 212, iv. Beg. bgj y ^ y oAL (,/! lyy j.»- y ^yic- (j_y- y The initial line quoted above, no. 212, iv., in the Oude Catalogue, p. 542, and in the Majma* ul-Fusaha, p. 223, is found in the present MS. at fol. 286 in the margin. Some TarjP-bands begin, fol. 906, as follows : bls- jWy io\yh \jic Mukatta‘at, fol. 104a, beginning : \j ^AlaL*> i_lly hi (_j\ \j Jyj ObT y i ^ ^~-ko The Divan is imperfect at the end. III. Foil. 109a — 129a. A Divan imperfect at the beginning, which is found to be that of Azraki. See no. 211, m. It begins with the latter part of an alphabetical series of lvasidahs, extending from the end of letter J to <_£. The first Kasidah, the beginning of which is wanting, ends with this line : j cyji- Jli ^$4 j jA> Jjl i^U 9 / The same Kasidah is to be found in Or. 3713, fol. 22a. At the end, fol. 125a, there are some Ruba‘is beginning as in the above named copy. Throughout this last fragment the leaves are torn at the top, and part of the writing is lost. 235 . Or. 4151. — Foil. 293 ; 9f in. by 6 ; 23 lines, 3 1 in. long ; written in minute and neat Nestalik in four gold-ruled columns, with two full-page miniatures and two highly finished double-page ‘Unvans at the begin- ning, five smaller ones in the body of the volume, and gold headings ; dated 22 Rajab, A.H. 877 (A.D. 1472). [Zuhue ud-DIn Ahmad Khan.] Six poems by Farid ud-Din ‘Attar (who died A.II. 627 ; see the Persian Catalogue, pp. 344 and 576), designated in the colophon as .... t_. jUaP, namely : I. Fol. 36. Ilaki Namah, 0 Beg. ^ A— ) \ This first line is in most copies the second of the poem. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 576a, ii. ; Etlie, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 622, art. 11, 623, art. 5; and the Kulliyyat lithographed at Lucknow, 1872, pp. 771 — 943. II. Fol. 806. Mantik ut-Tair, ykfi jbbc Beg. \j ^.yT \j udJV i- jjb- eKii In the epilogue the author says that he finished the poem A.H. 583 : J**® POETRY. A.H. 600—700. 159 The Mantik ut.-tair includes, foil. 93 — 98, the story of Shaikh San‘an mentioned in the Turkish Catalogue, p. 302. For other copies see the Persian Catalogue, p. 5 76a, i. ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 753 ; Ethb, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 622, art. 13 ; and the Lucknow edition, pp. 1049 — 1165. III. Fol. 1365. Asrar Namah, Beg. \j> Is- Alii ib (jdb jO \j bj* This work was lithographed in Teheran, A.H. 1298. For MSS. see the Persian Cata- logue, p. 576a, hi. ; Pertsch, Gotha, no. 52 ; and Ethe, no. 622, art. 14. IY. Fol. 1705. Musibat Namah, &*b Beg. \j - See the Persian Catalogue, p. 5765, iv. ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 761 ; Ethe, no. 622, art. 12 ; and an extract by Riickert, Zeitschnft der D. M. G., vol. xiv., pp. 280 — 288. V. Fob 2585. Kanz ul-IIaka’ik, jJ’lU This poem begins with the same verse as the Asrar Namah. See Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, no. 137, where the initial line is different, and Ethe, nos. 622, art. 18, and 623, art. 9. YI. Fol. 2745. Miftah ul-Futuh, bii* Beg. tj+'j Op. jo. Js -OjdS- b This is one of the esoteric works of ‘Attar, who enjoins that it be withheld from the unfit : JO& jb fdji See Ethe, nos. 622, art. 19, 623, art. 10, 627, art. 3. In the body of the volume there are nine miniatures in Persian style, at foil. 13, 34, 50, 92, 96, 125, 145, 192 and 264. Foil. 59 — 74 and 248 — 256 have been damaged by fire and are in part illegible. 236 . Or. 2747.— Foil. 309 ; 9J in. by 6J ; 21 lines, 4^ in. long ; written in fair Nestalik in four gold-ruled columns, with five ‘Unvans and gold headings ; dated 22 Zulhijjah, A.H. 889 (A.D. 1485). Six poems by the same author, viz. : I. Fol. 25. Muklitar Namah, ^b^lLs?, with a prose preface beginning : Beg. of the verses : See the Persian Catalogue, p. 5765, vi., and p. 5775, hi. ; Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 622, art. 21 ; and Molla Firuz Library, p. 167. The Muklitar Namah, with the same preface, occupies pp. 946 — 1047 of the Lucknow edition of the Kulliyat. This copy breaks off in the middle of Bab XI. (Lucknow edition, p. 974). II. Fol. 17a. Ilahi Namah, &*b (see no. 235, i.), imperfect at the beginning. It commences abruptly in the middle of Maka- lah III. (Lucknow edition, p. 801), and has some lacunae in the body of the work. III. Fol. 845. Mantik ut-Tair. See no. 235, ii. IV. Fol. 1455. Musibat Namah. See?5., iv. V. Fol. 2385. Asrar Namah. See 55., lit. VI. Fol. 2815. Vaslat Namah, x*b Beg. pA j ltA j 160 POETRY. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 579a, n., and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 622, art. 7, 623, art. 2, and 624, art. 17. 237 . Or. 2888.— Foil. 273 ; 9J in. by 61 ; 19 lines, 4-| in. long ; written in small and neat Nes- talik in four gold-ruled columns, with two tasteful ‘Unvans ; dated Rabi‘ II., A.H. 893 (A.D. 1488). [Sioney Churchill.] Two poems by Farid ud-Dln ‘Attar, viz. : I. Foil. 1—162. The first part of Jauhar uz-Zat, c_A53l y>.=-, corresponding with pp. 2 — 298 of the Lucknow edition of the Kulliyat. Beg. -As- * j t,' iN 2 ' Cl*— Ay j There are some transpositions. The text corresponds wuth the pages of the above edition taken in this order : 2 — 43, 129 — 174, 100—129, 43—100, 174—298. In the latter portion there are two lacunae corre- sponding with pp. 250 — 252 and 276 — 282 of the Lucknow edition. For other copies see the Persian Catalogue, p. 5766, i. ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, nos. 759-60 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 622, art. 3, 623, art. 7. II. Foil. 163 — 273. Ivhusrau u Gul, =>- Beg. (J^ 3 (**-?■ J 3 > [•'P u'A?" 3 ' ^ j*— 1L The story of the loves of Khusrau and Gul was abridged by ‘Attar from his own Khus- rau Namah. From the prologue it appears that the latter was founded upon a prose narrative which a friend of the poet had asked him to turn into verse. In a further passage, fol. 173a, ‘Attar mentions several of his previous poems, namely, Muslbat Namah, Ilahl Namah, Asrar Namah, and Makamat ut-Tuyur (• i.e . Mantik ut-Tair), and says of the first two that he had commenced them in the druggist’s shop, where five hundred people came to him every day to have their pulses felt : Cl*— by*- jA &*A3 Cl*-*>*a< Cl*— ^ ytff- 1 &A»- cjI b ePJ 3 j f}-3^ A AjoAj able jo j_j j j<3 s?> j Cl*i^ y \j JO* The epilogue concludes with an elegy upon the poet’s mother lately deceased. For other copies, see the Persian Catalogue, p. 5766, v., and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 622, art. 6. This MS. once belonged to Sultan Muham- mad Kutubshah (A.II. 1325 — 35), whose seal impressed on fol. 163 reads sliMA i All 238 . Or. 3238. — Foil. 100 ; in. by 4J ; about 15 lines, 3J in. long ; very incorrectly written in a rude and ill-shaped character, probably in India in the 18th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A collection of Sufi poems, by Kutb ud- Dln. Beg. L ciy.Ua Cl*sL> jii l jo \j> ±>.j> y y> Cl*— It consists of short pieces in the form of Ghazals, in which the poet uses mostly i *Lx>‘, sometimes alone, for his POETRY. A.H. 600— 700. 161 takhallus. They are alphabetically arranged in the early part of the collection, foil. 1 — 34. In the remaining portion there is no ap- parent order. At the end are some Ruba'is. Most of the contents are found in a similar, but larger, collection lithographed in Luck- now, A.H. 1296, under the title, &=Oy- i .L*. Kutb ud-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki, the famous Indian saint, to whom the Divan is ascribed, died in Delhi, A.H. 633. See the Persian Catalogue, pp. 432 6 and 9736. He is mentioned as poet in Riyaz ush-Shu- ‘ara, fol. 319a; Sham' i Anjuman, p.387 ; Makhzan ul-Ghara’ib, fol. 3516 ; and Riyaz ul-'Arifln, fol. 1466. A copy of the same Divan is mentioned in the Oude Catalogue, p. 537. The latter part of the MS., foil. 63 — 87, contains Sufi comments, perhaps by the same author, on some sayings of Muhammad, and further on, foil. 88 — 100, miscellaneous extracts and notes. 239 . Or. 2846.- — Poll. 191 ; 8 in. by 4J; 17 lines, 2| in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with two ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns; dated in the second decade of Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1019 (A.D. 1610). [Sidney Chuechill.] I. Foil. 26—866. ^ The Divan of Aslr Aumani. A.H. 665. See also Daulatshah, hi., 12 ; Atashkadah, fol. 1146; Riyaz ush-Shu‘ara, fol. 86; Maikhanah, fol. 78a; Tazkirah i Nava, fol. 826; and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 105. The Divan contains Kasidahs in alpha- betical order, Ghazals (fol. 436) beginning: y USiT Vi Tarjk-bands, and Mukatta'at imperfect at the end. II. Foil. 87a — 103a. A Divan, imperfect at the beginning, which is found to be by Adlb Sabir, who died A.H. 540. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 552a, and Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 314 — 25, where copious extracts are given. The contents of this fragment are mostly found in the complete copy, Or. 327. It begins with the latter part of an alpha- betical series of Kasidahs. The first com- plete poem, which begins j2> j tjAA^y IlVjo A) ( j-j- (jL is found in Or. 327, fol. 27. At the end, fol. 996, are Mukatta'at and Ghazals beginning as follows : 0 r li j V ,b,r Beg. ^*.***^ ^ ^ $ 5 ^ lAa-c j !y j * — y j j Agir ud-Din ‘Abdullah, called Aumani, from Auman, a village of the district of Hamadan, is said to have been a disciple of Nasir ud- Din Tusi. He was a contemporary of Kamal Isfahani and a panegyrist of Sulaiman Shah, prince of Kurdistan. He died, according to Taki Kashi, Oude Catalogue, p. 17, no. 51, III. Foil. 1046 — 1566. t ^ The Divan of Sharaf ud-Din i Shufurvah, so called from Shufurvah, a village near Is- fahan. See Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 302. His proper name was ‘Abd ul-Mu’min. He was a panegyrist of Sultan Toghrul Saljuki, and died about A.H. 600. See Taki Kashi, Oude Catalogue, p. 17, no. 35; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 681, art. 2, 7 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, col. 201, no. 47 ; Y 162 POETRY. Daulatshah, hi., 6 ; Riyaz usli-Shu'ara, fol. 227 ; Maikhanah, fol. 190a ; and Tazkirali i Nava, fol. 1946. Beg. j u y>j jlU- Do j ^ lyUa j ^ The Kasidahs, which are in alphabetical order, are followed, fol. 1446, by a Tarkib- band in praise of Sultan Toghrul, beginning : Lr^v and by some Mukattahit without alphabetical arrangement. IV. Foil. 157a — 1916. *4?j The Divan of RafT ud-Din Mas‘ud Lun- bani, who was a native of Lunban, near Isfahan, and a contemporary of the preceding. According to Taki Kashi, he died young, A.H. 603. See the Oude Catalogue, p. 17, no. 38 ; Daulatshah, in., 7 ; Riyaz ush-Shu- c ara, fol. 180a; Haft Iklim, fol. 361a; Mai- khanah, fol. 148a; and Majma £ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 234. The Divan wants the first page. It con- sists of Kasidahs and Mukatta'at mixed to- gether and without any apparent order. The first complete piece is one of five Baits beginning : 1 ) ^ ^ j'j- Sb This series includes a few short poems in Arabic. At the end are some Ghazals, the first of which, fol. 1866, begins : J S< j' yl 1 ^ and Rubafis, fol. 189a, beginning: d*— jJ aAixa* ^1^52 bL- vJL3L*s» lsil£ Copyists : (fol. 156) and (fol. 191) Jl&lL 240 . Or. 3253. — Foil. 375 ; 6f in. by 5; 21 lines, 2% in. long, with about 35 oblique lines round the margin ; written in minute but distinct Nestalik, apparently A.H. 811 (A.D. 1409). [Sidney Churchill.] c 5 A ‘‘“ : ' 0 The Masnavi of Maulana Jahll ud-Din Rumi, who died A. PI. 672. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 5846 ; Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, no. 763 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 646. All six volumes (Mujallad) have the usual prefaces, except the first. They begin re- spectively as follows: I., fol. la; II., fol. 596 ; III., fol. 1146; IV., fol. 1836; V., fol. 2396 ; VI., fol. 3016. The date at the end, fol. 371a, reads : i.e. A.H. 721 ; but it has evidently been tampered with. The original writing ap- pears to have been ao 1*3 j j Ac- A.H. 811. The following references may be added to those given in the Persian Catalogue. The contents of the Masnavi have been fully de- scribed by Hammer in the Sitzungsberichte der K. K. Akademie, Phil. Hist. Classe, vol. vii . , pp. 626, 693, 728, 762, 785, 818. The first book was translated by J. W. Redhouse, London, 1881, and an abridged translation of the poem was published by E. H. Wliin- field, London, 1887. Copyist : ^aLb s+s? Five pages at the end, foil. 3716 — 3736, contain Rubafis ascribed to Jalfd ud-Din and to Shaikh Auhad ud-Din Kirmani. POETRY. A.H. 600—700. 163 241 . 243 . Or. 2816. — Foil. 157 ; 8 in. by 6 ; 19 lines, 4J in. long ; written in fair Shikastali-amlz ; dated end of Skavval, A.H. 1200 (A.D. 1786). [Sidney Churchill.] ^ ^ Cv A.) *n ^ A selection from tlie preceding poem, by Husain B. £ Ali al-Baihaki, called al-Kaskifi, who died A.H. 910. Beg. j jo?* yAL j\ ojo In the preface the author describes the work as abridged from a larger selection previously made by himself and entitled y -y! Or. 2866. — Foil. 330 ; 9 in. by 6 ; 21 lines, 3]r in. long ; written in neat archaic Neskhi, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled columns ; dated 1 Jumada II., A.H. 774 (A.D. 1372). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Jalal ud-Din Rumi. Beg. ^ y> dJ>" j* cPA-?" y Lf}** y.Ms- jl 0 '[) A copy described in the Vienna Catalogue, no. 527, has the same beginning. Contents : Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 25. Tarjkat, fol. 2945, beginning : \ ji*- Ruba c is, fol. 314&, beginning : sA An edition lithographed at Lucknow, 1878, with tlie title y A.) is not so full as the present MS. It begins with this line : l&fo soy oils- [, yi <_y, which is found at fol. 21a of our copy. For other MSS. see the Persian Catalogue, p. 593 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 778; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 673. Majma* ul-Fusaha, vol. i., pp. 286 — 302, contains copious extracts. 242 . Or. 3514. — Foil. 300 ; 9-§- in. by 6 ; 15 lines, 31 in. long; written in large Nestalik with ruled margins, probably in the 18th century. [Presented by B. B. Portal.] Another copy of the preceding work. 244 . Or. 4689.— Foil. 36 ; 13} in. by 7| ; 17 lines, 4^- in. long ; written in fine Nestalik on brown-tinted paper, with a rich ‘Unvan and illuminated borders throughout, apparently in the 17tli century. 164 POETRY. A shorter Divan of the same poet, endorsed Beg. caA [ao] ad \p ^531 A a-*U [sfc] J.3jJ\ After three pieces in praise of God, the alphabetical series of Ghazals begins, fol. 3 6, as follows : T cub \jsl T cub»b-*J AoT jjIjLd j*l>- The Ghazals rhyming in 1 extend to fol. 34a. They are followed by five Ghazals in cu and one in o. The MS. once belonged to the library of Muhammad Shah, of Delhi. On the fly-leaf are some ‘Arz-dldahs dated in his reign, and a seal of A.H. 1132. Or. 2847.— Foil. 130; 8 in. by 5|; 12 lines, 3-| in. long ; written in Shikastah-amiz ; dated Teheran, Saturday, 26 Rajab, A.H. 1279 (A.D. 1863). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 2—93. The Divan of Imami Haravi. See above, no. 213, ii. Beg. b^)j ^ AA ciA A-c Contents : Kasidahs in alphabetical order, fol. 26. Mukatta'at, fol. 636, beginning : ^5 Is- jC:o (j^bj [w]A db Ghazals, fol. 80a, beginning : jAl CoJ2> Ruba'is, fol. 88 a, beginning : y ji o' J/ y M ^ j* II. Foil. 94 — 130. A short Divan, with- out author’s name. Beg. UAT <_?[,&> ^ b I L &>« iXuJ Al It is a selection from the Divan of Kataran (see no. 207), and consists of Kasidahs in alphabetical order, with three Kit'ahs and two Ruba'is at the end. Copyist : to ^ AjU ^Is- ^ \jjxc cr&.^ Or. 2948. — Foil. 289; 6^in.by4|; 12 lines, 2 in. long in the centre, and 25 oblique lines round the margins; written in neat Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and illuminated headings ; dated (fol. 2876) Wednesday, 10 Rabi‘ I., A.H. 844 (A.D. 1440). [Sidney Churchill.] o'-xW The complete works of Sa'di. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 595. Contents : Preface of Bisutun, wanting a few lines at the beginning, fol. 2a. Sa'di’s preface, fol. 6a. The five Majlis, fol. 136. Risalah i Sahib Divan, fol. 47a. Reason and Love, fol. 50a. Advice to kings, fol. 536. Risalali i Sultan Abaka, fol. 666. Risalah i A.nkiyanu, fol. 68a. Risalah i Malik Shams ud-DIn, fol. 696. Arabic Kasidahs, fol. 716. Persian Kasidahs, fol. 85 a. Maragi, fol. 114a. Ghazals in one alphabetical series, including the Tayyibat and the Bada’i', fol. 1376. Khawatim, foil. 2716 — 2886, breaking off in the course of letter ^ (Harington’s edition, fol. 425a). The margins form a continuous text, con- sisting of the following works : Gulistan, fol. 16, breaking off before the end (Haring- ton, fol. 916) : Bustan, fol. 97a, slightly imperfect at the beginning. Ghazaliyyat i POETRY. A.H. 600—700. 1G5 Kadlm, fol. 22 76. Sahibiyyah (wrongly headed <- U£) fol. 2386. Mukatta'at, fol. 264a,. Ruba‘iyyat, fol. 2676. Mufradat, fol. 2746. Hazaliyyat (Harington, fol. 475a), fol. 2766. Khablsat (Harington, fol. 479a), foil. 2836—2876. ’ For other MSS. see the Persian Catalogue, p.595; Rosen, Institut, pp. 175 — 199; Etke, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 681 ; and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 781. 247 . Or. 2743. — Foil. 350; 10-^in. by 6J; 18 lines, 2^, with 12 oblique lines in the margin; written in neat Nestalik, with gold-ruled margins and illuminated borders, a rich double-page ‘Unvan at the beginning, and twelve single-page ones in the body of the volume, apparently in the 16th century. Another copy of the Kulliyvat i Sa'di, containing : Preface of Blsutun, fol. 36. The five Majlis, fol. 7 a. Risiilali i Sahib Divan, fol. 25a. Risalah dar ‘Aki u ‘Ishk, fol. 27a. Naslhat i Muliik, fol. 29a. Naslhat i Sultan Abaka, fol. 376. Hikayat i Malik Shams ud- Dln, fol. 41a. Gulistan, fol. 426. Bustan, fol. 1266. Tayyibat, fol. 2116. Mukatta'at, fol. 2186. Bada’i‘, fol. 2216. Khavatim, fol. 2516. Ghazaliyyat i Kadlm, fol. 2616. Arabic Kasidahs, fol. 2686. Persian ICasidahs, fol. 2766. Marligi, fol. 3026. Mulamma'at, fol. 3066. TarjTat, fol. 311a. Sahibiyyah, fol. 3176. Fardiyyat, fol. 3306. Mutayibat, fol. 3326. Muzhikat, fol. 338a. Ptuba'iyjat, foil. 345a- — 3496. There are two whole-page miniatures at the beginning, two at the end, and ten rather smaller in the body of the volume at foil. 18, 49, 74, 95, 134, 157, 189, 201, 216, and 343. They are in fair Persian style. On the first page is the seal of Muhammad Kuli Kutubshah, and a note stating that the MS. had been presented by Khwajah Muzaffar ‘Ali Dabir, A.H. 1016. On the same page is the name of a subsequent owner, J. H. Harington, editor of the Ivulliyyat. 248 . Or. 4779. — Foil. 522 ; 10^ in. by 6^ ; 18 lines, 3-| in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with three ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns, pro- bably in the 17th century. Another copy of the Ivulliyat. Contents : Preface of Blsutun, fol. 1 6. The first Risalah, fol. 5a, imperfect at the end. The second Risalah, fol. 8a, imperfect at the beginning and wanting the fifth Majlis. Gulistan, fol. 18a. Bustan, fol. 856. Arabic Kasidahs, fol. 201a. Persian Kasidahs, fol. 2176. Maragi, fol. 2526. Mulamma'at, fol. 258a. TarjT, fol. 2626. Tayyibat, fol. 2666. Bada’i‘, fol. 3826. Khavatim, fol. 4356. Ghazaliyyat i Kadlm, fol. 4546. Iyit'ahs and Magna vis (Sahibiyyah), fol. 464a. Muta’ibat, fol. 485a. Mukatta'at, fol. 4946. Muta’ibat in prose, fol. 5006. Ruba'is and Fardiyyat, fol. 507a, Or. 4120. — Foil. 118; 9 in. by 54; 14 lines, 2f in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik, with two richly illuminated pages at the beginning, a tasteful and highly finished ‘Unvan, gold- ruled margins, and illuminated headings ; dated A.H. 886 (A.D. 1481). Bound in fine stamped leather covers. [T eo. Fjott Hughes.] The Gulistan of Sa'di. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 597a, This fine copy was written at Shamakhi by Sliaraf ud-Dln Husain for Sultan Nasir ush-ShaiTah wa’d-Dln Shlrvaushah. 166 POETRY. 250 . Or. 4387. — Foil. 105 ; 6^ in. by 4^ ; 14 lines, 2-| in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins; dated Con- stantinople, Muharram, A.H. 933 (A.D. 1526). [Wallis Budge.] Another copy of the Gulistan. Copyist : 251 . Or. 4121. — Foil. 147 ; 9^ in. by 5f ; 15 lines, 2f in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with a highly finished double-page ‘Unvan and gold- ruled columns, apparently early in the 16th century. Bound in stamped and gilt leather covers. [Tuo. Fjott Hughes.] The Bustan of Sa‘di. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 59 7b. Copyist : ^ To the translations mentioned in the Persian Catalogue may be added those of M. Barbier de Meynard, Paris, 1880, and of G. S. Davie, London, 1883. 252 . Or. 3261. — Foil. 35; 20 in. by 11^ ; 7 lines, 6 in. long ; written in very large and elegant Nestalik in gold on illuminated ground, with a rich ‘Unvan, ornamental heading, and minia- tures, apparently in the 18th century. Bound in stamped and gilt covers. The Pand-Namah, called from its initial word Karima, and ascribed to Sa‘di. Beg. h# There are two whole-page miniatures in fair Indian style at the beginning and two at the end, besides four smaller ones at foil. 3, 9, 13, and 22. For other copies, see the Persian Catalogue, p. 865 b, in. ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 781, art. 24 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Gatalogue, no. 688, art. 12. Copyist : J.Ai 253 . Or. 3262. — Foil. 11 ; 9f in. by 5f ; 11 lines, 3^ in. long; written in Nestalik, with gold- ruled margins and three miniatures of very second-rate Indian style, apparently in the 19th century. Another copy of the same poem. 254 . Or. 3647. — Foil. 211 ; 8];- in. by 5^- ; 13 lines, 3J in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 17th century ; containing twenty-four miniatures in a rather grotesque and inferior Persian style, much defaced. [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Harun. Beg. \j \j ^ Harun was a son of the great Sahib Divan Shams ud-DIn Muhammad, and a friend of Sa'di. See Riyaz ush-Sku‘ara, fol. bQOb ; Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 656 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, col. 394, no. 3048. The Divan consists for the most part of POETRY. A.H. 700—800. 167 Gliazals in alphabetical order. At the end are two Tarjl's, fol. 2056, beginning : culx=»- y b and Rubafis alphabetically arranged, fol. 209a, beginning : V J*' u f" j Vb V. [y t)\jb jl J Slightly imperfect at the end. 255 . Or. 2949.— Foil. 338 ; 7f in. by 4 ; 19 lines, 2f in. long; written in neat Nestalik, with four ‘Unvfms and gold-ruled columns ; dated (fol. 1825) 1 Ramazan, A.H. 896 (A.D. 1491). [Sidney Churchill.] 256 . Stowe, Or. 14. — Foil. 174; 7\ in. by 4; 12 lines, 2 in. long ; written in small and elegant Nestalik, with a rich ‘Unvan, gold- ruled columns, blue and gold headings, and miniatures, apparently early in the 16th century. Bound in neatly stamped and gilt covers. Kiran us-Sa‘dain, a Masnavi poem by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6115, xir. ; the Berlin Cata- logue, no. 833 ; and the Bodleian Catalogue, no. 773. There are two whole- page miniatures at the beginning, and four at foil. 33, 78, 95, and 159. They are in highly finished Persian style, and remarkable for the diminutive size of the figures introduced. The first four poems of the Khamsah of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6155 ; Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, no. 629; and Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 766. The first, is imperfect at the beginning. The original writing begins with this line, fol. 2a : ^ ^ ^ ^ CJ.K This is the fortieth Bait of the section 5 y > . Seven Baits have been pre- fixed by a later hand. The other three poems begin respectively as follows: Shinn u Khusrau, fol. 735; Majnun u Laili, fol. 1835 ; and llaft Bihisht, fol. 2505. On the fly-leaf : “ Presented by Sir Richd. Worsley, Bart., who procur’d it at Aleppo from a Persian who bro’t it from Ispahan.” The following Ruba‘i in praise of the binding is stamped in relief on both sides of the cover : j\Jh LT" JT ^ J* ^ SXXAJU j i -imJ A) i\ j. [ | / jb y>\ j]b\> y 257 . Or. 3322. — Folk 123 ; 8f in. by 6; from 20 to 25 lines, 4^ in. long ; written in bold archaic Neskhi, apparently in the 14th century. [Sidney Churchill.] Collected works in prose and verse of Sharaf ud-Dln Fazl-ullah al-KazvIni. Copyist (fol. 249) : The author is chiefly known by his history 168 POETRY. of the ancient kings of Persia, which is not included in the present volume. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 8116 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 428 ; and Etlie, no. 285. His name appears in the following heading, fol. 82a : ^ z\s£^ z zyAffi zAs yAi'Al ^*6\j JAlaM i i,Uh ^VAl 1^8-^ ,5 (3^-5 i — jy A'ky i3'^ *>!& J jUAffi j Jy j j uIjVj ^ The work is written in very ornate prose, freely interspersed with Arabic sentences written in large character, and with Arabic and Persian verses. In the introduction the author complains of the infirmities of age. He was then over seventy, or, as he poetically puts it, “ the eagle of old age had made its nest on the summit of seventy and odd years,” j*) i Aa £• iS' lie then describes the hesitations &jAjA7 lsA ^ Aj*2^ dli he went through before starting on a journey, which brought him, A.H. 732, to the royal camp of Abu Sa‘id Bahadur at Ujan, and the gracious reception he met with at the hands of that sovereign’s Vazir, Ghiya§ ud-Din Muhammad B. Rashid, whom he followed to Tabriz, and for whom he wrote this work. This copy is imperfect ; it breaks off at this line, fol. 216 : ^A** uAA\ lyb II. Foil. 22a — 57a. A treatise on the art of epistolary composition, designated in the colophon as Ayaffi Jyffi, and probably so called from its being dedicated to the author’s royal patron, Atabek Nusrat ud- Din, who reigned A.H. 695 — 733. It begins in the course of a section relating to the formulas of prayer or blessings which are to follow the names of kings and men of rank in letters addressed to them. The next-following chapter has this heading : j fc 3 j u jO j\ j\ The remaining contents may be briefly described as follows : Dates of month and year, fob 24a. Titles and hono- rific epithets used in addressing the following persons : the Padishah, the Amir ul-Umara, the Atabek, kings of Shabankarah, the Sahib Divan, kings of Fars, Amirs, and various classes of men of lower degree, concluding with the eunuchs and ladies of the Harem, fol. 25a. Models of letters suitable for various occasions, including appointments to the offices of Kazi, Mudarris, Shihnah, and Mustaufi, fol. 32a (two of the letters are dated, A.H. 727 and 730). Arabic and Persian verses suitable for quotation in cor- respondence, fol. 51a — 57. III. Foil. 576 — 836. The Divan, beginning with a Kasidah iu praise of the Atabek Nusrat ud-Diu, the heading of which is: jAipA AJjY [tor sly i .-'A Be g. AxAjy" i AA A .**} at ^ zlA POETRY. A.H. 700—800. 169 The contents are not systematically ar- ranged, partly owing, perhaps, to lacunae and transpositions in the MS. They are largely made up of short pieces (Kit'ahs) of two lines or more, expressing religious thoughts or moral sentiments, with such headings as olAsd i Jhp j+so, &c. Besides the initial Kasidah, the Divan includes the following longer poems ; 1. A Kasidah entitled Mir’ at un-Najat, being a religious poem on the resurrection and the duty of preparing for death, fol. 82a, begin- ning : Hash b ,j>h jjlls*- b 2. A Tarji £ , fol. 1076, with the following burden : i 1 '„bb ixf' 3. A Kasidah in praise of the Yazir Gliiyas ud-Din Muh., illustrating various poetical figures, with explanatory glosses, fol. 1126 : dolA 4)11 t 1 ClbLs* Beg. Ji'> V J There is also a Kit‘ah addressed to the Yazir ‘Ata Malik, fol. 120. 258 . Or. 4482. — Foil. 342 ; 7J in. by 3^ ; 19 lines, 1£ in. long, with 26 diagonal lines in the margin ; written in fair Nestalik with gold- ruled columns; dated (fob 166a) 12 Rabl £ I., A.H. 1010 (A.D. 1601). I. Foil. 1— 166. ^ lyg The Divan of Auhadi, who died A.H. 738. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6186. Beg. j — 5 j u'y ts3^~ Contents : Kasidalis and Tarj b-bands, some of which are in praise of the Imams, fol. 16. The Tarj I £ beginning _j Jjbo o " 3 * \jc noticed in the Persian Catalogue, is found on fol. 4a. Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 116, beginning : \jic (jfj I i\j> J> 0>«jb «w»- \y> (_£jT 5 lb J J>!> (j-e j> A Margiyah, fol. 27a. Another alpha- betical series of Ghazals, fol. 276, beginning: L J, s- jb y <*£■ l < jb CsX>y> 3) y=- Js- Ruba £ is, fol. 158a, beginning : yg OagUtib j i y b L>._5g II. Foil. 1666 — 239a. j*V, Jam i Jam, a Masnavi by the same poet. The date of composition in the epilogue is A.H. 733, as in the copy described in the Persian Cata- logue, p. 6196. For other MSS. see Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 834 ; the Strassburg Catalogue, no. 3 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 785. III. Fol. 2396 — 2486. &*b zs, Dab Namah, another Masnavi by the same poet. Beg. U ^Lo ) l /;.b -l-aij^ \j (jbj This Masnavi contains ten letters addressed by an imaginary lover to his mistress. It was composed, as stated in the prologue, at the request of the Yazir Yajih ud-Din Shah Yusuf, a grandson of Nasir ud-Din Tusi, who was tired of the old Dah N amahs, and wanted one which had the charm of novelty. Compare Hap Khal., vol. iii., p. 239. A copy is mentioned in Moll a Firuz Library, p. 128. The poem was written A.H. 706, as stated in this line at the end ; CLJjs* > Jl«> j\ j Jb Jl-y ua' yY z 170 POETRY. IY. Foil. 2496 — 3426. JUi ps 260. The Divan of Figliani, who died A.H. 925. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 651a. Beg. A tjjj i—U ^ O—j.— U _yl ^llaLo j*3b* jjUd Contents : Kasidahs, fol. 2496. Ghazals, fol. 268a, beginning : U ij> JHs- y ewb U j;~c- Jy- y ^5 KiPahs, fol. 3396, beginning : Aks*. jjlff- Jil\ (j (jlii Z J LS^. cZ Z° Z' Ruba'is and Fardiyyat, fol. 340a, begin- ning : yyb ylAo ybi U '5 i^-ib yis? Isb cAs \yU> For other copies see Ethe, no. 992, and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 900. 259 . Or. 4932. — Foil. 142 ; 1\ in. by 4 ; 15 lines, 2-|- in. long ; written in small and neat Nes- talik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins ; dated Herat, 1 Jumada II., A.H. 1036 (A.D. 1627). Bound in stamped and gilt leather. [Tho. Fiott Hughes.] “Jam i Jam;” a poem by Auhadi. See the preceding MS., art. ix. The date of composition, A.H. 733, is given in the following line, fol. 1406 : Jli r oli/ j gp j uj>r C j i iy iS^axsisc) Copyist: c-J&l y,_y ^ p Or. 3387. — Foil. 325 ; 10 in. by 5 ; about 19 lines, 3 in. long; written in fair Nestalik ; dated 22 Muharram, A.H. 841 (A.D. 1437). [Sidney Chuechill.] The Divan of Jalal ucl-Dln ‘Atlki, of Tabriz, who died A.H. 744. See Taki Kashi, Oude Catalogue, p. 18, no. 72. Beg. ly-y (jTjta [xjc ^j\ Ao b \jX=~ Ally- J.jAj In the Haft Ikllm, fol. 512, the poet is called Jam;il ud-DIn ‘Atlki. He was a son of Kutb ud-Din ‘Atlki, who was also a native of Tabidz and a poet. Jamal ud-Din was a favourite with the Vazir Khwajah Rashid ud-Din. The father, Kutb ud-Din, and the son, Jalal ud-Din, are noticed together in Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 338. This very extensive Divan consists ex- clusively of Ghazals and of Ruba‘is, both arranged in alphabetical order. The latter begin, fol. 310a, as follows : ■ b *** — b' — ) j b -O j Ja> AA iZ 261. Or. 4910. — Foil. 140; 8 in. by 4f ; 12 lines, 2J in. long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated Jumada I., A.H. 1237 (A.D. 1822). 1. Foil. 1 — -95. Laili Majnun, a Turkish poem by Fuzuli. See the Turkish Catalogue, p. 2066 . Beg. (A-o&s- This copy wants the prologue and the epilogue. Its contents correspond with foil. 16a — 926 of Or. 405. POETRY. A. IT. 700—800. 171 II. Foil. 96 — 140. A selection from the Divan of Ibn Yamin, designated in the colo- phon as (j>?. ^ The author, whose proper name was Fakhr ud-Dln Mahmud Faryumadi, died A.H. 745. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 8255, hi., and the Oude Catalogue, p. 433. The first piece is a short Kasidah addressed to a king not named, and beginning: f' ^ utA (j4 a "‘— (Av The second is a short moral poem in the shape of a Ghazal, beginning : r^J Most of the contents consist of KiPahs without any systematic arrangement. For MSS. of the Divan see the Petersburg Cata- logue, no. 403, and the Bodleian Catalogue, no. 790. Two copies of the MukattaTit are noticed in the Vienna Catalogue, nos. 563-4. A German translation by Schlechta-Vssehrd was published in Vienna, 1852. Copyist : lIAjj aA ^ a- 262 . Or. 3375. — Foil. 234; 9 in. by 5f ; 19 lines, 4 in. long; written in fair Nestalik, ap- parently in the 15th century. [Sidney Churchill.] personages in whose praise they were com- posed, withheadings giving their names infull. This section begins with a Kasidah rhyming- in J\, the first sixteen Baits of which have been supplied by a later hand. It begins with this line : .U V* 3 A J j\* V,l \j h Th is Ivasidah is quoted in Majma c ul- Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 16, and said to be an imitation of a poem by Sana’i. The first sec- tion includes Kasidahs addressed to the last Moghul sovereign, Abu Safid Bahadur Khan, to his Vazir, Ghiya§ ud-Din Muhammad, to Amir Mubariz ud-Din Muhammad, founder of the Muzaffari dynasty, to Kazi Shams ud- Din Mahmud B. Sa’in (v. Persian Catalogue, p. 621a), and to other princes, officials, and saints of the period. 2. A second series, consisting mostly of Mukatta‘at, fob 57 b, beginning: j ^-***> ^.j' 0 AA JA jsf* L’i lAo 3. Ghazals in alphabetical order, fob 805, beginning : jW' - 63^ j&> J lyl hU j After dwelling in the prologue on the ex- cellency of poetry, the author bestows a glowing eulogy on the Shahnamah of Fir- dausi, but deplores the corrupt and defective condition of the copies of the poem current in his day. Although he knew on good authority that it originally consisted of 60,000 lines, he hardly ever found in any copy more than about 50,000. He therefore brought together the best MSS. he could find, and spent six years in compiling from them a standard text brought up to the legitimate number of 60,000 lines. This is the text found in the present copy. It oc- cupies the margins from the beginning to fol. 736a, where the Zafar Namah ends, and from that point to the end of the volume it fills the centre of the page as well as the margins. The author relates further how he had been urged by his friends to compose a rhymed history, as a sequel to the Shah- namah and in the same form, and how, after some pleas of inability, he had yielded to their instances and had set to work, but not before invoking Firdausi’s blessing on his book, in the hope that a single verse in it might win for him God’s mercy, as had been the case with his predecessor. On that occa- sion he tells the well-known anecdote of the holy Shaikh, Abu T-Kasim Gurgani, who had at first refused to perform the prayer over the corpse of Firdausi. At the suggestion of the author’s friends, the chronicle was called Zafar Namah : \j &A3 ^ &<« 13 It is divided into three parts designated by the terms Kitab or Kism, treating respec- tively of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Moghols, as stated in the following lines, fol. 5 a : \j>\ SuVtl i— yc- GM j\ |*A**>1 POETRY. A.H. 700—800. 173 p^A" JW |*0 J LT*? ^3l pl*!j 3A> Jj ii p^=- y y- StVol ^X*xi J j' ^ 8 ^jj/ i_^>Ua.i- ly\ tk-o I i AA0\ ^ j ^iLLy y From the epilogue, fol. 736a, we learn that the author, who was forty years when he began the work, spent fifteen years upon its composition ; and that out of the 75,000 lines of which it consists, 25,000 are devoted to the Arabs, 20,000 to the Persians, and 30,000 to the Moghols : £=~b J'-"* A-j J ^ Ja **)-& J** r ^ 3 pA' _5 u - A° I Jy<5 About his sources the author is reticent. He says vaguely that he drew his informa- tion from Arabs and from Moghol chiefs : Jj** jA u j In spite of the poetical form which he adopted, the author is very precise as to facts and dates, and his third book will be found valuable for the history of the Moghol period. He gives, for instance, fol. 512a, a very vivid description of the wholesale slaughter wrought by the Moghols in his native place, Kazvin. His information was partly derived from his great-grandsire, Amin Nasr Mustaufi, who was ninety-three years old at the time. The contents of the Zafar Hamah are the following : Book I., with the heading p-A &M ,k)b Lylo. Life of Muhammad, fol. 5 6. Khilafat of Abu Bakr, fol. 996. ‘Umar, fol. 1136. ‘Osman, fol. 134a. ‘Ali, fol. 1406. H asan, fol. 153a-. Banu Umayyah, fol. 154a. Banu ‘Abbas, fol. 200. Book II. Persian dynasties, with the title pjs^ j><3 ,j iVe'j JA& ^yc pAs. Saffaris, fol. 255a. Samanis, fol. 2616. Ghaznavis, fol. 276a. Ghuris, fol. 2976. Dailaman, fol. 3046. Saljuks, fol. 320a. Saljuks of Rum, fol. 376a. Khwarazmis, down to the death of Sultan Jalal ud-Din, fol. 380a. Ismafilis of Iran, fol. 409a. Salghuri Atabaks of Fars, fol. 4356. Karakhita’is of Kirman, fol. 4406. Book III. Moghols, i_AjA aupUaLAl p—5 JyU y 3 j jAb. Origin of the Turks and Moghols, fol. 4476. Oghuz Khan, first ruler of the Turks, fol. 448a. His son Gurkhan, fol. 4506. History of the Moghols after Oghuz Khan, fol. 451a. Alankuwa, ances- tress of Chingiz Khan, fol. 452a. Budunjar, ninth forefather of Chingiz Khan and his descendants down to Basugai, fol. 454a. Chiugiz Khan, fol. 4596. Okotai Ka’an, fol. 5296. Tushi Khan and his descendants in Dasht Kipchak, fol. 551a. Jaghatai Khan 174 POETRY. and liis successors in Turan, fol. 552a. Tuli Khan, fol. 553 a. Barkatai Khatun, fol. 5535. Ivuyuk Khan, fol. 5545. Mangu Ka’an, fol. 55 75. Timur Ka’an and his successors, fol. 580a. Hulagu Khan, fol. 5815. Abaka Khan, fol. 6325. Ahmad Khan, fol. 645a. Arghun Khan, fol. 655a. Kaikhatu Khan, fol. 662a. Ba’idu Khan, fol. 666a. Ghazan Khan, fol. 6745. Uljaitu Sultan Muhammad, fol. 708a. Abu Sa‘id Bahadur Khan, foil. 722a— 7355. The last events recorded in the reign of Abu Sa‘Id are the deposition and banishment of Amir Shaikh Hasan, A.H. 732, and the arrest of some rebellious Amirs who had besieged the Sultan in his palace, A.H. 734. In the section relating to Hulagu, a full list of his descendants, tabulated in Siyak form, occupies foil. 627 — 31. Further on, foil. 684 — 92, the author gives a poetical version of the Pand Nam ah of his master Rashid ud- Din in twelve Majlis. The transcriber’s name at the end of the Shah Namah is Mahmud al-Husaini. The same name, with the addition of y y y i\j y 4. Fol. 355. TarjT-bands, beginning : *' . • - ■ ^ b . . . ^3 5. Fol. 395. Masnavis, beginning : c y 6. Fol. 42a. Kit'ahs and short pieces of two Baits, of a licentious nature, designated at the end as oUyAIh. Imperfect at the beginning. II. Fol. 48a. A Masnavi, the poet’s own love-story, beginning: (jlyl yjl A>] A 3 j-f 3 A* 3 d jjj s The prologue contains a dedication to Shaikh Abu Ishak, and in the epilogue is found the date of composition, A.H. 751 : Jli y s^j yy yy y JLio j 'j POETRY. A. IP 700—800. 175 LTp ,*ky &J&J j 'J The poem is mentioned as m 5 jllc- by Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 527, and by Fliigel, Vienna Catalogue, no. 567, art. 2. III. Fob 695. Jli«^ y\y, rare proverbs, or maxims of prophets and sages, in prose and verse ; Arabic. Beg. ^ r>jj\\ s- w sVb That edition contains a notice of the poet and the following trea- tises : Akhlak ul-Ashraf (above, art. v.), Risk Namali (art. vii.), Ta'rlfat (art. iv.), Masnavi i Jalk (fob 375 of this MS.), Taz- minat u Kita'at (art. i., 6), and Risalah i Dilgusha (art. vi.). 265 . Or. 2815.— Foil. 317 ; 8 in. by 11 ; 17 lines, 2| in. long; written in elegant Nestalik, with three ‘Unvans, gold-ruled columns, and gilt headings ; dated A.H. 883 (A.D. 1478). [SlDNKY ChUKCHILL.] Collected poems of Salman Savaji, who died A.H. 779 (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 6245), as follows : I. Fob 2 a. Kasidahs and Tarjfi-bands, wanting the first page, beginning with the 14th Bait of the opening Kasidali in praise of God, the first line of which is, .o .\V Jjy> Oib JU? <-Lyy (jfiy. See the Oude Cata- logue, p. 555 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 837 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 807. The contents, which are not alphabetically arranged, consist mostly of Kasidahs in praise of Amir Shaikh Hasan, of his wife Dilshad Khatun, and of his son Sultan Uvais. The section breaks off with the tenth Bait of a 176 POETRY. Kasidah in praise of the latter prince, which begins : ^■\ ay J 3Sj (j I if II. Foil. 1066. t-yb^f Rook of the TarjFs. Of this section the first page is alone extant. It contains the beginning of a Tarjk which is found entire in Add. 27,314, foil. 3266 — 328. It begins : ^if ijf 3 if III. Fol. 117a. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, slightly imperfect at the beginning. The first extant Ghazal begins : \jst- y ^ ^fC \ L— 1** Contents : Kasidahs and Tarkibs, fol. 16. Maragi, fol. 138a, beginning : 5 JJ ,J if Mukatta‘at, fol. 146a, beginning : [<0— - y ] if iiito j&o \&y>- TarjFat, fol. 1716, beginning: 1 ■ ^ *f ( * ) ^ ^ l" 1 ® Ghazals, in alphabetical order, fol. 176a, beginning : \j 3^5- jl uyl so jAiio y jf\ Ruba‘is, fol. 269a, beginning : JJ ly~ f\ aA:*- J Joo Khurshld u Jamshid, fol. 2756. Firak Yam all, fol. 349a. IY. Fol. 2196. Ruba‘is, beginning : t»A.K JjKl j-> a>j ^ y i .'.k i x \i^ Y. Fol. 2236. j> _j a^y-, Khwurshid u Jamshid, a Masnavi. See Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 837, art. 2, and the Persian Catalogue, p. 625a, i. VI. Fol. 2846. &A3 jly, the book of ab- sence, a Masnavi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6256, li. Copyist: y yc- 266 . Or. 4909. — Foil. 376 ; 6f in. by 5 ; 15 lines, 24 in. long, with ten additional lines in the margin ; written in small and neat Nestalik, with gold-ruled columns and with illuminated titles and gold headings ; apparently in the 15th century. The Divan of the same poet, with the usual beginning : oib JU.* cJ:4=- y A Jo y The last poem is imperfect at the end. At the bottom of the last page is written v* ^ j > This section ends with a TarjP in praise of the Imam Shah i Khurasan, and with a Masnavi beginning : i b\ Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 255, with the usual beginning : s\._5\ \$>\ b ^)\ Masnavis, fol. 1985, beginning : (This section includes the Saki Namah, fol. 200a, and the Mughanni Namah, fol. 201a, both abridged.) Kitlahs, fol. 2025, beginning as in the Calcutta edition of 1791, fol. 1345: \L< jX* I> *}) i>yS \j >< ib hj-i- ijfpYA ^yl w y JA» ud Ruba‘is, fol. 2045, beginning, as in the Calcutta edition of 1791, fol. 150 : f U ylb j\h> jd y hU eo.bi ^bxy y Lf/ j=r Copyist : *.y, ^ The MS. contains five miniatures, nearly whole-page, in modern Persian style, at foil. 57, 73, 106, 129, and 160. To the editions of the Divan mentioned in the Persian Catalogue may be added that of Major II. S. Jarrett, founded upon Brock- haus’s text, and printed in Calcutta, 1881. A literal English translation with notes, by H. Wilberforce Clarke, Calcutta, 1891, is based upon Major Jarrett’ s test. For MSS. see Rosen, Institut, nos. 66—76 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, nos. 840—53 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 815 — 53. Or. 3247. — Foil. 75; 13 in. by 8f ; 12 lines, 4^ in. long ; written in large and elegant Nestalik, with a whole-page and a single- page ‘Unvan, gold headings, and gold-ruled margins, and with two whole-page miniatures in good Persian style, about A.H. 907 (A.D. 1501-2). The wide margins are covered with coloured designs. [Sidney Chukchill.] The Divan of Hafiz, w T ith a preface by Bayani. Beg. of preface : ^ ^ [ 4 ^ . "0 AyHj ^ \J'y« Di” *>.j> b . . . . The writer’s name appears in the following line, fol. 6a : u" > <>■ pb A yA p.Sj xAsS’ ^yy jj,ly (J.b> This recension of the Divan was compiled, as stated in the preface, from various MSS., A.H. 907, by the Shahzadah Abu T-Fath, son of Sultan Husain Baikara. The writer of the preface was the successor of Mir ‘Ali Shir, Khwajah ‘Abdullah Marvarid, poetically surnamed Bayani, who died A.H. 922. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 1094a. The Divan contains only Ghazals in alpha- betical order, with the usual beginning, and three Ruba‘is at the end. The first page is covered with ‘Arzdidahs and seals of the reign of Shahjahan. The earliest of the latter is dated A.H. 1042. 269 . Of. 4773.— Foil. 203 ; 71 in. by 4} ; 12 lines, 2^ in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with A A 178 POETRY. two ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns, ap- parently in the sixteenth century. The Divan of Hafiz, with the preface of Gulandam, foil. 1 — 7a. Contents: Ghazals, alphabetically arranged, with the usual beginning, fob lb. A Masnavi, fol. 1866, beginning : Aj \ ... *•••• j 8. [*—?■ J?-**' 0 3 ^ A Saki Namah, fob 189a, beginning : J J> (j-e j! G? 59 / r > £ Kit‘ahs, fob 1916, beginning: AjoT U=«- Mukhammas, fob 1966, beginning : J.) G=»- ,*1/0 y! J £ r*' J W: (J— 5, jG Tarkib, fob 1986, beginning : Ruba/is, fol. 200Z>, beginning : U^ji *?" j The original text breaks off at fob 2016. A last folio has been supplied by a modern hand. 270 . Or. 4388.— Foil. 150 ; 5 in. by 3 ; 15 lines, 1 1 in. long ; written in small and neat Nes- talik, with a double-page ‘Unvan, gold-ruled columns, and gilt borders, apparently in the 17th century. [Wallis Budge.] The Divan of Hafiz, consisting chiefly of Ghazals in alphabetical order, with the usual beginning. They are followed, fob 139a, by a Tarji‘-band (Calcutta edition of 1791, fob 1396) beginning : (_ 5 jU cAjo S1A0 ^ J V: 3 AF ^ After this come a few Kit'ahs, Masnavis, and Ruba‘is ; but the latter part of the MS., foil. 143 — 150, as well as foil. 3 — 7 at the beginning, is disfigured by holes, and more or less of the writing is lost. O Or. 3588. — Foil. 182; 8^ in. by 41; written in fair Nestalik in three gold-ruled columns, with about 18 oblique lines in each column ; dated (foil. 115 and 160) Zulhijjah, A.H. 1086 and A.H. 1088 (A.D. 1676—78). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 1 — -115. The Divan of Hafiz. Contents : Preface of Gulandam, wanting the first leaf, fob la. Ivasidahs, fob 3a, be- ginning : O O ^stUob Jy'\ Ua _yj ^ jd A.O u O/J The same beginning is noticed by Pertsch. Berlin Catalogue, no. 849. The third Kasidah, beginning G^* j*>- is found in the Calcutta edition of 1791, fob 6. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, slightly im- perfect at the beginning, fob 8a. The first lines belong to the Ghazal beginning J -•> 5 U (Brockhaus’s edition, no. 2). TarjT‘-bands, fob 98a, beginning as in Or. 4388 : jbq SOL' Masnavis, fob 996, beginning : 0 j l2ALo sGj Cal . — i 1 ' _ ^ * — — — — POETRY. A.H. 700—800. 179 Mukatta'at, fol. 106a, beginning : j ^ gg * — '' SJOg U??J J cO See Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 849. Ruba/is, in alphabetical order, fol. 111a, beginning : o o ^jl^O jli I^JZSL.^ ^y>- See Pertsch, ib and supra, no. 2G7. II. Poll. 1156— 160a. Jt/ bb Jg ^yg The Divan of Shaikh ‘Ali Baba Kuhi. Beg. bb ,»Jl: ■ n p'f Via cA rG^£}\ A.} ^b 3^3 W ‘Ali Baba, poetically surnaraed Kuhi, was a disciple of Shaikh Abu ‘Abdallah Muh. Khaflf Slnrazi, surnamed Shaikh Kablr, who died in Shiraz on the 23rd of Ramazan, A.H. 371 (Shiraz Namah, Add. 18,185, fol. 1096 ; Shadd ul-Izar, Or. 3395, fol. 26 ; and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 605). Kuhi lived to a great age, and died, according to the Shadd ul-Izar, fol. 1556, A.H. 442, in great renown of sanctity, at Shiraz, where his tomb was an object of pilgrimage. The Divan consists of religious poems in Ghazal form, arranged in alphabetical order. At the end there are some R,uba‘is beginning, fol. 1586, as follows : \j Uk*arO j\> jy III. Poll. 1606 — 166a. An anonymous commentary expounding the mystic sense of the Ghazal of Hafiz (Brockhaus, no. 525), beginning : Beg. y b^' A 5 's? 3 r *X> V* It is followed, fol. 1646, by similar com- ments on this line of Hafiz (Brockhaus, no. 237): A.O j> lb=- igl/.A bo ob c2Jb ' IV. Foil. 1696 — 182a. An alphabetical series of Gliazals by a poet who designates himself by the takhallus Paris. Beg. lybj y ofi <^1 >j A A./ t/j This is the poet mentioned as Paris by Sarkhush, Or. 470, fol. 1026. The line quoted there, py' A tA 3 A- 5 " is found in our MS., fol. 1756. The poet is probably the same as Mirza Muhammad Paris mentioned in several Tazkirahs without any further notice. See Suhuf Ibrahim, Berlin Catalogue, no. 663, i— ?, 8 ; Makhzan ul- Ghara’ib, Bodleian Catalogue, col. 361, no. 1947 ; and Ruz i Rushan, p. 499. He must have lived before A.H. 1087, the date of the present copy. Prefixed to the above, as a separate section, foil. 1676 — 169a, are a few Ivasidahs probably due to the same poet. Beg. bA j A b° i_D e>b.j P j' <-?' Or. 4745.— Poll. 120; 8| in. by 6 ; 16 lines, 5 1 in. long ; written in the Hebrew character ; dated the 8th day of Ailid, A.M. 5499 (A.D. 1739). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Hafiz, with the heading : nNTttf BENrr njto ]xvi [i-b'y-b K;b- (j'y. J ] A A 2 180 POETRY. followed by the usual beginning : arfriwi idjo *n» 'pND N’ sn^ann iNnstN tiqj indn p^y ra L&hb UK y\ JU\ \#\ b jliil (Jjl Ojv ^uT ^zs- ^ At the end of the alphabetical series of Ghazals are found the following sections : nsvaNpa 8^ '3 [oUkaJfi j], fob 1116 ; vYn n^onKD [ol ag,b ah,], fob 113a; the Saki Nam ah (naKJ 'pND), fob 1136; a Masnavi ('lJDD), fob 1166 ; and the Ruba/is fob 1156. 273 . Or. 3206. — Poll. 240; 9 in. by 6; 21 lines, 3f in. long; written in Neskhi, A.H. 966 (A.D. 1559). [Kijemeb, no. 184.] The latter half of Sururi’s commentary upon the Divan of Hafiz. See the Turkish Catalogue, p. 1576, and Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 853. 274 . Or. 3205. — Poll. 518; 8 in. by 5^; 23 lines, 3| in. long ; written in Neskhi ; 17th century. [Kbemek, no. 183.] Sudi’s commentary upon the Divan of Hafiz. See the Turkish Catalogue, p. 1586. 275 . Or. 2950.— Foil. 217 ; 7\ in. by 4 ; 14 lines, 2J in. long, with about 27 slanting lines in the margin ; written in small and neat Nes- talik, with gold-ruled columns and some illuminated headings ; dated Tuesday, 4 Sha‘- ban, A. II. 888 (A.D. 1483). [Sidney Ciiuechill.] JUT The Divan of Kamal Khujandi, who died A.H. 803. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6326. It begins with a Kasidah in praise of God, the first line of which is : Jb/ ^ ^ u' t^-* 1 (J'A/C UiU This is immediately followed by Ghazals in alphabetical order, beginning : (j [&) U bjti (_???■ Mukatta'at, fob 2036, beginning : j*~> j' Fardiyyat, fob 213a ; Rubahs, fob 2136, beginning : boJj ^ b t>bT l_^jk ^rC j\ jU 4ibl Poll. 216-17 should be taken after fob 6. Por other MSS. see the Strassburg Cata- logue, no. 1 3 ; the Berlin Catalogue, no. 854 ; and the Bodleian Catalogue, no. 857. Cop>yist : ^jysU. The margins form a continuous text. It consists of extracts, mostly Ghazals in alpha- betical order, from the Divans of the follow- ing ten poets : Khusrau (Dihlavi), foil. 2 — 6, 216-7, 7 — 38. Beg. \j ^ JiSjb Hafiz Shlrazi, fol. 386. Beg- \j (.U j\J\ j sab JU Kasim (ul-Anvar), who died A.H. 837 (Persian Catalogue, p. 635), fob 636. Beg. \j j Y ^ POETRY. A.H. 700—800. 181 Jami, fol. 836. Beg. obA> O IS y yu ^j\ Suhaili (died A.H. 907 ; see the Persian Catalogue, p. 756a, and Ethe, no. 981), fol. 1156. Beg. 0o Uc- J'y Sail! (Yadgar Beg, d. 870 ; see Ethe, no. 888), fol. 1436. Beg. \j yyy- _,b b Riyazi (d. 884; Persian Catalogue, p. 1074a, and Ethe, no. 890), fol. 1666. Beg. CJOA (jT yto Muhyi (probably Mubyi Lari, who died, however, about 45 years after the date of the MS. ; v. Persian Catalogue, p. 655), fol. 1846. Beg- y Jj*" 5, j Katibi (d. 838 ; v. Persian Catalogue, p. 637, Berlin Catalogue, no. 864), fol. 2016. Beg. l« slA j y jlil Hatifi (d. 927 ; v. Persian Catalogue, p. 6526), foil. 2126—2156. Beg. Alb- Oiy b 276 . Or. 3303.— Foil. 202 ; 8J in. by 5 ; 15 lines, 2f in. long; written in elegant Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled columns, ap- parently early in the 16th century. [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Kamal, with the same begin- ning and nearly the same contents as in the preceding copy. The Mukatta'at begin, fol. 196a, with the same piece as in no. 275. The Ruba‘is begin, fol. 202a, also with the same line. 277 . Or. 3313. — Foil. 195; 7 in. by 4J; two distinct MSS. bound together. [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 2 — 65 ; 21 lines, 2^ in. long ; written in small Turkish Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold headings, probably about A.D. 1600. The Divan of Maghribi, of Tabriz, who died A.H. 809. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 633. At the beginning is a short prose preamble of four lines, the initial words of which are : r~ A Contents ; . Gliazals in alphabetical order, beginning : Uy.£> sZ* Tarji'at, fob 516, beginning: J '■ y~> I Jj'-T ‘A 'ijf [sic] jC'x> jy Ruba‘is, fol. 626 (with a few KiPahs at the end), beginning: ci'a?- (*V y ijjj pb i pb ^ 1 5 N— > ^ A copy with the same beginnings is de- scribed by Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 859. See also Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 855, and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 30. II. Foil. 66—195; 13 lines, 2f in. long; written in fair Nestalik with gold heading and ruled margins; dated Bagdad, 15 Jo- rnada II., A.H. 953 (A.D. 1546). The Divan of Shams Mashriki. 182 POETRY. The author was a holy personage and a Sufi noet ; but he cannot be identified with the great mystic, Shams i Tabriz, who is not known by the name of Mashriki. In the inscription prefixed to the Divan he is desig- nated by the following titles : ^'y.o UtJy g/A'J Si jXs~ jO.yifi y.ol'j ^ He must have lived before A.H. 855; for that year is stated at the end to have been the date of an early copy, from which the present MS. was transcribed. At the beginning of the Divan are two Ivasidahs, respectively in praise of God and of the Prophet. The former begins : JAfi MV Li r _lMJ l_> [sic] JLaibl Or L*lai 0"* The further contents are as follovrs : Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 68a, beginning : \xL\ soy t) «.) t-S | -Mid A Tarkib and two Tarji ‘-bands, fol. 170a, beginning: : o O M sMbc ,bAa> sob ,bj Jbj (*.. J ■ J ... (_s s oh .c ^b. f ^yb ^b be b Mukatta‘at, fol. 183a, beginning : <_/ J J ya*M y (ys- ^ j y y»»:>- Rubafis, fol. 187a, beginning : Oly Joli 1 j-oY u~ In the Ghazals the author uses three forms of takhallus, namely, yyy jyi* L _ r ,A < and J n the colophon he is designated as follows; yxlb, *\\\ b^ ylKilb yyJ\ yyjh JiyLltb lie is not to be confounded with Mirza Malik Mashriki, of Mashhad, who lived in the time of Shah ‘Abbas T. See Maikhanah, fol. 60b, and Khair ul-Bayan, fol. 3 1 1 Z> . 278 . Or. 2997. — Foil. 46 ; 9 in. by 5J ; 13 lines, 2f in. long; written in neat Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, mounted on tinted paper; dated A.H. 992 (A.D. 1584). [Sidney Churchill.] A poem of the class known as Dah Namali. It is a collection of letters in verse addressed by an imaginary lover to his mistress, with a prose preface ; by ‘Aziz-ullah, called Zahidi, who uses ‘Aziz as his poetical surname. Peg. of the Preface : b Abo ^ t u 'j ur \\ The poem begins, fol. 4a, as follows : jbc-T jly Jo ri_;T T i . 5 . ^ — £• I Jo l)j ^ — A-i CL-ib 1 _j <— ****>• ij • (Abb 1 •’b j o^'ji- We learn from the preface that the author had repaired to Herat, A.H. 810, and had spent there about ten years, engaged in study. Having found a patron in Sultan Baisunghar Bahadur Khan, he composed for him the present poem, A.H. 820. It consists of a thousand Baits, in which Tajnls and other rhetorical figures, enumerated in the preface, are illustrated by examples. The epilogue contains the above date of composition and a panegyric on Sultan Baisunghar. POETRY. A.H. 800—900. 183 279 . Or. 4135.— Foil. 404; 9| in. by 6^ ; 17 lines, 3f in. long; written iu neat Nestalik, with tasteful ‘Unvan and gold-ruled columns, ap- parently in the 15th century. [Sidney Chueciiill.] Jj The Divan of Nibnat-ullah Yali, who died A.H. 831. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6346. After a short doxology iu prose, beginning >» xxbil x^AG comes a short Masnavi, with this initial line : iil3 1 jb (_? 1 •S'? A'. J ^ j* The first section consists of a mixture of pieces of various forms, Masnavis, Gfhazals, Dubaitis, and Ruba‘is. The alphabetical series of Ghazals which form the main bulk of the volume begins, fol. 326, with this verse : bo XX*AJ ( 1* 3^ l* Xj.- The remainder of the Divan comprises — - Pious precepts in Masnavi verse, fol. 3426, with other Masnavis, beginning : j 3 jk'So j l jx AJb Dubaitis in alphabetical order, fol. 349a, begdnninof : O O ^ XX t . .S'C 5 X.--' , j**) b*jji ^X i **a.Aa.o {^*- J) Ruba‘is, alphabetically arranged, fol. 3766, beginning : Ixi- io ' sk! Do Ijo) i3jS , +J> j\ X^J a.5^ XjX jb Fardiyyat, also in alphabetical order, fol. 3946, beginning : bx- r ; l> XXjlxs- i jbojb xS Contents : Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 2a, beginning : 1 XX^fc i . x^ ^ .. — ' X ^ \ &.>■ >• Tarjl‘-band, fol. 1996, beginning : ^ (A ^ ^ ^ (See Aumer, no. 85.) Mukatta'at, fol. 204a, beginning : %- * A-bj xx*jbj3 f J This section includes several pieces written entirely or partly in Turki. 184 POETRY. Ruba'is, fol. 211a, beginning: b A^ h ^ -'b»J AS^J^- wdg A Masnayi relating to Timur’s death, be- ginning : cyyA Jj J'J.U ,i j\ This copy does not contain auy date of composition ; but the poet says in the epi- logue, fol. 215, that fifty years of his life had elapsed at the time of writing : Copyist : BlkU j$>\ 284 . Or. 3283. — Foil. 86 ; 6 in. by 3 ; 11 lines, If in. long ; written in neat Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled columns ; dated Mu- harram, A.H. 882 (A.D. 1477). The Divan of Amir Shahi, who died A.H. 857. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 640a, and Taki Kashi, St. Petersburg Catalogue, p. 311. Beg. jb AJb b jba U a joo b (_-j b The third piece in the MS. is the first of the alphabetical series of Ghazals, and that with which most copies begin. Its first line is : U At the end, fol. 80a, are a few Mukatta‘at, beginning : 'Jjf* (jV" ebb' 1 — l -U*J ^ 186 POETRY. An edition lithographed in Constantinople, A.H. 1288, has nearly the same contents, but differently arranged. It begins with this line: which is found at fol. 106 of the present copy. For other MSS., see Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 866; Ethe, nos. 875 — 81; and Rosen, Institut, nos. 65, 2 , 77-8. Copyist: , ^ jU.*"' yl 285 . Or. 3334.— Foil. 79; 6 in. by 3|; 12 lines, If in. long; written in neat Nestalik, with three ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns ; dated (fol. 42) 1 Rajab, A.H. 924 (A.D. 1518). [H. A. Stern.] I. Foil. 1—42. jbtf, The Divan of Shahi (see the preceding MS.), consisting of Ghazals in alphabetical order, with some Ruba‘is at the end. Beg. R !, “ ...»^^.» b ,»b U C^>yy*» Jjl j; j j ^ Kit'ahs and Ruba‘is, fol. 386, beginning : l_«P~ V bJl***>j 0 ^<***> ^ ^ II. Foil. 44-71. ^b, Jya The Divan of Riyazi Samarkandi, who died A.H. 884. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 1074a, and Ethe, no. 890. Beg. jl uidyl ylh> Jbo Oy=»- The Divan consists of Ghazals in alpha- betical order, with three Ruba‘is at the end. The Gliazal the first line of which is given in the Persian Catalogue and by Ethe is the second in the present MS. III. Foil. 716— 79. JV ^y* The Divan of Muvali, beginning: jbl y jj j b j'iiS Muvali was a native of Tun, and a skilled physician. He lived in Yazd, and was often in the society of Shah Nur ud-Dln Ni‘mat- ullali (who died A.H. 834). See Haft Iklim, fol. 334. He is also mentioned under Tun in the Atashkadah, p. 73, but the date of his death is uncertain. The Divan consists of Ghazals in alpha- betical order, but it breaks off with the second of the Ghazals rhyming in l >. 286 . Or. 3305. — Foil. 113; 7f in. by 4f ; 12 lines, 2f in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik, with five ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns, ap- parently about the close of the 15th century. [Sidney Churchill.] Select Ghazals by the following poets, alphabetically arranged under each poet : 1. Tusi, who died A.H. 869 (Persian Cata- logue, p. 735a, no. 11), fol. 16. Beg. bo Cb>- b J y tA***>[j jj+>* This is the seventh Gliazal in Tusi’s Divan, Add. 16,561, fol. 816. There are six Kit‘aks of two Baits each at the end. 2. Jami, fol. 286, beginning : \) & j' s.< 3. Asliraf, who died A.H. 854 (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 735 a, and Ethe, no. 874), fol. 436. Beg. \j ioGAlc- jfi, lLoK*: j> \j iobj i POETRY. A.H. 800—900. 187 4. Amir Hasan, wlio died A.H. 727 (Persian Catalogue, p.618a, and Ethe,no. 780), fol. 566. Beg. i ur? ^ ^ \j Jl;AT i±J> L-ifh utb This is the twelfth Ghazal in the poet’s Divan, Add. 24,952, fol. 38 b. 5. Kamal Khujandi, who died A.H. 803 (see above, no. 275), fol. 62 6. Beg. \J > lAi uAAl jAo j\s£> J uyT j.jttS sojJ 8 There are fifteen Kit‘ahs at the end. 6. Talifi, who died A.H. 858 (Persian Catalogue, p. 7356), fol. 89. Beg. U- idxuj jd There are three Ivi Palis at the end. 7. ‘Arifi, who died A.H. 853 (see above, no. 283), foil. 1086 — 1136. Beg. l**>ob ^ 1 \< jd On every page of this last section there are two Ghazals, the first of which is by ‘Arifi and the second, composed in the same metre and with the same rhyme, by Shauki. The first Ghazal of the latter poet begins : \±*- i\>d j\ Ol liAi Jo sT j\ W-j ^ 3j~* Judging from the apparent date of the MS., this last poet cannot be much later than the ninth century of the Hijrah. He cannot be identified with the later Shaukis mentioned in the Tazkirahs. 287. Or. 4123. — Foil. 284; 9^ in. by 5J ; 15 lines, 2f in. long ; written in choice Nestalik, with four highly-finished ‘Unvans, the first of which consists of a rich border enclosing two pages, with gold-ruled columns and gilt headings ; dated Monday, 7 Rabl‘ II., A.H. 894 (A.D. 1489). Bound in fine stamped and gilt leather covers. [Tho. Fiott Hughes.] The Divan of Jami, with a prose preface beginning : u ^\ Joy* Jj£ a/ ujjy* lZ _j | 1 This is the earliest collection of Jami’s poems, dedicated to Sultan Abu Sa‘Id, about A.H. 867. The same preface is found in two previously described MSS., Persian Cata- logue, p. 644a, as well as in the Vienna Cata- logue, no. 595 ; the Petersburg Catalogue, no. 439 ; and the Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 947 — 954. It is also found in the edition lithographed in Lucknow, 1876, under the title the contents of w hich are nearly the same as those of the present MS., but somewhat differently arranged. Compare Rosen, Institut, p. 257. Contents : Preface, fol. 26. Kasidahs, with the heading ^ b Iji \y J*. bb A Masnavi in praise of ‘Ali, j, y jx*\, fol. 249a, beginning: ^ 188 POETRY. Pour TarjFat, fol. 251a, beginning: (_f[j Ld3ls» ■ U^° ■ f ^ /C Mar§iyahs, fol. 2635, beginning : b! j! yAjo s£ b! »j,y- AJy 0 ^b j! Ob=- <— b Mukatta‘at, fol. 2675, beginning : J.xs=- ^ \ iO l^i ^ ji. (jVA^ (tlie same as with Rosen, Institut, p. 238). Rubafis, fol. 270a, beginning : ju» \j bb y ( clj b t j \ ! al/« y b Mifiammayat, fol. 279a, beginning : yu Lybjl WJjf l=- jOs*** j 1 ^ jf 0 J ,_jb- (Ab It will be seen that most of the contents of this early Divan have found their way into the first of the three later Divans of Jami, as described by Baron Rosen, Institut, pp. 234—39. This precious copy was written in the life- time of the poet. 288 . Or. 4681. — Foil. 168 ; 7f in. by 4; 17 lines, 2f in. long ; written in small and neat Nestalik, with gold-ruled columns ; dated RabT I., A.H. 868 (A.D. 1463). [Sidney Churchill.] This precious MS., written thirty years before Jarni’s death, contains another early collection of his poems, without preface. Beg. *j aii\ yip d-****! dap\ The contents agree in a great measure with those of the first Divan, or Lybb! isili, as described by Baron Rosen, Institut, pp. 234 — 38, especially in the alphabetical series of Ghazals, where the initial lines under most letters are the same as those given in the above work. Contents : Poems in praise of God and Muhammad, with the heading Ja=-yh Mukatta'at, fol. 162a, beginning ; u' bjj" 5 J d jj iy Rubafis, fol. 1645, beginning : ajy oAAo b S jb hi- 5 iLpbaijl Mu'ammayat, fol. 1655, the first of which is headed i_bk.U! yp ^IkL-j, and begins : ^yLe y J k-Aj *>■ ija^b j 0 yo The following colophon is found at the end of this last section, fol. 1665 : Lylbi! Jop yaa!! Jab! s y l ylfcjl! Ahl! tjyyj *-bb Q-J <-? ( _y eolbWij Fol. 167, containing Rubafis, is misplaced; it should come after fol. 164. POETRY. A.H. 800—900. 189 Pol. 168 contains the latter part of the poet’s epilogue, namely, the end of a Masnavi in praise of the reigning Sultan (Abu Sa‘Id) and a few lines of prose, with two Ruba‘is, partly obliterated, at the end, in the first of which Jami alludes to his age as being fifty : s'llil 289 . Or. 4513. — Poll. 275 ; 9^ in. by 6 ; 23 lines, 4f in. long; written in Neskhi in four ruled columns, with seven rude ‘Unvans ; dated from R,abl‘ I., A.H. 907, to Jumada I., A.H. 908 (A.D. 1501-2). [Sidney Churchill.] The Haft Aurang, or seven Masnavi poems, of Jami. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6446. The MS. wants the first leaf, and begins with the second page of Jami’s preface. The seven poems are placed in the order in which they are enumerated in that preface, viz., 1. Silsilat uz-Zahab, fol. 16 (the second Daftar begins at fol. 456, the third at fol. 646). 2. Salaman u Absal, fol. 786. 3. Tuhfat ul- Ahrar, with preface, fol. 926. 4. Subhat ul-Abrar, fol. 1136. 5. Yusuf u Zulaikha, fol. 1486. 6. Laili u Majnun, fol. 2046. 7. Khirad Namah i Iskandari, fol. 2496. Copyist i o b ^ t b& Two of the above poems, Yusuf u Zulaikha and Laili u Majnun, are in a later and more cursive hand. The Haft Aurang forms the first part of the Kulliyat i Jami, an early MS. of which, supposed to be the poet’s autograph, has been minutely described by Baron Rosen, Institut, pp. 215 — 259. For other copies see Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 876, and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 897 — 902. 290 . Or. 2935. — Poll. 284; 9|- in. by 6 ; 21 lines, 4 in. long; written in small and fair Nes- talik in four gold-ruled columns, with nine ‘Unvans; dated Herat, A.H. 934 (A.D. 1528). [Nath. Bland.] Another copy of the Haft Aurang, con- taining the seven poems in the same order, viz., 1. Silsilat uz-Zahab, with Jami’s pre- face, fol. 26 (Daftar II., fol. 526, Daftar III., fol. 736). 2. Salaman u Absal, fol. 876. 3. Tuhfat ul-Ahrar, fol. 1036. 4. Subhat ul- Abrar, fol. 1266. 5. Yusuf u Zulaikha, fol. 1646. 6. Laili u Majnun, fol. 2156. 7. Khi- rad Namah i Iskandari, fol. 2556. Copyist : j ^ The first part of the MS., foil. 2 — 102, is by a later hand, that of ‘Abd ur-Rahlm B. Mahmud, and is dated 1 RabT I., A.H. 1009 (A.D. 1600). Or. 4122.— Foil. 178; 16 in. by 101; 12 lines, 4f in. long ; written in fine large Nestalik, with a gorgeous double-page ‘Unvan, illu- minated borders and headings, and whole- page miniatures, apparently in the 17th century. Bound in rich stamped and gilt leather covers. [Tho. Fiott Hughes.] \$}j j Yusuf u Zulaikha, by Jami. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 645a, hi. The miniatures are in fair Persian style and cover the entire page. There are two on opposite pages at the beginning, two similarly placed at the end, and ten in the body of the volume, viz., at foil. 33, 51, 69, 73, 76, 87, 98, 101, 140 and 155. 190 POETRY. An English, translation by R. T. H. Griffith was published in London, 1882. Copyist : w'i&M jU» 292 . Or. 4535. — Foil. 156 ; 11 in. by 6^ ; 14 lines, in. long; written in neat Nestalik with a richly illuminated double-page ‘Unvan, gold- ruled columns, and twenty-six miniatures, mostly whole-page or nearly so, in fair Persian style, apparently in the 16th century. Bound in gilt leather covers. [Zuhur ud-DIn Ahmad Khan.] Another copy of Yusuf u Zulaikha. The first page is covered with notes of former owners. The earliest of these states that the MS. was bought at the price of six thousand rupees for the library of Sultan ‘Ala ud-Din Sikandar Shah, A.H. 913. But the handwriting betrays a suspicious likeness to that of a much later note, written by the last owner, Maulavi Haji Zuhur ud-Din Ahmad Khan. Appended to the volume are descriptions of the subjects of the miniatures in Persian and English by the same Zuhur ud-Din, foil. 157—183. 293 . Or. 4389. — Foil. 139; lOf in. by6-|; 15 lines, 2 1 in. long ; written in small and elegant Nestalik, with a rich double-page ‘Unvan, gold-ruled columns, gilt headings, illuminated marginal ornaments on every page, and two whole-page paintings, foil. 58-9, in fair Per- sian style ; dated Bukhara, Sha‘ban, A.II. 975 (A.D. 1568). ’ [Wallis Budge.] A third copy of Yusuf and Zulaikha. It wants a folio in the epilogue, the last lines of which are misplaced at fol. 34. 294 . Or. 4390. — Foil. 129 ; 7 ^ in. by 4 ; 15 lines, 2^ in. long ; written by several hands in a cursive character, probably in the 18th century. [Wallis Budge.] A fourth copy of the same poem. 295 . Or. 2867. — Foil. 135; 10 in. by 6f; 20 lines, 4 in. long; written in fine small Nestalik in four gold-ruled columns, with two tasteful ‘Unvans and gold headings, about A.D. 1500. [Sidney Churchill.] Four poems by Hatifi, who died A.H. 927, viz. : I. Fol. 2a. jLbc Haft Manzar, a Masnavi in imitation of the Haft Paikar of Nizami. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6535, and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1016. This copy wants the first page, with this verse : u^y/ It begins II. Fol. 245. ,yyy, Shinn Khusrau, the second poem of the Khamsah of Hatifi. Beg. ^ ^ fib See the Oude Catalogue, p. 422 ; the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i., p. 581 ; Pertsch, Berlin, nos. 906-7 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 1013 — 15. III. Fol. 50a. yys- 1 * Laili Majnun, the first poem of the Khamsah. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6525 ; Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, nos. 903 — 5 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 996 — 1005. POETRY. A.H. 800—900. 191 This copy wants the first page. It begins with this verse : jir^ 6-xZ^ jut IY. Fol. 74A j+j, Timur Namah, a poetical history of Timur, the fourth poem of the Kliamsah. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 653d ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, nos. 908-9 ; Ethe, Bodleian, nos. 1006 — 12 ; and Rehatsek, Mulla Firuz Library, p. 69. This fine MS. was written by Sultan Mu- hammad Nur, a pupil of Sultan ‘Ali, and one of the penmen employed by Mir ‘Alishir. 296 . Or. 8316. — Foil. 97 ; 7 in. by 11 lines, in. long; written in choice Nestalik, with a neat ‘Unvan and gold-ruled columns ; dated Herat, 5 Ramazan, A.H. 892 (A.D. 1487). [Sidney Churchill.] Laili Majnun, by Hatifi. See the preceding MS., art. hi. Copyist : j; > 297 . Or. 2838. — Foil. 140 ; 9 in. by 5-| ; 15 lines, 2^ in. long; written in elegant Nestalik, with a neat ‘Unvan, gold-ruled columns, gold headings, and three whole-page miniatures in good Persian style (foil. 20, 76, and 121) ; dated A.H. 945 (A.D. 1538). [Zuhur ud-DIn Ahmad Khan.] A*>U Timur Namah, by Hatifi. See no. 295, iv. Copyist : L JU^ 298 . Or. 3280.— Foil. 109 ; 5f in. by 3| ; 10 lines, If in. long; written in Neskhi ; dated 27 Shavval, A.H. 1240 (A.D. 1825). Laili u Majnun, a Masnavi by Maktabi. Beg. jlffd j ji (^1 jl)T j Jj' Maktabi took his takhallus from his pro- fession, that of a schoolmaster. He lived in Shiraz at the same time as Ahli Shirazi (d. A.H. 942), and composed the present poem A.H. 895. That date, conveyed by the chronogram and the number of disticlis, amounting to 2160, are given in the following lines of the epilogue (fol. 109a) : So ^ t . .2) f . . \ OammJ ^ J) Jt) I The correct reading of the last line is, according to the next and other copies, instead of For notices of Maktabi see Taki, Oude Catalogue, p. 38, no. 56 ; Riyaz ush-Shu‘ara, fol. 414a; Atashkadah, p. 309 ; and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii. , p. 40. For other MSS. see the Leyden Catalogue, vol. ii., p. 121 ; Oude Catalogue, no. 344; Aumer, no. 101 ; and Etlie, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 892. Copyist : Lj, 299 . Or. 2985.— Foil. 90; 5| in. by 3J; 12 lines, 2 in. long; written in Nestalik; dated 24 Shavval, A.H. 1261 (A.D. 1845). [Henry A. Stern.] 192 POETRY. Another copy of the Laili u Majnun, of Maktabi. 300 . Or. 3379.— Foil. 75 ; 11J in. by 8 ; 15 lines, 4| in. long ; written in fine Nestalik in the 18tli century. [Sidney Churchill.] The Turki Divan of Sultan-Husain Baikara, with a Persian paraphrase by Muhammad Rafik See the Turkish Catalogue, p. 299. 301 . Or. 3633. — Poll. 50 ; 8-| in. by 5 J ; 15 lines, 2f in. long; written in Neskhi, with two ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns ; dated Mecca, Sunday, 14 Ramazan, A.H. 951 (A.D. 1544). [J. Lee.] A poetical description of the rites of the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, by Muhyi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 655. Beg. y YA wV P The text agrees closely with the edition lithographed in Lucknow, 1875. The above beginning, which is also that of the Berlin MS. described by Pertsch, no. 214, is the twenty-second Bait of the MS. noticed in the Persian Catalogue, while the latter has the beginning given by Haj. Khal., vol. iv., p. 385. The first line of the Vienna copy, no. 893, 2 , is the fifteenth Bait of the present MS. The second part of the poem, treating of Medina, has a distinct frontispiece, and begins : '--rp b There are numerous coloured drawings representing the Haram and the various places visited by pilgrims at Mecca and Medina. They correspond closely with the drawings of the Lucknow edition. At the end, and by another hand, is a certificate of pilgrimage delivered to Haji Haidar Mahmud Shah Zamaki, A.H. 951. This MS. is noticed in the catalogue of Dr. John Lee, no. 176. 302 . Or. 4124. — Foil. 114 ; 7f in. by 4f- ; 12 lines, 24 in. long ; written in small and elegant Nestalik, with a rich and highly-finished double-page ‘Unvan at the beginning, and a single-page one further on, gold designs in the margins, and gold-ruled columns ; dated A.H. 957 (A.D. 1550). Bound in tastefully painted covers. [Tho. Fiott Hughes.] Two Masnavis by Hilali, who died A.H. 935 or 936. He was put to death, as stated in Ahsan ut-Tavarikh, fol. 8 65, on account of some obnoxious verses, by ‘Ubaid Khan Uzbek. The later date, 936, is given by Rakim ; see Rosen, Institut, p. 126. Sam Mirza assigns a still later date, A.H. 939, to Hilali’s death. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 656. I. Foil. 1 — 59. cALs, Sifat ul- ‘Ashikln, or “ Qualities of Lovers,” a mystic poem. Beg. For other MSS., see the Oude Catalogue, no. 263 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 913; and Ethe, no. 1026. II. Foil. 60 — 1 14. j aU», King and Dervish. See the Persian Catalogue, pp. 656 and 10905 ; Pertsch, no. 914 ; and Ethe, no. 1022. POETRY. A.H. 900—1000. 193 The poem has been translated into German verse by Ethe, Morgenlandische Studien, 1870, p. 197. This copy is due to the well-known calli- grapher, Sultan Muhammad Nur. 303 . Or. 2848.— Foil. 275; 10$ in. by7i; 19 lines, 5 in. long; written in fair Nestalik in four gold-ruled columns ; dated Zulka‘dah, A.H. 965 (A.D. 1558). [Sidney Churchill.] A Masnavi poem treating of the lives and miracles of Muhammad, of ‘Ali and of the Imams, by Hairati, who died A.H. 961. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 8745. The MS. is somewhat imperfect at the beginning. The first extant chapter has the heading <\^> Jai 53 j alia sUj and begins as follows : \j^Q After speaking boastfully of the fame he had achieved in various kinds of poetry, such as Ghazals and Kasidahs, the author says that he had not yet tried his hand at Masnavi. On one occasion, when he was present at Court, a book entitled Bahjat, and treating of Muhammad, ‘Ali, and the holy family, having been brought from Shiraz to the Shah, he obtained his Majesty’s leave to turn it into Masnavi verse. Hence the present work, which was completed, as stated at the end, A.H. 953. The date is expressed by the title, slightly altered by ‘ Imalah,’ as stated in the following lines, fol. 275a : j=~\i ObA jbs?^ ^»J6 j*b j ^jb ^!6 The prologue concludes with a panegyric on Shah Tahmasp. The work, it is hardly necessary to say, displays the most extrava- gant ‘Ali-worship and the usual Shl'ah per- version of history. The names of the three predecessors of ‘Ali in the Khilafat are duly accompanied by the customary imprecation *.As- The work is divided into forty-four sec- tions, J^ai, the first of which, fol. 25, has this heading : j\ j J*aA\ The contents may be briefly described as follows : Fasl 1 — 16. Life and miracles of Muhammad. Fasl 17. jX,o\ c^\jA. XrC jij, Prodigies of ‘Ali, thirty-nine of which are enumerated, fol. 875. Fasl 18. Incidents of his life, ^ ^blA'j, forty in number, fol. 106a. Fasl 19. His merits and eminent parts, fol. 123a. Fasl 20. Election of Abu Bakr, fol. 1275. Fasl 21. Opposition to Abu Bakr, fol. 130a. Fasl 22. History of Fadak, fol. 134a. Fasl 23. Election of ‘Umar, fob 136a. Fasl 24. Proclamation of ‘Osman, fol. 139a. Fasl 25. Succession of ‘Ali, fol. 143a. Fasl 26. Battle of the Camel, fol. 145a. Fasls 27 — 29. Battle of S iff In , fol. 1525. Fasls 30 — 31. War with the Khawarij, fol. 1825. Fasl 32. Hasan and Husain, fol. 188a. Fasl 33. Zain ul-‘AbidIn, fol. 195a. Fasl 34. Mu- hammad Bakir, fol. 2025. Fasl 35. Ja‘far Sadik, fob 211a. Fasl 36. Musa Ivazim, fob 226a. Fasl 37. ‘Ali Biza, fob 233a. Fasl 38. Muh. Javad, fob 246a. Fasl 39. ‘Ah Naki, fob 2515. Fasl 40. Hasan ‘Askari, fob 260a. Fasls 41 — 44. Hujjat-ullah Ka’im bikustas (the Mahdi) and his future advent, foil. 266a— 274. 194 POETRY. 304 . Or. 2870. — Foil. 86 ; 6J in. by 4^ ; 11 lines, 2f in. long ; written in Shikastah, with gold- ruled margins; dated A.H. 1140 (A.D. 1727-8). [Sidney Churchill.] A&K ^ OOj “ The Rake and the Ascete,” in prose and verse, by Fuzuli, who died A.H. 963. See the Turkish Catalogue, p. 395. Beg. jlA CAj w Uj»V; typ* y y J\ The text agrees with the edition litho- graphed in Teheran, A.H. 1275. The MS. contains seven miniatures in late Persian style, corresponding exactly in their disposi- tion and the attitude of the two personages with the drawings of the Teheran edition. It was written for Muhammad Mu’min Khan Shlrazi by his father. A copy is noticed by Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 683, art. 4. 305 . Or. 4911. — Foil. 244; 7fin.by4f; 14 lines, 2f in. long; written in plain Nestalik ; dated Constantinople, 2 Zulkaklak, A.H. 1036 (A.D. 1627). I. Foil. 2 — 167. The Divan of Fuzuli, with a preface by the poet, beginning : y Ai ( \x!a\ j\ A (j,U« \j I j i.Db'* i S k J. r>- b A part of the preface is lost. From the remaining portion it appears that the poet collected these erotic poems, written in an easy Persian style, to comply with the desire of a fair youth who had no taste for his Turkish and Arabic compositions. The col- lection is far richer than the Divan noticed in the Persian Catalogue, p. 6595. It has no fewer than fifty Ghazals rhyming in Alif against twelve in the latter. Contents : Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 45, beginning : IA b. c2A**»b lAh s>y &x) ^ b olifi Jxs* b Tarklb, fol. 1035, beginning : ^ 5 3 b J 5 y t <-*' Mukatta‘at, fol. 1075, beginning : ^Jyo <— jO ^y^o t — xx£- (^yjjXx* c i ^ b Saki Hamah, a Masnavi, fol. 1185, begin- ning : y L 5 1 Rind u Zahid, a Masnavi (see the preced- ing MS.), foil. 1415 — 1675. Imperfect at the end. The lost portion corresponds with the last fifteen pages of the Teheran edition. II. Foil. 168—238. >:« cA* Haft Manzar, a Masnavi by Hatifi. See no. 295, i. This copy wants the prologue and the introductory part of the story. It begins with this line : which is found at fol. 125 of the complete copy, Add. 26,166. POETRY. A.H. 900—1000. 195 306 . Or. 4616. — Foil. 283 ; 8^ in. by 5 ; 15 lines, 3 in. long ; written in small Nestalik, ap- parently in India in the 18th century. The Divan of Ashki, imperfect at tlie beginning. Mir Asbki, a native of Kum, went to India and died at Agra, or Delhi, A.H. 972. See the Onde Catalogue, p. 30, no. 349, pp. 56 and 118. The Divan consists almost ex- clusively of Ghazals in alphabetical order. The first extant begins as follows : Ijj y ^1$=- uV-J bo j-j 3 j-j j The Ghazals rhyming in i_o begin, fol. 265, with this line : j pOJO At the end are a few Ruba'is, fol. 2815, beginning : and, fol. 283a, some Kit'ahs, the first line of which is : j*ff- j CL+i'S-? 15 The MS. is dated in the twenty-fifth regnal year, probably of Muhammad Shah (A.H. 1155) I 1*6 &++H ( 13 ^ 2i\l« pfcti gj ig L_V ' *J 307 . Or. 3504. — Foil. 164 ; 8-| in. by 6J ; 21 lines, 4} in. long ; written in small and rather cursive Nestalik in four columns ; dated Wednesday, 13 RabT II., A.H. 973 (A.D. 1565). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 1 — 64. A poem in Masnavi verse, written in imitation of Sa'di’s Bustan, and designated in the epilogue by the title JU- by ‘Abdi. Beg. r U - ugh ^=r &>../ *6 After the usual sections in praise of God and the Prophet, and a description of the Mi'raj,the prologue contains a eulogy on the reigning sovereign, Shah Tahmasp, whose name the poet says he will raise to the sky, as Sa'di immortalised that of Abu Bakr B. Sa'd, fol. 95 : £ y\ pb j\ J\ lai- 8\«j *>**l.*^b ^ s+s* 8^,U uihi j-> ugj \j yiA In a subsequent chapter, fol. 10a, L ^A-aaaj) , jbf ‘Abdi gives some account of his life and works. Finding that poetry enjoyed but scant favour in his day, he turned to an official career, and obtained a high post in the royal Divan. But, remaining true to his poetical vein, he composed, under the sur- name of Nuvidi, Kasidahs, Ghazals, and a Masnavi on the subject of Salaman and Absfd. He subsequently adopted the above takhallus, ‘Abdi, and wrote a Masnavi entitled oy y ^ , in imitation of the Kiran i Sa'dain of Khusrau, and another Masnavi in imitation of Kliizr Khan u Duval Rani, by the same poet. These formed the first two poems of a contemplated Khamsah, the present poem being the third. It is divided like its proto- type, the Bustan, into ten Babs, enumerated at the end of the prologue, fol. 11a. The 196 POETRY. author says that his anecdotes are drawn from genuine records, and especially from the recent work of an eminent historian, whose name was Ahmad (meaning, no doubt, Kazi Ahmad Gkaffari, author of the Nigar- istan ; see the Persian Catalogue, p. 106). Tho headings of the ten Babs are as follows : We learn from Taki Kashi, Oude Cata- logue, p. 37, no. 499, that the poet, whose real name was Khwajah Zain ul-‘AbidIn c Ali, of Shiraz, filled for many years the office of Mustaufi, that he wrote two Khamsahs in imitation of Nizami, a poem entitled 3 -xz.fr and three Divans, and that he died in Ardabll, A.H. 988. I. Fol. 12a. ^IfclAob. JU- II. Fol. 20a. III. Fol. 246. * * tv"* j 3 IV. Fol. 286. U* JU V. Fol. 32a. _? (*Up jA This section concludes with a poem, in the style of Firdausi, on the story of Bizhan, foil. 35 — 42. VI. Fol. 43a. jd VII. Fol. 496. j bisl Cb* - Is"* j VIII. Fol. 53a. Jb» IX. Fol. 566. JW X. Fol. 61a. JU The work was completed on the second day of RabT I., A.H. 961, as stated in the following lines, fol. 646 : ( -A — ^ j3j {3* ^ Jjj j? sviA J9A r s:K JVb LAib CJ.)i II. Foil. 65—164. o/a\ Khaza’in ul-Malakut, a religious poem by the same ‘Abdi. Beg. <*A)\ The poem deals chiefly in praises of Mu- hammad, of the Imams, of the Shah, and in anecdotes of saints and Sufis. In a short prose-preamble the author enumerates the seven sections, termed Ivhizanah, into which it is divided. They have the following headings : I. Fol. 656. 9 *5^1 Jjl Ull ' 0*' ^-^ ^ ^ l l — * . h « .1/^ II. Fol. 776. hjO^ iJAjO jii III. Fol. 936. j£\- j»_j^*** {•JYsCJ+OiArG &-*9 W— IV. Fol. 1146. &9jA jjR- yr-»- j* J^- 5 V. lol. 1296. jj'j***^ VI. Fol. 1466. j*4A \ A:» L— A As- jl j» Jh>* 308. Or. 2986. — Foil. 92; 6f in. by 4 ; 13 lines, 2f in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, about the middle of the 19tli century, with eleven miniatures in modern Persian style. [H. A. Stern.] j Farhad u Shirln, a Masnavi by Yahshi, who died A.H. 991 (Persian Catalogue, p. 6636), with a continuation by Visa! Shi- razi, who died A.H. 1263 (v. Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 528). £ r" Beg. ^ L ^ g ^ | 53 J jy** Jo ^J3 For other MSS. see the Persian Catalogue, p. 6636, in. ; the Berlin Catalogue, no. 918 ; Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 1039 — 42 ; and Rosen, Institut, p. 262. The continuation by Visa! begins, fol. 43a, as follows : C1*~H— £- 1} S Op Cl-*— (jj— A j tCJo Yahshi’ s original poem with the continua- tion of Visiil has been lithographed in Teheran, A.H. 1263. Both are included in the Divan of Yisal, lithographed in Teheran, A.H. 1275. 309. Or. 4913. — Foil. 175 ; 8 in. by 44; 14 lines, 24 in. long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated 1 Muharram, A.H. 1048 (A.D. 1638). I. Foil. 1 — 90. The Divan of Sanai’s Mashhadi. Beg. lis- y j*— *> y 5 The poet, whose proper name was Mir Husain B. Ghiyag ud-Din, lived in Ivhorasan in the reign of Shah Tahmasp, and visited India under Akbar. There he associated with Faizi and ‘Urfi. He died A.H. 996. See the Oude Catalogue, pp. 43, 120; Shank i Anjuman, p. 102 ; and Khair ul-Bayan fol. 2446. Contents : Kasidahs in alphabetical order, fol. 16. Mukatta‘at, fol. 65a, beginning : A Masnavi, fol. 686, beginning : j \j j-fisi Jo U-> r Ghazals alphabetically arranged, fol. 74a, beginning : h J- 1 ° uJ J\ j*.— ^ \j-*C lA-j' CL*— J— s» Ruba‘is, fol. 85a, beginning : \j< 5 00 3 A ob.5 ]/* ujlP j J^ 2, j J- 6 For other copies see the Oude Catalogue, p. 578; Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1045: and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 919. II. Foil. 93 — 175. Kasidahs of ‘Urfi with- out alphabetical arrangement. They begin, 198 POETRY. as in the Divan noticed by Sprenger, p. 528, with tins line : \) JG6 \j J * x .> J *-—*'*^ 1 The MS. breaks off in the middle of a Kasidah beginning 1 : ^ jd ^ LJ I jy> ( 310 . Or. 2979. — Foil. 217 ; 9 in. by 5 ; 17 lines, 2f in. long; written in cursive Nestalik; dated Tuesday, 22 RabT II., A.H. 1033 (A.D. 1624). [H. A. Stern.] Jf- The Divan of £ Urfi Shlrazi. Beg. \j Jo Contents: 1. An alphabetical series of Gliazals, the first of which, beginning as above, is found in the Cawnpore edition of the Kulliyyat, A.H. 1297, p. 5, margin. The series ends with the first Gliazal in i ( ib . p. 108, margin), beginning : dj i , y 2. Another alphabetical series of Gliazals, extending from 1 to beginning, fol. 196 : U )=r | i . The last Gliazal (Cawnpore edition, p. 77, margin), begins : | y-' - ^ J -1 \3 0 3. Kasidahs, without alphabetical arrange- ment, fol. 576, with the usual beginning: <5.j>=Oo. 6 OjO ,_J 4. The latter part of an alphabetical series of Ghazals from ^ to p (jtjvi 5. Another series of Kasidahs, fol. 996, beginning (Cawnpore edition, i., p. 15): j j $-* ^ ^ j This is the Kasidah known as 'kZry. See no. 419, xn. 6. Mukatta'at, fol. 1366, beginning (ib., p. 120):' 7. Majma c ul-Abkar, a Masnavi in imita- tion of the Makhzan ul-Asrar of Nizami, followed by some other Masnavis, and begin- ning, fol. 1446 : See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6676, in. ; the Berlin Catalogue, no. 920, art. 2 ; the Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1051, no. 1146; and the Cawnpore edition, p. 138. 8. Fragments of a Masnavi on Farhad and Shinn, the same as in the following MS., art. ii., and in the same order, fol. 1866 : 9. Rubafis, fol. 1996. The same as in the following MS., art. i. 10. Twenty-one additional Rubafis, foil. 2156 — 217a. Compare the yy cAAS, de- scribed by Rosen, Institut, no. 84. 311 . Or. 3204. — Foil. 28 ; 9^ in. by 4^; 19 lines, 2-J in. long ; written in Nestalik, apparently in the 18th century. [Iveemer, no. 182.] I. Foil. 16 — 17a. Ruba'is by ‘Urfi, about POETRY. A.H. 900—1000. 199 two hundred in number, without alphabetical arrangement. Beg. ^ ^ '-rb 4. j*j udD&b The same Ruba‘i, with \y~> instead of \y, is found in the Cawnpore edition of the Kulliyat, A.H. 1297, p. 134. The last Ruba‘i contains in its last hemistich, (^1 A**> (Jjy- uj' a chronogram for A.H. 996, the year in which the Divan of TJrfi was completed. II. Foil. 176 — 28a. Some Masnavis, also by ‘Urfi. Beg. j_ 5 =- sxA- UAlo ^9-Vxo The first and longest relates to a meeting of Shirln and Farhad. Some of the next- following pieces also relate to Farhad. The name of ‘Urfi appears in the following line, fol. 256 : b* 3 t-Cir" (*V c/° These are evidently detached fragments of the Masnavi Farhad u Slnrln, mentioned in the Persian Catalogue, p. 6676, iv. The opening line quoted thereby lAjUi- is found among the present frag- ments, fol. 246. The same beginning is noticed in the Oude Catalogue, p. 527 ; in the Berlin Catalogue, no. 920, art. 3 ; and by Rosen, Institut, p. 262. 312 . Or. 2872. — Foil. 245 ; 9^ in. by 5§ ; 15 lines, about 3 in. long ; written in fair Nestalik in two gold-ruled columns, with an ‘Unvan, apparently in the 17th century. [Sidney Chuechill.] The Turkish and Persian Divans of Amaui, an Amir of Turkish race, who lived under Shah Tahmasp and Shah ‘Abbas I., and died probably shortly after A. FI. 1016. See the Turkish Catalogue, p. 301. The Persian Divan occupies foil. 90 — 245. It begins with an alphabetical series of Gliazals, wanting the first page or two. The first complete Ghazal begins as follows : [y . 4 -A 3 ( -y_) 4 <5y Ojl \x+o The last Ghazal, which breaks off before the end, fol. 1756, begins : <_Aj j 1 — ^D"* 3 3 j s ^ The remainder of the Divan is not in its original order. Some folios are lost and others are transposed. It contains : 1. Mas- navis, the first of which, fol. 176, is imper- fect at the beginning. The second, fol. 17 7 a, begins as follows : j_jAA J&s-ij-'s 1 N-yyl j_>Ao ,jT 3 jbj \ (j^>y 2. Ruba‘is, in alphabetical order, fol. 1906, with the exception of the first, which begins : sly y AobT 3. Mukatta‘at, fol. 204a, beginning : y-cj &>\ [j Jjb” jl 4. TarjiTit, fol. 212a. The first piece wants the beginning. The next is in praise of Shah Tahmasp and has the following burden : sU t 200 POETRY. 5. Kasidahs, fol. 2256, beginning : 313 . Or. 2839.— Poll. 23; 8} in. by 4} ; 15 lines, 2£ in. long ; written in fair Nestalik on gold-sprinkled paper, with ‘Ilnvan, gold- ruled margins, and three whole-page minia- tures, in highly finished Indian style, 17th century. [Haji Zuhuu ud-Din.] jUS' j “ Suz u Gudaz,” a poem by Nau‘I. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 674a; the Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1064 ; and the Berlin Cata- logue, no. 928. At the beginning are two seals, one with the name Sulaiman and the date A. II. 1146, the other bearing the name of Archibald Swinton Rustam Jang Bahadur, in the Persian character, and the date 1174 (A.H.). 314 . Or. 3274.— Foil. 102; TJ-in. by 3£ ; 15 lines, 2^ in. long; written in fair Nestalik in two gold-ruled columns, on gold-sprinkled paper, apparently in the 17th century. [S. de Sacy.] I. loll. 1 — 79. t^l.j*:*** 3 3J*~^ “ Khusrau u Shlrln,” a Masnavi by Ja‘far. Beg. (slASo A Ji I*"'?’ The author is Ja'far Beg Kazvlni, after- wards Asaf Khan, who died under Jahangir, A.H. 1021. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 118a. It is stated in Ma’agir ul-Umara, fol. 266, that, in the opinion of many judges, no one after Nizami had told the story of Khusrau and Shlrln better than Ja‘far Beg. In the prologue the poet says that he had been from an early age addicted to poetry, and that, having been compelled by adverse fortune to seek employment by the pen and the sword, he had repaired from Iran to Hindustan, and had found a generous patron in the person of the sovereign Jahangir, to whom a long panegyric is devoted. The narrative begins on fol. 116, and the last section, fol. 786, has the heading The last line is : j jj j The poem has apparently been left un- finished. For another copy see Etlie, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1069. II. Poll. 80 — 101. Kasidahs, Kit'ahs, Ghazals, &c., by the same Ja'far, without any systematic arrangement. Beg. SxS cJ&j Jfcj j l . 1 • • Some of the Kasidahs are addressed to Akbar, others to Jahangir. Among the Kit‘ahs are chronograms for the death of the former and the accession of the latter. Towards the end, fol. 986, is a Tarjfi of some length, beginning: The MS. is described in S. de Sacy’s Cata- logue, Paris, 1842, “ Manuscrits,” p. 45, no. 262. 315 . Or. 3275. — Foil. 62 ; 7 in. by 3-g- ; 15 lines, 2 in. long ; written in neat Nestalik with gold-ruled columns, apparently in the 17th century. POETRY. A.H. 1000—1100. 201 An earlier recension of the poem noticed under the preceding no., art. i., endorsed _5 Beg. td jjo lyf Vi ly> ^ (j£j \jf JjA It is substantially the same work as the Khusrau u Shlrln, in a somewhat shorter form. The second line, U**y ji is identical with the sixth in the preceding text. The present MS. ends with this line : jJi 0,1 (jihjJiA-jb The same line, slightly altered, is found in the preceding copy, fol. 666. It is the thirteenth Bait of the section inscribed 3 j j~=~ u/b A MS. with the same beginning, and dated as early as A.H. 995, is described by Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1068. The present MS., however, contains a text of later date ; for the prologue includes a panegyric* on Jahangir, who is explicitly named in this line, fol. 9a : D Smj ^,^o31 j sLm> The above beginning is given by Haj. Khal., vol. iii., p. 138, as that of the Khusrau u Shlrln of Asaf Khan. 316 . Or. 3255. — Foil. 231; 8^ in. by 4^; 17 lines, 21 in. long ; written in fair Nestalik ; dated RabT I., A.H. 1070 (A.D. 1659). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Naziri, of Nishapur, who died in India, A.H. 1022. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 8176. Contents : Ghazals in alphabetical order, beginning : t ^L=- ”SyA=»- VoVil Ruba‘is, fol. 1506, beginning : b <^£lb,y Oyb IT. Foil. 50 — 73. ^lyy The Divan of Nasir i Hamadani, with a short preface by the author, beginning ; y yAjlye Ji ibJj «Y aj&>. Khwajah Nasir ud-Din B. Khwajah Mah- mud, also called Nasira, of an ancient and noble family of Hamadan, went to India to the court of Akbar, and thence to that of Kutubsliah (Riyaz ush-Shu‘ara, fol. 456a). He died A.H. 1030 (Nigaristan i Sukhan, p. 122). Contents : Kasidahs, fol. 525, beginning : j^a=- j*y y-*? - (_yy^ y i-ybb yj Saki Namali in Tarji‘ form, fol. 655, be- ginning : b A*- ^ ! 5,^j y\**> Mukatta‘at, fol. 69a, beginning: i»yb j\ &5o) J* gbio.i* At the end is a chronogram for the taking of Ganjah, by Shah ‘Abbas, A.H. 1015. Ghazals beginning, fol. 735, with a sepa- rate ‘Unvan : )jLe (JlaOl tU JyY jfy** j U=- \j ***• u joU i\Y Ruba'is, fol. 885, beginning : LLAb ^\sLbd aY l*.) \ jJft-MJ ^ 319 . Or. 2998. — Foil. 126 ; 7 in. by 4 ; 10 lines, 2 in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik, with three double-page ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns, apparently early in the 17th century. [Sidney Chuechill.] The Divan of Nizam Dast i Ghaib. The author, whose full name is Mirza Nizam ul-Mulk, son of Amir Amin ud-Din POETRY. A.H. 1000—1100. 203 Husain, belonged to an illustrious family of Sayyids of Shiraz, called Sadat i Hast i Ghaib. The author of Khair ul-Bayan speaks of him, fol. 347, as a highly talented young man, whom he met on his way to Mecca (A.H. 1017), and gives copious specimens of his poetry. In a preface occupying the first eighteen pages of the MS., Abu Hayyan Mali, an intimate friend of the poet, dwells on his remarkable genius and poetical taste, and deplores his premature death, which took place on Sunday the 25th of Zulhijjah, A.H. 1029, adding that he was buried opposite the tomb of Hafiz. The above date was embodied by the poet’s uncle in the following chronogram : The Divan, which spread rapidly in the author’s lifetime, is described as consisting of about 2500 Baits and being chiefly devoted to praises of the Prophet and the Imams. The preface was written in the last decade of Ramazan, A.H. 1030. Tahir Nasrabadi gives also A.H. 1029 as the date of Nizam’s death, adding that be was then only thirty years of age (Add. 7087, fob 204). Contents of the Divan : Kasidahs, fob 106, beginning : Ghazals, fob 30 6, beginning : ^ jj A 3>\xxj 0 &D aA Rubafis, fob 836, beginning : CL***>\j£* (_A ^ Masnavis, fob 966, beginning: j\ ^JxX? *A Tarjdat and Tarklbs, the first of which is a Saki Namali, fob 105a, beginning : o -0 SJJ 1 — h*»j jJ\ aY ^ (j I Copyist : 320 . Or. 3505— Foil. 211 ; 10 in. by 6-1 ; 11 lines, 4|- in. long ; written in large Nestalik, ap- parently in the 17th century. [Sidney Chukchill.] lyS Jr> J&. The Divan of c Ali Naki Kamara’i, who died, according to Tahir Nasrabadi (Oude Catalogue, p. 91), A.H. 1030. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 818a, iv., and Or. 2975, v. Mir Husain mentions him in Khair ul-Bayan, fob 310, as still alive. To the Divan is prefixed a prose preface by the author, containing a dedication to Imam Kuli Khan (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 681a), whom he begs to excuse him for not attending his court. It begins as follows, fob 16 : jjU. ]j Jl/ SSXjoJ sU*» J C. Contents of the Divan : Kasidahs in praise of Shah ‘Abbas, Hatim Beg, Murshid Kuli Ivhan, Imam Kuli Khan and others, beginning: jy* j 3 j ^ i ^ L> J Chronograms, fob 66a, beginning : This section contains two chronograms for A.H. 1018. This shows that the date A.H. 1013, assigned in Riyaz ush-Shu‘ara to the author’s death, is too early. 204 POETRY. Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 825, beginning : o.-' >_} A*fc j*b jl ^flla sJltjjs*- Ruba'is, fol. 2005, beginning : a&ja CJ.SA *5 oj\ O— jYLo ^=- y> 8^ I tjLS- tjl, w a£ A>- Shapur went twice to India, A.H. 996, and again A.H. 1019, and was treated there with great distinction. He returned thence to Persia, where he was still living when Mir Husain wrote his Khair ul-Bayan (see fol. 314), i.e. A.H. 1019—1035. 322. 321. Or. 3324. — Foil. 160; 9 in. by 6 ; 5 lines, 2f- in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns, in the 17th century. Bound in stamped leather covers. [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Shapur, of Teheran, who died about A.H. 1030. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6745, and Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 1072. Contents : Kasidahs, mostly in praise of ‘Ali and the Imams, beginning : ^l^i 8tY^ Two TarjPs, fol. 215, beginning : sa.ol.’i Masnavis, fol. 295, beginning : j '«-r > \) 4*® j' Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 38, be- ginning with the same line as the Divan described in the Persian Catalogue. Ruba‘is, fol. 1525, beginning : <_A *r yb y j*a*A j*d saA*** a, j © This last section appears to be imperfect at the end. Or. 4912.— Foil. 191 ; 11 in. by 7; 12 lines, 4 in. long ; written in fair large Hestalik, with ‘Unvans, illuminated headings, and ornamental borders throughout, dated A.H. 1054 (A.D. 1644). C i)j?o The Divan of Mirak, composed in close imitation of the Divan of Hafiz, with a prose preface by the author, beginning : ais^ ^ai\ pUaijs?' 0 Jills ^Jilli- ax*A j Mirak Nakkash, or Mirak the painter, says in the preface that he was at heart a Dervish and a worshipper of the great mystic Hafiz. His Divan includes, fol. 1825, a Masnavi in praise of Shah ‘Abbas II., and a chronogram for his accession, A.H. 1052. It appears from a short epilogue that the Divan was composed in the next following year in the space of four months. The date is expressed by this chronogram : fails- 4=- jx) a^s- ^ Contents : A long Tarji‘-band, fol. 4a, beginning : y (Jo aA j> ^ j jfy o li Ijja j Jiff - ^ ai a a*** A Saki Hamah, fol. 13a, with this burden ; ^AilsJ** JI^jO e/ 8ab 5 a.) yLi *> POETRY. A.H. 1000—1100. 205 Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 146, beginning : j\ ^ aa.2* b CJjJb ^ v»bb ji> (Jti cilLo yl ts?i Masnavis with the heading &*b LL>b-lLo, fol. 1776. Chronogram on the accession of ‘Abbas, and Ruba‘is alphabetically arranged, fol. 1836. A Masnavi entitled Lai‘ jSi j, fol. 1876. Copyist : j &> lb 323 . Or. 3319.— Foil. 315 ; Ilf in. by 6}; 15 lines, 3 in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with two ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns; dated Zul- hijjah, A.H. 1071 (A.D. 1661). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Kudsi, who died in India A.H. 1056. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6846. Contents : Preface by Mulla Tughra, fol. 16. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 685, v., and Ethe, no. 1102, art. i. Kasidalis in alphabetical order, fol. 86, beginning : lAs- j ^ pb ^ The same beginning in the Oude Catalogue, p. 536 ; Berlin, no. 941 ; and Bodleian, no. 1102, art. 6. Tarkibs, fol. 93a, beginning as in the Persian Catalogue, p. 685, n. : J jui jij LLAjwuJ Ghazals alphabetically arranged, fol. 119a, beginning : y -b (jb sA> j^b See the Oude Catalogue, l.c., and Berlin, no. 940, art. 3. Ruba‘is in alphabetical order, fol. 190a, beginning : O O pp y** A long Masnavi called &*b j&>, on the victories of Shahjahan, fol. 1996, beginning : ob pbo sHj ^1$?- and other Masnavis. See the Persian Cata- logue, p. 685, viii. ; Ethe, no. 1106 ; and Berlin Catalogue, no. 940, art. 1. Copyist : pj5' jx-U lb> a**." 0 324 . Or. 3234. — Foil. 257 ; 9 in. by 5 ; 21 lines, 2f in. long; written in fair Nestalik with gold-ruled columns; dated Mull arram, A.H. 1029 (A.D. 1619). Bound in gilt and stamped leather covers. [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Fayyaz Lahiji. Beg. i-Dh>- ajb~j jjil j\ ^ &Jlb ai>C jx> Fayyaz is the takhallus of the celebrated philosopher, Mulla ‘Abd ur-Razzak B. ‘Ali Lahiji, who died under Shah ‘Abbas II., about A.H. 1060. See above, no. 9, and Kisas ul-Khakani, fol. 157. His Divan con- tains poems in praise of his master Mulla Sadra, of Mir Bakir Damad, and of Shah Safi. Contents : Kasidahs, fol. 16. Mukatta‘at, fol. 79a, beginning : J-* 5 j phs- j u l^s- j^o Tarkibs, fol. 856, beginning : _j ob j ^b jd ^1 pA-ll 206 POETRY. Gliazals, in alphabetical order, fol. 1056, beginning- : J 8^ i L>aJki ^>\ Daily *-' 0 &=- piUx*i Ruba c is, fob 2356, beginning : ^ Jj' A Saki Namali and other Masnavis, fol. 244a, beginning : jl*o ^ 8 bo ^jb 1 d>- 6^* 325 . Or. 4391.— Foil. 347 ; 10 in. by 5 J ; 12 lines, 4f in. long ; written in large and cursive Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Wallis Budge.] The Divan of Hazik, beginning : D-Du^j I ^0 j D ^d-£- From several passages of the Divan (foil. 336, 316, 356) it appears that the author lived in India under Shahjahan, and was over seventy years of age at the time of writing. This is sufficient to establish his identity with Hakim Hazik B. Humam B. Maulana £ Abd ur-Razzak Gilani, who was born at Fathpur Sikri, near Agra, in the reign of Akbar, was sent by Shahjahan on a mission to the Uzbek prince Imam Kuli Khan, and was afterwards appointed, in the fourth year of the reign, to the confidential post of jf.* hi s old age he retired to Agra, where he died A.I4. 1068. See Ma’asir ul-Umara, Add. 6565, fol. 154 ; Riyaz ush-Shu £ ara, fol. 122 ; Makhzan ul-Ghara’ib, fol. 1166 ; and Sham £ i Anjuman, p. 127. Verses quoted in the Makhzan are found in the present MS. The Divan has a marked religious and Shl £ ah character. It is divided into two sections, the first of which, foil. 1 — 39, con- tains Ruba'is, and the second, foil. 40 — 347, Gliazals in alphabetical order. The latter is imperfect at the beginning. The first com- plete Ghazal begins : &)b^D Da^w l 1 j l2j * ... ) Do b j D I There is a lacuna extending from the be- ginning of letter >jZ> f° that of letter and in the latter part the original order has been disturbed in the binding. The original colophon has been erased, and a spurious one, with the date &A« tf.jZs-, has been substituted for it. 326 . Or. 2849. — Foil. 43 ; 6f in. by 3^; 15 lines, If in. long; written in small and neat Nes- talik, with gold-ruled columns, probably in the 17th century. [Sidney Chuechill.] The Divan of Shaida, imperfect at begin- ning and end. Shaida was born in Fathpur, a town near Agra, where his father, a native of Mashhad, had settled. He served under Jahangir and Shahjahan, and died in Kashmir about A.H. 1080. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 1083a ; Riyaz ush-Shu £ ara, fol. 2466 ; Sham £ i Anju- man, p. 220 ; and Hamlshah Bahar, Oude Catalogue, p. 124. The MS. contains only Ghazals in alpha- POETRY. A.H. 1000—1100. 207 betical order. The first extant begins as follows : \J> jte <61 £j ib b The Ghazals come to an end on the last page, at the bottom of which the Ruba'is begin as follows : J b—j j-iji \j> s^y 327 . Stowe, Or. 15. — Foil. 196; 9 in. by 5-|; 12 lines, 2 1 in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, probably about the close of the 17th century. The Divan of Faraj-ullah Shushtari, who uses Faraj as his poetical name. Beg. pJ l$Ji *4^5 \ fid sib bbtf, sl^Li c_J Faraj-ullah, a native of Shushtar, went over to India, and was seen by Taki Auhadi in Kambayat (Riyaz ush-Sku'ara, fol. 3336). He settled in Haiderabad, and was raised to rank and wealth by the Kutubshah, namely ‘Abdullah Kutubshah, who reigned A.H. 1035 — 83, and is mentioned in the following lino of the Divan, fol. 586 : sUi aJh xj.£- a > 5 cdbj, 5ib ko\ 1 \ See Sham‘i Anjuman, p. 374. His Arabic verses are praised by Sayyid ‘Ali Ma'sum (Arabic Supplement, p. 625), who saw him in his father’s house in Haiderabad, and says that the poet was then (about A.H. 1080) seventy years old. See Sulafat al-‘Asr, Or. 120, fol. 4406. Faraj-ullah is also mentioned by Tahir Nasrabadi among contemporary poets. See the Oude Catalogue, p. 98. The Divan consists mainly of Ghazals in alphabetical order. These are followed, fol. 1836, by a few Kit‘alis, and, foil. 1846 — 194a, by Ruba‘is beginning : 3 <3 3 3 d^^3 Jjl) On the first page is a note of a former owner, Ahmad B. Musa Ruhavi, dated A.H. 1122. 328 . Or. 3282. — Foil. 512 ; 10 J in. by 5f ; 17 lines, 3f in. long; written in Nestalik, with four ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns ; dated A.H. 1104 (A.D. 1692-3). [S. de Sacy.] The Divan of Sa’ib, of Tabriz, who died A.H. 1088. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 693a. Contents : Kasidahs, fol. 16, beginning : jlx) ^ li&p\ Lol) j '*3? ^ A 2 I 6 _ w Ghazals, in alphabetical order, fol. 186, beginning, as in the Lucknow edition of A.H. 1292, and several MSS. : i 5 ^ Jill \ x) ^ Fardiyyat, also alphabetically arranged, fol. 4216, beginning : \j 5 lAb 5 \j i Jp- Short pieces of two or three Baits, in alpha- betical order, foil. 4306 — 5126, beginning : y l r=- 3 ^ <-?* Copyist : J.Ldy- cOj JfiU The MS. is mentioned in the Catalogue of S. de Sacy’s Library, Manuscrits, p. 49, no. 288. For other copies see Rosen, Institut, p. 264; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 956; and Ethc, no. 1131. 203 POETRY. 329 . Or. 2694.— Foil. 779; 10£ in. by 5f ; 16 lines, 3^- in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and ruled columns; dated 15 Zul- ka‘dah in the 26th regnal year of Muhammad Shah=A.H. 1156 (A.D. 1743). [E. B. Eastwick.] The second volume of a most extensive collection of Sa’ib’s poems. It contains the latter half of the Ghazals in their alphabetical arrangement from letter 5 to letter The first Ghazal, which is found at p. 484 of the Lucknow edition of A.H. 1292, begins : The latter part of the volume contains the following sections : 1. Initial verses of the Ghazals in 2 , fol. 709a. 2. Fardiyyat, fol. 7385, beginning : ~3 j J' j oiT i *— k’"' 3 ' 3. Pieces of two or three Baits, in alpha- betical order, fol. 7465, beginning : \jL ajljL- « ijfj \j*c d*} J S- _J ^ tXX*0^ ^^0 4. Turkish Ghazals, foil. 7735 — 7775, be- ginning : o-jj iS‘ {S' \ aj The MS. was written for Rustam ‘Ali Khan by Hidayat-ullah, dwelling in Kashan. 330 . Or. 3541. — Foil. 263 ; 10^ in. by 4§; 17 lines, 2f in. long; written in neat Shikastah-amlz, with ‘Unvan and ruled columns, apparently about the close of the 17th century. [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Arshad. Beg. Jij j* ^ y a/ 4)3 *-/ j^~\ Jjb* J 331 . Or. 3634. — Foil. 126 ; 8f in. by 4-| ; 17 lines, 24 in. long ; written in small cursive Nes- talik, partly on tinted paper with flowery designs, in Kabul and Kandahar ; dated Monday, 21 Zulhijjah, in the 42nd year of the reign (of Aurangzib), i.e. A.H. 1109 (A.D. 1698). [Sir Gore Ouseley.] The Divan of Majzub, whose proper name was Mir Muhammad, of Tabriz, and who died A.H. 1093. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6966, and the Oude Catalogue, p. 479. Contents : Kasidahs, fol. 4 b, beginning as in the previously described MS., Or. 309. Ghazals, alphabetically arranged, fol. 14a, beginning : Kls-S iNaj uyyjJb \yi< Mukhammas, TarjT, Masnavis, and chrono- grams, fol. 1105, beginning: i &x>\ \j JjI a yty- Ruba'is, foil. 120a — 1255. The MS. is noticed in Dr. John Lee’s Catalogue, no. 182. 332 . Or. 3487. — Foil. 206 ; 8f in. by 4| ; 14 lines, 2f in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with two ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns, ap- parently in the 17th century. [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Rakim, with a preface in prose. Beg. of the preface : j\ ciJb 3j\ A' ^ Beg. of the Divan, fol. 85 : r* y /> ls' wUy y ±2* 0 j Rakim is the takhallus of Mirza Sa‘d ud- Dln Muhammad, son of Khwiijah ‘Inayat, a merchant of Mashhad. He went with his father to India in the time of Shahjahan. After his return to Persia he was appointed by Shah Sulaiman (A.H. 1078 — 1105) Vazir of Herat, and, afterwards, of the province of Khorasan, and became known as a liberal patron of poets. See Riyaz ush-Shu‘ara, fol. 1915, and Sham‘ i Anjuman, p. 167. A copy of his Divan, described by Sprenger, Oude Catalogue, p. 540, contains a chrono- gram for A.H. 1084. In the preface Muh. Sadik Mashhadi, who appears to have been a dependant of the poet, enlarges on the praises of his patron, and states that, although he had received from the Shah the office of Dastur, with the title of Asafi, and was fully engrossed by the affairs of state, he yielded at times to poetical inspiration. The Divan consists exclusively of short pieces in the form of Ghazals arranged in alphabetical order. E E 210 POETRY. 333 . Or. 3644.— Poll. 173 ; 8| in. by 5J ; 11 lines, about 3 iu. long; written in neat Nestalik, with two ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns, about the close of the 17th century. [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Nauras. Beg. *•—*'*’[; I j Nauras is the takhallus of Muhammad Husain Dumavandi, who came as a young man from his native place, Dumavand, to Isfahan, and was recommended by the famous poet Sa’ib to Muhammad Zaman Khan. Tahir Nasrabadi mentions him among his living contemporaries, and Hazin says that he died in Isfahan. See Add. 7087, fob 3006 ; the Oude Catalogue, pp. 103, 139 ; and Riyaz ush-Shu‘ara, fol. 472a. The Divan contains several Ivasidalis in praise of the reigning sovereign, Shah Sulaiman, an occasional poem on a Hammara built in the town of Dumavand, and chronograms for dates ranging from A.H. 1084 to 1105 (the last is an addition to the original text, fol. 170a). The contents are : 1. Kasidahs in praise of Imam ‘ Ali Riza, the first of which is en- titled .z2. 2. A second series of Kasi- dahs, with an ‘Unvan, fol. 10 6, beginning : uybA JA bob ji jO b i-Aiil \j J i Yj iXujy bbli The first Kasidah is again in praise of the same Imam, but the others are addressed to Shfd) Sulaiman, to Zaman Khan, Safi Kuli Khan, and Shaikh ‘Ali Khan 1‘timad ud- Daulah. 3. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, fol. 356, beginning : 4. Opening verses and various pieces, Oliyu* j, fol. 124a, including chronograms. 5. Masnavis, fol. 1386, two of which are of some extent, and are respectively entitled jAj j ba'j and 6. Mu‘ammas, or riddles, fol. 153a. 7. Prose pieces, foil. 1606 — 169a, the first of which is a letter relating to the Mir’at ul-Jamal of Sa’ib. The margins of a great part of the volume, and foil. 170 — 173 at the end, contain addi- tional verses by the same hand as the text, but in a smaller character. 334 . Or. 4774. — Foil. 212 ; 10 in. by 6 ; 15 lines, 3J in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with gold-ruled columns, apparently early in the 18th century. The Divan of Rafl‘ ud-Dln Va‘iz Kazvlni, who died about A.H. 1105. See above, no. 152, and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1144. This copy wants the first page, and begins with the second Gliazal of the complete MS., Add. 7812, the first line of which is : l^ss \j> cS.aU" zS\d Jo ^J\ y Jyi‘ i%Jo Contents : Ghazals, in alphabetical order, fol. la. KiPalis, fol. 1176. Fardiyyat, fol. 1216. Kasidahs, fob 1306, beginning : \ J+H jd \j lyb (_) ,«3,s ^**6 ‘b** > (See Add. 7812, fob 1816.) A Tarklb, fob 1606. Ruba‘is, fob 1626, beginning : ^3 J Oy .b POETRY. A.H. 1100—1200. 211 Chronograms, fol. 172a. Masnavis, fol. 1846. The longest of these, foil. 1916 — 204a, relates to the famous battle of Shall Isma‘11 and Shaibak Khan. It begins as follows : w ljO L Ibjt 335. Or. 3285. — Foil. 242 ; 9 in. by 5 ; 15 lines, 3 in. long; written in cursive Nestalik, ap- parently in India, in the 18th century. <^x ir* The Divan of Suriiri, with a preface in prose, beginning: 'syLahj ^ ail a-*U (_jhoT sRj A**- 0 Beg. of the Divan : The preface was written, at the request of the poet, by Saki, who is better known by the title of Mustahdd Khan, w > SL» ^x'L^c, conferred upon him A.H. 1119, and died A.H. 1136 (see the Persian Cata- logue, pp. 9366, 10836). He praises the author of the Divan, whom he calls Sikandar Sururi, as the great mystic poet of the period: a.sA**» p’4?” jy° ^ p*~p Ujhcj J The Divan consists chiefly of Ghazals of a religious or mystic character, in alpha- betical order. One of these, fol. 2026, is in praise of ‘Alamglr. The Ruba'is which fol- low, fol. 208a, contain many eulogies on Muhyi ud-Din Jilani, to whose order, the Kadiri, the author evidently belonged. The Mukatta‘at, fol. 2336, begin with this verse : Jo 50 J jut <0lx) (jMjW- CA> l j v- A They include some chronograms. The last of these gives A.H. 1114 for the compilation of the Divan, which is here designated as aK ; O'h'A? (Jh*» j * \ & POETRY. A.H. 1100— -1200. 213 Beg. of the Divan, fol. 106 : \j ^k> Zdji tj>- t^jie <5^- jl The author, Mirza ‘Abd ul-Bald, of the Musavi Sayyids, was the son of Mirza Mull. Rahim, who had been Hakim Bash!, or head physician, to Shah Sultan Husain Safavi. He served in the same capacity under Nadir Shah. After that sovereign’s death, he became Ivalantar of Isfahan, but resigned that charge in favour of his younger brother Mirza c Abd ul-Vahhab, and died A.H. 1168. See Atashkadah, p. 412, and Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 340, where it is said that Tablb’s Divan amounted to two or three thousand Baits. The verses quoted there are found in the present MS. In the preface the author refers, in ex- tremely prolix and involved style, to his retirement from worldly pursuits after the death of Nadir Shah, and to his pilgrimage to the holy places. The Divan consists of Gliazals in alpha- betical order. At the end, fol. 79 6, are some Ruba'is, beginning : d ^ L.Vw: J kSj^L I and a Masnavi on Mahmud and Ayaz, jb\ _j fol. 836, beginning ; ^S> J ^1^5- jd A" Copyist: ^ 340, Or. 3236. — Foil. 349 ; 9^ in. by 5f ; 17 lines, 31 in. long ; written in neat Nestalik Shi- kastah-amlz, with two ‘Unvans and gold- ruled columns; dated A.H. 1200 (A.D. 1786). [Sidney CnuncniLL.] Iff- The Divan of ‘Ashik. Beg. ^ ^ J3i* &J 9 ( j — •**•?. 1 C l _ v j Aka Muhammad ‘Ashik, of Isfahan, was a poor man, earning his livelihood as a tailor ; but he had poetical genius, and excelled espe- cially in amatory poems. Azur, who mentions him among his contemporaries (Atashkadah, p. 414), says that he died A.H. 1181. See also Makhzan ul-Ghara’ib, fol. 304 ; Bodleian Catalogue, col. 356, no. 1755 ; Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 346; and Skam‘ i Anjuman, p. 293. This poet must not be confounded with an earlier ‘Ashik, who wrote a Masnavi entitled <_-qh 3 A.H. 1079 (Oude Cata- logue, p. 339). Contents : Kasidahs, fol. 16. Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 426, beginning : ^ ' - ooyA jo l £• Chronograms, with dates ranging from A.H. 1154 to 1181, fol. 3266. The first relates to the accession of Shah Sulaiman II. , A.H, 1163, and begins : aJj sj 3 j < tilli 341c Or. 2869. — Foil. 130 ; 8 in. by 5f ; 16 lines, 3J in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik, 214 POETRY. apparently about the close of the 18 th century. [Sidney Churchill.] Another copy of the Divan of ‘Asliik, containing- only Ghazals in alphabetical order, beginning as the corresponding sec- tion of the preceding MS. The colophon states that this Divan of Aka Muhammad Isfahani, poetically called ‘Ashik, was completed on Thursday in Taf- rish, no more precise date being added. 342 . Or. 2850. — Foil. 152 ; 6^ in. by 3f ; 14 lines, 2]- in. long; written in small and neat Shi- kastah ; dated Safar, A.H. 1195 (A.D. 1781). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Tufan. Beg. jb j djj I Ajo &jo\j jUaUil J Jxty ZJJj* j\jS> pjS? Mirza Tayyib, of Hazar Jarlb, Miizandaran, poetically styled Tufan, lived in Isfahan, and was dreaded for the pungency of his satires. At last he repented of liis wicked ways, and retired to Najaf, where he died A.H. 1190. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 808«, m. ; Atashkadah, p. 413 ; and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 341. Contents : Kasidahs, fob 2 b. Masnavis, fol. 615, beginning : Ghazals, in alphabetical order, fob 1045, beginning : ]) _?J lijli Rubafis, fob 1506, beginning : Jyj-d j )** 1 j d yjr- <-?J At the end are written verses composed by Azur on tlie poet’s death, the last hemi- stich of which is a chronogram for A.H. 1190 : i Qs2 dJli-jii y>- dy** I bbs j 343 . Or. 2868. — Foil. 137 ; lOf in. by 6^ ; 12 lines, 2| in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik on gold-sprinkled paper, with an ‘Unvan, gold- ruled columns, and gilt headings ; dated in the thirty-first year of Muhammad Shah, A.H. 1161 (A.D. 1748). [Sidney Churchill.] (jUaLj j “Valih u Sultan,” a romantic poem in Masnavi rhyme, by Fakir. Beg. ahj ^Ual^J ^y> y j~e- Mir Shams ud-Dln Fakir ‘Abbasi, an emi- nent poet and scholar, was born at Delhi, A.H. 1115, of an ancient and noble family. He wrote two able treatises on prosody and on poetical figures, a Divan, and several Masnavis. He composed the present one at the request of its hero, ‘Ali Kuli Khan Valili (Persian Catalogue, p. 372a), with whom he was intimate. It treats of the love-story of Valih and his affianced bride Khadljah Bigam, poetically surnamed Sultan, who had been seized by force and married to one of the Afghan officers of Ashraf. The author of ‘Ikd i Surayya (Add. 16,727, fob 685), writing A.H. 1199, says that he had POETRY. A.H. 1100—1200. 215 been lately informed that Fakir bad perished in a shipwreck near Basrah on his return from a pilgrimage to Najaf. For other notices, see Sham 4 i Anjuman, p. 378, and Makhzan ul-Ghara’ib, Or. 4610, fol. 344, Bodleian Catalogue, col. 362, no. 1993. In the section entitled ^ l jl) , fol. 105, the poet relates in the following verses how he had been sent for by Valih, who suggested to him the subject of the present poem : SiMj \jlO y>- tJ\j T The date of composition, A.H. 1160, is fixed by two chronograms in the following lines of the epilogue, fol. 1325 : 2? jl'i (JGi*- ** ✓ ^ tjA j>\ js> Ui> Further on, fob 1335, the poet says that he had embodied in his poem the contents of letters written by Khadljah Sultan to her lover, as well as the passionate outpourings of the latter. This fine copy has been revised by the author, who writes at the end : jAjj 1 jti aj.P jill !_ The Divan of Yafa. Beg. j , lob* Mirza Sharaf ud-Din ‘Ali Husaini Kummi, called Akasi Beg, and poetically surnamed Vafa, was born A.H. 1137 in Kum, where his father was in charge of the sanctuary of the Imamzadah Fatimah. Having reasons to fear Nadir Shah, he escaped, with great difficulty, from Persia, and reached Delhi A.H. 1162. There he was warmly received by ‘Ali Kuli Khan A 7 alih, who devotes to him a long and sympathetic notice in the Riyaz ush-Shu‘ara, Or. 2693, fol. 452, and quotes a Kasidah which the young poet had composed in his (Valih’s) praise, and which is found in the present MS., fol. 215. It is stated in Sham 4 i Anjuman, p. 520, that Yafa stayed thirty years in India and died A.H. 1200. The same date is given in Ruz i Rushan, p. 760. A copy of the Divan is described in the Oude Catalogue, p. 584. Contents : 1. Kasidahs in praise of the Imams, of Vazir Asafjah, of Yazir Safdar Jang, and of ‘Ali Kuli Khan Zafar Jang, At the end are two chronograms, Turkish and Persian, for the accession of ‘Alamgir II., A.H. 1167, and additional Kasidahs in a smaller and closer character. 2. Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 315. The first, which has been completely ob- literated, was apparently the same as in the Oude Catalogue. The end of the first hemistich, \j is still visible. The second Ghazal begins : L 216 POETRY. 3. Ruba'is, fob 132a, beginning : <3 j ^ (3 <3 alb (3 j (3 4. Tarkibs, Mukhammasat and Tarjbs, fob 142a. 5. A Masnavi, fob 163a, beginning : It breaks off at fob 1646. The next three folios, which contain Ghazals, are misplaced ; they should come after foil. 59 and 100. 345 . Or. 2851. — Foil. 207; 8 in. by 5; 14 lines, 3 in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik, with ruled margins ; dated A.H. 1241 (A.D. 1826). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Sayyid Kuchak. Beg. id^ j bo i\j li The author, who uses mostly uii > ^ alone, but sometimes aju*. as his takhallus, is not mentioned in the Tazkirahs. He is designated in the colophon as a great mystic and religious guide, 'ij±> b^ *as 2 i— IjI b^[y« \ SMiyc j &*>■ A 1 From the contents of the Divan, which is designated in the colophon as Tuhfat ur- Rizaviyyah, he appears to have been a Sufi Fakir living in Mashhad and a devout wor- shipper of the great Imam known as Shah i Khurasan, to whom several of his odes are addressed. No precise date is found in the Divan, but the author refers to Shah ‘Abbas II. and to Shaikh Baha’i (Baha ud-Din ‘Amili) as men of a remote past (see foil. 193a, 206a). He probably did not live much earlier than the date of the present MS. The Divan consists of mystic and religious poems in Ghazal form, arranged in alpha- betical order. At the end, fob 2056, is a Masnavi beginning : t X d ^y>bkff r ^ > i») CJj It relates how Shah ‘Abbas brought to shame and confusion the strict rigorists who passed a severe judgment on his conduct. 346 . Or. 2999. — Foil. 161 ; 7| in. by ; 14 lines, 2-| in. long ; written in Shikastah ; dated 27 Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1199 (A.D. 1785). [Sidney Churchill.] “ Khusrau Shirin ; ” a Masnavi by Nami. Beg. &AJ (jV 5, j 5 [ C * *>. i) i . ^ .X* **!^ [ ^ D Nami is the poetical surname of Mirza Muhammad Sadik Musavi, the historian of the Zand dynasty, who died A.H. 1204. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 196a ; Atash- kadah, p. 439 ; and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 523. This poem is designated in the prologue as the first composition of the author. It was written at the time when the poet came to Shiraz in the suite of Karim Khan, who is praised as the reigning sovereign : j _**» ji) J3 j\ jj*' 3 POETRY. A.H. 1100—1200. 217 a-*^° (J 1 aU? bb t jSjJja Jjt> i^JkLo alxil jb aji^ Ox=-y st^Si j'j**** The prologue concludes, fol. 116, with a laudatory address to Azur, author of the Atashkadah. For another copy see Ethe, Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 1191. Beg. o-Ab ^ plA & y Jo <_jl tj,2as- jt> (jSo.ljl Ibn ‘Imad is placed by Daulatshrih, who quotes the above beginning of his Dah Nam ah, among the contemporaries of Hafiz, v., 15. He was a native of Khorasan, but lived in Shiraz, where he died, according to Ruz i Rushan, p. 17, A.H. 800. A copy is mentioned by Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 687, 3 . III. Foil. 726 — 74a. A Masnavi by Mulla Hasan. Beg. aA pJa J\£i j ab J> Cir y It is a love-letter written by a prisoner to his beloved. IV. Foil. 756 — 82. An alphabetical glossary to the poems of Ka’ani, &&,£.,« Oil! It does not proceed beyond letter Yamik u ‘Azra, a Masnavi by the same poet, Nami. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 813a, iv., and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, nos. 1192-3. 349 . Or. 2953. — Foil. 58; 7 in. by 4 ; 20 lines, 2 in. long ; written in small and neat Shi- 218 POETRY. kastah-amiz ; dated Saturday, 28 Sha'ban, A.H. 1262 (A.D. 1848). [Sidney Chukchill.] Another copy of the Vamik u ‘Azra of Nami, wanting the prologue. Beg. Copyist : JAi 350 . Masnavis, fol. 1316, beginning: ^ JU J\ Mukatta‘at, fol. 139 6, beginning : uVj 1) y (*V **j> ^ j \iy <*$)•*& Or. 3488.— Foil. 162; 8£ in. by 5-| ; 17 lines, 3^ in. long ; written in Shikastah-amiz, with two ‘Unvans, silver-ruled columns, and gold headings, about the beginning of the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] jab The Divan of Rafik, or, as he is called in the colophon, Maulana Husain Isfahani, Beg. Is SBX3^' C ^ (n=s ^ ul I s - t -'i> j ^ Mulla Husain was the son of a greengrocer in Isfahan, and he carried on his father’s trade ; but he cultivated the society of the men of letters, who appreciated his poetical talent. He reached an old age, and died A.H. 1212. See Saflnat ul-Mahmud, fol. 184a ; Anjuman i Khakan, fol. 1326 ; Atasli- kadah, p. 390 ; and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 142. Contents : Kasidahs, fol. 16. Chrono- grams, with dates ranging from A.H. 1187 to 1202, fol. 19a. Gfhazals, alphabetically arranged, fol. 436, beginning : cL***»R Afji On the first page are some notes of former owners, the earliest of which is dated A.H. 1239. 351 . Or. 4238. — Foil. 105; 13^ in. by 8; 17 lines 6 in. long ; written in Nestalik ; dated Bom- bay, in the year 1256 of Yazdagird (A.D. 1886). [James Darmesteter.] A poetical account of the life of Ghulam Muhammad Khan, by Maulavi Ghulam Jllani Rampuri, with the following heading : StWli O^JRi- I , u Uaj^ Beg. j plio Ghulam Muhammad was the second son of the famous Rohilla chief Faiz-ullah, of Rampur. His political career was a very brief one. Shortly after the death of his father, on the 18th of Zulhijjah, A.H. 1208 (A.D. 1794), he put his elder brother Muham- mad ‘Ali to death, and, after various en- counters with the British troops and those POETRY. A.II. 1200—1300. 219 of Asaf ud-Daulali, he was obliged to sur- render, and was sent a prisoner to Benares. See the history of the Rohillas, Or. 1639, foil. 76 — 78 ; Mill’s History of India, yol. vi., p. 46 ; and the “ Ruhela Afghans,” Calcutta Review, vol. 61, p. 224. The poem begins with a long prologue, foil. 2 — 20. The historical portion starts from the death of Faiz-ullah and the ensuing conflict among his sons, fol. 21 a, with this heading : »_-6y oLjj C-qy- qJ* ^\x-c jd The sending of Ghulam Muhammad to Benares is recorded on fol. 53a. The rest of the volume is taken up by a narrative of his wanderings to Mecca and Medina and his journeys to Rampur, fol. 59 b, to Kabul, fol. 72a, and to Kashmir, fol. 78a, on all of which the author appears to have accom- panied him ; and by an account of his deal- ings with the Vazirs of Oude and the English authorities. In one of the concluding chapters the author speaks of the Indian campaign of Zaman Shah (A.H. 1213) and of the offers of service made to him by Ghulam Muham- mad, fol. 96. In the next chapter, fol. 100, he relates, with great exultation, the murder of Mr. Cherry by Vazlr ‘Ali at Benares (in the same year). In the last, fol. 101, the death of his hero is rather hinted at under cover of mystic phrases than explicitely told. In the epilogue, fol. 1046, the date of composition is indicated by the following chronogram : j Ip j * But the text is evidently corrupt and the date uncertain. The title of the poem and the author’s name are found in the following colophon transcribed from the original MS. : i—fly a- cliSils- <« ^ iOYj iOy-ji cu&i j 0^1*^ J JAAi py-y (*As- I— ^li>- 6.‘iSLS> jjj Ojljq 1 r 1 1 O-y.d) Ojy Copyist : alAijA &y> On the fly-leaf is a note by Prof. James Darmesteter ascribing the poem to “ the well- known Derwish Monshee Jumal eddeen.” Lower down : “ J’ai fait copier ce manuscrit a Bombay sur un MS. pret6 par G al Azim- eddin Khan, general en chef du Nabab de Rampor et son Vakil. II m’a dit qu’il n’y avait que deux copies de ce MS. dans le Rohilkand, l’original (dans la Bibl. du Na- bab ?) et sa copie.” 352 . Or. 2817. — Foil. 59 ; 13-1- i n . by 9 ; 17 lines, 4f in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik in four gold-ruled columns, with two highly finished ‘Unvans and illuminated headings ; dated Muharram, A. FI. 1194 (A.D. 1780). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 1—52. ^ yA “ Khusrau and Shlrin,” a Masnavi imitated from the poem of Nizami, by Shihab. Beg. (A The poet designates himself only by his 220 POETRY. takhallus, which occurs twice in the pro- logue, foil. 2a, 106 : cPj' j' Jjjj j^ d &)/ J* ^ J _3 His proper name, as found in the follow- ing MS., was Mirza ‘Abdullah B. Hablb-ullah Tursliizi. He was successively the pane- gyrist of Shahzadah Mahmud, the Afghan, in Herat, and of Agha Muhammad Kajar, in Persia, and died A.H. 1215. See Safinat ul- Mahmud, fol. 2386, and Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii. , p. 253. The prologue contains a panegyric on ‘Ali Murad Khan, who is addressed as the reigning sovereign, fol. 46 : j-ir* i. *' j.^sc> f ~ f h— 1 J w. ky ^ ^ 1 ‘Ali Murad Khan, son of Allah Murad Khan, and step-son of Ja‘far Khan Zand, is stated in the Ta’rikh i Gltl-Gusha’i, Add. 23,524, fol. 91a, to have assumed sovereignty in Isfahan shortly after the death of Karim Khan, A.H. 1193. He made himself after- wards master of Shiraz, and remained the virtual head’ of the Zand empire until his death, which took place A.H. 1198. As to his own life, the author only says (fol. 56), that he had been for five years wandering through every land in great dis- tress, lavishing praises on the great without obtaining any reward. The narrative, which begins fol. 6a, follows the main incidents of the poem of Nizami, but on a much reduced scale. The poem was completed on the 15th of RabT I., A.H. 1194, as stated in the follow- ing lines of the epilogue, fol. 516 : j' jjj ^j>\ jA I j> jUA j gjo JL~* A j ^ uv* j j' The date of transcription, “ Muharram, 1194,” is apparently a mistake for “ Mu- harram, 1195.” In a Persian note written on the first page, ijj, the first words of the poem, are given as its title : sja II. Foil. 53 — 59. An unfinished poem by the same Shihab on the career of ‘Ali Murad Khan, to whom it is dedicated. Beg- cA/"' j -* The poet’s name is found in this line, fol. 546 : L- *“■* t-r’"' J* 5 ’* The narrative begins on fol. 566. The author relates how his hero marched from Shiraz to Isfahan, crushed the rebellion of Zulfakar Khan (Afshar), and ordered that chief to be beheaded. The last leaf, which is disconnected from the preceding, treats of the same prince’s victorious encounter near Ilamadan with ‘Ali Naki Khan (son of Ja‘far Khan Zand), and of the latter’s defeat and flight to Shiraz. Or. 3318.— Foil. 289; 10£in.by5£; 18 lines, 3f in. long ; written in fair large Neskhi ; POETRY. A.H. 1200—1300. 221 dated Friday, 18 Ramazan, A.H. 1232 (A.D. 1817). [Sidney Churchill.] 1. Foil. 1—221. ^ The Divan of Shihab (see the preceding MS.), with a preface by the author, which begins as follows : o Xt*t j ^la Sjo ^ Beg. of the Divan, fob 45 : sj^I j j>j& jj In the preface the author gives his proper name in full: Ibn Habib-ullah Turshlzi ‘Abd- ullah, with the takhallus Shihab, and states that he compiled this Divan by desire of his patron, Shahzadah Mahmud, A.H. 1206, and divided it into four parts (Kism), viz., ] . Kasidahs in praise of the Imams and of royal persons. 2. Kasidahs in praise of Amirs and Vazirs. 3. Mukatta'at. 4. Hazliyyat u Ahaji, i.e., humoristic pieces and satires. The Ruba‘is are included partly in the third, and partly in the fourth part. The preface concludes with an enumeration of the other works of the author, namely Khusrau Slilrin, Yusuf Zulaikha, Bahrain Namah, Tazkirat ush-Shu‘ara, ‘Ikd i Gubar on astrology, Murad Namah, a history of ‘Ali Mardan Khan Zand, all of which are in verse. The Tazkirat ush-Shu‘ara and the Murad Namah were not yet completed. Two prose works, Tazkirat ul-Vuzara and Ta’rlkk i Mujadval, were also still unfinished. The contents of the Divan are as follows : 1. Kasidahs in praise of the Prophet, the Imams, and of royal personages. The latter are Timur Shah, Shahzadah Mahmud, to whom most pieces are addressed, Shahzadah Kamran and Abu T-Fath Khan. 2. Kasidahs in praise of Amirs and Vazirs, fob 35a. 3. Ghazals, fob 60 b, beginning: \*j\& y>\ 4. Mukatta‘at, fob 63a. 5. Hazliyyat, fob 104a, beginning : jk- CL *-*- 0 6. A supplement to the Divan, consisting of pieces composed subsequently to the date of its compilation, foil. 142a — 241. It con- tains Kasidahs in praise of Shahzadah Mah- mud, a Marsiyali on the death of Timur Shah (A.H. 1207) , Mukatta‘at, including chrono- grams for A.H. 1207-1208, a long Masnavi, foil. 172 — 193, being a satirical biography of Mustafa Kuli Khan, governor of Turshiz and the sworn enemy of the poet, and numerous satirical pieces. II. Foil. 2225—289. ^ ^ The Divan of Miram, with a preface in prose and verse by the author, beginning with a TarjF, the first line of which is : I kl «*> and the burden : The prose part of the preface begins, fob 224a, as follows : &S )j <-iJY idj ^ki The author says that, having composed a few jocular Ghazals, he had collected them at the request of some friends. He had fol- lowed, he says, the example of Shaikh Sa‘di, and had, like him, conveyed spiritual thoughts under the veil of sensual images. The poet, who calls himself, fob 283a, Miram Siyah, was a native of Kazvin, but 009 , POETRY. lived chiefly in Herat from the time of Sultan Husain Baikara to that of Humayun. Sam Mirza, who mentions him in Tuhfah i Sami (written about A.H. 957), fol. 1186, as still living, says that he led a dissolute life and that his verses reflected his character. He is mentioned in Khair ul-Bayan, fol. 2626, as an imitator of ‘Ubaid Zakani. It is stated in Subh i Gulshan that he composed two Divans, the second of which was of a jocular character and had been written by desire of Khwajah c Abd ul-Hayy. A Divan of his composition, but with a different beginning, is mentioned by Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1029. Contents : Ghazals in alphabetical order, fol. 2256, beginning : jo ij y aES yy» j i&jf b Juf y&jl 5 lL Muhammad Hasan Khan, commonly called Khanlar Khan, and poetically styled Farrukh, was the son of ‘Ali Mardan Khan Zand, and, on his mother’s side, a grandson of Muham- mad Hasan Khan Kajar. He was therefore a near relative of Fatli { Ali Shah, with whom he was a great favourite. He died, accord- ing to Riza Kuli Khan, in Kirman, A.H. 1237. See Majma e ul-Fusaha, vol. ii. , p. 383, and, for other notices, Safinat ul-Mah- mud, fol. 476; Zinat ul-Mada’ih, fol. 195a; Anjuman i Khakan, fol. 83a ; and Nigaristan i Dara, fol. 1116. Contents : Kasidahs, fol. 26. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, fol. 40a, beginning : 'A’j ^9 Jjj ^ yjj ’‘Af* u?} Lfjjj 4F '-r>j b Mukhammas, &c., fol. 73a. Rubais, fol. 766, beginning : iJIF J j j\j y oby The Rubais are followed, fol. 79a, by a few Kit‘ahs and Kasidahs. From notes written on the first page and at the end, it appears that this copy was presented by the author to Prince Iraj Mirza, A.H. 1232. It afterwards passed into the hands of Shahzadah Sultan Mustafa, who substituted his name for that of the first owner. 356 . Or. 2984. — Foil. 277 ; 8f in. by 6 ; 11 lines, 31 in. long ; written in Nestalik Shikastah- arnlz, about A.H. 1237 (A.D. 1822). [H. A. Stern.] A miscellaneous volume in prose and verse, designated in the following heading as the fourth volume of Khamsah i Da’ud-shahi by Hasan Chelebi, poetically surnamed Shaida, i—AA^ &5b.jl J ‘A-*- oUS syj iiy ijkr St)[j l rrv bS~> j^iCj 13 i rri The author was evidently a dependant of Da’ ud Pasha, governor of Baghdad ; and the main part of the volume, foil. 56 — 212, is occupied by a rhymed chronicle, in which the movements of the Pasha and the daily oc- currences at the residence, from Rajab A.H. 1236 to Ramazan A.H. 1237, are minutely recorded. It begins as follows : CLa±*\ j*\jj It is divided into short sections, the sub- jects of which are indicated by rubrics. 224 POETRY. The first part of the volume, foil. 5 — 55, contains the author’s prose compositions, namely, 1. Panegyrics upon Da’ud Pasha and upon his son Yusuf Beg, beginning : j l_rH/T jd &akk ^k^k a/ J*a i (jijjo j ^pab 2. Precepts of Buzurj- mihr to Anusliirvan, fol. 14a. 3. A tract on divine power as manifested in human souls, (jbj jl o»yb j okks j( i, fol. 21a. 4. Story of the Yazir and the thought-reader, j y j_y and other moral anecdotes, fol. 28a. 5. On the faculties of man, fol. 45a. 6. Sayings of great Sufis, ^..£.*1 fol. 516. The latter part of the volume contains the Divan of the author, namely, 1. Kasidahs, mostly in praise of Da’ud Pasha and of Yusuf Beg, beginning, fol. 2136 : y jl y <-?!» j' (PPj 2. An astrological treatise in Masnavi, &yy£ auykko fol. 2416, beginning: Mio bl kb 3. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, fol. 2016, beginning : (jU.3- jj^-o jy- j 4. Ruba‘is, fol. 2716. 5. Khatimah, fol. 2766. A full tabulated index of the contents of the volume occupies two pages at the be- ginning. From a note written on the outer edge of the MS., it appears to have belonged to Yusuf Beg. 357 . Or. 3489. — Foil. 198; 8 in. by 5^; 12 lines, 3 in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and ruled margins, about the middle of the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] tjlxS The Divan of Katrah, beginning : ylk/o y jd\s j p!b j yys Mirza ‘Abd ul-Vahhab Katrah, of Chahar Mahall, Isfahan, was a panegyrist of Fatli ‘Ali Shah. He attached himself to the Shah’s son, Mahmud Mirza, then governor of Nuhavend. Besides a Divan of great extent, he composed a Masnavi on the expe- ditions of Muhammad and ‘Ali, and another, entitled Fath Namah, on the campaign of Mukhtar. Riza Kuli Khan, writing A.H. 1284, speaks of him as still living. See Majma c ul-Fusaha, vol. ii. , p. 422, and, for earlier notices, Anjuman i Khakan, fol. 175a ; Saflnat ul-Mahmud, fol. 176 ; Nigaristan i Dara, fol. 167a ; and Mada’ih ul-Mu‘tama- diyyah, fol. 231. Contents : Kasidahs, alphabetically ar- ranged, in praise of Muhammad, ‘Ali, and the Imams, fol. 16. Kasidahs in praise of Fatli ‘Ali Shah and his son Muhammad Taki Mirza, fol. 706. Chronograms relating to buildings, weddings, births, and other occurrences at Court, with dates ranging from A.H. 1230 to 1235, fol. 142a. TarjTs in praise of Muhammad and of ‘Ali, fol. 165a. Satirical pieces, fol. 171a. Ghazals, in alpha- betical order, with blank spaces left for ad- ditions, fol. 1796, beginning: OlkK pkj' y JIA'jl JS w— y ks- j b 358 . Or. 3235. — Foil. 211 ; 8J in. by 5|; 12 lines, 3f in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with POETRY. A.H. 1200—1300. gold-ruled columns, about tlie middle of the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Khavari, whose proper name was Mirza Fazl-ullah Shirazi, and who has been already mentioned as author of Ta’rikh Zu’l-karnain, no. 71. Beg. 0 =- j ^-31 Jjjjj A notice of the poet, extracted from Anju- man i Khakan (no. 120), occupies two pages at the beginning. Contents : Kasidahs, in alphabetical order, mostly in praise of Fath ‘Ali Shah, of Huma- yun Mirza, and of the Sadr i A‘zam Mirza ShafF, fol. 2 ft. A Tarklb-band and a TarjF, fob 78ft. Ghazals, alphabetically arranged, fob 84ft, beginning : [ApJ j \j A 3 " {J* 1;^ y?* uIjIP’ ^ ^ Masnavis, fob 168ft, with the heading CL^o j3 beginning : 8b*> 3 j) ^ j Mukatta‘at, including many chronograms, with dates ranging from A.H. 1216 to 1237, fob 177ft. Ruba‘is, fob 201ft, beginning: \j*> l CL*y y i fiU b j\^\ ^ j. The date A.H. 1237 written at the end of the Kasidahs appears to relate to the com- pilation of the Divan. 359 . Or. 3484. — Foil. 121; 1 1-| in. by 7 ; 17 lines, 3f in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, in the first half of the 19th century. Bound in painted covers. [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Khavar, with a prose preface beginning ; j\ <*^_p pK) ( U=*-3 ^ $?} ^ Beg. of the Divan, fob 4ft : jjr* M Jr" j' i * i ■* . b 1 j) 8,03^ Haidar Kuli Mirza, poetically surnamed Khavar, was the fourteenth son of Fath ‘Ali Shah, who appointed him governor of Gul- pfiigan. After his father’s death, he took up his abode in Teheran, where he died in the reign of Muhammad Shah. See Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 25 ; Saflnat ul-Mahmud, fob 18ft ; Anjuman i Khakan, fob 35ft ; Nigar- istan i Dara, fob 8a ; and Gulshan i Mahmud, fob 32ft. The preface, written in florid style, evi- dently by a dependant of the prince, contains a panegyric on Fath ‘Ali Shfih and an enco- nium on the Shahzadah and on his Divan, which was compiled A.H. 1238. The contents of the latter are Kasidahs, a Tarkib on the death of Husain (fob 6a), Ghazals in alpha- betical order (fob 9ft) beginning : '-8F y Masnavis beginning with a Saki Namah, and a few Kit'ahs, fob 93a ; Rubafis in alpha- betical order, fob 114ft, beginning: \m y>' ^ i *U-> b 3 5 j 3 1*0, ^ 83b eu*» j3 The last Ruba‘i is Turkish. 226 POETRY. 360 . Or. 3245.— Foil. 55 ; 8£ in. by 5|; 6 lines, 2f in. long ; written in large and elegant Nes- talik, with marginal additions in a smaller character in red ink, about A.H. 1240 (A.D. 1824). [Sidney Churchill.] Moral precepts in Masnavi verse, by Abu’l-Hasan B. Muhammad Kazim Jajarmi, with a prose preface, beginning : jXjaAil \ (jAs- JjO Icl . . . The first line of the poem is : ij\ alfi \ llA J'-"* Jj' CL* This was also the time about which Shah Shuja* composed his Memoirs (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 905), which have been partly translated by the late Lieut. S. W. Bennett in the Asiatic Journal, vol. 30, Asiatic Intelligence, p. 6. In a letter written by the same gentleman to Mr. Macdonald, dated Lodianah, Oct. 23, 1825, and bound up with the present MS., he says : 55 The noble author finished his work and presented me with it on the 20th of Sept., 1825. This is a copy of the original.” For the history of Shah Shuja 5 see Kaye, War in Afghanistan, and Rehatsek, last years of Shah Shuja 5 , trans- lated from Ta’rlkh i Sultani, Indian An- tiquary, vol. xv., pp. 162, 261, 289. Contents : Ghazals, fol. 15. Saki Namah, fol. 2335, beginning: W j4 Mughanni Namah, fol. 237a. Mukham- masat, fol. 2405. Ruba'is, fol. 251a, be- ginning : *'**■- 5 ^ y 1 1 Q >■ ' j SJ jd Fardiyyat, fol. 2595. TarjPat, fol. 2665. POETRY. A.H. 1200—1300. 227 362 . Or. 4516. — Foil. 95; 6 % in. by 5 ; 11 lines, 3^ in. long ; written in Skikastah in tke 19tk century. Tke Divan of Naskat, consisting only of Gkazals in alpkabetical order, and beginning: LfJ ^ j 1 Tke same beginning kas been noticed in tke Persian Catalogue, p. 7226. Nashat is tke poetical surname of Mirza ‘Abd ul- Vakkab, of Isfahan. See above, no. 188, n., and Etke, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1200. 363 . Or. 4914. — Foil. 75 ; 8^ in. by 5^ ; 15 lines, 2f in. long ; written in fair Shikastak-amiz, with gold-ruled margins ; dated Safar, A.H. 1257 (A.D. 1841). Another MS. of tke Divan of Nashat, with tke same beginning as tke preceding, but with fuller contents. 364 . Or. 3528. — Foil. 146 ; 12 in. by 8 ; 23 lines, 3f in. long ; written in neat Nestalik, with two ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns ; dated Shiraz, A.H. 1253 (A.D. 1837). [Sidney Churchill.] Two Masnavi poems by Riza Kuli Khan, poetically styled Hidayat (see no. 42), both mentioned by tke author in Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 582, among his early works, namely : I. Foil. 1—109. U3 “ Hidayat Namak,” a poem containing moral and religious precepts illustrated by apologues and anecdotes in tke style of tke Masnavi of Jalal ud-Din Rurni and in tke same metre. Beg. «_l***>\ i -CL &Jo)j The poem is divided into sections, with long prose rubrics indicating their subjects. III. Foil. 110—146. ^ “ Anis ul-‘Askikm,” a religious and mystic poem, with anecdotes of saints and Sufis. Beg. &=> y> aSCil ^lb 1xa« b j ulAy [)j\ iiy lybc u The poet, of whom no record has been found, appears to have lived in Yazd about the middle of the nineteenth century. His Divan contains numerous references to that city, one among others to Mirza Muttalib its governor, and a number of chronograms with dates ranging from A.H. 1252 to 1268. Among these there is a curious one, fob 1256, fixing by anticipation the poet’s own death at A.H. 1295, with the remark that it was composed twenty-six years before the event, that is to say A.H. 1269. Contents : Kasidahs, mostly in praise of ‘Ali, fob 16. Ghazals in alphabetical order, fob 366, beginning : j jzS’ 1 ly) b l^H jl ^xfc> AyyboJ lyb-jl TarjT, Tarklb-band and Mukhammas, fob 1046. Mukatta‘at, including chronograms, fob 117a, beginning : (jl y.fcyl \jjXro o*5y lb yb ^>\ j+*x> b ay &!> Rubafis, fob 1316. Masnavis, fob 1396, beginning : bb u ^ J'y^ 367 . Or. 3240.— Foil. 124; 8J in. by 5 ; 23 lines, 2^- in. long ; written in small and close Nes- talik ; dated Ispahan, A.H. 1261 (A.D. 1845). [Sidney Churchill.] The Divan of Ka’ani, beginning : j byo ^4" yy yT jay J Ka’ani is by common consent the greatest of the modern poets of Persia. His proper name was Mirza Hablb-ullah, and he was born in Shiraz. At the age of seven years he left his father, Mirza Abu ’1- Hasan, poetically surnamed Gulshan, and repaired to Mashhad to apply himself to study. In a short time his precocious poetical genius drew public attention to him, and he became a favourite of the governor, Hasan ‘Ali POETRY. A. IT. 1200 — 1300. 229 Mirza Shuja £ us-Saltanah. The latter recom- mended the youthful poet to his father, Fath ‘Ali Shah, who conferred upon him the title of Mujtaliid ush-Shu‘ara. Ka’ani remained at the capital during the reigns of Muham- mad Shah and of the present Shah, who both treated him with great regard and liberality. He was a great adept in all Muslim sciences and an eminent linguist. French being then in favour, he made himself so perfect a master of it that, according to his biogra- pher, “ but for his dress, it might have been doubted whether he was a native of Pars or of Paris.” Ka’ani died at Teheran, A.H. 1270, leaving a Divan of considerable extent, which was lithographed at Teheran, A.H. 1277, and. a collection of anecdotes in prose and verse, called lithographed in the same place, A.H. 1302. See a full notice of his life in Ganj i Shaigan, pp. 362 to 410 (prefixed in an abridged form to the Teheran edition of the Divan) ; Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. ii. , p. 402 ; Mada’ih ul-Mu‘tama- diyyah, fob 226ft ; and E. Gf. Browne, ££ A Year amongst the Persians,” p. 118. The present copy of the Divan consists exclusively of Kasidahs arranged in alpha- betical order. As it was written nine years before the poet’s death, it naturally does not include his later compositions, and its con- tents fall far short of those of the printed edition. 368 . Or. 3000. — Foil. 56; 9 in, by 5^; 11 lines, 3|- in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik, with two ‘Unvans and gold-ruled columns ; dated A.H. 1263 (A.D. 1847). Bound in painted and glazed covers. [Sidney Churchill.] A poem on mystic love, written in the style and metre of the Masnavi, and illus- trated by anecdotes and sayings of Sufis ; by lbn £ Ali Akbar £ Ali Asghar, poetically styled Na.yyir, with a prose preface by the author, beginning : ^yo UJ A4- aJJ &hy ^ Beg. of the poem, fob 3ft ; In the preface, after a panegyric on the Vazir, Haji Mirza Akasi, the author describes the present work as abridged from a longer poem composed in his youth. According to a note written by Mr. Churchill on the first page, the original Masnavi was lithographed on the margin of Nur al- Anvar, Teheran, A.H. 1301, and the date of its composition is given in the following chrono- gram : jd lyj j\ sj i_jUf lyj Oy This gives A.H. 1285-9 = 1276, a date posterior to that of the present copy. The poem which bears that date must therefore be a later work of £ Ali Asghar. Copyist : Or. 2954. — Foil. 63 ; 8^ in. by 5-| ; 12 lines, 3 in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik, with a highly finished ‘Unvan and gold-ruled columns, in the latter half of the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] J Bahrain u Bihruz, a tale in Masnavi verse, by Vakar. Beg. (jf?- oU plA \j ijA’-V ^ 230 POETRY. Mirza Ahmad Shirazi, poetically styled Yakar, was the son of the poet Yisal, who died in Shiraz, A.H. 1263 (see no. 308). Pour years after his father’s death he went to India with his brother, Mirza Mahmud Tablb, takh. Hakim. After staying about two years in Bombay, he returned home and proceeded, A.H. 1274, to Teheran, where he was favourably received by Nasir ud-DIn Shah. He was then forty-two years of age. See Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 548. He wrote, A.H. 1281, a collection of anecdotes in the style of the Gulistan, entitled Anjuman i Danish, and lithosrraphed in Teheran, A.H. 1289. The heroes of the tale, Bahram and Bih- ruz, are two brothers, natives of Gilan, the first addicted to pleasure, the other living for wisdom and virtue. The heroine is Gauhar, their uncle’s daughter. In the prologue, after a panegyric on Nasir ud-Din Shah, the author describes the work as a poetical version of a tale he had found in India, A.H. 1266. In the epilogue, written eight years after his return, he bestows the highest praise upon Sayyid ‘Ata, a Persian exile, who had been his benefactor in India, and for whom he claims the Shah’s clemency. On the first page is a Persian note declar- ing the MS. to be in the handwriting of the author, the ‘ late ’ Yakar. It is confirmed by the seals of the three great penmen of the period, Mirza Zain ul-‘ Abidin Shirazi, Mirza Shaikh-'ali, and Mirza Muhammad Husain. 370 . Or. 3256. — Foil. 12 ; 8^ in. by 5-|; 10 lines, 3 in. long ; written in elegant Nestalik with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, about the middle of the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] Six Kasidahs in praise of Nasir ud-Din Shah, by the six sons of the poet Yisal Shirazi, namely : 1. Ahmad Va/car (see the preceding MS.), whose poem begins as follows : 2. Mahmud Halcim, who died A.H. 1268, at the age of thirty-nine. See Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 102. 3. Muhammad Davari. See ib., p. 130. 4. Abu ’l-Kasim Farhang, who died a few years ago. See E. G. Browne, “ A Year amongst the Persians,” p. 119. 5. Muhammad Isma‘11 Tauhid, see Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, p. 84. 6. ‘Abd ul-Yahhab. The writing is very similar to that of the preceding MS., and is said to be that of Yakar. 371 . Or. 3251. — Foil. 152 ; 7f in. by 41 ; 7 lines, 11 in. long ; written in Neskhi, about A.H. 1277 (A.D. 1860-61). [Sidney Churchill.] “ Farhang i Khuda-parasti,” a poem on the martyrs of Karbala, by Mahram. Mirza ‘Abdullah B. Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali, surnamed Lisan ul-Hakk, was born in Yazd, and adopted the poetical surname of his father, Mahram. He spent his youth in Kirmanshahan, and afterwards settled in Teheran in the time of Muhammad Shah, who conferred upon him the title of Malik POETRY. A.H. 1200—1300. 231 ush-Shu c ara’i ‘Irak, and appointed him pro- fessor of French in the Dar ul-Funun. After a time he retired into private life and applied himself to the composition of poems in praise of the Imams. See Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. ii. , p. 457, and Ganj i Shaigan, p. 412. The present poem is of the kind called Musammat. It was composed, as stated at the beginning, on the occasion of a Ta‘ziyah performed by order of Nasir ud-Dln Shah, and contains a detailed description of the martyrdom of one hundred and seventy-two men, who fell by the side of Husain on the field of Karbala, beginning with Hurr B. Zaid Riyahi, and ending with ‘Ali al-Asghar. The last two words of the above title form a chronogram for A.H. 1277, the year in which the poem was composed. This is stated in the epilogue, fol. 149a-, as follows : Aj*? Jy dyj At the beginning and at the end are found eulogies, in prose and verse, upon the author and his work, by the following writers : Mirza Muhammad Savaji, fol. 16. Mirza Muhammad Hasan Tasllm, fol. 46. Mirza Huma (Shirazi), fol. 1496. Mirza Bidil, fol. 1506. Mirza Safa’i Katib, fol. 151a, and the daughter of Haldm Zauki, fol. 1526. The MS. bears at the beginning the seal of the author, Lisan ul-Hakk. The poem was lithographed in Teheran, A.H. 1281, with a portrait of the author. 372 . Or. 3243. — Foil. 126; 7| in. by 5f ; 11 lines, 4 in. long ; written in a straggling Indian Nestalik, about A.D. 1880. [Sidney Churchill.] “ Kaisari Namah,” a poetical account of recent events in India, under the Viceroys Lord Lytton and Lord Ripon, by Munshi Bishan La‘l, poetically styled Nazir. Beg. j ^ 1 \ > J** In the prologue the author dedicates the poem to Her Majesty (from whose Indian title its name is derived) through the medium of his patron, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, of Delhi. The work is divided into three parts called Daftar. The first, fol. 10a, is a succinct history of the growth of the British Empire in India from the first settlement in Calcutta to the assumption by the Queen of the title Kaisar i Hind. The second and third Daftars, beginning respectively at foil. 68a and 866, treat more fully of the events of Afghanistan from the Kabul campaign, under Lord Lytton, to the final establishment of ‘Abd ur-Rahman Khan on the throne. The work was finished, as stated in the epilogue, on the tenth of Zulhijiah, A.H. 1297 (Novem- ber, 1880). At the beginning, fol. 2, is a short state- ment of the contents, and, fol. 3, an enco- mium on the work and its author by Maulavi Muhammad Ishak, professor of Madrasat ul- ‘Ulum, Delhi, who describes the author as a Muslim convert. 373 . Or. 3254. — Foil. 121 ; 8J in. by 6 ; 13 lines, 3^ in. long ; written in fair large Nestalik ; dated 20 Rabl‘ I., A.H. 1298 (A.D. 1881). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 1—56. j>.£\ Kasidahs of f Amil ud-Dln, with a prose 232 POETRY. preface by the author, beginning : iX?- jl y> -?P‘ *~~*j*^^ HA5 The author’s full name is ‘Amil ud-Din Muhammad Tahir B. Mulla Abu Talib, and he uses ‘Amil as his takhallus. In the preface, which is dated the 16th of Safar, A. H. 1298, he says that in the springtide of youth he had composed two volumes of poetry, one containing Ghazals and Ruba‘is, the other, the present one, consisting of Ivasidahs in praise of ‘Ali and Husain. The Kasidahs, including also some Mu- khammasat, form an alphabetical series, and begin as follows, fol. 3 5 : b jj [I. Foil. 5 65 — 118. A Masnavi by the same poet on the fate of ‘Ali Akbar, Kasim B. Hasan, and other martyrs of Karbala. \j j jSb A long prologue contains the author’s view on a fifth soul, described as a privilege of the Imams ; further, a number of anecdotes with spiritual or mystic import, and a Saki Namah. The narrative begins, fol. 78a, with the heading ^b-Ai jls-Tj jCtiA The poem is slightly imperfect at the end. It breaks off, fol. 1185. The next three folios contain additional Kasidahs. The MS. is, according to the following colophon, the author s own draft ; li^-s? Anthologies. 374 . Or. 4110. — Foil. 445 ; 9^in.by6J; 25 lines, 4 in. long ; written in a rather uncouth Indian Neskhi, with rudely illuminated head- ings, apparently in the 15th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A copious Persian anthology, without title or author’s name. The author lived in India, and wrote this work during the short reign of Sultan ush- Shark Mubarak Shall, who succeeded to the throne of Jaunpur A.H. 803, and died in the subsequent year (see Elliot, History of India, vol. iv., p. 38 ; Firishtah, vol. i., p. 289 ; and Brigg’s translation, vol. i., p. 498). This appears from the heading of a long poem (Muwashshah) addressed to that Sultan by Malik ‘Aziz-ullah, and dated A.H. 803 (foil. 2225 — 227). In that heading the author speaks of the Sultan as the reigning sovereign, adding to his name Ale jR-. The work is divided into sections termed Kism, in which the poems are arranged according to their subjects, to the various kinds of poetical composition, or to the poetical figures which they illustrate, the authors of most pieces being named in the heading. The poets quoted range from the time of Firdausi to that of Hafiz, and in- clude a number of Indian poets unknown to Persia. The sections must have originally amounted at least to one hundred and one ; but the MS. is defective at the beginning and at the end, and has besides some in- ternal lacunas, so that many of the Kisms are lost, while in some instances the headings are wanting or illegible. The contents may be briefly described as follows : Kism I. (the beginning of which is lost). Poems in praise of God, by Firdausi ANTHOLOGIES. 233 ‘Amid Lunaki, Mughlg Hansavi (mentioned in Haft Ikllm, fol. 14 7a, without any date), Khwaju KirmanI, and Sa‘di, fol. 5 a. II. Poems in praise of the Propliet, fol. 155. III. and IV. o£j ^>1, a versified treatise on law, composed A.H. 693, fol. 28a. V. Laudatory poems by Anvari, Khakani, Kamal Isma‘11, Minuchihri, Mu'izzi, Kataran, Nizami, Mughlg Hansavi, &c., fol. 33a (break- ing off fol. Ill, and followed by a misplaced leaf containing riddles, and by the last five pages of a section on the poems called Muvashshah). VII. Tarjl'at, by Zahlr Fari- yabi, Khwaju, Kamal Isfahani, Falaki, Sa'di, Hamid Kalandar, Faklir ud-Din ‘Iraki, and Salman, fob 115a. VIII. — XI. Mirdavvarat, and other pieces written in fanciful shapes, fol. 152a. XIV. — XVI. Mukhammasat, Mugallag and Murassa', fol. 159a. XXIII. (misplaced). Proverbs fol. 164a. XVII. — XXIX. Verses illustrating various kinds of poetical figures, fol. 1655. LXXIII. 'j^e, pieces which may be read in several metres, fol. 2185. LXXIV. Ghazals, chiefly by Khakani, Sa'di, Hafiz, ‘Ubaid Zakani, and Kamfd, fol. 2285. LXXV. The Masuavi entitled Duzd u Kazi, followed by a vast number of Ghazals of a religious cha- racter, chiefly by Sa'di and Hu mam, fol. 282a. LXXVI. Mukhammasat, fol. 3795. LXXIX., and three other Kisms with uncertain head- ings, containing artificial verses, fol. 3845. XCIII. Prosody, fol. 3995. XCIV. Music, fol. 402a. XCV. Masnavis, viz., extracts from the Shall Namah, Gul u Bulbul, &c., fol. 4035. XCVI. Mukatta'at and Maragi, fol. 414a. XCVII. Ruba'is, without poet’s names, fol. 427a. XCVIII. Mufradat, fol. 4435 (imperfect at the end). Foil. 1 — 4, misplaced at the beginning of the volume, contain Kism Cl., treating- of riddles, also a Tarklb-band and Margiyah by Salman. In a passage occurring fol. 2225 the author calls his book Dastur ush-Shu'ara, j This may be either a mere description of its scope or its specific title. An addition by a later hand on the margin of fol. 185 is dated Delhi, 15 Zulka'dah, A.H. 935 (A.D. 1529). 375 . Or. 3244. — Foil. 184; 9|- in. by 6f ; 15 lines, written in elegant Nestalik, long ; with gold-ruled columns, apparently early in the 16th contury. [Sidney Churchill.] An extensive anthology of select Ghazals by various poets, from the time of Sa'di to the first half of the tenth century of the Hijrah, by Fakhri B. Muhammad Amiri. The MS. begins abruptly with the latter part of the preface, from which it appears that the work was compiled for the Vazir Hablb-ullab. It is evidently the anthology entitled &as 2 , mentioned in the Oude Catalogue, p. 12, and in the Persian Cata- logue, p. 3665. The Ghazals are arranged in alphabetical order, and have rubrics indicating their authors. The MS. breaks off towards the end of the Ghazals in s. The latest poets included are Bina’i, Asafi, Alii, Hilfili, Ahli, and the compiler himself, Fakhri (fol. 184a). The first Ghazal is by Sa'di, and begins : IjL i .» XL J 7 The second is by Humam, and begins : \j& aAlb i H H POETRY. 234 The last is by Nava’i (Mir ‘Ali Shir), and begins : litijlio iJ 4 ^ A v*** *■— Ijb S^lo ^j\y *5'"' j*o fjYj ,J> jd An anthology of princely poets, Rauzat us-Salatin, by the same Fakhri, is described by Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 644. 376 . Or. 4772.— Foil. 337 ; 9} in. by 6 ; 21 lines, 4f in. long ; written in small and close Nestalik in four red-ruled columns ; dated (fob 324), Thursday, 23 Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1170 (A.D. 1756). A collection of Masnavis by ancient and modern poets, more especially by those who lived in India during the tenth and eleventh centuries of the Hijrah. Omitting some of the lesser pieces, the main contents are as follows : Fol. 15. y'L*, by Zuhuri (d. 1024). See Ethe, no. 1076, fob 31. Fob 55 a. ys j Las, by Salim (d. 1057). Persian Catalogue, p. 7965, vm. ; Berlin Catalogue, no. 674, art. 12 ; and Ethe, nos. 1113-14. Fob 58a. j\S> j by Nau‘i (d. 1019). Persian Catalogue, p. 674a.. Fob 62a.. jSi j La;, by Talib Amuli, beginning : jjb J\ Fob 64a. ; V* j Li;, by Hakim Rukna (v. Berlin Catalogue, no. 12, art. 10), be- ginning : Fob 65a. jss j Lis, by Salim ‘Attar Yazdi, takh. Salim, beginning: Cot ^ k t 4 k t. 2 ^ Fob 675. jSs j has, by Ziya (Nur ullah Isfahani, under Shah ‘Abbas I. ; see Atash- kadah, p. 186), beginning : Fob 705. Extracts from j sLy, by ‘Urfi, and from poems on the same subject by Vahshi, fob 74a, and Shapur, fob 805. Fob 83a. yA*» ^yJL, by Nasir ‘Ali (Berlin Catalogue, no. 674, art. 15), beginning: j>.j V oA 3 ' Fob 96a. by Mirza Tahir Vahid, beginning : Fob 1035. 5y i_?y.te, by Mulla Isma‘il Zabihi Yazdi (Oude Catalogue, p. 122), be- ginning : CLxxxt- jL»- O' Fob 111a. Extract from j'A j o^s.' 0 , by Zulali. Fob 1245. Extract from yy As-, by Vahshi. Fob 125a. Masnavi of Salim on the visit of a caravan to the tomb of Hatim. Fob 1265. Masnavi on the battle of Shah Ismahl with Shaibak Khan, by Va‘iz Kazvini (no. 334), beginning : i " -m i \ 5 As .y I Fob 133a. The story of Shaikh San‘an, from Mantik ut-Tair, by ‘Attar (see the Turkish Catalogue, pp. 1855, 3025), beginning : 8F j'i (jLio Fob 138a. The story of Malik Dinar, by Baba Kasim Khadim (a sister’s son of Mir Najat, v. Ruz Rushan, p. 193), beginning : ANTHOLOGIES. Fol. 140 a. j jLjj, by Mulla Sharif Isfahan], beginning : *>r < - > " c ^ ^ L$y** Fol. 141a. :bl j by Anisi Shamlu (Persian Catalogue, p. 10325, iv.), beginning: Fol. 145a. j ^Lb, by Yahshi Yazdi, beginning : o o 0=-Lai V Fol. 159a. CA*, by Nizami. Fol. 188a. jSs j Lai - , by Mir Yahya (Persian Catalogue, p. 1002a), beginning : sSfj dJ.Ao Fol. 1905. by Amir Kliusrau Dihlavi. Fol. 2185. j (jli, by Balia ud-Din ‘Amili. Fol. 225a. J*A3\ A=-y, a Kasidah by ‘Urfi Shirazi, and other Kasidahs by Anvari, Mukhlis Kashi, Baba Kasim Khadim, Fir- dausi, Salim, Shaukat, Sa’ib, Naziri, Salik, Mashrab, Amina, Da’ud Mutavalli, Shah Ak - bar, and Ghani Kashmiri. Fol. 2385. Masnavi of Salim, describing a meadow at Lahijan. Fol. 2395. Salaman u Abslil, by Jami. Fol. 2465. jJSLj, by Mir Razi Arti- mani (Oude Catalogue, p. 93, and Berlin Catalogue, no. 674, art. 7), beginning : Fol. 249a. b^-j, by Sayyid £ Ali Mihri (Persian Catalogue, p. 796, vm.), beginning: cj^j> uibb»- Cl*) Fol. 2505. Jbii by Mulla £ Ali Riza Tajalli (Persian Catalogue, p. 738 a, and Berlin Catalogue, no. 674, art. 5), beginning : jb Fol. 2535. jyj, by Mirza Da’ud Mutavalli, beginning : l jA< a Foil. 2555. hss>, by Zabihi Yazdi, beginning : uS’b’ (-?'•*’ ulr-j 5 ' clV- Fol. 257a. by Mirza Hasan Yazdi, takh. Yahib, beginning : Fol. 260a. by Mirza ‘Abdullah Kummi, takh. Sha'af, beginning : 'A- (_? Aj Fol. 2605. J, by Mir Najat. See Persian Catalogue, p. 8215, v. Fol. 265a. Two Masnavis, by Amina Mu- dakkik Yazdi, beginning : JA=- u\j=- ^A3b Fol. 2695. A Masnavi in praise of Kash- mir, by Salim, beginning : l J b» jSt Fol. 274a. Other Masnavis by Salim, Iva- lim, and Yahshi. Fol. 2855. ^AS^ a satire by Natik (see Oude Catalogue, p. 108), beginning: Fol. 287a. Other satires by Salim, Sha- fi‘a i A§ar (d. A. II. 1124; see Oude Cata- logue, p. 149), Ziya Isfahan!, Firdausi, and and Najat. Fol. 295a. Aj by, by Fauki, begin- ning : (*b jb £j,c J) tlj Fol. 3035. Kasidahs, Saki Namah, and a musical treatise in prose by the same Fauki. The last is dated A.H. 1122. Fol. 3105. Some pieces of ornate prose, h h 2 236 POETRY. viz., JUi. by Tahir Nasrabadi, ^-,by Shahid Tihrani and Mihri, two pieces entitled by Aka Husain Khwansari and by Sa’ib, and other pieces by Naslra i Hama- dani and Tughra i Hindi. The transcriber, Badl £ Muh. B. Muhsin Yazdi, who may also be the compiler, gives in the following colophon, fol. 324a, his name and his genealogy carried up to Shaikh ‘Abd ul-‘Ali al-‘Amili : ^3 (3*" • • • a . . . USs? iS*s- y-™;! .£■* ^5U)\ r y. J J*U\ JU!\ u"® • • • (JP o j4"* e;^ ^.AO 1 JjO iOGj The remaining folios, 324a- — 33 76, contain miscellaneous poetical pieces, chiefly Ghazals by Maghribi, Sa‘di, &c., and fragments of the Masnavi entitled by Ahli Shirazi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6576. This last portion of the MS. is dated A.H. 1206. present work immediately after completing the latter. The date of composition, A.H. 1 240, is fixed by the following line of a Kit ‘ah composed in praise of the work by Aka Muhammad Taki, poetically surnamed Sipihr (Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, ii., p. 156), and appended at the end : j&i-*** u_j— lLA-K *- - ^ V L -y sre u^'j j fc ^ The preface concludes with three pieces of the author’s composition, a Kasidah in praise of the work and of Path ‘Aii Shah, a Kit‘ah and a Ruba‘i. After the preface, foil. 76 — 24a, comes a list of all poets included in the work, ar- ranged in alphabetical order under their poetical surnames, with brief notices giving little more than the proper name and birth- place of each. The remainder of the MS. contains the opening Baits of Ghazals. They are arranged in alphabetical order according to the rhyme-letters, and, under each of these, according to the initial letters of the Baits. The name of the poet is written by the side of each verse in the margin. 377 . Or. 3552. — Foil. 191 ; Ilf in. by 8 ; 12 lines, 4 in. long ; written in fair large Nestalik about the middle of the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A copious collection of the initial lines of Ghazals by contemporary poets, compiled by Mahmud Mirza (see no. 70). Beg. £o ‘ 3.' OjAA j The author refers in the preface to his previous Tazkirah, Safinat ul-Mahmud (no. 122), and says that he had compiled the 378 . Or. 3604— Foil. 178 ; 12} in. by 75 ; 21 lines, 6 in. long ; written in four columns in cur- sive Nestalik on bluish paper, in the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A Persian anthology with biographical notices, by Sayyid ‘Abd ur-Rahlm al-Musavi B. Mir Muhammad Bakir ‘Aiiyabadi, poeti- cally surnamed Munsif. Beg. "y j j* A S 3 &3j±? uMjzt V ANTHOLOGIES. 237 The author was born, as stated at the end, in Sari, A.H. 1197. It appears from the preface that he wrote the present work for Muh. Kazim Mirza, eldest son of Muh. Kuli Mirza, son of Fath ‘Ali Shah, at the young prince’s request, in order to save him the trouble of carrying about many volumes of poetry. It was commenced in Sari, A.H. 1237, when the prince’s father assumed the government of Tabaristan, and was finished on the 3rd of Jumada II., A.H. 1239. The author made use of several Divans and of the following Tazkirahs : Haft Ikllm, Dau- latshah, Tuhfah i Sami, Baharistan, Atash- kadah, and Zinat ul-Mada’ih by Huma (no. 1 18). The work is divided into six Kisms, con- taining respectively poems belonging to six kinds of poetical compositions, namely Kasi- dahs, Ghazals, Masnavis, Mukatta'at, Ruba'is and Tarji'-bands. In each Kism the pieces are alphabetically arranged according to the takhallus of the authors, with the exception of those of royal princes, which take pre- cedence. The contents are as follows : Kism I., fob 5 a. Kasidahs, beginning with one by Fath ‘Ali Shah, and several by the royal prince Muh. Kuli Mirza (Khusravi, who died A.H. 1260; Majma‘ ul-Fusaha, vol. i., p. 25). The alphabetical series begins with Anvari and ends with Yusuf Amiri. Kism II., fol. 896. Ghazals, bemnniner with some by Khusravi and other princes. The alphabetical series begins with Ahli Turshizi and ends with Yusuf Beg Istajlu. Kism III., fol. 117a. Masnavis of Aldi Shlrazi and others, ending with Hijri Abu ’1- Kasim. Kism IV., fol. 140a. Mukatta'at, from Anvari to Humayiin of Isfahan. Kism V., fol. 1526. Ruba'is, from Ustad Abu’l-Faraj to Yamin ud-Din Tughra’i. Kism VI., fol. 163a. TarjF-bands, begin- ning with Jami and ending with Hatif. Life and poems of the author, foil. 174a — 1786. 379 . Or. 4673. — Foil. 343 ; Ilf in. by 8 ; 21 lines, 5f in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik, in four gold-ruled columns, with three ‘Unvaus, apparently about the middle of the 19th century. Bound in painted and glazed covers. [Sidney Churchill.] A Persian anthology compiled by Haidar Kuli Mirza, poetically styled Khavar (see his Divan, no. 359), with a preface by an anonymous dependant of the prince, begin- mug i * ^yieL*** After a glowing eulogy on the reigning sovereign, Fath ‘Ali Shah, and on the in- comparable poets of his time, the writer says that Haidar Kuli Mirza in compiling this work had been content to group together poems composed by various poets with the same metre and rhyme, and had refrained from entering upon biographical details or literary criticism. He states in conclusion that the work was completed A.H. 1242. The anthology comprises Kasidahs, Gha- zals, and Ruba'is, by ancient and modern poets, in three separate sections, in each of which the alphabetical order of the rhymes is followed, and the names of the poets form the headings. The Kasidahs begin, fol. 46, as follows : The following are the poets included under the rhyme-letter t : Anvari, Sahab, Mijmar 238 TALES AND FABLES. (Sayyid Husain Isfahan;), Khakani, Salman, Mu‘izzi, Madhush (Muh. Sadik Gulpaigani), Rashid Vatvat, Khusravi, Khavari (Fazl- ullah Shlrazi), Hatif, Sabahi (Haji Sulaiman), Zahlr Fariyabi, and Saba (Fatli £ Ali Khan). The Ghazals begin, fol. 1086, with one by Khakan (Fatli £ Ali Shall), the first line of which is : (j'A- The RubiVis occupy foil. 3306 — 343a. TALES AND FABLES. Or. 3529.— Foil. 33 ; 11^ in. by ; 23 lines, 5ij in. long; written in fair Nestalik, ap- parently in the 18th century. [Sidney Churchill.] j jib The story of Bilauhar and YQzasaf, by Ibn Babavaih. Beg. \ a,x.A ^j>\ ‘^3J Ki -/j ^ j' ^ \$ L 5 This is the work, of Buddhistic origin, which has become known in Europe, through the medium of a Christian version in Greek, as the “ Book of Barlaam and Joasaph,” and which was translated into Arabic verse in the eighth century by Aban Laliiki. See Zotenberg, Notice sur le Livre de Barlaam et Joasaph, Notices et Extraits, tom. xxviii ; and Fihrist, pp. 119, 163, 305. The present text is taken, as stated at the beginning, from Ibn Babavaih’s work en- titled A* A plAj JUG This is one of the numerous Arabic writings of the cele- brated Slihah theologian, who died in Rai, A.H. 381 (see the Arabic Supplement, no. 330). A copy is described by Ahlwardt in the Berlin Catalogue, no. 2721, and to Dr. Hommel belongs the credit of having dis- covered in that voluminous MS. the Arabic original of our Persian version. See Weisslovits’s ££ Prinz und Derwiscli,” 1890> p. 132. Muhammad Ibn Zakariyya, quoted as authority at the beginning of the Persian translation, although not in the Arabic text, is, as Dr. Hommel suggests with great pro- bability, no other than the renowned physi- cian and philosopher Razi, who was a contemporary of Ibn Babavaih, and like him lived at Rai. Full accounts of the present MS. have been published, with extensive extracts, by Baron Rosen and Dr. von Oldenburg in the Zapiski of the Archaeological Society, vol. iii., pp. 273—76, and vol. iv., pp. 229 — 65. An abridgment of the work in Arabic was pub- lished by Dr. Hommel from a Halle MS. in the Yerliandlungen des VII. Orientalisten- Congresses, Semitische Section, pp. 138 — 162. Another and fuller Arabic text was lithographed in Bombay, A.H. 1306. Another copy of the same Persian version is included in the Zubdat ut-Tavarikh, no. 36, foil. 226 — 249. In the heading it is de- scribed as extracted from the £ Ain ul-Hayat of Aka Mull. Bakir [Majlisi], who gives it on the authority of Ibn Babavaih, la! eo According to this, it was probably Muh. Bakir, who translated into Persian the Arabic text of Ibn Babavaih. TALES AND FABLES. 239 381 . Or. 2799. — Foil. 280 ; 9 in. by 5-| ; 23 lines, 3f in. long; written in neat Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins; dated A.H. 908 (A.D. 1502). [Sidney Churchill.] cJ'-A' yy The well-known version of Kalilah and Dimnah, by Husain Ivashifi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 756a, and, for other MSS., Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 1000; Rosen, Institut, no. 104 ; and Etke, Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 431. 382 . Or. 2956. — Foil. 196; 7-f in. by 5 ; 15 lines, 5f in. long; written in fair Nestalik, with ruled margins, apparently in the 15th century. [Sidney Churchill.] N/c A t A book of apologues, written in imitation of Kalilah and Dimnah. Beg. cU.'U Jd u?- This is a modern version, in elegant prose, of the old Marzaban Namah, written in old Persian and in the dialect of Tabaristan by the Ispahbad Marzaban B. Rustam B. Sharvln in the fourth century of the Hijrah. A full account of the origin and contents of the work will be found in C. Schefer’s Chresto- mathie Persane, vol. ii., pp. 194 — 209. The author of the present version, whose name does not appear in our MS., is, according to M. Schefer, Sa‘d al-Varavini, so called from Varavin, a village of Azarbaijan. He wrote this work in Ispahan, and dedicated it to a Vazir who in the preface is only designated by his Lakab, Khwajah Zain ud-Din, or, as written in the next copy, Khwajah Rabib ud- Din, but whose proper name is given at the end, fol. 1945, namely, Rabib ud-Din Abu ’1- Kasim Harun. In the same passage the Atabek Uzbek B. Muhammad B. Uduguz, who reigned in Azarbaijan A.H. 607 — 612, is named as the reigning sovereign. In the preface the author enumerates the standard works of elegant prose which he had taken as his models, beginning with Kalilah, Sindbad Namah, Makamat i Hamidi, &c. The most recent of these is the Persian translation of the Yamlni, which was written about A.H. 602 (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 158). The preface concludes with a table of the nine Babs into which the WOl k is divided They bear the following headings : Fol. 95. } j ^>\y i_u ,*3 y I. Fol. 255. y c flAsj j i_U.L j* II. iiyCjS \j J Fol. 395. J tAlLo y III. Fol. 58a. uu IV. Fol. 745. V. Fol. 95a. VI. Fol. 1255. 'j* VII . Fol. 152a. .y VIII. Fol. 176a. j \j> \ J C-AftS* d IX. In an appendix entitled i—kYh Jjj, fol. 1945, the author, after dilating on the merits of his book, describes a library founded by his patron in Isfahan and the rich store of works on every science which it contained. The appendix wants about two pages at the end. For other MSS., see Dorn, Petersburg Catalogue, p. 406 ; the Leyden Catalogue, 240 TALES AND FABLES. yoI. i., p. 353 ; the Paris Catalogue, p. 304, no. 384 ; Molla Firuz Library, p. 231, no. 49 ; and Sckefer, Chrestomathie, vol. ii., p. 209. The Marzaban Namah has been translated into Arabic and lithographed in Cairo, A.H. 1278. See also Sprenger’s Library, no. 1248, and Pertsch, Gotha Catalogue, vol. iv., p. 427. 383 . Or. 2973. — Foil. 187 ; 8^ in. by 5J ; 15 lines, 3 in. long ; written in elegant Skikastah, A.H. 1277 (A.D. 1860—61). [Sidney Churchill.] Another copy of the Marzaban Namah. The nine sections, termed in this copy Fa si, begin as follows: I. fol. 8a; II. fol. 24a ; III. fol. 47a ; IV. fol. 55a ; V. fol. 715 ; VI. fol. 91a ; VII. fol. 1205 ; VIII. fol. 1465; IX. fol. 166a; ana the Kliatimah, fol. 183a. 384 . Or. 2781. — -Foil. 363 ; 9^- in. by 6 ; 25 lines, 3| in. long ; written in small and neat Nes- talik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 16th century. [Comte de Gobineau.] A/«U The Darab Namah, by Abu Tahir Tarasusi. The first folio is mutilated, so that about half of the first seven lines is lost, but the missing words are supplied by the next copy. The beginning is as follows : > >j hi a-*!*- jj'jI j ' (j'-Ul) j' ■ ■ ■ (3* ^ (J-GG ^G-7 j i_£AJ.£> L^LjJXX)' j\ til I*-"* 5 j'u (V J The author, who is called here Abu Tahir B. Hasan B. ‘Ali B. Musa at-Tarasusi, has been mentioned in the Turkish Catalogue, p. 220, as the author of Kiran i Habashi and other romances. The present work, although dealing largely with the life and adventures of Iskandar, is generally called Darab Namah (a title not found in this copy), from Darab, the hero of its first portion. Although its framework and leading names are borrowed from the Shahnainak, it is a pure romance, in which the original legend is all but lost under a luxuriant growth of the most fanciful fiction. The contents have been briefly, but very aptly, described by J. Mold in his preface to the Shahnamah, p. 74, and by B. Dorn, Melanges Asiatiques, tom. vii., p. 174-5, and p. 406-7. The short account of the work in Charles Stewart’s Catalogue, p. 7, no. xiv., is misleading. The work is divided into sections of un- equal length, the beginning of which is marked by this invariable rubric : j&lL SAJ^A^ j jG s»\ A jXl/c j j >=»■ The narrative begins with a mention of the three sons of Zal i Zar, and of the artifice by which Shaghad compassed the death of his brother Rustam. After a brief account of Baliman and Ardashir, we are told, fol. 25, how Humai secretly gave birth to the latter’s posthumous child, afterwards called Darab, and entrusted him, like Moses, enclosed in a coffer, to the stream of Euphrates. The life and adventures of Darab occupy the first part of the volume down to fol. 1285, where his death and the accession of Darab junior ^b) are briefly recorded. The mar- vellous career of his son Iskandar, whose clandestine birth had been previously de- scribed, fol. 126, fills the remainder of the volume, which is slightly defective at the end. The last pages deal with the wall built TALES AND FABLES. 241 by Iskandar against Yajuj and Majiij, with liis journey, under the guidance of Khizr, to the land of darkness and to the spring of the water of life, and with his miraculous con- veyance from thence to Mount Kaf. The last words are : JIA j> oi/ AAy dJli- j} lAA:*- 3 385 . Or. 4615. — Foil. 129 ; 14 in. by 9| ; 25 lines, 5f in. long; written in fair Nestalik, w r ith ‘Unvan, gold-ruled margins, and numerous miniatures, probably about the close of the 16th century. Another copy of the Darab Nam ah, con- taining only the first part of the work, namely, the story of Darab, and closely agreeing, as far as it goes, with the preceding MS. It ends abruptly at the point where Nahld, the newly-wedded bride of Darab, sent back by him to her father Fllkus, bewails her hard fate. The last words are : jx>-3> *>— . 1 CL+-J) "'a _p1p y M j 3 aA-vY A) j 3 [. . A. j 1 x Y A L -o jY sl-o U=- This passage occurs on fol. 1266 of the preceding MS., line 13. This MS. is profusely adorned on almost every folio with miniatures in the best style of Indian art. It is probably one of those which were illuminated for the emperor Akbar. The miniatures are generally signed by the artists, mostly Hindus, and among these are found the following six, mentioned in the A’In i Akbari, Blochmann’s transla- tion, p. 108, as painters employed by Akbar : Kesu, Farrukh, Madhu, Jagan, Mahis, and Sanwlak. Other artists whose names fre- quently recur in the MS. are Nanha, Bhag- wan, Dhanu, Chaturbhuj, Mithra, Tiriyya, and Bhurah, also two bearing Muslim names, viz. Ibrahim Kahhar and Mukhlis. Several of the above names have been already men- tioned as attached to miniatures in the Vakkat i Babari, no. 75. The last page of the MS. bears the ver- milion stamps of the kings of Oude. 386 . Or. 3600. — Foil. 2 ; 2 ft. 8 in. by 2 ft. 2 in. ; 19 lines, 21 in. long; written in fine large Nestalik, apparently in the 17th century. [Presented by Rev. Straton Campbell.] Two detached leaves of a huge MS. of the romance of Amir Hamzah Sahibkiran. Each of them has a portion of the text on one side and a large picture in Indian style on the other. Fol. 1 begins as follows : CAAjj 3?.^ i • ' ^ boy ^ * >. *** y ^ ^ t . bx_y, CAUaA bj3> \j It is related in the first lines how Prince Nur ud-dahr, having been thrown into the sea by a Div, is rescued by the prophet Elias. This is the subject represented in the picture. The text of the second folio deals with the adventures of Zummurrud Shah, the giant king of the sun-worshippers. The picture represents him falling head fore- most from his castle and being seized by Malik Iraj. For MSS. of that voluminous tale, see the Persian Catalogue, pp. 760 — 62, and Etbe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 473. An Arabic version is noticed by Pertsch, Gotha Cata- logue, no. 2420. 387 . Or. 3501.— Foil. 253; lOJ-m. by 5 J; 18 lines, 3f in. long; written in small and elegant 242 TALES AND FABLES. Nestalik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, in the latter half of the 19th century. Bound in painted and glazed covers. [Sidney Chukchill.] Ajj&Ui A work in proof of the superiority of man to all other beings, by Muhammad c Ali B. Iskandar ash-Shlrvani. Be O* o J ^ U b n-U Lib JU \j£a> J 0*4 -4 \ ... J*)\j J j j\ A Thi s is a much expanded version and Sufi adaptation of the famous “ Contest between man and animals,” which forms part of the twenty-first treatise of the Ikhwan us -Safa (see the Arabic Supplement, p. 4816). It is written in florid prose, freely interspersed with verses, with Arabic texts from Coran and Hadi§, and with passages of Sufi writers. It was composed, as stated in the introduc- tion, fob 246, in Ardabil in the month of Jumada II., A.H. 1250, and is dedicated to Muhammad Shah B. ‘Abbas Shah B. Fatli ‘Ali Shah Kajar. The date of completion, A.H. 1252, is given in a versified chrono- gram at the end : The scope of the work is set forth in the following line, fob 296: L {j J? Its full title, as given in the same passage is : The autlior was an extensive traveller, who had wandered over most parts of the Muslim world in search of religious teachers and of great mystics. From a full account of those travels, foil. 21 — 24, the following particulars may be briefly stated. Having left as a boy his native country for the holy shrines of Irak, he spent there close upon twenty years, studying under his father and other holy men. He lost his father and many of his friends, who died as martyrs during the incursion of the Vahhabis. He then repaired to Baghdad and to Irak ‘Ajam, where he met his brother al-Haj Zain ul-‘Abidm (author of Riyaz us-Sivahat, no. 139), and a holy man, Haji Muh. Ja‘far Hamadani, called Majzub ‘Ali Shah. Hence, after a stay in Shiraz, he sailed to India, and visited in succession Karachi, Haidarabad, Shikarpur, Surat, Bombay, Puna, Tiling, Aurangabad, Haidarabad of Deccan, Machli- Bandar, Sikakul, Pegu, Calcutta, Murshid- abad, Benares, Lucknow, Agra, Delhi, La- hore, Kashmir, Peshawar, Kabul, and the Kuhistan of the Hazarah, where he fell captive into the hands of the cruel Uzbeks, and was taken to Kunduz, seat of Killch Kuli Khan. After his release he reached Kandahar, Herat, and Mashhad, and, finally, Hamadan. There he met again his old master, Majzub ‘Ali Shah, who sent him on a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. From the latter place he went through Syria and Rum to Istambol, where he stayed three years, and witnessed the revolt of the Janis- saries. After some more pilgrimages and a stay of six years at Cairo, he returned by way of Mecca and by sea to Shiraz, and thence to Teheran, Tabaristan and Gilan. Contents : Introduction treating chiefly of mystic lore. Life of the author, fob 216. Eulogy on the Shah, fob 25a. Preface proper, <_Ju5b fol. 29a. The narrative begins at fob 296, and deals at first with the legend of Kayumars, the murder of Siyamuk, and the hostility of COLLECTIONS OF ANECDOTES. 243 Jinns and animals towards men, down to the time of Sulaiman. Complaints of the hawk, fish, snake, bee, and other animals against man, fol. 54. Messengers sent by Malik Dadbakhsk and by the animals, fol. 76a. Beginning of the trial before Malik Dad- bakhsk. Debate of the camel with the sage of Hijaz, fol. 955. Debate of the ant with the sage of Sham, fol. 106a. Debate of the fox with the sage of Khita, fol. 119a. Debate of the spider with the sage of .Rum, fol. 127a. Debate of the tortoise with the sage of Irak, fol. 1355. Debate of the sage of Hindustan with the peacock, fol. 1465. Debate of the sage of Shirvan with the Humai, fol. 1535. (The sage of Shirvan is evidently meant to represent the author himself, who here dis- plays at great length his mystical lore.) Allegorical description of the author’s journey to the region of the soul, (jJu foil. 2425—253 a. fol. 3a, as follows : yy, A) • • • j^j 3 j dj) 9 3 • • • pl3 5 \A> A'A* ~ 3 ' - b j ~ ^ X-XJ.L.-C . sb- sL'Lj, There are miniatures in Indian style on foil. 4, 5, 12, 14 and 33, and, further on, a few unfinished sketches in outline. Spaces reserved for pictures in the remainder of the volume have not been filled in. In the colophon the work is called aUob Collections of Anecdotes. 389 . 388 . Or. 3223. — Foil. 232 ; 12 in. by 8^ ; 15 lines, 6 in. long; written in large Nestalik, ap- parently in India about the close of the lStli century. The tale of Muhammad Mas‘ud Shah, son of ‘Aziz Shah, king of Isfahan, and of his loves with Nlk-Ikbal, daughter of the Vazir Farrukhfal, and with Gitl-ara. This is an enlarged version of the tale mentioned in the Persian Catalogue, p. 773a. The above title is found in a versified pro- logue beginning : in which the writer puts the tale into the mouth of a young man called Sultan ‘Ali, whom he had met on the road and invited to his house. The prose narrative begins, Or. 3590. — Foil. 126 ; 10J in. by 5f ; 20 lines, 4 in. long; written in neat Nestalik, pro- bably in the 17th century. dSZ.)) AjO — jAM The Persian translation of “ al-Faraj ba‘d ash-Shiddah,” or tales of deliverance from distress or danger. See the Persian Cata- logue, p. 7515. Beg. .bfc u— 1 j j\ 3j> This is not the real beginning of the work, but the first line of the second chapter of the preface, jCs. See the complete copy, Add. 7673, fol. 35. At the end there are some lacunae, and the MS. breaks off with the verse beginning' y ^\, which is found in the last-named MS. at fol. 3415. There are about seven or eight folios wanting at the end. 1 1 2 244 TALES AND FABLES. The Persian translation was lithographed at Bombay, 1859. For other MSS. see KrafTt, p. 54; Asiatisches Museum, pp. 291, 851 ; Mulla Firuz, p. 228 ; and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 1021. 390 . Or. 3507. — Foil. 37 ; 9^ in. by 5^; 21 lines, 3f in. long; written in fair Nestalik ; dated Rabi £ II., A.H. 1017 (A.D. 1608). [Sidney Churchill.] Cliahar Makalah, or the Four Discourses, by Ahmad B. ‘Umar B. ‘Ali an-Nizami al- ‘Aruzi as-Samarkandi. Beg. ^1 l yj ^ ^ t 1 1 _y [ ^ V .1 j A.S’ J 5 I L .... 1 ‘^5 - J 3 ° &-! ^j-} The author, who was apparently a native of Samarkand, must have been well advanced in years when he wrote the present work ; for he says at the outset that he had then spent forty-five years of his life in the service of the Gliuri dynasty. From various pas- sages of the Cliahar Makalah the following particulars of his life may be gathered. While he was still in Samarkand, A.H. 504, lie received some information about the poet Rudagi from the Dihkan Abu Raja Ahmad B. ‘Abd us-Samad al-‘Abidi (fol. 15a). Two years later, A.H. 506, he was at Balkh conversing with ‘Umar Khayyam, whom he revered as his master, and whose tomb he afterwards visited in Nishapur, A.H. 530 (fol. 27a). In A.H. 510 we find him at Nishapur (fol. 5a), and, in the course of the same year, at Herat, from whence he repaired to the court of Sultan Sinjar, near Tus. There he received advice and encouragement from the Malik ush-Shu‘ara, Amir Mu‘izzi, and paid a visit to the tomb of Firdausi (foil. 18a, 225). In A.H. 914 he was again in Nishapur in the company of Mu‘izzi (fol. 22a). Nizami ‘Aruzi is chiefly known by his prose works, viz., the present one and a col- lection of anecdotes entitled jS\yi\ both of which are mentioned by Haj. Khal., vol. ii., p. 656, and vol. v., p. 405. But he ranked also high as a poet. He is noticed by ‘Aufi, Oude Catalogue, p. 4, no. 56, among the great poets of Mavara-unnahr. See also Daulatsliah, i. 13 ; Haft Iklim, Add. 16,734, fol. 5625 ; and Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. i., p. 635. He calls himself in the present work, fol. 13a, one of the four poets who immortalised the name of the kings of Ghur. Cliahar Makalah was written for a prince of that house, namely, al-Malik Husam ud- Daulah wa’d-Dln Abu’l-Hasan ‘Ali B. Mas‘ud. Although that prince’s name is preceded in the preface by the most pompous regal titles, he does not appear to have ever attained sovereign rank. He is mentioned in Tabakat i Nasiri, Raverty’s translation, p. 425, as one of the sons of Malik Fakhr ud-Din Mas‘ud, who was installed by his younger brother, the great Sultan of Gliaznln, ‘Ala ud-Din Husain Jahan-suz, on the throne of Ghur and Tukharistan (see Tabakat i Nasiri, pp. 347—365). After bestowing due praise on the young prince, the author proceeds to eulogize his nearest relatives, namely, his father, Fakhr ud-Daulah wa’d-Din Mas‘ud, the reigning king of Bamiyan, his brother Shams ud-Din Muhammad (who afterwards succeeded to the throne), and his mighty uncle, the above- mentioned Sultan, ‘Ala ud-Din Husain, all three being spoken of as still living. COLLECTIONS OF ANECDOTES. 245 The precise date of composition is not given, but it can be brought within narrow limits. The work must have been written between the death of Sultan Sinjar, who is spoken of as dead, aud that of Sultan ‘Ala ud-Din Husain, who is described as the reigning sovereign, that is to say between A.H. 552 and 556. For the death of the latter see Kamil, vol. si., p. 179, and Jahan- ara, fob 117. The work consists, as its name implies, of four Makfilahs, treating respectively of four classes of men of whose services kings stand in need, namely, Vazirs, poets, astrologers, and physicians, and of the sciences and qualifications requisite for each, the whole being illustrated by historical anecdotes. Some preliminary chapters, foil. 26 — 6a, treat of cosmology and of the various faculties of minerals, plants, animals and, lastly, man. They include a curious observation on the voluntary motions of some plants, whicli are thereby raised to the confines of the animal kingdom. The four Makalahs begin as follows : Fol. 6a. j O-fcho jj I. Fol. 12a. ^ II. Fol. 2 3b. jjic- LlAJotU III. \ Fol. 29a. oAj j ^.s- jj IV. The second Makalah is of especial value as containing notices and anecdotes relating to early Persian poets, such as Rudagi, ‘Unsuri, Farrukhi, Mufizzi, Badihi, Firdausi, &c. It is frequently quoted in later Tazkirahs. The Chahar Makalah was lithographed in Teheran, A.H. 1305. For another copy see further on, no. 418. 391 . Or. 2676. — Foil. 290; 13J in. by 9; from 29 to 33 lines, about 6^ in. long ; written in fine old Neskhi, with a gilt frontispiece and ruled margins; dated Wednesday, 24 Ramazan, A.H. 732 (A.D. 1332). [H. G. Keene.] oUKil Jami‘ ul-Hikayat, the celebrated collection of historical anecdotes by Muhammad ‘Aufi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 7496, and Etlie, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 324. This fine volume has unfortunately been damaged by damp, and some leaves, foil. 48 — 52, are slightly mutilated. It contains the last three of the four books (Kisrn) into which that extensive work is divided. The fourth Kism, which derives a special interest from its chapters on geography and natural history, is placed first, and has the following inscription written in the Sul§i character on two gilt borders at the top and bottom of its first page : j\ ^l$>- The first of the twenty-five Babs which it contains has no special heading, and begins as follows: \ [read *A>] t, J ijAj ^ d &rC A J\ iyc.j jjb In the complete copy, Add. 16,682, this anecdote is the third of the first Bab, fob 326a ; but there are great differences between the two texts. The headings of the remain- ing Babs, which also partly differ from those given by Fliigel in the Vienna Catalogue, vol. i., pp. 411 — 12, are in the MS. as follows : 246 TALES AND FABLES. Fol. 7a. II. Fol. 95. V-j j i s>- III. Fol. 125. (_/ j\~S J'i j ji5V) Jt > IV. Abib Iff-ii Fol. 155. 0^ iib lA !^Cii jii V. Fol. 185. A! a«ij L f'-r’} h ’’ i_A^b ujO.bsPjii VI. Fol. 215. VII. t^fcVAfO Fol. 255. o' 1 ^ CA«>iij! VIII. lAAb Fol. 285. ^b**> J ^ J* ^ IX. Abib (jjbb Fol. 34a. jAc OA- J X. Fol. 375. XI. Ofjbo j ASA j'i'-J*' Fol. 495. ab^i jfo jii XII. . . . lAxi'bo j Aiilxii Fol. 545. XIII. u' Fol. 59a. dl <■— XIV. Fol. 615. XV. u' A^r 0 .? Fol. 645. lij^jO uibAi< j Abb® (jb jli XVI. ca^ -J Fol. 68a. j ^ XVII. Fol. 71a. < UUj ^ XVIII. Fol. 745. laA-AL i ^f-^8 j -i XIX. Fol. 775. ^.hs? j bA! yj Jk i XX. Fol. 805. J C> 3 S = " j J XXI. u Ah jbb j Fol. 855. A XXII. SiiVii Fol. 905. c.A^js>. XXIII. Fol. 93a. ji 1 ^ 3 »_-ob£- XXIV. Fol. 96a. Jjfc j ^ j XXV. This last chapter breaks off at the second page. Kism II., which follows next, has lost the first Bab. The following are the headings of the extant chapters : Fol. 97a. j * • • • ^j^y**** j ^ ii. Fol. 995. ^j> Ac- oLAi ^ hi. Fol. 105a. (j*A ii.9y ji) IV. Fol. 116a. L2>a-+& ^ V. Fol. 119a. i VI. Fol. 124a. VII. Fol. 1265. VIII. Fol. 1285. ^ \z>^ L-l** \**G£ j 5 IX. Fol. 1305. J 1 All (j;A ji X. Fol. 134a. . . . ^ O-ibA dAxAi ji XI. Fol. 139a. XII. Fol. 142a. XIII. Fol. 145 a. u'/d/ 1 Ad- aV A XIV. Fol. 1475. u' j & A.A! j j*j> j s XV. Fol. 1525. o' aAxAj j £jj j XVI. Fol. 157a. XVII. Fol. 161a. j ji XVILI. Fol. 1645. t. XIX. Fol. 1685. XX. Fol. 171a. j*** j $ XXI. COLLECTIONS OF ANECDOTES. 247 Fol. 1746. adyj cAU XXII. Fol. 179a. XXIII. r 2 * Fol. 1856. 0-3 j XXIV. o' *?.'y j Fol. 1886. aLwaM ah ^ ah y ji XXV. ^Lay L , j This last Bab concludes with some verses in praise of the Vazir Nizam ul-Mulk Kivam ud-Din, to whom the work was dedicated. Kism III. is complete, and has the follow- ing headings to its twenty-five Babs : Fol. 1936. ^L~3\ ^haL v j^ii-3 ^\x) I. Fol. 1966. II. Fol. 1996. III. eA-yy Fol. 2026. lO^a* ja IV. Fol. 2056. CL+>$-=- j (jLjA j a ^a V. jaly Fol. 2096. ^Ihaf^ t - A>K=- i oh. A J a VI. ^iLh tJla VK j Fol. 2136. ah%3 j A >/* .a VII. ja-fl Fol. 2186. tyj^a t .9a ) a VIII. a[y> v Aa j j a-' Fol. 224a, IX. Fol. 2286. j L— cl^>- X. Fol. 240a. I>jii j oLllai CL**S* XIII. aV- Fol. 2436. dAa j <■ i ** .jAj XIV. A +J+ >* A J o»s> Fol. 2476. j i— . ?[yh o^a* XV. Fol. 2506. _j JL jO t-a-hy- j j XVI. j f / j Fol. 253a. XVII. Fol. 2566. _j cl*-**) Ow>a« jt) XVIII. Fol. 261a. oh*«* j jA _j XIX. Fol. 264a. J$\3 ahy j J^s? 0 0«Xo ^a XX. Fol. 2686. aliush j> lhis-13 Jks-ljr j^a XXI. G- 0 ' A Fol. 273a. 5 a Lay AJyj XXII. ^lAh J\y\ k_ihy Fol. 2766. cl>j^/^\^\) XXIII. Fol. 2806. LU^ 6 UjL 13 u l3j /a J a XXIV. Fol. 2856. aL 0 13j [st^C J a XXV. ^LLh U a A A table of chapters of the three Kisms, by a later hand, has been prefixed to the volume. Notes written on the title-page show that the MS. was bought A.H. 1119 by B urban ud-Din Parsa, and that it subsequently passed into the possession of a Mr. Gordon Sahib. 392 . Fol. 2326. L^>- j 0*a* y XI. Fol. 286a. ^WAab ^ o^a XII. Or. 4392.— Foil. 222; 11 in. by 8 ; 25 lines, 6^ in. long ; written in fair large Neskhi, with a gilt heading; dated 2 Jumada II., A.H. 741 (A.D. 1340). [Wallis Budge.] 248 TALES AND FABLES. A portion of the first book of the Jami‘ ul-Hikayat. It contains the preface and the first ten Babs of Kism I., with some lacunae and transpositions, as follows : Preface, fob 15. Bab I., oiy* y 5a. A fragment of Bab IX., fol. 11a. The latter part of Bab III., fol. 15a. Bab IV., Clfly £.j'y 3 ^ 3 y iAJ^Lo jfj jd fob 215. Bab V., lali*- y y'y fob 1575. Bab IX., y, fob 164 (breaks off fol. 165). The latter part of Bab I., fob 166a. Bab II., )' w' J'yl J Jby' fs J, fob 1715. Bab III., uUi, Ujl cuU]/yj y, fob 1975. The latter part of Bab IX., fol. 204a. Bab X.. ^LLmAj oLAyy, fob 2105 (breaking off fob 212). Disjointed fragments, belonging for the most part to Bab IV., fob 218—222. On the first page is an illuminated circular ornament with an inscription showing that the MS. was written for the library of some great Vazir called Husain ud-Dln Siraf : 3 ^1' .... pla*l' jSm a)' . . . &\J>- i Ajt * 0 Copyist : y y - 3 -+*? 393 . Or. 3207. — Foil. 153; 7 in. by 4f ; 17 lines, in. long ; written in fair archaic Neskhi, probably in the 13th century. [Kbemee, no. 210.] A collection of anecdotes relating to saints and Sufis, without author’s name. Beg. \jj . . . yiujj yi'Ll'j 1 j j i '.4 :>- ^ bA y. ? ' tfi bf jic j The author was a Sunni, living apparently in the fifth century of the Hijrah. He re- flects in the preface on the depravity of the time. “ Holy Plrs and pious men,” he says, “ are dead, and have carried away piety with them. Whoever wishes to keep his faith and be saved must not look to the men of his time or follow their example, but he must meditate on the lives of past worthies, and walk in their path, so that he may reach the degree of holiness at which they arrived.” The work is divided into twenty Babs, enumerated in the preface, and each Bab contains ten narratives headed d-o&a- . The headings of the Babs are as follows : Fob 4. A ' i 1 bi j (JA>- I. u "Ay- y Fob 10. jV \) 3 ' II. Fob 15. J U'J 3 U'T III. jy. CAff-'L Fob 19. IV. Fob 28. ybj y&b abi V. Fob 34. £ y i j ^lyli Obb.=- jjj' VI. u'Ad Fob 54. ^JIA *Vj' dA^y VII. Fob 61. CL+'ij y _j Ayf A Ws-3 yd VIII. yAy'*' 0 Fol. 66. J jXz- 3 [x) 3 \ JS'O yd IX. Fob 69. J 5 ybd 0 y (J"X X. Jls- Fob 75. XI. Fol. 83. Fol. 89. Fol. 97. Fol. 112. Fol. 121. Fol. 133. ' y> (JU3 ^Us- ajl XY1I. Fol. 141. oU/ j IA,\ Olijl XYIII. Fol. 146. j\ 1, ^ saj^ ^ ^\?=- XIX. u*4 Fol. 150. saB]^ ob.Ks- XX. The anecdotes relate to holy personages and Sufis of the first three centuries of the Hijrah, such as the early Ivhalifs, Amir ul- Mu’minin ‘Umar, ‘Ugman, ‘Ali, Mfilik B. Dinar, Ibrahim Adham, Bayazid Bastami, Zu ’1-Nun Misri, Sahl Tustari, Ibrahim B. Shaiban (d. A.H. 307), &c. The latest authority quoted is Abu Sa‘id Khargushi (fol. 48), who died A.H. 407 (see the Arabic Supplement, no. 509), and whose work en- titled Shi‘ar us-Salihin. (fol. 56) is the only one quoted by name. Tins copy breaks off towards the end of the second anecdote of Bab XX. A colo- phon by a later hand has been added. It is dated Rabi‘ I., A.H. 786 (A.D. 1384). 394 . Or. 2974. — Foil. 261 ; 10| in. by 7 ; 15 lines, 5£ in. long ; written in large and distinct Nesklii, with ruled margins ; dated Monday, the last day of Safar, A.H. 910 (A.D. 1504). [Sidney Churchill.] The Nigaristan of Mu‘ini Juvaini. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 754b, and Daulat- 249 shah, vi. 2. The seven Babs begin respec- tively as follows : I. fol. 15 b ; II. fol. 47a ; III. fol. 75b ; IY. fol. 104a ; V. fol. 161a; VI. fol. 1926 ; and VII. fol. 226a. Copyist : ^ ^ ^ ^J\ axp ^a 5\ ply (jJ 395 . Or. 4907. — Foil. 254; 12 in. by 8 ; 22 lines, 4f in. long ; written in cursive Nestalik, probably about the close of the 18th century. [Sir Henry Rawlinson.] A collection of anecdotes and miscellaneous notices, by Majd ud-Din Muhammad al-Hu- saini, surnamed Majdi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 758, and Pertsch, Berlin Cata- logue, no. 1017. This copy presents lacunae and transposi- tions which are not indicated by any break in the text. It begins with the heading : ^ A" j 1 t Ji 1) j j Ao ^Aa>- j' A*J j , which belongs to the fifth Fasl of Juz I. The same heading is found at fol. 495 of the complete copy, Or. 239, the con- tents of which are described in the Persian Catalogue. The contents of the present MS. are as follows : Juz I. : Latter part of Fasl 5, fol. 15. Fasl 6, fol. 315. Fasl 7, fol. 52a. Fasl 8, fol. 585. Fasl 9, fol. 64a. Fasl 10, fol. 665. Juz II. : Fasl 1, fol. 695. Fasl 2, fol. 72a. Fasl 3, fol. 83a. Fasl 4, fol. 92a. Fasl 5, fol. 1035. Fasl 6, fol. 1095. Fasl 7, fol. 112a (breaking off at a passage corresponding with Or. 239, fol. 163a, line 16). COLLECTIONS OF ANECDOTES. LAM A8>j XIII. ^ XIV. yKl oU/y XY. \Ji DU f J XVI. K K 250 TALES AND FABLES. Juz V. : Fasl 6, fol. 1146. Juz IV. : Fasl 8, fol. 117a. Fasl 9, fol. 1176. Fasl 10, fol. 120a. Juz V. : Fasl 1, fol. 1236. Fasl 2, fol. 1256. Fasl 3, fol. 1276. Fasl 4, fol. 130a. Fasl 5, fol. 1316. Fasl 7, fol. 137a. Fasl 8, fol. 141a. Fasl 9, fol. 1426. Fasl 10, fol. 1446. Juz VI., fol. 14G6. Juz VII., fol. 1656. Juz VIII., fol. 1896. Juz IX. : Fasl 1, fol. 221a. Fasl 2, Geo- graphy of Iran and other countries, fol. 224a, breaking off in the course of the account of Egypt. Fasl 9, imperfect at the beginning, fol. 244a— 2546. The extant portion of this last, or his- torical, section contains accounts of the Ak Kuyunlus, of the Uzbeks, fol. 246a, and of Shah Isma‘11 Safavi, fol. 247a. The last is brought down to A.H. 928. On the fly-leaf : “ Bought at Teheran. 4 Tomans. Jan. 12, 1838. H. Rawlinson.” 396 . Or. 2957. — Foil. 119; Sf in. by 6£ ; 15 lines, 3f in. long; written in Nestalik; dated 1 Jumada II., A.H. 1291 (A.D. 1874). [Sidney Churchill.] A collection of moral tales and anecdotes in ornate prose and verse, by Muhammad Sharif B. Shams ud-Din Muhammad, poeti- cally styled Kasliif. Beg. 3 Jl r j* && The author gives an account of his life and writings in a Khatimah, fol. 1166, written, like the whole work, in a florid style over- loaded with metaphors. From it the follow- ing data may be gathered. His father (commonly called Shamsa i Shlrazi) was a native of Shiraz settled at Kerbela. Driven from thence by Sunni persecution, A.H. 1006, he repaired to Isfahan, the author being then three years old, and proceeded, two years later, to Mashhad. After seven months spent in the holy city, he returned to Isfa- han, where the author stayed twenty-three years, engaged in study and literary pursuits. They subsequently proceeded to Rai (Tehe- ran), where the author lost his father, A.H. 1035, and discharged during fifteen years the office of Kazi. He wrote the present work at the request of his younger brother, Muh. Isma‘11 Munsif (in the MS., < ; see the Oude Catalogue, p. 91, and Atashkadah, p. 312), who had written to him from India to that effect. It was completed, as stated at the end, A.H. 1060 ; but the following chronogram, occurring in the last line, gives a later date, A.H. 1063 : w-jj l$3 c;--' j'-A 3 u'A' ^ ^ In the same Khatimah the author enume- rates his previous works as follows : In verse, Laili Majnun, Haft Paikar, ‘Abbas Narnah, Ghazals, Kasidaks, Rubafis, &c. ; in prose, Siraj ul-Munlr (Persian Catalogue, p. 8616), Durr i Maknun, Hawass i Batin, and mis- cellaneous compositions. Most of these works are also mentioned in the Tazkirah of Tahir, Oude Catalogue, p. 91, and in Riyaz ush-Shu‘ara, fol. 3946. The tales are mostly taken, as stated in the preface, from “ Faraj ba £ d az Shiddat” (Persian Catalogue, p. 7516), the style of which the author considered too plain and bare of rhetorical ornaments ; but some of them relate to later periods down to the author’s time. The Khazan u Bahar is divided into a Mukaddimah, fourteen chapters termed Asas, COLLECTIONS OF ANECDOTES. 251 and the above-mentioned Khatimah. The Mukaddimah, fol. 5 a, is in glorification of ‘Ali, whose fourteen virtues are illustrated by incidents of his life. The same virtues form the headings of the chapters called Asas, which are as follows: I. yu», fol. 10a. II. fol. 155. III. ^A, fol. 27a. IV. 0,1 fol. 34a. V. oAy>, fol. 42a. VI. u_ik3, fol. 495. VII. fol. 57a. VIII. fol. 645. IX. fol. 73a. X. OyA>, fol. 80a. XI. fol. 86 a. XII. Ojls-*", fol. Ola. XIII. C^)/, fol. 995. XIV. oA**, fol. 106a. The work was lithographed at Tabriz, A.H. 1294. A MS. has been fully described by Baron v. Rosen, Iustitut, no. 107. 397 . Or. 3499. — Foil. 236 ; 14 in. by 8 ^ ; 21 lines, 5 5 - in. long ; written in fair Nestalik, with ruled margins, apparently in the first half of the 19th century. [Sidney Churchill.] “ Mufarrih ul-Kulub,” a work treating of moral virtues, illustrated by the precepts of Muhammad and the Imams, and by tales and anecdotes, with an historical appendix, by Muhammad Nadim B. Muhammad Kazim. Beg. j $ ^ jA ^ j\ j$) The author, who is known by his poetical surname Nadim, was a native of Barfurush in Mazandaran. His father had been Khwan- salar, or steward, to Agha Muhammad, and he became himself a great favourite with Fatli ‘Ali Shah, who employed him as reader and librarian. He died A.H. 1241. See Nigaristan i Dara, fol. 129a, and, for other notices, Anjuman i Khakan, fol. 101a ; Safi- nat ul-Mahmud, fol. 249 ; and Majma‘ ul- Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 514. The author says in the preface that he had been brought up at Court, and had had his mind improved by the conversation of the learned men who gathered there. He was encouraged to undertake the present work by the Shah, who gave to it the above title. The work is divided into five Bilbs, each subdivided into two Fasls, and a Khatimah. The Fasls treat of various religious and moral qualities specified in the headings, which are as follows : Bab I. : Fasl 1, fol. 45. tOjufis- j j*.-o jJ Fasl. 2, fol. 85. otaT 3 Bab II.: Fasl 1, fol. 12 1 . As- oLAi ^ pjZi j ks- j. Fasl 2, fol. 155. JSy IAHj l jOj j Bab III. : Fasl 1, fol. 165. _j Oyi^kT j j. Fasl 2, fol. 495. j I j dAx*aJ> j ii Bab IV. : Fasl 1, fol. 51a. ^Aly cyLl y oLAi j j. Fasl 2, fol. 535. dJjj'o j ^ dj+A j jO 3 Bab V.: Fasl 1, fol. 90a. jxd 3 Cds-Ai jd Fasl 2, fol. 93a. ^J\xxAja 3 j~o oLA?^ Some of the tales included are of consider- able extent, and deserve a special notice. They are as follows : Shahzadah Abu ’1- Mansur and Humai Farrukh-rukh, foil. 27a — 495. Abu T-‘Alai Mausili, the merchant’s son, and princess Kamar-sima, foil. 5 8a — 90a. 0 K K 252 LETTERS, STATE PAPERS, AND AUTOGRAPHS. Malik Kamal ud-Din, son of Masiha i Zaliid, foil. 946—1136. The Khatimah, which occupies more than half the volume, is of some historical im- portance, as containing a very full account of the reign of Agha Muhammad and of the first years of Fath e Ali Shah. It is divided into the following five sections termed Ma- kalah : I. Lineage of Fath ‘Ali Shah and history of his forefathers, fol. 1136. II. His birth and subsequent events, fol. 1206. This sec- tion is chiefly taken up by a detailed account of Agha Muhammad’s career, with separate headings for the following years : A.H. 1205, fol. 134a; A.H. 1206, fol. 138a; A.H. 1207, fol. 1416; A.H. 1208, fol. 147a; A.H. 1209, fol. 154a; A.H. 1210, fol. 158a. III. Ac- cession of Fath ‘Ali Shah and subsequent events, fol. 1 66a, with a special heading for A.H. 1212, fol. 1796. IV. Provincial govern- ments committed to the Shah’s sons, fol. 189a. V. Description of the Shah’s person and qualities, of his family, his army, his esta- blishment, palaces, and other buildings, fol. 208a. The date of composition is not given. It can hardly be much later than A.H. 1220, which is the last date mentioned in Makalah IV., fol. 1986. LETTERS, STATE PAPERS, AND AUTOGRAPHS. 398 . Or. 3482. — Foil. 295; 12 in. by 7; about 30 lines, 4-| in. long; written in neat Nes- talik, with ‘Unvan and gold-ruled margins, apparently in the 17tli century. [Sidney Churchill.] A collection of royal letters and state papers of the Persian Court, from the time of the Saljuks to the reign of Shah ‘Abbas II., by Abu ’1-Kasim Beg Aivagkli Haidar. Beg. ys» This is a somewhat imperfect copy of the collection described in the Persian Cata- logue, pp. 389 — 91, under the title The above title, is found in the preamble of Juz II., fol. 666. The contents of the present copy have been described in the Turkish Cata- logue, p. 86. Its concluding portion, foil. 2786 — 295, contains letters and firmans of the emperor Akbar, several of which are addressed to ‘Abdullah Khan Uzbek. The last piece is the investiture of Shahbaz Khan as Subadar of Malwa. From a Persian note on the first page it appears that Muhsln B. ‘Abdullah Mlr- Akliur-Bashi received this volume as a present from Sayyid Mir Muhammad Taki Mustaufi, near Teheran, A.H. 1278. 399 . Or. 3402. — Foil. 88 ; 7-| in. by 5^; 15 lines, 3^ in. long; written in Nestalik ; dated 1 Sha'ban, A.H. 1115 (A.D. 1703). [Sidney Churchill.] A collection of prose compositions, chiefly letters, by Ibn ‘Abd ul-Fattah Muhammad Amin al-Vakari at-Tabasi al-Yazdi, with a preface by the author. Beg. - j\ Ijj LETTERS, STATE PAPERS, AND AUTOGRAPHS. 253 .... jA I j*5 u ^-aW\ <_5jVSj5\ The author appears to have lived in the latter half of the eleventh century of the Hijrah. Two of his compositions are re- spectively dated A.H. 1078 and 1081, and among his letters is one addressed to Malik ush-Shu‘ara Sa’ib, who died A.H. 1088. The collection is divided into twelve sections called Barg. The first contains prefaces, including one to the author’s Divan. The others consist of official documents and letters. In quoting his own verses the author always designates himself by the Takhallus Vakari. The last eight leaves, foil. 81 — 88, contain the latter part of a similar collection by Muhammad Mu’min, poetically styled Ghairi, Flruzabadl : iAS' difi c_ 400 . Or. 4937. — Foil. 290; 8 in. by 4f; about 20 lines, 3 in. long; written by several hands and in various characters, for the most part, about the close of the 17th century. [Sidney Churchill.] A Jung, or album of autographs and miscellaneous extracts, compiled by Haji Mirza ‘Abd ul- Karim B. Yahya Khan al- Kazvini. Mirza ‘Abd ul-Karlm, who lived in Kazvin, and occasionally in Isfahan, towards the close of the eleventh century of the Hijrah, appears to have been on intimate terms with the great scholars of the period, who obliged him by entering in his album with their own hands original compositions, or extracts from their own or other men’s works. These entries, which bear dates ranging from A.H. 1080 to 1126, are for the most part in prose and relate to Shl‘ah tradition and theology, also to philosophy, medicine and mathematics. The most note- worthy writers included, with the dates of their entries, are as follows : Mulla Khalil B. Gliazi Kazvlni, who died in Kazvin, A.H. 1089, pp. 26-27. RafT ud-Dln Muh. B. Fath-ullah Kazvlni, takh. Va‘iz, A.H. 1083, pp. 38 — 48. Muhammad Bakir, brother and disciple of Mulla Khalil, A.H. 1080, p. 51. Muh. Salih B. Muh. Bakir Kazvlni, called Raughani (v. Amal ul-Amil, p. 64), pp. 56 — 68. Aka RazI ud-Dln Muh. B. al-Hasan (d. A.H. 1096), A.H. 1080, p. 72. ’ Mir Muh. Ma‘sum Kazvlni (d. A.H. 1091), A.H. 1080, pp. 73— 75. Mir Sadr ud-Dln Muh. B. Muh. Sadik Kazvlni, A.H. 1080, pp. 78—80. Muh. Muhsin B. Shah Murtaza, called Faiz ’ (d. 1091), pp. 81—84. ‘Ali B. Muh. al-‘Amili, great-grandson of Shahid a§-gani (d. A.H. 1103), p. 87. Murtaza B. Muh. Mu’min, great-nephew of Muhsin Kashi, pp. 93-4. Muh. B. Murtaza Hadi, nephew of Muhsin Kashi, A.H. 1096, pp. 95-6. Muh. B. Murtaza, Nur ud-Dln, brother of Muhsin, A.H. 1095, p. 97. Muh. Bakir B. Muh. Taki Majlisi, A.H. 1088, pp. 105 — 7. Muh. B. ‘Abd ul-Fattah Tanakabuni (d. A.H. 1124), pp. 112—133. Muh. HadiB. Mulla Salih Mazandarani (Kisas ul-‘Ulama, p. 171), A.H. 1088, pp. 142 — 148. 254 LETTERS, STATE PAPERS, AND AUTOGRAPHS. Muh. Muhsin B. Nizam ud-Dln Muh. Savi, A.H. 1080, pp. 197—204. ‘Ali B. Muh. at-Tabataba’i, Abu ’1-Ma‘ali (Amal i Amil, p. 224), pp. 229 — 231. Aka Jamal ud-Dln Muh. B. Aka Husain Khwansari (d. A.H. 1125), pp. 278-9. Muh. Husain B. Mulla Salih Mazandarani, A.H. 1088, pp. 406—12. ‘Ali Asghar B. Yusuf Kazvini, A.H. 1109, pp. 446-7. The latter part of the album was reserved for poetical autographs. It contains those of Sa’ib, pp. 472 — 5 ; Murtaza Kuli Khan B. H asan Khan Sliamlu, takli. Baba, pp. 477-8; Da’ud (Muh. Da’ud Mustaufi, d. A.H. 1133; see Sham 4 i Anjuman, p. 155), pp. 485 — 500 ; Ima (Mirza Isma‘11, d. A.H. 1132), pp. 502-3 ; Hfili, ‘Abdullah Ivarbala’i, A.H. 1090, pp. 537 — 43 ; and Ta’gir, Muh. Muhsin Isfahani, A.H. 1091, pp. 562 — 5. In addition to the above-mentioned auto- graphs, the volume comprises a vast number of miscellaneous treatises, extracts and notices, in Arabic and Persian. Some of the most extensive are a tract by Aka Jamal ud-Din Khwansari, entitled ^53, pp. 374 — 403, and treatises of Shi'ah law and controversy, by Baha ud-Din al-‘Amili, pp. 280—324. From an entry on p. 9 we learn that the album was given by ‘Abd ul-Karlm to his son Taki ud-Din Muhammad. After passing through several hands it came into the pos- session of a grandson of Fath ‘Ali Shah, Shahzadah Mu’ayyid ud-Daulah Tahmasp B. Daulatshah, governor of Fars, who made use of some blank pages, pp. 53, 69, 152, 168, for entries in his own hand, and of some leaves at the end, pp. 571 — 579, for pieces in prose and verse written for him by others, A.H. 1277 — 79. He subsequently made the book over to his son, ‘Abd ul- Husain Khan, for the sum of 100 Tumans, as stated by the latter, p. 558. There is also an autograph of another grandson of Fath ‘Ali Shah, Farhad Mirza, dated A.H. 1280, p. 52. Short biographical notices have been added to some of the entries by ‘Abd ul-Hayy Munshi Tafrishi, takh. Sarkliwush, A.H. 1131. They contain frequent references to a work entitled oAii printed in Teheran, A.H. 1306. Subjoined to the volume is a quire of 23 pages, containing a detailed list, drawn up in Persian by a modern hand, of the contents of the album. 401 . Or. 4934. — A box containing the following three paper rolls. [Sidney Churchill.] I. 9 ft. by 10 in. ; 45 lines, written in fine large Divani. Firman of Ya'kiib Beg, confirming two descendants of Imam ‘Ali B. Musa Riza, namely, Sayyid Nizam ud-Din Sultan Ahmad and Sayyid Kamal ud-Dln ‘Ata-ullab, in the charges which from the time of Shahrukh had been hereditary in their family, viz., those of Nakib of the Sayyids, of adminis- trator of the endowments attached to the sacred tombs of Sitti Fatimah and Imam Tahir ‘Ali B. Muh. Bakir in Kum, and of Khatib and Imam in the Mosque of Imam Hasan ‘Askari in the same city; dated Kum, 15 Ramazan, A.H. 884 (A.D. 1479). Ya'kiib Beg, son of Hasan Beg, founder of the Ak-kuyunlu dynasty, reigned from A.H. 883 to his death, A.H. 896. At the top of the Firman the name of the sovereign appears as follows : yAA y' His sea l> which is im- LETTERS, STATE PAPERS, AND AUTOGRAPHS. 255 pressed at the end, reads : 4l)\ J\ The text begins: <*D\ ^lad j&otf u Uijy p hjj J j ^J\yc ^ j *i\j£L$ ^ ^ y j j J'-* 5- j j j (j^ j II. 7 ft. by 10 in. ; 36 lines, written in fair Divani. Firman of Alvand Beg, confirming the above-named Sayyids in their offices ; dated Kum, 14 Rajab, A.H. 904 (A.D. 1499). Alvand Beg, son of Yusuf Beg, was the last prince of the Ak-kuyunlu dynasty. He was defeated and expelled by Shah Isma‘11 Safavi, A.H. 907. His name appears in the heading j>\ J** jjyji yl&j ajjh jfllA', and in the seal at the end : Juis> ^ «-*-»*> &} ^ III. 2 ft. 4 in. by 11 in. ; 8 lines, written in smaller Divani and partly obliterated. Firman of Shah Ismafil, whose seal is impressed at the top, conferring upon Sayyid Rashid ul-Islam the custody of the above- named shrines in Kum ; dated 1st of Ju- mada II., A.H. 918 (A.D. 1512). 402 . Or. 4935. — Thirty-five sheets or slips of various sizes, mounted in one volume, form- ing a further series of royal Firmans, in continuation of the preceding no., and ex- tending from the reign of Shah Tahmasp to that of Nasir ud-Dln Shah, as follows : [Sidney Churchill.] I. 18 in. by 7f; 15 lines in Shikastah- amiz. Copy of a Firman of Shah Tahmasp, conferring the custody of the Kum shrines upon Sayyid Shuja‘ ud-Dln Sultan Mahmud Rizavi, son of Sayyid Murshid ud-Din Rashid ul-Islam (mentioned in the Firman of Shah Isma‘11 above described) ; dated 18 Jumada I., A.H. 948 (A.D. 1541). At the back are two lines of writing by Mulla Sadra Shirazi. II. 16 in. by 9 ; 6 lines of writing in Nes- talik. Firman of Shah Tahmasp, conferring the Sadarat of the provinces of Shirvan and Shaki upon Amir £ Abd ur-Razzak ; dated Ramazan, A.H. 961 (A.D. 1554). III. 8f in. by 6-| ; 5 lines. Firman of Shah Tahmasp appointing six Hafiz to recite the Coran at the tomb of his sister in the Kum shrine; dated first decade of Jumada II., A.H. 972 (A.D. 1565). IV. 21 in. by 10 ; 11 lines. Firman of Sultan Muhammad Khudabandah, granting a yearly allowance to Muhammad Aka Mut darris Isfahani and his children ; dated Rabi £ II., A.H. 986 (A.D. 1578). V. 18 in. by 9 ; 13 lines. Firman of Shah ‘Abbas I., assigning to Amir Zahir ud-Din Ibrahim Rizavi the revenue of his late brother, Mir Shams ud-Din Yusuf, custodian of the Kum shrine; dated Shavval, A.H. 1017 (A.D. 1609). VI. 14 in. by 8 ; 5 lines. An autograph of Shah Safi relating to a gift presented by £ Abd ur-Razzak of Chubarah ; dated Zu T- hijjah, A.H. 1039 (A.D. 1630). VII. 14 in. by 8f- ; 9 lines. Firman of Shah ‘Abbas II., referring to the ordinances of his father and grandfather in favour of Christian monks, and ensuring full freedom and protection to some bare-footed Carmelite monks who had come to Isfahan ; dated Rabi £ II., A.H. 1052 (A.D. 1642). VIII. 10-| in. by 7^ ; 6 lines. Firman of Shah ‘Abbas II., granting a yearly pension of fifty Tumans to Maulana Mull. Bakir 256 LETTERS, STATE PAPERS, AND AUTOGRAPHS. Khurasani ; dated Sha‘ban, A.H. 1068 (A.D. 1658). IX. a 154 in. by 8|; 12 lines. Firman of Shah ‘Abbas II., relating to a tax to be levied on waste land belonging; to the shrine of Kum and recently reclaimed ; dated Zul- ka‘dah, A.H. 1071 (A.D. 1661). IX. b 13 in. by 74 ; 3 lines. Firman of Shah Safi (afterwards Shah Sulaiman), ap- pointing Kurban ‘Ali Ayaghchi as one of the servants of the palace ; dated RabT I., A.H. 1078 (A.D. 1667). X. a 2 ft. 6 in. by 114 in.; 20 lines. Firman of Shah Sulaiman, appointing Mir Hidayat, son of Mir Muh. Taki, to the post of Shaikh ul-Islam in Mashhad ; dated Zulka‘dah, A.H. 1079 (A.D. 1669). X. b 12 in. by 94 ; 8 lines. Firman of the same in confirmation of a pension granted to the children of Mirza Salih Tabrizi ; dated Shavval, A.H. 1084 (A.D. 1673). XI. 14 in. by 8f ; 8 lines. Firman of Shah Sulaiman regarding the taxation of Armenian weavers of Isfahan ; dated Rama- zan, A.H. 1094 (A.D. 1683). XII. 16 in. by 10 ; 6 lines. Firman of Sultan Husain, appointing a European moulder in the royal arsenal ; dated Rama- zan, A.H. 1122 (A.D. 1710). XIII. 2 ft. 10 in. by 104 in. ; 52 lines. Firman of Sultan Husain, relating to the administration of the revenue belonging to the shrine of Imam Zain ul-‘Abidin ; dated Jumada I., A.H. 1125 (A.D. 1713). XIV. 18 in. by 114; 7 lines. Firman of Sultan Husain, assigning a house in Isfahan to Captain Francis ; dated Rajab, A.H. 1130 (A.D. 1718). XV. 16 in. by 114 ; 14 lines. Firman of Shah Tahmasp II., relating to the endow- ments of the shrine of Imam Zain ul-‘Abidm ; dated RabT II., A.H. 1143 (A.D. 1730). XVI. 18 in. by 9 ; 11 lines. Petition of Muh. Yahya, of Isfahan, complaining of ex- tortions, and Firman of Nadir Shah in answer to the same; dated Rajab, A.H. 1153 (A.D. 1740). The legend of the seal is with the date A.H. 1148. XVII. 194 in. by 94 ; 17 lines. Firman granted by Nadir Shah to Sultan Muhammad Beg, Kurchi Bashi, in reward for faithful service, exempting from taxes his estate near Isfahan; dated RabT II., A.H. 1156 (A.D. 1743). XVIII. 16 in. by 9 ; 7 lines. Firman of Ibrahim Shah (nephew of Nadir) to Muhibb ‘Ali Khan, Ishik Akasi Bashi, regarding the locating of Afshar tribes in Lanjan and neighbouring places ; dated RabT II., A.H. 1162 (A.D. 1749). The legend of the seal is ^ with the date 1162. XIX. 194 in. by 10 ; 9 lines. Firman of Shahrukh, confirming Mirza Abu ’1-FIasan in his office of Taujihgari in Isfahan ; dated 16 Zulhijjah, A.H. 1169 (A.D. 1756). XX. 15 in. by 9 ; 10 lines. Firman of Karim Khan, appointing Mirza Khalil to the office of Mustaufi of Maraghah ; dated Mu- harram, A.H. 1177 (A.D. 1763). XXI. 17 in. by 8^; 7 lines. Firman of Karim Khan granting to the same Mirza Khalil an annual allowance of thirty Tumans; dated RabT II., A.H. 1186 (A.D. 1772). XXII. 10 in. by 9 ; 5 lines. Firman of Ja‘far Khan, conferring upon a son of Mirza Ahmad the office of his late father ; dated Zulka‘dah, A.H. 1199 (A.D. 1785). Imper- fect at the beginning. XXIII. 17 in. by 94; 5 lines. Firman of Ja‘far Khan, enjoining obedience to a Na’ib Mutasaddi sent to Isfahan; dated Jumada II., A.H. 1202 (A.D. 1788). XXIV. 164 in. by 124 ; 9 lines. Firman LETTERS, STATE PAPERS, AND AUTOGRAPHS. 257 addressed to Muhammad Husain Khan, go- vernor of (?), with instructions to send troops against a band of robbers who had plundered a caravan travelling from Dar ul-‘Ibadat to Isfahan; dated Zulka'dali, irr, probably for A.H. 1230 (A.D. 1815). Some seals at the back are dated A.H. 1227. XXY. 17 in. by 13 ; 8 lines. Firman of Path e Ali Shah, relating to arrears of taxes in Fars ; dated Jumada II., A.EI. 1237 (A.D. 1822). XXVI. 17 in. by 12; 6 lines. Firman of Fath £ Ali Shah, sending a robe of honour to Muhammad Khan Kajar, Na’ib ; dated Sha'ban, A.H. 1238 (A.D. 1823). XXVII. a 14 in. by 9 ; 6 lines. Firman of Sultan Muhammad Shah to his brother Bahman Mirza, governor of Azarbaijan, re- garding the debts of the late Aka Jani Khan ; dated Jumada I., A.H. 1259 (A.D. 1843). XXVII. b 17in.byl3J; 11 lines. Firman of the same to Aka Muh. Salih, Mujtahid of Kirmanskahan, assigning to him a yearly allowance of 300 Tnmans ; dated Jumada I., A H. 1259 (A.D. 1843). XXVII. c 16i in. by 13; 7 lines. The same to the same, sending him a robe of honour ; same date. XXVIII. 18 in. by 14-|- ; 14 lines. Firman of Nasir ud-Dln Shah to Hishmat ud-Daulah Hamzah Mirza, governor of Azarbaijan, an- nouncing the appointment of Sultan Mah- mud Mirza as Vali-‘Ahd ; dated Zulka'dah, A.H. 1265 (A.D. 1849). XXIX. 17^ in. by 11 ; 6 lines. Firman of the same, deposing Mirza Aka Khan from the office of Sadr i A‘zam in Tabriz, and confirming the appointment of Rukn ud- Daulah Ardashir Mirza as governor of Azar- baijan ; dated Muharram, A.H. 1275 (A.D. 1858). XXX. 17 in. by 13.J- ; 7 lines. Firman of Nasir ud-Dln Shah to his uncle Muh. Ralnm Mirza, governor of Klnii and Salmas ; dated RabT I., A.H. 1275 (A.D. 1858). XXXI. 14 in. by 8} ; 7 lines. Appoint- ment of Baba Khan Munslii as secretary for the drawing up of military orders ; dated A.H. 1283 (A.D. 1866). 403 . Or. 4936. — A large collection of detached leaves and slips of various sizes, containing autographs of royal personages, statesmen, scholars, and poets of modern Persia, with other documents of historical interest. [Sidney Churchill,.] A full and detailed description of the con- tents would require more space than we have at our disposal. We must confine ourselves to a brief enumeration of the most important articles, as follows : 1. Autograph of Sultan Husain Safavi on a deed of manumission relating to a Georgian slave, A.H. 1111; attested by the Mujtahid Jamal ud-Dln Khwansari. 2. Autograph letter of ‘Abbas Mirza Na’ib us-Saltanah, written from Kirman, A.H. 1246 ; attested by his son, Farhad Mirza. 3. Autograph of Muhammad Shah, dated A.H. 1261 ; attested by his brother Farhad Mirza. 4. Two more autographs of Muhammad Shah. 5. An autograph account of Mazendaran, by Nasir ud-Din Shah, written for the “ Iran.” 6. Three letters of Nasir ud-Din Shah to Husain us-Saltanah, governor of Khorasan, A.H. 1278, 1279, and 1288. The hand- writing is that of Dabir ul-Mulk, whose seal is at the back. 258 LETTERS, STATE PAPERS, AND AUTOGRAPHS. 7. Autograph letter of Malid Auliya, mother of Nasir ud-Dln Shah, to her daughter ‘Izzat ud-Daulah. 8. Autograph of the Yah ‘Ahd, or heir- apparent, on a letter of Dabir us-Saltanali, A.H. 1310. 9. Autograph verses by Muhammad Khan Majd ul-Mulk. 10. Autograph letter of the Sadr i A‘zam, { Ali Asghar Amin us- Sultan. 11. Account of the siege of Mashhad by Ahmad Shah Durrani, written by Mull. Nasir Tabrlzi, A.H. 1168. 12. Undertaking of Sardfir Sultan Alimad, governor of Herat, regarding the admission of Russian traders, A.H. 1276. 13. Autograph letter of Baha-ullah, the Babi apostle, to Haji Zahir ud-Daulah, written in Arabic in a minute character, and begin- ning : AlAff- Jp a^A b Al.-o Alxlaflb L j.5- J.\ Alxbc.j The seal bears the names ^ j and the date A.H. 1279. At the top of the page there is a contemptuous reply of Zill us-Sultan to Zahir ud-Daulah, who had sent him the letter of Baha-ullah. 14. Autograph letter of the famous Abd- elcader to M. Gaulois (?), re- commending the bearer, Haji Muhyi ud-Din, a merchant trading in Tangier and Fez : A.H. 1296. Autographs of the following scholars and poets : 15. Balia ud-Din al- £ Amili, A.H. 995. 16. Mull. Kazim Yalih, A.H. 1215. 17. Zain ul-‘Abidin Shirvani, Teheran, A.H. 1245. See no. 139. 18. Mirza Sadik Marvazi. See no. 118. 19. Yaghma Jandaki. See Majma c ul- Fusaha, vol. ii., p. 580. 20. Visa! Shirazi, A.H. 1248. See no. 308. 21. Mulla Hadi Sabzavari, who died A.H. 1295. 22. Furughi, A.H. 1302. The collection includes also calligraphic specimens of celebrated penmen, such as Mir ‘Imad, Maulana Shafka, Mirza Ahmad Nairizi, Khwajah Ikhtiyar, Mirza Ghulam Riza, and Mirza Kuchak, pupil of Darvish. 404 . Or. 4679. — Foil. 61 ; 85- in. by 6^ ; from 15 to 21 lines, about 5 in. long ; written in small cursive Shikastah, in Sliavval, A.H. 1272 (A.D. 1856). [Sidney Churchill.] Copies of treaties and conventions con- cluded by the Persian Court with Turkey, England, Russia, Spain and France, of in- structions given to Persian envoys, and of official accounts of their interviews in St. Petersburg and in Constantinople, with dates ranging from A.H. 1224 to A.H. 1272. According to a note written by Mr. Churchill at the beginning, this collection formed part of instructions issued by Mirza Aka Khan Ptimad ud-Daulah, then Prime Minister of the present Shah, to the Persian Envoy at Constantinople. The first piece is a treaty between Fatli ‘Ali Shah and Sultan Mahmud, dated 19 Zulka'dah, A.H. 1238 : 5 tN&XA'*© &<«cl3 j ^bb- (J^be Beg. ^0 AjA ^ As- ,Jk*» A-=- The last is a letter containing the official LETTERS, STATE PAPERS, AND AUTOGRAPHS. 259 Persian account of the advance of Dost Muhammad into Ivhorasan in A.H. 1272. The English treaties included, foil. 6 — 13, bear the names of Sheil, Jones, Gore Ouseley and Ellis. A full table of contents occupies two pages at the beginning. 405 . Add. 29,217. — A box containing 6 rolls, the description of which follows. [Warren Hastings.] A. — A paper roll 27 ft. long by 12-| in. The leading text in this extensive docu- ment is drawn up in Persian, and occupies twenty-six lines. It is a declaration by ‘ Ali Ibrahim Khan, respecting the manner in which he had acquitted himself as governor of Benares, his maintenance of public order, his suppression of various abuses, and his impartial administration of justice. He refers especially to the measures he had taken for the relief of a famine which raged there, A.D. 1783, and concludes with an appeal to the inhabitants of Benares for confirmation of his statements. Beg. ( k - The Persian text is followed by a Hindi translation in the Devanagari character. Numerous testimonials in various Indian characters, with signatures and seals, fill the whole space above and below the above docu- ment. The latter is not dated. A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1784) is the latest date appearing in the seals affixed. e Ali Ibrahim Khan, author of some his- torical works and several Tazkirahs, died A.H. 1208. See the Persian Catalogue, pp. 328, 375 ; the Oude Catalogue, p. 180 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 663, &c. B. — A paper roll 2 ft. 6 in. by 9^ in. A congratulatory address of the inhabitants of Benares to Warren Hastings on the issue of his trial, dated Phfdgun Suklasaptami, Samvat 1852 (February, A.D. 1796). The text is Sanskrit written in the Deva- nagari character. It is followed by a number of signatures in various Indian characters, and by a Persian translation occupying fifteen lines, and beginning as follows : AA Oa!A>- (-ply Ajboy^o C. — A paper roll 7 ft. long by 9^ in. A similar address in Sanskrit, with a Persian translation, accompanied by nu- merous signatures, and testimonials ; dated Baisakh, Sudi-Sattami, Samvat 1853, and 5 Zulka'dah, A.H. 1210 (May 1796). D. — A paper roll 5 ft. long by 9-§ in. A congratulatory address written by the inhabitants of Benares to Warren Hastings on the same occasion. It is written in Persian in sixteen lines, without date, and is followed by numerous seals and signatures. It begins as follows : b.U, ^1=- l j>\J ’bjXp' * j~>- b j oy* Ay ^ oly J^aH aL c- (-yly Aj (_pby <-pAJU E. — A paper roll 5 ft. long by 6^ in. A congratulatory address written by the inhabitants of Calcutta to Warren Hastings on the same occasion. The text is Persian. It occupies 28 lines, and its wording agrees closely with that of the preceding document. It is also undated, and begins as follows : by j b^A ajAi { jfyiu I ri JA ( cLsi' 0 Jj -\y J J a'AA (-ply e-Ay LL 2 260 LETTERS, STATE PAPERS, AND AUTOGRAPHS. The Persian text is followed by a Bengali translation and numerous signatures, also in the Bengali character. F. — A paper roll 2 ft. 6 in. long by 8 in. Another copy of the preceding address, containing only the Persian text, also undated, Avith seals and signatures in the Persian character. 408 . Or. 3260. — Foil. 171 ; 8 in. by 64; about 9 lines, 5 in. long ; Avritten in large Nestalik; dated Monday, 15 RabP II., A.H. 1206 (A.D. 1791). ‘ Military rules of Tipu Sultan, drawn up by Zain ul-‘Abidin, A.H. 1197, endorsed This is the work described by Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1903, under its proper title, £j, and with the full name of the author, Zain ul-'Abidin B. Sayyid Razi, of Shushtar. The Persian text is written on the left side, the opposite page being occupied, foil. 2 — 86 and 114 — 161, by a partial English translation. The first page of the text is wanting, but the translation shows that the beginning was that given by Etlie, viz. : Contents : Zain ul-'Abidin’s preface in praise of Tipu Sultan, fol. 2. Introduction treating of the creed and religious duties of Muslims, especially of the obligation of Jihad, and of the treatment of unbelievers, fol. 16. On strategy, jxASS, fol. 63. Commands and exercises of infantry, fol. 75. Duty of the Sipahdars, Bakhshis, &c., fol. 113. Rules relating to rounds, guards, sentries, salutes, &c., fol. 124. Rules relating to artillery practice, fol. 140. Urdu songs for soldiers, fol. 161. On the fly-leaf is a notice of the work by Major Gen. Geo. Gr. Pearse, who says that the MS. w r as procured by him in Madras, A.D. 1882. 407 . Or. 4543. — A single sheet, 18 in. by 7^ ; containing 22 lines, 4^ in. long on the recto, and 25 on the verso, besides additional lines in the margins ; written in Shikastah Avith gilt ‘Unvan, dated 7 Ramadan, A.H. 1210 (June 1787). A letter addressed to “Mareckal de Castries, Ministre de la Marine,” ^ J IA,* yAL*, applying for French assistance in order to recover the writer’s Jaglr from the English, and for the settlement of claims upon the French Company. The writer, Avhose name does not appear, begins by recording the services rendered by his grand- father, Navvab Gliulam Imam Husain, to the French Company, and says that his own Jaglr had been originally conferred on his uncle, Gliulam Husain Khan, called Husain ‘Ali Khan, by the emperor Muhammad Shah. The letter contains frequent references to Tipu Sultan, who had married a sister of the writer. PAINTINGS. Stoave, Or. 16. — Foil. 60; 17 in. by 10^ ; bound in painted and glazed covers. An album of miniatures and calligraphic specimens, mounted on stout gold-sprinkled paper, with ornamental borders. On the second folio, in the centre of an PAINTINGS. 261 oval illuminated border, is the stamp of Aurangzib, which reads “ Abu T-Zafar Muhyi ud-Dln Muhammad ‘Alamglr Padishah Ghazi,” with the date A.H. 1079, and with the names of the emperor’s forefathers up to Timur, written in a circle round his own. The album, however, is of later date. Its first owner appears to have been the Navvab of Oude, Asaf ud-Daulah, whose seal is im- pressed at the top of most leaves. The seal contains the following titles: “Vazlr ul- Mamalik Asaf ud-Daulah Asafjah Yahya Khan Bahadur Hizabr Jang,” and is dated A.H. 1190. The miniatures consist of portraits of the Timuride emperors and their Amirs, of hunting scenes and other subjects of Indian life and fiction. The portraits are mostly without names, but those of Aurangzib, foil. 3a, 5a, 9a; of Jahangir, foil. 2 b, 4 b; of Shahjahan, fol. 136 ; and Akbar, fol. 266, are easily recognized. Some of the minia- tures are evidently imitations of European models, as, for instance, one representing Christ with the crown of thorns, fol. 18a. The dates of the specimens of calligraphy range from A.H. 972 to 1171. Some are signed by well-known penmen, as Mir c Ali, Mir ‘Imad, Abd ur-Rashld, Javahir Rakam Sani (Mir ‘Ali Khan), and Hidayat-ullah Zarrln Rakam. The covers are ornamented outside wfith miniature portraits in the Indian style, and with Ghazals of Hafiz round the borders ; inside, with two identical paintings on a large scale, representing a lady and gentle- man in the costume of Louis XIA.’s time. 409 . Stowe, Or. 18. — Eight Hindu drawings of various sizes, apparently of the latter half of the 18th century, bound in one volume, 18 in. by 9. The first is a portrait of Navvab Kasim ‘Ali Khan, Subahdar of Bengal. The others represent scenes of Indian life and Raginis. 410 . Stowe, Or. 19. — A paper roll, 5 ft. long by 8 in. A drawing in water-colours representing an Indian prince riding on an elephant, pre- ceded and followed by numerous mounted retainers and ladies carried in sedan chairs and palanquins ; apparently about the be- ginning of the 19th century. 411 . Or. 2787. — Foil. 62; 17f in. by 10; with richly gilt margins. [Zuhur ud-Din Ahmad Khan.] An album of Indian drawings and specimens of calligraphy, collected by Mu‘takad ud- Daulah Himmat-yar Khan, an Amir of the Nizam’s Court, and completed on the 29th of Jumada I., A.H. 1204 (A.D. 1790). On the first page, within an illuminated circular border, is an impression of the col- lector’s seal, dated A.H. 1200, and reading as iollovrs : s&xa/c lA.'A sA» i \ A a.*jAo .A In a versified chronogram at the end it is stated that the collection occupied no fewer than twenty-nine years, having been com- menced A.H. 1176 and completed A.H. 1204. From a further note, fol. 62, we learn that the album was got up at a cost of 5780 rupees. The drawings are partly portraits of Indian princes and Amirs, partly pictures of Hindu mythological subjects, and of scenes of Eastern fiction and Indian life. The 262 PAINTINGS. portraits bear tlie following names : Timur, fol. 5 5. Humayun, fol. 65. Akbar, fol. 7b. Shahjahan, fob 9b. ‘Alamglr, fob 10 b. Muhammad Shah, fob 11 b. Abu ’1-Hasan Kutubshah, fob 13a. Ahmad Sliab, fob 14a. c Ali ‘Adil Shah, fob 14 b. Bahadur Shah, fob 15 b. Baridi Padishah, fob 165. ‘Abd- ullah Khan Uzbek, fob 18a. Dara Shiklih, fob 20a. Shuja‘, fob 21a. Bldar-bakht, fob 22a. ‘Ali Gauliar (Shah ‘Alam), fob 23a. Nasir Jang Shahid, fob 24a. Asafjah, of Haidarabad, fob 245. Hamid Khan, fob 25a. Himmat-yar Khan Shahid, fob 26a. The owner of the album in his youth, fob 27a. Mubariz Khan, fob 28a. Yusuf Khan, Nazim of Haidarabad under Bahadur Shah, fob 29a. Mir Jumlah, fob 30a. Asfilat Khan, fob 31a. ‘Ali Mardan Ivhan, fob 315. ‘Umdat ul- Mulk Shahjahani, fob 325. Jansipar Khan, fob 335. Ruh-ullah Khan, fob 35a. Fath- ullah Khan, fob 36a. Sa‘adat-ullah Khan, fob 365. Najabat Khan, fob 375. Sa‘d-ullah Khan, fob 39a. Mir Ahmad Khan, son-in- law of Kutubshah, fob 40a. Rajah Bijai Singh, fob 405. Ranvar Singh, fob 42a. Rajah Jaisingli Savai, of Jaipur, fob 43a. Chand Bibi, fob 555. Nurjahan Bigam, fob 58a. Among the other pictures the following may be especially noticed : Sulaiman sitting on his throne and surrounded by a crowd of genii and wild animals, fob 25. Mani, the painter, with two female figures designated as Firingis, or European ladies, fob 475. A Chinese lady, drawn by a Chinese artist, fob 57a. Matwali Bang-saz, a large picture representing a highly dressed Indian female selling Bang, and a crowd of customers in various stages of intoxication, fol. 585. The calligraphic specimens are in fine Nestalik and various kinds of Shikastah. They are signed by Mu‘jiz Kalam, Rushan Kalam, Zarrln Kalam, Mushkln Kalam, ‘Abd ur-Rashld, Mahmud Shihabi, Abu’l- baka Musavi, and other famous penmen. They bear dates ranging from A.H. 1119 to 1184. A companion volume of smaller size, Or. 2787b, contains a full, but rather inaccurate, description of the contents of the album, drawn up in very peculiar English, apparently by its late owner, Zuhur ud-Dln Ahmad Khan. 412 . Or. 4938. — A collection of drawings, con- sisting principally of portraits of royal persons and statesmen of the Persian Court. [Sidney Churchill.] The portraits are as follows : I. A contemporary portrait of Karim Khan Zand. II. Portrait of Muhammad Shah, by Mu- hammad Hasan Afshar, A.H. 1263. III. Portrait of Nasir ud-Dln Shah, stand- ing with his left hand resting upon a gun, by Mirza Baba al-Husaini al-Imami. IY. Portrait of the same, sitting on a sofa, by Muhammad Isfahani, A.H. 1272. V. Photograph of the same, carte de visite size. YI. Portrait of the Shahzadah, I‘tizad us- Saltanah ‘Ali Kuli Mirza, minister of sciences, commerce, and arts, A.H. 1280. YII. Portrait of ‘Imad ud-Daulah, by Sank ul-Mulk (Mirza Abu ’1-Hasan Ghaffari Kashani). YIII. Photograph of a Persian prince, without name. IX. Portrait of Mirza Agasi, by Sank ul- Mulk. X. Portrait of the Kisikchi Bashi, Mirza Muhammad Khan Kajar, by the same, A.H. 1267. INSCRIPTIONS. 263 XI. Portrait of Mirza Aka Khan, by the same. XII. Portrait of Khusrau Khan Kirmani, by the same. XIII. Portraits in black and white of Aka Rahim ‘Ali Beg, Lalah-bashi of Amir Dust Muhammad Khan, and of Mirza Bidd Kir- manshahi, by Asad-ullah Khan Ghaffari Kashani, A.H. 1283. XIV. A photographic group of Riza Kuli Khan Lalah Bashi, the Vali‘ahd Muzaffar ud-Din Mirza, as a boy, and two attendants. XV. Another photographic group, with Nasir ud-Din Shah as a boy. XVI. Portrait of a Persian lady, by Mirza Matlab, A.H. 1304. Among the other drawings the following may be mentioned : XVII. Sketches of illustrations for the Arabian Nights, by Sank ul-Mulk. XVIII. Miniature in imitation of Renais- sance style, by Mirza Baha Imami. XIX. Views of the Kazimaim Mosque, by ‘Ali Kuli Beg Musavi. XX. Pen and ink drawings of a gazelle and of a wild goat, by Nasir ud-Din Shah. XXI. Drawing of an old man in a sitting posture, warming his hands and feet over a fire, by Malik ush-Shu‘ara Mirza Mahmud Khan, A.H. 1310. INSCRIPTIONS. 413 . Stowe, Or. 17a. — Twenty-five large coloured plates, being plans and elevations of Taj Mahall, Moti Masjid, and other monuments at Agra, with facsimiles of the detail of their ornamentation and of their inscriptions, drawn by native artists about A.D. 1812, and bound up in a volume 3 ft. 5 in. long by 2 ft. 6 in. 414 . Stowe, Or. 17b. — Foil. 40 ; 9f in. by 7^ in. ; described on the title-page as follows : “ This contains a faithful Copy of the Inscriptions on the Outside of and within the Mausoleum, or Taaje, at Agra, in India, taken by a Moonshee who was employed by the Bengal Government to superintend and shew the Place to Visitors, and which were carefully translated under the Inspection of the Adju- tant-General of the Bengal Army in the Year 1812-13. G. Nugent.” The text of the Arabic inscriptions is written in clear vocalized Neskhi, with an interlinear English version. It consists of the following extracts from the Coran : On the outside of the great gate of Mumtaz Mahall, Surat ul-Fajr, fol. lb. Inside, Surahs 93 — 95, fol. 3 b. Round the Rauzah, Surah 36, fol. 5 a. Round the arch of the Rauzah, Surahs 81, 82, 84, 98, fol. 13 a. Round the interior of the Rauzah, Surahs 67, 48 and 76, fol. 17a. On the top of the tomb of Mumtaz Mahall, Surah 41, v. 30, Surah 40, v. 7, and other verses, fol. 2 7b. Obituary date of Mumtaz Mahall, A.H. 1040, fol. 29a. On the eastern and western sides of the same tomb, the ninety-nine holy names of God and some verses of the Coran, fol. 29 b. Persian inscription on the tomb of Shali- jahan, with the date of his death, 26 Rajab, 1076, fol. 32a. Persian inscriptions of Moti Masjid and Divan i Khass, fol. 32 b. His- torical account of the death of Mumtaz Mahall, fol. 35 b. Inscriptions on great guns, fol. 39a. On three additional leaves at the end is found an “ Extract from a Journal written by Lady Nugent, by whom these Drawings were given to the Marquess of Buckingham.” It is followed by “ Lines written on seeing the Taaje by Lady N[ugent].” 264 MSS. OF MIXED CONTENTS. 415 . Or. 4595. — Foil. 119 ; 11 in. by 6f ; 9 lines, 4| in. long; written in large Nestalik and Neskhi ; dated 17 Zulka'dah, A.H. 1232, corresponding with 29 September, A.D. 1817. Inscriptions of the principal buildings of Shahjahanabad and old Delhi, transcribed in imitation of the original characters. Beg. Siij'o o'jT jssr" 0 lIIAjs j } jt?. There is neither preface nor title. In the colophon, Hafiz ud-Dln Ahmad is named as the author, and Asghar ‘Ali Beg, commonly called Sangin Beg, as the transcriber. The latter wrote subsequently under the title Jj'A a more detailed work on the same subject, for which see the Persian Catalogue, p. 431, and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 536. Contents : Masjid Jami c , Masjid Akbar- abadi, and other Masjids of Delhi, fol. 15. Buildings within the fortress, fol. 20a. Environs of Delhi, Dargah i Kadam Sharif, eke., fol. 215. Masjid Jami‘ in the old fort, fol. 325. Masjid of Nizam ud-Din Auliya and neighbouring tombs, fol. 425. Tomb of Humayun, fol. 635. Lat of Firuz Shah, fol. 655. Shrine of Shah Mardan, fol. 665. Masjid Miithah, fol. 685. Shrine of Nasir ud-Din Cliiragh Dililavi, fol. 725. Masjid Kuvvat i Islam, fol. 78 a. Tomb of Sultan Shams ud-Din, fol. 93a. Shrine of Khwajah Kutb ud-Din, fol. 103a. Tughlukabad, fol. 1165. Shrine of Imam Nasir ud-Din in Sonipat, fol. 1185. 416 . Or. 4768. — A sheet of thick paper, 16 in. by 10^. [Presented by H. E. M. James, Esq., Commissioner of Sind.] Paper-cast of a Persian inscription kept in a shrine dedicated to Khwajah Khizr on an island situated in the Indus, opposite Bohri, and known as Khwajah Ivhizr Island. The inscription consists of the following versified chronogram, giving A.H. 341 as the date of the erection of the shrine : jd djd 5 V ') & The date is also written in Arabic figures under the last line. The style and character of the inscription point to a much later period, probably not earlier than the 17th century. A second sheet of the same size contains an ink impression of the inscription, a modern transcript of which on a smaller sheet is added. MSS. OF MIXED CONTENTS. 417 . Or. 2852. — Foil. 103 ; 8-| in. by 5 ; 12 lines, 3J in. long ; written in small and close Shi- kastah-amlz ; dated Jumada II., A.H. 1293 (A.D. 1876). [Sidney Chubchill.] I. Foil. 1—49. SfljJaJ A treatise on the mystical meaning to be attached to sensual images in the Divan of Hafiz, and in defence of the poet against the censures of ignorant detractors ; by Muham- mad B. Muhammad ad-Darabi. Beg. jbdj cA A The author left his native place, Darabjird, for Shiraz, where he spent most of his life. He also visited India, for he states incidentally MSS. OF MIXED CONTENTS. 265 in the present work, fol. 49a, that he was in Ahmadabad, A.H. 1062. The text of our MS. is much fuller than a lithographed edition printed at Teheran, A.H. 1304, under the title s^xxxt' . The latter, however, contains, p. 122, a passage not found in the MS., in which the author states that he wrote the work at Shiraz in the space of two weeks, A.H. 1087. He left also a Sufi work, OjUUu and a treatise on the lawfulness of singing, entitled ^ The present work, which is also called, fol. 8a, y^x*}) is divided as follows : Mukaddimah, on the spiritual meaning of words according to Sufi usage, fol. 8a. Bab I. Sufi interpretation of some obscure lines of the Divan, fol. 96. Bab II. Spiritual mean- ing of other verses, fol. 2 7b. Bab III. On the real meaning of passages which, taken literally, seem to conform with the Aslkari doctrine, fob 41a. Khatimah, on some in- stances of omens drawn from the Divan, fol. 47a. II. Foil. 50 — 103. A collection of royal and private letters, with a short preamble beginning : o’A ^U3 j jy* \j Jo tSid Ols.^ The letters, which are all undated, are as follows: Shah ‘Abbas I. to Jehangir on the latter’s accession, fol. 51a. Akbar to Shah ‘Abbas I., fol. 52 b, and the latter’s answer, fol. 57a. Humayun to Tahmasp, fol. 64a. Akbar to ‘Abdullah Khan Uzbek, fol. 65a. Akbar to Khankhanan, son of Bairam Khan, fol. 70a. Abu Talib Khan 1‘timad ud-Daulah to a Sayyid, fol. 73a. Akbar to Khankhanan, fol. 74a. Dastur ul-‘Amal, or rules and ordinances addressed by Akbar to officials, fol. 77a. Sultan Husain Baikara to Shah Isma‘11, fol. 816. Private letters by Nasira i Hamadani, Asaf Ivhan, Ibrahim Khan, Kasim Kahi, Abu Talib Kalim, Sadr ud-Dln Shirazi, and Mirza Ibrahim Hamadani. The last piece is Muh. Zaman Khan’s preface to a Biiz Namah, foil. 83 a — 1036. 418 . Or. 2955. — Foil. 190 ; 6^ in. by 3f ; 15 lines, about 2-^ in. long ; written in cursive Nes- talik or Shikastah-amiz ; dated from 8 Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1274, to 25 Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1275 (A.D. 1857-8). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 1—60. Chahar Makalah, by Ni- zami ‘Aruzi ; dated K ary at ul-‘Arab, Kir man, 25 Rabi‘ I., A.H. 1275. See no. 390. II. Foil. 616 — 131. Farhad u Shirin, by Yahshi, with the continuation of Visal; see no. 308. This copy contains, in addition to the former, Visal’s prologue to his continuation, foil. 976 — 99a, beginning : xALo j (J-Ajo . That continuation extends from fol. 99a to fol. 1316. It is dated Kirman, last day of Rajab, A.H. 1275. At the end is a note stating that the writer, having found, A.H. 1293, in a printed copy, c^Aa* , at Tafrish, some additional leaves, had tran- scribed them to complete the present MS. This addition occupies foil. 132a — 1446. It relates to the death of Farhad, and begins : It ends with a panegyric on Farhad Mirza (son of Na’ib us-Saltanah and governor of Fars) and upon Nasir ud-Din Shah. It is said at the end to have been composed twelve M M 266 MSS. OF MIXED CONTENTS. hundred seventy and odd years after the Hijrah : t • • ^ ^ c ' ' ** * 5 j' lH jl lai&j a date posterior to the death of Visa!. This last piece is dated end of Zulhijjah, A.H. 1293 (A.D. 1877). III. Foil. 145—190. eMy “ Mirror of the Gnostics,” a Sufi tract by Hamid ud-Din. Beg. ^*)\ dll The author’s name occurs in the following passage, fol. 1525: J.yy ! [\ yai ^ ^s- The above title was suggested to the author in a vision by his spiritual guide, as stated further on, fol. 1545 : oE j . a A3 ^ The same title is repeated at the end, 190a : ^ r v u--' The tract is written in prose interspersed with verses, without any division. It con- cludes with a Masnavi in glorification of the religious order of Kalandars. The present copy is written in very cursive Shikastali, and dated Wednesday, 8 Rabi £ I., A.H. 1274. Another copy, dated A.H. 1248, is men- tioned, without author’s name, by Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 8, art. 3. Copyist : y+s? y+s? 419 . Or. 2975. — Foil. 373 ; 9^ in. by 5 ; 15 lines, about 2f in. long ; written in more or less cursive Nestalik, partly in diagonal lines, with various dates ranging from Muharram, A.H. 1077 (fol. 183), to Muharram, A.H. 1088 (fol. 187) (A.D. 1666 — 77). The first sixteen leaves are dated Kashan, 1 Muharram, A.H. 1115 (A.D. 1703). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 45 — 16a. The Lava’ih of Jiimi, Avith the heading J Ip 'ill J\ 3 \j aJUw,. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 44a ; Rosen, In- stitut, no. 113 ; the Berlin Catalogue, no. 238, art. 3 ; and the Bodleian Catalogue, no. 894, art. 16. II. Foil. 175— 74a. jf j\\ 1^,. A collection of moral anecdotes, by Mu- hammad Sharif B. Shams ud-Din Muham- mad, poetically surnamed Kashif. Beg. b z yj-j-jj The work was finished, as stated at the end, on Friday at the end of Rabl £ I., A.H. 1030. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 8615, and no. 422, i. For the same author’s Kha- zan u Bahar, see no. 396. III. Foil. 765 — 114a. Farhad u Shlrln, by Vahshi. See no. 308. IY. Foil. 835 — 1055 (margin). ^.j-A j Farhad u Slilrln, a Masnavi by Fauk ud- Dln Ahmad Yazdi, poetically surnamed Fauki, with a prose preface by the author, beginning: d*ao j (J\)3 & T The preface is in Sufi style, and chiefly in praise of the Malamiyyah branch of the order, to which the author evidently belonged. The poem begins, fol. 865, as follows : ft -V - y j) J , A 3 A 3 It is extremely coarse and obscene. MSS. OF MIXED CONTENTS. 267 V. Foil. 1166 — 183a. ijS 3^ Tlie Divan of ‘Ali Naki Kamra’i. See no. 320. Beg. jxil Jt . — (*V> <_p A similar beginning is noticed in the Onde Catalogue, no. 412. VI. Foil. 188ft — 2036. Kasidahs by Vahshi, written in oblique lines, beginning : j' 3^?" 3 3^ VII. Foil. 2046—2216. Sihr i Halal, by Ahli Shlrazi. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 6576 ; Berlin Cata- logue, no. 16, art. 2; and the Bodleian Cata- logue, no. 1027. o J VIII. Foil. 222ft— 2326. Kasidahs by the same poet, beginning as in the Persian Cata- logue, p. 658ft, hi., and in the Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1027, art. 3. IX. Foil. 233ft— 236ft. Shir u Shakar, a Masnavi by Shaikh Baha ud-DIn Muhammad. See the Persian Cata- logue, p. 831«, xxix., and the Berlin Cata- logue, no. 674, art. 21. Lithographed with Nan u Halva, Teheran, A. FI. 1279. X. Foil. 2366 — 262ft. Select Ghazals, by Mir Abu’l-Hasan Farahani, Zafar Khan, Zuhuri, fob 2386 ; Talib Kallm, fol. 2446 ; and Sa’ibai Tabrizi, fob 2536. XI. Foil. 2636—2816. 3 (see no. 310, art. 5), with a Takhmis by Sa’ib, beginning ; j' xi j ^ 3 3xG XIII. Foil. 302ft— 305ft. JlAl ^ A Kasidak by Nizam (no. 319), beginning : yAb XIV. Foil. 3056 — 314ft. Kasidahs of ‘Urfi, beginning ; XV. Foil. 314ft — 317ft. Kasidah of Nasir i Khusrau, beginning : XVI. Foil. 317ft — 319ft. A Masnavi without author’s name, beamming 1 : AA?" 3 Ugj XVII. Foil. 320ft— 3266. US A Masnavi by Mull. ‘Ali Taslim, beginning : (_>***p 3=- ji j XVIII. Foil. 3276—3336. b^* smUsd A Masnavi on ‘Ali’s creed, by Maulana Tughra (Persian Catalogue, p. 742ft), be- ginning : (3^- 3 A (jbj j 1 XIX. Foil. 3346 — 3476. An anonymous commentary on ‘Ali’s speech known as ALi- Beg. Ah;- y . . . l-Jj ^ A.U. ^ &A& L— A y. '' . V Suz u Gudaz, a Masnavi by Nau c i. See no. 313. XII. Foil. 2826— 300ft. jydl XX. Foil. 348ft— 3576. V,U a b Nan u Halva, a Masnavi by Baha ud-Din ‘Amili. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 679a. A Kasidah by ‘Urfi entitled Tarjumat usli- Shauk, beginning : .j ^ 3 (jA-?- XXI. Foil. 358« — 3726. Kasidahs of An- vari, written in oblique lines, beginning : 33?" lAAU jb m m 2 268 MSS. OF MIXED CONTENTS. 420 . Or. 3307. — Foil. 94 ; in. by 5 ; 15 lines, 3 in. long 1 ; written in fair Nestalik, with red-ruled margins ; dated (fol. 48) Friday, 20 Ramazan, A.H. 877 (A.D. 1473). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 2—48. jJU- 421 . Or. 3314. — Foil. 113 ; 7 in. by 4^; 16 lines, 2f in. long ; written in Nestalik ; dated Rajab, A.H. 1233 (A.D. 1818). [Sidney Churchill.] I. Foil. 16. A short treatise on mensura- tion, without author’s name. A treatise on poetical figures, by Rashid Vatvat. See above, no. 188, i. II. Foil. 485 — 60. J=- As- J A treatise on riddles, by Minuchihr the merchant, surnamed Bad? at-Tabrizi. Beg. CLjjl it (_)-"■ \j , j Jx.*» Ul ... y b r d] 0 ^X‘J\ aifi l)[xff- JZs-\ ' aJl’i ^ji\ ^jy>jxx)\ q±x> i Al'J From the preface it appears that the author was engaged in trade, and was travelling in Rum with his father, when the latter died, A.H. 794. Passing through Ardabil, he met some scholars who had read a former work of his, It was at the request of one of these that he wrote the present treatise, which he completed in Yazd. The author claims to be the first to write a treatise on riddles. He divides them into two species respectively called yAl and {+**, and gives as an example of the latter a Mu- ‘amma composed on his own name, Minuchihr, by his revered master, Shaikh Kamal Khu- jandi. III. Foil. 63 — 94. ^Al A treatise on the terms and metaphors used by poets in describing female beauty, by Sharaf Rami. See the Persian Catalogue, p. 814a ; Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 1339 ; and Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 35, art. 2. Beg. jd alLa, y) Id t tp* ) O ^ A— **^1 &X>- 1 ^ t j. ...5 II. Fol. 55. A treatise on arithmetic, \sa> o-'jb, divided into three Makalahs, without author’s name. Beg. U1 . . . <— y Jj? 1 Alsu Alsu Y III. Fol. 32 b. jlAAl ^Al Anis ul-'Ushshak, by Sharaf Rami. See the preceding MS., art. hi. IV. Fol. 636. A treatise on rhyme, by ‘Ata-ullah, ,jly ^ See no. 191, art. hi. V. Fol. 82a. jjlSU SE^ A treatise on poetical figures, written for Shaikh Uvais by Sharaf Rami, and more properly entitled AU yj Isis- . Beg. (JP joji" ijx) o- si” j\ &*> Uio! ^ Jy-^3 3^3 jT (j/* g) He must, however, have spent many years over it, for his account of Shahrukli is brought down, fol. 22%, to that prince’s death, A.H. 850. The preface contains, fol. 16, a tabulated list of forty-nine authori- ties. The last is the Majma‘ ut-tavarikh, which is ascribed to Maulana Shihab ud-Din ‘Abdullah (sic), known as Hafiz i Abru, and is said to be a summary of all the earlier chronicles. The above title is found in the following passage, fol. 5 b : l> I ^ J 3>^XS.fC ^333^3^ AA^l ^ L * 'y . ^33 3 » h 3s* ^ i — A A j i 1 L_2h."C A A * ^ a j tA"0 ^ After some preliminary chapters on the creation of Adam, on his expulsion from Paradise, and on the conflicting accounts of the time elapsed between Adam and Muham- mad, the author states that the work is divided into three Kisms and a Makhlas or conclusion. The Kisms are subdivided into a number of Tabakalis, the subjects of which are given, somewhat at variance, in respect of Kism III., with the actual contents of the MS., which are as follows : Kism I., treating very fully of the ancient dynasties of Persia in four Tabakalis, viz., 1. Pishdadis, fol. 8a. 2. Kayan, fol. 236. 3. Askkanis, fol. 476. Sasanis, fol. 486. Kism II., comprising the five following Tabakalis : 1. Ancestors of Muhammad, traced down from Seth, and life of the Prophet, fol. 71a. The Khulafa i Rashidln, or first three Ivhalifs, fol. 816. The twelve Imams, fol. 956. The Umayyade Khalifs, fol. 107a. The Abbasides, fol. 113a. Kism III., comprising, as stated in the preface, thirteen Tabakalis (but in the body of the work, only twelve), treating of the following dynasties: 1. Tahiris, fol. 127a. 2. Saffaris, fol. 1306. 3. Samanis, fol. 139a. 4. Ghaznavis, fol. 145a. 5. Dailaman, fol. 1516. 6. Saljukis of Iran, fol. 1616, of Kirman, fol. 1836, and of Rum, fol. 1846. 7. Atabeks of Shiraz, fol. 186a. 8. Ghuris, fob 1936 ; Ghuris of Bamiyan, fob 1936; Khiljis of India, fob 2006. 9. Ismahlis, fob 2066, in two Makalahs, viz., Ismafilis of Maghrib, fob 207a, and Ismafilis of Iran, LATEST ACCESSIONS. 271 fol. 225a. 10. Khwarazmshahis, fol. 242a. 11. Karakhita’is of Kirman, fol. 248a. 12. Turks and Moghols. This Tabakah com- prises a Matla c on the genealogy of the Turkish tribes, fol. 262a, and a Maksad treat- ing of the Moghols who ruled over Iran from Chingiz Khan to Abu Sa‘Id, fol. 262 5. The Makhlas, -or conclusion, fol. 2865, is devoted to the history of Timur. After re- cording his death, fol. 2985, the author enu- merates his sons, and dwells especially on the career of the fourth, Mirza Shahrukh, from his boyhood to his death, A.H. 850. This is followed, fol. 2995, by a narrative of the embassy sent by Shahrukh to China, A.H. 822. This section, which occupies the last seven pages of the MS., is imperfect at the end. It is an extract from the diary of the mission drawn up by Khwajah Ghiyas ud-Dln Nakkash, and quoted at greater length in the Matla‘ us-Sa £ dain. See Or. 1291, foil. 134 — 145, and Quatremere, No- tices et Extraits, vol. xiv. In the division of his work the author appears to have followed very closely the plan of a history compiled A.H. 830-31 by Muhammad B. Amir Fazl-uilah al-Musavi and entitled ^e\. See Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 32. 424 . Or. 4899. — Folk 435 ; Ilf in. by 6f ; 35 lines, 3f in. long; written in small and close Neskhi, probably in the 18th century ; slightly muti- lated at the beginning. [Sir Henry Rawlinson.] The second volume of the great chronicle compiled for Akbar and entitled Ta’rlkh i Alfi (see the Persian Catalogue, p. 117), com- prising the Rihlat years 501 — 791 (A.H. 511—801). The volume begins with this heading : e.L- oL-j ^So j Jwaib j\ (j Vi The narrative begins as follows : JAy ^ 3 ^UaS,M> A 1 sl<*» /> [3^ jLl 8A^*A a y> SA^i 5 b.) 3 3^j** The corresponding passage is found in Or. 142, fol. 3105. The MS. breaks off before the end of A.H. 801 in the course of an account of the clan- destine escape of Sultan Ahmad from Bagh- dad, and of his taking refuge with Kara Yusuf in Diyarbekr (see Or. 465, fol. 2965). For other copies of the Ta’rlkh i Alfi, see Rehatsek, Molla Firuz Library, pp. 94, 95 ; Pertsch, Berlin Catalogue, no. 417 ; and Ethe, Bodleian Catalogue, no. 99. 425 . Or. 4948. — Foil. 248 ; 10f in. by 7 ; 31 lines, 4f in. long ; written in small Neskhi ; dated Thursday, the 1st of Muharram, A.H. 893, (A.D. 1487). An Arabic dictionary explained in Persian, by Abu’l-Fazl llubaish B. Ibrahim B. Mu- hammad at-Tiflisi. Beg. ll-A y> j 0 b i 3 3 ^bA L— 1 j\ AAA^p l— jA! A ^>) I > J>- _j J (J bi ''1 J A Lk" 272 LATEST ACCESSIONS. &L t L J^ }, { ^AtQ Jj) ^o\j ^ ^j> ^\j\ lX,' S j L> J The author says in the preface that, having found no book in which the vocables of Arabic were fully and lucidly explained in Persian, he proceeded to compile one from the following sources ; > »— y J*' i— AA^ A**- ? * 0 C— hA^ i _?IA^ ! \ l Q^.Af J yAA^ i— AyA 1 AAj jj.LA^ ^.A^A Aj y*** <— AAj t_-oAl s_Ayl t__AAj s»ib i /j&b i_yA uylAj a JijjiC- y\ v — ■' 4iji C^AAh A^«..-c AA^ 6-*0 ^ LLaa^A ^j>\ Alall uAAj Llib . . . i? u^-'lAj i«_AiiA ^*ai i > Lfj jjk£ Llab t» AAj -A ClyyA i y^c- i_Aj.^j i y^s- t_>lAj f*-* (J^*b L-AAj ^A-A t__AA^ jjUijoiA i_AAj uyiiA i_A <_^>lAj Jb^JV, A**jA 6*xx' ^ L— AA^ L.AA 1 (. — - bk. &*x jb AS'X.-c I_AA^ AA>^)\ A«Aj i y.Aj *Ah jyla>. ^■lAj i &aj olAii-< i_aAj i—'bfj s.k\)\ ^ - v V' 1 kAj ^ob" (J AAfA l_j lAj a.! sx) \ > ;lAj &Ah (joA i_ylA^ i *\A} i AAj a>*lh •b 1^*1 h , j_j*aaV i eylAj aJtffi zs* ; _-;'Aj5 es.oAA\ i_yVA_j i ^Aj ij^Ax* (_ylAj W— ^ J'fj Ay A He adds that he had collected and arranged in alphabetical order the select matter of the above works, and had called his book Kanun ul-Adab, as being a classical norm and standard for Persian readers, especially for poets on account of the rhyme, and for men of letters with regard to difficult words : idji iib A \j ^j>\ j*^A ob l_AA ^ ** • 1 i cXajj jii l-jIA^ A lyj L-iiAib ^yli t_>lA ,j£A 3 j *^>b- C>«»1 J A-A \j p i ? C ’ A^ <—>A ^JAbo cijW j\ \j bA j j*~> aAb^ajl U;*"» Many of the works included in the above list were unknown to Haji Khalfah, who gives their bare titles on the authority of the present work (seevol. vi., p. 341, no. 13,772). As far as they can be identified in the absence of the names of most authors, one of the latest appears to be the Mukaddimat ul-Adab by Zamakhsbari, who died A.H. 538. This would make it probable that the author, whose precise date is not known, lived in the latter part of the sixth century of the Hijrah. The archaic character of his Persian style points to the same period. In his dictionary of simple medicaments, entitled Nazm us- Suliik (Haj. Khah, ii. , p. 392, and Uri, p. 129, no. 535), a copy of which has recently been acquired by the Museum, Hubaish quotes no more recent authority than Ibn Jazlah, who died A.H. 493. It must be noted, however, that he is not noticed by Ibn Abi Usaibkah, who wrote his Lives of Physicians about A.H. 650. See Wusten- feld, Arabische Aertzte, no. 73. The preface is followed by a preliminary chapter, in which the author shows by numerous examples the multiplicity of mean- ings of some Arabic words and the various O forms they assume in prose and verse. He then proceeds, fol. 65, to expound the plan of the dictionary, which is peculiar and rather complicated. The words are arranged under the final letters, each of these forming a Kitab. Each Kitab is divided into nine sections called LATEST ACCESSIONS. 273 according as the vowel preceding the last letter is a, u, i, a, ii, l, or a, u, i fol- lowed by a quiescent consonant. Each of these sections is again subdivided into sub- sections containing respectively words of two, three, four, five and six letters. At the end of the dictionary are found the following two chapters (instead of three announced in the preface) : Fasl I., exhibit- ing the various forms of broken plurals with the corresponding singulars, fob 2106. Fasl II., containing a full list of the forms of Masdar or infinitive, fol. 220a. An appendix occupying foil. 222 — 248, with the heading Jl*i\ Ub l~>\ jA, is a full treatise on the conjugation of Arabic verbs, both regular and irregular, with paradigms. It is not due to Hubaish, but to one of his disciples, who says that his late master had not fully expounded that subject in his work entitled Tasrif i Kalam : jI Copyist : ^ a-*** For another copy see Uri, no. 1054. N N ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF TITLES. In this and in the following indexes the numerals refer to the numbers under which the MSS. are described. Works which are only incidentally mentioned are distinguished by figures of lighter type in the reference. 152. 161. Jlyin 114. 235 i., 236 ii. 101. 120. 55. 369. 374. 381. jV' 420 ii. .J, 280 ii., 281, 420 ii. 97. 280 hi., 281. 81-2. 364 ii. 264 v. 420 hi., 421 iii. 360. 20. 151. 13. 150. ( j^yohc 196 ix. iwl3 t *.-AXyU 147-8. 48. 197 i. 90. J*/ \3 378. QSJ 225—9, 232. ^ _v>, * 195 ii., 196 viii. ^13 _,jy 423. ^o\ 171. c)^ 56. 106. $ NN 2 276 ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF TITLES. 140-41. 63. 63. 52. ' jl**A 307 i. 53, 54. j ■■ 1 — 251, 246—8. 60, 61. s\a*» 28. 70. 353. 92. 369. jjj& J !*J& 93. cr?A^ ^L5 — 197 ii., 201 hi. 72. 12. 88. r J ~ 377, 70, 122. ' uW 80. sli J*S? 199 i. 37. t Sl*AA — 307 i. i ^ & A) 83 ii. AaJS (.LUIvo — 155, ii., v. l__A O.— -> 89. U' 37 6. u-a^-L a 49. i ?IaOj!\ — 252-3. s- . a. ^.?6 132. Ljsf 74. — 289-90. 424. JH ~ 375. i aAaU ifls£ 87. y* - 4. JU-IU 89. 103. ^ol«A 15. <3>M> 166 57. ^ — 84 ii. 71, 118. 221 i. (jAL*5\ &2s2 65. ijjA 6 — 22. *aa2 100 i. . A.IJJ — 5. »/jO 43. w ** 44. is^AS 423. L— ^ 353. 71. 98. .. .-. .*. s- /•- &) j+j+ iSl ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF TITLES. 277 110. yt>lL 77. &*b j>£Afc2>- 124, 171 390, 418. &3liu 83 hi. ij> bi 283. *Ai iJW 115. 143. 310 5. 188, 420 i. 419 xii. J3 L]] JUsy 141. 417 i. 190 . f A jSW 257 ii. 129. ^13 \ ,jL3 51. 421 v. yJllU AWX:- 77. 215. aHj X=»- 264 i. 84 i. jJI*3\ Hj_x> 264 iv. olw ,*'i 422 ii. 10. 86. •*-***>■ 400. bJj^)3 oyb 421 v. 76. &*>b .A \ edA-b 18. yjbi=»- 295 iv., 297. 387. 12j yjlaU HaE=^ 157. 193. jjb.'Q JU 258 ii., 259. j*r- pV 153. 187 . lu" , ° p 1 ?" j*W" 336. *. x.v=- &y^ 307 i. 396 . ^Lb 25-6. 289-90. 391-2. 5tAs>. V- 396. jty 3 oli*- 142. \ W- 87 . 399. V^j-^o - A.I>- 307 ii. 351. ^j\i- 237 ii. '^=- 314 i., 315. uD"**' -J ■£/*''**' 257 i. cAjJ3 Jtys- 352, 353 . CO O 346-7. 0 .b 154. c/#?" 225—9, 231. 278 ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF TITLES. 237 ii. J hH 00 CO t>l*£ ewli id 419. xis. 258 hi. ^ i &/cl5 id 105. 422 iii. 116. 261 ii. 34-5. ^ (As*- 318 i. tiljo l J\'j — 376. 3 U-J- ^ 211 i. i3 JL j 356. dj\d Li>- 239 i. ti^J ^ ji? ^ 255. j j~j>- i* - 239 ii. j\tO — 225—9. 330. 295. 211 in., 213, 224 iii., 234 m - Jy) — 422 hi. 306. J — 265 v., 266. 213 ii., 245 i. — 108-9. ^UjJ! jJ;> 312. j,U — 384-5. & — 146. 211 ii., iv., vn. JvS-' 0 cAjp\jj 280 hi., 281. 159. Jbj i 167. & 264 vi. 71. 191 m., 192, 421 iv. ?\\a.x.) jJ 191 iv. ^-clL' aAli" 16. 192 v., 194. — 1-*XaO 193. (_? ^ i *5 214. 304-5, 422 iv. (ii, 94. — 400. d^UU OlAjj 58. ioyuaM 375. 278. l*J \ &*0 23. \ kiU? ;A.>j 33. 36. 395. liSl* 3 ^ A^J 376. 156. ^ jfjL) 39, 71. 118-9. AjJ 64. •y^ 376. 376. su*» 196 ii. a^o13 289-90. 419 vii. \ A 7=S "D 376. 3. 419 ii., 422 l. jA^t ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF TITLES. 281 111. 122, 70. AoiL*> 163. 289-90. 289-90. i AAm) 156. M 1 90. 176. 313, 376, 419 xi. Jr - 214, 215 ii. jl*^ liljUtM jMi 10. 175. 302 ii. J bIjmO 195—9, 263. 201 ii., 188 ii. d-fcO 4. k&j*A 95-6. 73. f dc^\ c^AU." 0 257 i. 215 iv. J&\ ^ 174. &*U' 122. &ec\3 l) 317, 376. jbTj 236 i. 225— 9, 233. 117. 122. 127—8. 353. 0>/CO 131. 3 \jn 85. sT^ 99, w LjUD\ si,* 418 hi. sT^ 257. jil^ i' T H5 i\jo I 382-3. ’C 17. i)l *0 89. 235 iv., 236 iv. &<>0 255. ^y^)\ ^11 xo 74. 190. 257. r ^' j r ^ ) ' 376. (Jy ^l?** 419 xm. j*2ai 190. jL*o 167. ^Lx^o 163. O^AaM ^Vojc 235 vi. 163. ^.La*^ 24. 71. o o 2 83. 284 ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF TITLES. 89. 107. *3 1#® 107. 379. &)ji* 376. 71. 419 xx. 3 376. y*" j 41. 376. 100 i. cV>' **j 136-7. uyjUiN h>y> 42. iK b tiVp 89. eub ‘ *■-'> 130. ^ 187. 122. 149. ^s>lA 425. 123. 394. 264 hi. 85. &*b j_ji 75. 74. 85. jX+Zl* CjUjIj 343. yA»L» j &l)j 348-9. !»** j j*l { j 220 iv. A A- Lu)j 236 vi. &Aj iZsboj 364 i. &*b CL*l\±to 6. 376. L-Aa*-^ bMb 376. CuJ> 138. j*Ail cJia> 289-90. < ~b \ < 255. * ** ‘ "A? 1 »2*i ■‘° fr ' 396. t i "Ah 225 — 30, 376. 295, 305 ii. ^.laL nJL.ijb 215 iv., 382. 289-94. J l— 2**>y 353. J , » 200. cT’J'V ( 285 ) INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. Numerals in parenthesis are Hijrah dates. Coming after a man’s name they are precise or approximate obituary dates ; when following the title of a work, they relate to its composition. Other numerals are references to the Nos. of the Supplement. Muh. is short for Muhammad ; t. for ‘ takhallus,’ or poetical surname. SCHEME OF TRANSCRIPTION. Cj s, h, ^ kh, i S z,J zh, {ja s, {jo z, t, )b z, ^ c , ^gh, j k, j v, medial hamzali ’. Ibn ‘Abbad (385) 88. ‘Abbas I., 402, 417 ii. ‘Abbas II., 402. ‘Abbas Mirza, Vali-‘ahd, 121, 170, 403 2 . ‘Abdullah Ansari (481) 16 11 ., 108. ‘Abdullah Khan Uzbek, 411, 417 11 . ‘Abdullah Mirza, 121. ‘Abdullah B. Muh. Aka, t. Raunak. Iladlkat Amdnulldlii (1265) 129. ‘Abdullah B. Muh. ‘Ali, Lisan ul-Hakk, t. Mahram. Farhang i Khuddparasti (1277). ‘Abdullah B. Ni‘mat-ullah Shushtari (1173). Taz- kirah i Shushtariyyah, 98. ‘Abd ul-‘Ali Birjindi. Shark Blst Bab, 155 v. ‘Abd ul-Basit, Shaikh, 169. ‘Abd ul-Haslb, v. Muh. B. Sayyid Ahmad al- ‘Amili, 10. ‘Abd ul-Hayy, Khwajah, 353 11 . ‘Abd ul-Hayy Tafrislii, t. Sarkhwush (1131) 400. ‘Abd ul-Jalil B. ‘Abd ur-Rahman Maslhi (c. 1050) 162 11 . ‘Abd ul-Kadir (Muhyi ud-Din) 403 14. ‘Abd ul-Kadir Khan. Hishmat i Kashmir (1245) 86 . ‘Abd ul-Karim Kazvini. Jung (1126) 400. ‘Abd ul-Latlf Shushtari (1220). Tuhfat ul-Alam , 84 11 . ‘Abd ur- Rahim Kashani. Mir‘dt ul-Kasdn (1288) 99. ‘Abd ur-Rahim Khan (1036) 75. ‘Abd ur-Rahmi al-Musavi, t. Munsif. Badl ‘ ul~ Afkdr (1239) 378. ‘Abd ur-Rahman B. Muh. an-Naishaburi, 87. ‘Abd ur-Rashid, calligrapher, 408. ‘Abd ur-Razzak Lahiji, t. Fayyaz (c. 1060). Gauliar i Murad, 9. Bivan, 324. ‘Abd ur-Razzak B. Najaf Kuli (1243). Baslrat Ndmah, 63. Ma’dsir i Sultaniyyah, 68-9. Nigdristan i Bard, 123. Tajribat ul-Ahrdr, 132. ‘Abd ul-Yahhab B. ‘Ali Ashraf Sliirazi. NuJchbat ul-akhbdr (1257) 41. ‘Abd ul-Yahhab Isfahaui, t. Nashat (1244) 188 11 . Bivan, 362-3.— 118, 119, 120, 122-4, 132. ‘Abd ul-Vasi‘ Jabali (555). Bivan, 217.— 105 1 ., 107, 115. ‘Abdi, formerly Nuvidi (988). Bustdn i Khaydl, Khazd’in ul-MalaJcut , 307. 286 INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. Abshar Marghazi, 107. Abu ’l-‘Ala Ganjavi, 115. Abu ‘Ali Kalandar, 111. Abu *1 Baka. Musavi, 411. Abu Bakr B. Sa‘d, 190. Abu Dulaf, 201 x. Abu ’1-Faraj Runi (c. 500). Divan , 211 i. — 105, 107, 115, 190, 378. Abu ’1-Faraj Sistani, 107, 108 I. Abu ’1-Fath Busti, 106, 107. Abu ’1-Fath B. Sultan Husain (907) 268. Abu ’1-Fazl ‘Allami, 169 ir., iv. Abu ’1-Fazl Gulpaigiini, 15. Abu Hanifah, 107. Abu ’l-Hasan Balkbi, 106, 107. Abu ’l-Hasan Farahani, 219, 419 x. Abu ’l-Hasan Ghaffari. Gulshan i Murad, 66. Abu ’l-Hasan Jafani, 107. Abu ’l-Hasan B. Muh. Kazim Jajarmi. Akhldk ul-Auliya (1239) 360. Abu ’1-Kasim Beg Aivaglili. Majma' ul-Insha , 398. Abu ’1-Kasim Kazaruni, 108. Abu ’1-Muayyad, 107, 200. Abu ’1-Muhakkik, 107. Abu ’1-Muzaffar Tahir, 107. Abu Nasr Ahmad al-Kubavi. Ta’rikh i Bukhara, (522) 87. Abu Raja, 107. Abu Raja Ahmad B. ‘Abd us-samad ‘Abidi, 390. Abu Sa‘ld Abu ’1-Khair, 108, 116. Abu Salik, 107. Abu Sarakah, 107. Abu Tahir Tarasusi. Dardb Niimah, 384-5. Abu Talib al-Husaini. Tuzuk i Timitri (1047) 51. Abu Talib Khan Ftimad ud-Daulah, 417 ii. Abu Talib Tabrlzi (1221). Khuldsat ul-Afkur. Lubb us-Siyar, 116. Abu Turab Beg (1026). Divan, 318 I. — 108. Abu Yazld Bastami, 107, 108. Adab, 127. Ad lb, 127. Adlb Sabir (540). Divan, 239 n. — 105, 107, 115. ‘Adil, 123, 124. Aflatun, Mulla, 66. Afsar, 111, 120. Afshan, 127. Afzal ud-Dln Kirmani. ‘Ikd id-‘TJla (584) 90, 91. Agasi (Mirza) 412. Ahli Shirazi, or Turshlzi. Sihri Halal, 419 vn. — 108, 375, 378. Ahli Khurasani, 108. Ahmad or Ahmadi. Shahanshah Ndmah (738) 201 ii. Ahmad ‘Ali Hashimi. Maklizan ul-Ghard’ib (1218) 117. Ahmad ‘Ali Mirza, 121, 123. Ahmad ‘Allamah, 85. Ahmad B. Muh. Bahbahani. Mirdtul-Ahvdl (1225) 131. Ahmad Rumi (c. 720). Da/cd’ik ul-Ha/cd’ik, 18. Ahmad Shah, 411. Ahmadi, 111. Ahsan, 111. ‘Ajiz, 124. Ajri, 111. Aka Khan (Mirza) 412, 404. Akbar Padishah, 408, 411, 417 n. Akbar, Mirza ‘Ali Akbar, 124. Akhgar, 127. Akhtar, 124. ‘Ala ud-Daulah Simnani (736). Al-‘Urvah, 19. ‘Ala ud-Dln Husain Jahansuz (556) 390. ‘Alamgir, 403, 411. ‘Ali, 124, 127. ‘Ali B. Abu Talib, 124, 419 xix. ‘Ali ‘Adilshah, 411. ‘Ali B. Ahmad, 195. ‘Ali Akbar Shirazi, t. Bismil (c. 1280). Bakr ul- La’dli, 48.— 120, 123, 127, 412. ‘Ali Asghar Amin us-Sultan, 403 io. ‘Ali Asghar B. ‘Ali Akbar, t. Nayyir. Ziyd un- Nur (c. 1263) 368. ‘Ali Asghar B. Yusuf Kazvini (1109) 400. ‘Ali Hamadani, Sayyid (786). Aurad, 20. ‘Ali B. Husain Kashifi (939). Lata if ut-tavd’if, 100 m. INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. 287 ‘All Ibrahim Khan (1 208) 405. ‘Ali Kuli Beg Musavi, 412. ‘Ali Kuli Khan t. Valih (1169). Riydz ush-shu e ard, 112.-343-4. ‘Ali Kuli Mirza, 74, 121, 123, 412. ‘Ali Kushji (879). Shark Zij, 156. ‘Ali Khan, 121. ‘Ali B. Mahmud Husaini. Bazm-arai (1000) 106. c Ali Mardan Khan, 411. ‘Ali (Mir), calligrapher, 408. ‘Ali B. Muh. ‘Amili (1103) 400. ‘Ali Murad Khan Zand (1198) 352. ‘Ali Naki Kamara’i (1030). Divan, 320, 419 v. — 108. ‘Ali Rashti, 127. ‘Ali Riza Mirza, 121. ‘Ali Shah Mirza, 121. ‘Alishir, Mir, t. Nava’i (906). Majdlis un-Nafd’is, 104. — 375. Allahkuli, 111. Allahvirdi Mirza, 121, 123. Allahyar Khan, 123. Alvand Beg Ak-kuyunlu (907) 401 n. A‘ma, 127. ‘Am‘ak, 105, 107, 115. Amani (c. 1016). Divan, 312. — 111. Aman-ullali Khan, 129. ‘Amid Lunaki, 374. ‘Amil ud-Din Muh. Tahir. Divan (1298) 373. Amiu Ahmad Razi. Daft Iklim (1002) 138. Amina Mudakkik Yazdi, 376. Amir Beg, v. Mirza Beg, 58. Amir Khan, 111. ‘Andalib, 123, 124, 127. Anisi Shamlu. Mahmud u Aydz, 376. Anjum, 128. Anjuman, 127. ‘Anka, 127. Anvari (587). Divan, 211 y., 215 v., 218-20. — 105, 107, 115, 190, 374, 378-9, 419 xsr. ‘Arifi (853). Hell Ndmah, 283. — 286 7 . Arshad (c. 1084). Divan, 330. Arzu, Siraj ud-Din ‘Ali Khan (1169) 232. Asad, 111. Asadi, 105, 106-8, 115, 124. Asadi. Garshdsp Ndmah (458) 195 i., 196 i., 201 i., 202 . Asad-ullah Khan, 124, 412. Asaf, 111. Asaf Khan, 417 ii. Asaf ud-Daulah (1212) 81-2, 408. Asafi, 128, 375. Asafjah, 411. Asalat Khan, 411. Asar, Shafi‘a, 376. ‘Ashik (1181). Divan, 340-41.— 132. Ashki (972). Divan, 306. Ashna, 111. Ashraf, of Azarbaijan, 123-4. Ashraf Samarkandi (854) 286 3 . — 107, 115. Ashraf Kashani, 107. Ashuftah, 128. Asir, 111. — 123-4. Asir Aklisikati, 107, 115. Asir Aumani (665). Divan, 239 i. — 107, 115. Asiri, 132. ‘Asjadi, 106, 108, 115. Aslam, v. Badi‘ uz-zaman Abu ’l-Kasim, 85. ‘Ata-ullah B. Mahmud (929) 191 hi., 192, 421 iv. ‘Atiki (744). Divan, 260. ‘Attar, Farid ud-Din (627). Kulliyat, 235-7. — 107, 115, 376. ‘Aufi, Muh. Jdmi‘ ul-Hikdydt (625) 391-2. Auhad ud-Din Gurganji, 107. Auhad ud-Din Kirmani, 240. Auhad ud-Din Mamarghi, 107. Auhadi (738). Divan, Jam i Jam, Dali Ndmah, 258-9.— Ill, 115. Aumani, Asir ud-Din (665). Divan, 239. — 107, 115. Azad, 111.-123-4. Azad, Mir Ghulam ‘Ali (or rather Muh. Mukirn of Kashmir, who died A.H. 1150; v. Subh i Gulshan, p. 6, and the Persian Catalogue, p. 1092a). Continuation of Hamlali i Haidari, 336. Azari (866) 201 ill.— 107. Azhari, 106. 288 INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. Azhari, 111. ‘Aziz, 123. ‘Aziz-ullah B. Asad-ullah. Durr i Makniin (1151) 21 . ‘Aziz-ullah Zahidi. Bauzat ul- { Ashikin (820) 278. Azraki (526,. Divan, 211 III., 213 I., 224 ill., 234 m.— 105, 107, 108, 115, 190. ‘Azud ud-Daulah Sultan Ahmad. Ta’rikli i ‘Azudi (1304) 72. Azur, v. Lutf ‘Ali Beg. Bab, ‘Ali Muh. Shirazi (1266). Baydn i Farsi, 12. Babar. Vdki'dt i Babari, 75. Ibn Babavaih (321). Kissah i Bilauhar , 380, 36. — 23. Badi‘ Tabrizi, v. Minuchihr. Badi‘ ud-Din Abu ’l-Kasim Muh. Aslaru. Gauhar i ‘ Alam (c. 1200), 85, 86. Badi‘ Muh. Yazdi. A collection of Masnavis (1170) 376. Badi‘ uz-Zaman Rashid Khan (1107). Lata if ul- Alchbar , 78. Badibi, 107, 390. Baha Imami, 412. Baha ud-Din al-Amili (1030). Miftdh ul-Falah, 8. Nan u Halva, 376. Shir u Shakar, 419 ix. — 400, 403 is. Baha ud-Din Marghinani, 107. Baha ud-Din B. Sahibkiran, 107. Baha ud-Din Zanjani, 107. Baha-ullah, Husain ‘Ali (1309). Letters, 13-14, 403 is. Bahadur Shah, 411. Babar, Muh. ‘Ali, 127-8. Bahjat, 127. Bahman Mirza (c. 1300). Tazkirah i Muhammad- shdhi, 124. — 121, 171, 402 xxvii. Bah ram Mirza, 121. Baihaki, Abu ’1-Hasan ‘Ali. Ta’rikh i Baihak (563) 89. Baisunghar, Mirza (837) 196. Baiza, 123. Bakhtiyari, 200. Baki, 120, 124. Bandah, Muh. Razi (1223). Zinat ut-Tavdrikli . — 120, 123-4. Baridi Padishah, 411. Barkyaruk, 197 n. Basir, 127. Bayani, ‘Abdullah Marvarid (922) 268. Bazil (1124). Hamlah i Haidari , 336. Bazmi, 118. Bidarbakht, 411. Bidil, ‘Abd ul-Kadir (1133) 338. Bidil, Muh. Rahim, 120, 123-4, 127. Bijai Singh, Rajah, 411. Bina’i, 108, 115, 375. Binava, 120, 124. Bishan La‘l, t. Nazir. Kaisari Namah (1297) 372. Bismil, ‘Ali Akbar (c. 1280) 48.— 120, 123, 127, 412. Burhani, 107. Buzurg, Mirza, 120, 122-4. Castries (Marechal de) 407. Chakar, 123, 127. Chand Bibi, 411. Dakiki, 190. Dara, 120, 123-4. Dara-shikuh, 411. Darvish, 132. Darvizah Ningarhari. Tazkirat ul-Abrar (1021) 5. Darya, 127. Da’ud Mustaufi (1133) 400. Da’ud Mutavalli, 376. Da’ud Pasha, 356. Daulat, 119-20, 123-4. Dava’i, 106. Davari, 370. Din Muhammad (1006) 104. Diyanat Khan, 162. Durri Shushtari (c. 1241) 111. Efendi, 124. Elchi i Nizamsbah, v. Khwurshah B. Kubad, 32. Faiz, v. Muh. Muhsin B. Murtaza. Faizi, 108, 127. Fakhr ud-Din B. Ahmad Rudbari. Kanz ul-Hidd- yah (1253) 161. Fakhr ud-Din Ibrahim (825) 88. INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. 289 Fakhr ud-Din Mas'iid (Malik) 390. Fakhr ud-Din Razi (606). Jdmi‘ ul-'TJlum, 142. Hada’ik ul-Anvdr, 143. Fakhri B. Muh. Amiri. Tuhfat ul-IIabib (c. 930) 375. Fakir ‘Abbasi (1199). Vdlih u Sultan , 343. Falaki, 105, 115, 374. Farm, 127. Faraj-ullah Shusbtari (c. 1080). Divan, 327. Fardi, 124. Farhad Mirza (1305). Nisdb Ingilisi, 187. — 418 n., 400. Farhang, Abu ’1-Kasim, 370. Farid ud-Din Ahval (c. 680). Divan, 213 in. — 115. Faris. Divan (bef. 1087) 271 iv. Farrukh, Muh. Hasan Khan (1237). Divan, 355. — 119, 122-3. Farrukhi (429). Divan, 203-4. — 105 i., 106, 108 i., 115, 190, 390. Fasihi, 108. Fath ‘Ali Khan, t. Sabfi, 66, 118-20, 122, 124, 127, 188 ii., 379. Fath ‘Ali Shah, t. Khfikan, 118-124, 188 ii., 378, 402 xxv. Fath-ullah Khan, 411. Fath-ullah Mirza, 121. Fauki. Farhad u Shirin, 376, 419 iv. Fayyaz, v. ‘Abd ur-Razzak Lahiji, 324. Fazl-ullah Kazvini (c. 740). Works, 257. — 107. Fazl-ullah Shirazi, t. Khavari. Ta'rikh i Zulkar- nain (1251)71. Divan, 358.— 120, 123, 124, 127, 379. Fazl-ullah B. Shaikh ul-Muluk. Zigd ul- ( Arifin (1272) 102. Fida, 127. Fighani (925). Divan, 258 iv. — 108. Fikrat, 120, 123-4. Fili, 127. Firdausi. Shdhndmah, 195-9, 263. Yusuf u Ztilai- khd, 200.— 106-8, 115, 390. Firibi, 132. Firishtah (c. 1033). Dustur ul-Atibba, 160. Furiigh, 127. Furughi, 403 22 . Fuzuli (963). Rind u Zdhid, Divan, 304-5, 422 iv. Laili Majniin, 261 1 . Husn u ‘Ishk, 422 11 . Gha’ib, 127. Ghalib, 132. Ghamami. Divan (1268) 366. Ghaugha, 127. Ghaza’iri, 108 1 ., 190. Ghazal, 127. Ghazali, 128. Gliiyas ud-Din (c. 750) 162 v. Ghiyas ud-Din Mansur (948). Aklildk i Mansuri, 150. Ghulam Basit. Ta’rikh Hamdlik i Hind (1196) 83 11 . Ghulam Jilani Rampuri. Jangnamah (c. 1213) 351. Ghulam Muhammad Khan (c. 1213) 351. Gulandam (c. 791) 267, 271. Hadi Sabzavari, Mulla (1295) 403 21 . Hafiz (791). Divan, 267-75.— 115, 374, 417. Hafiz i Abru (834). Zubdat ut-Tavdrikh , 27. — 423. Hafiz Tanish. Sharafndmah i Shdhi (997) 73. Hafiz ud-Din Ahmad. Inscriptions of Delhi (1232) 415. Haidar Razi. Ta'rikh (1028) 33. Haidar Kuli Mirza, t. Khavar. Divan (1238) 359. Mizdn i Tabd'i 1 (1242) 379.— 120, 123. Haidar Tuniyani, 162 iv. Hairati (961). Kitdb i Midjizdt, 303. Hajat, 132. Hajib, 120, 123-4. Hakim, Muh. Yusuf, 127. Hakim, Mahmud (1268) 370. Hali, 108, 123. Hali, ‘Abdullah Karbala’i (1090) 400. Halimi. Lughat, 164-5. Hamd-ullah Mustaufi. Zqfar Hamah (735) 263. Nuzhat ul-Kulub (740) 136-7. Hamgar, v. Majd ud-Din Hamgar. Hamid Kalandar, 374. Hamid Khan, 411. Hamid ud-Din Balkhi, 107. Hamid ud-Din. Mir at ul-Muhakkikin, 418 m. Harif, 119, 124. 290 INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. Harun (c. 700). Bivan, 254. Hasan Ali Mirza, 121. Hasan, Amir (727) 286 4, 107. Hasan Beg Rumlu. Ahsan utAavdrikh (985) 55. Hasan Chelebi, t. Shaida. Burrat ut-taj (1237) 356. Hasan Ghaznavi (565). Bivan, 215 vi. — 105, 107, 115, 190. Hasan B. Lutf-ullah Tihrani. Maikhanah (1040) 107. Hasan, Mulla, 348 hi., 123-4. Hasan Mutakalliin, 107. Hasan Yazdi, t. Vahib, 376. Hasrat, 120, 123-4. Hastings (Warren), 405. Hatif, 132, 378-9. Hatifi (927). Khamsah, 295, 305 n.— 108, 275. Hayat, 128. Hazik Gilani (1068). Bivan, 325. Hidayat, v. Riza Kuli Khan. Hidayat-ullali B. Mirza Ahmad (1253) 161. Hijran, 128. Hijri, 132, 378. Hilal, 127. Hilali (935). Sifdt vl-‘Ashikin. Shah u Barvish, 302.— 108, 375. Himmatyar Khan (1204) 411. Ibn Hindushah, v. Muh. B. Hindushah, 189. Hishmat, 120, 123. Ilubaish B. Ibrahim Tifllsi. Kdnun ul-Adab, 425. Huma, v. Muh. Sadik Marvazi, 118. Humarn, 374-5. Humayun Isfahani, 378. Humayun Mirza, 121, 123. Humayim Padishah, 411, 417 ii. Hurmuz Mirza, 121. H usaiu, 124. Husain, of Sfiri, 120. Husain ‘Akili Rustamdari. Biydz ul-Ahrdr (979) 144. Husain Ali Mirza (1251) 45, 120, 121. Husain B. Ghiyas ud-Din. Ihyd ul-Mvluk (.1028) 97. Khair ul-Baydn (1035) 108-9. Husain Hamadani (1299). Ta’rihh i Jadid, 15. Husain Kashifi (910). Anvar i Suhaili, 381. Mavdhib ‘Aliyyah, 1. Luhh i Lubab i Ma'navi, 241-2. Husain Khwansari, Aka, 376. Husain B. Muh., Mir. Risdlah i Mu’amma, 192 v., 194. Husain Shirazi Karbala’i. Ta’rikh i Ahmad Sliah (1305) 74. Husaini Sadat, 115. Husam ud-Din Ali B. Mas'ud (Malik) 390. Husam ud-Din Bukhari, 107. Husam ud-Din Nakhshabi, 107. Ibrahim Hamadani, 417 ii. Ibrahim Khan, 123. Ibrahim Shah Afshar, 402 xyiii. Ibnihim Sultan B. Shahmalik, 149. Ibrahim Sultan B. Shahrukh, 193. Idraki, 108. Ima, Isma'il (1132) 400. ( Imad (Mir) 408. Ibn ‘Imad (800). Bah Ndmah, 348 n. ‘Imad ud-Daulah, 412. ‘Imad ud-Din B. Kasir (774) 43. Gmadi, 105 i., 115, 190. Imami (686). Bivan, 213 ii., iv., 245 I. — 107, 115. Imamvirdi Mirza, 120-1, 123-4. Gnayat Khan Rasikh, 76. Gnayat-ullah B. Muhibb Ali. Tatimmah i Akbar- ndmah, 76. Iraj Mirza, 121. Graki, Fakhr ud-Din, 374. Ibn Isfandiyar. Ta'rikh i Tabaristan (613) 92. Ishrak, 123. Gshrat, 120, 123. Iskandar Munslii. ‘ Alam-arai ‘Abbasi, 59. Isma‘il Mirza, 121. Isxnabl, Shah, 401 in. Gsmat Bukhari (840). Bivan , 282. — 108. Al-Isnawi, 89. Istighna, 111. Ptimad us-Saltanah Mirza Muh. Hasan, 72. 1‘tizad us-Saltanah, v. Ali Kuli Mirza, 74. INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. 291 'Izzat, 120, 123. 'Izzat-ullah. Travels (1228) 133. Ja'far Beg, Asaf Khan (1021). Bivan, 314 n. Khusrau Shinn, 314 i., 315. Ja'far Ja'fari. Shark ul-Aurdd, 20. Ja'far Khan Zand, 402 xxn. Ja'fari, 107. Jahan, 123. Jahangir. Jahangir Ncimah, 77. — 408, 417 n. Jahanshah Mirza, 121, 123. Jaisingh Savai, 411. Jajarmi, Badr ud-Din, 107. Ibn Jajarmi, 107. Jalal ud-Din Mirza, Ihtisham ul-Mulk, 99. Jalal ud-Din Rumi (672). Masnavi, 240-1. Bivan, 243-4.— 18, 115. Jalal Munajjim. Ta’rikh i Shah ‘Albas (1020) 57. Jamal ud-Din Ashhari, 107. Jamal ud-Din Husain Inju. Farhang i Jahdngiri, (1017) 168. Jamal ud-Din Isfahani (588). Bivan, 224 iv. — 115. Jamal ud-Din Khwiinsari (1125). Miftdh ul-Faldh, 8.— 400. Jamal ud-Din Samarkandi, 107. Jamali Mihrijirdi. Bahman Ndmah (c. 502) 201 hi. Jami (898). Bivan, 287-8. Haft Aurang, 289-94. Treatise on rhyme, 192 iv. Lavd’ih, 419 I. — 107, 108, 275, 286. Jani, Haji Mirza (1268) 15. Jansipar Khan, 411. Jaukari Zargar, 107. Javad Karbala’ i (c. 1301) 15. Javahir Rakam, 408. Ka’ani (1270). Bivan, 367. — 127, 348 iv. Kabil, 123-4. Kadiri, 107. Kahi, Kasim, 417 n. Kaika’us B. Iskandar. Kdbus Ndmah (475) 145. Kaika’us Mirza, 121. Kaikkusrau Mirza, 121. Kaikubad Mirza, 121. Kalim, 376, 417 n., 419 x. Kamal Isfahani (635) 107, 115, 374. Kamal Kkujandi (803). Bivan, 275-6. — 286, 420 ii. Kamal ud-Din Husain Kkwiirazmi (833). Nasihat- ndmah i Shdhi, 149. Kamal ud-Din Husain Tabib (c. 990) 159. Kami, 108, 128. Karim Khan Zand, 412, 402 xx., xxi. Kaskif, v. Muh. Sharif, 396. Kasim 'Ali Khan, Navvab, 409. Kasim ul- Anvar (837). Bivan, 280-81. Anis ul- ‘ Arif in, 280 n. Risdlat ul-Amdnah, 280 hi. — 275. Kasim B. Dust 'Ali Bukhari (c. 1000). Kashf ul- Autdr, 162 iv. Kasim Junabadi, 106. Kfisim 'Ali Khan, Stowe, Or. 18. Kataran (c. 450). Bivan, 204 hi., 207-8, 245 n. — 105, 107, 115, 374. Katibi (838) 275. Katrak, Mirza 'Abd ul-Vahhab. Bivan (1235) 357.— 127. Kaukab, 120, 123-4, 127. Kausar, 123-4. Kayumars Mirza, 121. Kazvini (682). ‘ Ajd’ib ul-Makhlukdt, 135. Kkadim, Baba Kasim, 376. Khadim, of Isfahan, 128. Kkadim, Sayyid Isma'il of Kum, 127. Khakan, v. Fath ‘Ali Shall. Khakani. Tulifat vX-Irdkain, 221. Bivan, 221 n. — 105, 107, 115, 190, 374, 379. Khalid, Shams ud-DlD, 107. Khalil Kazvini (1089) 400. Khan Ahmad of Gilan, 106. Khandauran (1167) 51. Ibn Khatib, 107. Kkavar, v. Haidar Kali Mirza. Khavar, Mahmud Khan, 120, 123, 127. Khavari, v. Fazl-ullah Shirazi, 71. Khavari, Ma'sum, 118, 119. Khavari, Muh. Bakir, 127. Khurram, 124, 127. Khusrau Dihlavi, Amir (725). Bivan, 220 iv. 292 INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. Khamsah, 255. Kiran us-Sa ( dain, 256. — 107, 275, 376. Kkusrau Khfiu (1250) 129. Kkusrau Khan Kirmani, 412. Kkusravi, Muh. Kuli Mirza, 120, 121, 123, 124, 379. Al-Khuwari, ‘Ali B. ‘Abi Salih, 89. Kkwaju (c. 750). Divan, 262. — 196 n., 374. Kh wand-amir (941) . Ma’ dsir id-Muluk , 29. Khula- sat ul-Akhbdr , 30. Habib us-Siyar, 31. Khwurshah B. Kubad, Elchi e Nizamshah (972). T Arikh, 32. Khwuskhiilchand. Ta’rikh i Muhammadshahi, 37. Kisa’i, 106, 108, 115. Kivarn ud-Din Nizam ul-Mulk (892) 101. Krusinski. Afghan invasion, 63. Kuchak, Sayvid (c. 1200). Divan, 345. Kudrat, 128. Kudsi (1056). Divan, 323. Kulii, ‘Ali Baba (442). Divan, 271 il. Kummi, Hasan B. Muh, Kitdb Kumm (378) 88. Kummi, Hasan B. al-Hasan (825) 88. Kushairi, ‘Abd ul-Karim (465). Risdlah, 16. Kutb ud-Din Bakktiyar Kaki (633) 238. Kutubshah, Muh., 146, 237. Lami‘i (c. 550). Divan, 212 u. — 105, 115. Lisan ul-Hakk, v. ‘Abdullah B. Muh. ‘Ali, 371. Lisani, 108. Lut.f ‘Ali Beg, t. Azur (1195). Atashlcadali, 114. Madhush, 379. Maftun, ‘Abd ur-Razzak, 118, 120, 124. Maghribi (809). Divan, 111 I. Malid Auliya, 403 7 . Mahdi, Mirza. Ta’rikh i Nddiri, 65. Sangldkh, 176. Mahjub. 127. Mahjur, 127. Mahmud Khan, Malik ush-Sliu‘ai'a, 412. Mahmud B. Khwandamir, Hist, of Shah Ismd'il and Tahmdsp (955-57) 53. Mahmud Mirza. Ta’rikh i Sdhibkirdni (1248) 70. Gulshan i Mahmud (1236) 121. Safinat ul- Malimud (1240) 122. Dayan ul-Mahmud (1240) 377. Mahmud, ul-Lughah, 174. — 120, 123-4. Mahmud B. Muh. al-Iji, called Najib, Hist, of Muh. (c. 850) 43. Mahmud Shihabi, 411. Mahram, v. ‘Abdullah B. Muh. ‘Ali, 371. Mahram, Muh. ‘Ali, 127. Mahram, Aka Husain ‘Ali, 123. Mahrum, 120. Mail, 118, 120, 123-4. Maimandi, 107. Majd ud-Din Hamgar (686). Bubd c is, 211 n., iv., vn. — 115. Majd ud-DinMuh. Majdi. Zinatul-Majdlis(1004!)39o. Majnun, 127. Majzub (1093). Divan, 331. Majzub ‘Ali Shah, 387. Maktabi (c. 900). Laili u Majnun, 298-9. — 108. Makturn, 128. Malik Kasim Mirza, 121, 124. Malik Kummi, 108. Malik, Muh. Mahdi, 128. Malik Mansur, 121. Al-Malik al-Mujahid Ali (764) 161. Manakji Limji (c. 1308) 15, 42, 99. Mansur, 120, 123-4. Manzar, 127. Manzur, 120, 123. Marvarid, ‘Abdullah, t. Bayani (922) 268. Marzaban B. Rustam. Marzabdn Namah, 382-3. Maskrab, 127. Mashriki, 107-8. Maskriki, Shams. Divan, 211 n. Masih, Rukn ud-Din Kashi (1066) 108, 376. Masilj uz-Zaman (1061) 162 n. Mas‘ud i Sa ! d, 105, 107, 108, 115, 190. Matlab, Mirza, 412. Mazhar, 128. Mazlam, 127. Mihri, 376. Mijmar, Sayyid Hasan, 107. Mijmar, Sayyid Husain (1225). A ulliyat, 354. — 118-19, 120, 123-4, 379. Minuchihr, Badi‘ Tabrizi. Al-Ihyd fil-Mu‘amma (c. 800) 420 ii. INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. 293 Minuchihr Khan (1263) 127. Minuchihr Mirza, 121. Minuchikri (432). Divan, 206, 212 v., 2244.— 105, 107-8, 115, 190, 374. Mir Ahmad Khan, 411. Mir ‘Alam. Hadikat ul-‘Alam, 84 i. Mir Jumlah, 411. Mlrak Nakkash. Divan (1053) 322. Mlram Siyah (c. 960). Divan, 353 ir. Mirza Beg B. Hasan. Rauzat us-Safaviyyah (1038) 58. Miskln, 127. Mu’ayyad Nasafi, 107. Mubariz Khan, 411. Mughls Hansavi, 374. Muh. B. ‘Abd ul-Fattah Tanakabuni (1124) 400. Muh. f Abd ur-Rahman B. Rushan Khan, 74. Muh. ‘Ali, t. Bakar. Madd’ih Mvitamadiyyah (1059- 1063) 127-8. Muh. ‘Ali B. Iskandar Shlrvani. Hakikat ul- Hakd’ik (1252) 387. Muh. c Ali Khan Shirazi (1210) 66. Muh. f Ali Mirza, t. Daulat, 119-21, 123. Muh. Amin Mirza, 121. Muh. Amin Vakari. Guldastah i Andishah (c. 1090) 399. Muh. B. Amir Fazl-ullah, 423. Muh. A'zam Dldahmari, 85. Muh. Bakir B. Ghazi Kazvlni (1080) 400. Muh. Bakir Majlisi (1110). Zu’idah Zad ul-Ma'ad, 11. Tazlcirat ul-A'immah, 44. Hilyat ul- Muttakin, 153. — 380, 400. Muh. B. Da’ud Skadiyabadi. Miftah ul-Fuzald (873) 163. Muh. Fazil, t. Ravi (1252). Anjuman i Khdkdn, 120.-123-4. Muh. Hadi B. Muh. Salih Mazandarani (1088) 400. Muh. Haskim. Zivar i Al i Da ud (1226) 64. Muh. Hasan B. Ma ( sum Kazvlni (c. 1250). Riyaz ush- Shahadah, 45. Muh. B. Ilindushak. Dustur ul-Kdtib, 189. — 167. Muh. Ilusain, Adib, 212 v. Muh. Husain Mirza, t. Hishmat, 123. Muh. Husain B. Salih Mazandarani (1088) 400. Muh. Husain Tafrishi, 107. Muh. Ibrahim Naslrl. Dastur i Skahriydrdn (1110) 62. Muh. B. Jalai Rizavi (1028) 162 i. Muh. Jiiibari, Khwajah, 73. Muh. Karim B. Mahdi Iyuli. Farhang i Muham - madshdhi (c. 1250) 171. Muh. Kasim Khan Ivajar, 140. Muh. Kasim Khan, t. Shaukat, 120, 123, 127. Muh Kazim Valili, 403 is. Muh. Khan Kajar, 412, 403 s. Muh. Khan (Mirza), 127. Muh. Khan (Sharaf ud-Dln Ughli) (955) 53. Muh. B. Kivam Balkhi, 233. Muh. Kuli Kajar. Luhb ul-Lubdb (1097) 38. Muh. Kuli Mirza, v. Khusravi. Muh. Latlf. Mir’dt ul-Hind, 83. Muh. Mahdi Ka’ini, t. Hayat, 128. Muh. Mahdi Mirza, 121. Muh. B. Mansur. Javdltir Ndmah, 158. Muh. B. Mas'ud MasRidi. Jahdn Danish (643) 154. Muh. Ma'sum Kazvlni (1091) 400. Muh. B. Muh. Darabi. Latifali i Ghaibi (1087) 417 i. Muh. Muhsin B. Murtaza, t. Faiz (1091) 400. Muh. Muhsin Mustaufi. Znbdat ut-Tavdrikh (1154) 36. Muh. Muhsin Savi (1080) 400. Muh. B. Murtaza Hadi (1096) 400. Muh. B. Mu'tamad Khan, 76. Muh. Nasir Tabrlzi, 403 n. Muh. Razi Tabrlzi, t. Bandah (1223). Zinat ut - tavdrikh, 39.— 120, 123-24. Muh. Riza Mirza, t. Afsar, 120-21, 139. Muh. Sa‘d, t. Gbalib. Shark i Shdfiyah, 175. Muh. Sadik Marvazi, t. Huma. Zinat ul- Madd’ih (1223) 118-19.— 71, 120, 214, 127, 403 is. Muh. Sadik Musavi, t. Nami (1204). Khusrau Shirin, 346-7. Vdm'ik u ‘ Azrd , 348-9. Muh. Salih Kazvlni, t. Raughani, 400. Muh. B. Sayyid Ahmad Amili, ‘Abd ul-Haslb. Ta/cdis ul-Anbiyd, 10. Q Ci 294 INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. Muh. Shah o£ India, 411. Muh. Shah Kajar, 387, 402 xxvii., 403 3,4. Muh. Shah Saljuk, 201 hi. Muh. Sharif, t. Kaskif. Sirdj ul-Munlr (1030) 419 ii., 422 i. Khazdn u Bahar (1060) 396. Muh. Tahir Nasrabadi. Tazkirah (1083) 110. Muh. Taki Majlisi (1070). Lavtimi ‘, 23. Muh. Taki Mirza, t. Shaukat, 120, 121, 123. Muh. Vali Mirza, 121. Muh. Zaman Khan, 417 n. Muh. B. Zufar. Ta’rikh i Bukhara (574) 87. Muhit, Ma'surn, 120. Muhyi. Futuh id-Haramain, 301. — 275. Mu‘In Yazdi. Mavdhib i Ildhi, 50. Mu‘in Zamji Asfizari. Bauzdt ul-Janndt (897) 94. Mu‘m ud-Dln Skahristani, 107. Mu‘ini Juvaini. Nigaristdn, 394. Mu‘izzi, 105, 107, 108, 115, 190, 374, 379, 390. Mujlr Bailakani, 107, 115, 190. Mu‘jiz-Kalam, 411. Mukktari (554). Divan, 211 vi., 215 yu., 216. — 105, 107, 115, 190. Mulhimi, 108. Mumtaz Mahall (1040) 413. Munis, 120, 123. Munshi, 127. Munsif. Badi‘ ul-Afkdr (1239) 378. Munsif, Muh. Isma‘Il (1060) 396. Murtaza ‘Alain ul-Huda (c. 658). Tabsirat ul- ‘Avdm, 7. Murtaza Kuli Khan Shamlu, 400. Murtaza B. Muh. Mu'miu, 400. Musa B. Ayyub Nasrapuri. Shir' at ul-Islam, 4. Mushfiki, 108. Mushir, 120. Mushkln-Kalam, 411. Mushtak, 132. MuTamad Khan, 76 II. Mutf, 127. Muvali. Divan (850) 285 in. Muzaffar, t. Shifa’i (963). Akldak i Shifd’i, 151. Muzaffar ud-Dln Mirza, Yali-‘ahd, 412. Muznib, 124. Nabil, Mirza Muh., 12. Nadim, ‘Ali Akbar, 127. Nadlrn, Muh. of Barfurush (1241). Mufarrih ul- Kuluh, 397.— 120, 123. Nadir Shah, 402 xvi., xvn. Naghmah, 127. Nahlias Bazi, 107. An-Naishaburi al-IIakim (405) 89. Najabat Khan, 411. Najat, Mir (c. 1126). Gul i Kushti, 337, 376. Najib, v. Mahmud B. Muh. 43. Najlb Jurpadakani (625). Divan, 234 i. — 108 i. Najm ud-Dln Dayali (654). Mirsdd ul-'Ibdd, 17. Najm ud-Dln Kubra. Si/at ul-dddb, 154. — 108. Nami, v. Muh. Sadik Musavi, 346. Narshakhi (348). Ta’rikh i Bukhara, 87. Nashat, v. ‘Abd ul-Vahhab Isfahani, 188 ii. Naskati, 119, 120, 123, 127. Naslb, J24, 132. Naslbi, 108. Nasih B. Zafar, 215 iv. Nasir Adlb, 107. Nasir ‘Ali (1108) 169, 376. Nasir Hamadani (1030). Divan, 318 n. — 376, 417 n. Nasir Jang, 411. Nasir i Kliusrau (481). Divan, 209-10. — 105, 107, 115, 419 xv. Nasir ud-Dln Shah, 412, 402 xxvm.-xxxi., 403 5,6. Nasir ud-Dln Tusi (672). Akldak i Ndsiri, 147-8. Blst Bab, 155 n. Tansuk Ndmali, 157.- — 107. Naslri, v. Muh. Ibrahim, 62. Nasr-ullak, 124. Ibn Nasuh, 111. Natik, 119, 127. Nau'i. Suz u Gudaz, 313, 376, 419 x. — 108, 376. Nauras, Muh. Husain (c. 1100). Divan, 333. Nava, Darvlsk Ilusain. Tazkirah (c. 1253) 115. — 124. Nava’i, v. ‘Allshir. .Nava’i, Muh. Taki, 123. Nayyir, v. ‘Ali Asgliar, 368. Nazr ‘Ali Mirza, 123-4. INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. 295 Nazir, v. Bishan La'l, 372. Naziri (1022). Divan, 316. — 108. Ni'mat-ullak Yali (834). Divan, 279. Ni'mat-ullak Yazdi, 159. Niyazi, 132. Nizam Dast i Ghaib (1029). Divan, 319. Nizami ‘Ariizi. Ghahdr Makalah (552-6) 390, 418. Nizami Ganjavi (c. 610). Khamsah, 225-9. — 107, 115, 374. Nujumi Haravi, 56. Nur ud-Din Razi, 107. Nur ud-Din Vali, 85. Nuri, Nur ud-Din Isfakani (1000). Divan, 224 v., 422 vi. Nurjakan Bigam, 411. Nusrat, Sultan Husain, 120, 123. Nusrat ud-Din Atabak, 257. Nuvidi, v. Abdi. Partav, f Ali Riza, 127. Parvanah, Muh. Sadik, 120, 127. Pindar Razi, 108 I. Pur Baba, 107. Pur Hasan, 107. Rabib ud-Din Abu ’l-Kasim Harun (c. 610) 382. Rafi‘ ud-Din Ibrahim Skirazi. Tazkirat ul-Muluk (c. 1020) 83 hi. RafY ud-Din Lunbani (603). Divan, 239 iv. — 107. Rati' ud-Din Va'iz (c. 1105). Abvdb ul-Jinan, 152. Divan, 334. — 400. Rafi‘ i Naishapiiri, 107, 111. Rafik (1212). Divan, 349.— 132. Ragliib Isfakani (c. 500). ZarVah , 146. Rahim, 'Ali Beg, 412. Rakim, Sa‘d ud-Diu Muh. (c. 1090). Divan, 332. Rakkskan, 128. Ram Mohan Rai (1249). Tahfat ul-Muvahhidin , 22 . Ramzi Isfahani, 106. Ranvar Singh, 411. Rashid Vat. vat (578). Hadd’i/c us-Sihr, 188, 420 i. Divan, 212 iv., 234 n. On metre, 191 ii. — 105, 107, 115, 190, 379. Rashid ud-Din Fazl-ullah (718). Jami 1 ut-tavarikh, 25-6. Raslndi Samarkandi, 107. Raunak, v. ‘Abdullah B. Muh. Aka, 129. Raunak, Muh. Hashim, 127. Ravi, v. Muh. Fazil, 120. Razi Artimani, 376. Razi B. Mirza Muh. SkafF, 118-19. Razi ud-Din Kkaskskab, 107. Razi ud-Din Muh. B. Hasan (1096) 400. Razi ud-Din Naishapiiri, 107, 115. Redhouse. Thesaurus, 177-86. Revari (Rajah of), 134. Rif‘at, Fath-ullah, 127. Riyazi Samarkandi (884). Divan, 285 n. — 275. Riza B. Razi Tabrizi, 124. Riza Kuli of Hamadan, 127. Riza Kuli Khan, t. Hidayat (1288). Nizhdd Ndmali, 42. Majma c ul-Fusahd, 125. lliyaz ul- Arif in, 126. Miftdh ul - Kunuz, 221 n. Hidayat Ndmali, 364 i. Anis ul- Ashikin, 364 n. Divan, 365.-93, 212 v., 412. Rudagi, 106, 107, 108, 115, 204 hi., 390. Ruh-ullah Khan, 411. Rfdii, 107. Ru’i, 106. Rukn ud-Din Kashi, v. Masih. Rushan, 127. Ruskan-kalam, 411. Sa'adat-ullah Khan, 411. Saba, v. Fath ‘Ali Khan. Sabahi, Sulaiman, 118, 132, 379. Sabur, Ahmad, 118-120, 123-4. Sa‘d al-Yaravini. Marzabdn Ndmali (c. 610) 382-3. Sa‘d ud-Din Sa‘id, 107. Sa‘d-ullah Ivhan, 411. Sa‘d ud-Din Shushtari, 107. Sa'di (690). Kulliyydt, 246-8. Oulistdn, 249-50. Bustdn, 251. Hand Namah, 252-3. — 115, 374. Sadr ud-Diu Muh. Ivazvini (1080) 400. Sadr ud-Diu Muh. Shirazi (1050) 417 n., 123. Sadr ud-Din Tabrizi. Farhang i ‘ Abbasi (1225) 170. 296 INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. Safa, 'Abd ul-Vasi', 127- Safa’i, Ahmad Naraki, 123. Safari, Mulla Muh., 127. Safi, Ahmad of Narak, 124, 132. Safi, Shah, 402 vi. Sagkar, Muh. of Shiraz, 124. Saghar, Muh. Ibrahim of Isfahan, 127. Sahab, Sayyid Muh., 118-20, 123-4, 379. Sahba, Aka Muh. Taki, 132. Sahib, daughter of Skahbaz Khan, 119. Sahib, Muh. Taki, 120, 123, 127. Sahiri, 108 4. Sa’ib (1088). Divan, 328-9. — 376, 419 x., xn. Sa‘id B. As'ad, 212 i. Sa'id B. Muh. al-Kattan. Sirdj ul-Kulub , 3. Saidi (1069). Divan, 422, tii. Saif ud-Dlu Akhsikati, 107. Saif ud-Din Ilaji. Avar ul-Vuzard (883) 101. Saif ud-Din Isfarangi (666). Divan, 220 n. — 115. Saif-ullah Mirza, 121. Saifi (c. 910). ‘Ar-uz, 191 i. Saifi, Yadgar Beg (870) 275 n. Sa’in ud-Din Shirazi, 107. Saki, Musta'idd Khan (1136) 335. Sakib, 127. Salim, Salim 'Attar Yazdi, 376. Salim, Muh. Kuli, 376. Salman Savaji (779). Divan, 220 hi., 265-6. KhwursMd n Jamshid, 265 v., 266. Firdk Ndmah, 265 vi., 266. — 374, 379. Sam Mirza. Tuhfah i Sami, 103. Saua’i, Hakim (c. 545). Divan, 214, 215 in. Hadikah, 215 i.— 105, 107, 115, 190. Sana’i Mashhadi (996). Divan, 309 i. Sangin Beg, 415. Sani' ul-Mulk, 412, Sarshar Najaf Kuli Khau, 123-4. Sarv i Azad, 196 v. Sayyid Kuchak (c. 1200). Divan, 345. Sha'af, 'Abdullah Kummi, 376. Shiili (Mulla) (1072) 130. Shah ‘Alam, 411. Shah ‘Ali B. ‘Abd ul-'Ali. Majdlis un-Nafa’is, 104. Shah Malik, Amir (829) 149. Shah Sliuja' Muzaffari, 146. Shah Sliuja', of Afghanistan (1258). Divan, 361. Shahid Tihrani, 376. Shahidi, 108. Shahin, 127. Shahjahan, 411, 413. Skahkuli Mirza, 121. Shahpur Mirza, 121. Shahrazuri. Ta’n/ch ul-Hukamd (c. 600) 100 I. Shahrukh, 402 xix. Shaida (c. 1080). Divan, 326. Shaida, v. Hasan Chelebi, 356. Sha’ik, 124, 128. Shaikh 'Ali Mirza, 121, 123-4. Shams i Fakhri, 167. Shams i Kais. Al-MAajjam (c. 630) 190. Shams i Mashriki. Divan, 277 n. Shams i Tabriz. Divan, 243-4. Shams ud-Din Muh. Kashmiri, 167. Shapur (c. 1030). Divan, 321. — 108. Shapur, Shaikh 'Ali Mirza, 120, 123-4. Sharaf Kami (795). Anis ul-‘ Ushshdk, 420 hi., 421 in. Hadikat ul-Hakd’ik, 421 v. Sharaf ud-Din Khan Bitliisi. Sharaf Ndmah (1005) 95-6. Sharaf ud-Din Fazl-ullah Kazvini (c. 740). Works, 257.— 107. Sharaf ud-Diu Shufurvah (c. 600). Divan, 239 in.— 107, 118, 190. Sharaf ud-Din Yazdi (858). Hidal i Mutarraz, 193. Sharaf Shah, 107, Sharar, Husain ‘Ali Beg, 118. Sharif Tabrizi, 108. Sharif Isfakani, 108. Shaukat, Muh. Taki Mirza, 120, 123-4. Sliaukat, Muh. Kasim, 120, 123. Shauki (c. 800) 286 7. Shifa, 123. Shifa’i, v. Muzaffar, 151. Shihab, ‘Abdullah Turshizi (1215). Khusrau Shir in, 352 i. Hist, of ‘Ali Murad Khan, 352 n. Divan, 353. INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. 297 Shihab, Nasr-ullah, 127. Shihnah, 120, 123-4. Shuja‘, son of Shahjahan, 411. Shuja‘, Shah (1258). Divan, 361. Shukr-ullah B. Shihab ud-Dln. Bahjat ut-tavarikh (861) 28. Sima, 127. Sipihr, 123, 377. Siraf, Husain ud-Dln, 392. Siraj ud-Din Sijistani, 107. Sudi. Shark Divan Hafiz, 274. Sufi Mazandariini, 107. Suhaili (907) 275. Sulaiman Khan, 123. Sulaiman Mirza, 121. Sulaiman Safavi, Shah, 402 ix. Sultan Ahmad Mirza, 121. Sultan Ahmad, Sardar, 403 12 . Sultan Hamzah Mirza, 121. Sultan Husain Baikara. Divan, 300. — 417 n. Sultan Husain Safavi, 402 xii.-xiv., 403 1 . Sultan Ibrahim Mirza, 121. Sultan Muhammad Mirza, 121. Sultan Mustafa Mirza, 121. Sultan Salim Mirza, 121. Sultani, 120. Surur, 123. Sururi. Shark i Hafiz, 273. Sururi, Sikandar. Divan (1114) 335. Suzani, 105 1 ., 108, 115. Tabib, ‘Abd ul-Baki (1168). Divan, 339. Tabib, Muh. of Burujird, 124, 132. Tahir, Hasan Khan, 120. Tahir, of Hamadan, 127. Tahir Nasrabadi. Tazkirah (1083) 110. — 376. Tahir Vahid. Hist, of ‘Abbas II., 60, 61. — 34. Tahmasp I., Shah, 402 i.-m. Tahmasp II., Shah, 402 xv. Tahmasp B. Daulatshah (1279) 400. Tahmasp Mirza, 123. Tahmuras Mirza, 121. Ta’ir, 123-4. Tajalli, 376. Taki, 124. Taki ud-Din Kashani. Khuldsat ul-Ash‘dr (996) 105. Talib Amuli, 108, 376. Tali'i (858) 286 e. Tarab, 120, 123. Taraj, 127. Ta’fsir, Muh. Muhsin (1091) 400. Taslim. Kazd u Kadar, 419 xvn. Tauhid, Muh. Isma'il, 370. Tavakkul Beg Kulali. Nushhah i Ahvdl i Shalii (1077) 130. Tazarv, 128. Timur, Amir. Tazuk i Timuri, 51.— 411. Tipu Sultan, 406. Tishnah, 127. Tuba, 128. Tufan (1190). Divan, 342. — 132. Tughra, Mulla, 323, 376, 419 xvm. Tughrul, 120, 123-4. Tusi (869) 286 1 . Tuti, 123-4. ‘Ubaid Zakani (772). Kulliyydt, 264.-374. Ulfat, 111. Ulfati, 111. Ulugh Beg (853). Zij, 156. Ibn Umailah al-Maraghi (778) 43. ‘Umar Khayyam (517) 390. ‘Urndat ul-Mulk, 411. Ummid, 123, 127. Ummidi (930). Divan, 422 vni. ‘Unsuri (431). Divan, 204 11 ., 205, 212 111 . — 105, 106, 108, 115, 190, 390. ‘Urfi (999). Divan, 310. Farhad u Sliirin, 310 8, 311 11 . — 108, 309 11 ., 311, 419 xn., xiv., 376. ‘Uzri, 132. Vafa (1200). Divan, 344.— 123, 127. Vafa’i, 120, 123. Vafa’i, Husain. Bisdlah, 167. Vahib, Hasan Yazdi, 376. Vahid, v. Tahir Vahid. Vahshi (991). Farhad v Shirin, 303, 376, 418 11 ., 419 hi. — 376, 419 vi. 298 INDEX OF PERSONS’ NAMES. Va'iz, v. Rafi‘ ud-Dm Ya f iz, 152. Yakar, Ahmad. Bahrdm u Bihruz (c. 1274) 369. — 370. Vakari, v. Muh. Amin, 399. Vala, 123-4. Yalih, 124. Yjilih, v. c Ali Kuli Khan, 112. Yassaf. Ta’rihh ul- Vassdf, 49. Yisal Shirazi (1263). Farhad u Shirin, 308, 418 ii.— 107, 127, 403 20. Yaghma, 123, 403 io. Yahya Lahiji, 108. Yahya, Mir, 376. Yahya Mirza, 121. Ya'kub Beg Ak-kuyunlu (896) 401. Ibn Yamin (745) 261 n., 107. Yamin ud-Din Tughra’i, 378. Yamini, 124. Yusuf Amiri, 378. Yusuf Beg Istajlu, 378. Yusuf Khan, 411. Zabihi, 127, 376. Zafar Khan, 419 x. Zafir, Shams ud-Din Hasan, 146. Zahir ud-Daulah Ibrahim Khan, 123-4. Zahir ud-Din Mar'ashi. Ta’rikh i Tabaristdn (881) 93. Zahir Fariyabi (598). Divan , 222-24. — 107, 115, 190, 374, 379. Zain ul-Abidin B. Sayyid Razi. Fatli ul-Mnjahi- din, 406. Zain ul-‘Abidm Shirviini. Riyaz us-Siydhat (1242). Bustdnus-Siyahat (1248) 140-41. — 387, 403 17. Zain ud-Din Sijzi, 107. Zaini Alavi, 107. Zamiri, 108. Zakariyya Mirza, 121. Zargar, 127. Zari‘, 128. Zarif, 120. Zarrah, 124. Zarriu Rakam, Hidayat-ullah, 408, 411. Zauki, 127. Ziya, 123, 127, 376. Zuhuri (1025) 422 m., 419 x., 108, 376. Zulali (c. 1025). Mahmud u Aydz , 317. — 376. Zulfakar Shirvani, 115. ( 299 ) CLASSED INDEX OF WOKKS. The works are arranged, as far as possible, under each heading in chronological order. Numerals in parenthesis are Hijrah dates relating to the composition of the works or to the death of the authors. Other numerals refer to the nos. under which the MSS. are described. Theology. Mavahib i ‘Aliyyah (899) 1. Anonymous Tafslr (before 1085) 2. Siraj ul-Kulub, 3. Shir'at ul-Islam (573) 4. Tazkirat ul-Abrar (1021) 5. Hidayat us-Su'ada, 6. Tuhfat ul-Muvahhidln by Ram Mohan Rai (1249) 22 . 8hi‘ah Works. Tabsirat ul-‘Avam (c. 653) 7. Miftah ul-Falah (1030) 8. Gauhar i Murad (c. 1060) 9. Takdis ul-Anbiya (before 1073) 10. Za'idah i Zad ul-Ma‘ad (1110) 11. Bdbi Books. Bayiin i Farsi (before 1266) 12. Ikan. Letters of Baha (c. 1280) 13, 403 13. Baha/s letter to the Shah (1285) 14. Tah’Ikh i Jadid (before 1298) 15. Sufism and Asceticism. Risalat ul-Kushairi (465) 16. Anecdotes of saints (c. 500) 393. Mirsad ul-'Ibad (654) 17. Daka’ik ul-Haka’ik (720) 18. Al-'Urvah li-ahli ’1-khalwah (736) 19. Sharh i Aura,d i Sayyid ‘Ali Hamadani (786) 20. Khaza’in ul-Malakut by f Abdi (968) 307 n. Abvab ul-Jinan by Rafl c Va'iz (1105) 152. Hilyat ul-Muttakln by Mub. Bakir (1110) 153. Durr i Maknun (1151) 21. Mir’at ul-Muhakkikln by Hamid ud-Dln, 418 ill. Law. Lavami‘ i Sahibkirani (1065) 23. Hinduism. Asvamedha Parva of Mahabharata, 24. History. General History. Jami‘ ut-Tavarlkh by Rashid ud-Dln (704) 25-6. Zafar Namah by Hamdullah Mustaufi (735) 263. Zubdat ut-Tavarlkh by Hafiz i Abru (830) 27. Tahikh i Khairat (850) 423. Bahjat ut-Tavarlkh by Shukr-ullah (855) 28. Ma’asir ul-Muluk by Khwandamir (c. 900) 29. Ivhulasat ul-Akhbar by the same (905) 30. Habib us-Siyar by the same (930) 31. Ta’rikh i Elchi i Nizamshah (972) 32. TaTikh i Alfi (997) 424. 300 CLASSED INDEX OF WORKS. Majma‘ ut-Tavarikh by Haidar Razi (1028) 33. Khuld i Barin (1071) 34-5. Lubb ul-Lubab by Muh. Kuli Kajar (1097) 38. Zubdat ut-Tavarikh by Muh. Muhsin (1154) 36. Ta’rikh Muhammadshahi by Khushhalcliand (1154) 37. Zinat ut-Tavarikh by Muh. Razi (1220) 39. Khulasat i Ta’rikh, anonymous (1250) 40. Nukhbat ul-Akhbar by ‘Abd ul-Vahhab (1257) 41. Nizhad Namah i Padishahan by Riza Kuli Khan (c. 1280) 42. Muhammad, Khali/s and Imams. Hist, of Muh. and the Khalifs by Najib (c. 850) 43. Kitab i Mu'jizat by Hairati (961) 303. Tazkirat ul-A’immah by Muh. Bakir Majlisi (d. 1110) 44. Hamlah i Haidariby Bazil (1124) 336. Riyaz ush-Shahadah by Muh. Hasan Kazvini (1227) 45-7. Bahr ul-La’iili by ‘Ali Akbar Shirazi (1257) 48. Farhang i Kliudaparasti (1277) 371. Special Dynasties. Moghols. Ta’rikh ul-Vassaf (712) 49. Shahanshah Namah (738) 201 ir. Hist, of Ulja’itu and Abu Sa'id (c. 820) 26 ii. Muzaffaris. Mavahib i Ilahi by Mu‘in Yazdi (767) 50. Timur. Tuzuk i Timuri (1047) 51. Safavis. Hist, of Shah Ismahl (c. 940) 52. Hist, of Isma/Il and Tahmasp by : Amir Mahmud (957) 53-4. Ahsan ut-Tavarikh by Hasan Beg (985) 55. Afzal ut-Tavarikh (c. 1020) 56. Ta’rikh i Jalal Munajjim (1020) 57. Rauzat us-Safaviyyah (1028-35) 58. c Alam-arai f Abbasi (1038) 59. Khuld i Barin (1071) 34-5. Ta’rikh i Tahir Vahid (1074) 60-61. Dastur i Shahriyaran (1110) 62. Afghan invasion by Krusinski (c. 1140) 65. Zivar i Al i Da’ud (1226) 65. Nadir Shah. Ta’rikh i Jahangushai Nadiri (1161) 65. Zands. Gulshan i Murad (1198-1210) 66. Hist, of £ Ali Murad Khan (c. 1198) 352 n. Kajars. Ta’rikh i Muhammadi (1211) 67. Mufarrih ul-Kulub, by Nadim (c. 1220) 397. Ma’asir i Sultaniyyah (1229) 68-9. Ta’rikh i Sahibkirani (1248) 70. Ta’rikh i Zulkarnain (1262) 71. Memoirs of Fath £ Ali Shiih’s Court by £ Azud ud- Daulah (1304) 72. Uzbeks. Sharaf Namah i Shahi (997) 73. Afghans. Ta’rikh i Ahmad Shah (1257) 74. India. Vaki'at i Babari (936) 75. Tatimmah i Akbar Namah, 76 I. Jahangir Namah (1033) 77. Early history of Shalijahan (1037) 76 n. Lata’if ul-Akhbar (1063) 78. Fragments relating to Jahandar Shah (1124) 79. Hist, of Muhammad Sinih (1144) 80. Akhbar (1210) 81-2. Deccan. Tazkirat ul-Muluk (c. 1020) 83 in. Hadikat ul-‘Alam (c. 1218) 84. CLASSED INDEX OF WORKS. 301 Kashmir. Gauhar i ‘Alam (c. 1200) 85. Hishmat i Kashmir (1245) 86. Local Histories. Ta’rikh i Bukhara (348) 87. Kitab i Kum (378) 88. Ta’rikh i Baihak (563) 89. Conquest of Kirman by Malik Dinar (584) 90-91. Ta’rikh i Tabaristan by Ibn Isfandiyar (750) 92. Ta’rikh i Tabaristan by Zahir ud-Din (881) 93. Rauzat ul-Jannat, a hist, of Herat (897) 94. Sharaf Namah, a hist, of the Kurds (1005) 95-6. Ihya ul-Muluk, a hist, of Sistan (1028) 97. Tazkirah i Shushtariyyah (1169) 98. Tuhfat ul-‘Alam, a hist, of Shushtar (1216) 84 n. Mir’at ul-Kasan (1288) 99. Biography. Ta’rikh i Hukama by Shahrazuri (c. 600) 100 I. Asar ul-Vuzara (883) 101. Haft Iklim by Amin Razi (1002) 138. Ziya ul-Arifin by Fazl-ullah (1272) 102. Tazlcirahs. Majalis un-Nafa’is (896) 104. Tuhfah i Shmi (987) 103. Khulasat ui-Ash c ar (996) 105. Bazm-arai by Sayyid £ Ali (1000) 106. Khair ul-Bayan by Mir Husain (1019-36) 108-9. Maikhanah by Hasan Tihrani (1040) 107. Tazkirah i Tahir Nasrabadi (1083) 110. Safinah i Khushgu (1137-47) 111. Riyaz ush-Shu £ ara by Valih (1161) 112-13. Atashkadah by Azur (1193) 114. Khulasat ul-Afkar by Abu Talib (1207) 116. Makhzan ul-Ghara’ib by Ahmad ‘Ali (1218) 117. Zinat ul-Mada’ih by Huma (1218-23) 118-19. Anjuman i Khakan by Fazil (1234) 120. Gulshan i Mahmud by Mahmud Mirza (1235) 1 21. Safinat ul-Mahmud by the same (1240) 122. Nigai'istan i Dara by £ Abd ur-Razzak (1241) 123. Tazkirah i Muhammadshiilii by Bahman (1249) 124. Tazkirah i Darvlsb Nava (c. 1250) 115. Majma c ul-Fusaha by Riza Kuli Khan (c. 1250) 125. Riyaz ul-‘Arifin by the same (1260) 126. Mada’ih ul-Mu‘tamadiyyah by Bahar (1259-63) 127-8. Hadikat Amanullahi by Raunak (1265) 129. Memoirs and Travels. Ahval i Shahi by Tavakkul Beg (1077) 130. Jaugnamah i Navvab Ghulam Muhammad Khan (1213) 351. Mir’at ul-Ahval by Ahmad Bahbahani (1225) 131. Tajribat ul-Ahrar by ( Abd ui’-Razzak (1228) 132. Travels of ‘Izzat-ullah (1227-8) 133. Hist, of Da’ud Pasha of Baghdad (1237) 356. Statement of the Raja of Revari (c. 1270) 134. Cosmography and Geography. ‘Aja’ib ul-Maklilukat by Kazvini (682) 135. Nuzhat ul-Kulub by Hamd-ullah (740) 136-7. Haft Iklim by Amin Razi (1002) 138. Riyaz us-Siyahat by Zain ul- £ Abidin (1242) 139. Hadii’ik us-Siyahat by the same (1242) 141. Bustan us-Siyahat by the same (1247) 140. Sciences. Encyclopaedias. Jami f ul- f Ulum by Fakhr ud-Din Razi (574) 142-3. Riyaz ul-Abrar by Husain ‘Akili (979) 144. Ethics and Politics. Kabus Namali by Kaikaus (475) 145. Az-Zari c ah by Raghib Isfahani (c. 500) 146. Akhlak i Nasiri by Nasir ud-Din Tusi (672) 147-8. Nasihat Namah i Shahi by Husain Khwarazmi (829) 149. Akhlak i Mansuri by Ghiyas ud-Din (948) 150. Akhlak i Shifa’i by Muzaffar (963) 151. Abvab ul-Jinan by Rafi‘ V a‘iz (1105) 152. Mufarrih ul-Kulub by Nadim (1241) 397. 302 CLASSED INDEX OF WORKS. Astronomy . Jahan Danish by Sharaf ud-Din Mas‘udi (643) 154. Bist Bab by Nasir ud-Din Tusi (672) with comm., 155. ‘Ali Kushji’s comm, on Zlj i Ulugh Beg (c. 850) 156. Mineralogy . Tansuk Namah by Nasir ud-Din Tusi (672) 157. Javahir Namah by Muh. B. Mansur (c. 880) 158. Medicine. Risalah i Tiryak i Faruk by Kamal ud-Din (c. 950) 159. Dustur ul-Atibba by Firishtah (1033) 160. Farriery. Translation of al-Akwal al-Kafiyah (c. 750) 161. Music. Treatises on music (collected A.H. 1075) 162. On musical moods, 191 vn. Philology. Persian Lexicography. Miftah ul-Fuzala by Muh. Shadiyabadi (873) 163. Lughat i Halirni (c. 886) 164-5. Tuhfah i Shahidi (920) 166. Risalah i Husain Vafa’i (933) 167. Farhang i Jahangiri (1017) 168. Treatise of ‘Abd ul-Basit (c. 1150) 169. Farhang i ‘Abbasi (1225) 170. Farhang i Muhammadshahi (1249) 171. Arabic Lexicography and Grammar. Kanun ul-Adab by Hubaish Tiflisi (c. 600) 425. Dustur ul-Ikhwan (c. 822) 172. Kanz ul-Lughah (c. 880) 173. Mahmud ul-Lughah (bef. 1131) 174. Comm, on the Shafiyali, 175. Varia. Sanglakh, a Turki-Persian Dictionary (1173) 176. Redhouse’s Thesaurus, 177-86. Nisab i Ingilisi by Farhad Mirza (1269) 187. Rhetoric, Insha and Poetical Figures. Hada/ik us-Sihr by Rashid Vatvat (c. 550) 188. Tarassul un-Nusriyyah by Fazl-ullah (c. 732) 257 n. Dustur ul-Katib by Ibn Hindushah (c. 770) 189. Anis ul- c Ushshak by Sharaf Rami (795) 420 hi. Hadikat ul-Haka’ik by the same, 421 v. Prosody. Al-Mu f ajjam by Shams i Kais (c. 620) 190. ‘Aruz i Saifi (896) 191 i. Treatise on rhyme by f Ata’ullah (929) 191 in., 192. Riddles. Al-Ihya fi’l Mu'amma by Minuchihr (c. 800) 420 ii. Hulal i Mutarraz by f Ali Yazdi (858) 193. Treatise by Mir Husain (904) 191 v., 194. Poetry. Firdausi (411). Shahnamah, 195-8, 269. Yusuf u Zulaikha, 200. Barzu Niimah, 195 II., 196 vni. Faramurz Namah, 196 yi., 199 ii. Azarbarzin Namah, 197 i. Farrukhi (429) 203-4. ‘Unsuri (431) 204 n., 205, 212 hi. Minuchihri (432) 206, 212 v., 224 ii. Asadi. Garshasp Namah (458) 195 I., 196 I., 201 1., 202 . Kataran (465) 204 m., 207-8, 245 ii. Nasir i Khusrau (481) 209-10. Jamali. Bahman Namah, 197 ii., 201 in. Kush Namah, 201 IV. Abu’l-Faraj Runi (c. 500) 210 i. Lami f i (c. 520) 212 i. Azraki (526) 211 hi., 213 i., 224 in., 234 in. Adib Sabir (540) 239 n. Sana’i (c. 542) 214-15. Mukhtari (544) 211 vi., 215 vn., 216. ‘Abd ul-Vasi‘ Jabali (555) 217. Hasan Ghaznavi (565) 215 vi. CLASSED INDEX OF WORKS. 303 Rashid Vatvat (578) 212 iv., 234 ii. Anvari (587) 211 v., 218-19. Jamal Isfahani (588) 224 iv. Kkakani (595) 221. Zahir Fariyabi (598) 222-24. Sharaf Shufurvah (c. 600) 239 m. Rafr Lunbani (603) 239 iv. Nizami Ganjavi (c. 607) 225-33. Najib Jurpadakani (625) 234. Farid ud-Din f Attar (627) 235-7. Kutb ud-Din (633 ?) 238. Asir Aumani (665) 239 i. Saif Isfarangi (666) 220 n. Jalal ud-Din Rumi (672) 240-44. Imami Haravi (686) 213 ii., 245 i. Majd ud-Din Hamgar (686) 211 n., iv., vn. Farid ud-Din Ahval (c. 686) 213 hi. Sa c di (691) 246-53. Harun (c. 700) 254. Khusrau Dihlavi (725) 220 rv., 255. Amir Hasan (727) 286 4. Fazl-ullak Kazvini (c. 732) 257. Auhadi (738) 258-59. Ahmad Tabrizi. Shahanshah Namak (738) 201 ii. Hamd-ullah Mustaufi (c. 740). Zafar Namah, 263. ‘Atiki (744) 260. Ibn Yamin (745) 261 ir. Khwaju (c. 750) 262. Sam Namah, 196 n. ‘Ubaid Zakani (772) 264. Salman Savaji (779) 220 hi., 265-66. Hafiz (791) 267-74. Ibn Hmad (c. 800) 348 ii. Kamal Khujandi (803) 275-76, 286 6. Maghribi (809) 277 i. Shams Mashriki (c. 800) 277 ii. ‘Aziz-ullak. Rauzat ul-‘AshikIn (820) 278. Nkmat-ullak Yali (834) 279. Muvali (c. 834) 285 hi. Kasim ul-Anvar (837) 280-81. Katibi (838) 275 ii. ‘Ismat (840) 282. ‘Arifi (853) 283, 286 7 . Ashraf (854) 286 3 . Shaki (857) 284-85. Tali‘i (858) 286 «. Tusi (869) 286 i. Saifi (870) 275 ii. Riyazi (884) 285 n., 275 n Jami (898) Divan, 287-88 ; Haft Aurang, 289-93. Maktabi (c. 900) 298. Suhaili (907) 275 ii. Hatifi (927) 295-97, 305 ii., 275 n. Ummidi (930) 422 vur. Muhyi (933) 301, 275 ii. Hilali (935) 302. Miram Siyah (c. 960) 353 ii. Hairati (961) 303. Fuzuli (963) 304-5, 422 ii. Ashki (972) 306. { Abdi (961-68) 307. Vahski (991) 308. Sana’i (996) 309 i. ‘Ui'fi (999) 309 ii., 310-11. Nuri Isfahani (1000) 224 v. 422 vi. Amani (c. 1016) 312. Naufi (1019) 313. Ja'far (1021) 314-15. Naziri (1022) 316. Zulali (c. 1025) 317. Abu Turab Beg (1026) 318 i. Nizam Dast i Ghaib (1029) 319. Nasir Hamadani (1030) 318 n. ‘Ali Naki Ivamara’i (1030) 320. Shapur (c. 1030) 321. Mirak (c. 1053) 322. Iyudsi (1056) 323. Fayyaz Lahiji (c. 1060) 324. Hazik (1068) 325. Saidi (1069) 422 vn. Sliaida (c. 1080) 327. Rakim (c. 1084) 332. Sa’ib (1088) 328-29. Arshad (c. 1089) 330. Majzub (1093) 331. Nauras (c. 1105) 333. RafP Va‘iz (c. 1105) 334. 304 CLASSED INDEX OF WORKS. Sururi (c. 1114) 335. Bazil (1124) 336. Mir Najat (c. 1126) 337. 33ld.il (1133) 338. Tabib (1168) 339. ‘Askik (1181) 340-41. Tufan (1190) 342. Fakir ‘Abbasi (c. 1199) 343. Vafa (1200) 344. Sayyid Kiichak (c. 1200) 345. Nhmi (1204) 346-49. Rafik (1212) 350. Gkulam Jilani. Jangnamak (1213) 351. Skikab (1215) 352-53. Mi j mar (1225) 354. Katrah (1235) 357. Farrukk (1237) 355. Shaida, Hasan Ckelebi (c. 1237) 356. Khavari (1237) 358. Kkavar (1238) 359. Abu T-Hasan Jajarmi (1239) 360. Shah Shuja' (1240) 361. Nashat (1244) 362-3. Hidayat (1253-83) 364-5. Visal (1263) 308. Nayyir (1263) 368. Ghamami (1269) 366. Kft’ani (1270) 367. Yakar (1274) 369-70. Mahram (1277) 371. Nazir (1297) 372. f Amil (1298) 373. Anthologies. Dustiir ush-Shu f ara, an anonymous antkology of Persian and Indian poets (803) 374. Tuhfat ul-Habib by Fakkri (c. 930) 375. Collection of Masnavis by Badi‘ Muh. (1170) 376. Badl‘ ul-Afkar by Munsif (1239) 378. Mahmud ul-Bayan by Mahmud Mirza (1240) 377. Mizan i TabaY, by Kkavar (1242) 379. Tales and Faeles. Kissah i Bilaukar by Ibn Babavaih (321) 380. Marzaban Namah (c. 610) 382-3. Anvar i Sukaili by Husain Kaskifi (910) 381. Darab Namak by Abu Tahir Tarasusi, 384-5. Hakikatul-Haka’ik by Muh. f Ali Skirvani (1252) 387. Kissah i Mas'ud Skak, 388. Collections of Anecdotes. Al-Faraj ba'd ash-Shiddah, 389. Anecdotes of Saints, anonymous (c. 500) 393. Ckakar Makalah by Nizami (c. 552) 390. Jami f ul-Hikayat by ( Aufi (625) 391-2. Nigaristan i Mu'ini (735) 394. Ziuat ul-Majalis by Majdi (1004) 395. Historical anecdotes, anonymous (c. 1000) 102. Siraj ul-Munir by Kaskif (1030) 419 n., 422. Kliazan u Bakar by the same (1060) 396. Mufarrik ul-Kulub by Nadim (1241) 397. Letters, State Papers, and Autographs. Majma‘ ul-Insha by Abu ’1-Kasim Beg (c. 1052) 398. Guldastak i Andiskak by Vakari (c. 1081) 399. Anonymous collection of royal letters (c. 1100) 417 ii. Autographs compiled by f Abd ul-Karim Kazvini (1080-1126) 400. Firmans of the Skaks (884-1283) 401-2. Collection of autographs, 403. Copies of treaties (1224-72) 404. Addresses to Warren Hastings, 405. Military rules of Tipu Sultan, 406. A Letter from Deccan to Marechal de Castries, 407. Paintings. Album of Asaf ud-Daulah, 408. Album of Himmat-yar Khan (1204) 411. Portraits of Persian princes and ministers, 412. Inscriptions. Inscriptions of Taj Mahall and Delhi, 413-15. Inscription of Kkwajali Kkizr, 416. ( 305 ) NUMERICAL INDEX. SHOWING THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NUMBERS BY WHICH THE MANUSCRIPTS ARE DESIGNATED WITH THE NUMBERS UNDER WHICH THEY ARE DESCRIBED IN THE PRESENT SUPPLEMENT. Oriental. Supplement. Oriental. Supplement. Oriental. Supplement 2676 . . 391 2819 . 12 2876 . 70 2677 . . 31 2833 . . . 263 2877 . . . 118 2692 . 84 2834 . . 225 2878 . . 202 2693 . . . 112 2837 . . . 41 2879 . . . 208 2694 . . 329 2838 . . 297 2880 . . 224 2699 . . . 86 2839 . . . 313 2881 . . . 45 2710 . . 267 2841 . . 156 2882 . 46 2739 . . . 152 2842 . . . 4 2883 . . . 47 2743 . . 247 2843 . . 205 2885 . 26 2747 . . . 236 2844 . . . 206 2886 . . 50 2769 . . 133 2845 . . 209 28S7 . 90 2774 . . . 27 2846 . . 239 2888 . . . 237 2775 . . , 28 2847 . . 245 2889 . . 212 2776 . ... 54 2848 . . . 303 2892 . . . 176 2777 . 87 2849 . . 326 2926 . . 196 2778 . . . 92 2850 . . . 342 2927 . . . 25 2779 . 97 2851 . . 345 2928 . 30 2780 . . . 201 2852 . . . 417 2929 . . . 114 2781 . . . 384 2862 . 93 2930 . . 200 2787 . . . 411 2863 . . . 148 2931 . . . 226 2799 . . 381 2864 . . 157 2932 . 227 2812 . . 8 2865 . . . 160 2933 . . . 231 2813 . 11 2866 . . 243 2934 . . . . 233 2814 . . . 190 2867 . . . 295 2935 . . . 290 2815 . . 265 2868 . . 343 2936 . . 336 2816 . . . 241 2869 . . . 341 2937 . 168 2817 . . 352 2870 . . 304 2939 . 53 2818 . . . 155 2872 . ... 312 2940 . . , 60 T T 306 NUMERICAL INDEX. Oriental. Supplement 2941 . 62 2942 . . . 15 2943 . . 129 2944 . . . 188 2945 . . 203 2946 . . . 199 2947 . . 264 2948 . . . 246 2949 . . 255 2950 . . . 275 2951 . . 281 2952 . . . 317 2953 . . 349 2954 . . . 369 2955 . . 418 2956 . . . 382 2957 . . 396 2959-68 . 177-86 2969 . 48 2970 . . . 49 2971 . 7 2972 . . . 142 2973 . . 383 2974 . . . 394 2975 . . 419 2976 . . . 197 2979 . . 310 2980 . . . 191 2983 . 2 2984 . . . 356 2985 . . 299 2986 . . . 308 2993 . 9 2994 . . . 48 2995 . . 213 2996 . . . 150 2997 . . 278 2998 . . . 319 2999 . . 346 Oriental. Supplement 3000 . . . 368 3115 . 14 3116 . . . 13 3202 . 39 3203 . . . 130 3204 . . 311 3205 . . . 274 3206 . . 273 3207 . . . 393 3208 . 3 3216 . . . 168 3223 . . 388 3233 . . . 218 3234 . . 324 3235 . . . 358 3236 . . 340 3237 . . . 366 3238 . . 238 3239 . . . 344 3240 . . 367 3241 . . . 194 3242 . 17 3243 . . . 372 3244 . . 375 3245 . . . 360 3246 . . 204 3247 . . . 268 3248 . 52 3249 . . . 192 3250 . . 124 3251 . . . 371 3252 . . 145 3253 . . . 240 3254 . . 373 3255 . . . 316 3256 . . 370 3260 . . . 406 3261 . . 252 3262 . . . 253 Oriental. Supplement. 3271 .... 76 3272 .... 59 3273 .... 172 3274 . . . . 314 3275 .... 315 3276 .... 77 3277 .... 158 3278 .... 68 3279 .... 69 3280 . . . . 298 3281 .... 80 3282 . . . . 328 3283 .... 284 3284 . . . . 361 3285 .... 335 3286 . . . .339 3287 .... 78 3288 .... 37 3299 . . . . 163 3300 .... 170 3301 . . . . 223 3302 .... 214 3303 . . . . 276 3304 . . . .280 3305 . . . . 286 3306 . . . .283 3307 . . . . 420 3308 .... 143 3312 . . . . 219 3313 . . . .277 3314 . . . . 422 3315 . . . .154 3316 . . . . 296 3317 . . .207 3318 . . . . 353 3319 . . . .323 3320 . . . . 217 3321 .... 347 3322 . . . . 257 NUMERICAL INDEX. 307 Oriental. Supplement. Oriental. Supplement. Oriental. Supplement. 3323 . . 210 3501 . . . 387 3589 . . 116 3324 . . . 321 3504 . . 307 3590 . . . 389 3325 . . 222 3505 . . . 320 3592 . 66 3332 . . . 61 3506 . . 105 3600 . . . 386 3333 . 40 3507 . . . 390 3602 . 64 3334 . . . 285 3508 . . 123 3603 . . . 99 3344 . . 189 3509 . . . 193 3604 . . 378 3374 . . . 216 3512 . 23 3610 . . . 79 3375 . . 262 3513 . . . 232 3632 . . 146 3376 . . . 234 3514 . . 242 3633 . . . 301 3377 . . 365 3515 . . . 175 3634 . . 331 3378 . . . 42 3516 . . 153 3641 . . . 44 3379 . . 300 3517 . . . 169 3642 . . 422 3386 . . . 115 3520 . . 174 3643 . . 29 3387 . . 260 3521 . . . 167 3644 . . 333 3388 . . . 58 3522 . 102 3647 . . . 254 3389 . . 106 3523 . . . 132 3648 . . 144 3390 . . . 120 3524 . . 125 3649 . . . 19 3391 . 88 3527 . . . 71 3653 . . 165 3396 . . . 104 3528 . . 364 3666 . . . 141 3397 . . 108 3529 . . . 380 3667 . . 318 3398 . . . 164 3535 . 32 3668 . . . 337 3399 . . 119 3536 . . . 126 3677 . . 140 3400 . . . 38 3537 . . 107 3713 . . . 211 3401 . . 221 3541 . . . 330 3714 . 75 3402 . . . 399 3542 . . 338 4106 . . . 94 3481 . 35 3543 . . . 354 4107 . . 101 3482 . . . 398 3544 . 355 4108 . . . 72 3483 . . 161 3545 . . . 122 4109 . . 149 3484 . . . 359 3546 . . 151 4110 . . . 374 3486 . . 220 3547 . . . 18 4118 . 16 3487 . . . 332 3549 . 57 4119 . . . 147 3488 . . 350 3550 . . . 74 4120 . . 249 3489 . . . 357 3551 . 67 4121 . . . 251 3490 . . 108 3552 . . . 377 4122 . . 291 3497 . . . 73 3553 . . 121 4123 . . . 287 3498 . 36 3584 . . . 91 4124 . 302 3499 . . . 397 3587 . 89 4132 . . . 34 3500 . . 282 3588 . . . 271 4133 . 10 308 NUMERICAL INDEX Oriental. Supplement. Oriental. 4134 . . . 55 4608 4135 . . 279 4609 4151 . . . 235 4610 4195 . . 173 4615 4238 . . . 351 4616 4379 . 1 4617 4380 . . . 6 4658 4381 . 20 4671 4382 . . . 21 4672 4383 . . 135 4673 4384 . . . 198 4678 4385 . . 228 4679 4386 . . 229 4680 4387 . . 250 4681 4388 . . . 270 4688 4389 . . 293 4689 4390 . . . 294 4691 4391 . . 325 4709 4392 . . . 392 4722 4482 . . 258 4730 4507 . . . 5 4733 4508 . 33 4738 4509 . . . 63 4745 4510 . . 109 4768 4511 . . . 127 4772 4512 . . 128 4773 4513 . . . 289 4774 4514 . . 215 4775 4515 . . . 348 4776 4516 . . 362 4779 4535 . . . ^92 2. 4836 4543 . . 407 4898 4561 . . 24 4899 4595 . . 415 4900 Supplement. 82 81 . 117 . 385 . 306 . 139 . 100 . 110 . Ill . 379 56 . 404 . 171 . 288 85 . 244 . 159 . 113 51 . 230 . 131 22 . 272 . 416 . 376 . 269 . 334 65 83 . 248 95 . 423 . 424 96 Oriental. Supplement. 4901 . . . 98 4902 . . 138 4903 . . . 136 4904 . . 137 4905 . . . 187 4906 . . 195 4907 . . . 395 4908 . . 134 4909 . . . 266 4910 . . 261 4911 . . 305 4912 . . 322 4913 . . . 309 4914 . . 363 4932 . . . 259 4934 . . 401 4935 . . . 402 4936 . . 403 4937 . . . 400 4938 . . 412 4948 . . . 425 Stowe Or. Suppleme 14. . . 256 15 . . 327 16. . . 403 17 . .413-14 18. . . 409 19 . . 410 Add. 29,217 . 405 ■k -- - / .-:■;■•■ ■ ^ Uw ‘ v,* i),\w (> !Av «; fMMI ■ ,y 3w® raw ®V®VvN \ • >M: ■■ : . ; ■ m ■m ■■■■■■.■■:.. • ■ . : : ■ v .’>' ' ■ •; {'^S^ChV -' : •;: :; ' ; '■ ,.;iV|I $.\SwS