Anderson, Adam, 1797-1853 (Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice)

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A Persian translation of some of the difficult lines in the qasīdahs written by 'Alī b. Abī Ṭalib (cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muḥammad, and First Imām of Shi'i Islam). It includes comments by Mīr Sayyid Walī, who compiled it at the desire of his father.

The main text is written in nasta'līq script with the Arabic quotations from the poetry written in naskh.

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Short selections, mostly in verse, from the following poets: A‘ẓam-Bakhsh, As̲ar, Ni‘mat Khān ‘Alī, Sa‘dī Shīrāzī, Walī, Muḥammad Ja‘far, Ghanī Kashmīrī, Maz̲hab Isfahānī, ‘Abd al-Jawwād, Mukhlis-Khān, ‘Urfī Shīrāzī, Khushdīd, Aḥmad ‘Alī Payām, etc.

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The collected poems of Imām Afz̤al al-Dīn "Khāqānī" of Shirvān (who died at Tabriz between 582 and 595 A.H. /1186 and 1199 C.E.), with a few pages missing at the end.

Fronticepiece illuminated with gold.

Scope and Contents This good copy of the Dīvān of Ṣāʼib (fol. 1 is missing). It consists of ghazals, with which are mixed a few unfinished ghazals and rubā'is, all arranged alphabetically."Ṣāʼib" is the pen name of Mīrzā Muḥammad 'Alī of Tabriz (d. ca. 1080 A.H./ 1670 C.E.), who founded a new style for writing poetry, and is regarded as one of the greatest of modern Persian poets.He spend time under the patronage of the Governor of Kabul, Ẓafar-Khān, and...

Scope and Contents The collected works of the celebrated poet Sayyid Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn " 'Urfī " Shīrāzī, who came to India, 994 A.H. (1586 C.E.), first proceeded to the Deccan, where he soon entered into the service of Ḥakīm Masīḥ al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ Jīlānī, but subsequently, on the death of his patron, 997 A.H. (1589 C.E.), he went to seek his fortune at Agra. Here he soon rose in the favour of the Khān-i Khānān, Mīrzā 'Abd al-Raḥīm (the son of Bayram Khān, who had been Akbar's regent), who had translated...

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A poem in praise of London, composed during his travels in Europe, by Mirzā Abū Ṭālib Khān Hindī Isfahānī (d 1220 or 1221 A.H., 1805-1806 C.E.).

It contains a portrait of the author "Engraved by Ridley from an original picture painted by Russel," for the European Magazine. The present manuscript was copied for the owner, James Anderson, by George Swinton.

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A commentary on the difficult verses in the Qaṣīdahs of Imām Afz̤al al-Dīn Badil Ibrāhīm b. 'Alī Najjār "Khāqānī" of Shirvān who died at Tabriz, between 582 and 595 A.H. /1186 and 1199 C.E., by Muḥammad bin Dāūd (here Dād) ‘Alawī Shādiyābādī. Copied in the village of Tamwarlī in Tilingānah, India.

Scope and Contents This is a historical account in verse, by Amīr Khusow (651-725 A.H./ 1253-1325 C.E.), know as the greatest Persian-writing poet of medieval India, of the meeting of Sulṭān Mu'izz al-Dīn Kayqubād (who reigned at Dehlī, 686-689 A.H., 1287-1290 C.E.), with his father, Nasīr al-Dīn Bughrā-Khān, Sulṭān of Bengal, which took place at Dehli, 688 A.H. (1289 C.E.). The poem, the title of which means the conjunction of the two lucky planets, was completed, as it is stated towards the end, in the month...

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The well-known spiritual poem composed by Mawlānā Jalāl al- Dīn Rūmī b. Muḥammad Bahāʼ al- Dīn b. al- Ḥusayn al - Khaṭībī, better known as Rūmī (d. 672 A.H.,1274 C.E.).

Copied at Sar.

Scope and Contents

The well-known spiritual poem composed by Mawlānā Jalāl al- Dīn Rūmī b. Muḥammad Bahāʼ al- Dīn b. al- Ḥusayn al- Khaṭībī, better known as Rūmī (d. 672 A.H.,1274 C.E.).

Illuminated frontispiece to each of the six Daftars.