[IO Islamic 392] واله و سلطان

• Wâlih-u-Sulṭân
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1711 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 392 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1711

Wâlih u Sulṭân (واله و سلطان).

The story of the love of poet Wâlih (see above, No. 1708) with his cousin Khadîjah Sulṭân or Khadîjah Begam, daughter of Ḥasan ‘Alîkhân, by the same Shams-aldîn Faḳîr, composed A.H. 1160 (A.D. 1747), see fol. 107^a, ll. 11-13, where two chronograms are given, viz. نظم منيع and شخص معنى.

Beginning:

اى واله حسن دلكشت جان

عشق تو بهر دو كون سلطان

No date.

No. 392, ff. 111, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10^3/8 in by 5^1/4 in.