[IO Islamic 3057] تيپونامه

• Tîpûnâma
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1719 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 3057 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1719

Tîpûnâma (تيپونامه).

A mathnawî, composed in honour of the warlike exploits of Tîpû Sulṭân (see No. 1717 above), by Ghulâm Ḥasan, who (according to Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la Littér. Hindouie etc., i. p. 543) is identical with Ḥasan ‘Alikhân of Kirmân. He wrote this poem at Tipû’s request, and finished it the 25th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1784, Aug. 12), see the last lines at the end. It is divided into forty-nine chapters, called داستان. The above title appears here on fol. 118^a, l. 3, fol. 119^b, I. 2, fol. 120^b, I. 3 ab infra, and fol. 206^a, l. 4 ab infra: كه تيپو نامه است اين نام مشهور. The heading of the forty-ninth or last dâstân gives the title as شه نامه بنام تيپو سلطان (the same in No. 1721 below); on fol. 119^a, l. 2 ab infra appears as designation فتح نامۀ نامدار باسم پادشاه سلطان تيپو بهادر. The mathnawî is commonly styled فتح نامۀ تيپو سلطان. Beginning:

بگويم حمد ربّ العالمين است

ضيا بخشنده ايمان ما و طين است

Dated the 14th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1221 (A.D. 1807, Jan. 23). A similar, but less extensive mathnawî in Rekhta verses, celebrating the exploits of Tîpû Sulṭân and composed by the same Ghulâm Ḥasan in twenty-three dâstân, is preserved in No. 2499 of the India Office Collection. Garcin de Tassy, loc. cit., seems only to have known this Hindûstânî version, but not the longer and more important Persian one.

No. 3057, ff. 113-206, 2 coll., each ll. 15; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8^5/8 in. by 5^1/2 in.