[IO Islamic 77] هماى و همايون

• Humâi u Humâyûn.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1234 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 77 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Humâi u Humâyûn (هماى و همايون).

One of the famous mathnawîs of Kamâl-aldîn Abû-al’aṭâ Maḥmûd bin ‘Alî Murshidî, Usually called Khwâjû Kirmânî (or Bammî, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 286, col. 398 in this Cat., where his name is given as Muḥammad instead of Maḥmûd), who was born A.H. 679, the 5th of Shawwâl (A.D. 1281, Jan. 28), and died probably A.H. 753 (A.D. 1352); the usual date of his death, viz. 745, is impossible, see Rieu ii. pp. 621^b and 623^a. On the poet’s life and works, comp. Erdmann in Zeitschrift der D.M.G. ii. pp. 205-217; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 794-796; Rieu ii.p. 620 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 471-473; W. Pertsch, pp. 6 and 70; G. Flügel i. pp. 544, 545; Cat. des MSS. et Xylopraphes, p. 357; Schefer, Chrestomathie Persane, vol. ii, Paris, 1885, pp. 251, 252. This Mathnawî was composed in Baghdâd, and completed A.H. 732 (A.D. 1331, 1332). Beginning:

بنام خداوند بالا و پست

كه از هستيش هست شد هر چه هست

No date.

No. 77, ff. 149, 2 coll., each ll. 15-16; unequal Nasta’lîḳ, occasionally mixed with Shikasta; size, 9, in. by 5¾ in.