ʿAbd al-Nabī

ʿAbd al-Nabī Fakhr al-Zamāmī Qazwīnī, Mai-khānah (completed in 1028/1619), ed. M. Shafīʿ, Lahore 1926; ed. A. Gulchīn i Maʿānī, Tehran 1340sh./1961; 3rd edition Tehran 1362sh./1983. Cf. pl i p. 813.

Abū Ṭālib

Abū Ṭālib Khān Iṣfahānī, Khulāṣat al-afkār (completed in 1207/1792–3). Cited according to the numbers assigned to the biographies in Ethé, Bodl. Catalogue, col. 302–15. Cf. pl i p. 878.

Ādhar

Luṭf-ʿAlī-Beg Ādhar, Ātash-kadah (completed ca. 1193/1779), Bombay 1277/1860; ed. Ḥ. Sādāt i Nāṣirī, Tehran 1337–41sh./1958–62 (quoted according to the latter edition). Epitome in Ethé, Bodl. Catalogue, col. 262–93. Cf. pl i p. 871–2.

aion

Istituto Universitario Orientale. Annali (Naples).

Arberry

A.J. Arberry, Catalogue of the Library of the India Office. Vol. ii. Part vi. Persian books, London 1937.

ʿArūḍī

Aḥmad b. ʿUmar al-Niẓāmī al-ʿArūḍī al-Samarqandī, Chahār maqālah (completed in 552/1157), ed. M. Qazwīnī, London/Leiden 1910; ed. M. Muʿīn, Tehran 1331sh./1952–3, and reprints. See also the translation by E.G. Browne, London 1921.

ʿAufī

Sadīd al-dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-ʿAufī al-Bukhārī (died after 628/1230–1), Lubāb al-albāb, ed. E.G. Browne and M. Qazwīnī, 2 volumes, London/Leyden 1903–6; ed. S. Nafīsī, Tehran 1335sh./1957. Cf. pl i p. 783–4.

ʿAufī, Jawāmiʿ

Jawāmiʿ al-ḥikāyāt wa lawāmiʿ al-riwāyāt. Available partial editions: Pānzdah bāb i J. al-Ḥ. (facsimile of a Ms.), Tehran 1335sh./1956; J. al-Ḥ. … bakhsh i awwal, ed. M. Muʿīn, Tehran 1335sh./1956; J. al-Ḥ. … qism i siwum, 2 vols, with continuous pagination, ed. Bānū Muṣaffā and Maẓāhir Muṣaffā, Tehran 1352–3sh./1973–4 (quoted as Jawāmiʿ iii). ¶ Reference is made also to the running numbers of the anecdotes in M. Niẓámu’d’-dín, Introduction to the J. al-Ḥ., London (printed Leyden) 1929.

Auḥadī

Taqī b. Muḥammad al-Ḥusainī al-Auḥadī al-Daqqāqī al-Balyānī al-Iṣfahānī, ʿArafāt al-ʿārifīn wa ʿaraṣāt al-ʿāshiqīn, (completed in 1024/1615). Unpublished. Cf. pl i p. 808–11.

Āzād, Khizānah

Ghulām-ʿAlī Āzād Bilgrāmī, Khizānah i ʿāmirah (written in 1176/1762–3), Cawnpore 1871. Epitome in Ethé, Bodl. Catalogue col. 255–60. Cf. pl i p. 864–5.

Āzād, Maʾāthir

id., Maʾāthir al-kirām (written in 1166/1752–3), Hyderabad (printed Agra) 1910. Cf. pl i p. 863.

Āzād, Sarw

id., Sarw i āzād (completed in 1166/1752–3), Hyderabad (printed Lahore) 1913. Cf. pl i p. 864.

Bahār

M.T. Bahār, Sabk-shināsī, 3 volumes, Tehran 1321sh./1942.

Baihaqī

Abū l-Faḍl Muḥammad b. Ḥusain al-Baihaqī, Tārīkh i Baihaqī (alias: Tārīkh i Masʿūdī, completed—apart from some later additions—in 451/1059), ed. Ghanī and Faiyāḍ, Tehran 1324sh./1945; ed. S. Nafīsī, Tehran 1319–32sh./1940–53 and reprints; ed. ʿA.A. Faiyāḍ, Mashhad, 1350sh./1971. Cf. pl i p. 253–4, 1271 and Lazard, Langue p. 76–8.

Bākharzī

Abū Ḥasan ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Bākharzī (died 467/1075), Dumyat al-qaṣr wa ʿuṣrat ahl ¶ [5] al-ʿaṣr, ed. M.R. al-Ṭabbākh, Aleppo 1349/1930; ed. ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Muḥammad al-Ḥulw, n.p., n.d. (the preface to volume i—the only one available to me—is dated Cairo 1388/1968); ed. Sāmī Makkī al-ʿĀnī, 2 vols., Baghdad 1390–1/1970–1. (Quoted according to the running numbers, which are identical in the latter two editions.)

Bāqī

ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Nihāwandī (died probably in 1042/1632–3), Maʾāthir i Raḥīmī, ed. M. Hidayet Husain, Calcutta 1910–31. Cf. pl i p. 552–3.

Bausani

A. Pagliaro/A. Bausani, Storia della letteratura persiana, Milan 1960.

Bismil

ʿAlī Akbar Shīrāzī, Tadhkirah i dil-gushā (begun in 1237/1821–2). Unpublished. Cf. pl i p. 888–9.

de Blois, Burzōy

F. de Blois, Burzōy’s voyage to India and the origin of the Book of Kalīlah wa Dimnah (=Royal Asiatic Society, Prize Publication Fund, Vol. xxiii), London 1990.

Bosworth, Saffarids

C.E. Bosworth, The History of the Saffarids of Sistan and the Maliks of Nimruz, Costa Mesa and New York, 1994.

Brockelmann

C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Literatur. 2 volumes and 3 supplements. Weimar/Leiden 1898–1942; 2nd edition, Leiden 1943–9.

Browne, History

E.G. Browne, A literary history of Persia. 4 volumes. London 1902–24.

¶ bso(a)s

Bulletin of the School of Oriental (and African) Studies, London.

But-khanah

The tadhkirah of this name compiled by Muḥammad Ṣūfī Māzandarānī and Ḥasan Beg Khākī in 1010/1601–2 and amplified by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ʿAbbāsī in 1021/1612–3. Cited according to the numbers assigned to the biographies in Ethé, Bodl. Catalogue no. 366. Cf. pl i p. 807–8.

Buzurg

Āqā Buzurg al-Ṭihrānī, al-Dharīʿah ilā taṣānīf al-shīʿah, al-qism al-auwal min al-juzʾ al-tāsiʿ, Tehran n.d. ¶ [6]

chi

Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge 1968- (in progress).

Daulat-shāh

Daulat-shāh b. ʿAlāʾ al-daulah al-Samarqandī, Tadhkirat al-shuʿarāʾ (completed in 892/1487), ed. E.G. Browne, London/Leiden 1901. Cf. pl i p. 785–9.

dmbi

Dāʾirat i maʿārif i buzurg i islāmī, (English title-page: The Great Islamic Encyclopaedia), ed. Kāẓim Musawī Bujnūrdī, Tehran 1369sh./1990—(the first four volumes are available to me).

Doerfer

G. Doerfer, Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neuper­sischen, 4 volumes, Wiesbaden 1963–75.

Edwards

E. Edwards, A catalogue of the Persian printed books in the British Museum, London 1922.

ei¹

The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 4 volumes and Supplement, Leiden 1908–36 (also in German and French editions).

ei²

id., New edition, Leiden 1960– (in progress; also in French).

EIr.

Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater, London 1982- (in progress).

Ethé, Bodl. Catalogue

see Manuscript Collections, Oxford.

Ethé, I.O. Catalogue

see Manuscript Collections, London.

Ethé, Vorl.

H. Ethé, ‘Rûdagî’s Vorläufer und Zeitgenossen. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der ältesten Denkmäler neupersischer Poesie’, in Morgenländische Forschungen. Festschrift Herrn Professor Dr. H.L. Fleischer … gewidmet, Leipzig 1875, p. 33–68.

Fakhrī, Jawāhir

Sulṭān-Muḥammad Fakhrī al-Harawī (10th/16th century), Jawāhir al-ʿajāʾib, Lucknow 1873; also in Rāshidī’s edition of the same author’s Rauḍah, p. 109–42. Summary in Sprenger p. 11. Cf. pl i p. 797.

Fakhrī, Rauḍah

id., Rauḍat al-salāṭīn, ed. Saiyid Ḥusām al-dīn Rāshidī, Hyderabad (Sind) 1968. Cf. pl i p. 797. ¶ [7]

fiz

Farhang i Īrān-zamīn.

Fouchécour, Moralia

Ch.-H. de Fouchécour, Moralia. Les notions morales dans la littérature persane du 3^e/9^e au 7^e/13^e siècle, Paris 1986.

Fouchécour, Nature

id., La description de la nature dans la poésie lyrique persane du XI^e siècle. Inventaire et analyse des thèmes, Paris 1969.

¶ Furūzānfar

Badīʿ al-Zamān Furūzānfar, Sukhan wa sukhan-warān, Tehran 1308sh./1930 sqq. (volume ii not dated), reprint 1350sh./1971. Cf. pl i p. 920.

GIrPh

Grundriss der iranischen Philologie, ed. W. Geiger and E. Kuhn, 2 volumes, Strassburg 1896–1904.

Gulchīn i Maʿānī

Aḥmad Gulchīn i Maʿānī, Tārīkh i tadhkirah-hā i fārsī, 2 vols., Tehran 1348–50sh./1969–71.

Ḥājjī Khalīfah

Muṣṭafā b. ʿAbd Allāh (died 1067/1657), Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī l-kutub wa l-funūn, ed. G. Flügel, Leipzig 1835–58; ed. Ş. Yaltkaya, K.R. Bilge, Istanbul 1941–3.

Ḥasanī

ʿAbd al-Ḥaiy b. Fakhr al-dīn al-Ḥasanī (died 1923), Nuz’hat al-khawāṭir wa bahjat al-masāmiʿ wa l-nawāẓir, Hyderabad 1366–71/1947–51, 2nd edition 1962-.

Haz. Fird.

Hazārah i Firdausī (English title: The Millennium of Firdawsi the great national Poet of Iran), Tehran n.d. (Preface dated 1322sh./1944).

Ḥazīn

Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥazīn al-Lāhijī al-Jīlānī, Tadhkirat al-muʿāṣirīn (written in 1165/1752), Isfahan 1334sh./1956–7. Epitome in Sprenger p. 135–41. Cf. pl i p. 840–9.

Hidāyat, Majmaʿ

Riḍā Qulī Khān Hidāyat, Majmaʿ al-fuṣaḥā (completed in 1288/1871–2), two volumes, ¶ [8] Tehran 1295/1878; ed. M. Muṣaffā, Tehran 1336–40sh./1957–61. Cf. pl i p. 911–2. (Only the first volume of the new edition is at present available to me.)

Hidāyat, Riyāḍ

id., Riyāḍ al-ʿārifīn (completed in 1260/1844), Tehran 1305/1887–8; 1316sh. /1937. Cf. pl i p. 911.

Horn, Einl.

Horn’s introduction to his edition of lf (q.v.).

Ḥusainī

Mīr Ḥusain-Dōst Sanbhalī, Tadhkirah i Ḥusainī (completed in 1163/1749), Lucknow 1875. Cf. pl i p. 833.

Ibn Funduq

Ẓahīr al-dīn Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Zaid al-Baihaqī (died 565/1169–70), Tārīkh i Baihaq, ed. A. Bahman-yār, Tehran 1317sh./1929. Cf. pl i p. 354, 1271.

Idārah-chī

A. Idārah-chī Gīlānī, Shāʿirān i ham-ʿaṣr i Rūdakī, Tehran 1370sh./1991–2.

ja

Journal asiatique.

Jājarmī

Muḥammad b. Badr al-Jājarmī, Muʾnis al-aḥrār fī daqāʾiq al-ashʿār (completed in 741/1341), ed. Ṣ. Ṭabībī, 2 volumes with continuous pagination, Tehran 1337–50sh./1959–71. (The extra pages inserted between p. 144 and 145 of volume I, numbered there with Arabic letters, are quoted here as ‘i p. 144 + i’ etc.)

¶ Jāmī, Bahāristān

Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, Bahāristān (written in 892/1487), Cawnpore 1911; Tehran 1311sh./1932–3; ed. A. Afṣaḥ-zād (Afsahzod), Dushanbe 1972.

Jāmī, Nafaḥāt

id., Nafaḥāt al-uns (completed in 883/1478–9), Lucknow 1333/1914–5; ed. M. Tauḥīdī-pūr, Tehran 1336sh./1957. Cf. pl i p. 954–9.

jaos

Journal of the American Oriental Society, New Haven.

jasb

Journal (& Proceedings) of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta. ¶ [9]

jbbras

Journal of the Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society.

jnes

Journal of Near Eastern Studies.

jras

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, London.

Justi

F. Justi, Iranisches Namenbuch, Marburg 1895.

Juwainī

Tārīkh i Jahān-gushāy (completed—insofar as it is complete—in 658/1260), ed. M. Qazwīnī, London/Leiden 1912–37. Cf. pl i p. 261–4.

Kāmī

Mīr ʿAlāʾ al-Daulah Kāmī al-Qazwīnī, Nafāʾis al-maʾāthir (commenced in 973/1565–6) Unpublished. Summary in Sprenger p. 47–55. Cf. pl i p. 801–2.

Khaiyām-pūr

ʿAbd al-Rasūl Khaiyām-pūr, Farhang i sukhan-warān, Tabriz 1340sh./1961.

Khalīl, Khulāṣah

ʿAlī Ibrāhīm Khān Khalīl, Khulāṣat al-kalām (completed in 1198/1783–4). Epitome in Ethé, Bodl. Catalogue, coll. 295–302 and Bankipore Catalogue viii p. 138–46. Cf. pl i p. 877.

Khalīl, Ṣuḥuf

id., Ṣuḥuf i Ibrāhīm (completed in 1205/1790–1), ed. A.R. Bedar, Patna 1978. Epitome in Pertsch p. 628–67. Cf. pl i p. 877.

Khwānd-mīr

Ghiyāth al-dīn b. Humām al-dīn Khwānd-(a)mīr, Ḥabīb al-siyar fī akhbār afrād al-bashar (completed 930/1524), Tehran 1333sh. /1954; Bombay 1272/1855–6. Cf. pl i p. 104–9.

Khwush-gō

Safīnah i Khwush-gō (completed in 1147/1734–5), ed. Patna 1959 (non vidi). Epitome in Bodleian Catalogue, coll. 212–39 and Bankipore Catalogue viii p. 84–115. Cf. pl i p. 826–8.

Lazard, Langue

G. Lazard, La langue des plus anciens monuments de la prose persane, Paris 1963.

Lazard, Poètes

id., Les premiers poètes persans (IX^e-X^e siècles). Fragments rassemblés, édités et traduits. Two volumes. Tehran/Paris 1964.

lf

Asadî’s neupersisches Wörterbuch Lughat-i Furs … herausgegeben von Paul Horn (=Abhandlungen d. k. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, phil. -hist. Klasse, Neue Folge Band 1. Nro. 8), Berlin 1897 (A critical edition of the Vatican manuscript); Kitāb i lughat i furs, taʾlīf i Abū Manṣūr ʿAlī b. Aḥmad i Asadī i Ṭūsī … ba taṣḥīḥ wa ihtimām i ʿAbbās i Iqbāl, Tehran 1319sh./1940–1 (Based on Horn’s edition and ¶ three manuscripts in private collections, ‘ʿʿain’, ‘sīn’ and ‘nūn’); ed. M. Dabīr-Siyāqī, Tehran 1336sh./1957 (esentially a reprint of Horn and thus not quoted here); ed. F. Mujtabāʾī and ʿA.A. Ṣādiqī, Tehran 1365sh./1986 (based on a manuscript in the Panjab University Library, quoted here as ‘P’, with many variants from other as yet unpublished manuscripts); Fereshte Robabe Salimi, Farhang, the oldest extant lexicon of the Persian language, compiled by (…) Asadī Ṭūsī (…) with correction of the Persian text and translation into English, edited from the Vatican manuscript, and compared with (…) other manuscripts and editions. From section alif to šīn. (Unpublished dissertation, Cambridge, not dated in the available photocopy [ca. 1980]).

ln

Lughat-nāmah, founded by ʿA.A. Dih-khudā, continued by M. Muʿīn et al., Tehran 1325–60sh./1946–81.

Majālis al-nafāʾis

Two amplified Persian translations of the Eastern Turkish Majālis al-nafāʾis by Mīr ʿAlī-Shēr Nawāʾī (died 12 Jumādā ii 906/1501), ed. ʿA.A. Ḥikmat, Tehran 1323sh./1945, one (p. 1–178 of the edition) by Fakhrī (see above), the other (p. 179–409) an anonymous translation completed in 929/1522–3.

Majālis al-ʿushshāq

The work of this name (completed in 909/1503) attributed to Sulṭān Ḥusain b. Manṣūr b. Bāyqarā, but in fact apparently written by his subject Mīr Kamāl al-dīn Ḥusain Kāzargāhī. Ed. Cawnpore 1314/1896–7. Cf. pl i p. 960–2.

Majda

T. Majda, Katalog rękopisów orientalnych ze zbiorów polskich. Tom V. Częśé 2: Katalog rękopisów tureckich i perskich, Warsaw 1967.

Martin

Th. J. Martin, North American collections of Islamic manuscripts, Boston/New York 1977.

mdam

Majallah i dānish-kadah i adabīyāt (wa ʿulūm i insānī i dānish-gāh) i Mashhad (or: Firdausī). (Revue de la faculté des lettres de Meched).

mdat

Majallah i dānish-kadah i adabīyāt (wa ʿulūm i insārī) i Tihrān. (Revue de la faculté des lettres).

Meier, Mahsatī

F. Meier, Die schöne Mahsatī, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des persischen Vierzeilers. Band I. Wiesbaden 1963.

mf

Muḥammad Qāsim b. Ḥājjī Muḥammad Kāshānī, known as Surūrī (died after 1036/1626–7), Majmaʿ al-furs (or: Farhang i Surūrī), ed. M. Dabīr-Siyāqī, 3 vols., Tehran 1338–41sh./1960–3. Cf. pl

iii p. 23–5.

Mīkrūfīlm-hā

M.T. Dānish-pazhūh, Fihrist i mīkrūfīlm-hā i kitāb-khānah i markazī i dānish-gāh i Tihrān, 3 volumes, Tehran 1348–63sh./1969–84.

Minorsky, Iranica

V. Minorsky, Iranica. Twenty articles, Tehran 1964 (Title also in Persian: Bīst maqālah i Minorsky).

¶ Minorsky Volume

Iran and Islam. In Memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky, ed. C.E. Bosworth, Edinburgh 1971.

Mubtalā

Mardān ʿAlī Khān Mubtalā, Muntakhab al-ashʿār (written in 1161/1748). Epitome in Ethé, Bodl. Catalogue, coll. 239–55. Cf. pl i p. 829.

Mudabbirī

Maḥmūd Mudabbirī, Sharḥ i aḥwāl u ashʿār i shāʿirān i bī-dīwān dar qam-hā i 3/4/5 i hijrī i qamarī, n.p., 1370sh./1991 (Contains the collected fragments, with brief biographies and bibliographies, of most of the ‘minor’ poets discussed in this volume. Unfortunately, this work did not become available until after the publication of the major part of my first edition. I have not added references to the individual entries but refer the reader in principle to this useful publication.)

Mudarris

Muḥammad ʿAlī Mudarris Tabrīzī Khiyābānī, Raiḥānat al-adab fī tarājim al-maʿrūfīn bi l-kunyah au al-laqab, Tehran 1326sh/1947 to 1333sh./1955.

Mujmal

The anonymous Mujmal al-tawārīkh wa l-qiṣaṣ (written in 520/1126), ed. M.T. Bahār, Tehran 1318sh./1939. Cf. pl i p. 67–8, 1229.

Munz.

A. Munzawī, Fihrist i nuskhah-hā i khaṭṭī i fārsī, 6 volumes in 7, Tehran 1348sh./1969 sqq. (last volume not dated. Quoted here by the running numbers. In general I refer to ‘Munz.’ only when I have no other information about a given manuscript. See also the introductory remarks to ‘Manuscript collections’, below.)

Munz. Pak.

id., Fihrist i mushtarik i nuskhah-hā i khaṭṭī i fārsī i Pākistān, Lahore/Islamabad 1362sh./1983—(in progress).

Mushār

Khān-Bābā Mushār (and others), Fihrist i kitāb-hā i chāpī i fārsī, 5 volumes, Tehran 1350sh./1961 to 2535sh.sh./1976.

Mustaufī

Ḥamd Allāh b. Abī Bakr Mustaufī Qazwīnī, Tārīkh i guzīdah (completed in 730/1329–30), facsimile edition, London/Leyden

1910 (biographies of poets on p. 812–29); ed. ʿA. al-Ḥ. Nawāʾī, Tehran 1339sh./1960; reprinted 1362sh./1983. (Quoted according to the new edition). Cf. pl i p. 82–5, 1233.

Nachrichten … Göttingen

Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen

Nadhīr Aḥmad

‘Notes on important Arabic and Persian mss. found in various libraries in India’, jasb N.S. xiii, 1917, p. lxxvii-cxxxix, xiv, 1918, p. cxcic–ccclvi. References are to the serial numbers in the Persian section of the latter part.

Naṣrābādī

Muḥammad Ṭāhir Naṣrābādī, Tadhkirah i Ṭāhir i Nāṣrābādī (begun in 1083/1672–3), ed. W. Dastgirdī, Tehran 1317sh./1928–9. Cf. pl i p. 820–1.

¶ ndat

Nashrīyah (intermittently: Majallah) i dānish-kadah i adabīyāt (wa ʿulūm i insānī) i Tabrīz (Revue de la faculté des lettres de Tabriz).

Nithārī

Bahāʾ al-dīn Ḥasan Nithārī Bukhārī, Mudhakkir i aḥbāb (written in 974/1566–7), ed. Saiyid Muḥammad Faḍl Allāh, Hyderabad 1969. Summary in Pertsch p. 605–9. Cf. pl i p. 802–3.

Niẓām

Niẓām al-dīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Harawī, Ṭabaqāt i Akbarī (written in 1001/1592–3), ed. Lucknow 1870; Calcutta 1913–1931 (incomplete). Cf. pl i p. 433–5.

Nūrī

Nūr Allāh b. Sharīf Ḥusainī Marʿashī Shūshtarī, Majālis al-muʾminīn (completed in 1010/1602), Tehran 1260/1844. Cf. pl i p. 1129.

Nuskhah-hā

(Nashrīyah i kitāb-khānah i markazī i dānish-gāh i Tihrān dar bārah i) Nuskhah-hā i khaṭṭī. Tehran 1340sh./1961 sqq. (in progress).

ocm

Oriental College Magazine.

olz

Orientalistische Literaturzeitung.

Or. Suec.

Orientalia Suecana.

Pertsch

see Manuscript collections, Berlin.

Piemontese

Catalogo dei manoscritti persiani conservati nelle biblioteche d’Italia compilato da A.M.P. (= Ministero per i bene culturale e ambientali. Indici e catologhi. Nuova serie v), Rome 1989.

pl

the present Persian Literature. With pl i compare the much extended Russian translation by Yu. E. Bregel’: Ч.A. Стори, Персидская Литература, био-библиографический обзор, 3 volumes, Moscow 1972.

Poonawala

I.K. Poonawala, Biobibliography of Ismāʿīlī literature. Malibu 1977.

Qawwās

Fakhr al-dīn Mubārak-Shāh Qawwās, Farhang i Qawwās (end of 7th/13th or beginning of 8th/14th century), ed. Nadhīr Aḥmad, Tehran 1353sh./1974. Cf. pl iii p. 5.

Qazwīnī, Yād-dāsht-hā

Yād-dāsht-hā i [Mirzā Muḥammad i] Qazwīnī, ed. Ī. Afshār, 8 volumes, Tehran 1337–45sh./1958–66.

Rādūyānī

Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-Rādūyānī, Tarjumān al-balāghah (preserved in a unique manuscript dated Ramaḍān 507/1114), ed. A. Ateş, Istanbul 1949. Cf. Lazard, Langue p. 108.

Rastegar, Problematik

N. Rastegar, Zur Problematik einiger handschriftlichen Quellen des neupersischen Namenbuches, Vienna 1989.

Rāzī

Amīn b. Aḥmad Rāzī, Haft Iqlīm (written in 1002/1593–4), ed. J. Fāḍil, 3 volumes, n.p., n.d. (Apparently Tehran in the 1960’s. The edition has no table of contents and no index, which renders it extremely difficult to use.) Detailed epitome of the work in Ethé, I.O. Catalogue, col. 381–499. Cf. pl i p. 1169–71.

¶ Rendiconti

Rendiconti della (Reale) Accademia (nazionale) dei Lincei. Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche.

Rieu; Rieu, Suppl.

see Manuscript collections, London.

Rivāyats (Unvala)

Dârâb Hormazyâr’s Rivâyat (in Persian), ed. Ervad Manockji Rustamji Unvala, 2 vols., Bombay 1922.

Rivāyats (Dhabhar)

Ervad Bamanji Nusserwanji Dhabhar, The Persian Rivayats of Hormazyar Framarz and others (translated with many corrections and much new material), Bombay 1932.

Robinson, Paintings

see Manuscript collections, Oxford.

rso

Revisti degli studi orientali.

Rypka

J. Rypka, and others, Dějiny perské a tádžické literatury, Prague 1956; 2nd enlarged edition 1963; Iranische Literaturgeschichte (revised translation from the Czech), Leipzig 1959; History of Iranian Literature (translated, with further additions, from the previous versions), Dordrecht 1968. (All references are to the English edition.)

Saif Harawī

Saif b. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb, Tārīkh-nāmah i Harāt (ca. 721/1321; cf. pl i p. 354–5), ed. M.Z. al-Ṣiddīqī, Calcutta 1944 (contains a large number of quotations from poets of the pre-Mongol period. References have been given only to a few lesser known authors.)

Ṣafā, Ḥamāsah

Dh. Ṣafā, Ḥamāsah-sarāʾī dar Īrān az qadīm-tarīn ʿahd i tārīkhī tā qarn i chahār-dahum i hijrī, n.p., 1324sh./1946; 4th edition, Tehran 1364sh./1975–6.

Ṣafā, Tārīkh

id., Tārīkh i adabīyāt dar Īrān, Tehran 1332sh./1954– (in progress). (The earlier volumes have been re-published in several more or less revised editions; the edition used is specified in each case.)

Salimi

see lf

Sām

Sām Mīrzā b. Shāh Ismāʿīl (died 974/1566–7), Ṭuhfah i Sāmī, ed. W. Dastgirdī, Tehran 1314sh./1936; ed. R. al-D. Humāyūn-Farrukh, n.p., n.d. Cf. pl i p. 798–800, 1335.

Samʿānī

Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Muḥammad al-Samʿānī (died after 555/1160), Kitāb al-ansāb, facsimile edition, London 1912; ed. ʿA. al-R. al-Yamānī, Hyderabad 1382–6/1962–76. (Only the first 6 volumes of the new edition are available in London.)

Sandīlawī

Aḥmad ʿAlī Khān Sandīlawī, Makhzan al-gharāʾib (completed in 1218/1803–4). Epitome in Ethé, Bodl. Catalogue, col. 317–96. Cf. pl i p. 881.

Sar-khwush

Muḥammad Afḍal Sar-khwush, Kalimāt al-shuʿarāʾ, (completed ca. 1108/1696–7), ed. Lahore 1942. Cf. pl i p. 822.

sb Berlin

Sitzungsberichte der (königlichen) preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

¶ sb München

Sitzungsberichte der (königlichen) bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-philologische Klasse.

Sezgin

Fuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, Leiden 1967– (in progress).

sh.

shamsī.

sh. sh.

shāhanshāhī.

Shafīʿī-Kadkanī, Ṣuwar

M.R. Shafīʿī-Kadkanī, Ṣuwar i khiyāl dar shiʿr i pārsī, Tehran 1350sh./1971; 2nd (much expanded) edition Tehran 1358sh./1979–80; 3rd edition Tehran 1366sh./1987. (Quoted according to the 2nd/3rd edition.)

Shafīq

Lachmī Narāyan Shafīq Aurangābādī, Gul i raʿnā (completed in 1182/1768–9). Epitome in the Bankipore catalogue viii p. 129–34. Cf. pl i p. 867.

Shams

Shams al-dīn b. Qais al-Rāzī, al-Muʿjam fī maʿāyīr ashʿār al-ʿajam (written after 628/1230–1), ed. M.M. Qazwīnī, London 1909; ed. M.T. Mudarris Raḍawī, Tehran 1314sh./1935–6. See pl iii p. 179.

Shēr-Khān

Shēr-Khān b. ʿAlī Lōdī, Mirʾāt al-khayāl (completed in 1102/1690–1), ed. Bombay 1324/1906. Cf. pl i p. 823–5.

Ṣiḥāḥ

Muḥammad b. Hindū-shāh Nakhjawānī, Ṣiḥāḥ al-furs (8th/14th century), ed. ʿAbd al-ʿAlī Ṭāʿatī, Tehran 1341/1963. Cf. pl iii p. 6–7.

Sprenger

see Manuscript Collections, Lucknow.

St.

Storey’s handwritten notes.

Taqī

Taqī al-dīn Muḥammad al-Kāshānī (died after 1016/1607–8), Khulāṣat al-ashʿār wa zubdat al-afkār. Unpublished. List of poets with dates in Sprenger p. 15–46. Cf. pl i p. 803–5.

Tārīkh i Sīstān

The anonymous Tārīkh i Sīstān (probably 5th/11th century, with later additions), ed. Malik al-shuʿarāʾ Bahār, Tehran 1314sh./1935. Cf. pl i p. 364 and Lazard, Langue p. 74–5.

Tasbīḥī

Kitāb-khānah-hā i Pakistān taʾlīf i Muḥammad Ḥusain i Tasbīḥī, Islamabad 1397/1977—(in progress).

Thaʿālibī, Tatimmah

Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd Allāh b. Ismāʿīl al-Thaʿālibī (died 429/1038), Tatimmat al-yatīmah, 2 volumes, ed. ʿA. Iqbāl, Tehran 1353sh./1934–5.

Thaʿālibī, Yatīmah

id., Yatīmat al-dahr fī maḥāsin ahl al-ʿaṣr, Damascus 1304/1886–7; Cairo 1377/1957–8.

Unvala

J.M. Unvala, Collection of colophons of manuscripts bearing on Zoroastrianism in some libraries of Europe, Bombay 1940.

uziv

Ученые Записки Института Востоковедения, Leningrad.

Wālih

ʿAlī-Qulī-Khān Wālih, Riyāḍ al-shuʿarāʾ, (completed 1162/1749). Unpublished. Epitome in Ivanow, Curzon collection catalogue (Calcutta) p. 28–63. Cf. pl i p. 830–3.

¶ Waṭwāṭ

Rashīd al-dīn Waṭwāṭ (died 573/1177–8), Kitāb ḥadāʾiq al-siḥr fī daqāʾiq al-shiʿr, ed. ʿA. Iqbāl, Tehran n.d. [1308sh./1929–30]; reprinted (without Iqbāl’s notes) in the appendix to Waṭwāṭ’s dīwān, ed. S. Nafīsī, Tehran 1339sh./1960–1; reprinted again with a Russian translation by N. Yu. Chalisova, Moscow 1985. Cf. pl iii p. 176–8.

World survey

World survey of Islamic manuscripts, general editor G. Roper, 4 volumes, London 1992–4.

wzkm

Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes.

Yaghmāʾī

Namūnah i naẓm wa nathr i fārsī (the Jung in Tehran Univer­sity Library, no. 2449, undated, but apparently from the 7th/13th or 8th/14th century), ed. Ḥ. Yaghmāʾī, Tehran 1343sh./1964.

Yāqūt, Buldān

Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī (died 626/1229), Muʿjam al-buldān, ed. F. Wüstenfeld, Leipzig 1866–73; ed. Beyrouth 1955–7.

Yāqūt, Irshād

id., Irshād al-arīb ilā maʿrifat al-adīb (alias: Muʿjam al-udabāʾ), ed. D.S. Margoliouth, Leyden/London 1907–26.

Ẓahīrī

Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ẓahīrī al-Samarqandī, Sindbād-nāmah (written not long after 556/1161), ed. A. Ateş, Istanbul 1948; reprinted Tehran 1362sh./1983.

zdmg

Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft.