[IO Islamic 1625] ديوان راجا

Dîwân-i-Râjâ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1702 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 1625 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1702

Dîwân-i-Râjâ (ديوان راجا).

Lyrical poems by a poet with the takhalluṣ Râjâ (راجا) or Râjah (راجه), who is not mentioned in any tadhkirah. Copies of his ghazals are noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 1179, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 539. According to the date of the present copy he must have flourished in or before the middle of the twelfth century of Hijrah.

Contents:

Ghazals, without alphabetical arrangement, intermixed with a few ḳiṭ’as and mathnawî-baits, beginning as in the Bodleian and Sprenger’s copies: روئيكه من بديدم اندر عيان نگنجد الخ.

Dated A.H. 1158 (A.D. 1745). At the end of the dîwân there is added by another hand a short fragment of a curious Persian prose-treatise in two bâbs, viz.

باب اوّل در بيان محافظت

باب دوم در دانستن ديو و پرى و كُفّار و عَفَارِيت و سحر و مانند آن

No. 1625, ff. 1-17, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/2 in. by 51/2 in.