[IO Islamic 914] ديوان مشفقى

<strong>Dîwân-i-Mushfiḳî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1446 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 914 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1446 Dîwân-i-Mushfiḳî (ديوان مشفقى ). The <em>first dîwân</em> of Mullâ Mushfiḳî of Bukhârâ, who went twice to India under Akbar, but returned again to Bukhârâ where he died, comp. Blochmann, Â’în-i-Akbarî, English translation, vol. i. p. 583. He was born A.H. 945 (A.D. 1538, 1539), and died A.H. 994 (A.D. 1586); his family was of Marw; see also A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 64, ll. 1 and 2; Safînah, No. 310 (col. 221 in the Bodleian Cat.), and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2374 (ib. col. 375). This <em>first</em> collection of his lyrical poems was made, according to the ta’rîkh at the end (اتمام يافت), A.H. 973 (A.D. 1565, 1566), and contains chiefly ghazals in alphabetical order, with a few ḳiṭ’as, a muthallath, and short series of rubâ’is at the end. Beginning: صراحى را زبان باده صيقل شد بمحفلها بيا ساقى ببر زنگ غم از آئينۀ دلها A copy of the <em>second dîwân</em> of Mushfiḳî, collected A.H. 983 (A.D. 1575, 1576), is described in the Bodleian Cat., No. 1044; and in A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 508 and 509. No date. No. 914, ff. 79, 2 coll., each ll. 15; clear Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; a few other illuminations on the first two pages; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^1/2 in.