[IO Islamic 132] ديوان اثير اخسيكتى

Dîwân-i-Athir Akhsîkatî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1029 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 132 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1029

Dîwân-i-Athir Akhsîkatî (ديوان اثير اخسيكتى).

Lyrical poems by Athîr-aldîn, a native of Akhsîkat or, as the name is written here distinctly, Akhsîkath (اخسيكث), the largest town of Farghâna after Andijân, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1528 (col. 495 above); Butkhâna, No. 14 in Bodleian Cat., col. 198; Âtashkada, No. 712, ib., col. 268; Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 25, ib., col. 303; Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 10, ib., col. 317, etc. He came from Akhsîkat or Akhsîkath (also spelt Akhsitak or Âkhsitak) to Khurâsân, and later on to the Persian ‘Irâḳ, where he lived as panegyrist of Sulṭân Arslân bin Ṭughrul (A.H. 556-571=A.D. 1161-1176); he afterwards retired to Khalkâl in Âdharbaijân and died A.H. 608 (A.D. 1211, 1212); comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 620; Rieu ii. p. 563; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 345; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 26, No. 1, and p. 29, No. 13.

The collection contains Ḳaṣidas mixed with ḳiṭ’as and some rubâ’îs at the end.

Beginning, on fol. 19b:

جهانرا هم جهانبانيست پيذابين پنهان دان

كه زير گنبد نيلى پديذ آورد چار اركان

This dîwân forms the second part of the old collection of six Persian dîwâns (see Nos. 903, 911, 913, and 1028 above), written A.H. 713 and 714 (A.D. 1313, 1314), by ‘Abd-almu’min al’alawî alkâshî.

No. 132, ff. 19-47, 6 coll., each ll. 40; striking old Naskhî; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 19b, and a vignette on fol. 19a; miniature paintings throughout; size, 153/4 in. by 11 in.