[IO Islamic 1910] شرح ديوان انورى

Sharḥ-i-dîwân-i-Anwarî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 948 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 1910 here with notations and hyperlinks].

948

Sharḥ-i-dîwân-i-Anwarî (شرح ديوان انورى).

Another commentary on Anwarî’s ḳaṣîdas and ḳiṭ’as, by Abû-alḥasan Farâhânî (or as his contemporary Naṣrâbâdî in his tadhkirah, composed between A.H. 1083 and 1092 =A.D. 1672-1681, see No. 669 in this Cat., calls him, Mîr Abû-alḥasan, a Ḥusainî Sayyid of Farâhân), see Bodleian Cat., No. 557; Rieu ii. p. 556b; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 332 and 333; Mélanges Asiatiques, iv. p. 54.

The commentary on the ḳaṣidas begins, on fol. 1b: سپاسى كه از روى گواهى الخ.

The first ḳaṣîdah commented upon is the second (or first alphabetical one) of the usual copies: باز اين چه جوانى الخ.

The ḳaṣidas conclude, on fol. 66a, with the colophon: تمام شد شرح ديوان انورى, and are followed by the commentary on the ḳiṭ’as ( شرح مقطّعات انورى از ابو الحسن فراهانى), beginning with this verse:

اى نام تو قالب عبارت را روح

در راه تو پاى عقل و دانش مجروح

Dated the 19th of Ramaḍân, in the 19th year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign (=A.H. 1087, A.D. 1676, Nov. 25).

On fol. 1a this copy is designated as الجزو الاوّل من شرح ديوان انورى.

No. 1910, ff. 91, ll. 18-19; Shikasta; size, 9 in. by 5½ in.