[IO Islamic 569] غزليّات حزين

Ghazaliyyât-i-Ḥazîn

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1713 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 569 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1713

Ghazaliyyât-i-Ḥazîn (غزليّات حزين).

A large collection of ghazals only, in alphabetical order, by Ḥazîn, beginning, on fol. 9b (as in the preceding copy): درين درياى الخ. They were transcribed in the very year of Ḥazîn’s death, A.H. 1180. On ff. 1b-8a another hand has written in diagonal lines a series of ḳaṣîdas and ḳiṭ’as by the same Ḥazîn, beginning, on fol. 1b:

مسخّر كرده حسن فتنه گر دلهاى مفتنونرا

سواد داغ سودا خيمۀ ليليست مجنونرا

This additional part is dated in the month Shawwâl, A.H. 1172 (A.D. 1759, June). Another complete copy of Ḥazin’s ghazals is described in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 945; a large series of them, ib., p. 699, No. 23.

The present copy belonged originally to Mr. Richard Johnson.

No. 569, ff. 321, 2 coll., each ll. 17; irregular Nasta’lîḳ; the first eight leaves written by another hand diagonal lines; size, 111/2 in. by 55/8 in.