[IO Islamic 694] ديوان ابو تراببيگ

Mirzâ Abû Turâbbeg

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1523 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 694 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1523

Dîwân-i-Abû Turâbbeg (ديوان ابو تراببيگ).

Lyrical poems by Mirzâ Abû Turâbbeg of Anjudân, who likewise flourished under Shâh ‘Abbâs, see Safînah, No. 607 (col. 231 in the Bodleian Cat.); he appears to be identical with the poet of the same name and birthplace, the son of Mirzâ ‘Alîkhân, mentioned in the Muntakhab-alash’âr, No. 479 (ib., col. 249), and the Âtashkada, No. 497 (ib., col. 280), where it is stated, that he flourished in Kâshân (therefore often styled Kâshî), and was wazîr of Maḳṣûdbeg.

This collection contains:

Ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, and tarkîbbands, beginning, on fol. 67b:

دگر زلالۀ نورسته كوه و فصل بهار

چه (چو) مادريست كه فرزند پرورد بكنار

Ghazals, rubâ’îs, and fards, in alphabetical order, with another short series of rûbâ’îs at the end, beginning, on fol. 85b:

اى زتو بند بر زبان نطق سخن سرايرا

فكر تو باعث جنون عقل گره گشایرا

Three chronograms, on fol. 85a and b, giving the dates A.H. 1005, 1008, and 1012 (A.D. 1596, 1597; 1599, 1600; and 1603, 1604).

This copy is dated the 27th of Rajab, A.H. 1077 (A.D. 1667, Jan. 23), by Muḥammad Kâżim bin Muḥammad Ḥusain Ṭâlib.

No. 694, ff. 67-113, 2 coll., each ll. 14; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 6¾ in. by 4 in.