[IO Islamic 495] ديوان قاسم انوار

Dîwân-i-Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1285 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 495 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1285

Dîwân-i-Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr (ديوان قاسم انوار).

The lyrical poems of Sayyid Mu’în-aldîn ‘Alî Kâsim-i-Anwâr, with the two takhalluṣes Ḳâsim and Ḳâsimî, born in Sarâb, near Tabrîz, A.H. 757 (A.D. 1356), died at Kharjird, near Jâm, A.H. 837 (A.D. 1433, 1434); see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1314, col.476 above, and comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 862-866; Rieu ii. p. 635 sq.; W. Pertsch, p. 101, and Berlin Cat., p. 860 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 532; G. Flügel i. pp. 558, 559; J. Aumer, p. 28; Bland, Century of Persian Ghazals, No. 6; etc.

Contents:

Daulatshâh’s account of Ḳâsim’s life and works (ذكر سيّد قاسم انوار), on fol. 1b, beginning: درّ درياى حقيقت الخ. Daulatshâh is the only biographer who, with his usual inaccuracy, fixes the poet’s death in A.H. 835 (A.D. 1431, 1432).

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first two, on fol. 9b. Beginning of the initial ghazal:

من بيچارۀ سودازده سرگردانم

که باوصاف خداوند سخن چون رانم

Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol. 10b:

اى صبح سعادت ز جبين تو هويدا

اين حسن چه حسنست تبارک تعالی

Tarjî’bands, ḳiṭ’as, short mathnawîs, and rubâ’îs, on fol. 209a, beginning:

بيا اى عشق عالمسوز بى غم

قدم بر چشم من نه خیر مقدم

(see No. 863 in the Bodleian Cat.).

This copy is dated the 4th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1028 (A.D. 1619, May 19), by ‘Abd-allaṭîf al-’Abbâsî (the learned editor and commentator of Sanâ’i’s Ḥadîḳah and Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s mathnawî, see above, Nos. 923, 924, 1088-1091, 1101, 1102), who wrote it for Mirzâ Muḥammad Ashraf.

No. 495, ff. 227, 2 coll., each ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; two small pictures, the first rather effaced, on ff. 18b and 39a; blanks on ff. 140b and 200a; size, 63/8 in. by 31/2 in.