[IO Islamic 2751] ديوان فصيحى

Dîwân-i-Faṣîḥî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1537 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 2751 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1537

Dîwân-i-Faṣîḥî (ديوان فصيحى).

Lyrical poems, by Mirzâ Faṣîḥî Anṣârî of Harât, who was a contemporary of Ḥakîm Shifâ’î (see Nos. 1531-1533 above), and the spiritual guide of Jalâl Asir (see Nos. 1541-1551), Nâżim of Harât (see Nos. 1593-1598), and Darwîsh Wâlib. He was first in the service of Ḥasankhân Shâmlû, and afterwards patronized by Shâh ‘Abbâs the Great. He died A.H. 1046 (A.D. 1636, 1637), and left about 6,000 verses; compare on this poet A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 91, 151, and 390; Safînah, No. 665 (col. 233 in the Bodleian Cat.); Âtashkada, No. 300 (ib., col. 273), and Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 209 (ib., col. 309).

Contents:

Ḳaṣidas, on fol. 132b, beginning:

هين كه صبا بر فگند پرده زرخسار يار

از دل شب جلوه كرد صبح پسین آشكار

Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 165b, beginning:

چشمه ساری کرده پنهان در کهستان دماغ

فیض ابداع خرد کردش لقب فیض آفرين

One ghazal, on fol. 183b.

Tarkibbands, on fol. 184a, beginning:

هر چنه که من شعلۀ افسرده غبارم

در خرمن خود شوختر از باد بهارم

A mathnawî, on fol. 201b, beginning:

سبحان الله چه بارگاهست – اين عرش مقدّس الهست

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 211b, beginning:

خدايا روزئ اين خود پرستان ساز جنّت را

كه دوزخ جنّت است آتش پرستان محبّت را

(See a different wording of this initial bait in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 390.)

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 262a, defective at the end, beginning:

اى نام تو روح قدس پیکر لب ما

وز نام تو داغ دل كوثر لب ما

No date.

No. 2751, ff. 132-268, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 93/8 in. by 61/8 in.