[IO Islamic 906] ديوان كمال خجندى

Dîwân-i-Kamâl Khujandî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1278 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 906 here with notations and hyperlinks].

Poets who died between A.H. 800 and 900.

1278

Dîwân-i-Kamâl Khujandî (ديوان كمال خجندى).

The lyrical poems of Shaikh Kamâl-aldîn Mas’ûd of Khujand in Transoxania, who died in Tabrîz, according to the best authorities, A.H. 803 (A.D. 1400, 1401), see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1525 (col. 494 in this Cat.). Other, less trustworthy, dates of his death are A.H. 792 (A.D. 1390), according to Daulatshâh, the Safînah, the Âtashkada (see Bodleian Cat., col. 209, No. 41), etc., A.H. 793 (A.D. 1391), see Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 119 and note 2 ib., and A.H. 808 (A.D. 1405, 1406), see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 857, 858; Rieu ii. p. 632; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 855; G. Flügel i. p. 557; J. Aumer, p. 27; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 454; Fleischer, Dresden Cat., p. 7; J. C. Tornberg, p. 103; Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, p. 192; Bland, Century of Ghazals, No. 3, etc.

Contents:

One ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 1b, beginning:

افتتاح سخن آن به كه كنند اهل كمال

به ثناى ملك الملك خداى متعال

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 2b, beginning:

جهانى پر ز مقصودست ورای روشن و پیدا

دریغا تشنه لب خواهیم مردن بر لب دریا

The initial ghazal of Sprenger’s copy in Cat. Oudh is found here, on fol. 11b.

Ḳiṭ’as, rubâ’îs, and a few fards, on fol. 231a.

Beginning of the ḳiṭ’as:

چو دیوان کمال افتد بدستت

نویس از شعر او چندانکه خواهی

Beginning of the rubâ’îs, on fol. 235b:

تا فكرت من نهاد بنياد سخن

آباد شد از من طرب آباد سخن

Dated A.H. 971 (A.D. 1563, 1564), at Marw, By Muḥammad Ḥusain bin Ghiyâth-aldîn ‘Alî Jâmî. On several pages one or two hemistichs are omitted.

No. 906, ff. 237, 2 coll., each ll. 14: Nasta’lîḳ, the first two pages richly illuminated; size, 91/4 in. by 6 in.