[IO Islamic 3386] ديوان شاهى

Dîwân-i-Shâhî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1293 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 3386 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1293

Dîwân-i-Shâhî (ديوان شاهى).

Lyrical poems of Âḳâ Malik bin Jamâl-aldîn Amîr Shâhî of Sabzwâr in Khurâsân, belonging to the princely family of the Sarbadârs, who died in Astarâbâd, A.H. 857 (A.D. 1453), see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 771, col. 434 in this Cat, and comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 875-881; Rieu ii. p. 640; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 864; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 563; G. Flügel i. p. 562 sq.; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 119; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 366; Rosen, Persian MSS., pp. 205, 209, and 210; J. C. Tornberg, p. 105; Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, pp. 139-143; Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 286, No. 5480.

This copy contains:

A murabba’, on fol. 2b, beginning: شكر خداوند كه در ابتدا الخ.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first (which rhymes in; and begins:يا رب بسوز سينۀ رندان پاکباز الخ, corresponding to fol. 27b in the following copy); the second, i.e. the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol. 3b, is the usual one:اى نقش بسته نام خطت با سرشت ما الخ.

At the end a few rubâ’îs.

Ff. 27-42 are misplaced; their order is: 27, 39, 40, 28-38, 41, 42.

Dated A.H. 929 (A.D. 1522, 1523).

No. 3386, olim 13. J. 18, ff. 43, 2 coll., each ll. 14; Nasta’lîḳ; two pictures on ff. 1b and 2a; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 2b; small gilt headings throughout; size, 8 in. by 4¾ in.