[IO Islamic 2318] ديوان ولى

Dîwân-i-Walî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1482 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 2318 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1482

Another copy of the same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1a, beginning:

اى دل و جان درد و غمت را وطن

هر دو فداى تو چه جان و چه تن

It corresponds to the second ḳaṣîdah in the preceding copy.

Ghazals and rubâ’îs, in alphabetical order, on fol. 68a, beginning as in the preceding copy.

Short mathnawîs, and a few additional ghazals, on fol. 101a sq.; where also the margin is filled with poetry.

At the end this dîwân is wrongly ascribed to Nâṣir ‘Alî (who died A.H. 1108=A.D. 1696, 1697).

On fol. 1a the poet is called several times Walî Mashrab or Mushrib (ولى مشرب).

Dated the 17th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1177 (A.D. 1763, Dec. 23), by Mullâ Sayyid Hârî at Pêshâwar.

College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2318, ff. 105, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 41/8 in.