[IO Islamic 3373] ديوان آصف

Dîwân-i-Âsaf

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1604 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 3373 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1604

Dîwân-i-Âsaf (ديوان آصف).

An incomplete copy of the lyrical poems of Âṣaf, i.e. Muḥammad Ḳuli Âṣaf or Âṣafâ of Ḳumm, who came to India under Shâhjahân; he was still alive in A.H. 1083, but had died in A.H. 1093, see A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 97 and 109, and Beale׳s Oriental Biogr. Dictionary, p. 54b; see also No. 1487 above. This diwân is arranged alphabetically, consists of ḳaṣîdas and ghazals, but goes down only to the letter د; it breaks off at the end of a ghazal rhyming in دارد.There are besides small lacunas after ff. 9 and 11. Beginning:

صبح دميد بال ده نالۀ عذر خواه را

پاك زرنگ جهل كن آئنه گناه را

No. 3373, olim 13. J. 9, ff. 504, ll. 11-20; written very unequally by different hands, partly in careful and distinct Nasta’lîḳ, partly in very careless Nasta’lîḳ and even Shikasta; illuminated frontispiece; size, 37/8 in. by 45/8 in.