[IO Islamic 952] ديوان فيضى

Dîwân-i-Faiḍî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1465 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 952 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1465

Another copy of the same dîwân.

Contents:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b, beginning:

مطرب بلند ساز كن امشب ترانه را

وز شعر من بخوان غزل عاشقانه را

corresponding to the third ghazal in the preceding copy (fol. 113a). At the end of ghazals, the last of which is unalphabetical and rhymes in 1, there are found one ḳaṣîdah and two short mathnawîs. Beginning of the first mathnawî, on fol. 100a:

اين منم امروز درين بوستان

مرغ شكر خوارۀ هندوستان

Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 106a, beginning:

بحمد الله كه اين سلك جواهر

شد از كلك گهر افشان فيضى

At the end, one ghazal.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 111a, beginning:

تا هست بلند شمع كافورئ ماه

تابان زرواق اين منقّش خرگاه

This rubâ’î is found on fol. 322b, ll. 3 and 4 in the preceding copy.

Ḳaṣîdas, and a few tarjî’s, on fol. 119a, beginning:

بر سفرۀ ارباب تحمّل بنشينيم

خوان كرم و بانگ صلا را نشناسیم

At the end one rubâ’î.

The last pages from fol. 158a down to the end contains mere repetitions of former parts of the copy, viz. the rubâ’îs (ff. 111a-118b), the ḳiṭ’as (ff. 106a-110b), and the second mathnawî (fol. 105).

No. 952, ff. 171, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ size, 8 in. by 5 in.