[IO Islamic 725] ديوان خالص

Dîwân-i-Khâliṣ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1672 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 725 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1672

Dîwân-i-Khâliṣ (ديوان خالص).

Lyrical poems by Mirzâ Sayyid Ḥusain, with the takhalluṣ Khâliṣ, who went under ‘Âlamgîr from Persia to India, obtained the title of Imtiyâzkhân, and was under Bahâdurshâh raised to the rank of a master of the horse (مير آخور پادشاهى); on his way back to Persia he was killed, A.H. 1122 (A.D. 1710, 1711); the chronogram of his death is آه آه امتيازخان , see Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 25 (col. 297 in the Bodleian Cat.); and A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 111, 121, 141, and 150; other copies of his dîwân are noticed in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 460, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 937 and 938; some of his ghazals, ib., p. 700, No. 27. This dîwân consists of ghazals, intermixed with ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, rubâ’îs, and fards, all in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 136b:

چنان دارند شوق وصل بسم الله عنوانها

كه در پرواز آيند از دو بال جلد ديوانها

(This initial bait agrees, as Sprenger has noticed, verbatim with that of Aṭharkhân bin Amîr Niżâm aldîn Raḍawî’s dîwân, see ib., p. 345.) The mathnawîs of Khâliṣ (see A. Sprenger, loc. cit., and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 698, No. 17) are not found in this or the following copy.

Dated A.H. 1138 (A.D. 1725, 1726) at Shâhjahânâbâd.

No.725, ff. 136-202, 2 coll., each ll. 12, and a third on the margin of ff. 138b-161a, 162a, 163a-174b, 176a and b, 178a-180a, 180b-187b, 192a-193b, and 195a and b, differing in lines from 2 to 32; ff. 136-187 on white, the rest on rest on red paper; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 83/8 in. by 45/8 in.