[IO Islamic 282] ديوان فائح

Dîwân-i-Fâ’iḥ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1736 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 282 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1736

Dîwân-i-Fâ’iḥ (ديوان فائح).

The dîwân of a Persian poet with the takhlluṣ Fâ’iḥ, who is not mentioned in any tadhkirah. It consists merely of ghazals, in alphabetical order, and is incomplete at the end, breaking off in the midst of the letter ك.

Beginning:الهى زاتش دل آب ده تيغ زبانم را الخ.

Many pages are severely injured; a great number of baits besides are crossed out. Some additional ghazals are found on the margin of the eight leaves.

The last bait, which occurs here on fol. 175b, runs thus:

تصوير ترا خواست كند نقش مصوّر

شد بار وجود تو زنازك بدنى رنگ

The proper order of ff. 40-47 is: 40, 45, 46, 41-44, 47.

No. 282, ff. 175, 2 coll., each ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ size, 8¼ in. by 4¾ in.