[IO Islamic 2596] ديوان برهمن

Dîwân-i-Brahman

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1575 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 2596 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1575

Another copy of the same dîwân.

Beginning as in the preceding copy. Brahman’s dîwân comprises ff. 16a-80b, the first two pages of which (except the last line of fol. 16b) are repeated by another hand on fol. 90 (which is turned upside down):

The remaining leaves of this MS. contain:

1.On ff. 1a-15b a collection of lyrical poetry, comprising: (a) poems, by Mîr Muḥammad Majdhûb of Tabrîz (who collected his dîwân in A.H. 1063=A.D. 1653, and died A.H. 1093=A.D. 1682, see A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 479 and 480, and Rieu ii. pp. 696, 697), on fol. 1a sq.; (b) mathnawî-baits, by Mullâ Żuhûrî (see above, Nos. 1500-1514), on fol. 11a; (c) a مربّع , by Mullâ Waḥshî (see above, Nos. 1444 and 1445), on fol. 11b; (d) miscellaneous verses, some by Âdhurî (see above, Nos. 709-711), on fol. 13b.

2.On ff. 81a-86b the allegorical story of Ḥusn u Dil (حسن و دل), or ‘beauty and heart,’ which is , however, different from the well-known romance of the same title by Fattâḥî (who died A.H. 852=A.D.1448, comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 1343). It begins: سپاس و ستايش مر حضرت احمديّت را .... امّا بعد ازين آنچه در خاطر اين ضعيف بود قلمى نمود ابيات كه از نقل بزرگان استماع است نيز تحرير يافت .... و نام اين رساله حسن ودل بنهاده شد و عبارت او نيز بحسن ودل پرداخته’ چنين آورده اند كه در ولايت شرق بدن نام شهرى بود كه در آن شهر عقل پادشاهى ميكرد الخ.

3.On ff. 87a-89b and 91a-95a poetical and other miscellanies, comprising: (a) mathnawî-baits, by Nîmathkhân’Âlî (who died A.H. 1121 or 1122 = A.D. 1709-1711, see below, Nos. 1659-1671), etc., on fol. 87a; (b) a short tradition, in prose, on fol. 89a; (c) a eulogy on the twelve Imâms (منقب دوازده امام ), on fol. 91a; (d) ghazals, by Ḳaṣṣâb (contemporary with Ṣâ’ib), Shâkir (still alive in A.H. 1136), and some Rekhta poetry, on fol. 93a sq.

Bibliotheca Leydeiana.

No. 2596, ff. 95, 2 coll., each ll. 12-13 on ff. 16-80 and 87-90, ll. 20 on ff. 81-86, the remainder in diagonal lines by various hands in careless Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; size, 97/8 in. by 57/8 in.