[IO Islamic 1430] ديوان حضرت غوث الثقلين

Dîwân-i-Ḥaḍrat Ghauth-althaḳalain.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 930 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 1430 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Dîwân-i-Ḥaḍrat Ghauth-althaḳalain (ديوان حضرت غوث الثقلين).

Lyrical poems of the great founder of the Ḳâdirî order, Shâh Muḥyi-aldîn Sayyid ‘Abd-alḳâdir aljîlî, with the honorary epithet of Ghauth-althaḳalain or Ghauth ala’żam, who was born in Ramaḍân, A.H. 470 or 471 (A.D. 1078 or 1079), and died in Rabî’ II, A.H. 561 (A.D. 1166, Febr.), see Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 36. They are in alphabetical order and begin:

گر بيائى بسر تربت ويرانۀ ما

بينى از خون جگر آب زده خانۀ ما

Copied from a MS. of Nawwâb Bihrûzkhân. No date. Presented by Sir Barry Close, 14th May, 1813.

No. 1430, ff. 1-35, 2 coll., each ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; collated; size, 93/8 in. 53/4 in.