[IO Islamic 95] ديوان ناصر على

Dîwân-i-Nâṣir-‘Alî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1640 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 95 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1640

Another copy of the same dîwân.

The same dîwân, without the ḳaṣîdas, chiefly consisting of ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b, beginning as in the preceding copy. The ghazals conclude on fol. 73a and are dated the 25th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1132 (the first year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign) = A.D. 1720, Jan 7, at Shâhjahânâbâd, during the governorship of Nawwâb Najm-aldîn ‘Alîkhân Bahâdur.

The remaining leaves contain:

Fol. 73b: nine mathnawî-baits by the حكيم غزنوى (i.e. Ḥakîm Sanâ’î of Ghazna, see above, No. 914 sq.), beginning:

بود در شهر بلخ بقّالى الخ

Ff. 74b-78a: a mathnawî which has no heading, but is clearly identical with the Sarâpâi (سراپاى) or ‘description of the human figure,’ by Mîr Sayyid ‘Alî Mihrî ‘Arab, who flourished under Sulṭân Ḥusain of Persia (A.H. 1105-1135=A.D. 1694-1722), and died about A.H. 1130 (A.D. 1718); comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 1168; Rieu ii. pp. 796a and 850b; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 680 (No. 671, fol. 43b) and p.696, No. 9; Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 67 (Bodleian Cat., Col. 301); and Khulâṣat-alfkâr, No. 249 (ib., col. 311). Beginning:

اى بت چابك شيرين حركات الخ

Fol. 78b: some line prose, beginning: بعد از نماز مغرب دو ركعت نماز الخ.

No. 95, ff. 1-78, 2 coll., each ll. 15; on ff. 74a-78a diagonal lines; Shikasta; various readings and additions on the margin; the first pages greatly injured; size, 8¼ in. by 4¾ in.