[IO Islamic 2232] ديوان شمس تبريز

Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1111 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 2232 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1111

The same.

A very old and large, but unfortunately somewhat confused and extremely defective copy of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s dîwân, consisting of several sections, each of which is arranged alphabetically.

First section, ghazals intermixed with Tarji’ât, on fol. 5b, beginning, like the preceding copy, with the unalphabetical poem: الحمد لله الذى الخ.

The second ghazal (the first alphabetical one) begins: داد و گفت ای پادشا چون بی نیازی تو زما الخ.

A few other ghazals in the middle and also the last one are unalphabetical; two lacunas after ff. 26 and 32, the former breaking off with the fifth bait of a ghazal in ت, beginning: باز رسيديم زميخانه مست الخ, corresponding to No. 203 (1109 in this Cat.), fol. 81a, last line; the latter with the second bait of a ghazal in د, beginning: رفتيم و بقيّه را بقا باد الخ, corresponding to No. 203, fol. 100b, margin, l. 6 ab infra.

Second section, of similar contents, on fol. 210b, beginning: عقل در يابد ترا يا عشق يا جان صفا الخ.

Lacunas after ff. 266 (267a filled with a horoscope), 298, 328, and 366; the first breaking off with the second bait of a ghazal in د, beginning: در تابش خورشيدست الخ, corresponding to No. 203, fol. 124a margin, l. 19; after the second all ghazals in ر and a number of those in ز are missing; the first complete ghazal, on fol. 299a, begins: ساقئ روحانيان روح شدم خيز خيز, corresponding to No. 203, fol. 200a margin, l. 1; the third breaking off with the fourth bait of a ghazal in م, beginning : از اصل چو حور زاد باشيم الخ, corresponding to No. 203, fol. 261b, l. 5 whilst fol. 329a opens with a poem in ن : اى زهجران تو مردم طرب و راحت من الخ; the fourth breaking off in a ghazal in ى, beginning: اگر آب و گل ما را چو جان و دل پری بودی الخ, which cannot be traced in No. 203, nor in any of the other copies.

Third section, of ghazals, on fol. 373a, beginning with a poem in د : اى كه بر روى تو خورشيد فلك كرده سجود الخ, after which at once ghazals in ر follow. A large lacuna after fol. 387 (fol. 388 filled with scribbling), which breaks off with the second bait of a ghazal in ر, beginning: اى دلير مهروى من الخ, which cannot be traced in the other copies; fol. 389a begins in the middle of a ghazal in ى. On fol. 407a sq. a series of rubâ’îs; at the end some poems without alphabetical order, again with lacunas after ff. 419 and 424.

Ff. 1-5a contain a story in prose (حكايت) not connected with the dîwân at all. At the end of the first section appears the date A.H. 825 (A.D. 1422), and the name of the traoscriber of that part of the MS., Muḥammad ‘Âdil Ḳâsimkhân, of Harât. On fol. 1a among other entries the date A.H. 1022 (A.D. 1613).

College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2232, ff. 425, 2 coll. Sometimes three and four, varying between 11 and 25 lines in a page; written partly in Nasta’lîḳ, partly in Shikasta, by a great number of different; size, 11¾ in. by 7 in.