[IO Islamic 90] ديوان بدر چاچ

Dîwân-i-Badr-i-Ćać.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1232 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 90 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1232

Dîwân-i-Badr-i-Ćać (ديوان بدر چاچ).

The lyrical poems of Badr-aldîn (or according to Khwashgû, Fakhr-aldîn) Muḥammad of Ćać or Shâsh (the modern Tâshkand, also called Banâkit), usually called Badr-i-Ćać , the full moon of Ćać, who was the panegyrist of Sulṭân Muḥammad bin Tughluḳ (A.H. 725-752=A.D. 1325-1351), and died after A.H. 746 (A.D. 1345, 1346); see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1532 (col. 495 in this Cat.); Bodleian Cat., No. 793; Rieu iii. pp. 1031b, 1032a, 1046a; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 367; Elliot, History of India, iii. pp. 567-573 (where some of his poems are translated). Besides his lyrical poems, he composed a شاهنامه in honour of the exploits of his patron, completed A.H. 745 (A.D. 1344, 1345), see Rieu iii. p. 1032a; the same date occurs in his dîwân, see A. Sprenger, loc. cit.; the last date that can be traced in his ḳaṣîdas is A.H. 746, see Rieu iii. p. 1046a.

The dîwân contains chiefly ḳaṣîdas, with a few ghazals, ḳiṭ’as, and rubâ’îs at the end; beginning:

حمد آن سلطان عالم را كه عالم پرور است

اُنس او در راه وحدت اِنس و جانرا رهبر است

According to A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 368, the whole dîwân has appeared in a lithographed edition, with glosses and a vocabulary, Lucknow, A.H. 1261; the ḳaṣîdas have besides been lithographed in Cawnpore, A.H. 1261, and (with a commentary) in Râmpûr, A.H. 1289.

No date. Some marginal glosses on the first pages.

No. 90, ff. 96, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 87/8 in. by 5 in.