[IO Islamic 3314] ديوان حسن دهلوى

Dîwân-i-Ḥasan Dihlawî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1224 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 3314 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1224

Another copy of the same.

This copy, which is injured and greatly effaced in many places, contains no ḳaṣîdas, but has instead a series of short mathnawîs which are not found in the preceding copy.

Contents:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first, which begins, on fol. 1b:

مطلع ديوان بنور غيب بين آراسته

يكبيك ابوابش از فتح مبين آراسته

The second (or first alphabetical) ghazal is identical with the initial ghazal in No. 782 of the Bodleian Cat., viz.: .يا ربّ بكش خطّ كرم الخ

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 65b; the third rubâ’î agrees with the initial one in No. 780 of The Bodleian Cat.: اى فضل تو تخته شوى نادانيها الخ.

Mathnawiyyât, on fol. 71b; the first, in honour of Sulṭân ‘Alâ-aldîn Khiljî, begins: بيا اى گهر جوى درياى غيب الخ (see Rieu, loc. cit., and No. 783 of the Bodleian Cat.); another mathnawî, in honor of Shaikh Niżâm-aldîn Auliyâ, noticed in No. 780 of the Bodleian Cat., is found here on fol. 85a, and begins: بنام پادشاه بنده پرور الخ.

No date. Tenth century of the Hijrah. This copy was bought at Lucknow and formerly belonged to Mr. Richard Johnson.

No. 3314, olim 19. J. 8, ff. 86, 4 coll., two in the centre, each ll. 25, and two on each side in diagonal lines, ll. 18; Nasta’lîḳ; a small illuminated frontispiece, slightly injured; size, 101/2 in. by 67/8 in.