[IO Islamic 1639] ديوان حسن دهلوى

Dîwân-i-Ḥasan Dihlawî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1226 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 1639 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1226

The same.

Another undated copy, containing:

Ghazals in alphabetical order, except the first three.

Beginning of the initial ghazal, on fol. 1b:

بنامت مي گشايم نامه را بند

كه جانم را بياد تست پيوند

The second ghazal corresponds to the initial one in the preceding copy.

Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol. 2b:

اى خطّ خوش از مشك تر انگيخته مه را

در دفتر طاعت رقم رانده گنه را

The first alphabetical ghazal of No. 2174 (1223 in this Cat.) is found here on fol. 5a, but with some modifications in the first hemistich, viz.: اى بر فراز مهر روان برده ماه را الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 157b.

Colophon: هذا ديوان من تصنيف حضرت حسن دهلوى همعصر حضرت امير خسرو كه از خلفاى رشيد حضرت سلطان الاوليا نظام الدين محبوب الهى است‘.

No. 1639, ff. 161, 2 coll., each ll. 12-13; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece: large waterspots throughout; size, 7¾ in. by 5 in.