[IO Islamic 659] ديوان حضورى

<strong>Dîwân-i-Ḥuḍûrî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1442 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 659 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1442 Dîwân-i-Ḥuḍûrî ( ديوان حضورى ). A large collection of ghazals, by Mîr ‘Azîz-allâh Ḥuḍûrî of Ḳumm, the son Mîr Sayyid ‘Alî Muḥtasib, in alphabetical order. The poet flourished under Shâh Ṭahmâsp and Shâh Isma’il II, spent thirty years of his life in Mashhad, and was a brother of Mir Shikîb, comp. Haft Iḳlim, No. 997 (col. 450 in this Cat.), Safînah, No. 259 (col. 220 in the Bodleian Cat.), Âtashkada, No. 481 (ib. col. 279), and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 596 (ib. col. 328); see also A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 30, No. 348. The date of his death is not known; at any rate it must have taken place after A.H. 984 (A.D. 1576, 1577). Beginning: الهى بوى معنى ده گل طرز بیانم را کرامت کن زبان حال گلبرگ زبانم را No date. Much worm-eaten and injured. No. 659, ff. 242, 2 coll., each ll. 15-19; written very unequally, partly in Nasta’lîḳ, partly in Shikasta; size, 8¾ in. by 5¾ in.