[IO Islamic 1841] ديوان فرّخى

Dîwân-i-Farrukhî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 902 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 1841 here with notations and hyperlinks].

2. Poets contemporary with and subsequent To Firdausî.

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Dîwân-i-Farrukhî (ديوان فرّخى).

The very rare dîwân of the court-poet of Sulṭân Maḥmûd of Ghazna, Ustâd Abû-alḥasan ‘Alî bin Jûlû’ (or Ḳûlû’) Farrukhî, a native of Sîstân, whose death is fixed by Taḳî Kâshî in A.H. 470 (A.D. 1077, 1078); see A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 3, No. 22, and 15, No. 3; compare besides Âtashkada, No. 198 (Bodleian Cat., col. 269, where a work on poetry and rhetorical art, ترجمان البلاغة, is ascribed to him); Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 207 (ib., col. 309, where he is called a pupil of ‘Unṣurî, the king of poets at Sulṭân Maḥmûd’s court); Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1839 (ib., col. 358); Haft Iḳlîm, No. 302 (col. 399 in this Cat.), and Bodleian Cat., col. 823. But a much earlier and – as it seems- more correct date for his demise is given in Riḍâ Ḳulîkhân’s very reliable work, the مجمع الفصحا, vol. i. p. 439, viz. A.H. 429 (A.D. 1037, 1038); see also Schefer, Chrestomathic Persane, vol. ii. pp. 242-246, and pp. ٢٤٧-٢٥٢, where a few select poems in Persian text are given. There are two other complete copies of this dîwân in the British Museum (Or. 2945 and 3246). The present copy is unfortunately much damaged, whole portions of the first thirteen leaves having been torn away. The dîwân consists chiefly of ḳaṣîdas and tarjî’bands, with a few ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs at the end.

Beginning: زبهر تهنيت عيد بامداد پگاه الخ.

The second hemistich of this initial bait is partly destroyed.

The second ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 2a, alludes to Sulṭân Maḥmûd’s conquest of Ḳannûj, viz.:

توئى كنندۀ دين محمّد مختار

يمين دولت محمود قاهر كفّار

چو بازگشت بفيروزى از در قنّوج الخ

No date.

No. 1841, ff. 200, 2 coll., each ll. 22-23; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/2 in. by 5 in.