[IO Islamic 210] ديوان آفتاب

Dîwân-i-Âftâb

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1727 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 210 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1727

Dîwân-i-Âftâb (ديوان آفتاب).

The lyrical poems of the emperor Shâh ‘Âlam (reigned A.H. 1173-1221=A.D. 1759-1806), with the takhalluṣ Âftâb; see Bodleian Cat., No. 1195; Rieu ii. p. 720; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 318; J. Aumer, p. 40, etc. He is also known as a Hindûstânî poet, see Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la Littér. Hindouie etc., i. p. 137, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 597, where besides his Rekhta dîwân a Rekhta mathnawî from his pen is also noticed, entitled منظوم اقدس, and containing the story of the king of China, Mużaffarshâh.

This dîwân contains only ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning (as in the usual copies of Âftâb’s poems):

الهى از كرم چون پادشاهى دادۀ مارا

مطيع حكم ما از لطف كن اقليم دلهارا

No date. Quite modern copy.

No. 210, ff. 69, 2 coll., each ll. 13; very distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 6½ in.