[IO Islamic 1738] ديوان آزاد

Dîwân-i-Âzâd

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1722 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 1738 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1722

Dîwân-i-Âzâd (ديوان آزاد).

Lyrical poems by Mîr Ghulâm ‘Alî Ḥusainî Wâsiṭî Balgrâmî, with the takhalluṣ Âzâd, who has been mentioned already as the first editor of the مآثر الامرا and as author of the روضة الاوليا, the مآثر الكرام, the سرو آزاد, and the خزانۀ عامره (see above, Nos. 622 sq., 655, and 682-690); he died towards the end of A.H. 1200 (A.D. 1786, September).

Contents:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b, beginning:

بر آر از مدّ بسم الله تيغ خوشمقالى را

مسخّر كن سواد اعظم نازك خيالى را

A few rubâ’îs and ta’rîkhât, on fol. 94b sq.

No date. This copy is probably Âzâd’s autograph, but another hand has supplied a few pages and also a great number of additional ghazals on the margin.

Another copy of this dîwân in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 364. A detailed biography with a full list of Âzâd’s Persian works is noticed in Rieu iii. p. 978a (the غزلان الهند, mentioned there, is preserved in a copy of the Berlin Library, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 1001; it was composed A.H. 1177 (A.D. 1763, 1764).

No. 1738, ff. 97, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8¼ in. by 4¾ in.