[IO Islamic 1078] ديوان ناصر على

Dîwân-i-Nâṣir-‘Alî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1639 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 1078 here with notations and hyperlinks].

Nâṣir ‘Alî (Nos. 1639-1648).

1639

Dîwân-i-Nâṣir ‘Alî (ديوان ناصر على).

The lyrical poems of Shaikh (or Shâh) Nâṣir ‘Alî of Sirhind, who died at Dihlî the 6th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1108 (A.D. 1697, March 29); comp. Rieu ii. p. 699 sq.; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1150-1152; W. Pertsch, p. 80; and Berlin Cat., p. 936; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 113, 126, 151, 201, and 329; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 107; see also Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 167 (No. 109); Muntakhab-alash’âr, No. 458 (col. 249 in the Bodleian Cat.); Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 178 (ib., col. 308), and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1743 (ib., col. 355). All tadhkiras agree about the date A.H. 1108, but a strange contradiction appears in the chronogram, composed by Sarkhwush, the friend of the poet and the collector of his dîwân: آه على بعالم معنى رفت , which gives A.H. 1109, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 113, and the Khulâṣat-alkalâm, loc. cit. This copy, the fullest in the India Office Collection, contains:

Ghazals, rubâ’îs, and fards, all mixed together in alphabetical order, with interlinear and marginal glosses, on fol.1b, beginning:

محبّت جادّۀ دارد نهان در خلوت دلها الخ

At the end of this part another series of rubâ’îs (on ff. 95a-99b).

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 100a, beginning:

گداخت بسكه هواى تموز مغز خيال الخ

The poet’s name appears as takhalluṣ several times, for instance, on fol. 106b, I. 8. The diwân has been lithographed in Lucknow, 1844, A.H. 1263 and 1281.

Copied by Khwâjah ‘Ażim in the twenty-ninth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign (=A.H. 1160, A.D. 1747); the larger portion of the dîwân, i.e. to the end of the rubâ’îs, was finished the 19th of Muḥarram in that year (1747, Jan. 31).

No. 1078, ff. 110, 2 coll., each ll. 14; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 5½ in.