[IO Islamic 236] ديوان حسن غزنوى

Dîwân-i-Ḥasan Ghaznawî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 931 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 236 here with notations and hyperlinks].

931

Dîwân-i-Ḥasan Ghaznawî (ديوان حسن غزنوى).

The lyrical poems of the great panegyrist of Bahrâm-shâh of Ghazna (who reigned A.H. 512-547=A.D. 1118-1152), Sayyid Ashraf-aldin Ḥasan bin Nâṣir ‘alawî (so his name is given in ‘Aufî and Taḳî Kâshî, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 5, No. 72, and p. 16, No. 18, comp. also Rieu iii. p. 999b; in the preface of this copy, on fol. 2a, l. 4, he is called Abû al’alî Ḥasan bin Muḥammad alḥusainî; in the Haft Iḳlim, No. 335, col. 401 in this Cat., and the Khulâṣat-alafkâr, Bodleian Cat., col. 305, No. 76, Sharaf-aldin Ḥasan bin Nâṣir ‘alawî). He died in Juwain, A.H. 565 (A.D. 1169, 1170), see A. Sprenger, Catl., p. 16; Butkhâna, in Bodleian Cat., col. 198 ,No. 13; and Âtashkada, ib., col. 270, No. 231; comp. also No. 933 below.

A prose preface, beginning, on fol. 1b:الحمد لله ربّ العالمين و الصلوة على رسوله محمّد و آله الطاهرين و سلّم تسليمًا كثيرًا كثيرًا ‘ واجبست بر ارباب عقل و فطنت الخ.

Tarjî’s, tarkîbbands, ḳaṣîdas, ghazals, and ḳiṭ’as, all mixed together without any order, on fol. 4a, beginning:

يا رب اين مائيم و اين صدر رفيع مصطفاست

يا رب اين مائيم و اين فرق عزيز مجتباست

It agrees with the first quotation in the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 562 (Elliott Coll. 395, fol. 92b), see Bodleian Cat., col. 327.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 163b, beginning:

مقصود زآفرينش ما جانست

وين گوهرپاک را حقيقت كانست

This copy, although not dated, has been put before the following two as being comparatively the fullest.

No. 236, ff. 187, 2 coll., each ll. 14; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 9¼ in. by 5½ in.