[IO Islamic 466] ديوان ابن يمين

Dîwân-i-Ibn Yamîn. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1230 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 466 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1230 Dîwân-i-Ibn Yamîn (ديوان ابن يمين). An incomplete copy of the poetical works of Amîr Fakhr-aldîn Maḥmûd bin Amîr Yamîn-aldîn Muḥammad Mustaufî of Faryûmad (three days’ journey from Sabz-wâr), commonly known as Ibn Yamîn, who died in Faryûmad, A.H. 745 (A.D. 1344, 1345); see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 770 (col. 434 in this Cat.); Bodleian Cat., Nos. 790-792; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 433, 434; G. Flügel i. p. 545; Rieu ii. p. 825b; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 86, etc.; and Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 358. The statement made in the last-named Catalogue, that the poet (according to the preface of his dîwân) wrote or collected his poems in A.H. 756 (A.D. 1355) is probably due to some kind of error, as according to one of Sprenger’s copies already in A.H. 753 (A.D. 1352) one of the poet’s friends compiled a preface to the collected diwân. The present collection contains: Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b, beginning, ابتدا ميكنم بنام خدا ( the second hemistich is torn away), agreeing with the beginning of No. 791 in the Bodleian Cat.; the second bait of this initial ghazal, viz. اى خداوند قادر يكتا - مبدء كون خالق اشيا Corresponds to the beginning of No. 790 in the Bodleian Cat., and of the second copy in Sprenger’s Catal., p. 434, l. 12. One tarjî’band, on fol. 91a, beginning (as in No. 790 of the Bodleian Cat.): چو نور ذات در تابد زذرّات دو عالم محو گردد در يكى ذات A few rubâ’îs, one mukhammas, and some fards, on fol. 94b; beginning of the first poem: طلب كن تا خبر از گنج يابى تو كى اين گنج را بى رنج يابى Three mystical mathnawîs, the first of which begins, on fol. 99b: كون و مكان (read نَبُد) پیش از آندم كه نبود بود آن گنج گرانمایه نهان corresponding to the first mathnawî in No. 791 of the Bodleian Cat., and seems to contain six majlis; the second, on fol. 111a, is headed: نسخۀ دلفريب جان سوز است نام اين نسخه مجلس افروز است from which it is evident that its title is مجلس افروز (which also appears in the last bait on fol. 124a); the third, on fol. 124a (like the first without any heading), begins with the initial bait of the preceding section (on fol. 94b), viz. طلب كن تا خبر از گنج يابى الخ ; this mathnawî breaks off on fol. 125b; there are besides two lacunas, one after fol. 2 and the other after fol. 51, and some leaves are severely injured. No. 466, ff. 125, partly 3 coll., the first and third ll. 10, the middle in diagonal lines, ll. 6; and partly 2 coll., each ll. 13; irregular Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¾ in. by 5½ in.