[IO Islamic 1364] ديوان ناصر على

Dîwân-i-Nâṣir-‘Alî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1641 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 1364 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1641

The same.

Ghazals, rubâ’îs, and fards, mixed together in alphabetical order, beginning as usual. This dîwân concludes on fol. 109a and is dated the 21st of Muḥarram, A.H. 1143 (the thirteenth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign, correctly the twelfth, as his accession to the throne took place in Dhû-alḳa’dah of A.H. 1131)=A.D. 1730, Aug. 6. The remaining leaves contain:

Ff. 109b and 110a: a ḳaṣîdah by Anwarî (see above, Nos. 935-949), beginning:

قرطۀ زر چاك زد لعبت سيمين بدن الخ

Ff. 110b-113a: a mukhammas by Shâh Raḍî Fâtiḥ, i.e. Mîr Raḍî Fâtiḥ of Gîlân, a contemporary of ‘Alî Ḥazîn (see above, Nos. 677-679), mentioned in the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1971 (col. 361 in the Bodleian Cat.), beginning:

عالم همه هيولى و صورت محمّد است

جام جهان نماى حقيقت محمّد است

Fol. 113a: a mukhammas by Khânjahân Bahâdur (perhaps Kûkultâshkhân, who died A.H. 1109=A.D. 1697, 1698, see Rieu i. p. 62); beginning:

دم بمردى ميزم تا در تن من جان بود الخ

Fol. 113b: a mustazâd by Fâtiḥ, see above.

Ff. 114a-118b: letters, addressed to Manṣûrkhân, Mun’imkhân, Muḥammad Yûsufkhân, Mîr Muḥammad Ḥusain, and others.

No. 1364, ff. 49b-118b, ll. 9-17; written by different hands, partly in Nasta’lîḳ, partly in Shikasta; size, 81/4 in. by 43/4 in.