[IO Islamic 3232] ديوان شوق

Dîwân-i-Shauḳ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1732 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 3232 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1732

Dîwân-i-Shauḳ (ديوان شوق ).

The lyrical poems of Allâhjûyâ (الله جويا), with the takhalluṣ of Shauḳ, who died, according to the prose-preface (fol. 2b, ll. 1-3), A.H. 1263, 13th of Dhû-alḥijjah (A.D. 1847, Nov. 22), near Gujarât.

Contents:

Prose-preface, on fol. 1b, a eulogium of the poet by his son, beginning:

طرفه نبود گر فدا آيد پسند اهل ذوق

زانكه طبعش ساخت با ديباچۀ ديوان شوق

(or according to a various reading on the margin in the second hemistich: كز دلش زد سر برون الخ).

Ḳaṣîdas, ghazals, rubâ’îs mixed, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 5b:

الا يا ايّها الطّالب اقم فى العشق و اكملها

كه گر همّت بود آسان نمايد جمله مشكلها

Short mathnawîs at the end (ff. 65b, last line-79b, last line). Copied by Ghulâm Muḥammad, A.H. 1270, (A.D. 1854). The copy was sent to the Imperial Exhibition at Paris for works of art and industry, by the Punjab Committee at Lahore. It was received into the library from Dr. Royle, July, 1856. The dîwân of an elder poet, with the takhalluṣ Shauḳ, is noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 1183.

No. 3232, ff. 80, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10¼ in. by 5¾ in.