[IO Islamic 1023] ديوان كمال اسمعيل

Dîwân-i-Kamâl Isma’îl.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1055 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 1023 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1055

Dîwân-i-Kamâl Isma’îl (ديوان كمال اسمعيل).

The lyrical poems of Kamâl-aldîn Isma’îl bin Jamâl-aldîn Muḥammad bin ‘Abd-alrazzâḳ of Iṣfahân, who was a pupil of Suhrâwardi, panegyrist of the Ṣâ’id family, and is usually called خلاّق المعانى. He was tortured to death by the Moghuls, A.H. 635 (A.D. 1237, 1238); comp. Haft Iḳlim, No. 870, col. 441 in this Cat.; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 638-643; Rieu ii. p. 581; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 783; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 454; see also Butkhâna, No. 23 in Bodleian Cat., col. 199, and Âtashkada, No. 416, ib., col. 297. This dîwân consists of the following parts:

1.Ḳaṣîdas and tarkibbands, on fol. 1b, with a short mathnawî and two ḳiṭ’as at the end. Beginning of the first ḳaṣîdah:

اى جلال تو بيانها را زبان انداخته

عزّت ذاتت يقين را در گمان انداخته

Beginning of the mathnawî, on fol. 209a:

تا زبانم بكام جنبانست – در ثناء رئيس لنبانست

2. A large series of ḳiṭ’as, intermixed with a few ghazals, on fol. 213b. Beginning:

عشّاق كه قدر دل شناسند – دل از غم يار بر نگيرند

3. Ghazals, without any order, on fol. 319b, beginning:

اى دل و جان بياد تو زنده الخ.

4. Rubâ’îs, on fol. 359b, beginning: اى مدح تو آورده قلم را بسخن الخ.

Dated by Sulṭân ‘Alî of Mashhad, A.H. 905 (A.D. 1499, 1500).

No. 1023, ff. 412, 2 coll., each ll. 17; beautiful and clear Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each part, a vignette on fol. 1a, all the headings throughout in gold; size, 10 in. by 63/4 in.