[IO Islamic 2788] ديوان عراقى

Dîwân-i-’Irâḳî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1116 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 2788 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Dîwân-i-’Irâḳî (ديوان عراقى).

A collection of lyrical poems by Fakhr-aldin Ibrâhim bin Shahriyâr ‘Irâḳî, of Hamadân, who died A.H. 686 or 688 (A.D. 1287-1289), or, according to Daulatshâh and Taḳî Kâshî, A.H. 709 (A.D. 1309), without any alphabetical order, comprising:

Ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’bands, and ghazals, with a few rubâ’îs and fards at the end. Beginning of the first ḳaṣîdah (the initial bait of which is evidently omitted), on fol. 1b:

تا كى آخر بر لب دريا نشينم خشك لب

تا كى از دون همّتى كردم بگرد آبگير

comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 680; Rieu ii. p. 593 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 440 sq.; and Rosen, Persian MSS., pp. 203-205. A small collection of ghazals is noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 700 (No. 32).

The initial poem of the Bodleian, British Museum, and Oudh copies is not found in this collection.

No date. The MS. may be 200 years old.

No. 2788, ff. 88. 2 coll., each ll. 15; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/8 in. by 5 in.