[IO Islamic 2836] ديوان قدسى

Dîwân-i-Ḳudsî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1556 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 2836 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1556

A defective copy of the same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1b, in alphabetical order, beginning: من آن نيم كه كنم الخ.

This part breaks off, on fol. 46b, with the last bait of a ḳaṣîdah, rhyming in ه ; the beginning of this ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 46a, corresponds to fol. 270a, l. 9 in No. 1552, where it forms the fifteenth verse of it, but by a slight modification in the first hemistich it has been made here to resemble a proper initial bait; the last verse, on fol. 46b, agrees with fol. 270b, ll. 11 and 12 in No. 1552; fol. 47 contains the fragment of another ḳaṣîdah, rhyming in ر , corresponding to fol. 251b, l. 4 to fol. 252b, first line in the same copy.

Tarji’bands, on fol. 48a, beginning abruptly (in consequence of another lacuna after fol. 47): گفتم به بت خويش كه اى ترك جفاكيش الخ , agreeing with fol. 277b, l. 13 in No. 1552. There is again a lacuna in this part, viz. after fol. 51, which comprises fol. 296b, l. 12, to fol. 298a, l. I in No. 1552.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 55a, beginning: داده عشقم الخ.

Short mathnawîs, on fol.94a; the second, on fol.97b, is در تعريف كشمير ; on ff. 105b, 106b, 108a, 108b, 109a there are mathnawîs on certain gardens and its palaces(see Rieu ii. p. 686a), viz.

باغ فرّخ بخش, باغ نسيم , باغ جهان آراى , باغ فيض بخش , and باغ بحر آباد.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 109a, beginning: يكچند بقيد معصيت يارشدم الخ, corresponding to fol. 351a, l. 12 No. 1552.

Dated A.H. 1142 (A.D. 1729, 1730), by Muḥammad Ṣalâḥ bin Mullâ ‘Abdallâh Kâtib, in the service of Bâḳîbeg bin Ḥâjî Atâlîgh (اتاليغ). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2836, ff. 112, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 65/8 in. by 33/8 in.