[IO Islamic 203] ديوان شمس تبريز

Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1109 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 203 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1109 Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz (ديوان شمس تبريز). An excellent and very rich collection of the minor or lyrical poems of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî, usually styled ديوان شمس تبريز, since the poet uses as takhalluṣ in his ghazals the name of his spiritual guide, Shams-aldîn of Tabrîz (whose death is commonly fixed in A.H. 645=A.D. 1247, 1248), but of course known also as ديوان مولانا رومى or ديوان جلال الدين رومى ; other copies of the whole or of extracts of this dîwân are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 673-675; Rieu ii. p. 593 sq.; W. Pertsch, p. 69, and Berlin Cat., pp. 798 and 799; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 497; G. Flügel i. p. 522 sq.; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 113; J. Aumer, p. 16; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 214; Krafft, p. 65 etc. The whole dîwân has been lithographed in Lucknow, 1879; one of the Tarjî’ât has been printed in Ṭahrân, A.H. 1274. Select poems have been edited, with metrical German translation, by Vincenz von Rosenzweig, in ‘Auswahl aus den Diwanen des grössten mystischen Dichters Persiens, Mewlana Dschelaleddin Rumi,’ Vienna, 1838; others have been poetically reproduced in German by Rückert etc. Contents: Preface in prose, by the anonymous editor of this collection, who compiled it in Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 817 (A.D. 1414, May, June), comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 673; beginning:حمد موفور و ثناى نامحصور پاك از وصمت فتور و قصور الخ. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 6b, beginning: شاه جسم و جان ما خندان كن دندان ما (MS. اى) سرمه كش چشمان ما اى چشم جانرا توتيا Tarji’ât, on fol. 482a, beginning: شاهد ما زرخ گرفت نقاب – گر خورشيد پرتوى برتاب A few ḳiṭ’as at the end of this part. Rubâ’îs and some fards, on fol. 494a, beginning: در مذهب عشّاق قرارى دگرست وين بادۀ ناب را خمارى دگرست No date. This MS. was purchased at Ḥaidarâbâd, the 25th of June, 1784, for forty rupees. No. 203, ff. 505, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 17, and a third on the margin, ll. 34; Nasta’lîḳ; two illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b and 6b; size 95/8 in. by 5 in.