[IO Islamic 891] ديوان فانى

Diwân-i-Fânî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1599 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 891 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1599

Diwân-i-Fânî(ديوان فانى).

Lyrical poems of Shaikh Muḥsin Fânî, of Kashmîr, pupil of Mullâ Ṣarfî of Kashmîr and teacher of Ṭâhir Ghanî (who died A.H. 1079=A.D. 1668, 1669), and Ḥâjî Aslam Sâlim. He was greatly honoured by the emperor Shâhjahân, was in friendly connexion with the prince Dârâ Shukûh, and died in Kashmîsr, to which he retired in the latter part of his life, A.H. 1081 (A.D. 1670, 1671), or according to others A.H. 1082 (A.D. 1671, 1672), comp. Rieu ii. p. 692a, and iii. p. 1036b; Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1979 (Bodleian Cat., col. 362).

The first ghazal, quoted in that tadhkirah, is found here on fol. 216a, margin, beginning:

اگرچه آتش عشق تو زنده ساخت مرا

چو شمع سوخت درون وبرون گداخت مرا

This dîwân contains ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 214b, and rubâ’îs, on fol. 278b; beginning of the latter:

عالم همه ذات حق تعالى باشد

اين عالم هم عالم بالا باشد

No date. Another copy of Muḥsin Fâni’s dîwân is described in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 393.

No. 891, ff.214-287, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 11, and a third column on the margin, ll. 24; Shikasta, a few leaves written in Nasta’lîḳ; size, 95/8 in. by 51/2 in.