[IO Islamic 911] ديوان شوكت

Dîwân-i-Shaukat

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1629 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 911 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1629

Another copy of the same.

This very badly-written copy contains, as first part, instead of the mathnawî, the ḳaṣîdas of Shaukat, which are entirely wanting in the preceding copy; but, unfortunately, they are defective at the beginning and open abruptly thus:

رويم بسوى غربت و دل جانب وطن

افتاده كاه من بميان دو كهربا

A number of these ḳaṣîdas are in praise of Mirzâ Sa’d-aldîn Muḥammadkhân, the governor of Khurâsân (see a prominent specimen of them in No. 1146 of the Bodleian Cat.), others celebrate the Imâm Riḍâ.

On fol. 18b begins the collection of ghazals, rubâ’îs, and fards, in alphabetical order, with the same bait as in the preceding copy: خدايا رنگ الخ .

Some ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs at the end.

Ff. 215a-220a are a repetition of fol. 207a, first line, to fol. 211a, l. 12.

No date.

No. 911, ff.220, 2 coll., each ll. 17-19; written by many different hands in various styles of Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/8 in. by 51/2 in.