[IO Islamic 255] ديوان فطرت

Dîwân-i-Fiṭrat

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1560 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 255 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1560

Dîwân-i-Fiṭrat (ديوان فطرت).

Lyrical poems, by Wîsbeg Fiṭrat, who was, according to his own statement in two chronograms, on fol. 199a, born A.H. 1007 (A.D. 1598, 1599), and can scarcely be identical with a better-known poet of the same takhalluṣ, Mîr Mu’izz-aldîn Muḥammad Fiṭrat (who died A.H. 1106=A.D.1694, 1695; see Bodleian Cat., No. 1993; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 408, etc.), although there is written on fol. 1a ديوان معزّ فطرت. The present writer must have flourished at the court of Shâh ‘Abbâs the Great in his early years, and afterwards gone to India, as there are chronograms on Shâh ‘Abbâs, Sulṭân Muḥammad ‘Âdilshâh of Bîjâpûr, the death of the emperor Jahângîr, etc. His first son, Sanjarbeg, was born A.H. 1025 (A.D. 1616), and went to India A.H. 1046 (A.D. 1636, 1637); his brother Muḥammadbeg was born A.H. 1023 (A.D. 1614); his brother Karîmbeg A.H. 1030 (A.D. 1621); another of his sons A.H. 1044 (A.D.1634, 1635); his first grandson (Sanjarbeg’s son) likewise A.H. 1044; his brother Ḥamzabeg died A.H. 1033 (A.D. 1623, 1624); his brother Hâshimbeg A.H. 1041 (A.D. 1631, 1632), and his father A.H. 1040 (A.D. 1630, 1631). He composed a great number of chronograms, which begin with A.H. 1022 (A.D. 1613) and go down to A.H. 1059 (A.D. 1649). Beyond that date no ta’rîkhs are found, and we may consequently assume that the poet died soon after.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1b, beginning: زهى صفاى گل عارضت زمه بهتر الخ.

A mathnawî, entitled كتاب خواب و خيال, ‘sleep and vision,’ on fol. 23b, beginning:

الهى ناله ام را تازگى بخش – صفيرم را بلند آوازگى بخش

Another short encomiastic mathnawî (مثنوى فى المدح), on fol. 58b, beginning:

منم در جهان مور فرزانۀ – بخال بتان قانع از دانۀ

One tarkîbband, on fol. 62a, beginning: صباح عيد كه غيرت فزاى بستانست الخ.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 66b, beginning:

چنان مجنون برد بيتاب هر دم نام ليلى را

كه نشنيدست پندارى بجز حرف تسلّى را

Muḳaṭṭa’ât and ta’rîkhât, on fol. 193b, beginning:

اى سخن پرورى كه در فنّ شعر

شده پيش تو انورى رسوا

Rubâ’iyyât, on fol. 218b, beginning: يا رب زغم دهر برى ساز مرا الخ .

No date.

No. 255, ff. 258, 2 coll., each ll. 15; on a few pages an additional margin-column; the last 28 leaves more or less injured; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 87/8 in. by 51/4 in.