[IO Islamic 3381] ديوان آصفى

Dîwân-i-Âṣafî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1393 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 3381 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1393

Dîwân-i-Âṣafî (ديوان آصفى).

The lyrical poems of Khwâjah Âṣafî, the son of Muḳim-aldîn Ni’mat-allâh of Ḳuhistân, who was a pupil of Jâmî, friend of Mîr ‘Alîshîr, and flourished under Sulṭân Ḥusain Mirzâ; he died, according to the best authorities, A.H. 923 (A.D. 1517), at Harât, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 832 (col. 438 in this Cat.), and Safînah, No. 34 (col. 213 in the Bodleian Cat.); other dates of his death are A.H. 920 (A.D. 1514), see Âtashkada, No. 289 (col. 272 in the Bodleian Cat.), and A.H. 928 (A.D. 1522), see the Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 22 (ib. col. 303), and the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 61 (ib. col. 318); comp. also Bodleian Cat., Nos. 990 and 991; Rieu ii. p. 651 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 20, 71, and 310; G. Flügel i. p. 577; W. Pertsch, p. 74, and Berlin Cat., pp. 893 and 894; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 385; A. F. Mehren. P. 41; J. Aumer, p. 34. This copy contains chiefly ghazals in alphabetical order, with a few ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs at the end; and although undated, it must take precedence over the following copies, as it is larger than those and has a number of various readings and glosses on the margin. Beginning of the first ghazal:

ساز آباد خدايا دل ويرانى را

يا مده مهر بتان هیچ مسلمانى را

No. 3381, olim 13. J. 11, ff. 86, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 in. by 53/4 in.