[IO Islamic 1454] ديوان منشى

Dîwân-i-Munshî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1695 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 1454 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1695

Dîwân-i-Munshî (ديوان منشى).

Lyrical poems by Jaswant Râi Munshî, who made a fair copy of his dîwân in A.H. 1124 (A.D. 1712), and is probably identical with the author of the popular epopee سسّى وپنو, which was completed A.H. 1140 (A.D. 1727, 1728), see A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 507 and 508. This copy contains ghazals, in alphabetical order, mixed with a few rubâ’îs, and at the end another series of rubâ’îs together with portions of a Sâḳînâma. Its rather unfinished state makes it probable, that it is an autograph of the poet himself.

Beginning of the ghazals, on fol. 1b:

اى پر دُر از سحاب ثنايت رساله ها

گرديد سينه چاك صدف زين نواله ها

The initial ghazal of Sprenger’s copy is here the third (on fol. 2a), beginning thus:

اى پر شكر زنام تو كام و دهان ما

طوطى سبق گرفته زنطق زبان ما

No date.

No. 1454, ff. 71, 2 coll., each ll. 11; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/8 in. by 47/8 in.