[IO Islamic 221] كلّيّات ديوان

Kulliyyât-i-Dîwân

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1700 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 221 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1700

Kulliyyât-i-Dîwân (كلّيّات ديوان).

Complete works in prose and verse by a hitherto unknown author, Zain-al’âbidîn Birâdar (see fol. 114b, l. 9), with the takhalluṣ Dîwân, who flourished, according to the two dates which are found in this copy, viz. A.H. 1145 (A.D. 1732, 1733), on fol. 468b, first line, and A.H. 1150 (A.D. 1737, 1738), on fol. 297a, last line, about the middle of the century of the Hijrah.

Contents:

A.Complete index, on ff. 1b-2a.

B.Treatises in prose, on various theosophical, scientific, and literary topics, the explanation of the Ḳurân and traditions, etc.:

1.رسالۀ فيوضات الفاتحه كه تفسير سورة الحمد است بجامعيّت علوم اجماليّه, a treatise on the first sûrah of the Ḳurân, on fol. 3b, beginning: فيض يابان فيوضات غيبى را بهواى الخ.

2.حاشيۀ رسالۀ فيوضات الفاتحه, glosses to the preceding treatise, by the author himself, on fol. 35b, beginning: الهى آفتاب صبح عزّت كن زبانم را الخ.

3.حلّ معنئ حديث نبوئ صهيبيّه, on fol. 92b.

4.اظهار اسرار فاطمويّه, on fol. 96b.

5.رسالۀ شمّة الاسرار مرتضويّه, on fol. 99b.

6.رسالۀ اتّفاقيّۀ مذهبيّه, on fol. 116b.

7.نسخۀ دائرۀ وجود و هيئة, on fol. 122b.

8.نسخۀ اجوبۀ خمسۀ عربيّه, on fol. 130b.

9.تحقيق گردش آفتاب, on fol. 136b.

10.نسخۀ شرح بيت اوّل مثنوئ مولوئ روم, on fol. 140b.

11.نسخۀ شرح غزل اوّل ديوان حافظ شيرازى, on fol. 147b.

12.نسخۀ شرح ابيات مثنوئ مولوى, on fol. 154b.

13.كتاب شرح سُلّم العلوم, a commentary on the treatise on logic, by Ḳâḍî Muḥibb-allâh bin ‘Abd-alshakûr Bahârî, who died A.H. 1119 (A.D. 1707, 1708), see Loth, Arabic Cat., p. 153 sq., on fol. 176b; this part was completed A.H. 1150.

14.حلّ مستزاد بيدل , on fol. 298b.

15.حلّ معنئ رباعئ زن شاعره, on fol. 301b.

16.رسالۀ شرح ربع مجيّب اسطرلاب, a commentary on the sinuated quadrant of the astrolabe, on fol. 304b.

17.سؤال و جواب پير و مريد هنگام ملاقات, on fol. 314b.

18.رسالۀ ردّ منافق, on fol. 320b.

19.استفسار شبه المتأدّبين با دايه, on fol. 346b.

20.نسخۀ ردّ غيريّت حقيقى, on fol. 349b.

21.حلّ معنئ هر سه بيت مشهوره, on fol. 356b.

22.تحقيق حدوث و قدوم كلام مجيد, on fol. 359b.

23.رسالۀ كليد سُنْدر سِنْگار, a key to the Sundar Singâr, an erotic poem in Hindî, by Sundar Mahâkawî, dedicated to the emperor Shâhjahân, 1632, see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 2353 and 2354 (a third copy is preserved in No. 1974, ff. 1-35b of the India Office Library), and Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la Littér.

Hindouie, etc. iii. p. 177, on fol. 362b.

24.حلّ معنئ لغزان شيخان آمُلى, on fol. 375b.

25.حلّ معنئ لغز بدر چاچ, on fol.379b.

26.كتاب شرح ابيات غوامض مرزا جلال اسير و غيره, on fol. 382b.

27.سراپاى ديوان, on fol. 415b.

28.حسن ديوان, on fol. 419b.

29.شرح اسرار طِمْر از ابيات دكهنئ حضرت شمس (Walî-allah Shams, a poet of the Dakhan under ‘Âlamgîr, who wrote a dîwân in the dialect of his native country), on fol. 424b.

30.دستور العمل و اختراعات تازه, on fol. 428b.

31.كتاب انشاى ديوان, on fol. 431b.

32.ترتيب مجلس جشن, on fol. 464b.

33.عرس حضرت امام عليه السّلام, on fol. 468b. This part was completed A.H. 1145.

34.آمد ابيات دكهنى, on fol. 473b.

35.رويۀ رديّه, on fol. 477b.

36.سب قصيدۀ دكهنى, on fol. 483b.

C.Poetry:

37.Dîwân-i-Dîwân (ديوان ديوان), the lyrical poems of Diwân, on fol. 487b, consisting of ghazals, in alphabetical order , with a longer poem at the end.

Beginning with the same bait as the prose-treatise, No. 2:

الهى آفتاب صبح عزّت كن زبانم را

تجلّى رنگ بست بزم معنى كن بيانم را

No date. The copy seems to be Diwân’s autograph.

No. 221, ff. 520, ll. 19; good Shikasta; an illuminated heading at the beginning of each of the thirty-seven parts; size, 91/2 in. by 51/8 in.