[IO Islamic 708] ديوان شوكت

Dîwân-i-Shaukat

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1628 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 708 here with notations and hyperlinks].

Shaukat (Nos. 1628-1633).

1628

Dîwân-i-Shaukat (ديوان شوكت).

Lyrical and epical poems by Maulânâ (khwâjah or Mullâ) Muḥammad Isḥaḳ (or Abû Isḥaḳ), or-according to others-Muḥammad Ibrâhim, with the takhalluṣ Shaukat of Bukhârâ, who went, A.H. 1088 (A.D. 1677), to Harât, later on to Mashhad, and finally settled in Iṣfahân, where he died, A.H. 1107 (A.D. 1595, 1596). He collected his dîwân in A.H. 1093 (A.D. 1682); comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1145 and 1146; Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 151 (ib., col. 307); Rieu ii. p. 698; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 934; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 568; Krafft, p. 69, etc. The statement of the Muntakhab-alash’âr, No. 330 (col. 246 in the Bodleian Cat.) that he was a native of Iṣfahân, went to India and was killed by a young Hindû, is obviously wrong. Equally wrong are the data of his life both in G. Flügel i. pp. 588 and 589, where he is, on the authority of Ḥ. Khalfa vi. p. 575, No. 14708, represented as a contemporary of Shâh Isma’îl II, and in the Hamîsha Bahâr (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 124), where he is said to have been probably alive as late as A.H. 1136 (A.D. 1720, 1721). A Turkish commentary on Shaukat’s dîwân is noticed in G. Flügel i. p. 590.

Contents:

A large mystical mathnawî, without any special heading, on fol. 2b, beginning:

حمد و شكر اورا كه هرچه هست اوست

دام هستى حلقه از هاى و هوست

The first page of this poem is repeated on fol. 1b; ff. 168 and 169 are misplaced, and must, as belonging to the lyrical portion of this MS., be inserted between ff. 187 and 188.

Ghazals, intermixed with rubâ’îs, and fards, all in alphabetical order, on fol. 186b, beginning:

خدايا رنگ تأثيرى كرامت كن فغانم را

بموج اشك بلبل آب ده تيغ زبانم را

Dated the 2nd of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1138 (A.D. 1726, Aug. 1).

No. 708, ff. 346, 2 coll., each ll. 12-14; written by at least three different hands on different paper in partly careful, partly careless Nasta’lîḳ; many pages greatly injured; size, 8¼ in. by 5¾ in.