[IO Islamic 1424] ديوان مسعود سعد سلمان

• Dîwân-i-Mas’ûd-i-Sa’d-i-Salmân.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 908 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 1424 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Dîwân-i-Mas’ûd-i-Sa’d-i-Salmân ( ديوان مسعود سعد سلمان).

A slightly defective copy of the lyrical poems of Sa’d-aldaulah Mas’ûd bin Sa’d bin Salmân, who was born in Hamadân, according to ‘Aufî and the Haft Iḳlîm (No. 1032, col. 454 in this Cat.), where a bait of his in corroboration of this statement is quoted.

Rieu, on the other hand (ii. p. 548), cites two other baits to show that his native place was Ghazna. He died probably A.H. 525 (A.D. 1131), according to others A.H. 515 (A.D. 1121). Besides his Persian dîwân he wrote two others, an Arabic and a Hindûstânî one, compare Bodleian Cat., No. 526; Butkhâna, No. 4 (ib., col. 197), and Daḳâ’iḳ-alash’âr (ib., col. 822); A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 485, and Journal of the Asiat. Soc. Of Bengal, vol. xxii, p. 442 sq.; see also Journal Asiatique, 5^e série, vol. ii (1853), p. 356 sq., and J. Aumer, p. 8.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, and ghazals, all mixed together, defective in the beginning.

The first bait, on fol. 1^a, runs thus:

در كان زشرم چشمه ياقوت سرخ شد

وين خرده ايست نيكو خاطر بدين گمار

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 245^a, beginning:

چون مار فلك بست بافسون مارا

وز خانۀ خود كشيد بيرون مارا

That this really Mas’ûd’s dîwân and not Khâḳâni’s, as is wrongly stated on the fly-leaf, is proved by the frequent occurrence of the takhalluṣ, for instance, on fol. 9^b, l. 6; fol. 76^b, l. 11; fol. 117^b, l. 8; fol. 195^b, l. 1, etc. Some pages are a little injured. No date.

No. 1424, ff. 282, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 11^1/8 in. by 6^3/8 in.