[IO Islamic 360] ديوان معزّى

• Dîwân-i-Mu’izzî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 912 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 360 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Dîwân-i-Mu’izzî (ديوان معزّى).

The complete lyrical poems of Amir Abû ‘Abdallâh, or Abûbakr Mu’izzî, the panegyrist of Sulṭân Malikshâh and king of poets at Sanjar’s court. His original name was Muḥammad bin ‘Abd-almalik, and his father,’Abd-almalik Burhânî, had been a court-poet of Alp Arslân Saljûḳî, Malikshah’s father and predecessor (A.H. 455-465=A.D. 1063-1072); three places compete for the honour of being his native town, viz. Nishâpûr (see Butkhâna, No. 9, in Bodleian Cat., col. 198 ; Khazâna-i-’âmirah, ib., col. 259 ; Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2247, ib., col. 370; Khushgû’s Safinah, Haft Iḳlim, No. 747, and the short biographical notice prefixed to the following copy), Nasâ (in Daulatshâh and the tadhkirah described in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 479, No. 132), and Samarḳand (in Taḳî Kâshî, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 16, No. 12, and Âtashkada, No. 744 in Bodleian Cat., col. p. 287). He was killed by a stray arrow from Sanjar’s bow, A.H. 542 (A.D. 1147, 1148). Other copies of his dîwân are described in Rieu ii. p. 552^b; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 501 and 502, and G. Flügel i. p. 497; comp. also the Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 240 (Bodleian Cat., col. 310), and the Daḳâ’iḳ-alash’âr (ib., col. 822).

This dîwân consists chiefly of ḳaṣidas, intermixed with some tarkibbands, a few ḳiṭ’as, ghazals, and rubâ’îs.

Beginning:

زمشرق تا حد مغرب شناسد هر كه دين دارد

كه دين رونق بتاييد امير المؤمنين دارد

An additional series of rubâ’îs, on fol. 367^a, beginning:

اى رايتو بر كشيده بر ايوان سر

گردونت نهاده بر خط پيمان سر

Dated the 1st of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1046 (A.D. 1637, April 26).

No. 360, ff. 379. 2 coll., each ll. 21; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; much worm-eaten and damaged in the first half, which contains many various readings and marginal glosses; illuminated frontispiece; size, 10^3/8 in. by 6 in.