[IO Islamic 2778] ديوان سلمان

• Dîwân-i-Salmân.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1237 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 2778 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1237

Dîwân-i-Salmân (ديوان سلمان).

The fullest copy in the India Office Collection of the lyrical poems of Khwâjah Jamâl-aldîn Muḥammad Salmân of Sâwa, the son of Khwâjah ‘Alâ-aldîn Muḥammad, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1008 (col. 452 in this Cat.). He was born about A.H. 690 (A.D. 1291), enjoyed the favour of the Îlkânî rulers, Amîr Shaikh Ḥasan Buzurg (A.H. 736-757=A.D. 1335-1356) and his son, Shaikh Uwais (A.H. 757-776=A.D. 1356-1374), and died A.H. 778 or 779 (A.D. 1376 or 1377); see Erdmann in Zeitschrift der D.M.G. xv. pp. 758-772; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 807-810; Rieu ii. p. 624 sq. Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, p. 117; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 555; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 842, 843; Schefer, Chrestomathie Persane, vol. i, Paris, 1883, pp. 114, 115.

Some select poems are published in Bland’s ‘Century of Persian Ghazals,’ No. 4, and in Erdmann’s article in the Zeitschrift, loc. cit.; the ḳaṣîdah, edited there on pp. 760-762, has been metrically translated into German by K. H. Graf, in ‘Festgruss an die Mitglieder der Philologen und Orientalisten-Versammlung in Meissen,’ 1863.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’bands, and ḳiṭ’as, mixed together without any alphabetical arrangement, on fol.1^b, beginning:

هر دل كه در هواى هويّت مجال يافت

عنقاى همّتش دو جهان زير بال يافت

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 201^b, beginning:

اگر حسن تو بگشاید نقاب از چهره دعوی را الخ.

Muḳaṭṭa’ât (including some ḳaṣîdas ghazals), on fol. 302^b, beginning:حلقۀ عنبر و بازار گل آشفته کنی الخ

Rubâ’is, on fol. 330^b, beginning: اى دوست كجائى و كجائى كه نۀ الخ.

No date. A great number of leaves severely damaged, and consequently some poems destroyed. Ff. 304 and 305 left blank.

No. 2778, ff. 335, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispiece; size, 8 in. by 4¼ in.