[IO Islamic 407] ديوان جلال

• Dîwân-i-Jalâl.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1275 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 407 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1275

Dîwân-i-Jalâl (ديوان جلال).

Lyrical poems by Sayyid Jalâl-aldîn of Yazd, the son of Sayyid ‘Aḍud-aldîn, who was a wazîr of Muḥammad Mużaffar; according to Taḳî Kâshî (see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 18, No. 71) he died A.H. 793 (A.D. 1391); comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 854; Butkhâna, No. 32, ib., col. 200; Âtashkada, No. 623, ib., col. 283; Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 490, ib., col. 326; Rieu ii. p. 869^b.

Contents:

A preface in prose, on fol. 496^a, beginning: بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم و به نستعين جواهر زواهر حمد و سپاس بى حدّ و قياس الخ.

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 499^a, beginning:

بصحن گلشن گیتی زاعتدال بهار

صبا بساط زمرّد فگنده دیگر بار

Ghazals, on fol. 509^a, beginning:

عاشقان اوّل قدم بر هر دو عالم ميزنند

بعد از آن در كوى عشق از عاشقى دم ميزنند

Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 566^a, beginning: خداواندا توئی كاوراد مدحت الخ .

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 568^a, beginning:اى بارگهت ز چرخ گردون برتر الخ.

Good copy, not dated.

No. 407, margin-column, ff. 496^a-571^b, ll. 44; illuminated throughout; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ.