[IO Islamic 1945] غزليّات فغانى

• Ghazaliyyât-i-Fighânî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1392 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 1945 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Ghazaliyyât-i-Fighânî (غزليّات فغانى).

Ghazals by Bâbâ Fighânî of Shîrâz, who had originally the takhalluṣ of Sakkâkî, and died in Khurâsân A.H. 922 or 925 (A.D. 1516 or 1519); the former date is found in the Lubb-altawârîkh, the latter in Sâm Mirzâ (see Notices et Extraits iv. p. 305), the Haft Iḳlim, No. 212 ( col. 394 in this Cat.), the Butkhâna, No. 38 (col. 200 in the Bodleian Cat.), etc.; comp. also Bodleian Cat., Nos. 992-994; Rieu ii. p. 651; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 886 and 887; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 21, No. 176, and pp. 403-404; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 384; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 122; J. Aumer, p. 34; Bland, Century of Persian Ghazals, No. 9. Wrong dates of his death are A.H. 911 (A.D. 1505, 1506) in Safînah, No. 3 (col. 212 in the Bodleian Cat.), and A.H. 915 (A. D. 1509, 1510) in the Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 198 (ib. col. 309).

He was a court-poet of Sulṭân Ya’ḳûb; compare on his poetical style and the great number of imitators he found, the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1869 (col. 359 in the Bodleian Cat.) The ghazals are arranged alphabetically and begin:

اى سر نامه نام تو عقل گره گشایرا

ذكر تو مطلع سخن عشق غزل سرايرا

Dated A.H. 1051 (A.D. 1641, 1642).

No. 1945, margin-column, ff. 129^b-164^a, ll. 32-36; careless Nasta’lîḳ.