[IO Islamic 914] ديوان مشفقى

• Dîwân-i-Mushfiḳî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1446 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 914 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1446

Dîwân-i-Mushfiḳî (ديوان مشفقى ).

The first dîwân of Mullâ Mushfiḳî of Bukhârâ, who went twice to India under Akbar, but returned again to Bukhârâ where he died, comp. Blochmann, Â’în-i-Akbarî, English translation, vol. i. p. 583. He was born A.H. 945 (A.D. 1538, 1539), and died A.H. 994 (A.D. 1586); his family was of Marw; see also A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 64, ll. 1 and 2; Safînah, No. 310 (col. 221 in the Bodleian Cat.), and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2374 (ib. col. 375).

This first collection of his lyrical poems was made, according to the ta’rîkh at the end (اتمام يافت), A.H. 973 (A.D. 1565, 1566), and contains chiefly ghazals in alphabetical order, with a few ḳiṭ’as, a muthallath, and short series of rubâ’is at the end. Beginning:

صراحى را زبان باده صيقل شد بمحفلها

بيا ساقى ببر زنگ غم از آئينۀ دلها

A copy of the second dîwân of Mushfiḳî, collected A.H. 983 (A.D. 1575, 1576), is described in the Bodleian Cat., No. 1044; and in A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 508 and 509.

No date.

No. 914, ff. 79, 2 coll., each ll. 15; clear Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; a few other illuminations on the first two pages; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^1/2 in.