[IO Islamic 206] ديوان ثنائى

• Dîwân-i-Thanâ’î.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1449 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 206 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1449

Dîwân-i-Thanâ’î (ديوان ثنائى).

The lyrical poems of Khwâjah Ḥusain Thanâ’î of Mashhad, who came to India under Akbar, was the teacher and friend of Faiḍî, and died in the same year as Muḥtasham, viz. A.H. 996 (A.D. 1588), see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1045-1049; A. Sprenger, Catal,. pp. 43, 57, 120, and 578; Blochmann, Â’în-i-Akbarî, p. 563, note 2 (where, however, the wrong date, A.H. 1000, is given for the poet’s death), and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 57, No. 4; 722, No. 2, and 899-900; see also Safinah, No. 271 (col. 220 in the Bodleian Cat.); Âtashkada, No. 204 (ib. col. 269); Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 16 (ib. col. 296), and Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 59 (ib. col. 304).

This copy contains:

Ḳaṣîdas, in alphabetical order, on fol. 10^b, beginning:

در روش حسن و ناز هست بسى خوش نما

(in other copies جفا ) غمزه بطرزستم عشوه برنگ حيا

Ghazals, likewise in alphabetical order, on fol. 105^b, beginning:

راندى بخشم از بر خود اى پسر مرا

صد خار حسرتست ازين در جگر مرا

Ḳiṭ’as, with a few rubâ’îs at the end, on fol. 123^a, beginning:

در بوستان سراى تو امّيد و بيم را

مانند گل زبرگ و نوا خانه خرّمست

On ff. 1-6 there is written by another hand a story of ‘Umar bin Mas’ûd, the wazîr of the Khalif Ma’mûn (A.H. 198-218=A.D. 813-833), told by himself, and not connected with this dîwân at all. Beginning of the story:

عمر ابن مسعود گوید در ابتدای روزگار وزیر مأمون بودم الخ.

No date.

No. 206, ff. 1-130, 2 coll., each ll. 11-14; the first six leaves written in Shikasta âmîz, the rest in Nasta’lîḳ by another hand; ff. 7-9 are left blank; size, 9½ in. by 5½ in.