[IO Islamic 2795] ديوان ولى

• Dîwân-i-Walî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1481 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 2795 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1481

Dîwân-i-Walî (ديوان ولى).

The lyrical poems of Walî, who is, according to the Makhzan-algharâ’ib (No. 2947, col. 390, last line, in the Bodleian Cat.), which quotes several of the ghazals found in this and the following copy (for instance, that on fol. 98^b, l. 5 sq. ; fol. 69^a, lin. penult., in the following copy), identical with Maulânâ Walî of Dasht-i-bayâḍ (in Khurâsân, or as the Safînah states, No. 356, col. 223 in the Bodleian Cat., in Kûhistân), who was contemporary with Ḥusain Thanâ’î of Mashhad (see Nos. 1449 and 1450 in this Cat.) and Mailî of Harât (who died about A.H. 1000=A.D. 1591, 1592, see Rieu ii.= p. 666 and Blochmann, Â’în-i-Akbarî, pp. 571 and 572), flourished in the reigns of Shâh Ṭahmâsp and Shâh ‘Abbâs the Great, and was killed, according to the Safînah, loc. cit., A.H. 1012 (A.D. 1603, 1604); see another copy of his dîwân in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 589; comp. also Muntakhab-alash’âr, No. 705 (col. 254 in the Bodleian Cat.).

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas and ḳiṭ’as, without any order, intermixed with a few ghazals, on fol. 1^b, beginning:

اى حريمت كعبۀ حاجت رواى جبرئيل

نقش نعلين تو محراب دعاى جبرئيل

Ghazals and rubâ’îs, in alphabetical order, on fol. 97^b, beginning:

شب نويد قرب در زد بندۀ درگاه را

خوش اثرها بو در نی نالۀ جانگاه را

A great number of lines throughout the copy are rather effaced. No date, as the colophon is torn away; but on fol. 1^a there are several seals, one of which bears the date A.H. 1077 (A.D. 1666, 1667).

No. 2795, ff. 151, 2 coll., each ll. 12-13; Nasta’lîḳ; many pages spoiled by water; the last leaves greatly injured; size, 7^3/4 in. by 4^5/8 in.