[IO Islamic 2320] ديوان قاسم ديوانه

• Dîwân-i-Ḳâsim Diwâna
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1689 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 2320 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1689

Dîwân-i-Ḳâsim Diwâna (ديوان قاسم ديوانه).

The earliest collection, it seems, of the lyrical poems of Mullâ Muḥammad Ḳâsim Dîwâna of Mashhad, who was a pupil of Ṣâ’ib (Nos. 1606-1623 above) and a contemporary of Sarkhwush, the author of the Kalimât-alshu’arâ (see Nos. 670-672); he was still alive in A.H. 1136 (A.D. 1723, 1724), comp. Rieu ii. p. 707^b; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 113, 128 and 534, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 699, No. 26 (where a few of his ghazals are noticed). This collection, which contains ghazals and rubâ’îs in alphabetical order, with a few fards and rubâ’îs at the end, was written in A.H. 1101 (A.D. 1689, 1690), probably by the poet himself.

Beginning:

بسكه افتاد از غمت شوريدگى در كار ما

بر سر ما خود بخود وا ميشود دستار ما

College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2320, ff. 109, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8^1/8 in. by 4^5/8 in.