[IO Islamic 132] ديوان شمس طبسى

• Dîwân-i-Shams Ṭabasî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1030 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 132 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1030

Dîwân-i-Shams Ṭabasî ( ديوان شمس طبسى).

Lyrical poems, chiefly ḳaṣîdas, by the Ḳâḍî Shams-aldîn Maḥmûd (according to the Haft Iḳlîm, No. 153, col. 389 in this Cat., Muḥammad bin ‘Abd-alkarîm) of Ṭabas (i.e. Ṭabas-i-Kîlak in Khusrâsân, see Haft Iḳlîm, loc. cit., and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., in the geographical index, p. 1247) or Ṭabs (as the name is spelt in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 17, No. 43; see also Bodleian Cat., No. 621, and Butkhâna, No. 97, ib., col. 202). According to the Âtashkada, No. 150 (col. 267 in the Bodleian Cat.), he was a pupil of Ḳâḍi Manṣûr of Farghâna, and lived and died in Harât.

According to the short biographical notice, prefixed to this dîwân, he came to Bukhârâ in the time of Raḍî-aldîn of Nîshâpûr (died A.H. 598=A.D. 1202, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 746, col. 432 in this Cat., and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 16, No. 26), and was a younger contemporary of Khâḳânî (see Nos. 950-970 in this Cat.). His death is fixed in A.H. 626 (A.D. 1228, 1229).

Beginning, on fol. 88^b:

هر دل كه سوى¹ عرصۀ تحقيق راه يافت

در سايۀ سرادق عزّت پناه يافت

This dîwân forms the fifth part of the old collection of six Persian dîwâns (see Nos. 903, 911, 913, 1028, and 1029 above), and is dated Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 713 (A.D. 1314, Feb-March), by ‘Abd-almu’min al’alawî alkâshî.

No. 132, ff. 88-96, 6 coll., each ll. 40; striking old Naskhî; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 88^b, and a vignette on fol. 88^a; miniature paintings throughout; size, 15¾ in. by 11 in.

¹ The two words که سوی, which were destroyed by worms in the present copy, have been supplied from the Bodleian copy, Elliott 86.