[IO Islamic 2174] ديوان حسن دهلوى

• Dîwân-i-Ḥasan Dihlawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1223 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 2174 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1223

Dîwân-i-Ḥasan Dihlawî ( ديوان حسن دهلوى).

Lyrical poems by Amîr Najm-aldîn Ḥasan Sanjarî of Dihlî, the friend of Amîr Khusrau, and like him, a pupil of Niżâm-aldîn Auliyâ; he was called the Sa’dî of India (see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 392, col. 405 in this Cat.), and probably died A.H. 727 (A.D. 1327); later dates of his death are A.H. 738 (A.D. 1337, 1338), see Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 73 (Bodleian Cat., col. 305), and A.H. 745 (A.D. 1344, 1345) according to Taḳî Kâshî; the date given in the Mirât-alkhayâl, No. 31 (Bodleian Cat., col. 208), viz. A.H. 707 (A.D. 1307, 1308), is due to a mistake, as the poet began in this year the memoirs of Niżâm-aldîn Auliyâ, styled فوائد الفؤاد, which he completed A.H. 720 (A.D. 1320); comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 780-783; Rieu ii. p. 618; W. Pertsch, p. 73, and Berlin Cat., p. 841; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 18, No. 70, and p. 418; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 356; J. Aumer, p. 22, etc. According to the preface in prose, on fol. 1^b sq., in this copy, the author collected the poems of this dîwân in his sixty-third year, A.H. 715, and completed it in the 20th of Dhû-alḳa’dah of that year (A.D. 1316, Feb. 15), see fol. 2^b, l. 3. He tells us moreover, that he began composing poetry already in his thirteenth year, and continued it for fifty years, writing works both in prose and verse. He was consequently born A.H. 652 (A.D. 1254).

Contents:

Preface in prose, on fol. 1^b (the heading prefixed to it, كتاب قصائد سعدى, seems to refer to the poet’s epithet of the Indian Sa’di).

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 2^b, beginning:

اى حاكم جهان و جهان داور حكيم

محدث همه بدائع و تو مبدع قديم

From the sixth Ḳaṣîdah onwards (on fol. 8^a, last line) the arrangement is alphabetical.

Ghazals, on fol. 57^b, beginning:

اى سر هر نامه نقش نام تو – نام ما در دفتر انعام تو

The alphabetical order begins, on fol. 60^b, with the thirteenth ghazal, the same which is quoted in Bodleian Cat., No. 783; A. Sprenger, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat.: .اى بر فراز سرو بر آورده ماه را الخ

At the end a few ḳiṭ’as. Some of these ghazals have been edited by Bland in his ‘Century of Persian Ghazals,’ pp. ٥-٨.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 228^a.

Copied A.H. 943 (A.D. 1536, 1537), according to the colophon on fol. 230^a. Another date appears on fol. 227^a, viz. 903 ( سنۀ ثلاث و تسعمائه), no doubt a mistake for 943 ( ثلاث و اربعين و تسعمائه). College of Fort William, 1825.

No.2174, ff. 230, 2 coll., each ll. 15; very clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1^b; a smaller illuminated heading on fol. 57^b; pictures on ff. 22^b, 34^b, 62^a, 133^a, 149^b, and 190^a; size, 9 in. by 6½ in.