[IO Islamic 2388] ديوان شوكت

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Shaukat</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1630 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Eth&eacute;, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2388 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1630</span></p> <p><span>Shaukat</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s ghazals.</span></p> <p><span>This copy of Shaukat</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s lyrical poems contains the ghazals, intermixed with rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;</span><span>s and fards, arranged alphabetically in </span><span><em>two</em></span><span> series.</span></p> <p><span><em>First series</em></span><span>, on ff. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-130</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, beginning as usually: </span><span><span><span><span><span>خدايا رن</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>This series goes from the rhyme-letter </span><span><span><span><span><span>ا</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>to </span><span><span><span><span><span>ى</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span><em>Second series</em></span><span>, on ff. 130</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-158</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning with a rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>رخساره نمود هم</span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>و </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>اى همه را الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>This series is separated from the first by four rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, which stand outside the alphabetical system, and goes down from the rhyme-letter </span><span><span><span><span><span>ا</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>to </span><span><span><span><span><span>م</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>only.</span></p> <p><span>Dated the 3rd of Rama</span><span>ḍ&acirc;n, A.H. </span><span><span><span><span>١١٤</span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(1140 ? or 1104 ?=A.D. 1728, April 13, or 1693, May 8), by Ḥ&acirc;fi</span><span><span>ż</span></span><span> Muḥammad Ṣ</span><span>&acirc;li</span><span>ḥ, son of</span><span> </span><span>Ḥ</span><span>&acirc;fi</span><span><span>ż</span></span><span> Ab&ucirc;-alkhair. Calcutta, March, 1806.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2388, ff. 158, 2 coll., each ll. 11; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8</span>^{<span>1/4</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>5/8 </span>}<span>in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>