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[IO Islamic 507] ديوان عيسى

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-’Îsâ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1627 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 507 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1627 Dîwân-i-’Îsâ (ديوان عيسى). Lyrical poems by ‘Îsâ, who flourished under Shâh Sulaimân Ṣafawî of Persia (A.H. 1077-1105=A.D. 1666-1694), as several of his ḳaṣîdas are in praise of that monarch; he therefore cannot be identical with an older poet, Ḳâḍî Masîḥ-aldîn ‘Îsâ of Sâwa, who flourished under Sulṭân Ya’ḳûb, and was killed A.H. 898=A.D. 1493 (see Muntakhab-alash’âr, No. 473, ib., col. 279, and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1596, ib., col. 352). This dîwân contains: A short preface in prose, on fol. 1b, beginning: خورشيد سپاس متكلّم بيچون از آن رفيقه است كه مسيح قلم بدستيارئ مريم افكار الخ . Ḳaṣîdas (several in honour of Shâh Sulaimân), ḳiṭ’as, and short mathnawîs, on fol. 3b, beginning: ميزند آئينۀ حسن بتان جوش صفا تا غبارى هست از خاكستر دلها بجا Ghazals, in alphabetical order, followed by rubâ’is and fards, beginning, on fol. 65b: يا رب از زنگ هوس پاك كن آئينۀ ما الخ No date. No. 507, ff. 124, 2 coll., each ll. 16; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/4 in. by 47/8 in.

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