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[IO Islamic 2829] ديوان سابق

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Sâbiḳ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1624 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 2829 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> Poets who died between A.H. 1100 and 1200. 1624 Dîwân-i-Sâbiḳ (ديوان سابق ). Lyrical poems of Ḥâjî Farîdûn or Âḳâ Farîdûn Ḥusain, with the takhalluṣ Sâbiḳ, who went to India under ‘Âlamgir and was still alive in Lâhûr A.H. 1103 (A.D. 1691, 1692), as a short postscript of the poet himself, on fol. 209b, is dated Jumâdâ-alûlâ of that year. Sâbiḳ is mentioned in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 123, l. 8 ab infra; in the Ṣuḥuf-î-Ibrâhîm, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 644, No. 92; and in the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1048 (col. 337 in the Bodleian Cat.). This very rare dîwân, which is moreover the poet’s autograph, written in the twenty-eighth year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign (A.H. 1096=A.D. 1685), is found in no other collection described hitherto, and contains: Ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands, and ḳiṭ’as, on fol.1b, beginning: مناديست در آنكو كه هر كه كشتۀ ماست بروز حشر زما خونها نخواهد خواست Some leaves are left blank at the end of this part, for future insertions. Ghazals, in alphabetical order (also with some partly or wholly blank leaves for additions), on fol. 61b, beginning: خون وحدت ميزند جوش از رگ زنّار ما نالۀ ناقوس مى آيد زاستغفار ما Rubâ’îs, on fol. 203b, beginning: سلطان سرير لى مع الله عليست در مملكتى هستئ ما شاه عليست Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2829, ff. 209, coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispieces, on ff. 1b and 61b; size, 65/8 in. by 31/2 in.

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