[IO Islamic 1078] ديوان ناصر على

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-N&acirc;ṣir-&lsquo;Al&icirc;</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1639 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 1078 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>N&acirc;ṣir </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; (Nos. 1639-1648).</span></p> <p><span>1639</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-N&acirc;ṣir </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان ناصر على</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The lyrical poems of Shaikh (or Sh&acirc;h) N&acirc;</span><span>ṣir </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; of Sirhind, who died at Dihl&icirc; the 6th of Rama</span><span>ḍ&acirc;n, A.H. 1108 (A.D. 1697, March 29); comp. Rieu ii. p. 699 sq.; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1150-1152; W. Pertsch, p. 80; and Berlin Cat., p. 936; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 113, 126, 151, 201, and 329; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 107; see also Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 167 (No. 109); Muntakhab-alash</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&acirc;r, No. 458 (col. 249 in the Bodleian Cat.); Khul&acirc;ṣat-alkal&acirc;m, No. 178 (ib., col. 308), and Makhzan-alghar&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib, No. 1743 (ib., col. 355). All tadhkiras agree about the date A.H. 1108, but a strange contradiction appears in the chronogram, composed by Sarkhwush, the friend of the poet and the collector of his d&icirc;w&acirc;n: </span><span><span><span><span><span>آه على بعالم معنى رفت</span></span></span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span><span>, which gives A.H. 1109, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 113, and the Khul&acirc;</span><span>ṣat-alkal&acirc;m, loc. cit. This copy, the fullest in the India Office Collection, contains:</span></p> <p><span>Ghazals, rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, and fards, all mixed together in alphabetical order, with interlinear and marginal glosses, on fol.1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>محبّت جادّ</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>د</span></span></span><span><span><span>ا</span></span></span><span><span><span>رد نهان در خلوت دلها الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>At the end of this part another series of rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s (on ff. 95</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-99</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>).</span></p> <p><span>Ḳ</span><span>a</span><span>ṣ&icirc;das, on fol. 100</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>داخت بسكه هواى تموز مغز خيال الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>The poet</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s name appears as takhalluṣ several times, for instance, on fol. 106</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, I. 8. The diw&acirc;n has been lithographed in Lucknow, 1844, A.H. 1263 and 1281.</span></p> <p><span>Copied by Khw&acirc;jah </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>A</span><span><span>ż</span></span><span>im in the twenty-ninth year of Muḥammadsh&acirc;h</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s reign (=A.H. 1160, A.D. 1747); the larger portion of the d&icirc;w&acirc;n, i.e. to the end of the rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, was finished the 19th of Mu</span><span>ḥarram in that year (1747, Jan. 31).</span></p> <p><span>No. 1078, ff. 110, 2 coll., each ll. 14; careless Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8 in. by 5&frac12; in.</span><span> </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>