[IO Islamic 725] ديوان خالص

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Kh&acirc;liṣ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1672 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 725 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1672</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Kh&acirc;li</span><span>ṣ (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان خالص</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Lyrical poems by Mirz&acirc; Sayyid </span><span>Ḥ</span><span>usain, with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ Kh&acirc;liṣ, who went under </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;lamg&icirc;r from Persia to India, obtained the title of Imtiy&acirc;zkh&acirc;n, and was under Bah&acirc;dursh&acirc;h raised to the rank of a master of the horse (</span><span><span><span><span><span>مير آخور </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ادشاهى</span></span></span></span></span><span>); on his way back to Persia he was killed, A.H. 1122 (A.D. 1710, 1711); the chronogram of his death is </span><span><span><span><span><span>آه آه امتيازخان</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, see Khul&acirc;</span><span>ṣat-alkal&acirc;m, No. 25 (col. 297 in the Bodleian Cat.); and A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 111, 121, 141, and 150; other copies of his d&icirc;w&acirc;n are noticed in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 460, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 937 and 938; some of his ghazals, ib., p. 700, No. 27. This d&icirc;w&acirc;n consists of ghazals, intermixed with ḳaṣ&icirc;das, ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, and fards, all in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 136</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>نان دارند شوق وصل بسم الله عنوانها</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>كه در </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>رواز آيند از دو بال جلد ديوانها</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>(This initial bait agrees, as Sprenger has noticed, verbatim with that of A</span><span>ṭharkh&acirc;n bin Am&icirc;r Ni</span><span><span>ż</span></span><span>&acirc;m ald&icirc;n Raḍaw&icirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s d&icirc;w&acirc;n, see ib., p. 345.) The mathnaw&icirc;s of Kh&acirc;liṣ (see A. Sprenger, loc. cit., and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 698, No. 17) are not found in this or the following copy.</span></p> <p><span>Dated A.H. 1138 (A.D. 1725, 1726) at Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n&acirc;b&acirc;d.</span></p> <p><br><br></p> <p><span>No.725, ff. 136-202, 2 coll., each ll. 12, and a third on the margin of ff. 138</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-161</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, 162</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, 163</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-174</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 176</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> and </span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 178</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-180</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, 180</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-187</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 192</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-193</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, and 195</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> and </span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, differing in lines from 2 to 32; ff. 136-187 on white, the rest on rest on red paper; distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8</span>^{<span>3/8</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>5/8</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>