[IO Islamic 1454] ديوان منشى

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Munsh&icirc;</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1695 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 1454 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1695</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Munsh&icirc; (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان منشى</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Lyrical poems by Jaswant R&acirc;i Munsh&icirc;, who made a fair copy of his d&icirc;w&acirc;n in A.H. 1124 (A.D. 1712), and is probably identical with the author of the popular epopee </span><span><span><span><span><span>سسّى و</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>نو</span></span></span></span></span><span>, which was completed A.H. 1140 (A.D. 1727, 1728), see A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 507 and 508. This copy contains ghazals, in alphabetical order, mixed with a few rub&acirc;&rsquo;</span><span>&icirc;s, and at the end another series of rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s together with portions of a S&acirc;</span><span>ḳ&icirc;n&acirc;ma. Its rather unfinished state makes it probable, that it is an autograph of the poet himself.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of the ghazals, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>: </span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>اى </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ر دُر از سحاب ثنايت رساله ها</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>رديد سينه </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>اك صدف زين نواله ها</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>The initial ghazal of Sprenger&rsquo;</span><span>s copy is here the </span><span><em>third</em></span><span> (on fol. 2</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>), beginning thus:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>اى </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ر شكر زنام تو كام و دهان ما</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>طوطى سبق </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>رفته زنطق زبان ما</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>No date.</span></p> <p><span>No. 1454, ff. 71, 2 coll., each ll. 11; clear and distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9</span>^{<span>1/8</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>7/8</span>}<span> in. </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>