[IO Islamic 2320] ديوان قاسم ديوانه

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Ḳ&acirc;sim Diw&acirc;na</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1689 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 2320 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1689</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-</span><span>Ḳ&acirc;sim Diw&acirc;na (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان قاسم ديوانه</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The earliest collection, it seems, of the lyrical poems of Mull&acirc; Mu</span><span>ḥammad Ḳ</span><span>&acirc;</span><span>sim D</span><span>&icirc;</span><span>w&acirc;na of Mashhad, who was a pupil of </span><span>Ṣ&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib (Nos. 1606-1623 above) and a contemporary of Sarkhwush, the author of the Kalim&acirc;t-alshu</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ar&acirc; (see Nos. 670-672); he was still alive in A.H. 1136 (A.D. 1723, 1724), comp. Rieu ii. p. 707</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 113, 128 and 534, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 699, No. 26 (where a few of his ghazals are noticed). This collection, which contains ghazals and rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s in alphabetical order, with a few fards and rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s at the end, was written in A.H. 1101 (A.D. 1689, 1690), probably by the poet himself. </span></p> <p><span>Beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>بسكه افتاد از غمت شوريد</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ى در كار ما</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>بر سر ما خود بخود وا ميشود دستار ما</span></span></span></p> <p><span>College of Fort William, 1825.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2320, ff. 109, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8</span>^{<span>1/8</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>5/8</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>