[IO Islamic 954] ديوان وفا

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Waf&acirc;</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1718 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 954 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1718</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Waf&acirc; (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان وفا</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Lyrical poems of Mirz&acirc; Sharaf-ald&icirc;n </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; al</span><span>ḥusain&icirc; of Ḳ</span><span>umm, with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ Waf&acirc; (see fol. 2</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, last line, and fol. 3</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, first line), who was, according to the Makhzan-alghar&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib, No. 3011 (Bodleian Cat., col. 393), a descendant of Mirz&acirc; Mu</span><span>ḥammad H&acirc;shim Ḥ</span><span>usain&icirc; </span><span>Ḳumm&icirc; from father</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s side, and of Maul&acirc;n&acirc; </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Abd-alrazz&acirc;</span><span>ḳ Fayy&acirc;ḍ from mother</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s side. According to Ḥairat</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s </span><span><span><span><span><span>مقالات الشّعرا</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 160), he was originally in the service of N&acirc;dirsh&acirc;h, but went in A.H. 1162 (A.D. 1749) to India and lived at Dihl&icirc; in W&acirc;lih</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s house. The Makhzan-alghar&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib, on the other hand, asserts that he reached Dihl&icirc; still in Mu</span><span>ḥammadsh&acirc;h</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s reign, and the &Acirc;tashkada, No. 842 (Bodleian Cat., col. 292), says, he remained about thirty years in India and returned to Persia in A.H. 1183 (A.D. 1769, 1770); if the latter remark is correct, he must have gone to Dihl&icirc; about A.H. 1152, 1153 (A.D. 1739, 1740).</span></p> <p><span>According to the same &Acirc;tashkada he made, after his return to Persia, the pilgrimage to Makkah, and died A.H. 1194 (A.D. 1780). Another copy of his d&icirc;w&acirc;n is described in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 584.</span></p> <p><span>This copy contains:</span></p> <p><span>A preface in prose, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>بهترين حمدى كه عندليبان شيرين زبان </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لشن نظم در </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لزار معانى الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, in honour of the prophet, </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc;, and the Im&acirc;ms, some also in praise of </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; Ḳul&icirc;kh&acirc;n Bah&acirc;dur, i.e. W&acirc;lih, the poet (see above and No. 1708), beginning, on fol. 8</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>: </span><span><span><span><span><span>مبادا هم</span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>و من بيجا كسى از خان و مان خيزد الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 36</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>الهى خون بجوش آوردمى تيغ زبانم را</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>برن</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ين جلوه </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ى دست و </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ريبان كن بيانم را</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, with some tarj&icirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&acirc;t at the end, on fol. 96</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>مائيم كه خون ديده آرايش ماست الخ</span></span></span></p> <p><span>Incomplete at the end; the mathnaw&icirc; </span><span><span><span><span><span>لؤلؤ منظوم</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, found in Sprenger</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s copy, is wanting here.</span></p> <p><span>No. 954, ff. 114, 2 coll., each ll. 9; </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 7&frac12; in. by 5</span>^{<span>1</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>