[IO Islamic 2148] ديوان خاقان

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Kh&acirc;ḳ&acirc;n</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1730 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 2148 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1730</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Kh&acirc;</span><span>ḳ&acirc;n (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان خاقان</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The poems of Fat</span><span>ḥ </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; Sh&acirc;h of Persia (reigned A.H. 1212-1250=A.D. 1797-1834), who used Kh&acirc;ḳ&acirc;n as his takhalluṣ; compare Bodleian Cat., No. 1201; Rieu ii. p. 721; J. Aumer, p. 41; Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 269; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 403, etc.</span></p> <p><span>This most magnificent copy, gorgeously illuminated throughout, received its final redaction A.H. 1227 (A.D. 1812), in the presence of the royal author himself, in Ṭ</span><span>ahr&acirc;n. See the following Persian note on fol. 1</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>اين ديوان هميون موسوم به ديوان خاقان در سن</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span>١٨١٢</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>عيسوى مطابق سن</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ ١٢٢٧</span></span><span><span><span> هجر</span></span></span><span><span><span>ى در حضور مصنّف شاهنشاه جهان </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ناه فتحعلى شا</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span> قاجار در دار الخلاف</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>طهران تصحيح يافت </span></span></span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Contents:</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;b&acirc;</span><span><span>ć</span></span><span>a, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>ناظم العوالم بديع المناظم احتبس هواءً و احترس عماءً الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>This introduction, as well as the shorter prefaces, prefixed to the various portions of the d&icirc;w&acirc;n, and the kh&acirc;timah were written by the minister and court-poet of Fatḥ </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; Sh&acirc;h, Mirz&acirc; </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Abd-alwahh&acirc;b, with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ Nash&acirc;t, whose odes are preserved in the Bodleian Library, see Bodleian Cat., No. 1200, and in the British Museum, see Rieu ii. p. 722. A note at the end of this MS. also confirms Nash&acirc;ṭ</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s authorship of these prose-portions.</span></p> <p><span>Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, on fol. 7</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>چش</span></span></span><span><span><span>مت زسحر جادوى بابل نشان دهد</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>زلفت نشان زسنبل باغ جنان دهد</span></span></span></p> <p><span>Preface to the ghazals, on fol. 14</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>مطلع هر كلام براعت نظام نام ناظمى سزد كه ابيات موزون روح فلكى را الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 16</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>از مهر روی گلرخان در سینه دارم خارها الخ</span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Tark&icirc;bbands with a d&icirc;b&acirc;</span><span><span>ć</span></span><span>a in three lines, on fol. 85</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>. </span></p> <p><span>Fards,</span><span> ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, and other minor poems, again with four introductory lines in prose, on fol. 88</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>.</span></p> <p><span>Rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s (with two line as introduction), on fol. 95</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>.</span></p> <p><span>Mar&acirc;th&icirc; or elegies (likewise prefaces by two lines in prose), on fol. 97</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>.</span></p> <p><span>Short mathnaw&icirc;s (with three lines in prose), on fol. 100</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>; among them a </span><span><span><span><span><span>ساقى نامه</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, on fol. 102</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>من تازه شد باز </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ون روى يار</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>بده ساقى آن باد</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>خوش</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>وار</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Kh&acirc;timah, on fol. 107</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>. This copy was received from Comm. Corresp., 28th March, 1816.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2148, ff. 110, 2 coll., each ll. 12; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; most and 16</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>; ff. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 2</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, and 14</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-16</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> splendidly embellished; minor illuminations throughout at the beginning of each single poem, of the same high and refined style of art; magnificent Eastern binding of exquisite taste; size, 9&frac14; in. by 5&frac12; in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>