[IO Islamic 54] ديوان منّت

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Minnat</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1723 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 54 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1723</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Minnat (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان منّت</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The minor poems of M&icirc;r </span><span>Ḳ</span><span>amar-ald&icirc;n, with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ Minnat, who was born at Dihl&icirc; about A.H. 1159 (A.D. 1746), went to Lucknow A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777), was taken by Mr. Richard Johnson to Calcutta and introduced to the Governor-General Warren Hastings, who bestowed upon him the title of a </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>king of poets,</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span> and died A.H. 1207 (or according to others 1208=A.D. 1792-1794), comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 171, 258, 259, and 498.</span></p> <p><span>Contents:</span></p> <p><span>Ḳ</span><span>a</span><span>ṣ&icirc;das, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>زهى بسويتو هركس بغير تو محتاج</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>داى كويتو فارغ زنن</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ </span></span></span><span><span><span>افسر و تاج</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>A mathnaw&icirc;, on fol. 65</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>حَبّذّا صانع صورت </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ر معنى </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>رداز</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>كه </span></span></span><span><span><span>چنین ریخت سراپ</span></span></span><span><span><span>اى تو در قالب ناز</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Ghazals (with some mukhammas&acirc;t and ḳiṭ&rsquo;as at the end), on fol. 78</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, arranged in alphabetical order, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>بآب زر سزد تحرير بسم الله عنوانها الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>The initial poem of Sprenger</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s copy is missing here.</span></p> <p><span>No date. The copyist was M&icirc;r Wil&acirc;yat.</span></p> <p><span>No. 54, ff. 190, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Shikasta &acirc;m&icirc;z, written on brown paper, except the last twenty-one leaves; excellent frontispieces on ff. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> and 78</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>; ff. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 2</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, 78</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> and 79</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> luxuriously illuminated with beautiful pictures on the margin in gold and other colours; all the pages column framed with gilt stripes; ff. 63</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 64, 77, and 78</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> left blank; size, 9</span>^{<span>3/8</span>}<span> in. 5</span>^{<span>5/8</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>