[IO Islamic 1841] ديوان فرّخى

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Farrukh&icirc;</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 902 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 1841 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>2. Poets contemporary with and subsequent To Firdaus&icirc;.</p> <p>902</p> <p>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Farrukh&icirc; (ديوان فرّخى).</p> <p>The very rare d&icirc;w&acirc;n of the court-poet of Sulṭ&acirc;n Maḥm&ucirc;d of Ghazna, Ust&acirc;d Ab&ucirc;-alḥasan &lsquo;Al&icirc; bin J&ucirc;l&ucirc;&rsquo; (or Ḳ&ucirc;l&ucirc;&rsquo;) Farrukh&icirc;, a native of S&icirc;st&acirc;n, whose death is fixed by Taḳ&icirc; K&acirc;sh&icirc; in A.H. 470 (A.D. 1077, 1078); see A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 3, No. 22, and 15, No. 3; compare besides &Acirc;tashkada, No. 198 (Bodleian Cat., col. 269, where a work on poetry and rhetorical art, ترجمان البلاغة, is ascribed to him); Khul&acirc;ṣat-alafk&acirc;r, No. 207 (ib., col. 309, where he is called a pupil of &lsquo;Unṣur&icirc;, the king of poets at Sulṭ&acirc;n Maḥm&ucirc;d&rsquo;s court); Makhzan-alghar&acirc;&rsquo;ib, No. 1839 (ib., col. 358); Haft Iḳl&icirc;m, No. 302 (col. 399 in this Cat.), and Bodleian Cat., col. 823. But a much earlier and &ndash; as it seems- more correct date for his demise is given in Riḍ&acirc; Ḳul&icirc;kh&acirc;n&rsquo;s very reliable work, the مجمع الفصحا, vol. i. p. 439, viz. A.H. 429 (A.D. 1037, 1038); see also Schefer, Chrestomathic Persane, vol. ii. pp. 242-246, and pp. ٢٤٧-٢٥٢, where a few select poems in Persian text are given. There are two other complete copies of this d&icirc;w&acirc;n in the British Museum (Or. 2945 and 3246). The present copy is unfortunately much damaged, whole portions of the first thirteen leaves having been torn away. The d&icirc;w&acirc;n consists chiefly of ḳaṣ&icirc;das and tarj&icirc;&rsquo;bands, with a few ḳiṭ&rsquo;as and rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s at the end.</p> <p>Beginning: زبهر تهنيت عيد بامداد پگاه الخ.</p> <p>The second hemistich of this initial bait is partly destroyed.</p> <p>The second ḳaṣ&icirc;dah, on fol. 2^a, alludes to Sulṭ&acirc;n Maḥm&ucirc;d&rsquo;s conquest of Ḳann&ucirc;j, viz.:</p> <p>توئى كنندۀ دين محمّد مختار</p> <p>يمين دولت محمود قاهر كفّار</p> <p>چو بازگشت بفيروزى از در قنّوج الخ</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 1841, ff. 200, 2 coll., each ll. 22-23; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8^1/2in. by 5 in.</p>