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[IO Islamic 132] ديوان اديب صابر

<ul> <li>Diwân-i-Adîb Ṣâbir.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 911 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 132 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 911 Diwân-i-Adîb Ṣâbir (ديوان اديب صابر). Lyrical poems by Jalâl-aldîn (as he is called here instead of the usual Shihâb-aldîn) Aḥmad bin Isma’il Adîb (or Sharaf-aladibbâ) Ṣâbir of Tirmidh, the panegyrist of Sulṭân Sanjar (A.H. 511-552=A.D. 1117-1157), who was drowned in the Oxus by order of Atsiz the Khwârizmshâh (A.H. 521-551=A.D. 1127-1156). The date of his death is, according to Taḳî Kâshî (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 16, No. 11), A.H. 540 (A.D. 1145, 1146); other tadhkiras fix it in A.H. 544 or 546, see the Âtashkada, No. 728 (Bodleian Cat., col. 287); Butkhâna, No. 8 (ib., col. 197); Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 10 (ib., col. 303); and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1291 (ib., col. 344); the Haft Iḳlîm, No. 573, give A.H. 547 (A.D. 1152, 1153), compare Rieu ii. p. 552; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 313-315, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 709 and foot-note, in which, as the most probable date of the poet’s death, A.H. 538 (A.D. 1143, 1144) is suggested according to Price, Chronological Retrospect, ii. p. 391. This dîwân contains ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, and rubâ’îs, and begins on fol. 48b: جود ازين بركشيده ايوانست كى بره مشترى و كيوانست It forms the third part of the old collection of six Persian dîwâns (see No. 903 above), and is dated end of Muḥarram, A.H. 714 (A.D. 1314, May 16), by ‘Abd-almu’min al’alawî alkâshî.   No. 132, ff. 48-75, 6 coll., each ll. 40; striking old Naskhî; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 48b, and a vignette on fol. 48a; funny miniature paintings throughout; size, 153/4 in. by 11 in.

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