[IO Islamic 132] ديوان شمس طبسى

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Shams Ṭabas&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1030&nbsp;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 132 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1030</p> <p>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Shams Ṭabas&icirc; ( ديوان شمس طبسى).</p> <p>Lyrical poems, chiefly ḳaṣ&icirc;das, by the Ḳ&acirc;ḍ&icirc; Shams-ald&icirc;n Maḥm&ucirc;d (according to the Haft Iḳl&icirc;m, No. 153, col. 389 in this Cat., Muḥammad bin &lsquo;Abd-alkar&icirc;m) of Ṭabas (i.e. Ṭabas-i-K&icirc;lak in Khusr&acirc;s&acirc;n, see Haft Iḳl&icirc;m, loc. cit., and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., in the geographical index, p. 1247) or Ṭabs (as the name is spelt in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 17, No. 43; see also Bodleian Cat., No. 621, and Butkh&acirc;na, No. 97, ib., col. 202). According to the &Acirc;tashkada, No. 150 (col. 267 in the Bodleian Cat.), he was a pupil of Ḳ&acirc;ḍi Manṣ&ucirc;r of Fargh&acirc;na, and lived and died in Har&acirc;t.</p> <p>According to the short biographical notice, prefixed to this d&icirc;w&acirc;n, he came to Bukh&acirc;r&acirc; in the time of Raḍ&icirc;-ald&icirc;n of N&icirc;sh&acirc;p&ucirc;r (died A.H. 598=A.D. 1202, see Haft Iḳl&icirc;m, No. 746, col. 432 in this Cat., and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 16, No. 26), and was a younger contemporary of Kh&acirc;ḳ&acirc;n&icirc; (see Nos. 950-970 in this Cat.). His death is fixed in A.H. 626 (A.D. 1228, 1229).</p> <p>Beginning, on fol. 88^b:</p> <p>هر دل كه سوى¹ عرصۀ تحقيق راه يافت</p> <p>در سايۀ سرادق عزّت پناه يافت</p> <p>This d&icirc;w&acirc;n forms the fifth part of the old collection of six Persian d&icirc;w&acirc;ns (see Nos. 903, 911, 913, 1028, and 1029 above), and is dated Dh&ucirc;-alḳa&rsquo;dah, A.H. 713 (A.D. 1314, Feb-March), by &lsquo;Abd-almu&rsquo;min al&rsquo;alaw&icirc; alk&acirc;sh&icirc;.</p> <p>No. 132, ff. 88-96, 6 coll., each ll. 40; striking old Naskh&icirc;; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 88^b, and a vignette on fol. 88^a; miniature paintings throughout; size, 15&frac34; in. by 11 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>¹ The two words که سوی, which were destroyed by worms in the present copy, have been supplied from the Bodleian copy, Elliott 86.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>