[IO Islamic 203] ديوان شمس تبريز

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Shams-i-Tabr&icirc;z.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1109&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 203 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1109</p> <p>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Shams-i-Tabr&icirc;z (ديوان شمس تبريز).</p> <p>An excellent and very rich collection of the minor or lyrical poems of Jal&acirc;l-ald&icirc;n R&ucirc;m&icirc;, usually styled ديوان شمس تبريز, since the poet uses as takhalluṣ in his ghazals the name of his spiritual guide, Shams-ald&icirc;n of Tabr&icirc;z (whose death is commonly fixed in A.H. 645=A.D. 1247, 1248), but of course known also as ديوان مولانا رومى or ديوان جلال الدين رومى ; other copies of the whole or of extracts of this d&icirc;w&acirc;n are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 673-675; Rieu ii. p. 593 sq.; W. Pertsch, p. 69, and Berlin Cat., pp. 798 and 799; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 497; G. Fl&uuml;gel i. p. 522 sq.; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 113; J. Aumer, p. 16; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 214; Krafft, p. 65 etc. The whole d&icirc;w&acirc;n has been lithographed in Lucknow, 1879; one of the Tarj&icirc;&rsquo;&acirc;t has been printed in Ṭahr&acirc;n, A.H. 1274. Select poems have been edited, with metrical German translation, by Vincenz von Rosenzweig, in &lsquo;Auswahl aus den Diwanen des gr&ouml;ssten mystischen Dichters Persiens, Mewlana Dschelaleddin Rumi,&rsquo; Vienna, 1838; others have been poetically reproduced in German by R&uuml;ckert etc.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Preface in prose, by the anonymous editor of this collection, who compiled it in Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-alawwal, A.H. 817 (A.D. 1414, May, June), comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 673; beginning:حمد موفور و ثناى نامحصور پاك از وصمت فتور و قصور الخ.</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 6^b, beginning:</p> <p>شاه جسم و جان ما خندان كن دندان ما (MS. اى)</p> <p>سرمه كش چشمان ما اى چشم جانرا توتيا</p> <p>Tarji&rsquo;&acirc;t, on fol. 482^a, beginning:</p> <p>شاهد ما زرخ گرفت نقاب &ndash; گر خورشيد پرتوى برتاب</p> <p>A few ḳiṭ&rsquo;as at the end of this part.</p> <p>Rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s and some fards, on fol. 494^a, beginning:</p> <p>در مذهب عشّاق قرارى دگرست</p> <p>وين بادۀ ناب را خمارى دگرست</p> <p>No date. This MS. was purchased at Ḥaidar&acirc;b&acirc;d, the 25th of June, 1784, for forty rupees.</p> <p>No. 203, ff. 505, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 17, and a third on the margin, ll. 34; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; two illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b and 6^b; size 9^5/8 in. by 5 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>