[IO Islamic 466] ديوان ابن يمين

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Ibn Yam&icirc;n.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1230&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 466 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1230</p> <p>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Ibn Yam&icirc;n (ديوان ابن يمين).</p> <p>An incomplete copy of the poetical works of Am&icirc;r Fakhr-ald&icirc;n Maḥm&ucirc;d bin Am&icirc;r Yam&icirc;n-ald&icirc;n Muḥammad Mustauf&icirc; of Fary&ucirc;mad (three days&rsquo; journey from Sabz-w&acirc;r), commonly known as Ibn Yam&icirc;n, who died in Fary&ucirc;mad, A.H. 745 (A.D. 1344, 1345); see Haft Iḳl&icirc;m, No. 770 (col. 434 in this Cat.); Bodleian Cat., Nos. 790-792; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 433, 434; G. Fl&uuml;gel i. p. 545; Rieu ii. p. 825^b; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 86, etc.; and Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 358.</p> <p>The statement made in the last-named Catalogue, that the poet (according to the preface of his d&icirc;w&acirc;n) wrote or collected his poems in A.H. 756 (A.D. 1355) is probably due to some kind of error, as according to one of Sprenger&rsquo;s copies already in A.H. 753 (A.D. 1352) one of the poet&rsquo;s friends compiled a preface to the collected diw&acirc;n.</p> <p>The present collection contains:</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1^b, beginning,</p> <p>ابتدا ميكنم بنام خدا ( the second hemistich is torn away), agreeing with the beginning of No. 791 in the Bodleian Cat.; the second bait of this initial ghazal, viz.</p> <p>اى خداوند قادر يكتا - مبدء كون خالق اشيا</p> <p>Corresponds to the beginning of No. 790 in the Bodleian Cat., and of the second copy in Sprenger&rsquo;s Catal., p. 434, l. 12.</p> <p>One tarj&icirc;&rsquo;band, on fol. 91^a, beginning (as in No. 790 of the Bodleian Cat.):</p> <p>چو نور ذات در تابد زذرّات</p> <p>دو عالم محو گردد در يكى ذات</p> <p>A few rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, one mukhammas, and some fards, on fol. 94^b; beginning of the first poem:</p> <p>طلب كن تا خبر از گنج يابى</p> <p>تو كى اين گنج را بى رنج يابى</p> <p>Three mystical mathnaw&icirc;s, the <em>first</em> of which begins, on fol. 99^b:</p> <p>كون و مكان (read نَبُد) پیش از آندم كه نبود</p> <p>بود آن گنج گرانمایه نهان</p> <p>corresponding to the first mathnaw&icirc; in No. 791 of the Bodleian Cat., and seems to contain six majlis; the <em>second</em>, on fol. 111^a, is headed:</p> <p>نسخۀ دلفريب جان سوز است</p> <p>نام اين نسخه مجلس افروز است</p> <p>from which it is evident that its title is مجلس افروز (which also appears in the last bait on fol. 124^a); the <em>third</em>, on fol. 124^a (like the first without any heading), begins with the initial bait of the preceding section (on fol. 94^b), viz. طلب كن تا خبر از گنج يابى الخ ; this mathnaw&icirc; breaks off on fol. 125^b; there are besides two lacunas, one after fol. 2 and the other after fol. 51, and some leaves are severely injured.</p> <p>No. 466, ff. 125, partly 3 coll., the first and third ll. 10, the middle in diagonal lines, ll. 6; and partly 2 coll., each ll. 13; irregular Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8&frac34; in. by 5&frac12; in.</p> <p><br> &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>