[IO Islamic 2778] ديوان سلمان

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Salm&acirc;n.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1237&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 2778 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1237</p> <p>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Salm&acirc;n (ديوان سلمان).</p> <p>The fullest copy in the India Office Collection of the lyrical poems of Khw&acirc;jah Jam&acirc;l-ald&icirc;n Muḥammad Salm&acirc;n of S&acirc;wa, the son of Khw&acirc;jah &lsquo;Al&acirc;-ald&icirc;n Muḥammad, see Haft Iḳl&icirc;m, No. 1008 (col. 452 in this Cat.). He was born about A.H. 690 (A.D. 1291), enjoyed the favour of the &Icirc;lk&acirc;n&icirc; rulers, Am&icirc;r Shaikh Ḥasan Buzurg (A.H. 736-757=A.D. 1335-1356) and his son, Shaikh Uwais (A.H. 757-776=A.D. 1356-1374), and died A.H. 778 or 779 (A.D. 1376 or 1377); see Erdmann in Zeitschrift der D.M.G. xv. pp. 758-772; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 807-810; Rieu ii. p. 624 sq. Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, p. 117; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 555; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 842, 843; Schefer, Chrestomathie Persane, vol. i, Paris, 1883, pp. 114, 115.</p> <p>Some select poems are published in Bland&rsquo;s &lsquo;Century of Persian Ghazals,&rsquo; No. 4, and in Erdmann&rsquo;s article in the Zeitschrift, loc. cit.; the ḳaṣ&icirc;dah, edited there on pp. 760-762, has been metrically translated into German by K. H. Graf, in &lsquo;Festgruss an die Mitglieder der Philologen und Orientalisten-Versammlung in Meissen,&rsquo; 1863.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, tarj&icirc;&rsquo;bands, and ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, mixed together without any alphabetical arrangement, on fol.1^b, beginning:</p> <p>هر دل كه در هواى هويّت مجال يافت</p> <p>عنقاى همّتش دو جهان زير بال يافت</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 201^b, beginning:</p> <p>اگر حسن تو بگشاید نقاب از چهره دعوی را الخ.</p> <p>Muḳaṭṭa&rsquo;&acirc;t (including some ḳaṣ&icirc;das ghazals), on fol. 302^b, beginning:حلقۀ عنبر و بازار گل آشفته کنی الخ</p> <p>Rub&acirc;&rsquo;is, on fol. 330^b, beginning: اى دوست كجائى و كجائى كه نۀ الخ.</p> <p>No date. A great number of leaves severely damaged, and consequently some poems destroyed. Ff. 304 and 305 left blank.</p> <p>No. 2778, ff. 335, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; small illuminated frontispiece; size, 8 in. by 4&frac14; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>