[IO Islamic 495] ديوان قاسم انوار
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1285 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 495 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1285</p> <p>Dîwân-i-Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr (ديوان قاسم انوار).</p> <p>The lyrical poems of Sayyid Mu’în-aldîn ‘Alî Kâsim-i-Anwâr, with the two takhalluṣes Ḳâsim and Ḳâsimî, born in Sarâb, near Tabrîz, A.H. 757 (A.D. 1356), died at Kharjird, near Jâm, A.H. 837 (A.D. 1433, 1434); see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1314, col.476 above, and comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 862-866; Rieu ii. p. 635 sq.; W. Pertsch, p. 101, and Berlin Cat., p. 860 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 532; G. Flügel i. pp. 558, 559; J. Aumer, p. 28; Bland, Century of Persian Ghazals, No. 6; etc.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Daulatshâh’s account of Ḳâsim’s life and works (ذكر سيّد قاسم انوار), on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, beginning: درّ درياى حقيقت الخ. Daulatshâh is the only biographer who, with his usual inaccuracy, fixes the poet’s death in A.H. 835 (A.D. 1431, 1432).</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first two, on fol. 9<sup>b</sup>. Beginning of the initial ghazal:</p> <p>من بيچارۀ سودازده سرگردانم</p> <p>که باوصاف خداوند سخن چون رانم</p> <p>Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol. 10<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>اى صبح سعادت ز جبين تو هويدا</p> <p>اين حسن چه حسنست تبارک تعالی</p> <p>Tarjî’bands, ḳiṭ’as, short mathnawîs, and rubâ’îs, on fol. 209<sup>a</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>بيا اى عشق عالمسوز بى غم</p> <p>قدم بر چشم من نه خیر مقدم</p> <p>(see No. 863 in the Bodleian Cat.).</p> <p>This copy is dated the 4th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1028 (A.D. 1619, May 19), by ‘Abd-allaṭîf al-’Abbâsî (the learned editor and commentator of Sanâ’i’s Ḥadîḳah and Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s mathnawî, see above, Nos. 923, 924, 1088-1091, 1101, 1102), who wrote it for Mirzâ Muḥammad Ashraf.</p> <p>No. 495, ff. 227, 2 coll., each ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; two small pictures, the first rather effaced, on ff. 18<sup>b</sup> and 39<sup>a</sup>; blanks on ff. 140<sup>b</sup> and 200<sup>a</sup>; size, 6<sup>3/8 </sup>in. by 3<sup>1/2</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
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