[IO Islamic 230] ديوان مغربى

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Maghrib&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1281 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 230 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1281</p> <p>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Maghrib&icirc; (ديوان مغربى).</p> <p>The lyrical poems of Mull&acirc; Muḥammad Sh&icirc;r&icirc;n Maghrib&icirc; of N&acirc;&rsquo;in, in the province of Iṣfah&acirc;n, who was a friend of Kam&acirc;l Khujand&icirc;, and died at Tabr&icirc;z, A.H. 809 (A.D. 1406, 1407); comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 859; Rieu ii. p. 633; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 719, 720, and 856; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 476; Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, p. 106. His d&icirc;w&acirc;n has been printed in Persia, A.H. 1280.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>A preface in prose, on fol. 1^b, beginning: الحمد لله الذى انشاء عروض الكون بسىّ الجسم الثقيل و الروح الخفيف الخ.</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first, preceded by a short mathnaw&icirc; (dedicated to Sh&acirc;hrukh).</p> <p>Beginning of the mathnaw&icirc;, on fol. 2^b:</p> <p>بس ار بينى درين ديوان اشعار</p> <p>خرابات و خراباتى و خمّار</p> <p>Beginning of the first (unalphabetical) poem, the first three baits of which are written in Arabic, on fol. 3:نظرت في رقمى نظرت فصار فداك الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of the first alphabetical poem, on fol. 3^b:</p> <p>خورشيد رخت چو گشت پیدا</p> <p>ذرّات دو كون شد هويدا</p> <p>Tarj&icirc;&rsquo;&acirc;t and rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, on fol. 74^a, beginning:</p> <p>آفتاب وجود كرد اشراق &ndash; نور او سربسر گرفت آفاق</p> <p>At the end of the d&icirc;w&acirc;n, on fol. 92^b, there are some prose-lines, beginning:زيرا كه علوم و معارف ايشان ذوقی الخ</p> <p>Dated the 10th of Shaww&acirc;l, A.H. 1151 (A.D. 1739, Jan. 21), by Ghul&acirc;m Muḥy&icirc;-ald&icirc;nkh&acirc;n of G&icirc;l&acirc;n. Some mathnaw&icirc;-baits on the fly-leaves.</p> <p>No. 230, ff. 1-92, 2 coll., each ll. 15: Shikasta; size, 8&frac34; in. by 5 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>