[IO Islamic 467] ديوان رهائى

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Rah&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1439&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 467 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1439</p> <p>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Rah&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; ( ديوان رهائى).</p> <p>The lyrical poems of Shaikh Sa&rsquo;d-ald&icirc;n Rah&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; of Khw&acirc;f (or, as the Muntakhab-alash&rsquo;&acirc;r, No. 258, col. 245 in the Bodleian Cat., states, of Har&acirc;t), a descendant of the famous saint Zain-aldin Khw&acirc;f&icirc; (who died in the beginning of Shaww&acirc;l, A.H. 838=A.D. 1435, last of April, see Blochmann, &Acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;n-i-Akbar&icirc;, English translation, vol. i. p. 592 and note; another Zain-ald&icirc;n Khw&acirc;f&icirc; was the oldest translator of B&acirc;bar&rsquo;s memoirs, and died A.H. 940=A.D. 1533, 1534, see No. 215 in this Cat.); he came to India under Akbar and spent his life in the emperor&rsquo;s service; he was still alive A.H. 983 (A.D. 1575, 1576), as the chronogram at the end of this copy</p> <p>سال اتمام آن اگر جوئى &ndash; رشتۀ جان چاک الخ</p> <p>(the end of the second hemistich is injured) proves; consequently the date of his death, as given in the Naf&acirc;&rsquo;is-alma&acirc;thir and in Bad&acirc;&rsquo;&ucirc;n&icirc; (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 49, l. 3 ab infra, and p. 58, l. 7 ab infra), must needs be wrong; comp. on this poet, Bodleian Cat., No. 1037 (a much fuller collection of poetical works by Rah&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;); A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 545; Saf&icirc;nah, No. 398 (col. 225 in the Bodleian Cat., where he is said to have written an imitation of Niż&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s Khamsah); &Acirc;tashkada, No. 173 (ib. col. 268), and Makhzan-alghar&acirc;&rsquo;ib, No. 833 (ib. col. 333); see also Blochmann, &Acirc;&rsquo;in-i-Akbar&icirc;, vol. i. p. 592.</p> <p>This copy, in which the proper order of leaves is as follows: ff. 1, 113-119, 2, 4, 6, 5, 3, 7-17, 25, 19-24, 18, 26-112, 120, contains:</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order (except a few poems on the first pages), on fol. 1^b, beginning:</p> <p>اوّليّت نيست كس را جز خدا &ndash; زانست نامش اوّل هر ابتدا</p> <p>Tarj&icirc;&rsquo;&acirc;t, on fol. 86^b, beginning: اى وجود تو الخ.</p> <p>Ḳiṭ&rsquo;as and rub&acirc;&rsquo;is, on fol. 97^a, beginning: هر كه با خلق دوستى دارد الخ.</p> <p>No date. Slight injuries in several pages.</p> <p>No. 467, ff. 120, ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 9^1/8 in. by 5^5/8 in.</p> <p><br> &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>