[IO Islamic 206] ديوان ثنائى

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Than&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1449 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 206 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1449</p> <p>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Than&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; (ديوان ثنائى).</p> <p>The lyrical poems of Khw&acirc;jah Ḥusain Than&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; of Mashhad, who came to India under Akbar, was the teacher and friend of Faiḍ&icirc;, and died in the same year as Muḥtasham, viz. A.H. 996 (A.D. 1588), see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1045-1049; A. Sprenger, Catal,. pp. 43, 57, 120, and 578; Blochmann, &Acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;n-i-Akbar&icirc;, p. 563, note 2 (where, however, the wrong date, A.H. 1000, is given for the poet&rsquo;s death), and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 57, No. 4; 722, No. 2, and 899-900; see also Safinah, No. 271 (col. 220 in the Bodleian Cat.); &Acirc;tashkada, No. 204 (ib. col. 269); Khul&acirc;ṣat-alkal&acirc;m, No. 16 (ib. col. 296), and Khul&acirc;ṣat-alafk&acirc;r, No. 59 (ib. col. 304).</p> <p>This copy contains:</p> <p>Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, in alphabetical order, on fol. 10^b, beginning:</p> <p>در روش حسن و ناز هست بسى خوش نما</p> <p>(in other copies جفا ) غمزه بطرزستم عشوه برنگ حيا</p> <p>Ghazals, likewise in alphabetical order, on fol. 105^b, beginning:</p> <p>راندى بخشم از بر خود اى پسر مرا</p> <p>صد خار حسرتست ازين در جگر مرا</p> <p>Ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, with a few rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s at the end, on fol. 123^a, beginning:</p> <p>در بوستان سراى تو امّيد و بيم را</p> <p>مانند گل زبرگ و نوا خانه خرّمست</p> <p>On ff. 1-6 there is written by another hand a story of &lsquo;Umar bin Mas&rsquo;&ucirc;d, the waz&icirc;r of the Khalif Ma&rsquo;m&ucirc;n (A.H. 198-218=A.D. 813-833), told by himself, and not connected with this d&icirc;w&acirc;n at all. Beginning of the story:</p> <p>عمر ابن مسعود گوید در ابتدای روزگار وزیر مأمون بودم الخ.</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 206, ff. 1-130, 2 coll., each ll. 11-14; the first six leaves written in Shikasta &acirc;m&icirc;z, the rest in Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ by another hand; ff. 7-9 are left blank; size, 9&frac12; in. by 5&frac12; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>