[IO Islamic 914] ديوان مشفقى

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Mushfiḳ&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1446 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 914 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1446</p> <p>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Mushfiḳ&icirc; (ديوان مشفقى ).</p> <p>The <em>first d&icirc;w&acirc;n</em> of Mull&acirc; Mushfiḳ&icirc; of Bukh&acirc;r&acirc;, who went twice to India under Akbar, but returned again to Bukh&acirc;r&acirc; where he died, comp. Blochmann, &Acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;n-i-Akbar&icirc;, English translation, vol. i. p. 583. He was born A.H. 945 (A.D. 1538, 1539), and died A.H. 994 (A.D. 1586); his family was of Marw; see also A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 64, ll. 1 and 2; Saf&icirc;nah, No. 310 (col. 221 in the Bodleian Cat.), and Makhzan-alghar&acirc;&rsquo;ib, No. 2374 (ib. col. 375).</p> <p>This <em>first</em> collection of his lyrical poems was made, according to the ta&rsquo;r&icirc;kh at the end (اتمام يافت), A.H. 973 (A.D. 1565, 1566), and contains chiefly ghazals in alphabetical order, with a few ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, a muthallath, and short series of rub&acirc;&rsquo;is at the end. Beginning:</p> <p>صراحى را زبان باده صيقل شد بمحفلها</p> <p>بيا ساقى ببر زنگ غم از آئينۀ دلها</p> <p>A copy of the <em>second d&icirc;w&acirc;n</em> of Mushfiḳ&icirc;, collected A.H. 983 (A.D. 1575, 1576), is described in the Bodleian Cat., No. 1044; and in A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 508 and 509.</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 914, ff. 79, 2 coll., each ll. 15; clear Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; a few other illuminations on the first two pages; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^1/2 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>