[IO Islamic 1078] ديوان ناصر على
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<li>Dîwân-i-Nâṣir-‘Alî</li>
<li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1639 in the India Office collections.</li>
<li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1078 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li>
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<p><span>Nâṣir </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Alî (Nos. 1639-1648).</span></p>
<p><span>1639</span></p>
<p><span>Dîwân-i-Nâṣir </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Alî (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان ناصر على</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p>
<p><span>The lyrical poems of Shaikh (or Shâh) Nâ</span><span>ṣir </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Alî of Sirhind, who died at Dihlî the 6th of Rama</span><span>ḍân, A.H. 1108 (A.D. 1697, March 29); comp. Rieu ii. p. 699 sq.; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1150-1152; W. Pertsch, p. 80; and Berlin Cat., p. 936; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 113, 126, 151, 201, and 329; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 107; see also Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 167 (No. 109); Muntakhab-alash</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>âr, No. 458 (col. 249 in the Bodleian Cat.); Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 178 (ib., col. 308), and Makhzan-algharâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>ib, No. 1743 (ib., col. 355). All tadhkiras agree about the date A.H. 1108, but a strange contradiction appears in the chronogram, composed by Sarkhwush, the friend of the poet and the collector of his dîwân: </span><span><span><span><span><span>آه على بعالم معنى رفت</span></span></span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span><span>, which gives A.H. 1109, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 113, and the Khulâ</span><span>ṣat-alkalâm, loc. cit. This copy, the fullest in the India Office Collection, contains:</span></p>
<p><span>Ghazals, rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îs, and fards, all mixed together in alphabetical order, with interlinear and marginal glosses, on fol.1</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning:</span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span>محبّت جادّ</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>د</span></span></span><span><span><span>ا</span></span></span><span><span><span>رد نهان در خلوت دلها الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span>At the end of this part another series of rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îs (on ff. 95</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>-99</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>).</span></p>
<p><span>Ḳ</span><span>a</span><span>ṣîdas, on fol. 100</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, beginning:</span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>داخت بسكه هواى تموز مغز خيال الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span>The poet</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s name appears as takhalluṣ several times, for instance, on fol. 106</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, I. 8. The diwân has been lithographed in Lucknow, 1844, A.H. 1263 and 1281.</span></p>
<p><span>Copied by Khwâjah </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>A</span><span><span>ż</span></span><span>im in the twenty-ninth year of Muḥammadshâh</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s reign (=A.H. 1160, A.D. 1747); the larger portion of the dîwân, i.e. to the end of the rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îs, was finished the 19th of Mu</span><span>ḥarram in that year (1747, Jan. 31).</span></p>
<p><span>No. 1078, ff. 110, 2 coll., each ll. 14; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 5½ in.</span><span> </span></p>
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