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[IO Islamic 1738] ديوان آزاد

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-&Acirc;z&acirc;d</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1722 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Eth&eacute;, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1738 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1722</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-&Acirc;z&acirc;d (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان آزاد</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Lyrical poems by M&icirc;r Ghul&acirc;m </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; </span><span>Ḥ</span><span>usain&icirc; W&acirc;si</span><span>ṭ</span><span>&icirc; Balgr&acirc;m&icirc;, with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ &Acirc;z&acirc;d, who has been mentioned already as the first editor of the </span><span><span><span><span><span>مآثر الامرا</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>and as author of the </span><span><span><span><span><span>روضة الاوليا</span></span></span></span></span><span>, the </span><span><span><span><span><span>مآثر الكرام</span></span></span></span></span><span>, the </span><span><span><span><span><span>سرو آزاد</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and the </span><span><span><span><span><span>خزان</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>عامره</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(see above, Nos. 622 sq., 655, and 682-690); he died towards the end of A.H. 1200 (A.D. 1786, September).</span></p> <p><span>Contents:</span></p> <p><span>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>بر آر از مدّ بسم الله تيغ خوشمقالى را</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>مسخّر كن سواد اعظم نازك خيالى را</span></span></span></p> <p><span>A few rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s and ta</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>r&icirc;kh&acirc;t, on fol. 94</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> sq.</span></p> <p><span>No date. This copy is probably &Acirc;z&acirc;d</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s autograph, but another hand has supplied a few pages and also a great number of additional ghazals on the margin.</span></p> <p><span>Another copy of this d&icirc;w&acirc;n in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 364. A detailed biography with a full list of &Acirc;z&acirc;d</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s Persian works is noticed in Rieu iii. p. 978</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> (the </span><span><span><span><span><span>غزلان الهند</span></span></span></span></span><span><em>, </em></span><span>mentioned there, is preserved in a copy of the Berlin Library, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 1001; it was composed A.H. 1177 (A.D. 1763, 1764).</span></p> <p><span>No. 1738, ff. 97, 2 coll., each ll. 15; </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8&frac14; in. by 4&frac34; in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>