[IO Islamic 2677] ديوان انورى
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<li><strong>Dîwân-i-Anwarî.</strong></li>
<li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 935 in the India Office collections.</strong></li>
<li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2677 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li>
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<p>Anwarî (Nos. 935-949).</p>
<p>935</p>
<p>Dîwân-i-Anwarî (ديوان انورى).</p>
<p>The complete lyrical poems of Auḥad-aldîn ‘Alî Anwarî, commonly called the greatest ḳaṣîdah-writer of Persia, who was the panegyrist of Sulṭân Sanjar, and died probably A.H. 585 or 587 (A.D. 1189 or 1191); the Haft Iḳlîm (see above, col. 416, No. 528) fix his death in A.H. 580 (A.D. 1184); all the earlier dates given in tadhkiras, as for instance 540 or 547, are absolutely impossible; comp. on this question and on Anwari’s life and poetical achievements in general, Rieu ii. p. 554 sq.; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 543-558, and 1980; W. Pertsch, p. 83, and Berlin Cat., p. 743 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 331 sq.; G. Flügel i. p. 502; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 319; J. Aumer, p. 10; Krafft, p. 62; Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 170; and the Russian monograph of V. Joukowski or Shukovski, St. Petersburg, 1883 (see also W. Pertsch in the ‘Literaturblatt für orientalische Philologie,’ ii. pp. 10-18).</p>
<p>The poet was born in Mahnah, in the Dasht-i-Khâwarân, near Abîward, and therefore used as first takhalluṣ Khâwarî. His dîwân has been printed, resp. lithographed in Tabrîz, A.H. 1260 and 1266; in Lucknow, 1880.</p>
<p>Contents:</p>
<p>A short preface, in prose, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p>
<p>مهتر شغلى كه اصحاب نطق و دراست بدان نازند و ارباب فهم و فراست آنرا دستور سازند الخ.</p>
<p>Ḳaṣîdas and tarjî’bands in alphabetical order, except the first, on fol. 2<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>Beginning of the initial poem:</p>
<p>مقدّرى نه بآلت بقدرت مطلق</p>
<p>كند بشكل بخارى چو گنبذ ازرق</p>
<p>Beginning of the first alphabetical poem, on fol. 3<sup>b</sup>:</p>
<p>باز اين چه جوانى و جمال است جهانرا</p>
<p>وين حال كه نو گشت زمين را و زمانرا</p>
<p>Ḳiṭ’as arranged alphabetically, on fol. 188<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p>
<p>ايا صدرى كه از روى بزرگى – فلك را نيست با قدر تو بالا</p>
<p>Ghazals, also in alphabetical order, on fol. 271<sup>a</sup>, beginning:</p>
<p>از دور بديدم آن پرى را – آن رشك بتان آزرى را</p>
<p>Short satirical mathnawîs (sometimes called هزليّات or, as in the following copy, مثنويّات در هجو), on fol. 323<sup>a</sup>, beginning:</p>
<p>حبّذا گیر قاضئ گیرنگ – آنکه دارد زسنگ خارا ننگ</p>
<p>Rubâ’îs, in alphabetical order, on fol. 327<sup>a</sup>, beginning:</p>
<p>اى هجر مگر نهايتى نيست ترا</p>
<p>وى وعدۀ وصل غايتى نيست ترا</p>
<p>Anwarî’s dîwân ends on fol. 352<sup>b</sup>, and is dated by Mu’izz-aldîn Ḥasanî, the 7th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1061 (A.D. 1650, Dec. 31). On f. 353-359 there is written by another hand a series of anonymous mathnawî-baits, beginning abruptly:</p>
<p>بشنو نكته گر اهل هوشی</p>
<p>خویش را به که سگ بفروشى</p>
<p>Some of the last pages are damaged; large water-spots throughout the whole copy.</p>
<p>No. 2677, ff. 359, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; ff. 216 and 353-359 supplied by other hands; size, 11½ in. by 7 in.</p>
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