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[IO Islamic 3232] ديوان شوق

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Shauḳ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1732 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 3232 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1732</span></p> <p><span>D</span><span>&icirc;</span><span>w&acirc;n-i-Shau</span><span>ḳ (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان شوق</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>). </span></p> <p><span>The lyrical poems of All&acirc;hj&ucirc;y&acirc; (</span><span><span><span><span><span>الله جويا</span></span></span></span></span><span>), with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ of Shauḳ, who died, according to the prose-preface (fol. 2</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, ll. 1-3), A.H. 1263, 13th of Dh&ucirc;-alḥijjah (A.D. 1847, Nov. 22), near Gujar&acirc;t.</span></p> <p><span>Contents:</span></p> <p><span>Prose-preface, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, a eulogium of the poet by his son, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>طرفه نبود </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ر فدا</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>آيد </span></span></span><span><span><span>پسن</span></span></span><span><span><span>د اهل ذوق</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>زانكه طبعش ساخت با ديبا</span></span></span><span><span><span>چۀ </span></span></span><span><span><span>ديوان شوق</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>(or according to a various reading on the margin in the second hemistich: </span><span><span><span><span><span>كز دلش زد سر برون الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Ḳ</span><span>a</span><span>ṣ&icirc;das, ghazals, rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s mixed, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 5</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>الا يا ايّها الطّالب اقم فى العشق و اكملها</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>كه </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ر همّت بود آسان نمايد جمله مشكلها</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Short mathnaw&icirc;s at the end (ff. 65</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, last line-79</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, last line). Copied by Ghul&acirc;m Muḥammad, A.H. 1270, (A.D. 1854). The copy was sent to the Imperial Exhibition at Paris for works of art and industry, by the Punjab Committee at Lahore. It was received into the library from Dr. Royle, July, 1856. The d&icirc;w&acirc;n of an elder poet, with the takhalluṣ Shauḳ, is noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 1183.</span></p> <p><span>No. 3232, ff. 80, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 10&frac14; in. by 5&frac34; in. </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>