[IO Islamic 863] ديوان رسا
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<li>Dîwân-i-Rasâ</li>
<li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1658 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 863 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li>
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<p><span>1658</span></p>
<p><span>Dîwân-i-Rasâ (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان رسا</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p>
<p><span>The lyrical poems of Mirzâ Îzadbakhs Rasâ, who flourished under </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Âlamgîr and died, according to the chronogram quoted both in the Hamîsha Bahâr (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 123) and the Makhzan-algharâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>ib, No. 893 (col. 334 in the Bodleian Cat.): </span><span><span><span><span><span>رسا رفته از جهان بجنان </span></span></span></span></span><span>, A.H. 1119 (A.D. 1707, 1708); the </span><span><span><span><span><span>رياض الشّعرا</span></span></span></span></span><span>, however, say, that he died in </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Alamgîr</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s reign, see Rieu iii. pp. 985</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span> and 986</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, where another work of Rasâ, the </span><span><span><span><span><span>رياض الوداد</span></span></span></span></span><span>, a collection of letters and refined prose-writing, is described. He was a descendant of Jahângîr</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s wazîr, Â</span><span>ṣa</span><span>fkhân Ja</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>far Kazwînî, and lived under </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Âlamgîr in Akbarâbâd. The dîwân begins, on fol. 40</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, with </span><span>ḳaṣîdas, the initial bait of which runs thus: </span><span><span><span><span><span>اى كرده دل دوست تو ايجاد كرم را الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>. The </span><span>ḳaṣîdas</span><span> conclude on fol. 48</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, and are followed on ff. 49</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>-100</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span> by a series of ghazals, rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>is, and fards, in alphabetical order, with a short mathnawî at the end; this series begins: </span><span><span><span><span><span>نبود شعر شعارى بخدا </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>يش</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>ما الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>On ff. 4</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>-38</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span> an anonymous </span><span><em>mystical mathnawî</em></span><span> is written by another hand in Shikasta, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>الهى ذرّ</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>آ</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>اهيم بخش الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and dated A.H. 1147 (A.D. 1734, 1735). All the remainder of the MS., ff. 1-4</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, 38</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>-40</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, 48</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, 49</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, 101</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>-104, and the margin throughout are filled by a third hand which is much smaller than the other two, with a </span><span><em>poetical anthology</em></span><span>; ff. 39</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span> and 40</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span> also contain some prose-extracts. Many leaves are greatly damaged by worms.</span></p>
<p><span>No. 863, ff. 104, ll. 15; three different handwritings; Shikasta on ff. 4</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>-38</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>; larger and smaller </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ in the remaining parts of the copy; size, 8¾ in. by 5¼ in.</span></p>
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