[IO Islamic 954] ديوان وفا
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<li>Dîwân-i-Wafâ</li>
<li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1718 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 954 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li>
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<p><span>1718</span></p>
<p><span>Dîwân-i-Wafâ (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان وفا</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p>
<p><span>Lyrical poems of Mirzâ Sharaf-aldîn </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Alî al</span><span>ḥusainî of Ḳ</span><span>umm, with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ Wafâ (see fol. 2</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, last line, and fol. 3</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, first line), who was, according to the Makhzan-algharâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>ib, No. 3011 (Bodleian Cat., col. 393), a descendant of Mirzâ Mu</span><span>ḥammad Hâshim Ḥ</span><span>usainî </span><span>Ḳummî from father</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s side, and of Maulânâ </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Abd-alrazzâ</span><span>ḳ Fayyâḍ from mother</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s side. According to Ḥairat</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s </span><span><span><span><span><span>مقالات الشّعرا</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 160), he was originally in the service of Nâdirshâh, but went in A.H. 1162 (A.D. 1749) to India and lived at Dihlî in Wâlih</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s house. The Makhzan-algharâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>ib, on the other hand, asserts that he reached Dihlî still in Mu</span><span>ḥammadshâh</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s reign, and the Âtashkada, No. 842 (Bodleian Cat., col. 292), says, he remained about thirty years in India and returned to Persia in A.H. 1183 (A.D. 1769, 1770); if the latter remark is correct, he must have gone to Dihlî about A.H. 1152, 1153 (A.D. 1739, 1740).</span></p>
<p><span>According to the same Âtashkada he made, after his return to Persia, the pilgrimage to Makkah, and died A.H. 1194 (A.D. 1780). Another copy of his dîwân is described in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 584.</span></p>
<p><span>This copy contains:</span></p>
<p><span>A preface in prose, on fol. 1</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>بهترين حمدى كه عندليبان شيرين زبان </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لشن نظم در </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لزار معانى الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>Ḳaṣîdas, in honour of the prophet, </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Alî, and the Imâms, some also in praise of </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Alî Ḳulîkhân Bahâdur, i.e. Wâlih, the poet (see above and No. 1708), beginning, on fol. 8</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>: </span><span><span><span><span><span>مبادا هم</span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>و من بيجا كسى از خان و مان خيزد الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 36</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, beginning:</span></p>
<p><span><span><span>الهى خون بجوش آوردمى تيغ زبانم را</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span>برن</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ين جلوه </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ى دست و </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ريبان كن بيانم را</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span>Rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îs, with some tarjî</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>ât at the end, on fol. 96</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning:</span></p>
<p><span><span><span>مائيم كه خون ديده آرايش ماست الخ</span></span></span></p>
<p><span>Incomplete at the end; the mathnawî </span><span><span><span><span><span>لؤلؤ منظوم</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, found in Sprenger</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s copy, is wanting here.</span></p>
<p><span>No. 954, ff. 114, 2 coll., each ll. 9; </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7½ in. by 5</span><sup><span>1</span></sup><span> in.</span></p>
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