Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4391 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

St Augustine's College Collection

Kalim and Qudsi, divans

Contents

Early collection of dīvāns by two of the most important poets at Shahjahan's court in neat nastaʿlīq

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Collection of qaṣāʾid, ghazalīyāt, rubāʿīyāt, tarjīʿbands, and other brief mas̲navīyāt by one of the most important poets at the court of the Timurid or Mughal Emperor Shāh Jahān I, Abū Ṭālib Hamadānī Kāshānī, sometimes referred to as Ṭālibā-yi Kalīm. The poet was later commissioned to write a versified account of the reign, titled Pādshāh'nāmah, based on, though not limited to, approved prose accounts (especially that by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Lāhawrī), also titled Pādshāh'nāmah, left incomplete on the poet's death in 1062/1652

Not dated

Language(s): Persian
Title: Dīvān
Title: ديوان
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Title: Dīvān
Title: ديوان

Collection of numerous qaṣāʾid, and a smaller quantity of ghazalīyāt, followed by rubāʿīyāt, by the premier poet at the court of the Timurid or Mughal Emperor Shāh Jahān I, Ḥājjī Muḥammad Jān Mashhadī "Qudsī". The poet was the first to be commissioned to write a versified account of the reign, titled Pādshāh'nāmah, based on, though not limited to, approved prose accounts (by, initially, Muḥammad Amīn Qazvīnī and later Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Lāhawrī), also titled Pādshāh'nāmah, left incomplete on the poet's death in 1056/1646

Dated: 9 Muḥarram 1073/1662

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 171 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 229 × 127 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 9 Muḥarram 1073 AH; 1662 CE ; India

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/18_f073r

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