V. 57 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: دیوان سحاب The Diwán of Saḥáb, son of the more celebrated Hátif of Isfahan, and one of the leading poets of the court of Fath-'Alí Sháh. See Rieu's Persian Supplement, pp. 88-89, 118-120, and 379. This MS., bought of Quaritch for 28s. on May 14, 1901, is bound in Persian lacquer covers with floral designs inside, and comprises 175 ff. of 27 x 17'5 c. and 12 ll. The first part of the volume (ff. 1-54) contains qasidas, muqatta'át, etc., and ends with several chronograms, of which three of the last five give the dates 1214/ 1799-1800 and 1215/1800-1, two 1216/1801-2, and one the much earlier date 1193/1780-81. All of them celebrate the completion of gardens or buildings (Dil-gusha, Dil-furuz); Fath-Ali Shah is explicitly mentioned in three of the four bearing the later dates, and Aqa Muhammad Khan in the remaining one. The second part of the volume (ff. 55-174) contains the ghazals and rubá'iyyát.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 175
Dimensions: 27 × 17.5 cm.
Layout
12 lines
Hand(s)
Script information not provided
History
Origin: Undated, 12th century AH; Undated, 18th century CE
Record Sources
Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.
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