Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1380 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Poems of Faqir Dihlavi, 8 items (a-h)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Important early volume dating from the author’s lifetime and owned by a member of the author’s circle of associates. Compendious collection or kullīyāt of poetic compositions in varied forms and genres by the polymath literary commentator, Persian grammarian, and poet Mīr Shams al-Dīn ʿAbbāsī Dihlavī with the takhalluṣ Faqīr and Maftūn (d. 1183/1769), the son of Sayyid ʿIvaz̤ Khān (deputy governor of Lahore), a descendent of Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Kishīkī ʿAbbāsī according to a note added at the beginning by the former owner of this volume, Fatḥ ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Riz̤avī Gardīzī, author of the Taz̲kirah-'i Bībadal-i Hindī (a study of early poets of Rekhtah/Urdu). The author found patronage at Lucknow after fleeing the chaos of imperial Delhi. Internal signs indicate the volume is a composite of at least two volumes, with the items originally in a different order, probably beginning with the qaṣāʾid (presently commencing with item e). Volume not dated; item h dated 15 Jumādá al-Avval 1182/27 September 1768. Indian taʿlīq. Intermittent foliation in pencil. Lacking original binding. Paper dust wrapper (BEIC legal publication on Regulation XX for 1817); watermarks not visible; labels, torn and stained. Folios unbound; stains, substantially worm eaten, cropped. Condition fragile.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

1. ff. 1v-106r
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Delhi Persian 1380 a.

Untitled collection of lyrics or ghazalīyāt in alphabetic order by the poet Faqīr (d. 1183/1769).

Biographical notes on the author by a later owner (named in a seal), Fatḥ ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Riz̤avī Gardīzī, added at the beginning (f. 1r).

Not dated at end.

2. ff. 106v-115r

Delhi Persian 1380 b.

Untitled collection of quatrains or rubāʿīyāt by the poet Faqīr (d. 1183/1769).

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
3. ff. 116v-144r

Delhi Persian 1380 c.

Mas̲navī entitled Taṣvīr-i maḥabbat, the tale of Rāmchand, son of the pān farūsh or betel seller, by the poet Faqīr (d. 1183/1769).

The work was completed in 1156/1743 according to a chronogram.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
4. ff. 144v-146v

Delhi Persian 1380 d.

Fragment of an untitled mas̲navī in praise of Dihlī by the poet Faqīr (d. 1183/1769).

The work is defective at end.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
5. ff. 147v-200v

Delhi Persian 1380 e.

Untitled collection of eulogies or qaṣāʾid and manāqib in various forms, chronograms, muqaṭṭaʿāt, laghz, and elegies or mars̲iyah, by the poet Faqīr (d. 1183/1769).

Subjects mainly include praise of the Prophet and Imams of the Is̲nāʾ ʿAsharīyah Shīʿah, but also Aḥmad ʿAlī Khān, Sayyid Imtiyāz Khān, Qizilbāsh Khān takhalluṣ Ummīd, ʿAlī Qulī Khān [Dāghistānī] takhalluṣ Vālih, Khvājah Abū Naṣr, and the minister of state, ʿImād al-Mulk.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
6. ff. 201r-204r

Delhi Persian 1380 f.

Eulogy or qaṣīdah on mystical themes entitled Shams al-maʿārif, by the poet Faqīr (d. 1183/1769).

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
7. ff. 204r-207v

Delhi Persian 1380 g.

Eulogy or qaṣīdah, entitled Qaṣīdah-'i maṣnūʿah, on the artful demonstration of technical skill, with almost every line illustrating a poetic conceit or figure, indicated by rubricated subheadings, by the poet Faqīr (d. 1183/1769).

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
8. ff. 208v-321v

Delhi Persian 1380 h.

Allegorical mas̲navī, entitled Durr-i maknūn, on the tale of relations between the daughter of the Qayṣar-i Rūm, Malīkah Narjis Khātūn, and Imām Ḥasan ʿAskarī, by the poet Faqīr (d. 1183/1769).

The work was completed in 1169/1755 according to a chronogram.

Dated colophon (f. 321v): completed by Z̲awq Rām with the takhalluṣ Ḥasrat, 15 Jumādá al-Avval 1182/27 September 1768.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 321 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 244 × 120 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 15_Jumada-I_1182 AH; 27 September 1768 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

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