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Persian poetry

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ديوان سعدی Dīvān-i Sa‘dī, 997 A.H., 1588 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 286
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An incomplete collection of the poems of pre-eminently the most popular of Persian poets Sa'dī of Shiraz, 606-691 A.H. (1210-1291-2 C.E.).

Dates: 997 A.H.; 1588 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

ديوانِ شوکت Dīvān-i Shawkat, undated copy (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 310
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This is part of the Dīvān (ghazals only) of Muḥammad Isḥāq or Ibrāhīm of Bukhārā, poetically named "Shawkat", who died at Isfahān in 1107 A.H., 1695 C.E.. It bears the seal of an ‘Ibād-Allāh, dated 1188 A.H. (1774 C.E.). This manuscript is bound with Or. Ms. 312, whose scribe is given as Muḥammad Yūsuf. It may well be by the same hand.

Dates: undated copy (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

ديوان صائب Dīvān-i Ṣāʼib, 1108 A.H., 1696 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 304
Scope and Contents This good copy of the Dīvān of Ṣāʼib (fol. 1 is missing). It consists of ghazals, with which are mixed a few unfinished ghazals and rubā'is, all arranged alphabetically."Ṣāʼib" is the pen name of Mīrzā Muḥammad 'Alī of Tabriz (d. ca. 1080 A.H./ 1670 C.E.), who founded a new style for writing poetry, and is regarded as one of the greatest of modern Persian poets.He spend time under the patronage of the Governor of Kabul, Ẓafar-Khān, and...
Dates: 1108 A.H.; 1696 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

ديوانِ عرفی Dīvān-i ‘Urfī, 1024 A.H., 1615 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 301
Scope and Contents The collected works of the celebrated poet Sayyid Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn " 'Urfī " Shīrāzī, who came to India, 994 A.H. (1586 C.E.), first proceeded to the Deccan, where he soon entered into the service of Ḥakīm Masīḥ al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ Jīlānī, but subsequently, on the death of his patron, 997 A.H. (1589 C.E.), he went to seek his fortune at Agra. Here he soon rose in the favour of the Khān-i Khānān, Mīrzā 'Abd al-Raḥīm (the son of Bayram Khān, who had been Akbar's regent), who had translated...
Dates: 1024 A.H.; 1615 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

ديوانِ عرفی Dīvān-i ‘Urfī, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 302
Scope and Contents The collected works of the celebrated poet Sayyid Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn " 'Urfī " Shīrāzī, who came to India, 994 A.H. (1586 C.E.), first proceeded to the Deccan, where he soon entered into the service of Ḥakīm Masīḥ al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ Jīlānī, but subsequently, on the death of his patron, 997 A.H. (1589 C.E.), he went to seek his fortune at Agra. Here he soon rose in the favour of the Khān-i Khānān, Mīrzā 'Abd al-Raḥīm (the son of Bayram Khān, who had been Akbar's regent), who had translated...
Dates: undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

ديوانِ عرفی Dīvān-i ‘Urfī, undated copy (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 300
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The poems of Sayyid Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn ‘Urfī Shīrāzī (d. 999 A.H., 1586 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

ديوان مظهر Dīvān-i maẓhar, undated copy (original text composed 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 321
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Selected poems of Mirzā Jān-Jānān, son of Mirzā- Jān, of Agra (d. 1195 A.H., 1781 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

ديوانِ موسوی Dīvān-i Mūsavī, undated copy (original text composed 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 309
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The lyrical poems (ghazals only) of Sayyid Mu‘izz al-Dīn Muḥammad "Mūsavī-Khān" (d. 1106 A.H., 1694 C.E.). This manuscript is bound with Or. Ms. 310 that bears the seal of an ‘Ibād-Allāh, dated 1188 A.H. (1774 C.E.), and Or. Ms. 312, whose scribe is given as Muḥammad Yūsuf. It may well be by the same hand.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 17th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

ديوانِ ناصر علی وغيره .Dīvān-i Nāṣir ‘Alī, etc, 1185 A.H., 1771 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 312
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The lyrical poems of Shaykh Nāṣir ‘Alī Sirhindī, who died at Dehli c. 1108 A.H., 1697 C.E. The colophon gives the scribe's name as Muḥammad Yūsuf.


This manuscript is bound with Or. Ms. 310 that bears the seal of an ‘Ibād-Allāh, dated 1188 A.H. (1774 C.E.).

Dates: 1185 A.H.; 1771 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

دیوان ثابت Dīvān-i Sābit, undated copy (original text composed 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 111
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The collected poems of Sayyid Muḥammad Afẓal al-Dīn, poetically styled, "Sābit," of Dehli, who was a man of great learning, and died at the city of his birth, 1151 A.H. (1738 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia