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Persian poetry

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دیوان حافظ Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ, undated copy (original text composed 14th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 106
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A collection of poems by the celebrated Persian lyric poet Shams-al-Dīn Muḥammad "Ḥāfiẓ" of Shiraz (ca. 715-792 A.H. /1315-1390 C.E.). This volume, probably copied in the 11th century A.H. (broadly, 17th cent. CE), is richly illuminated and includes twelve highly finished miniatures in Indian style.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 14th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

دیوان حلفظ Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ, after 1799 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 466
Scope and Contents The compendium of poems of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥafiẓ Shīrāzī, the famous 14th century poet. This copy begins with the qaṣīdahs, which is a somewhat unusual. In the earlier copies, the ghazals come first. The present manuscript appears to have been a complete copy of the work but lacks its final folios.Written in black ink, with short vowles and the poet's name in red through our the work. The Arabic verses...
Dates: after 1799 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

دیوان وحشت Dīvān-i Waḥshat, undated copy (original text composed 17th-18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 110
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The collected ghazals of Shaykh 'Abd al-Wāḥid Thānīsarī, who claimed his descent from the celebrated Imām Ghazālī. He flourished during the reign of the Mughal Emperor 'Ālamgīr, and poetically styled himself "Waḥshat."

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 17th-18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

سرورافزا Surūrafzā, 1216 A.H., 1801 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 324
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A poem in praise of London, composed during his travels in Europe, by Mirzā Abū Ṭālib Khān Hindī Isfahānī (d 1220 or 1221 A.H., 1805-1806 C.E.).


It contains a portrait of the author "Engraved by Ridley from an original picture painted by Russel," for the European Magazine. The present manuscript was copied for the owner, James Anderson, by George Swinton.

Dates: 1216 A.H.; 1801 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

شاه وگدا Shāh-u Gadā, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 298
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A mystical poem by Badr al-Dīn Astarābādī, poetically styled "Hilālī" (d. circa 936 A.H., 1530 C.E.).

The poem is followed by an incomplete essay in prose containing advice to men, by an unknown person.

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

شرح حديقة الحقيقة Sharḥ-i ḥadīqat al- ḥaqīqah, 1051 A.H., 1641 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 273
Scope and Contents The Ḥadīqah (a poem on the unity of God, other religions subjects, and ethics), with an elaborate commentary upon the same. The poem is by celebrated poet and philosopher Shaykh Abū al-Majd Majdūd, or Majd al-Dīn 'Sanāʼī' b. Ādam, commonly known as Ḥakīm Sanāʼī who was born at Ghaznī towards the later half of the 5th century A.H. (11th century C.E.). The commentary is by Khwājah ‘Abd al-Laṭīf b. ‘Abd-Allāh al-‘Abbāsī (d. 1048 or 1049 A.H., 1638 or...
Dates: 1051 A.H.; 1641 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

شرح ديوان خاقانی Sharḥ-i Dīwān-i Khāqānī, 1045 A.H., 1635 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 277
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A commentary on the difficult verses in the Qaṣīdahs of Imām Afz̤al al-Dīn Badil Ibrāhīm b. 'Alī Najjār "Khāqānī" of Shirvān who died at Tabriz, between 582 and 595 A.H. /1186 and 1199 C.E., by Muḥammad bin Dāūd (here Dād) ‘Alawī Shādiyābādī. Copied in the village of Tamwarlī in Tilingānah, India.

Dates: 1045 A.H.; 1635 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

شرح قصائد عرفی Sharḥ-i Qaṣā'id-i 'Urfī, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 108
Scope and Contents An anonymous commentary upon the difficult lines in the qaṣā'id (poems) of the celebrated poet Sayyid Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn " 'Urfī " Shīrāzī. 'Urfī 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...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

طلسم حيرت Ṭilsim-i ḥayrat, undated copy (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 317
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A mas̲navī by Mirzā ‘Abd al-Qādir Astarābādī, poetically styled "Bīdil" (d. 1133 A.H., 1720 C.E.).


Frontispiece illuminated.

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

طور معرفت Ṭūr-i ma‘rifat, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 318
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A mas̲navī by Mirzā ‘Abd al-Qādir Astarābādī, poetically styled "Bīdil" (d. 1133 A.H., 1720 C.E.).

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia