[IO Islamic 1126] شرح ديوان خاقانى

Sharḥ-i-Dîwân-i-Khâḳânî. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 968 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1126 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 968 Sharḥ-i-Dîwân-i-Khâḳânî (شرح ديوان خاقانى). A commentary on the difficult verses in the ḳaṣîdas and other minor poem of Khâḳânî (شرح بعضى ابيات مشكلۀ قصائد و اشعار مفصّلۀ ديوان افضل الفضلا و سلطان الشعرا سحبان العصر حسّان الدهر افصح العرب و العجم افضل الدين عثمان بن على المعروف با نام خاقانى, as the inscription in the following copy has it), by the same Muḥammad bin Dâ’ûd bin Muḥammad bin Maḥmûd ‘Alawî Shâdiyâbâdî, who wrote a commentary on Anwarî’s dîwân, see No. 947 above; other copies of the same in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 572 and 573; Rieu ii. p. 561, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 462. Beginning of the preface: جواهر زواهر سپاس بى قياس نثار حضرت صمديّت جلّ قدرته الخ. The first verse, explained, is the usual initial one: دل من پير تعليمست الخ, on fol. 90b, bottom. A small blank on fol. 258b. Dated (by the hand) in Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 995 (A.D. 1587, October). Other commentaries on Khâḳânî’s dîwân are described in Rieu ii. 562 (by ‘Alawî Lâhijî in Jahângîr’s time); W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 770, and G. Flügel i. p. 509 (by ‘Abd-alwahhâb bin Maḥmûd al-Ḥasanî al-Ḥusainî al-Ma’mûrî, with the takhalluṣ Ghanâ’î, who flourished about A.H. 1090=A.D. 1679, and whose commentary seems to have the special title of محبّت نامه); and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 463 (فرح افزا, by Ḳabûl Muḥammad, the author of the Haft Ḳulzum). No. 1126, ff. 90-263, written by two hands, the first in Naskhî, on ff. 90b-170a middle, 25-30 diagonal lines in a page; the second in Nasta’lîḳ; on ff. 170a middle-263, larger in the beginning and getting smaller and smaller towards the end, 24-32 diagonal lines in a page; size, 91/2 in. by 53/8 in.