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Manuscript/Mixed Material Dīvān-i Kalīm ديوان كليم / Díván-i Kelím

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Title

  • Dīvān-i Kalīm

Other Title

  • ديوان كليم
  • Díván-i Kelím

Summary

  • Abū Ṭālib Kalīm Hamadānī (or Kāshānī, died 1651; 1061 A.H.) was one of the foremost Persian poets of the 17th century. He was born in Hamadan (present-day Iran) but appears to have lived in Kashan (also in Iran) for a sizeable portion of his life--hence the appellation Kāshānī. He received his education in Kashan and in Shiraz before moving to India to serve the Mughal ruler Jahangir (reigned 1605-27). Abū Ṭālib was thus among a large number of Persian poets and literati who left Persia in search of patronage in the Indian subcontinent beginning in the 16th century. Under Jahangir's successor, Shah Jahan (reigned 1628-58), Abū Ṭālib achieved the rank of poet laureate. Later in life he is said to have accompanied Shah Jahan to Kashmir, which became his home until his death. Abū Ṭālib's fame rests principally on his ghazalīyāt (a metrical form expressing the pain of loss and the beauty of love). Of the 10,000 verses that appear in his divan (or collected poems), about half were written in the ghazal form. He is especially renowned for the novelty of his themes, for which he came to be known as khallāq al-maʻānī (creator of meaning). Other characteristics of his poems are the originality of his khayāl bandī (rhetorical conceits) and the aptness of his mithālīya (illustrations). Abū Ṭālib was also the author of Shāh Jahān Nāma (The book of Shah Jahan), a work which, following the style of the epic Shāhnāma (The book of kings), praises Timur and the Timurid rulers up to Shah Jahan. In the present illuminated copy of Abū Ṭālib's divan, the maqtaʻ (final verse) of many of the poems, which generally includes the takhalluṣ (pen name of the poet), is set off in its own frame. The year 1103 A.H. (1691-92) is written in the colophon. World Digital Library.
  • Collected poems of Abū Ṭālib Kalīm.

Names

  • Kalīm, Abū Ṭālib, -1651?

Created / Published

  • 1103 [1695 or 1696]

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Iran

Notes

  • -  Contemporary dark brown leather with five raised bands on spine, each segment between the bands has a stamped gold floral emblem.
  • -  Folio 1b-226a.
  • -  Folio 2b (1st group): L.C.S. Apl 30, 906.
  • -  Library of Congress Persian manuscript, 79
  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Nastaʻliq; 11 lines in written area 11.8 x 6 cm.
  • -  Paper: thin, polished laid paper; black ink; no rubrication; pages in double columns; folio 1b-2a elaborately decordated in gold; text area surrounded by blue-cream-gold-red-blue-gold border; catchwords on rectos, many lost due to damage of lower inside corner of many pages; numerous tears mended with no loss of text; worm damage throughout.
  • -  Ṣāliḥ 14 shahr-i Day [illegible] [1]117; former owner's stamp, partially illegible--Folio 1a
  • -  Title from folio 1a.
  • -  Written in Iran?
  • -  Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.), v. 4, p. 506-507
  • -  Rypka, Jan. History of Iranian literature, p. 726
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Persian.
  • -  [Source of acquisition]

Medium

  • 2, 226, 2 leaves (11 lines) bound : paper ; 18 x 10.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PK6495 .K28 1695

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2012498626

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Persian Language Manuscript Project are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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Kalīm, Abū Ṭālib, -1651?. Dīvān-i Kalīm. [1695 or 1696, 1695] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012498626/.

APA citation style:

Kalīm, A. Ṭ. (1695) Dīvān-i Kalīm. [1695 or 1696] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2012498626/.

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Kalīm, Abū Ṭālib, -1651?. Dīvān-i Kalīm. [1695 or 1696, 1695] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2012498626/>.