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Manuscript/Mixed Material Dīvān-i Shāhī ديوان شاهي

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Title

  • Dīvān-i Shāhī

Other Title

  • ديوان شاهي

Summary

  • Collected poems of Amīr Shāhī Sabzavarī.
  • Dīvān-i Shāhī (Collection of poems by Shāhī) is a divan (collection) of verse by Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī (died 1453; 857 A.H.), a prominent Persian poet of the Timurid era who composed in many of the classical forms of Persian poetry. Amīr Shāhī's poetry belongs to the tradition of Persian mystical love poetry. The collection includes poems composed in the ghazal (a metrical form expressing the pain of loss and the beauty of love), qaṣīda (lyric poem), and rubā'ī (quatrain) forms. Amīr Shāhī was born in Sabzevar (present-day Iran), but received his education in Herat (present-day Afghanistan), where he joined the court of Timur's son Shāhrukh (1377-1447) and that of Shāhrukh's son Baysunqur Mīrzā (1397-1433). Biographers refer to Amīr Shāhī as a superb poet, but also as a painter, musician, and calligrapher. His poetry was greatly admired by his celebrated contemporary ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (1414-92), as well as by later authors, such as Alīshīr Nawā'ī (1441-1501). In Tadhkirat al-Shuʻarā (Memorial of poets), Dawlatshāh Samarqandī (died circa 1494) describes the premature death of Baysunqur Mīrzā after a bout of drunken revelry, and singles out the elegy for him composed by Amīr Shāhī as having surpassed those of all his peers in its pathos. It is said that Amīr Shāhī wrote more than 12,000 verses, but his surviving anthology contains less than a tenth of that number. He himself is believed to have destroyed that portion of his verse he considered inferior. Amīr Shāhī died in Gorgan and is buried in Sabzevar in a khānaqāh (Sufi dervish lodge) founded by his ancestors. The present manuscript of Dīvān-i Shāhī is an illuminated, undated copy written in a flowing nastaʻlīq hand. An unusual feature of the work is the manner in which each poem is set off by the Arabic wa lahu ayḍan or ayḍan lahu (furthermore, he wrote). World Digital Library.

Names

  • Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī, -1453
  • Ṣadafī, Muṣṭafá, active 1765, former owner

Created / Published

  • about 1600

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Folio 1a-45b; incomplete.
  • -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, 321/53A.
  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Nastaʻliq; 9 lines in 2 columns in written area 10.7 x 5.8 cm.
  • -  Newer envelope binding (circa 1800) probably Turkish, hot gold tooled; missing flap of evelope binding.
  • -  Owner's stamp on folio 1a: "[Illegible] ... al-faqīr al-Ḥajj Muṣṭafá Ṣadafī ghafara la-hu [1]179."
  • -  Paper: Middle-Eastern laid paper in various colors (including shades of cream, orange, tan, lavender) includes one orange marbled page); pages arranged in two columes, surrounded by gold border; section titles in gold with blue decorations on either side; catchwords on rectos; incomplete, missing approximately ten leaves.
  • -  Probably written in Iran.
  • -  Title from folio 1b.
  • -  Browne, E. G. Literary history of Persia, v. 3, p. 498
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Persian.

Medium

  • 45 leaves (9 lines) bound : paper ; 17.5 x 11 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PK6451 .A594 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2012498628

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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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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Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī, -1453, and Muṣṭafá Ṣadafī. Dīvān-i Shāhī. About, 1600. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012498628/.

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Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī, -. & Ṣadafī, M. (1600) Dīvān-i Shāhī. About. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2012498628/.

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Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī, -1453, and Muṣṭafá Ṣadafī. Dīvān-i Shāhī. About, 1600. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2012498628/>.