6. Rare Manuscript Of Mus'hafi's 6TH Diwan..مصحؔفی کے دیوانِ ششم کا نادر قلمی نسخہ

Author(s) : Dr. Rafaqat Ali / Ghulam MUhayyuddin./ Dr. Tanveer Hussain.

Abstract:

Sheikh Ghulam Hamadani Mus’hafi (1160/1747 to 1240/1824) is famous Urdu Poet and Tazkira writer. He wrote nine collections of his poetry (Diwan) along with four Tazkiras. The collected workof his poetry has been edited and published four times during the period since 1967 to 2013.Editors of the these collected work of his poetry used several manuscripts in their editing, which belongs to Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library Patna (Bihar, India), Banaras Hindu University Library Varanasi (UP, India), Tagore Library Lucknow University (UP, India) and Punjab University Library Lahore (Pakistan).Despite of this, a rare manuscripts of 6thDiwan of Mus’hafi is lying notice less in possession of Punjab University Library Lahore (Pakistan). No one yet wrote about this rare manuscript and even used it in the editing of the poetic works of Mus’hafi. This manuscript belongs to Shirani Collection of Punjab University Library, Lahore. It is incomplete but has an important position among the manuscripts of Mus’hafi’s poetical works, because it belongs to the nearest era of the reign of Mus’hafi. The particulars of said manuscript is described in this article. The writer of this article clarified the merits of this manuscript in his detailed study. This research article which is written in the language and subject of manuscript ology. Typical Urdu terminology of manuscript studies is used in this article which is rare to read now a days.