The Memoirs of Bābur 928.6

928.6

2. The _Bābur-nāma_ diary of 925-6 AH. (1519-20 AD.). This is almost contemporary with the _Mubīn_ and is the earliest part of the _Bābur-nāma_ writings now known. It was written about a decade earlier than the narrative of 899 to 914 AH. (1494 to 1507 AD.), carries later annotations, and has now the character of a draft awaiting revision. 3. A _Dīwān_ (Collection of poems). By dovetailing a few fragments of information, it becomes clear that by 925 AH. (1519 AD.) Bābur had made a Collection of poetical compositions distinct from the Rāmpūr _Dīwān_; it is what he sent to Pūlād Sulṯan in 925 AH. (f. 238). Its date excludes the greater part of the Rāmpūr one. It may have contained those verses to which my husband drew attention in the Asiatic Quarterly Review of 1911, as quoted in the _Abūshqa_; and it may have contained, in agreement with its earlier date, the verses Bābur quotes as written in his earlier years. None of the quatrains found in the _Abūshqa_ and there attributed to "Bābur Mīrzā", are in the Rāmpūr _Dīwān_; nor are several of those early ones of the _Bābur-nāma_. So that the Dīwān sent to Pūlād Sulṯān may be the source from which the _Abūshqa_ drew its examples.