[IO Islamic 2728] ديوان رحيم

Dîwân-i-Raḥîm

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1705 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 2728 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1705

Dîwân-i-Raḥîm (ديوان رحيم).

A collection of ghazals by a poet with the takhalluṣ Raḥîm, who is probably identical with Muḥammad Raḥîmkhan Karâ’ilî, the son of Shâh Wirdî, the ruler of Karâ’il, with the takhalluṣ Raḥîm, who was first at the court of Nâdirshâh (A.H. 1148-1160=A.D. 1736-1747), and later on in the service of Muḥammadshâh, see Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 904 (Bodleian Cat., col. 334); A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 156; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 642, No. 148. There are mentioned besides in the last-named work three other poets with the same nom de plume, viz. Nawwâb ‘Abd-alraḥîm Khânkhânân (No. 146), Mirzâ Raḥîm (No. 147), and Mîr Raḥîm Farrâsh (No.149).

The ghazals are arranged alphabetically, but only extend as far as the letter د ; between ff. 104 and 105 there is moreover a lacuna.

Beginning:

حمد تو گشت جوهر تيغ زبان ما

روشن بود چو آئنه فكر بيان ما

No date. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2728, ff. 105, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ, the last two pages in diagonal lines by a different band in Shikasta; size, 87/8 in. by 43/4 in.