[IO Islamic 528] ديوان صيدى

Dîwân-i-Ṣaidî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1576 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 528 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1576

Dîwân-i-Ṣaidî (ديوان صيدى).

Lyrical poems, by Mîr Sayyid ‘Alî Ṣaidî, of Ṭahrân, who came to India from Iṣfahân, A.H. 1064 (A.D. 1654), in Shâhjahân’s reign, and died A.H. 1069 (A.D. 1658, 1659), see Rieu ii. p. 689b; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 99, 112, 125, and 383; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 702, No. 47; Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 156 (col. 307 in the Bodleian Cat.), and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1381 (ib., col. 346).

Contents:

Ḳaṣidas, without any order, on fol. 1b, beginning:

گردون نصيب ديدۀ من كرد بيحساب

دردى كه چشم آئنه آرد در اضطراب

Short mathnawîs, on fol. 19b, beginning:

بنام كردگار دورو نزديك

مهيّا ساز سامان بد و نيك

Ghazal, intermixed with rubâ’îs and a few ḳiṭ’as, in alphabetical order, on fol. 25b, beginning: شد بسكه از خرام تو تغيير حالها الخ.

Dated, by Ayyûb, A. H. 1077 (A.D. 1666, 1667).

No. 528, ff. 100, 2 coll., each ll. 15; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7½ in. by 4¼ in.