[IO Islamic 2694] ديوان امانى

Dîwân-i-Amânî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1571 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 2694 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1571

Dîwân-i-Amânî (ديوان امانى).

Lyrical poems by Amânî, who cannot be identical with the poet Amân-allâh Amânî, since the latter died A.H. 1044 or 1046=A.D. 1634-1637 (see Bodleian Cat., No. 1095; Rieu ii. p. 509, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 330), and the former, the author of the present dîwân, composed, according to his own statement, in a chronogram, on fol. 75b, A.H 1047 (A.D. 1637, 1638), a work on medicine ( كتاب در علم طبّ); there are besides chronograms for A.H. 1049 (A.D. 1639, 1640), 1055 (A.D. 1645), 1057 (A.D. 1647), 1060 (A.D. 1650), and 1061 (A.D.1651). 1061 seems to be the last date mentioned in his ta’rîkhs, and one may conjecture from that, that he died a year or two after. He appears to have been a native of Mâzandarân.

Contents of the dîwân:

Ḳaṣîdas in praise of the twelve Imâms, of ‘Abdallâh Ḳuṭbshâh (A.H. 1035-1083= A.D. 1626-1672), of Mirzâ Ḥabîb-allâh Ṣadr, Mirzâ Ḳâḍî, Amîr Tîmûr of Mâzandarân, etc., intermixed with tarjî’s, tarkîbbands, ḳiṭ’as and ta’rîkhs, on fol. 1b.

The first hemistich of the initial poem is missing; the second runs thus: زتو چرخ را مدار و زتو خاك را مدارا الخ .

The second ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 2b, begins:

فروغ عارض شكرت چراغ چشم قلم

نسيم كاكل وصفت شميم زلف رقم

(a certain reminiscence of the first of Ahlî Shîrâzî’s artificial ḳaṣîdas is obvious here, see above, No. 1432).

A short mathnawî (در مناجات), on fol. 79b, beginning:

خداوندا تو ستّارعيوبى

قسيم رزق و غفّار ذنوبى

Another larger mathnawî, a sâḳînâma (ساقينامه), on fol. 80b, beginning:

زهى مست پيمانه ات روزگار

جوانبخت ميخانه ات نوبهار

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 112b, beginning:

زحسنت گل تازه روئى جهانرا

زهستئ تو زندگى آسمانرا

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 238b, beginning:

اى حسن تو شمع محفل هستى را

لطف تو شراب ساغر مستى را

Dated, at Ḥaidarâbâd, A.H. 1070 (A.D. 1659, 1660); the first leaves a little injured and worm-eaten.

No. 2694, ff. 419, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b, 112b, and 238b; size, 11½ in. by 6¼ in.