[IO Islamic 2346] ديوان امّيد

Dîwân-i-Ummîd

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1703 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 2346 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1703

Dîwân-i-Ummîd (ديوان امّيد).

Lyrical poems of Ḳizilbashkhân, whose original name was Mirzâ Muḥammad Riḍâ, with the takhalluṣ Ummîd, a native of Hamadân and a pupil of Mirzâ Ṭâhir Waḥîd (see Nos. 1653-1655 above) and of Mîr Najât (the lyrical poet and author of the famous mathnawî on wrestling, گل كشتى, who died A.H. 1126=A.D. 1714; see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1162-1165). He came to India under Bahâdurshâh and died in Dihlî, A.H. 1159, 9th of Jumâdâ I (A.D. 1746, May 30). He left besides his Persian dîwân a few Rekhta verses; see Rieu ii. p. 711b; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 149, 153, 300, and 581; comp. also Âtashkada, No. 776 (Bodleian Cat., col. 289), and Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 39 (ib., col. 304), where an earlier date for his death is given, viz. A.H. 1155.

This copy contains only ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning:

اى شكارى آهوى صد افگند صيّادها

اى خراب از خلوه ات مانند سيل آبادها

The initial ghazal, quoted in Sprenger’s copy, is here the second. The ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, mukhammasât, mufradât and rubâ’îs are entirely wanting here. on fol. 1a and at the end this dîwân is wrongly ascribed to Ṭâlib Âmulî (see Nos. 1524-1529 above). No date.

This copy belonged formerly to the College of Fort William.

No. 2346, ff. 1-27, 2 coll., each ll. 15-20; Shikasta; size, 73/4 in. by 55/8 in.