[IO Islamic 882] ديوان كرامى

Dîwân-i-Kirâmî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1625 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 882 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1625

Dîwân-i-Kirâmî (ديوان كرامى).

The lyrical poems of Kirâmî (Girâmî in A. Sprenger, pp. 128 and 412, and in Rieu ii. p. 714a, and iii. p. 1092a; Karâmî in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., Index, p. 1172b, or Kurrâmî, ib., p. 1189b), whose autograph this copy seems to be, since there are many blanks left between the single poems, probably with the intention of filing them up afterwards with poems of the same rhyme-letter; according to the chronogram in the last verse on the last page, آخر شد, it was finished A.H. 1105 (A.D. 1693, 1694). The poet must therefore have flourished towards the beginning of the twelfth century of the Hijrah, and may be identical with Mirzâ ‘Abd-alraḥmân Kirâmî, the son of Amânatkhân (who was in ‘Âlamgîr’s service); see the Hamîsha Bahâr in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 128; Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2200 (col. 369 in the Bodleian Cat.), and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 655, No. 38. Another well-known poet, with the same takhalluṣ, is the Kashmîrîan poet Mirzâ Kirâmî, son of Mirzâ ‘Âbd-alghanîbeg Ḳabûl and brother of Mirzâ Arjumand Âzâd (the father died A.H. 1139=A.D. 1726, 1727; Mirzâ Kirâmî himself A.H. 1155=A.D. 1742, comp. Rieu, loc. cit.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 128, where it is stated that he was a young man in A.H. 1136=A.D. 1723, 1724; and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2198). Besides these two there are mentioned in the various tadhkiras: Ḥasanbeg Kirâmî Shâmlû, who was a high official under Jahângîr, see Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 434 (col. 314 in the Bodleian Cat.); Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2126 (ib. col. 367); and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 655, No.37; Ḳâsimbeg Kirâmî, see Makhzan-algharâ’îb, No. 2204 (ib., col. 369); Maulânâ Kirâmî of Tabrîz, see Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2188, and W. Pertsch, loc. cit., No. 40; Allahwirdîbeg Kirâmî, see W. Pertsch, ib., No. 39; Mullâ Kirâmî Kâshî, ib., No. 36; and a Mirzâ Kirâmî, without any further designation, ib., No. 41. This copy contains:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol.1b, beginning:

شُست و شُوى ده بخون عاشقان ميخانه را الخ

Mukhammasât, on fol. 309, beginning:

دختر زر بسوى پير مغان خواهد شد الخ

Rubâ’îs and fards, on fol.317a, beginning:

در فكر شراب تا بكى خواهى بود الخ

Tarkîbbands, ḳiṭ’as, ḳaṣîdas, and short mathnawîs, on fol. 380a.

No. 882, ff. 404, 2 coll., each ll. 9; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ, illuminated frontispiece; size, 10 in. by 5¾ in.