[IO Islamic 1889] ديوان هادى

Dîwân-Hâdî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1581 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 1889 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1581

Dîwân-Hâdî (ديوان هادى).

Lyrical poems, by Hâdî, who is probably identical with Mirzâ Hâdî, son of Mirzâ Rafi’ Ṣadr Shahrstânî, who went, towards the end of his life, to India and gained the favour of Sulṭân or prince Murâdbakhsh (who died A.H. 1071, see No. 1579 above), comp. Safînah, No. 801 (col. 238 in the Bodleian Cat.; another Mirzâ Hâdî, who flourished about the same time, was the son of Mirzâ Mu’în-aldîn Muḥammad Fârsî and acted as wazîr of Kirmân under Shâh Sulaimân Ṣafawî of Persia (A.H. 1077-1105=A.D. 1666-1694), see Muntakhab-alash’âr, No. 736 (col. 254 in the Bodleian Cat.).

According to a note, on fol. 1a, this copy seems to have been written by Mullâ ‘Abd-alrasûl in or before A.H. 1073 (A.D. 1662, 1663).

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1b, beginning:

هر كس رود بسير گلستان اعتدال

چون سبزه سر كشد پئ پابوس هر نهال

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 15b, beginning:

نگاهش رخنه در بنياد اندازد سخندانرا

سر زلفش نمايد جمع دلهاى پريشانرا

No. 1889, ff. 363, 2 coll., each ll. 16, and a third on the margin, ll. 30; sometimes even a fourth column, likewise on the margin; small, but clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 11 in. by 61/8 in.