[IO Islamic 114] ديوان نديم

Dîwân-i-Nadîm

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1605 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 114 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1605

Dîwân-i-Nadîm (ديوان نديم).

The fragment of a dîwân by Nadîm, who seems to be identical with Nadîm of Kashmîr, who was still alive in A.H. 1083 (A.D. 1672, 1673), see the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2908 (Bodleian Cat., Col. 389), and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 107. A later poet of the same takhalluṣ is Mirzâ Zakî Nadîm of Iṣfahân, who was a contemporary of Sulṭân Ḥusain Ṣafawî, and afterwards entered into Nâdirshâh’s service. The present copy contains only a part of the ghazals, arranged alphabetically and going from the rhyme-letter 1 to the middle of د. Beginning:

ميكشم هر دم بياد روى جانان آه را

دود آهم سرمه گردد چشم مهر و ماه را

No. 114, ff. 17-42, 2 coll., each ll. 17-19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¼ in. by 4½ in.