[IO Islamic 41] ديوان طاهر وحيد

Dîwân-i-Ṭâhir Waḥid

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1653 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 41 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1653

Dîwân-i-Ṭâhir Waḥid (ديوان طاهر وحيد).

The largest collection extant of the lyrical poems of ‘Imâd-aldaulah Mirzâ Muḥammad Ṭâhir Waḥîd of Ḳazwîn, who was a friend of Ṣâ’ib (see above, Nos. 1606-1623) and historiographer of Shâh ‘Abbâs II of Persia (A.H. 1052-1077=A.D. 1642-1666), whose life from his birth to the fifteenth or sixteenth year of his reign he wrote in the تأريخ شاه عبّاس ثانى (see above, Nos. 555-557). He died, according to the Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 298 (col. 312 in the Bodleian Cat.), A.H. 1110 (A.D. 1698, 1699); Sirâj gives the earlier date, A.H. 1108 (A.D. 1696, 1697), see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 151, and the Zinat-almajâlis the later date, A.H. 1118 or 1119 (A.D. 1706, 1707); comp. Rieu i. p. 189; comp. besides A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 130 and 137; Âtashkada, No. 549 (col. 281 in the Bodleian Cat.); Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 73 (ib., col. 301), where extracts from three different mathnawîs of his are given, and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2976 (ib., col. 391).

This copy contains:

Ghazals, intermixed with tarkîbbands, ḳiṭ’as, and rubâ’îs, arranged in alphabetical order, with a few unalphabetical muḳaṭṭa’at at the end. Beginning, on fol. 1b:

كرامت كن عيارى يا رب اين ناقص عيارانرا

بده دستى كه گيرم دامن پرهيزگارانرا

The proper order of ff. 560-572 is: 560, 569-571, 561-568, 572. No date.

No. 41, ff. 586, 2 coll., each II. 18-19; written by different hands, partly in Nasta’lîḳ , partly in Shikasta; size, 11¼ in. by 6½ in.