[IO Islamic 1568] ديوان رضا

Dîwân-Riḍâ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1538 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 1568 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1538

Dîwân-Riḍâ(ديوان رضا ).

The lyrical poems of a poet with the takhalluṣ Riḍâ, who is probably identical with Mirzâ Muḥammad Riḍâ of Juwain near Ḳazwîn, one of the officials of Shâh ‘Abbâs the Great, see Safînah, No. 670 (col. 234 in the Bodleian Cat.), where a chronogram for A.H. 1028 (A.D. 1619) is quoted. Our copy contains two chronograms, for A.H. 1039 (A.D. 1629, 1630), and A.H. 1046 (A.D. 1636, 1637), on ff. 113a and 116a. According to the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 878 (col. 334 in the Bodleian Cat.), he was wazir of Âdharbaijân under Shâh ‘Abbâs.

Contents:

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

حمد خداوند آسمان و زمين را

خالق نار جحيم و خلد برين را

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 21b, beginning:

از ازل بگشاد ساقی شیشۀ صهبا مرا

آشکارا ساخت سِرّ گنبد مینا مرا

Ḳiṭ’as and ta’rîkhs, on fol. 112b, beginning: پیوسته جواد هست در نعمت و ناز الخ .

Rubâ’îs, in alphabetical order, on fol. 116b, beginning:

از ياد لب تو ميفزايد دلها الخ.

No date.

No. 1568, ff. 204, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; a little worm-eaten; size, 91/8 in. by 51/4 in.