[IO Islamic 903] ديوان حزين

Dîwân-i-Ḥazîn

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1712 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 903 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1712

Dîwân-i-Ḥazîn (ديوان حزين).

A collection of poetical works by Shaikh Muḥammad ‘Alî Jîlânî Ḥazîn, the well-known author of the تذكرة الاحوال (his autobiography) and the تذكرة المعاصرين (or biographies of contemporary poets), written A.H. 1154 (A.D. 1741) and 1165 (A.D. 1752) respectively; see Nos. 677-679 above. He wrote four dîwâns, the last of which he completed A.H. 1155 (A.D.1742), and died in Banâras the 13th Jumâdâ I, A.H. 1180 (A.D. 1766, Oct. 17).

Contents of this collection:

A short preface in prose, on fol. 1b, beginning: انت الظّاهر فليس فوقك شئْ – وانت الباطن فليس دونك شئْ – آن نور ماه و انجم از پرتو تو تابى – خاك ز عزّت تو زهر ذرّه آفتابى ‘ لا احصى ثناء عليك انت كما اثنيت على نفسك و الصّلوة على من ارسلته الخ بعد از حمد و ستايش و درود و نيايش شكسته الخ

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 2b, beginning (as in the Bodleian, Berlin, and Sprenger’s copies):

درين درياى بيپايان درين طوفان شور افزا

دل افگنديم بسم الله مجريها و مرسيها

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 201a:

شد صيد خم زلف رسائى دل ما

افتاد بدام اژدهائى دل ما

Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 218b, interspersed with a few ḳaṣîdas, the first of which (on ff. 226b-227b) was composed, according to the last bait, A.H. 1132, the 7th of Shawwâl (A.H. 1720, Aug. 12).

Mathnawîs, on fol. 230a; the first is entitled چمن و انجمن , and begins:

بنام آنكه آذر را چمن ساخت

دل دوزخ شرر را اتجمن ساخت

It breaks off on fol. 236b, l. 2, but is continued on ff. 243a-245a; the second is called تذكرة العاشقين and begins on fol. 236b, l.4:

ساقى زمئ موّحدانه – ظلمت بر شرك از ميانه

This breaks off on fol. 240a, l. 4, but a short chapter on fol. 242b, l. 5 to fol. 243a, l. 3, simply styled مثنوى, seems to belong to the same poem, as it is written in the same metre; the third is a short extract from the خرابات, beginning, on fol. 240a, l. 6:

الا اى جهاندار فرخنده خوى

دمى گوش بگشا بفرخنده گوى

and ending on ff. 242b, l. 3.

No date. Complete copies of Ḥazîn’s poetical works (كلّيّات حزين) are described in Bodleian Cat., No. 1184, A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 425; copies of his dîwân in Rieu ii. pp. 715-717; a copy of his seven mathnawîs in Bodleian Cat., No. 1185; extracts from the خرابات are noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 696, No. 6, some of his ḳaṣîdas, ib., p. 695, No. 1. Ḥazîn’s poetical works, with the addition of his autobiography and his tadhkirah, have been lithographed under the title of كلّيّات حزين, in Lucknow, A.H. 1293. Among other prose-treatises of the same Ḥazîn are to be mentioned the رسالۀ فرسنامه on farriery, the رساله در خواصّ الحيوان or تذكرۀ صيديّه on zoology, the رساله در اوزان مثقال و درهم و دينار و غيره on the weight of coins and on legal measures in Khurâsân (all three described in Rieu ii. p. 483); an enumeration of the warlike expeditions of Persian kings against India down to Aḥmadshâh Abdâlî (W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 54, No. 11); and the واقعات ايران و هند, see further below in No. 1714.

No. 903, ff. 245, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/8 in. by 55/8 in.