[IO Islamic 815] ديوان غيرت

Dîwân-i-Ghairat

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1688 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 815 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1688

Dîwân-i-Ghairat (ديوان غيرت).

Lyrical poems of Ghairat, a poet who must have flourished in the beginning of Muḥammadshâh’s reign, as he mentions this emperor twice, on ff. 146b, l. 6, and 147a, l. 1, and there are besides the dates A.H. 1135 and 1134 (A.D. 1722, 1723 and 1721, 1722) given in the ta’rîkhât, on ff. 146b and 147a. There are mentioned in the various tadhkiras three poets with this takhalluṣ, all of whom might be identical with this one, viz. Mullâ Muḥammad Ghairat of Kashmîr, Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1823 (Bodleian Cat., col. 357); Muḥammad ‘Âḳil Ghairat, Safînah, No. 558 (ib., col. 229), and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1827 (ib.,col. 358); and Mullâ Ghairat of Hamadân, Muntakhab-alsh’âr, No. 460 (ib., col. 249).

Contents:

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

تجلّى زار كن يا رب صفاى سينۀ مارا

دو چار جلوۀ ديدار ساز آئينۀ مارا

The first twenty-three leaves are more or less seriously injured, and many verses entirely destroyed.

Some mukhammasât and rubâ’îs, on fol. 126b.

Ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, and ta’rîkhât, on fol. 134b, beginning:

تا كه در كام من زبان باشد – همه ذكر خدايگان باشد

Rich marginal additions by another hand.

Now and then blank spaces are left for the insertion of further poems; it is probable, therefore, that this copy is the poet’s autograph.

No. 815, ff. 150, 2 coll., each ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/4 in. by 45/8 in.