[IO Islamic 2838] ديوان سامى

Dîwân-i-Sâmî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1704 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 2838 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1704

Dîwân-i-Sâmî (ديوان سامى).

Lyrical poems by a poet with the takhalluṣ Sâmî, identical with Khwâjah ‘Abdallâh Sâmî, who was in the service of A’żamashâh and died under Muḥammadshâh (reigned A.H. 1131-1161=A.D. 1719-1748) in Lâhûr; see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 156. An elder Shaikh Sâmî Jazâ’iri of Mashhad came to India in Akbar’s reign, see Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1001 (Bodleian Cat., col. 336); a Luṭf ‘Alîbeg Sâmî is mentioned, ib., No. 1085 (Bodleian Cat., col. 338).

Contents:

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

چون زبى برگى ندارد خامه در دل آه را

ساخت از خون جگر شنگرف بسم الله را

Tarjî’bands, mukhammasât, ḳiṭ’as, and a few rubâ’îs, on fol. 133a, beginning: اى دل چكنم كه با تو سازم الخ.

A mathnawî, on fol. 146a:

چهل تن بحكم قضا و قدر – بيكبار كردند عزم سفر

The copy ends, on fol. 148b, without a date; on fol. 149b the first seven baits of another mathnawî are written (whether belonging to the same poet or not, is impossible to say), beginning:

الهى گریه ام را تازگى ده – فغانم را بلند آوازگى ده

Many additions by other hands on the margin; on ff. 128-132 one top-corner has been cut off and part of the text destroyed.

No. 2838, ff. 149, 2 coll., each ll. 9; small, but clear Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispiece; size, 5½ in. by 3¼ in.