[IO Islamic 41] ديوان طاهر وحيد

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Ṭ&acirc;hir Waḥid</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1653 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Eth&eacute;, 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].</li> </ul> <p><span>1653</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-</span><span>Ṭ&acirc;hir Waḥid (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان طاهر وحيد</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The largest collection extant of the lyrical poems of </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Im&acirc;d-aldaulah Mirz&acirc; Mu</span><span>ḥammad Ṭ</span><span>&acirc;</span><span>hir Wa</span><span>ḥ&icirc;d of Ḳ</span><span>azw&icirc;n, who was a friend of </span><span>Ṣ</span><span>&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib (see above, Nos. 1606-1623) and historiographer of Sh&acirc;h </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Abb&acirc;s 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 </span><span><span><span><span><span>تأريخ شاه عبّاس ثانى</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(see above, Nos. 555-557). He died, according to the Khul&acirc;</span><span>ṣat-alafk&acirc;r, No. 298 (col. 312 in the Bodleian Cat.), A.H. 1110 (A.D. 1698, 1699); Sir&acirc;j gives the earlier date, A.H. 1108 (A.D. 1696, 1697), see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 151, and the Zinat-almaj&acirc;lis 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; &Acirc;tashkada, No. 549 (col. 281 in the Bodleian Cat.); Khul&acirc;ṣat-alkal&acirc;m, No. 73 (ib., col. 301), where extracts from three different mathnaw&icirc;s of his are given, and Makhzan-alghar&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib, No. 2976 (ib., col. 391).</span></p> <p><span>This copy contains:</span></p> <p><span>Ghazals, intermixed with tark&icirc;bbands,</span><span> ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, and rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, arranged in alphabetical order, with a few unalphabetical muḳaṭṭa</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>at at the end. Beginning, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>كرامت كن عيارى يا رب اين ناقص عيارانرا</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>بده دستى كه </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>يرم دامن </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>رهيز</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ارانرا</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>The proper order of ff. 560-572 is: 560, 569-571, 561-568, 572. No date. </span></p> <p><span>No. 41, ff. 586, 2 coll., each II. 18-19; written by different hands, partly in </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ , partly in Shikasta; size, 11&frac14; in. by 6&frac12; in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>