[IO Islamic 2838] ديوان سامى

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-S&acirc;m&icirc;</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1704 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 2838 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1704</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-S&acirc;m&icirc; (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان سامى</span></span></span></span></span><span>). </span></p> <p><span>Lyrical poems by a poet with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ S&acirc;m&icirc;, identical with Khw&acirc;jah </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Abdall&acirc;h S&acirc;m&icirc;, who was in the service of A</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span><span>ż</span></span><span>amash&acirc;h and died under Mu</span><span>ḥammadsh&acirc;h (reigned A.H. 1131-1161=A.D. 1719-1748) in L&acirc;h&ucirc;r; see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 156. An elder Shaikh S&acirc;m&icirc; Jaz&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>iri of Mashhad came to India in Akbar</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s reign, see Makhzan-alghar&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib, No. 1001 (Bodleian Cat., col. 336); a Lu</span><span>ṭf </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc;beg S&acirc;m&icirc; is mentioned, ib., No. 1085 (Bodleian Cat., col. 338).</span></p> <p><span>Contents:</span></p> <p><span>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ون زبى بر</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ى ندارد خامه در دل آه را</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>ساخت از خون ج</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ر شن</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>رف بسم الله را</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Tarj</span><span>&icirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>bands, mukhammas&acirc;t, </span><span>ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, and a few rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, on fol. 133</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>اى دل </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>كنم كه با تو سازم الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>. </span></p> <p><span>A mathnaw&icirc;, on fol. 146</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>هل تن بحكم قضا و قدر </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash;</span></span><span><span><span> بيكبار كردند عزم سفر</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>The copy ends, on fol. 148</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, without a date; on fol. 149</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> the first seven baits of another mathnaw&icirc; are written (whether belonging to the same poet or not, is impossible to say), beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>الهى </span></span></span><span><span><span>گریه </span></span></span><span><span><span>ام را تاز</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ى ده </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash;</span></span><span><span><span> فغانم را بلند آو</span></span></span><span><span><span>ا</span></span></span><span><span><span>ز</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ى ده</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>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.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2838, ff. 149, 2 coll., each ll. 9; small, but clear Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; small illuminated frontispiece; size, 5&frac12; in. by 3&frac14; in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>