[IO Islamic 106] ديوان عيانى

• Dîwân-i-'Iyânî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1483 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 106 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1483

Dîwân-i-’Iyânî (ديوان عيانى).

The lyrical poems of Darwîsh ‘Iyânî, the son of Maulânâ Rafîḳî, comp. the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1643 (col. 353 in the Bodleian Cat.). He flourished in the beginning of the eleventh century of the Hijrah. The first ghazal, quoted in the Makhzan, is found here on fol.39^a: تا هجر تو با جان من الخ .

In the supplement to Taḳî Kâshî’s tadhkirah (see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 614 and 615), two poets with the takhalluṣ ‘Iyânî are mentioned, one of whom is styled ‘Iyânî Jarbâdḳânî.

Contents:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1^a, beginning:

اى از دو كون بر زده دامان كبريا

مشكل رسد بدامن وصل تو نعت ما

Ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs, on fol. 142^a, beginning: با نقش بند كلكم گفتم زروى معنى الخ.

A mathnawî, a sort of ساقينامه, on fol. 161^a, beginning:

بيا اى كه عمرت بغفلت گذشت

زمن گوش کن یکدم این سر گذشت

This poem was composed A.H. 1012 (A.D. 1603, 1604), according to the last bait:

گذشته بد از سال هجرت هزار

مردّف برو گشته هشت و چهار

No date.

No.106, ff. 167, 2 coll., each ll. 14; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7 in. by 4^1/4 in.