[IO Islamic 791] ديوان هجرى
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Hijrî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1441 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 791 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1441</p> <p>Dîwân-i-Hijrî (ديوان هجرى).</p> <p>The lyrical poems of another poet, with the same takhalluṣ, Hijrî, who was, as the contents of this dîwân prove, one of the court-poets of the emperor Akbar, and is probably identical with the Khwâjah Hijrî, mentioned by Badâ’ûnî (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 65, ll. 5 and 4 ab infra) as a descendant of Shaikh Aḥmad-i-Jâm Nâmaḳî (see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 308, col. 305 in this Cat.), comp. also Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 3047 (col. 394 in the Bodleian Cat.), and Safînah, No. 189 (ib. col. 217), where he is called Hijrî of Farghâna, and stated to have been in Akbar’s service.</p> <p>This dîwân contains:</p> <p>Ḳaṣîdas and tarkîbbands, mostly in honour of the emperor Akbar, beginning, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>ملك هندوستان كه پر خوبان زنگی پیکر است</p> <p>اصل آن خاك و زمين گویا زمشك و عنبر است</p> <p>This first poem is introduced by a rubâ’î, beginning:</p> <p>اين نسخه كه وصف ملك هندوستانست</p> <p>نورس چمن پر از گل و ريحانست</p> <p>Similar headings in form of rubâ’îs and even of ḳiṭ’as are given to most of the poems. At the end of this part is a ta’rîkh for the death of the emperor Humâyûn: حيف زان پادشه عارف دانای حکیم = A.H. 963 (A.D. 1556).</p> <p>Ghazals, without any order, beginning, on fol. 29<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>رسيد آن تازه ايّامى كه گل در بوستان آيد</p> <p>زشاخ سنبل تر بوى زلف دلستان آيد</p> <p>Muḳaṭṭa’ât and rubâ’is, beginning, on fol. 34<sup>a</sup> (not on fol. 34<sup>b</sup>, where the heading is placed by mistake):</p> <p>شها و شهريارا بر تو يا رب – مبارك مقدم فرزند بادا</p> <p>No date; among the many entries and notes on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>, the oldest appears to be A.H. 1015, 19th of Jumâdâ-alawwal= A.D. 1606, Sept. 22. This copy belonged formerly to Mr. Richard Johnson.</p> <p>No. 791, ff. 40, 2 coll., each ll. 17; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 9½ in. by 6 in.</p> <p> </p>
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