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[IO Islamic 85] ديوان نظيرى

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-&icirc;-Naż&icirc;r&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1489 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 85 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1489</p> <p>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-&icirc;-Naż&icirc;r&icirc; (ديوان نظيرى).</p> <p>The lyrical poems of Mull&acirc; Muḥammad Ḥusain Naż&icirc;r&icirc; of N&icirc;sh&acirc;p&ucirc;r, a pupil of Maḥshar&icirc; of Khw&acirc;nds&acirc;r in Gujar&acirc;t (see Saf&icirc;nah, No. 362, col. 223 in the Bodleian Cat.). He lived some time in K&acirc;sh&acirc;n, where he had poetical contests with contemporary poets, and went then to India, where he entered the service of the Kh&acirc;nkh&acirc;n&acirc;n. In A.H. 1012 (A.D. 1603, 1604) he performed the pilgrimage to Makkah, and afterwards went To Gujar&acirc;t. He died in Aḥmad&acirc;b&acirc;d, A.H. 1021 (A.D. 1612, 1613), according to two ta&rsquo;r&icirc;khs, viz. زدنيا رفت حسّان العجم آه , quoted in the Makhzan-alghar&acirc;&rsquo;ib, No. 2738 (col. 385 in the Bodleian Cat.; the date A.H. 1022, as given in Blochmann, &Acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;n-i-Akbar&icirc;, p. 580 note, arises from the incorrect reading of the chronogram as از دنيا الخ, which is against the metre هزج), and مركز دائرۀ بزم كجا است, by D&acirc;ghist&acirc;n&icirc; (see Blochmann, loc. cit.); the Khaz&acirc;na-i-&rsquo;&acirc;mirah also fixes his death in A.H. 1021 (No. 124, col. 259, in the Bodleian Cat.). Other, incorrect, dates given are A.H. 1019 (in the Ṭabaḳ&acirc;t-i-Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n&icirc; = A.D. 1610, 1611) and A.H. 1023 (A.D. 1614), see Saf&icirc;nah, No. 552 (col. 229 in the Bodleian Cat.), and Ouseley, Biographical Notices, p. 252. The Ham&icirc;sha Bah&acirc;r (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 130) assigns the poet&rsquo;s death, quite wrongly, to the beginning of Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n&rsquo;s reign. Other copies of Naż&icirc;r&icirc;&rsquo;s d&icirc;w&acirc;n are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1074 and 1075; Rieu ii. pp. 817<sup>b</sup> and 818<sup>a</sup>; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 515, 516; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 701, No. 37, and p. 908; comp. also Haft Iḳl&icirc;m, No. 764 (col. 433 in this Cat.); &Acirc;tashkada (No. 284, col. 272 in the Bodleian Cat.); and A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 65 and 114. Naż&icirc;r&icirc;&rsquo;s brother, Maul&acirc;n&acirc; Sharaf of N&icirc;sh&acirc;p&ucirc;r, was a famous musician in the service of the Kh&acirc;nkh&acirc;n&acirc;n, see Blochmann, p. 613, note 3.</p> <p>This d&icirc;w&acirc;n contains:</p> <p>Ḳaṣ&icirc;das and tarj&icirc;&rsquo;bands, without any order, beginning, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>اى جلالت خلوت از اغيار تنها ساخته</p> <p>حكمت تو از كرم دى كار فردا ساخته</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 114<sup>b</sup>, with some rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s at the end (on fol. 276<sup>b</sup> sq.). Beginning of the initial ghazal:</p> <p>اذا ماشئیت ان تحيى حيوة حلوة المحيا</p> <p>برسوائى بر آور سر ز مستورى برون نه پا</p> <p>Beginning of the initial rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;:</p> <p>رگ و پوست الخ (correctly اندر as in No. 3341) از .از دوست منادى است</p> <p>Dated at Ḥaidar&acirc;b&acirc;d the 8th of Jum&acirc;d&acirc;-al&acirc;khar, A.H. 1062 (A.D. 1652, May 17).</p> <p>No. 85, ff. 286, 2 coll., each ll. 17-18; careless Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9 in. by 5&frac12; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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