[IO Islamic 85] ديوان نظيرى

Dîwân-î-Nażîrî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1489 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 85 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1489

Dîwân-î-Nażîrî (ديوان نظيرى).

The lyrical poems of Mullâ Muḥammad Ḥusain Nażîrî of Nîshâpûr, a pupil of Maḥsharî of Khwândsâr in Gujarât (see Safînah, No. 362, col. 223 in the Bodleian Cat.). He lived some time in Kâshân, where he had poetical contests with contemporary poets, and went then to India, where he entered the service of the Khânkhânân. In A.H. 1012 (A.D. 1603, 1604) he performed the pilgrimage to Makkah, and afterwards went To Gujarât. He died in Aḥmadâbâd, A.H. 1021 (A.D. 1612, 1613), according to two ta’rîkhs, viz. زدنيا رفت حسّان العجم آه , quoted in the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2738 (col. 385 in the Bodleian Cat.; the date A.H. 1022, as given in Blochmann, Â’în-i-Akbarî, 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 Dâghistânî (see Blochmann, loc. cit.); the Khazâna-i-’âmirah 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 Ṭabaḳât-i-Shâhjahânî = A.D. 1610, 1611) and A.H. 1023 (A.D. 1614), see Safînah, No. 552 (col. 229 in the Bodleian Cat.), and Ouseley, Biographical Notices, p. 252. The Hamîsha Bahâr (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 130) assigns the poet’s death, quite wrongly, to the beginning of Shâhjahân’s reign. Other copies of Nażîrî’s dîwân are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1074 and 1075; Rieu ii. pp. 817b and 818a; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 515, 516; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 701, No. 37, and p. 908; comp. also Haft Iḳlîm, No. 764 (col. 433 in this Cat.); Âtashkada (No. 284, col. 272 in the Bodleian Cat.); and A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 65 and 114. Nażîrî’s brother, Maulânâ Sharaf of Nîshâpûr, was a famous musician in the service of the Khânkhânân, see Blochmann, p. 613, note 3.

This dîwân contains:

Ḳaṣîdas and tarjî’bands, without any order, beginning, on fol. 1b:

اى جلالت خلوت از اغيار تنها ساخته

حكمت تو از كرم دى كار فردا ساخته

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 114b, with some rubâ’îs at the end (on fol. 276b sq.). Beginning of the initial ghazal:

اذا ماشئیت ان تحيى حيوة حلوة المحيا

برسوائى بر آور سر ز مستورى برون نه پا

Beginning of the initial rubâ’î:

رگ و پوست الخ (correctly اندر as in No. 3341) از .از دوست منادى است

Dated at Ḥaidarâbâd the 8th of Jumâdâ-alâkhar, A.H. 1062 (A.D. 1652, May 17).

No. 85, ff. 286, 2 coll., each ll. 17-18; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 5½ in.