[IO Islamic 328] ديوان هجرى رازى

Dîwân-i-Hijrî Râzî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1440 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 328 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Dîwân-i-Hijrî Râzî ( ديوان هجرى رازى).

Lyrical poems of Khwâjah Muḥammad Sharîf (according to the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, Yûsuf) Hijrî of Rai, who was first wazîr of Khurâsân, later on under Shâh Ṭahmâsp, of Yazd and Abarḳûh, and finally of Iṣfahân; he was a nephew of the poet Umîdî (see Haft Iḳlîm, Nos. 1112 and 1114, col. 461 in this Cat.), and the father both of Khwâjah Ghiyâth-aldîn Muḥammad (better known as I’timâd-aldaulah, wazir of the emperor Jahângîr and father of Jahângîr’s wife, Nûrjahân) and of the poet Muḥammad Ṭâhir Waṣlî (ib. Nos. 1115 and 1116). Hijrî died A.H. 984 (A.D. 1576, 1577), comp. besides the Haft Iḳlim, loc. cit., Taḳî Kâshî, No. 573 (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 42); Nafâ’is-almaâthir (ib. p. 55, l. 3) ; Ilâhî (ib. p. 87, l. 8 ab infra); Safinah, No. 190 (col. 217 in the Bodleian Cat.); Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 3051 (ib. col. 394), and Rieu i. p. 335b. According to the Âtashkada, No. 461 (col. 279 in the Bodleian Cat.), the poet died A.H. 982 (A.D. 1574, 1575) in Yazd.

This dîwân contains:

Haftband (هفت بند) in praise of ‘Alî, an imitation of the Haftband of Mullâ Ḥasan Kâshî (see on this poem, likewise in praise of ‘Alî, in seven stanzas, A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 457), beginning, on fol. 1b:

السّلام اى پرتو مهرت چراغ راه دين

آفتاب مطلع ايمان امير المؤمنين

This peculiar kind of tarji’ is followed, on fol. 4b, by other tarji’bands, ḳaṣîdas, and ḳiṭ’as.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 18b:

اى دُر فشان بشكر عطايت زمان ما

درجيست پر ز گوهر شکرت دهان ما

Rubâ’îs and fards, beginning, on fol. 56b:

زاهد كه نماز وروزه اش عادت و خوست

ميخواره كه دستگیر او جام و سبوست

Dated the 24th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1069 (A.D. 1659, July 15), by ‘Abd-alraḳîb.

No. 328, ff. 1-60, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10½ in. by 5¾ in.