[IO Islamic 1999] ديوان نصير همدانى

• Dîwân-i-Naṣîr-Hamadânî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1484 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 1999 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1484

Diwân-i-Naṣîr Hamadânî (ديوان نصير همدانى).

Lyrical poems by Khwâjah Naṣîr- aldîn of Hamadân, the son of Khwâjah Maḥmûd ibn Khwâjah Ḥasanbeg, with the takhalluṣ Naṣîr or Naṣîrâ. He went to India in Akbar’s reign and met in A.H. 1015 (A.D. 1606, 1607) Taḳî Auḥadî in Shîrâz, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 512; Rieu iii. p. 1093^b, l. 3 sq.; Âtashkada, No. 616 (col. 283 in the Bodleian Cat.), and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2797 (ib. col. 387). The exact date of his death is not known.

Contents:

A short preface in prose, on fol. 1^b, beginning: یگانه که هزار و یک نام مبارکش هزار و یک چراغ بر افروخت الخ .

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 2^b, beginning:

زهى نقاب تو فانوس شمع بزم حضور

بملك حسن تو صحرا نشين تجلّئ طور

Ḳiṭ’as, and tarkîbbands, on fol. 12^b:

Ghazals, on fol. 16^b, beginning: خدا زشهر بگرداند آفت مارا الخ.

At the end, rubâ’îs and a few mathnawî-baits.

No date.

No. 1999, ff. 34, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7¼ in. by 3¾ in.