[IO Islamic 328] ديوان اثير اومانى

• Dîwân-i-Athîr Aumânî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1058 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].

1058

Dîwân-i-Athîr Aumânî (ديوان اثير اومانى).

The lyrical poems of Athir-aldîn ‘Abdallâh of Aumân (near Hamadân), who flourished under Hûlâgûkhân, and was a younger contemporary of Kamâl-aldîn Isma’îl of Iṣfahân, with whom he contended in poetry and exchanged poetical epistles; comp. Haft Iḳlim, No. 1035, col. 454 above in this Cat.; Âtashkada, No. 596 (Bodleian Cat., col. 283); Butkhâna, No. 25 (ib., col. 199); Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 14 (ib., col. 317); A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 17, No. 51. According to the Âtashkada he died A.H. 656 (A.D. 1258), according to Taḳî Kâshî A.H. 665 (A.D. 1266, 1267). This dîwân consists chiefly of ḳaṣîdas and ḳiṭ’as, intermixed with some tarkîbbands, ghazals, and rubâ’is.

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دوش آنزمانكه ماه بر افروخت مشعله

در فوج مركب افق افتاد مشغله

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

No. 328, ff. 295-377, 2 coll., each ll. 18; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10½ in. by 5½ in.