[IO Islamic 2781] ديوان اسير

• Dîwân-i-Asîr
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1546 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 2781 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1546

Similar, but defective selections.

Contents:

Ghazals, rubâ’îs, ḳiṭ’as, and some longer ḳaṣîdah-like poems, without alphabetical order, on fol. 1^a, beginning: اى گلشن از بهار الخ .

A few short mathnawîs, on fol. 85^a, the first of which begins:

فلك اقتدارى ده در رزمگاه – بشويد بخون عدو روى ماه

There is a lacuna between ff. 85 and 86.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 87^b.

No date. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2781, ff. 89, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Shikasta, by different hands; size, 9 in. by 5^3/8 in.