[IO Islamic 406] غزلیات اسير

• Ghazaliyyât-i-Asîr
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1549 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 406 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1549

The same.

Ghazals, interspersed with and concluded by rubâ’îs, in alphabetical order, beginning as usual.

The same mukhammas, on fol. 178^b.

This collection of ghazals is styled, on fol. 1^a, the third book of Asîr’s dîwân (جلد سيوم ديوان اسير); that is to say, the whole dîwân was originally divided into three books, comprising the ḳaṣîdas, the mathnawîs and tarjî’bands, and the ghazals (including the rubâ’îs) respectively.

Dated by Mu’izz-aldîn bin Niżâm-aldîn the 25th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1133 (A.D. 1721, Sept. 17).

No. 406, ff. 180, 2 coll., each ll. 18; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9¼ in. by 5½ in.