[IO Islamic 847] ديوان صائب

• Dîwân-i-Ṣâ’ib
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1611 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 847 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1611

An incomplete copy of the same.

This collection, which contains ghazals in alphabetical order, interspersed with a few ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands, and rubâ’îs, opens abruptly in the middle of the rhyme-letter د with a ghazal, beginning: آبها آئينۀ سرو خرامان تو اند الخ. It corresponds to No. 1606 above, fol. 167^a, l.7.

Many pages are severely damaged at the inner side; a great number of small blanks besides, both in the centre and the margin. The right order of ff. 1-29 is: 1-22, 28, 24-27, 23, 29.

No date.

No. 847, ff. 339, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 21, and third column on the inner margin, ll. 40; sometimes additional verses on the outer margin; Shikasta; size, 11¾ in. by 6 in.