[IO Islamic 388] غزلیات صائب

• Ṣâ’ib-Ghazals
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1617 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 388 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1617

Ghazaliyyât-i-Ṣâ’ib bâ radîf-i-dâl (غزليّات صائب با رديف دال).

The richest collection extant of those ghazals of Ṣâ’ib which rhyme in د, beginning:

اوّل ثناى عشق فصيحان ادا كنند

آرى طعام را بنمك ابتدا كنند

No date. Not only the centre of the copy is filled, but in many places the margin is covered too, and a great number of smaller or larger leaves, containing likewise ghazals of Ṣâ’ib rhyming in د, are inserted between the original leaves.

No. 388, ff. 244, 2 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ, by at least two different hands; size, 10^1/8 in. by 5^7/8 in.