[IO Islamic 609] ديوان سنائى

• Diwân-i-Sanâ’î.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 928 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 609 here with notations and hyperlinks].

928

Diwân-i-Sanâ’î ( ديوان سنائى).

A small collection of the lyrical poems of Sanâ’î (for copies of the complete dîwân see Bodleian Cat., No. 537, and Rieu ii. p. 551^a), containing chiefly ḳaṣîdas, interspersed with a few ghazals and ḳiṭ’as. Beginning:

اى در دل مشتاقات از عشق تو بوستانها

از حجّت بيچونى از صنع تو برهانها

Ff. 9-13 are misplaced; the right order is 9, 12, 10, 11, 13; there sems besides to be a lacuna after fol. 23^b. No date.

No. 609, ff. 1-48^a, 2 coll., each ll., 15, and a third on the margin, ll. 28; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece: the first two pages splendidly adorned; a drawing on fol. 1^a and a picture on fol. 48^a; size, 9¾ in. by 5½ in.