[IO Islamic 609] ديوان حسن غزنوى

• Dîwân-i-Ḥasan Ghaznawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 933 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].

933

The same.

This copy of Ḥasan Ghaznawî’ṣ dîwân begins with a prose preface, which is entirely different from that in No. 931. It begins, on fol. 245^b: اوصاف بزرگوارى و فضيلت سخنگذارئ او اظهر من الشمس است الخ.

On fol. 248^a margin, the date of Ḥasan’s death is correctly fixed in A.H. 565. Beginning of the dîwân itself, on fol. 249^b, the same as in the preceding copies. No date.

No. 609, ff. 245^b-304, 2 coll., each ll. 13-15, and a third on the margin, ll. 24-28; Nasta’lîḳ; two illuminated frontispieces on ff. 245^b and 249^b; the first two pages both of preface and dîwân splendidly adorned; size, 9¾ in. by 5½ in.