[IO Islamic 440] ديوان انورى

• Dîwân-i-Anwarî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 937 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 440 here with notations and hyperlinks].

937

The same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas and tarjî’bands, without any order, on fol. 1^a, beginning as in the two preceding copies.

Ḳiṭ’as, with the short satirical mathnawîs at the end, beginning, on fol. 156^a:

دوش خوابى ديده ام كو نيك ديدى نيك باد

خواب نى بل حالتى كان از كرامت برتر است

Corresponding to fol. 228^a in the preceding copy.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 238^a:از دور بديدم الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 277^b, without any order, beginning:

آنى كه كفت ضامن ارزاق آمد

وانى كه درت قبلۀ آفاق آمد

Corresponding to fol. 361^a, last line but two, in the preceding copy.

No date. This copy was presented by J. Wombwell, Esq., 10th April, 1804.

No. 440, ff. 302, 2 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8^3/8 in. by 4^3/4 in.