[IO Islamic 2258] ديوان انورى

• Dîwân-i-Anwarî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 940 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 2258 here with notations and hyperlinks].

940

Another more defective copy of the same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas and tarjî’bands, first collection, in alphabetical order, except the first, on fol. 1^b: مقدّرى نه الخ.

Beginning of the first alphabetical ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 3^a:

سپهر رفعت و كوه وقار و بحر سخا

بهار دولت ودين آن جهان قدر وبها

Corresponding to fol.8^a in No. 1530 (936 above).

Ḳaṣîdahs etc., second collection, interspersed with ghazals, likewise in alphabetical order, but only beginning in the letter, on fol. 180^a:

اى بهمّت برتر از چرخ اثیر – وزبزرگی دين يزدان را ظهير

Corresponding to fol. 78^a, first line, in No. 1530. This is owing to a lacuna after fol. 179. The last ḳaṣîdah, which begins, on fol. 179^b, اى برده زشاهان, corresponds to fol. 195^b in No. 1530, and breaks off with the 13th bait (=No. 1530, fol. 196^a, l. 10).

Ḳiṭ’as, with a few ghazals, concluded by the short satirical mathnawîs, on fol. 237^a, beginning:

اى فلك پیش طالع نيكت – كرده پرواز اختر بدرا

Corresponding to the fourth ḳiṭ’ah in No. 1530, fol. 216^a.

Fol. 179 injured. No date. College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2258, ff. 358, 2 coll., each ll. 15-16; Nasta’lîḳ, by at least four different hands; size, 8^1/8 in. by 4^7/8 in.