[IO Islamic 1006] ديوان انورى

• Dîwân-i-Anwarî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 941 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 1006 here with notations and hyperlinks].

941

A third defective copy of the same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas etc., without any orders, on fol.1^b, beginning as usual.

Ghazals, arranged alphabetically, beginning, on fol. 134^b:

اى عقل تو پیر و بخت برنا – خارست زمانه و تو خرما

Ḳiṭ’as, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 184^a:

زهى صدرى الخ.

This part is incomplete at the end; the last ḳiṭ’ah on fol. 192^b, which breaks off with the second bait, is found in No. 1530, fol. 247^b, ll. 3 and 2 ab infra.

There are besides lacunas after ff. 189 and 191. The Ḳiṭ’ah ربع مسكون الخ, beginning on fol. 189^b, corresponds to No. 1530, fol. 230^a, the ḳiṭ’as on fol. 190^a to ff. 243^b and 237^b respectively in the same copy (so that the end of letter ت , the whole letters ج, ح, and خ, and the beginning of the letter د are missing). The last ḳiṭ’ah, on fol. 191^b, اى خداوندى الخ, is found on fol. 243^a in No. 1530, the first ḳiṭ’ah, on fol. 192^a, on fol. 245^b, l. 5, in the same copy.

Small blanks on ff. 69^b and 73^b. The proper order of ff. 38-43 is: 38, 40, 39, 42, 41, and 43.

Various readings and many additions on the margin.

A great number of pages worm-eaten.

No. 1006, ff. 192, 2 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10 in. by 5½ in.