[IO Islamic 609] انتخاب كلّيّات خاقانى

• Intikhâb-i-Kulliyyât-i-Khâḳânî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 951 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].

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Intikhâb-i-Kulliyyât-i-Khâḳânî (انتخاب كلّيّات خاقانى).

Extracts from Khâḳânî’s dîwân (انتخاب ديوان خاقانى), consisting of ḳaṣîdas, ghazals, and rubâ’îs (the latter on ff. 112^b-117^a), followed by the Tuḥfat-al’irâḳain (on ff. 117^a margin -176). Beginning of the ḳaṣidas: مرا زهاتف همّت رسد بگوش خطاب الخ , corresponding to fol. 138^a in No. 2552 (967 below). Beginning of mathnawî as usual.

Dated the 12th of Jumâdâ II, A.H. 1038 (A.D. 1629, Febr. 6), by Muḥammad Shafî’ of Iṣfahân.

No. 609, ff. 81^b-177^a, 2 coll., cach ll. 15, and a third on the margin, ll. 24-28; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece, the first two pages richly embellished; a picture on fol. 177^a; size, 9¾ in. by 5½ in.