[IO Islamic 1263] ديوان خاقانى

• Dîwân-i-Khâḳânî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 963 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 1263 here with notations and hyperlinks].

963

The same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1^b, beginning as usual.

Tarjî’bands and marâthî (elegies), on fol. 220^a.

Beginning: اى دل ز دام گلشن تن در گذشتنيست الخ.

The first elegy, on fol. 225^a, begins thus:

ای روز رفتگان جگر شب فرو درید

آن آفتاب از آن جگر شب برآورید

Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 273^a, beginning: چون زمان عهد سنائى در نوشت الخ.

No date. Many glosses on the margin of the first 40-50 leaves.

This copy was presented to Mr. Richard Johnson, 1778; a Persian note by a former owner, on fol. 1^a, contains the date A.H, 1183 (A.D. 1769, 1770).

No. 1263, ff. 284, 2 coll., each ll. 18-19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 11½ in. by 6¾ in.