[IO Islamic 2031] ديوان ظهير فاريابى

• Dîwân-i-Żahîr Fâryâbî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 971 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 2031 here with notations and hyperlinks].

971

Dîwân-i-Żahîr Fâryâbî (ديوان ظهير فاريابى).

Lyrical poems, by Żahîr-aldîn Abû-alfaḍl Ṭâhir bin Muḥammad of Fâryâb, in the province of Balkh, who died A.H. 598 (A.D. 1201, 1202), see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 566 (col. 419 in this Cat.), and comp. on his life and poems, Rieu ii. p. 563; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 582-584; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 720 and 773 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p.579; Ouseley, Biograph. Notices, p. 154 etc.; Krafft, p. 62; C. J. Tornberg, p. 102; Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 205.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas and tarkîbbands, on fol. 1^b, beginning:

سپيده دم كه شدم محرم سراى سرور

شنيدم آيت تُوبُوا الى الله از لب حور

corresponding to the initial ḳaṣîdah in the first Berlin and the third Bodleian copy.

At the end some ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs, the latter incomplete, breaking off, on fol. 110^b, in the middle of a quatrain.

Printed at Calcutta, A.H. 1245.

No. 2031, ff. 110, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8½ in. by 4¾ in.