[IO Islamic 1457] وسط الحيات

• Wasaṭ-alḥayât.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1191 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 1457 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1191

Wasaṭ-alḥayât (وسط الحيات).

Another copy of Amîr Khusrau’s second dîwân, containing:

Ḳaṣidas, on fol. 1^b, beginning: حمد رانم بر زبان الخ.

Tarjî’ât, on fol. 62^a; ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 80^b. A lacuna after fol. 85.

Short mathnawîs, on fol. 86^a; the first begins: چون همای رایتش پرواز کرد الخ. See No. 3 in the preceding copy.

Ghazals, without alphabetical order, beginning: اى بدرماندگى پناه همه الخ, agreeing with the initial poem of the second collection of ghazals in No. 3 of the preceding copy.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 228^b, beginning: صانع ملكى الخ, see ibidem.

No date. Worm-eaten. The last page injured.

No. 1457, ff. 242, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8^3/4 in. by 5^3/8 in.