[IO Islamic 512] ديوان امير خسرو

• Dîwân-i-Amîr Khusrau.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1193 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 512 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1193

Dîwân-i-Amîr Khusrau (ديوان امير خسرو).

A large selection of ghazals, with some ḳiṭ’as and fards at the end, made from all the four dîwâns, as in Rieu ii. pp. 610^b, 614^b, and 615^a; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 758-765; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 831 and 832; G. Flügel i. p. 542; J. Aumer, p. 21 (Nos. 63 and 64), etc. It begins, on fol. 1^b, with the same ḳaṣidah as the Ghazaliyyât in No. 1186, 3: حمد رانم بر زيان الخ;

Then follow a few ghazals without alphabetical order, and on fol. 80^a the alphabetical order begins.

First alphabetical ghazal:

اى باد برقع برفگن آن روی آتشناك را الخ

corresponding to the first alphabetical poem in No. 759 of the Bodleian Cat.

No date. The proper order of the leaves is: 1,2, 75-82, 3-74, 83-164, 166, 165, 168, 167, 169-526, 529, 528, 527, 530-619; a few pages injured.

No. 512, 2 centre-coll., ff. 619, ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages richly illuminated; size, 7^7/8 in. by 5^1/8 in.