[IO Islamic 2458] ديوان سلمان

• Dîwân-i-Salmân.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1242 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 2458 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1242

The same.

All the parts of this copy, which is likewise defective, begin with poems, different from the initial ones in the preceding copies, viz.:

Ḳaṣîdas, tarji’s, and tarkîbbands, without any order, on fol. 1^b, beginning:

در درج در عقيق لبت نقد جان نهاد

جنس عزيز يافت بجاى نهان نهاد

See Erdmann in Zeitschrift, xv. p. 763. A lacuna after fol. 109.

ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 170^b, beginning: اى زآثار گرد موكب تو الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 194^b, beginning: شاها زتو كار ملك و دين با نسق است الخ.

No date. Slight injuries here and there.

No. 2458, ff. 198, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9½ in. by 5¾ in.