[IO Islamic 2831] ديوان قاسم انوار

• Dîwân-i-Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1286 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 2831 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1286

Another copy of the same.

This copy seems to be older than the preceding one, but is not dated; it is injured in many places , and has the first sixty-two leaves in the most bewildering order: ff. 1-20, 29, 22, 23, 30, 21, 24, 25, 47-53, 54, 32-38, 27, 28, 26, 55-60, 39-46, 31, 61, 62.

Contents:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first two, on fol. 1^a. Beginning, both of the initial and of the first alphabetical ghazal, the same as in the preceding copy. At the end of the ghazals, on fol. 163^b, four rubâ’îs.

One tarjî’band, ghazals, ḳiṭ’as, short mathnawîs and rubâ’is, all mixed together, beginning, on fol. 164^a: الا اى عشق الخ (see the preceding copy, fol. 209^a).

The last mathnawî, on fol. 178^a, begins:

الا اى شاهباز قدس لاهوت – مقيّد مانده در دام ناسوت

(identical with the بيان واقعۀ امير تيمور گورگان, in No. 862 of the Bodleian Cat.).

No. 2831, ff. 179, 2 coll., each ll. 21; small Nasta’lîḳ; size, 6½ in. by 4 in.