[IO Islamic 2108] ديوان شاهى

• Dîwân-i-Shâhî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1297 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 2108 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1297

A defective copy of the same.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning as usual; there are two lacunas, one of two leaves after fol. 37 (in the rhyme-letter ه), and the other of one leaf at the end after fol. 43 (in the rhyme-letter ى). The last bait appearing is:

تو خوش باش ای ملامت گو که چون من

دل اندر دست بدخوئی نداری

A great number of leaves are besides more or less injured.

Copied by Ćand Muḥammad bin Maulânâ Jamâl Muḥammad Nausârî, A.H. 1030 (?)=A.D. 1621. College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2108, ff. 1-43, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7¼ in. by 4¾ in.