[IO Islamic 895] ديوان رياضی

• Dîwân-i-Riyâḍî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1299 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 895 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1299

Dîwân-i-Riyâḍî (ديوان رياضی).

The lyrical poems of Maulânâ Riyâḍî of Samarḳand, who was drowned A.H. 884 (A.D. 1479, 1480), comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 890 and 891; Rieu iii. p. 1074; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 894; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 20, No, 140; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 311.

The dîwân contains only ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning:

اى پری از رخ بر افگن طرّۀ طرّار را

تا بكی بر روى مصحف مى نهى زنّار را

No. 895, ff. 23, 2 coll., each ll. 14; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece; size, 9^7/8 in. by 5^7/8 in.