[IO Islamic 2153] Jâmî's First Dîwân

• Dîwân-i-Jâmî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1305 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 2153 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1305

The second part of Jâmî’s first dîwân.

Contents:

Unalphabetical ghazals, on fol. 1^b, beginning:بسم الله الرّحمن الخ

Alphabetical ghazals, on fol. 3^b, beginning: يا من بدا الخ ; at the end the usual musammaṭ.

Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 236^b, beginning: دلا منشين الخ .

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 238^b, beginning:سبحانك لا الخ.

Dated 1st of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 932 (A.D. 1526, Sept. 8), by Luṭf-allâh bin Ḥasan Ma’âd alḥusainî.

College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2153, ff. 247, 2 coll., each ll. 17; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^7/8 in.