[IO Islamic 2834] ديوان هلالى

• Dîwân-i-Hilâlî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1425 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 2834 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1425

The same.

This copy, still smaller than the preceding one, is defective at the beginning. It opens with the following ghazal, rhyming in ا:

نمى توان بجفا قطع دوستدارئ ما

كه از جفاى تو بيش است با تو يارئ ما

The second ghazal corresponds to fol. 3^a, l.3 ab infra in the preceding copy.

After the alphabetical ghazals there follow, on ff. 107^a-110^a, three ḳiṭ’as and a series of rubâ’îs. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2834, ff. 52-110, 2 coll., each ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 6^5/8 in. by 4 in.