[IO Islamic 2185] ديوان ثنائى

• Dîwân-i-Thanâ’î.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1450 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 2185 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1450

Another copy of Thanâ’î’a dîwân.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1^b, beginning as in the preceding copy:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, interspersed with a few rubâ’îs, ḳiṭ’as, and fards, on fol. 83^a, likewise beginning as in the preceding copy.

Ḳiṭ’as, in alphabetical order, on fol. 102^b, beginning:

شهريارا بخاك درگه تو – كه خدايش نيافريد سما

Rubâ’îs, in two alphabetical collections, the second of which begins, on fol. 116^a, with an inserted fard, rhyming in د. Beginning of the initial rubâ’î of the first collection, on fol. 106^a:

فرياد كه ديده غرق خون كرد مرا

دل از ره عقل و دين برون كرد مرا

No date. The takhalluṣ is always omitted in the ghazals here, and the dîwân is wrongly ascribed to سنائى, on fol. 1^a.

No. 2185, ff. 119, 2 coll., each ll. 15; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9^1/8 in. by 5 in.