[IO Islamic 162] ديوان عرفى

• Dîwân-i-‘Urfî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1454 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 162 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1454

Dîwân-i-‘Urfî ( ديوان عرفى).

‘Urfî’s lyrical poems, viz.:

1.Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1^b, beginning: اى متاع درد الخ .

2.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first two, on fol. 90^b, beginning: اى نه فلك الخ.

At the end (on fol. 210 sq.) some ḳiṭ’as.

3.Rubâ’îs, on fol. 218^b, beginning : يا رب نفسى الخ.

Dated the 6th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1098 (A.D. 1687, June 17), by Amân-allâh Suhrawardî, at Patna. The right order of ff. 72-81 is: 72, 80, 74-79, 73, 81.

No. 162, ff. 235, 2 coll., each ll. 15; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10¾ in. by 6½ in.