[IO Islamic 296] ديوان نظيرى

• Dîwân-î-Nażîrî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1490 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 296 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1490

Another, very defective, copy of Nażîrî’s diwân.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas and tarji’bands, on fol. 1^b, beginning as in the preceding copy. This part breaks off already, on fol. 54^b, in consequence of a very large lacuna, in a ḳaṣîdah in praise of ‘Alî; the last bait appearing here corresponds to fol. 7^b, l. 9 in the preceding copy.

Ghazals, on fol. 55^a, defective at the beginning, in consequence of the same lacuna; they begin here with the last hemistich of a poem, rhyming in ش, viz. :

شود پروانه را بال و پرّانش

Corresponding to fol. 206^a, l. 3 ab infra in the preceding copy.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 127^a, last line, beginning: آن كيست كه بازم الخ, corresponding to the second rubâ’î in the preceding copy.

This part too is incomplete at the end, and breaks off on fol. 137^b.

No. 296, ff. 48-137, 2 coll, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 4 in.