[IO Islamic 108] ديوان طالب

• Muḥammad-Ṭâlib
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1526 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 108 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1526

Another defective copy of the same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1^b, beginning as usual.

Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 88^b, beginning as in the two preceding copies.

Tarkîbbands, on fol. 109^b, beginning: اى رويتو الخ .

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 130^b, beginning, as in the preceding copy: مارا كشد الخ.

A lacuna after fol. 296, comprising fol. 261^b, l. 8, to fol. 262^b, l.4 in the preceding copy, and fol. 241^b, l. 11, to fol. 242^b, l. 10 in No. 1524.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 306^b, beginning as in the preceding copy.

This part is incomplete at the end (Just as in the preceding copy); the last rubâ’î corresponds to fol. 283^a, ll. 1 and 2 in No. 1524.

No. 108, ff. 329, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; small and rather effaced frontispiece; some pages at the beginning and end damaged; size, 7^3/4 in. by 4 in.