[IO Islamic 3383] ديوان شمس تبريز

• Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1110 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 3383 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1110

Another copy of the same.

Another excellent, but smaller collection of the same poems (with a few insignificant blanks), containing:

Ghazals, on fol. 1^b, arranged alphabetically, except the first.

Beginning of the initial poem:

الحمد لله الذى قدرانه نعت الازل

الماجد الفرد الذى غفرانه يمحو الذلل

Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol. 2^a;

اى دل چه انديشيدۀ در عذر اين تقصيرها

زان سوى او چندان وفا زین سوی تو چندان جفا

One Tarjî’band, on fol. 242^b, followed by rubâ’îs in alphabetical arrangement, on fol. 245^b. Beginning of the first rubâ’î:

از بادۀ لعل ناب شد گوهر ما - آمد بفغان زدست ما ساغر ما

No date.

No. 3383, olim 19. J. 9, ff. 257, 2 coll., each ll. 21; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 9 in. by 5¼ in.