[IO Islamic 3459] ديوان قاسم انوار

• Dîwân-i-Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1289 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 3459 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1289

The same.

This very defective copy contains:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first (which begins in the usual way), on fol. 1^b. Between ff. 1 and 2 a lacuna; the abrupt beginning of fol. 2^a: زاهد از چشم یقین باز گشاید الخ, corresponds to No. 2831 (1286 in this Cat.), fol. 8^b, l.3. the next complete ghazal on the same page corresponds to fol. 4^a, l. 1, in the same copy. This part breaks off, on fol. 169^b, with the fourth bait of a ghazal rhyming in ى ; the last verse corresponds to fol. 146^a, l. 7, in No. 2831.

Ḳiṭ’as, one tarjî’band, and short mathnawîs, on fol. 170^a, defective both at the beginning and end; the first bait occurring belongs to a ḳiṭ’ah, corresponding to fol. 169^b, l. 9, in No. 2831; the first complete ḳiṭ’ah on the same page to fol. 172^b, l. 4 ab infra, in the same copy.

This part breaks off in a short mathnawî, on fol. 179^b.

The right order of ff. 33-42 is: 33, 41, 35-40, 34, 42; and of ff. 73-82: 73, 80, 81, 76-79, 74, 75, 82.

A little worm-eaten here and there.

No. 3459, olim 13. J. 15, ff. 179, 2 coll., each ll. 15; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8^1/8 in. by 4^3/8 in.