[IO Islamic 105] ديوان عرفى

• Dîwân-i-‘Urfî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1455 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 105 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1455

A slightly defective copy of the same dîwân.

Contents:

1.Ḳaṣîdas, with a few ḳiṭ’as at the end, on fol. 1^b, beginning: اقبال كرم الخ.

2.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 70^a, beginning:

كوى عشقست و همه دانه دوامست اينجا

جلوۀ مردم آزاده حرامست اينجا

corresponding to No. 1428 (1451 in this Cat.), fol. 56^b, first column, first line.

3.Rubâ’îs, on fol. 128^b, beginning: يا رب نفسى الخ ; this part is defective at the end; the last rubâ’î, appearing here and beginning : اى چهره کرم الخ, is found in No. 1484, on fol. 165^a, middle column, l. 5.

No. 105, ff. 141, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ, the first page greatly injured; size, 6½ in. by 3¾ in.