[IO Islamic 185] ديوان فيضى

• Dîwân-i-Faiḍî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1466 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 185 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1466

A slightly defective copy of the same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, mixed with tarjî’s and short mathnawîs, on fol. 1^b, beginning: يا ازلىّ الظّهور الخ.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 37^b, beginning: مستانه سخن ميرسد الخ.

Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 132^a, beginning: يا ناظرا فى هذه الصّفحات خذ الخ ; corresponding to fol. 275^a, l. 8 sq., in No. 3155 (1464 in this Cat.).

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 141^b, beginning: الله اكبر زهى الخ.

This part, although larger than in the preceding copies, is incomplete at the end; the last rubâ’î, of which the first bait is found here, on fol. 189^b, corresponds to the last rubâ’î in No. 3155, but as the order of the poems is not the same in both copies, it is impossible to say whether only one page, or a number of pages, are missing at the end.

Some blanks on ff. 9^a and 97^b.

No. 185, ff. 189, 2 coll., each ll. 15; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; two illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b and 37^b; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^1/2 in.