[IO Islamic 474] Nażîrî׳s Ghazals & Rubâ'îs

• Ghazals-and-Rubâ’îs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1491 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 474 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1491

Nażîrî׳s ghazals and rubâ’îs.

The ghazals, arranged alphabetically, begin, on fol. 1^b, with the usual initial bait: اذا ما شئیت الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 150^b, beginning:

اى از تو صور نگار هر جا کوری

زيب از تو دهد بعاريت هر عورى

This is the fifth rubâ’î in No. 85 (1489 in this Cat.), and the first in No. 1074 of the Bodleian Cat.

No date.

No. 474, ff. 156, 2 coll., each ll. 15; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¾ in. by 4¾ in.