[IO Islamic 3341] Nażîrî׳s Ghazals & Rubâ'îs

Ghazals-and-Rubâ’îs.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1492 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 3341 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1492

Another, slightly defective, copy of the same.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b, beginning as usual.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 190b, beginning: از دوست منادى است الخ.

This part is incomplete at the end; the last rubâ’î, on fol. 192b, يك قوم مسافر الخ, corresponds to fol. 278a, last two lines in No. 85 (1489 in this Cat.). Ff. 91b and 92a are left blank; some slight injuries here and there.

No. 3341, olim 13. J. 20, ff. 192, 2 coll., each ll. 14-15; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 71/8 in. by 4 in.