[IO Islamic 724] ديوان صائب

Dîwân-i-Ṣâ’ib

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1608 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 724 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1608

The same.

This collection is similar to the خلاصۀ صغير, or ‘smaller selection’ (see W. Pertsch, berlin Cat., p.930 sq.), and contains:

Fards, on fol. 1b, beginning, as the Mutafarriḳât in No. 1606: حسرت اوقات غفلت الخ .

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first, on fol. 6b. Beginning of the initial poem:

يا رب از عرفان مرا پيمانۀ سرشار ده

چشم بينا جان آگاه و دل بيدار ده

Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol.7a:

زهى بغمزۀ جانسوز برق مذهبها الخ. At the end of this part a mukhammas.

Mutafarriḳât, on fol. 344b, containing rubâ’îs, fards, and short ghazals, likewise in alphabetical order, beginning:

در كوى عشق ره نبود جبرئيل را

پى كرده است تيزئ اين ره دليل را

Copied by Muḥammad Shâkir in the fifth year of the reign (of whom is not stated). The right order of ff. 359-366 is: 359, 361, 360, 362, 363, 365, 364, 366.

No.724, ff. 387, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8¼ in. by 4½ in.