[IO Islamic 1006] ديوان انورى

Dîwân-i-Anwarî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 941 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 1006 here with notations and hyperlinks].

941

A third defective copy of the same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas etc., without any orders, on fol.1b, beginning as usual.

Ghazals, arranged alphabetically, beginning, on fol. 134b:

اى عقل تو پیر و بخت برنا – خارست زمانه و تو خرما

Ḳiṭ’as, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 184a:

زهى صدرى الخ.

This part is incomplete at the end; the last ḳiṭ’ah on fol. 192b, which breaks off with the second bait, is found in No. 1530, fol. 247b, ll. 3 and 2 ab infra.

There are besides lacunas after ff. 189 and 191. The Ḳiṭ’ah ربع مسكون الخ, beginning on fol. 189b, corresponds to No. 1530, fol. 230a, the ḳiṭ’as on fol. 190a to ff. 243b and 237b respectively in the same copy (so that the end of letter ت , the whole letters ج, ح, and خ, and the beginning of the letter د are missing). The last ḳiṭ’ah, on fol. 191b, اى خداوندى الخ, is found on fol. 243a in No. 1530, the first ḳiṭ’ah, on fol. 192a, on fol. 245b, l. 5, in the same copy.

Small blanks on ff. 69b and 73b. The proper order of ff. 38-43 is: 38, 40, 39, 42, 41, and 43.

Various readings and many additions on the margin.

A great number of pages worm-eaten.

No. 1006, ff. 192, 2 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10 in. by 5½ in.