[IO Islamic 2478] ديوان شمس تبريز

<strong>Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1114 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 2478 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1114 The same. Another defective copy of ghazals in alphabetical order, beginning: اى طائران قدس را عشقت فزوده بالها درخرمن سوداى تو روحانيان را حالها Corresponding to No. 203 (1109 in this Cat.), fol. 18^a margin, l. 3, and No. 2232 (1111 in this Cat.), fol. 7^b, l. 4 ab infra (in both these copies there is in the second hemistich در حلقۀ substituted for در خرمن); the initial poem of No. 203 (1109 in this Cat.) is found here on fol. 4^b. Lacunas after ff. 191 (ff. 192-194 left blank) and 196. On fol. 1^a a seal of Abû Sa’îd Aḥmad, with the date A.H. 1096 (A.D. 1685). No. 2478, ff. 196, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 23, and a third on the margin, ll. 48; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; many pages a little worm-eaten; size, 9¼ in. by 6 in.