[IO Islamic 539] ديوان طالب

Muḥammad-Ṭâlib

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1525 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 539 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1525

A slightly defective copy of the same dîwân.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1b, beginning as in the preceding copy.

Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 79b, with the same beginning.

Tarkibbands, on fol. 98a, with the same beginning.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 116b, beginning (comp. No. 1091 of the Bodleian Cat.):

ما را كشد بسويتو شوق بلند ما

هر موى تازيانه شود بر سمند ما

Rubâ’is, on fol. 270b, beginning:

يا رب بكرم چاشنئ تحقيقى

زين باغ تصوّرم گل تحقيقى

No. 1090 of the Bodleian Cat. reads more correctly at the end of the second hemistich تصديقى.

This part is incomplete at the end; the last rubâ’î corresponds to fol. 275a, l. 4 ab infra in the preceding copy.

No. 539, ff. 284, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 77/8 in. by 41/4 in.