[IO Islamic 1472] ديوان نبى

Dîwân-i-Nabî This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1735 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 1472 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1735 Dîwân-i-Nabî (ديوان نبى). The lyrical poems of a poet with the takhalluṣ Nabî, who is not mentioned anywhere. They exclusively consist of ghazals, and very short ones too, so that any historical date or biographical intimation is quite out of question. The copy is defective at the beginning, opening in the middle of a ghazal rhyming in ا. The arrangement throughout is strictly alphabetical. No date whatever. According to the Arabic paging there are missing twenty-four leaves altogether in the beginning. No. 1472, ff. 404, 2 coll., each ll. 11; very uncouth and often almost unintelligible Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; many small damages; size, 71/8 in. by 47/8 in.