[IO Islamic 2478] ديوان شمس تبريز

Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1114 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 2478 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 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. 18a margin, l. 3, and No. 2232 (1111 in this Cat.), fol. 7b, 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. 4b. Lacunas after ff. 191 (ff. 192-194 left blank) and 196. On fol. 1a 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.