[IO Islamic 3513] ديوان شوكت

Dîwân-i-Shaukat This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1631 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 3513 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1631 The same. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, intermixed with some rubâ’îs and fards; beginning, on fol. 1b, the same as in the preceding copies, but thus (substituting الهى for خدايا, as in the first copy of the British Museum):الهى رنگ الخ. Seven unalphabetical rubâ’îs at the end. No date. This splendid copy has at the end several leaves, which are ornamented, but left blank for the insertion of further poems. No. 3513, ff. 110, 2 coll., each ll. 12; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; each ghazal framed in by gold stripes and arabesques on the first thirty-two leaves; gorgeous illuminations on the margin of the first twenty-three leaves; all pages besides powdered with gold; size, 103/8 in. by 63/8 in.