[IO Islamic 915] ديوان قدسى

Dîwân-i-Ḳudsî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1555 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 915 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1555

Dîwân-i-Ḳudsî (ديوان قدسى).

Ḳudsî’s lyrical poems, containing:

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1b, beginning:

تا كى دلم از كف ندهد صرفۀ غم را

يا ربّ قدرى پيش كن اين روزئ كم را

corresponding to fol. 224b in No. 1552. They are strictly alphabetical as far as fol. 72b; then begins a new series with the rhyme-letter ب.

Tarkîbbands and elegies, on fol. 89a, beginning:

از کسی گردیده ام رو تیغ جانانست و بس الخ

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, with a series of rubâ’îs at the end, on fol. 122b, beginning:

زود به كردم من بيصبر داغ خويشرا

اوّل شب ميكشد مفلس چراغ خویشرا

corresponding to fol. 308a in No. 1552.

No date.

No. 915, ff. 219, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 93/8 in. by 51/4 in.