[IO Islamic 1701] Jâmî's First Dîwân

<strong>Jâmî's-Ghazals.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1313 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 1701 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1313 A defective copy of the same. Ghazals, ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’ât, short mathnawîs, and a few rubâ’îs, beginning with the usual initial ghazal of the <em>second part</em>; there is a lacuna after fol. 2; fol. 2^b ends with the sixth bait of the third unalphabetical ghazal (corresponding to No. 2628, fol. 60^b, l. 3 ab infra), and fol.3^a begins with the fourth bait of the fifth alphabetical ghazal (=No. 2628, fol. 62^b, l. 3 ab infra). Some leaves are misplaced, viz. fol. 17 must be followed by 23, and fol. 23 by 19-21. Sometimes a line or two are omitted. No date. Copied by Sulṭân ‘Alî of Mashhad (who died A.H. 919=A.D. 1513, see Bodleian Cat., No. 1896). No. 1701, ff. 51, 2 coll., each ll. 17; clear Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; another highly embellished ornament at the end of the last page; a little worm-eaten throughout; size, 10 in. by 5^7/8 in.