[IO Islamic 2831] ديوان قاسم انوار

Dîwân-i-Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1286 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 2831 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1286

Another copy of the same.

This copy seems to be older than the preceding one, but is not dated; it is injured in many places , and has the first sixty-two leaves in the most bewildering order: ff. 1-20, 29, 22, 23, 30, 21, 24, 25, 47-53, 54, 32-38, 27, 28, 26, 55-60, 39-46, 31, 61, 62.

Contents:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first two, on fol. 1a. Beginning, both of the initial and of the first alphabetical ghazal, the same as in the preceding copy. At the end of the ghazals, on fol. 163b, four rubâ’îs.

One tarjî’band, ghazals, ḳiṭ’as, short mathnawîs and rubâ’is, all mixed together, beginning, on fol. 164a: الا اى عشق الخ (see the preceding copy, fol. 209a).

The last mathnawî, on fol. 178a, begins:

الا اى شاهباز قدس لاهوت – مقيّد مانده در دام ناسوت

(identical with the بيان واقعۀ امير تيمور گورگان, in No. 862 of the Bodleian Cat.).

No. 2831, ff. 179, 2 coll., each ll. 21; small Nasta’lîḳ; size, 6½ in. by 4 in.