[IO Islamic 2388] ديوان شوكت

Dîwân-i-Shaukat This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1630 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 2388 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1630 Shaukat’s ghazals. This copy of Shaukat’s lyrical poems contains the ghazals, intermixed with rubâ’îs and fards, arranged alphabetically in two series. First series, on ff. 1b-130a, beginning as usually: خدايا رنگ الخ. This series goes from the rhyme-letter ا to ى. Second series, on ff. 130b-158b, beginning with a rubâ’î: رخساره نمود همچو پاى همه را الخ This series is separated from the first by four rubâ’îs, which stand outside the alphabetical system, and goes down from the rhyme-letter ا to م only. Dated the 3rd of Ramaḍân, A.H. ١١٤ (1140 ? or 1104 ?=A.D. 1728, April 13, or 1693, May 8), by Ḥâfiż Muḥammad Ṣâliḥ, son of Ḥâfiż Abû-alkhair. Calcutta, March, 1806. No. 2388, ff. 158, 2 coll., each ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 in. by 45/8 in.