[IO Islamic 1701] Jâmî's First Dîwân

Jâmî's-Ghazals.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1313 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 1701 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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 second part; there is a lacuna after fol. 2; fol. 2b ends with the sixth bait of the third unalphabetical ghazal (corresponding to No. 2628, fol. 60b, l. 3 ab infra), and fol.3a begins with the fourth bait of the fifth alphabetical ghazal (=No. 2628, fol. 62b, 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 57/8 in.