[IO Islamic 2236] ديوان سلمان

Dîwân-i-Salmân.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1239 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 2236 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1239

The same.

This copy is again smaller than the preceding one, but is the only one which has an exact date, viz. 4th of Rajab, A.H. 1023 (A.D. 1614, August 10); the transcriber’s name is Hârûn ‘Abd-alsalâm.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’bands, tarkîbband, and ḳiṭ’as, for the greater part (ff. 10a-114b) in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b; beginning as in the preceding copies.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 146b, beginning:

اگر حسن تو بگشايد الخ.

A few rubâ’îs and fards at the end, on ff. 222-225.

College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2236, ff. 225, 2 coll., each ll. 15-16; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 11 in. by 6 in.