[IO Islamic 891] ديوان طاهر وحيد

Dîwân-i-Ṭâhir Waḥid

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1654 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 891 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1654

Another copy of the same dîwân.

A much smaller collection of Ṭâhir Waḥîd’s lyrical poems, containing:

A few ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1b, beginning:

خداوندا دلى ده پر زگوهر چون دل دريا

كه بتواند درو افگند كشتى خواهش دنيا

Ghazals, rubâ’îs, and fards, mixed together in alphabetical order, on fol. 5b, beginning as in the preceding copy.

Dated the 3rd of Shawwâl in the twenty-third year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign (=A.H. 1154, A.D. 1741, Dec. 12).

No. 891, ff. 1-128, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 11, and a third column on the margin, ll. 24-26; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 95/8 in. by 51/2 in.