[IO Islamic 1319] Persian Poetry

Persian-Poetry This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1756 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 1319 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1756 An album of Persian poetry, without any value, containing indifferent specimens of Persian ghazals and rubâ’îs, bound together without any order. Ṣâ’ib (died A.H. 1088) is the most conspicuous among the contributors. No. 1319, ff. 121; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9¾ in. by 4¾ in.