[IO Islamic 580] ديوان شمس تبريز

Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1113 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 580 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1113

The same.

Another collection of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s ghazals in alphabetical order, defective at the end, and forming the second half of the complete dîwân of the poet; it begins with poems rhyming in م and breaks off in a poem rhyming in ى. According to the Arabic paging the missing first half of this dîwân must have contained 406 leaves (this copy beginning with fol. ٤٠٧).

Beginning of the first ghazal in م :

اى عاشقان اى عاشقان از جان غلام حيدرم

زيرا كه اندر راه دين حيدر مرا شد رهبرم

This copy is a little worm-eaten and slightly injured in many places. Occasionally various readings on the margin.

No. 580, ff. 276. 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 12 in. by 6½ in.