[IO Islamic 2460] ديوان خاقانى

<strong>Dîwân-i-Khâḳânî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 964 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 2460 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 964 The same. A very large and rich copy, not dated. Contents: Ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’band, elegies, ḳiṭ’as, mystical ghazals, etc., all mixed together without any order, on fol.1^b. Beginning as usual. At the end of this part, on fol. 367^a, there is the following colophon:تمّت القصائد الكبار و الصغار و الترجيع المرائى و المقطّعات و الغزليّات فى التجريد و العزلة و الموعظة و النصيحة و مذمّة الدنيا و شكاية الزمان و معاتبة الاخوان و المراثى و المدائح و الهجا و الهزل و سائر المعانى‘ و شرعت فى الغزليّات (!) العشق و الرباعى‘. Love-ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 367^a, beginning: گرنه عشق او قضاء آسمانستى مرا از بلاى عشق او روى امانستى مرا Rubâ’îs, on fol. 442^a, beginning: اين چرخ بد آئين نه نكو ميگردد الخ. Occasionally short glosses on the margin. No. 2460, ff. 460, 2 coll., each ll. 19; very clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 10¼ in. by 5¾ in.