[IO Islamic 609] ديوان سنائى

<strong>Diwân-i-Sanâ’î.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 928 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 609 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 928 Diwân-i-Sanâ’î ( ديوان سنائى). A small collection of the lyrical poems of Sanâ’î (for copies of the complete dîwân see Bodleian Cat., No. 537, and Rieu ii. p. 551^a), containing chiefly ḳaṣîdas, interspersed with a few ghazals and ḳiṭ’as. Beginning: اى در دل مشتاقات از عشق تو بوستانها از حجّت بيچونى از صنع تو برهانها Ff. 9-13 are misplaced; the right order is 9, 12, 10, 11, 13; there sems besides to be a lacuna after fol. 23^b. No date. No. 609, ff. 1-48^a, 2 coll., each ll., 15, and a third on the margin, ll. 28; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece: the first two pages splendidly adorned; a drawing on fol. 1^a and a picture on fol. 48^a; size, 9¾ in. by 5½ in.