[IO Islamic 2628] Jâmî's First Dîwân

<strong>Dîwân-i-Jâmî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1301 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 2628 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1301 Jâmî’s <em>first dîwân</em>. Another copy of Jâmî’s <em>first</em> dîwân, arranged exactly as in the preceding Kulliyyât, and containing: Preface in prose, on fol. 1^b, beginning: بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم – هست صلاى سر خوان كريم Ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’ât, marâthî, and short mathnawîs, on fol. 5^b, beginning: زان پیش کز الخ ; the mathnawîs begin, on fol. 54^a:بنام خداى كه الخ. Ghazals, the first six unalphabetical, on fol. 59^b; beginning both of the initial and the first alphabetical ghazal as in the preceding copy. At the end of the same musammaṭ: الا اى ماه الخ, as noticed in Rosen, p. 238. Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 307^b, beginning: دلا منشين درين ويرانه چون چغد سوی مرغان قدسی آشیان پر See Rosen, p. 238. Rubâ’îs, on fol. 312^a, beginning: سبحانك لا علم الخ . This very fine and old copy is not dated; it belonged formerly to Mr. Edw. Galley (ادوارد گلّى). Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2628, ff. 323, 2 coll., each ll. 17; illuminated frontispiece on ff. 1^b, 5^b, and 59^b; the first two pages with gold stripes; all the headings in gilt letters; neat and clear Nasta’lîḳ; good eastern binding; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^3/4 in.