[IO Islamic 3500] ديوان كليم

Dîwân-i-Kalim

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1564 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 3500 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1564

Another copy of the second half of Kalîms dîwân.

This copy, dated the 9th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1148 (the eighteenth year of Muḥammadshah’s reign, as it is called here, but more correctly the seventeenth, since Muḥammadshâh was not crowned emperor before the month Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1131)=A.D. 1735, Dec. 25, contains the ghazals, A.H. 1131)=A.D. 1735, Dec. 25, contains the ghazals (on ff. 1b-192b) and rubâ’îs (on ff. 192b-202b) only.

Beginning of both sections the same as in the preceding copy. On fol. 1a the last ten baits of Kalîms short mathnawîs are found, a clear proof that this copy is the second half of a complete dîwân of the poet.

No. 3500, olim 19. J. 19, ff. 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 51/8 in.