[IO Islamic 748] ديوان صائب

Dîwân-i-Ṣâ’ib

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1607 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 748 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1607

Dîwân-i-Ṣâ’ib (ديوان صائب).

A very large collection of the lyrical poems of Ṣâ’ib, being similar to the خلاصۀ كبير , or ‘large selection,’ as in Sprenger’s copy, loc. cit. (see the preceding copy).

It contains ghazals, intermixed with ḳaṣîdas, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 1b: اگر نه مدّ بسم الله الخ.

At the end, on ff. 612b-621b, a series of so-called rubâ’îs (which have, however, not the usual rubâ’î-metre), beginning:

ياد ايّامى كه رويش را بهار شرم بود

با حيا هنگامۀ نظّارۀ او گرم بود

Dated the last of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1148 (A.D. 1736, April 12); according to a note on the last page this collection contains 32,000 baits.

No. 748, ff. 621, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 14, and a margin-col., ll. 24; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 125/8 in. by 73/8 in.