[IO Islamic 1386] ديوان شمس تبريز

Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1115 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 1386 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1115

The same.

A smaller collection of ghazals in alphabetical order, defective at the beginning; it opens in the middle of a ghazal rhyming in ١, on fol. 271b. The second (i.e. the first complete one) begins in l. 5 of the same page:

ساقيا در نوش آور شيرۀ عنقود را الخ, corresponding to No. 203 (1109 in this Cat.), fol. 23a margin, l. 17. Some rubâ’îs at the end. A few additions on the margin. This copy is written by the same hand as No. 1064 above, i.e. about A.H. 1029 and 1030 (A.D. 1620, 1621).

No. 1386, ff. 271-335, 4 coll., each ll. 27-36; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 13 in. by 71/8 in.