[IO Islamic 3106] ديوان قاسم ديوانه

Dîwân-i-Ḳâsim Diwâna

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1690 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 3106 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1690

Another copy of the same dîwân.

Ghazals and rubâ’îs in alphabetical order, with a tarkîbband and a short mathnawî at the end. Beginning: بسكه افتاد از غمت آشفتگى در كار ما الخ.

This copy is not dated, but as the handwriting agrees with that of Nâżim’s Yûsuf and Zalîkhâ (see No. 1595 above), it must be written about the same time, viz. in or shortly after A.H. 1103 (A.D. 1692).

No. 3106, ff. 158b-243a, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Shikasta; size, 6½ in. by 3¾ in.