[IO Islamic 2185] ديوان ثنائى

Dîwân-i-Thanâ’î.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1450 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 2185 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1450

Another copy of Thanâ’î’a dîwân.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b, beginning as in the preceding copy:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, interspersed with a few rubâ’îs, ḳiṭ’as, and fards, on fol. 83a, likewise beginning as in the preceding copy.

Ḳiṭ’as, in alphabetical order, on fol. 102b, beginning:

شهريارا بخاك درگه تو – كه خدايش نيافريد سما

Rubâ’îs, in two alphabetical collections, the second of which begins, on fol. 116a, with an inserted fard, rhyming in د. Beginning of the initial rubâ’î of the first collection, on fol. 106a:

فرياد كه ديده غرق خون كرد مرا

دل از ره عقل و دين برون كرد مرا

No date. The takhalluṣ is always omitted in the ghazals here, and the dîwân is wrongly ascribed to سنائى, on fol. 1a.

No. 2185, ff. 119, 2 coll., each ll. 15; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/8 in. by 5 in.