[IO Islamic 2628] Jâmî's First Dîwân

Dîwân-i-Jâmî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1301 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 2628 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1301

Jâmî’s first dîwân.

Another copy of Jâmî’s first dîwân, arranged exactly as in the preceding Kulliyyât, and containing:

Preface in prose, on fol. 1b, beginning:

بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم – هست صلاى سر خوان كريم

Ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’ât, marâthî, and short mathnawîs, on fol. 5b, beginning: زان پیش کز الخ ; the mathnawîs begin, on fol. 54a:بنام خداى كه الخ.

Ghazals, the first six unalphabetical, on fol. 59b; beginning both of the initial and the first alphabetical ghazal as in the preceding copy. At the end of the same musammaṭ: الا اى ماه الخ, as noticed in Rosen, p. 238.

Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 307b, beginning:

دلا منشين درين ويرانه چون چغد

سوی مرغان قدسی آشیان پر

See Rosen, p. 238.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 312a, beginning: سبحانك لا علم الخ .

This very fine and old copy is not dated; it belonged formerly to Mr. Edw. Galley (ادوارد گلّى). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2628, ff. 323, 2 coll., each ll. 17; illuminated frontispiece on ff. 1b, 5b, and 59b; the first two pages with gold stripes; all the headings in gilt letters; neat and clear Nasta’lîḳ; good eastern binding; size, 93/8 in. by 53/4 in.