[IO Islamic 2460] ديوان خاقانى

Dîwân-i-Khâḳânî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 964 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 2460 here with notations and hyperlinks].

964

The same.

A very large and rich copy, not dated.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’band, elegies, ḳiṭ’as, mystical ghazals, etc., all mixed together without any order, on fol.1b.

Beginning as usual. At the end of this part, on fol. 367a, there is the following colophon:تمّت القصائد الكبار و الصغار و الترجيع المرائى و المقطّعات و الغزليّات فى التجريد و العزلة و الموعظة و النصيحة و مذمّة الدنيا و شكاية الزمان و معاتبة الاخوان و المراثى و المدائح و الهجا و الهزل و سائر المعانى‘ و شرعت فى الغزليّات (!) العشق و الرباعى‘.

Love-ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 367a, beginning:

گرنه عشق او قضاء آسمانستى مرا

از بلاى عشق او روى امانستى مرا

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 442a, beginning: اين چرخ بد آئين نه نكو ميگردد الخ.

Occasionally short glosses on the margin.

No. 2460, ff. 460, 2 coll., each ll. 19; very clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 10¼ in. by 5¾ in.