[IO Islamic 2552] ديوان خاقانى

Dîwân-i-Khâḳânî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 967 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 2552 here with notations and hyperlinks].

967

A very large, but defective copy of the same.

This copy (which is incorrectly styled, on fol. 1a, Kulliyyât-i-Khâḳânî) contains ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’bands, ghazals, and ḳiṭ’as, all mixed together, without any order. Beginning as usual. On fol. 406a a series of rubâ’îs begins with the same bait as in No. 2460 (964 above): اين چرخ بد آئين الخ.

This part is incomplete at the end; it breaks off on fol. 415b; the last rubâ’î corresponds to the fourth in No. 2460, fol. 450a.

On the fly-leaves, at the end, there are written some lines in Arabic, beginning: قال النبىّ صلّى الله عليه و آله الخ.

No. 2552, ff. 415, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; some embellishments on the first two pages; size, 103/8 in. by 61/4 in.