[IO Islamic 254] ديوان مغربى

Dîwân-i-Maghribî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1282 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 254 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1282

Another copy of the same.

This copy, which is somewhat older than the preceding one, contains only ghazals in alphabetical order, except the first, with a few mathnawî-baits and rubâ’îs at the end. Beginning both of the initial (unalphabetical) and the first alphabetical ghazal the same as in the preceding copy. Occasionally various readings on the margin. Dated by Gîsûrâi, the 7the of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1139 (eighth year of Muḥammadshâsh’s reign)=A.D. 1726, Nov. 2.

No. 254, ff. 277-382, 2 coll., each ll. 12-15; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 87/8 in. by 47/8 in.