[IO Islamic 1159] ديوان صائب

Dîwân-i-Ṣâ’ib

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1609 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 1159 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1609

The same.

Contents:

A few ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1b, beginning: اى ز سودا سايه بر زلف الخ. They break off on fol. 5b, and ff. 6-10a are left blank.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first, on fol. 10b. Beginning of the initial poem: يا رب از عرفان الخ.

Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol. 11a:

خدايا در پذير اين نعرۀ مستانۀ ما را الخ; see No. 1606 above, where this poem heads the unfinished ghazals.

At the end, on fol. 558a, a rubâ’î. Ff. 81-83, 315b, 388b, and a part of fol. 80b are left blank.

No date. On fol. 1a a note from A.H. 1193 (A.D. 1779).

No. 1159, ff. 1-558, 3 coll., each ll. 14-16 on ff. 1-5; 2 coll. each ll. 11 on ff. 10-558; written in the same strange Nasta’lîḳ as Nos. 1594, 1597, and 1598 above; small illuminated frontispiece on fol.10b ; size, 9¾ in. by 5¾ in.