[IO Islamic 3461] ديوان ناصر على

Dîwân-i-Nâṣir-‘Alî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1645 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 3461 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1645

A defective copy of the same.

This copy opens abruptly at the end of a ghazal, rhyming in اينجا, with this bait:

غرور فقر استغناى منعم بر نمى تابد الخ

Corresponding to fol. 12a, l. 10 No. 3478 (No. 1643 in this Cat.); the first complete ghazal on the same first page (fol. 76a) agrees with that which begins on fol. 7b, l. 8 in the same copy. The last bait on fol. 121b, the second of a ghazal, rhyming in ى, corresponds to fol. 84a, l. 3 there. The ghazals are arranged alphabetically and interspersed with rubâ’is and fards.

No. 3461, olim 13. J. 12, ff. 76-121, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 75/8 in. by 43/8 in.