[IO Islamic 3234] ديوان صائب

Dîwân-i-Ṣâ’ib This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1621 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 3234 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1621 Short extracts from Ṣâ’ib’s dîwân. A short selection of ghazals, ḳiṭ’as, and rubâ’îs from Ṣâ’ib׳s dîwân, beginning: كسى كز خلق خواهد حاجت خود مردنش اولی الخ. Dated the 19th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1095 (A.D. 1684, February 6), at Bahâr, by a naukar of Shaikh ‘Inâyat-allâh, the comptroller of the jâgîrs of prince Wâlâguhar Shâh ‘Âlam (afterwards emperor Bahâdurshâh). No. 3234, ff. 1-12, 4 coll. in diagonal lines; written in careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 93/4 in. by 53/8 in.