[IO Islamic 406] غزلیات اسير

Ghazaliyyât-i-Asîr This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1549 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 406 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1549 The same. Ghazals, interspersed with and concluded by rubâ’îs, in alphabetical order, beginning as usual. The same mukhammas, on fol. 178b. This collection of ghazals is styled, on fol. 1a, the third book of Asîr’s dîwân (جلد سيوم ديوان اسير); that is to say, the whole dîwân was originally divided into three books, comprising the ḳaṣîdas, the mathnawîs and tarjî’bands, and the ghazals (including the rubâ’îs) respectively. Dated by Mu’izz-aldîn bin Niżâm-aldîn the 25th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1133 (A.D. 1721, Sept. 17). No. 406, ff. 180, 2 coll., each ll. 18; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9¼ in. by 5½ in.