[IO Islamic 224] Shifâ'î Ghazals

Shifâ’î-Ghazals

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1533 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 224 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1533

Ghazals of Shifâ’î.

An extensive collection of ghazals by Shifâ’î, arranged alphabetically and beginning, on fol. 3b (like the Bodleian copy and that of Moty Mahall, mentioned in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 570):

اى زده برتر از گمان خيمۀ كبرياى را

(the other copies شكسته) دست بتو كجا رسد عقل برهنه

پای را

The copy concludes with four mathnawî-baits.

No date. The proper order of the leaves, which are misplaced in a rather bewildering way, is : ff. 3-25, 32-48, 26-28, 1, 2, 29-31, 49-112, 117, 118, 113, 115, 116, 114, 119-206.

No. 224, ff. 206, 2 coll., each ll. 15; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 5 in.