[IO Islamic 490] انتخاب ديوان واضح

Intikhâb-i-Dîwân-i-Wâḍiḥ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1675 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 490 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1675

Intikhâb-i-Dîwân-i-Wâḍiḥ (انتخاب ديوان واضح).

Extracts from the lyrical poems of Wâḍiḥ, made A.H. 1098 (A.D.1687) by his teacher and friend Zamân Râsikh; comp. fol. 2a in preface, and the remark thereupon in the preceding copy. Râsikh states besides, that he carried these extracts always with him as a token of his friendly feelings towards the author.

Contents:

The same preface, noticed in the preceding copy, on fol. 1b, beginning: واضح صاحب كمالان الخ.

Ghazals, rubâ’îs, and fards, in alphabetical order, beginning:

اى خشك زمان (زبانsic ! for) ساخته مقصه طالبانرا (طلبانرا read) الخ.

This copy is dated A.H. 1152 (A.D. 1739, 1740).

No. 490, ff. 1-31, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Shikasta; size, 83/8 in. by 43/4 in.