[IO Islamic 3374] Ṭâlib Âmuli Ghazals

Âmuli’s-Ghazals This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1527 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 3374 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1527 Ṭâlib Âmuli’s ghazals. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 1b: بايما نكته مى سنجد الخ, see No. 1524. The last page, containing the last three baits of the last ghazal in ى, is supplied by another hand. No date. The right order of ff. 56-60 is: 56, 58, 57, 59, 60. Special copies of Ṭâlib ghazals are noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 62, ii. 2b; and p. 701, No. 34. No. 3374, olim 13. J. 10, ff. 121, 2 coll., each ll. 18; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages richly adorned; size, 91/2 in. by 51/4 in.