[IO Islamic 3520] ديوان انورى

Dîwân-i-Anwarî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 942 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 3520 here with notations and hyperlinks].

942

A fourth defective copy of the same.

This copy is in a very unsatisfactory state, worm-eaten throughout, more especially in the first half, and damaged besides in many places, whole parts of the first leaves being torn away or effaced. It is defective at the end.

Contents:

The same short prose preface as in No. 2677 (935 above); beginning: مهتر شغلى كه الخ. The poet’s name is given here, on fol. 2a, l. 6, as ‘Ali bin Maḥmûd bin Isḥaḳ al-Anwarî.

Ḳaṣîdas, without any order, on fol. 2b, beginning as usual.

Ḳiṭ’as, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 185b:

ايا صدرى الخ.

Ghazals, on fol. 258b, beginning:

زعهد تو بوى وفا مي نيايد الخ

Corresponding to fol. 319b in No. 1530 (936 above).

A few more ḳiṭ’as and ḳaṣîdas, on ff. 287a-289a.

Satirical mathnawîs, beginning, on fol. 289a: حبّذا گير الخ.

One ghazal and a few ḳiṭ’as on fol. 293a, followed by rubâ’îs which break off on fol. 298b. The last rubâ’i, از خاك درت, corresponds to No. 1530, fol. 369a, l. 3 ab infra.

Many various readings and interesting glosses on the margin.

No. 3520, olim 3113*, ff. 298, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10 in. by 55/8 in.