[IO Islamic 2690] ديوان انورى

Dîwân-i-Anwarî. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 943 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 2690 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 943 A part of Anwarî’s diwân. This copy contains only: Ḳaṣidas etc., without alphabetical order, beginning on fol. 1b as usual. Ḳiṭ’as, interspersed with a few ḳaṣidas, ghazals, and rubâ’îs (nineteen rubâ’îs and one fard at the end), on fol. 182b, beginning: نگر تا حلقۀ اقبال ناممکن نجنبانی سلیما ابلها لا بل كه محروما و مسكينا No date. Many various readings and glosses on the margin. No. 2690. ff. 282, 2 coll., each ll. 17; large Nasta’lîḳ, by different hands as it seems; the first eight and the last three leaves supplied by a modern hand; size, 101/8 in. by 53/4 in.