[IO Islamic 3359] Jâmî's First Dîwân

<strong>Dîwân-i-Jâmî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1302 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 3359 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1302 A defective copy of the same. This copy of Jâmî’s <em>first</em> dîwân, in two parts, like the one in No. 1300, but with this peculiar arrangement, that the second part (the ghazals, muḳaṭṭa’ât, and rubâ’îs) precedes the first. Contents: Ghazals, in alphabetical order, defective at the beginning; the copy opens abruptly with this final bait: آن سرو سهی قدرا شد خاک قدم جامی الخ , corresponding to fol. 64^b, lin. penult., in the preceding copy. Between ff. 221 and 222 seven blank leaves are inserted, but as a comparison with the preceding copy shows, there is <em>no</em> lacuna. At the end the musammaṭ: الا ای ماه الخ. Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 232^b, beginning:دلا منشين الخ. Rubâ’îs, on fol. 237^a, beginning:سبحانك لا علم الخ. The usual prose-preface of the first dîwân, on fol. 249^b, beginning: بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم – هست صلاى الخ Ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’ât, marâthî, short mathnawîs, etc., on fol. 253^a, beginning:زان پیش الخ. No date. Presented by J.H. Peile, Esq., and received Sept. 19, 1818; transferred to Civil College, Aug. 9, 1819. No. 3359, olim 7. J. 19, ff. 299, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 249^b; size. 9^1/4 in. by 5^3/8 in.