[IO Islamic 884] Jâmî's First Dîwân

Dîwân-i-Jâmî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1304 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 884 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1304

A defective copy of the same first part.

The proper order of leaves in this copy is: ff. 16-39, 2-15, 40-50.

Fol. 16a opens at the end of a ḳaṣîdah, corresponding to No. 2628 (1301 in this Cat.), fol. 7b, l. 10; the first complete ḳaṣîdah on the same page begins: بانگ رحیل از قافله الخ = No. 2628, fol. 7b, line. penult.; the mathnawîs begin, on fol. 46b: بنام خداى الخ (=No. 2628, fol. 54a), and go down to the end. The copy comprises therefore fol. 7b, l. 10 to fol. 58b of No. 2628. The first leaf (fol. 1b), written by a more modern hand, contains a repetition of the first nine baits of a ḳaṣîdah, beginning: اى سر از قدر الخ , corresponding to fol. 39b, l. 8 sq. in this copy and to No. 2628, fol. 31b, l. 10 sq.

No date.

No. 884, ff. 50, 2 coll., each ll. 17; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 10 in. by 63/8 in.