[IO Islamic 405] ديوان اسير

Dîwân-i-Asîr This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1542 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 405 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1542 Another copy of the same dîwân. This copy contains: Ḳaṣîdas and tarjî’bands, on fol. 1b, beginning, as in the preceding copy. At the end the same mathnawis (on fol. 43a sq.). Ghazals, in alphabetical order, intermixed with some rubâ’îs and fards, on fol.51b, beginning as in the preceding copy. The same mukhammas on fol. 288b. Rubâ’îs, on fol. 289b, beginning as in the preceding copy. No date. Various readings on the margin. The proper order of ff. 104-114 is: 104, 112, 106-111, 105, 113, 114. No. 405, ff. 296, 2 coll., each ll. 20; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 87/8 in. by 43/4 in.