[IO Islamic 2678] Persian Anthology

Persian-Anthology

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1749 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 2678 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1749

Persian anthology.

A collection Persian poems, (a) ghazals, rubâ’îs, etc., by: Muḥtasham Kâshî (died A.H. 996; see Nos. 1447 and 1448 above), on fol. 1b; Sharaf-i-Jahân of Ḳazwîn (flourished under Shâh Ṭahmâsp and died A.H. 968), on fol. 11b; Fighânî of Shîrâz (died A.H. 922 or 925), on fol. 16a; Sharîf of Tabrîz (pupil of Lisânî), on fol. 17b; Lisânî of Shîrâz (died A.H. 941), on fol. 24b; Wiṣâlî (Muḥammad Amîn, died A.H. 967), on fol. 27a; (b) rubâ’îs only by: Ḥabîb-allâh of Shîrâz, on fol. 27b; Amîr Muḥammad Ḥâshim (was in Lâhûr A.H. 969); Mullâ Âhî (died A.H. 927); Ḥuḍûrî (died after A.H. 984, see No. 1442 above), ib., etc.; (c) mathnawî-baits by Niżâmî, etc., on fol. 29b; (d) rubâ’îs again by Ḳâtibî (died A.H. 838 or 839); Ghazâlî (of Mashhad, died A.H. 980), ib., etc.; (e) ghazals again by Fighânî (second collection), ib.; a lacuna after fol. 15. Many pages injured.

Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2678, ff. 1-31, 4-5 coll., in diagonal lines, with additional straight lines running between them; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 11¾ in. by 7¼ in.