[IO Islamic 258] ديوان شمس تبريز

Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1112 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 258 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1112

The same.

This copy, very large and in good condition, but undated, contains only ghazals in alphabetical order, beginning:

حجاب از چشم بگشائى كه سبحان الذى اسرا

هزاران عقل بربائى كه سبحان الذى اسرا

corresponding to No. 203 (1109 in this Cat.), fol. 44a, l. 3 (where the second hemistich of this initial bait is found in the second bait); the dîwân concludes on fol. 425, and is followed on fol. 426a by a ḳaṣîdah, headed: منقبت از شمس تبريز, and beginning:

تا صورت پیوند جهان بود على بود

تا نقش زمين بود زمان بود على بود

Copied at Barîlî at the request of Muḥammadkhân Bahâdur, by Aćintshâh of Lâhûr (اچنت شاه لاهورى).

No. 258, ff. 426, 2 coll., each ll. 11; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; 8 in. by 51/4 in.