[IO Islamic 580] ديوان شمس تبريز

<strong>Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1113 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 580 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1113 The same. Another collection of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s ghazals in alphabetical order, defective at the end, and forming the <em>second half </em>of the complete dîwân of the poet; it begins with poems rhyming in م and breaks off in a poem rhyming in ى. According to the Arabic paging the missing <em>first half</em> of this dîwân must have contained 406 leaves (this copy beginning with fol. ٤٠٧). Beginning of the first ghazal in م : اى عاشقان اى عاشقان از جان غلام حيدرم زيرا كه اندر راه دين حيدر مرا شد رهبرم This copy is a little worm-eaten and slightly injured in many places. Occasionally various readings on the margin. No. 580, ff. 276. 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 12 in. by 6½ in.