[IO Islamic 519] ديوان طاهر وحيد

Dîwân-i-Ṭâhir Waḥid This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1655 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 519 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1655 Selections from the same dîwân. These selections from Ṭâhir Waḥîd’s lyrical poems consist of rubâ’îs and ghazals, mixed together in alphabetical order, and beginning: چنان كز سنگ و آهن آتش پنهان شود پيدا زنى چون هر دو عالم را بهم جانان شود پيدا This is the first rubâ’î, quoted in the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, loc. cit., see No. 1653. No date. No. 519, ff. 1-55, 2 coll., each ll. 13; careless Nasta’lîḳ, very like Shikasta; size, 8¼ in. by 4¾ in.