[IO Islamic 2399] ديوان عرفى

Dîwân-i-‘Urfî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1456 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 2399 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1456

Another very defective copy of the same.

Contents:

1.Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1a, beginning: اى متاع درد الخ.

A large lacuna of six leaves after fol. 9; the last bait, on fol. 9b, corresponds, to fol. 9a, lin. penult. In the preceding copy; the first bait, on fol. 10a, to fol. 14b, l. 5 in the same.

2.Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 38a (Arabic paging ۴۴), beginning: اى دل راهزن الخ .

3.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 44b (=٥٠), beginning: تحفۀ مرهم الخ.

Two large lacunas, of ten leaves each, after ff. 57 (٦٣) and 104 (١٢٠); the last bait of fol. 57b corresponds to fol. 81a, l. 10 in the preceding copy; the first complete ghazal, on fol. 58a, to fol. 79b, middle column, l. 5 in No. 1484 (1451 in this Cat.); the last bait, on fol. 104b, is found on fol. 116b, l. 5 in the preceding copy; the first complete ghazal, on fol. 105a, corresponds to fol. 126b, l. 4 in the same.

4.Rubâ’îs, on fol. 106a (١٣٢), beginning : يا رب نفسى الخ.

Dated A.H. 1137 (A.D. 1724, 1725), in Muḥammadshâh’s reign. A part of the last leaf is torn away; a few various readings on the margin.

No. 2399, ff. 108, partly 2, partly 3 and even 4 coll., ll. 14-17; careless and irregular Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 63/8 in.