[IO Islamic 2455] ديوان كمال اسمعيل

Dîwân-i-Kamâl Isma’îl.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1056 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 2455 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1056

Another copy of the same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands, and a few ḳiṭ’as, beginning, on fol. 1b: اى صفات تو بيانها را زبان انداخته الخ.

A short mathnawî, ḳiṭ’as, and a few ghazals; the mathnawî, on fol. 228b, is the same as in the preceding copy; the first ḳiṭ’ah begins (on fol. 232b): ايا شهى كه ضميرت بچشم گوشۀ فكر الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 325a, beginning as in the preceding copy.

Dated by Ḥabîb-allâh, the son of the Ḳâḍî Barkhwurdâr, the 27th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1036 (A.D. 1627, Aug. 9). Some various readings and marginal additions.

No. 2455, ff. 393. 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; ff. 1 and 95-98 later supplied; size, 10 in. by 6¾ in.