[IO Islamic 725] غزلیات صائب

Ṣâ’ib-Ghazals

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1614 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 725 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1614

Selection from the same.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b, beginning:

اى ز مژگان تو در چشم گلستان خارها

گل ز سوداى رخت افتاده در بازارها

Corresponding to No. 1606 above, fol. 17a, l .5.

Dated the 15th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1138 (A.D. 1726, May 17), at Shâhjahânâbâd.

On the margin of ff. 2b-9a some ghazals of Jân Ḳudsî (see above, Nos. 1552-1557) are written, beginning:

داد عشقم بادۀ نابى كه مى سوزد مرا الخ , and on the margin of ff. 10b-15b a few ghazals and rubâ’îs of Wâ’iż, probably Muḥammad Rafi’ Wâ’iż of Ḳazwîn, who was still alive A.H. 1093 (A.D. 1682), see Rieu ii. p. 698a; they begin: دل چه سان پنهان كند در سينه آه خويش را الخ. One ghazal and two rubâ’îs of Ṣâ’ib himself are added on the margin of ff. 18a, 18b, and 22b.

No. 725, ff. 1-89, 2 coll., each ll. 12; very distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages written on gilt ground; ff. 1-26 on red paper, the rest on white one; size, 8¼ in. by 4¾-5 in.