[IO Islamic 108] ديوان طالب

Muḥammad-Ṭâlib

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1526 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 108 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1526

Another defective copy of the same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1b, beginning as usual.

Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 88b, beginning as in the two preceding copies.

Tarkîbbands, on fol. 109b, beginning: اى رويتو الخ .

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 130b, beginning, as in the preceding copy: مارا كشد الخ.

A lacuna after fol. 296, comprising fol. 261b, l. 8, to fol. 262b, l.4 in the preceding copy, and fol. 241b, l. 11, to fol. 242b, l. 10 in No. 1524.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 306b, beginning as in the preceding copy.

This part is incomplete at the end (Just as in the preceding copy); the last rubâ’î corresponds to fol. 283a, ll. 1 and 2 in No. 1524.

No. 108, ff. 329, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; small and rather effaced frontispiece; some pages at the beginning and end damaged; size, 73/4 in. by 4 in.