[IO Islamic 1613] Jâmî's First Dîwân

Jâmî's-Ghazals. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1311 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 1613 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1311 The same. This copy contains: Ghazals, in two series, both arranged in alphabetical order, except the first four ghazals of the first series. Beginning of the initial poem of the first series, on fol. 1b: اى ذات تو از صفات ما پاک الخ, see No. 1624 (1307 in this Cat.), fol. 2b, and No. 2628 (1301 in this Cat.), fol. 192a, l. 10; the first alphabetical ghazal is the usual one: يا من بدا الخ. The second series begins, on fol. 120b: اى غمت تخم شادمانيها الخ, corresponding to No. 2628, fol. 67a, l. 1. One tarjî’band, followed by a few ḳiṭ’as, rubâ’îs, etc.; beginning of the tarjî’band, on fol. 135b: اى بروى تو چشم جان روشن الخ, corresponding to fol. 44b, l. 6, in No. 2628; beginning of the rubâ’îs, on fol. 139a: يا من ملكوت الخ, see No. 1624 (1307 in this Cat.), fol. 216a. No date. The right order of the leaves is: ff. 1-47, 53-57, 48, 58-95, 49-52, 96-145. No. 1613, ff. 145, 2 coll., each ll. 14; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 77/8 in. by 41/4 in.