[IO Islamic 512] ديوان امير خسرو

Dîwân-i-Amîr Khusrau. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1193 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 512 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1193 Dîwân-i-Amîr Khusrau (ديوان امير خسرو). A large selection of ghazals, with some ḳiṭ’as and fards at the end, made from all the four dîwâns, as in Rieu ii. pp. 610b, 614b, and 615a; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 758-765; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 831 and 832; G. Flügel i. p. 542; J. Aumer, p. 21 (Nos. 63 and 64), etc. It begins, on fol. 1b, with the same ḳaṣidah as the Ghazaliyyât in No. 1186, 3: حمد رانم بر زيان الخ; Then follow a few ghazals without alphabetical order, and on fol. 80a the alphabetical order begins. First alphabetical ghazal: اى باد برقع برفگن آن روی آتشناك را الخ corresponding to the first alphabetical poem in No. 759 of the Bodleian Cat. No date. The proper order of the leaves is: 1,2, 75-82, 3-74, 83-164, 166, 165, 168, 167, 169-526, 529, 528, 527, 530-619; a few pages injured. No. 512, 2 centre-coll., ff. 619, ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages richly illuminated; size, 77/8 in. by 51/8 in.