[IO Islamic 2471] Jâmî's First Dîwân

<strong>Dîwân-i-Jâmî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1309 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 2471 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1309 The same. The second or larger half of this copy represents the same <em>earlier</em> collection, but in a shorter form; it begins on fol. 55^a, with the same prose-preface as the preceding copy: موزون ترين كلامى كه غزل سرايان الخ, and contains ghazals, tarji’ât, ḳiṭ’as, rubâ’is, etc. The usual initial ghazal, on fol. 57^b, l. 10; the alphabetical ghazals, on ff. 62^b-174^a. The first fifty-four leaves of this copy contain miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose, partly taken from Jâmî’s <em>Bahâristân</em> (see further below, Nos. 1383-1386), as is stated in several places. The whole seventh rauḍah of that work is found on ff. 33^a, l. 3 ab infra, to 54^b (روضۀ هفتم در داستان مرغان قافیه سنج سرابستان سخنوری الخ ). This miscellaneaous portion begins with a ḳaṣidah of Sa’dî, on fol. 1^b. No date. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2471, ff. 180, ll. 13-15; Nasta’lîḳ, in a large, uncouth handwriting; size, 9 in. by 4^5/8 in.