[IO Islamic 510] ديوان كمال اسمعيل

Dîwân-i-Kamâl Isma’îl.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1057 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 510 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1057

A slightly defective copy of the same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands, marâthî, etc., on fol. 1b, beginning: اى صفات تو بيانها الخ.

Ḳiṭ’as, intermixed with a few ghazals and ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 211b, beginning:

آدمى را چهار خصلت است – در دو گیتی زباقی وفانی

At the end of this part (on fol. 314b), the same mathnawî as in the two preceding copies.

Ghazals, without any order, on fol. 318b, beginning: اى دل و جان الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 368b, beginning: اى حكم ترا نهاده سرها گردون الخ, corresponding to the third rubâ’î on fol. 407a in No. 1023 (1055 in this Cat.); this part is incomplete at the end, it breaks off with the first bait of a rubâ’î, corresponding to fol. 401a, last line, in No. 1023. The initial rubâ’î of the two preceding copies is found here on fol. 370b, first line.

No. 510, ff. 406, 2 coll., each ll. 19; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each part; Nasta’lîḳ; the first pages injured; size, 8 in. by 37/8 in.