[IO Islamic 1089] ديوان صيدى

Dîwân-i-Ṣaidî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1577 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 1089 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1577

Another copy of the same.

This copy is divided into two parts; the first on ff. 1-24 contains ḳaṣîdas, ghazals, and rubâ’îs, all mixed together without any order, beginning, on fol. 1b:

گهى كه چشم تو در خانۀ گمان آيد

شكست در صف چندين هزار جان آيد

The second, on ff. 25-73, contains only ghazals, in alphabetical order, with a few rubâ’îs at the end, beginning, on fol. 25b, as in the preceding copy: شد بسكه از خرام الخ.

This copy, which is somewhat injured here and there, is dated A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1676, 1677).

No. 1089, ff. 73, 2 coll., each ll. 23; Shikasta; size, 6¾ in. by 3½ in.