[IO Islamic 687] ديوان كاشفى

Dîwân-i-Kâshifî. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1443 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 687 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1443 Dîwân-i-Kâshifî (ديوان كاشفى). The lyrical poems of Maulânâ Kâshifî of Badakhshân, who came to India in Akbar’s reign, see Makhzan-algharâ’îb, No. 2177 (col. 368 in the Bodleian Cat.), and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 655, No. 54. They consist of ghazals only, arranged in alphabetical order. Beginning: از هر بگوش می آید همین ندا الخ. No date. No. 687, ff. 93, 2 coll., each ll. 9-15; written partly in careless Nasta’lîḳ, partly in Shikasta; ff. 50 and 58 left blank; size, 77/8 in. by 47/8 in.