[IO Islamic 277] ديوان ابن يمين

Dîwân-i-Ibn Yamîn.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1231 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 277 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1231

Another copy of the same.

This collection of Ibn Yamîn’s poems, styled اشعار ابن يمين, and considerably smaller than the preceding one, contains principally the famous Ḳiṭ’as of the poet (which have been translated into German by Schlechta-Wssehrd, ‘Ibn Jemin’s Bruchstücke,’ Vienna, 1852; new ed., Stuttgart, 1879), preceded by a few short mathnawîs.

Beginning of the first mathnawî, on fol. 1b:

بنام خداى كه هستى ازوست

زبردستى و زيردستى ازوست

Beginning of the first Ḳiṭ’ah, on fol. 7b:

الهى مرا چون سراى سپنج – سر انجام بايد بغيرى سپرد

No date.

No. 277, ff. 49, 2 coll., each ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8¾ in. by 5¾ in.