[IO Islamic 895] ديوان رياضی

<strong>Dîwân-i-Riyâḍî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1299 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 895 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1299 Dîwân-i-Riyâḍî (ديوان رياضی). The lyrical poems of Maulânâ Riyâḍî of Samarḳand, who was drowned A.H. 884 (A.D. 1479, 1480), comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 890 and 891; Rieu iii. p. 1074; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 894; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 20, No, 140; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 311. The dîwân contains only ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning: اى پری از رخ بر افگن طرّۀ طرّار را تا بكی بر روى مصحف مى نهى زنّار را No. 895, ff. 23, 2 coll., each ll. 14; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece; size, 9^7/8 in. by 5^7/8 in.