[IO Islamic 2093] ديوان آصفى

Dîwân-i-Âṣafî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1394 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 2093 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1394

Another copy of the same.

This collection of Âṣafî’s lyrical poems is somewhat smaller than the preceding one, and not so well written; it is dated the 16th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1157 (the 26th year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign) = A.D. 1744, July 27, at Shâhjahânâbâd. Beginning the same as in the preceding copy.

No. 2093, ff. 263-318, 2 coll., each ll. 10-14, and besides one or two diagonal lines in every page, each containing two baits; Shikasta; size, 8¾ in. by 5 in.