[IO Islamic 3459] ديوان قاسم انوار

Dîwân-i-Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1289 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 3459 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1289

The same.

This very defective copy contains:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first (which begins in the usual way), on fol. 1b. Between ff. 1 and 2 a lacuna; the abrupt beginning of fol. 2a: زاهد از چشم یقین باز گشاید الخ, corresponds to No. 2831 (1286 in this Cat.), fol. 8b, l.3. the next complete ghazal on the same page corresponds to fol. 4a, l. 1, in the same copy. This part breaks off, on fol. 169b, with the fourth bait of a ghazal rhyming in ى ; the last verse corresponds to fol. 146a, l. 7, in No. 2831.

Ḳiṭ’as, one tarjî’band, and short mathnawîs, on fol. 170a, defective both at the beginning and end; the first bait occurring belongs to a ḳiṭ’ah, corresponding to fol. 169b, l. 9, in No. 2831; the first complete ḳiṭ’ah on the same page to fol. 172b, l. 4 ab infra, in the same copy.

This part breaks off in a short mathnawî, on fol. 179b.

The right order of ff. 33-42 is: 33, 41, 35-40, 34, 42; and of ff. 73-82: 73, 80, 81, 76-79, 74, 75, 82.

A little worm-eaten here and there.

No. 3459, olim 13. J. 15, ff. 179, 2 coll., each ll. 15; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/8 in. by 43/8 in.