[IO Islamic 511] غزلیات و رباعیات كليم

Kalîm-Ghazals-&-Rubâ’is

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1566 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 511 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1566

A defective copy of the same.

This copy is incomplete both at the beginning and end, and commences in the middle of the rhyme-letter ا with the last bait of a ghazal, corresponding to fol. 130a, last line in No. 1563.

The ghazals, arranged alphabetically, end on fol. 172b, and are followed by one ḳiṭ’ah and a series of rubâ’îs, beginning:هر چند كه مرد الخ , the second is the initial rubâ’î of the preceding copy. This part breaks off on fol. 180b with the first bait of rubâ’î, corresponding to fol. 358b, lin. penult. In No. 1563. There are besides two lacunas, one after fol. 5 and the other after fol. 178.

The last bait on fol. 5b corresponds to fol. 140a, l. 7 in No. 1563, the first on fol. 6a to fol. 140a, l. 7 in No. 1563, the first on fol. 6a to fol. 135b, l. 8 in the same copy; the last bait on fol. 178b is identical with fol. 356b, lin. penult. There, and the first bait on fol. 179a with fol. 350a, l. 4.

No. 511, ff. 180, 2 coll., each ll. 15-17; unequal Nasta’lîḳ; slight injuries in several pages; size, 8 in. by 41/8 in.