[IO Islamic 440] ديوان انورى

Dîwân-i-Anwarî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 937 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 440 here with notations and hyperlinks].

937

The same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas and tarjî’bands, without any order, on fol. 1a, beginning as in the two preceding copies.

Ḳiṭ’as, with the short satirical mathnawîs at the end, beginning, on fol. 156a:

دوش خوابى ديده ام كو نيك ديدى نيك باد

خواب نى بل حالتى كان از كرامت برتر است

Corresponding to fol. 228a in the preceding copy.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 238a:از دور بديدم الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 277b, without any order, beginning:

آنى كه كفت ضامن ارزاق آمد

وانى كه درت قبلۀ آفاق آمد

Corresponding to fol. 361a, last line but two, in the preceding copy.

No date. This copy was presented by J. Wombwell, Esq., 10th April, 1804.

No. 440, ff. 302, 2 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 83/8 in. by 43/4 in.