[IO Islamic 891] غزلیات و رباعیات قدسى

Ḳudsî-Ghazals-and-rubâ’îs

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1557 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 891 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1557

Ghazals and rubâ’îs by Ḳudsî.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 137a, beginning:

دل ديوانه كى در گوش گیرد پند دانا را الخ, corresponding to fol. 311b, l. 4, in No. 1552.

Rubâ’îs, on ff. 200b margin-210b.

A long elegy on the death of his son, Muḥammad Bâḳir (مرثيّۀ محمّد باقر خلف محمّد جان قدسى تصنيف پدر مسطور ), on fol. 294a. The ghazals and rubâ’îs are dated A.H. 1153 (A.D. 1740, 1741).

No. 891, ff. 137-210, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 11, and a third on the margin, ll. 24; Nasta’lîḳ and ff. 294-300, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 11, and a margin-column, ll. 26; Shikasta; size, 96/8 in. by 51/2 in.