[IO Islamic 296] ديوان نظيرى

Dîwân-î-Nażîrî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1490 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 296 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1490

Another, very defective, copy of Nażîrî’s diwân.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas and tarji’bands, on fol. 1b, beginning as in the preceding copy. This part breaks off already, on fol. 54b, in consequence of a very large lacuna, in a ḳaṣîdah in praise of ‘Alî; the last bait appearing here corresponds to fol. 7b, l. 9 in the preceding copy.

Ghazals, on fol. 55a, defective at the beginning, in consequence of the same lacuna; they begin here with the last hemistich of a poem, rhyming in ش, viz. :

شود پروانه را بال و پرّانش

Corresponding to fol. 206a, l. 3 ab infra in the preceding copy.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 127a, last line, beginning: آن كيست كه بازم الخ, corresponding to the second rubâ’î in the preceding copy.

This part too is incomplete at the end, and breaks off on fol. 137b.

No. 296, ff. 48-137, 2 coll, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 4 in.