[IO Islamic 2470] ديوان امير خسرو

Dîwân-i-Amîr Khusrau.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1194 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 2470  here with notations and hyperlinks].

1194

The same.

A similar, but much smaller collection of ghazals, ḳiṭ’as, and rubâ’îs, from the four dîwâns of Amîr Khusrau, beginning, as in Nos. 1187, 4; 1188, 5; and 1190, 4: اى زخيال ما برون در تو خيال كى رسد الخ .

From fol. 2b onward the ghazals are arranged alphabetically. Beginning of the first alphabetical poem:

ابر می بارد و من می شوم از يار جدا

چون کنم دل بچنین وقت زدلدار جدا

corresponding to the first alphabetical ghazal in No. 762 of the Bodleian Cat. This copy was transcribed near Akbarâbâd by Munshî عبوديت مقترن كنكابش for Mr. Robert Watherston, and finished the 10th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1204 (A.D. 1790, 23rd of June). It came into Mr. Watherstone’s possession the 30th of July, 1790.

Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2470. ff. 91, 2 coll., each ll. 15-19; the last bait of each ghazal usually written in red ink; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 93/4 in. by 61/8 in.