[IO Islamic 3504] Jâmî's First Dîwân

Dîwân-i-Jâmî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1310 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 3504 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1310

Similar selections from both parts of the first dîwân.

Contents:

Three unalphabetical ghazals, on fol. 1b, beginning:سبحان من تحيّر في ذاته سواه الخ , corresponding to the second ghazal in No. 2628 (1301 in this Cat.), fol. 60a.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 3a:

بكعبه گر ننمای جمال خود مارا الخ, corresponding to fol. 67a, l. 10, in No. 2628.

One tarjî’band, on fol. 140b, beginning:صبحدم بادۀ شبانه زدیم الخ, see No. 1624 (1307 in this Cat.), fol. 202a.

A few ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs, on fol. 148a (turned upside down), beginning:دلا منشين الخ.

Some leaves are misplaced, viz. fol. 73 must be inserted between ff. 144 and 148.

On the margin of ff. 10a-16a appears a كتاب اختلاج از قول حكيمان ; on that of ff. 56b-80b a series of ‘Umar bin Khayyâm rubâ’îs (see above, Nos. 906 and 907); on that of ff. 81a-86a a تلخيص البيان فى علامات مهدى آخر الزمان, in four faṣls; and on that of ff. 98a-103a a tract on the interpretation of dreams (در علم تعبير).

No date.

No. 3504, olim 7.J. 17, ff.149, 2 coll., each ll. 14; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7¾ in. by 4½ in.