[IO Islamic 407] ديوان جلال

<strong>Dîwân-i-Jalâl.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1275 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 407 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1275 Dîwân-i-Jalâl (ديوان جلال). Lyrical poems by Sayyid Jalâl-aldîn of Yazd, the son of Sayyid ‘Aḍud-aldîn, who was a wazîr of Muḥammad Mużaffar; according to Taḳî Kâshî (see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 18, No. 71) he died A.H. 793 (A.D. 1391); comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 854; Butkhâna, No. 32, ib., col. 200; Âtashkada, No. 623, ib., col. 283; Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 490, ib., col. 326; Rieu ii. p. 869^b. Contents: A preface in prose, on fol. 496^a, beginning: بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم و به نستعين جواهر زواهر حمد و سپاس بى حدّ و قياس الخ. Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 499^a, beginning: بصحن گلشن گیتی زاعتدال بهار صبا بساط زمرّد فگنده دیگر بار Ghazals, on fol. 509^a, beginning: عاشقان اوّل قدم بر هر دو عالم ميزنند بعد از آن در كوى عشق از عاشقى دم ميزنند Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 566^a, beginning: خداواندا توئی كاوراد مدحت الخ . Rubâ’îs, on fol. 568^a, beginning:اى بارگهت ز چرخ گردون برتر الخ. Good copy, not dated. No. 407, margin-column, ff. 496^a-571^b, ll. 44; illuminated throughout; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ.