[IO Islamic 1865] Ṭâlib Âmuli Rubâ'is

Âmuli’s-Rubâ’is

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1529 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 1865 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1529

Ṭâlib Âmulî’s rubâ’is.

A large series of rubâ’îs, which originally formed the last part of a general collection of Ṭâlib’s poetical works, as is evident from fol. 1a where the last baits of a ghazal are found, with the colophon تمّت الغزليّات.

Beginning of the rubâ’îs as in Nos. 1525 and 1526:

يا رب بكرم الخ.

Dated the 1st of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1047 (A.D. 1637, Sept. 21).

No. 1865, ff. 53, 2 coll., each ll. 18; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages richly adorned; size, 91/2 in. by 53/8 in.