[IO Islamic 3513] ديوان شوكت

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Shaukat</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1631 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Eth&eacute;, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 3513 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1631</span></p> <p><span>The same.</span></p> <p><span>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, intermixed with some rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s and fards; beginning, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, the same as in the preceding copies, but thus (substituting </span><span><span><span><span><span>الهى</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>for </span><span><span><span><span><span>خدايا</span></span></span></span></span><span>, as in the first copy of the British Museum):</span><span><span><span><span><span>الهى رن</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Seven unalphabetical rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s at the end. No date. This splendid copy has at the end several leaves, which are ornamented, but left blank for the insertion of further poems.</span></p> <p><span>No. 3513, ff. 110, 2 coll., each ll. 12; excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; each ghazal framed in by gold stripes and arabesques on the first thirty-two leaves; gorgeous illuminations on the margin of the first twenty-three leaves; all pages besides powdered with gold; size, 10</span>^{<span>3/8</span>}<span> in. by 6</span>^{<span>3/8</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>