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<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-N&acirc;ṣir-&lsquo;Al&icirc;</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1645 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 3461 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1645</span></p> <p><span>A defective copy of the same.</span></p> <p><span>This copy opens abruptly at the end of a ghazal, rhyming in </span><span><span><span><span><span>اينجا</span></span></span></span></span><span>, with this bait:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>غرور فقر استغناى منعم بر نمى تابد الخ</span></span></span></p> <p><span>Corresponding to fol. 12</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 10 No. 3478 (No. 1643 in this Cat.); the first complete ghazal on the same first page (fol. 76</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>) agrees with that which begins on fol. 7</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, l. 8 in the same copy. The last bait on fol. 121</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, the second of a ghazal, rhyming in </span><span><span><span><span><span>ى</span></span></span></span></span><span>, corresponds to fol. 84</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 3 there. The ghazals are arranged alphabetically and interspersed with rub&acirc;&rsquo;is and fards.</span></p> <p><span>No. 3461, olim 13. J. 12, ff. 76-121, 2 coll., each ll. 15; </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 7</span>^{<span>5/8</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>3/8</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>