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[IO Islamic 477] غزليّات اثر

<ul> <li>Ghazaliyyât-i-Athar</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1656 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 477 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1656 Ghazaliyyât-i-Athar (غزليّات اثر). Ghazals, in alphabetical order, with some rubâ’îs and fards at the end, by Shafî’â Athar of Shîrâz, who spent the chief part of his life in Iṣfahân and died at Lâr A.H. 1113 (A.D. 1701, 1702), according to the chronogram كرد وداع از جهان معلم ثانى, quoted in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 344; a later date, viz. A.H. 1124 (A.D. 1712, 1713), is given in the ديوان منتخب of Sirâj, ib., p. 149; comp. also ib., p. 117. As he was blind from early boyhood, he never visited India. His dîwân was collected A.H. 1106 (A.D. 1694, 1695). Copies of his complete lyrical poems are described in the Bodleian Cat., No. 1156; Rieu ii. p. 791b, and A. Sprenger, p. 344; comp. also Âtashkada, No. 645(col. 284 in the Bodleian Cat.), and Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 19 (ib., col. 303), where he is called a panegyrist of Shâh Sulaimân Ṣafawî. Beginning of the ghazals, on fol. 1a: بكش بوادئ افتادگى تن خود را الخ No date. No. 477, ff. 73, 2 coll., each 11. 15; Shikasta; size, 83/8 in. by 51/8 in.

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