[IO Islamic 609] ديوان سنائى

<ul> <li><strong>Diw&acirc;n-i-San&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 928 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 609 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>928</p> <p>Diw&acirc;n-i-San&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; ( ديوان سنائى).</p> <p>A small collection of the lyrical poems of San&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; (for copies of the complete d&icirc;w&acirc;n see Bodleian Cat., No. 537, and Rieu ii. p. 551^a), containing chiefly ḳaṣ&icirc;das, interspersed with a few ghazals and ḳiṭ&rsquo;as. Beginning:</p> <p>اى در دل مشتاقات از عشق تو بوستانها</p> <p>از حجّت بيچونى از صنع تو برهانها</p> <p>Ff. 9-13 are misplaced; the right order is 9, 12, 10, 11, 13; there sems besides to be a lacuna after fol. 23^b. No date.</p> <p>No. 609, ff. 1-48^a, 2 coll., each ll., 15, and a third on the margin, ll. 28; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece: the first two pages splendidly adorned; a drawing on fol. 1^a and a picture on fol. 48^a; size, 9&frac34; in. by 5&frac12; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>