[IO Islamic 2552] ديوان خاقانى

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Kh&acirc;ḳ&acirc;n&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 967&nbsp;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 2552 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>967</p> <p>A very large, but defective copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy (which is incorrectly styled, on fol. 1^a, Kulliyy&acirc;t-i-Kh&acirc;ḳ&acirc;n&icirc;) contains ḳaṣ&icirc;das, tarj&icirc;&rsquo;bands, ghazals, and ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, all mixed together, without any order. Beginning as usual. On fol. 406^a a series of rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s begins with the same bait as in No. 2460 (964 above): اين چرخ بد آئين الخ.</p> <p>This part is incomplete at the end; it breaks off on fol. 415^b; the last rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; corresponds to the fourth in No. 2460, fol. 450^a.</p> <p>On the fly-leaves, at the end, there are written some lines in Arabic, beginning: قال النبىّ صلّى الله عليه و آله الخ.</p> <p>No. 2552, ff. 415, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; some embellishments on the first two pages; size, 10^3/8in. by 6^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>