[IO Islamic 2460] 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 964&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 2460&nbsp;here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>964</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>A very large and rich copy, not dated.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, tarj&icirc;&rsquo;band, elegies, ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, mystical ghazals, etc., all mixed together without any order, on fol.1^b.</p> <p>Beginning as usual. At the end of this part, on fol. 367^a, there is the following colophon:تمّت القصائد الكبار و الصغار و الترجيع المرائى و المقطّعات و الغزليّات فى التجريد و العزلة و الموعظة و النصيحة و مذمّة الدنيا و شكاية الزمان و معاتبة الاخوان و المراثى و المدائح و الهجا و الهزل و سائر المعانى&lsquo; و شرعت فى الغزليّات (!) العشق و الرباعى&lsquo;.</p> <p>Love-ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 367^a, beginning:</p> <p>گرنه عشق او قضاء آسمانستى مرا</p> <p>از بلاى عشق او روى امانستى مرا</p> <p>Rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, on fol. 442^a, beginning: اين چرخ بد آئين نه نكو ميگردد الخ.</p> <p>Occasionally short glosses on the margin.</p> <p>No. 2460, ff. 460, 2 coll., each ll. 19; very clear and distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 10&frac14; in. by 5&frac34; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>