[IO Islamic 3515] ديوان انورى

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Anwar&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 939 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 3515 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>939</p> <p>A slightly defective copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy is the oldest in the India Office Collection, dated Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-alawwal, A.H. 987 (A.D. 1579, May), by Niż&acirc;m Faḍl-all&acirc;h, but unfortunately somewhat defective in the middle.</p> <p>It contains:</p> <p>A short laudatory introduction in pros, on fol. 1^b, beginning: اين جريدۀ نامى و نسخۀ كرامى كه از مشاهدۀ صفحاتش ارباب بينش را منظور ديده در نظرست الخ.</p> <p>A <em>first</em> collection of ḳaṣ&icirc;das, ghazals, ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, tarj&icirc;&rsquo;bands, etc., all mixed without any alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 2^a: مقدّرى نه الخ.</p> <p>A <em>second</em> collection, equally mixed and unalphabetical, beginning abruptly with the last four baits of a poem with the rad&icirc;f انداخته, which cannot be traced in the other copies, on fol. 69^a (the lacuna after fol. 68 comprises, according to the Arabic paging, <em>one</em> leaf only).</p> <p>Rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, beginning, on fol. 211^a: اى تيغ ترا نهاده سرها گردن الخ.</p> <p>Worm-eaten; occasional notes on the margin.</p> <p>No. 3515, ff. 233, 2 coll., each ll. 15; large, excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; splendid binding in red and gold; size, 9^7/8 in. by 6^1/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>