[IO Islamic 510] ديوان كمال اسمعيل

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Kam&acirc;l Isma&rsquo;&icirc;l.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1057&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 510 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1057</p> <p>A slightly defective copy of the same.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, tark&icirc;bbands, mar&acirc;th&icirc;, etc., on fol. 1^b, beginning: اى صفات تو بيانها الخ.</p> <p>Ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, intermixed with a few ghazals and ḳaṣ&icirc;das, on fol. 211^b, beginning:</p> <p>آدمى را چهار خصلت است &ndash; در دو گیتی زباقی وفانی</p> <p>At the end of this part (on fol. 314^b), the same mathnaw&icirc; as in the two preceding copies.</p> <p>Ghazals, without any order, on fol. 318^b, beginning: اى دل و جان الخ.</p> <p>Rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, on fol. 368^b, beginning: اى حكم ترا نهاده سرها گردون الخ, corresponding to the third rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; on fol. 407^a in No. 1023 (1055 in this Cat.); this part is incomplete at the end, it breaks off with the first bait of a rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;, corresponding to fol. 401^a, last line, in No. 1023. The initial rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; of the two preceding copies is found here on fol. 370^b, first line.</p> <p>No. 510, ff. 406, 2 coll., each ll. 19; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each part; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; the first pages injured; size, 8 in. by 3^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>