[IO Islamic 258] ديوان شمس تبريز

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Shams-i-Tabr&icirc;z.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1112&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 258 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1112</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>This copy, very large and in good condition, but undated, contains only ghazals in alphabetical order, beginning:</p> <p>حجاب از چشم بگشائى كه سبحان الذى اسرا</p> <p>هزاران عقل بربائى كه سبحان الذى اسرا</p> <p>corresponding to No. 203 (1109 in this Cat.), fol. 44^a, l. 3 (where the second hemistich of this initial bait is found in the second bait); the d&icirc;w&acirc;n concludes on fol. 425, and is followed on fol. 426^a by a ḳaṣ&icirc;dah, headed: منقبت از شمس تبريز, and beginning:</p> <p>تا صورت پیوند جهان بود على بود</p> <p>تا نقش زمين بود زمان بود على بود</p> <p>Copied at Bar&icirc;l&icirc; at the request of Muḥammadkh&acirc;n Bah&acirc;dur, by Aćintsh&acirc;h of L&acirc;h&ucirc;r (اچنت شاه لاهورى).</p> <p>No. 258, ff. 426, 2 coll., each ll. 11; excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; 8 in. by 5^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>