[IO Islamic 1457] وسط الحيات

<ul> <li><strong>Wasaṭ-alḥay&acirc;t.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1191 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 1457 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1191</p> <p>Wasaṭ-alḥay&acirc;t (وسط الحيات).</p> <p>Another copy of Am&icirc;r Khusrau&rsquo;s <em>second</em> d&icirc;w&acirc;n, containing:</p> <p>Ḳaṣidas, on fol. 1^b, beginning: حمد رانم بر زبان الخ.</p> <p>Tarj&icirc;&rsquo;&acirc;t, on fol. 62^a; ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, on fol. 80^b. A lacuna after fol. 85.</p> <p>Short mathnaw&icirc;s, on fol. 86^a; the first begins: چون همای رایتش پرواز کرد الخ. See No. 3 in the preceding copy.</p> <p>Ghazals, without alphabetical order, beginning: اى بدرماندگى پناه همه الخ, agreeing with the initial poem of the second collection of ghazals in No. 3 of the preceding copy.</p> <p>Rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, on fol. 228^b, beginning: صانع ملكى الخ, see ibidem.</p> <p>No date. Worm-eaten. The last page injured.</p> <p>No. 1457, ff. 242, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8^3/4 in. by 5^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>