[IO Islamic 3459] ديوان قاسم انوار

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Ḳ&acirc;sim-i-Anw&acirc;r.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1289 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 3459 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1289</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>This very defective copy contains:</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first (which begins in the usual way), on fol. 1^b. Between ff. 1 and 2 a lacuna; the abrupt beginning of fol. 2^a: زاهد از چشم یقین باز گشاید الخ, corresponds to No. 2831 (1286 in this Cat.), fol. 8^b, l.3. the next complete ghazal on the same page corresponds to fol. 4^a, l. 1, in the same copy. This part breaks off, on fol. 169^b, with the fourth bait of a ghazal rhyming in ى ; the last verse corresponds to fol. 146^a, l. 7, in No. 2831.</p> <p>Ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, one tarj&icirc;&rsquo;band, and short mathnaw&icirc;s, on fol. 170^a, defective both at the beginning and end; the first bait occurring belongs to a ḳiṭ&rsquo;ah, corresponding to fol. 169^b, l. 9, in No. 2831; the first complete ḳiṭ&rsquo;ah on the same page to fol. 172^b, l. 4 ab infra, in the same copy.</p> <p>This part breaks off in a short mathnaw&icirc;, on fol. 179^b.</p> <p>The right order of ff. 33-42 is: 33, 41, 35-40, 34, 42; and of ff. 73-82: 73, 80, 81, 76-79, 74, 75, 82.</p> <p>A little worm-eaten here and there.</p> <p>No. 3459, olim 13. J. 15, ff. 179, 2 coll., each ll. 15; careless Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8^1/8 in. by 4^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>