[IO Islamic 2831] 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 1286 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 2831 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1286</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy seems to be older than the preceding one, but is not dated; it is injured in many places , and has the first sixty-two leaves in the most bewildering order: ff. 1-20, 29, 22, 23, 30, 21, 24, 25, 47-53, 54, 32-38, 27, 28, 26, 55-60, 39-46, 31, 61, 62.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first two, on fol. 1^a. Beginning, both of the initial and of the first alphabetical ghazal, the same as in the preceding copy. At the end of the ghazals, on fol. 163^b, four rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s.</p> <p>One tarj&icirc;&rsquo;band, ghazals, ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, short mathnaw&icirc;s and rub&acirc;&rsquo;is, all mixed together, beginning, on fol. 164^a: الا اى عشق الخ (see the preceding copy, fol. 209^a).</p> <p>The last mathnaw&icirc;, on fol. 178^a, begins:</p> <p>الا اى شاهباز قدس لاهوت &ndash; مقيّد مانده در دام ناسوت</p> <p>(identical with the بيان واقعۀ امير تيمور گورگان, in No. 862 of the Bodleian Cat.).</p> <p>No. 2831, ff. 179, 2 coll., each ll. 21; small Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 6&frac12; in. by 4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>