[IO Islamic 1701] Jâmî's First Dîwân

<ul> <li><strong>J&acirc;m&icirc;&#39;s-Ghazals.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1313&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 1701 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1313</p> <p>A defective copy of the same.</p> <p>Ghazals, ḳaṣ&icirc;das, tarj&icirc;&rsquo;&acirc;t, short mathnaw&icirc;s, and a few rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, beginning with the usual initial ghazal of the <em>second part</em>; there is a lacuna after fol. 2; fol. 2^b ends with the sixth bait of the third unalphabetical ghazal (corresponding to No. 2628, fol. 60^b, l. 3 ab infra), and fol.3^a begins with the fourth bait of the fifth alphabetical ghazal (=No. 2628, fol. 62^b, l. 3 ab infra). Some leaves are misplaced, viz. fol. 17 must be followed by 23, and fol. 23 by 19-21. Sometimes a line or two are omitted.</p> <p>No date. Copied by Sulṭ&acirc;n &lsquo;Al&icirc; of Mashhad (who died A.H. 919=A.D. 1513, see Bodleian Cat., No. 1896).</p> <p>No. 1701, ff. 51, 2 coll., each ll. 17; clear Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; another highly embellished ornament at the end of the last page; a little worm-eaten throughout; size, 10 in. by 5^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>