[IO Islamic 3359] Jâmî's First Dîwân

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-J&acirc;m&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1302&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 3359 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1302</p> <p>A defective copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy of J&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s <em>first</em> d&icirc;w&acirc;n, in two parts, like the one in No. 1300, but with this peculiar arrangement, that the second part (the ghazals, muḳaṭṭa&rsquo;&acirc;t, and rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s) precedes the first.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, defective at the beginning; the copy opens abruptly with this final bait: آن سرو سهی قدرا شد خاک قدم جامی الخ , corresponding to fol. 64^b, lin. penult., in the preceding copy. Between ff. 221 and 222 seven blank leaves are inserted, but as a comparison with the preceding copy shows, there is <em>no</em> lacuna. At the end the musammaṭ: الا ای ماه الخ.</p> <p>Muḳaṭṭa&rsquo;&acirc;t, on fol. 232^b, beginning:دلا منشين الخ.</p> <p>Rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, on fol. 237^a, beginning:سبحانك لا علم الخ.</p> <p>The usual prose-preface of the first d&icirc;w&acirc;n, on fol. 249^b, beginning:</p> <p>بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم &ndash; هست صلاى الخ</p> <p>Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, tarj&icirc;&rsquo;&acirc;t, mar&acirc;th&icirc;, short mathnaw&icirc;s, etc., on fol. 253^a, beginning:زان پیش الخ.</p> <p>No date. Presented by J.H. Peile, Esq., and received Sept. 19, 1818; transferred to Civil College, Aug. 9, 1819.</p> <p>No. 3359, olim 7. J. 19, ff. 299, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 249^b; size. 9^1/4 in. by 5^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>