[IO Islamic 185] ديوان فيضى

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Faiḍ&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1466 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 185 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1466</p> <p>A slightly defective copy of the same.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, mixed with tarj&icirc;&rsquo;s and short mathnaw&icirc;s, on fol. 1^b, beginning: يا ازلىّ الظّهور الخ.</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 37^b, beginning: مستانه سخن ميرسد الخ.</p> <p>Ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, on fol. 132^a, beginning: يا ناظرا فى هذه الصّفحات خذ الخ ; corresponding to fol. 275^a, l. 8 sq., in No. 3155 (1464 in this Cat.).</p> <p>Rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, on fol. 141^b, beginning: الله اكبر زهى الخ.</p> <p>This part, although larger than in the preceding copies, is incomplete at the end; the last rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;, of which the first bait is found here, on fol. 189^b, corresponds to the last rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; in No. 3155, but as the order of the poems is not the same in both copies, it is impossible to say whether only one page, or a number of pages, are missing at the end.</p> <p>Some blanks on ff. 9^a and 97^b.</p> <p>No. 185, ff. 189, 2 coll., each ll. 15; excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; two illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b and 37^b; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^1/2 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>