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[IO Islamic 2258] ديوان انورى

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Anwar&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 940 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 2258 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>940</p> <p>Another more defective copy of the same.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Ḳaṣ&icirc;das and tarj&icirc;&rsquo;bands, <em>first collection</em>, in alphabetical order, except the first, on fol. 1^b: مقدّرى نه الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of the first alphabetical ḳaṣ&icirc;dah, on fol. 3^a:</p> <p>سپهر رفعت و كوه وقار و بحر سخا</p> <p>بهار دولت ودين آن جهان قدر وبها</p> <p>Corresponding to fol.8^a in No. 1530 (936 above).</p> <p>Ḳaṣ&icirc;dahs etc., <em>second</em> collection, interspersed with ghazals, likewise in alphabetical order, but only beginning in the letter, on fol. 180^a:</p> <p>اى بهمّت برتر از چرخ اثیر &ndash; وزبزرگی دين يزدان را ظهير</p> <p>Corresponding to fol. 78^a, first line, in No. 1530. This is owing to a lacuna after fol. 179. The last ḳaṣ&icirc;dah, which begins, on fol. 179^b, اى برده زشاهان, corresponds to fol. 195^b in No. 1530, and breaks off with the 13th bait (=No. 1530, fol. 196^a, l. 10).</p> <p>Ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, with a few ghazals, concluded by the short satirical mathnaw&icirc;s, on fol. 237^a, beginning:</p> <p>اى فلك پیش طالع نيكت &ndash; كرده پرواز اختر بدرا</p> <p>Corresponding to the fourth ḳiṭ&rsquo;ah in No. 1530, fol. 216^a.</p> <p>Fol. 179 injured. No date. College of Fort William, 1825.</p> <p>No. 2258, ff. 358, 2 coll., each ll. 15-16; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, by at least four different hands; size, 8^1/8 in. by 4^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>