[IO Islamic 512] Jâmî's First Dîwân

Dîwân-i-Jâmî. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1308 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 512 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1308 Another copy of the earlier collection. This copy contains about the same miscellaneous poems as the preceding one (ghazals, tarjî’ât, ḳiṭ’as, rubâ’îs, etc.), and-in addition to them-the earlier preface with the dedication to Abû Sa’îd, on fol. 226b: موزون ترين كلامی كه غزال (غزل) سرايان انجمن انس و محبّت وقافيه سنجان الخ. The usual initial ghazal (as in the preceding copy), on fol. 229a; the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol. 238a, begins here: هر دم افزونی چو گل رخسار آتشناک را الخ, corresponding to fol. 71a, l. in No. 2628. The right order of ff. 526-530 is: 526, 529, 528, 527, 530. No date. No. 512, margin-column, ff. 226b-619, ll. 26; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated heading on fol. 226b.