[IO Islamic 1457] وسط الحيات

Wasaṭ-alḥayât. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1191 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 1457 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1191 Wasaṭ-alḥayât (وسط الحيات). Another copy of Amîr Khusrau’s second dîwân, containing: Ḳaṣidas, on fol. 1b, beginning: حمد رانم بر زبان الخ. Tarjî’ât, on fol. 62a; ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 80b. A lacuna after fol. 85. Short mathnawîs, on fol. 86a; the first begins: چون همای رایتش پرواز کرد الخ. See No. 3 in the preceding copy. Ghazals, without alphabetical order, beginning: اى بدرماندگى پناه همه الخ, agreeing with the initial poem of the second collection of ghazals in No. 3 of the preceding copy. Rubâ’îs, on fol. 228b, beginning: صانع ملكى الخ, see ibidem. No date. Worm-eaten. The last page injured. No. 1457, ff. 242, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/4 in. by 53/8 in