[IO Islamic 97] ساقينامۀ ظهورى

• Sâḳînâma-i-Żuhûrî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1508 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 97 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1508

A slightly defective copy of the same.

Ten verses are wanting in the beginning; the initial bait of this copy:

خمارى كسى را زكوثر شكست

كه از مهر ساقيش گردید مست

Corresponds to the eleventh verse in the usual copies (see fol. 2^a, l. 3 in the preceding copy).

Dated the 10th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1079 (A.D. 1669, March 13).

No. 97, ff. 154, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7½ in. by 4 in.