[IO Islamic 2626] قصّۀ چهار درويش

• Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćahâr darwîsh.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 741 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 2626 here with notations and hyperlinks].

741

The same.

Beginning: الحمد لله الذى اشرف الانسان بالكرم و فضّل نفوسهم على جزيل النعم و امتحن قلوبهم ..... امّا بعد راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و طوطيان شيرين الخ.

Story of the first Dervish, on fol.6^a, last line; of the second, on fol. 39^b; of the third, on fol. 138^a; of the fourth, on fol. 167^b. The epilogue is not marked.

There seems to be a lacuna after fol. 159.

No date. A former owner was G[eorge] Swinton.

No. 2626, ff. 190, ll. 12; Shikasta; ff. 1-9 supplied by another hand in Nasta’lîḳ; partly worm-eaten; size, 8^1/4 in. by 5^1/8 in.