[IO Islamic 1168] Niżâmî's Mathnawîs

• Niżâmî's Mathnawîs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 984 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 1168 here with notations and hyperlinks].

984

Another set of four mathnawîs by Niżâmî.

This excellent, but undated copy contains:

1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol. 1^b. 2. Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 41^b. 3. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 145^b, beginning (differently from the usual copies): اى نام تو مؤنس روانم – جز نام تو نيست بر زبانم – اى نام تو بهترين الخ

4.Haft Paikar, on fol. 222^b.

No. 1168, ff. 307, 4 coll., each ll. 15; beautiful Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî; miniature paintings on ff. 20^a, 21^b, 24^a, 32^a, 36^b, 39^b, 52^a, 57^a, 59^b, 64^b, 68^a, 70^a, 71^a, 77^b, 80^b, 88^a, 95^b, 96^b, 101^a, 107^b, 111^a, 113^a, 127^a, 159^b, 170^b, 199^a, 209^a, 237^a, 238^a, 244^b, 273^b, 278^a, 285^b, and 291^b; size, 9¾ in. by 6½ in.