[IO Islamic 381] ليلى و مجنون

• Lailâ u Majnûn.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1000 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 381 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Lailâ u Majnûn.

Another excellent copy of Niżâmî’s ليلى و مجنون, beautifully written and ornamented, dated Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 965 (A.D. 1557, December, to 1558, January), by Muḥammad Bâḳir ibn Mullâ Mîr ‘Alî.

Beginning: اى نام تو بهترين سرآغاز الخ .

A few lines on ff. 36^b and 37^a a little effaced.

No. 381, ff. 50, 4 coll., each ll. 20; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; illuminated headings throughout; the first ten pages neatly embellished; five very fine pictures, superior to the usual illustrations, on ff. 7^a, 23^a, 34^b, 42^a, and 48^a; size, 11 in. by 6¾ in.