[IO Islamic 2252] قران السعدين

• Ḳirân-alsa’dain.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1208 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 2252 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1208

Ḳirân-alsa’dain.

Another copy of Amîr Khusrau’s mathnawî, ‘the conjunction of the two lucky planets,’ dated, as it seems (the colophon is a little injured), Sha’bân, A.H. 907 (A.D. 1502, February).

It begins with the introductory rubâ’î (see the remark in No. 1186, 5):

شكر گويم كه بتوفيق خداوند جهان

بر سر نامه زتوحيد نوشتم عنوان

نام اين نامۀ والاست قران السعدين

كز بلنديش بسعدين سپهرست قران’

after which the initial bait of all the preceding copies, viz. حمد خداوند الخ , follows. College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2252, ff. 138, 2 coll., each ll. 14; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¾ in. by 5½ in.