[IO Islamic 3141] هفت اورنگ

• Jâmî's-Mathnawîs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1317 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 3141 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1317

Haft Aurang (هفت اورنگ).

Another excellent, but undated copy of the seven mathnawîs of Jâmî, with the usual prose-preface, quoted in full in Rosen, pp. 216-218, and beginning, on fol. 1^b:

حمدأ لربّ جليل من عبد ذليل و سلامًا على حبيب فائق الخ.

The mathnawîs are arranged in the following order:

1.Silsilat-aldhahab, first book, on fol. 3^b; second book, on fol. 89^b; third book, on fol. 124^b.

2.Salâmân u Absâl, on fol. 149^b.

3.Tuḥfat-alaḥrâr, on fol. 175^b.

4.Subḥat-alabrâr, on fol. 213^b margin.

5.Yûsuf u Zalîkhâ, on fol. 277^b.

6.Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 363^b.

7.Khiradnâma-i-Sikandarî, on fol. 445^b.

The right order of ff. 439-443 is: 439, 441, 440, 442, 443; fol. 412 is turned upside down.

Complete copies of the Haft Aurang are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 897-899; Rieu ii pp. 645 and 646; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 449-451; G. Flügel i. p. 564; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 368; J. C. Tornberg, p. 107, etc.

No. 3141, ff. 496, 2 coll., each ll. 12, and a third on the margin, ll. 24 (on a few pages also a fourth column on the margin): beautiful Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages luxuriously adorned; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî, and also at the beginning of each book of the first poem; size, 10^1/3 in. by 7 in.