[IO Islamic 193] سلسلة الذهب

• Jâmî's-Mathnawîs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1319 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 193 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1319

Silsilat-aldhahab.

Another copy of the first mathnawî of the Haft Aurang, dated A.H. 977 (A.D. 1569, 1570), by Muḥammad Ḥusain ibn Khwâjah Saif-aldîn ‘Alî. First book, on fol. 1^b; second, on fol. 121^b; third, on fol. 172^b (this last one beginning here as in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 449, and Rosen, p. 219: حمد ايزد نه كار تست اى دل الخ, instead of زكار ,as other copies read, for instance, No. 1322 below).

No. 193, ff. 207, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each book; the first two pages richly adorned; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^1/8 in.