[IO Islamic 140] تحفة الاحرار

• Jâmî's-Mathnawîs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1331 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 140 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1331

The same.

Beautiful copy, dated the 2nd of Ramaḍân, A.H. 989 (A.D. 1581, Sept. 30).

Prose-preface, on dol. 1^b; beginning of the poem, on fol. 3^b.

No. 140, ff. 79, 2 coll., each ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ, written on paper of different colours, the margins of which are ornamented with arabesques, etc.; two miniature paintings on ff. 1^b and 2^a; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 2^b; size, 12^3/8 in. by 7^5/8 in.