[IO Islamic 2254] سبحة الابرار

• Jâmî's-Mathnawîs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1338 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 2254 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Subḥat-alabrâr.

Another copy of the fourth mathnawî of the Haft Aurang, with the short prose-preface, on fol. 1^b, beginning: المنّة لله الخ.

Beginning of the poem itself, on fol. 2^b.

Dated month Sha’bân, A.H. 975 (A.D. 1568, Febr.), by Rukn-aldîn bin Muḥammad Shams-aldîn. College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2254, ff. 142, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 9^1/8 in. by 5^1/2 in.