IO Islamic 2082] نفحات الأنس

• Jâmî's-Mathnawîs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1359 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 2082 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Nafaḥât-aluns.

Another very excellent and useful copy of Jâmî’s famous ‘biographies of Ṣûfis’ (see No. 8 in the collection of Jâmî’s prose works, No. 1357 above), with valuable marginal glosses and a complete index in alphabetical order, on ff. 443^b-453^a. This is not the oldest, but the richest copy in the India Office Collection, the number of biographies here amounting to 620.

It is not dated, but on fol. 1^a there are entries from A.H. 1162 (A.D. 1749), A.H. 1183 (A.D. 1769, 1770), and A.H. 1196 (A.D. 1782). Beginning as usual.

No. 2082, ff. 453, ll. 15; splendid Nasta’lîḳ, small but very distinct; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8^1/2 in. by 5 in.