[IO Islamic 946] نفحات الأنس

• Jâmî's-Mathnawîs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1366 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 946 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1366

The same.

This copy is the oldest of all, dated the 8th of Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 987 (A.D. 1579, June 4), but it contains only 549 biographies, and has no index; besides on ff. 46-50 all the names are omitted. Partly collated. On ff. 1^a and 1^b a double repetition of the first twelve or thirteen lines of the preface, which begins on fol. 2^b.

No. 946, ff. 406, ll. 17-18; Nasta’lîḳ; irregularly written by different hands; size, 8^1/8 in. by 4^7/8 in.