[IO Islamic 1474] منتخب حِلْيَة الحُلَل

• Muntakhab-i-Ḥilyat-alḥulal.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1379 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 1474 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1379

Muntakhab-i-Ḥilyat-alḥulal (منتخب حِلْيَة الحُلَل).

An extract from Jâmî’s largest treatise on riddles, styled كتاب حلية الحُلَل, made (before A.H. 879=A.D. 1474, 1475) by the poet himself, comp. J. Aumer, pp. 44 and 45; Ḥ. Khalfa v. p. 683, No. 12429.

Beginning:

اى اسم تو گنج هر طلسمى

قانع زتو هر كسى باسمى الخ

Dated the 28th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1133 (A.D. 1721, July 23).

No. 1474, ff. 76-100, ll. 14; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 6^1/8 in. by 3^3/8 in.