[IO Islamic 1076] ليلى و مجنون

• Lailâ-u-Majnûn.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1403 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 1076 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1403

The same.

Another modern copy, dated by Munshî Muḥammad Ḥanîf the 21st of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1221 (A.D. 1807, Feb. 28, or March 1), and acquired by Sir Barry Close, the 14th of May, 1813. The poem, which begins on fol. 5^b in the usual way, is here preceded by a prose-preface on Hâtifî’s life and works, beginning, on fol. 1^b: ملاّ هاتفى جامى نامش عبدالله و خواهر زادۀ ملّا عبدالرّحمن جاميست در نظم و نثر الخ .

No. 1076, ff. 102, 2 coll., each ll. 11; large Nasta’lîḳ; two illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b and 5^b; gilt ornaments on ff. 1^b, 2^a, 5^b, and 6^a; size, 8^5/8 in. by 6^1/2 in.