[IO Islamic 561] ليلى و مجنون

• Lailâ-u-Majnûn.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1404 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 561 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1404

The same.

A third modern copy, written by the same Munshî Muḥammad Ḥanîf, and dated the 22nd of Sha’bân, A.H. 1222 (correctly 1223, as the Christian date 1808, Oct. 15, proves). The poem, which begins on fol. 7^b, is preceded, (a) on fol. 1^b sq., by a part of the usual preface of Jâmî’s هفت اورنگ (see Nos. 1317 and 1318 in this Cat.), on the metres of his seven mathnawîs, beginning here: مولوى عبدالرّحمن جامى در كتاب خويش يعنى مجموعۀ جامی ميفرمايد كه اوزان كتب تصنيفات خود بر طبق وزن كتب شعراى متقدّمين بدين نهج بعمل عروض آورده اند و تفصيل آن كه تصنيف فرمودند اينست مثنوئ اوّل كتاب سلسلة الذهب است و وزن آن از مزاحفات بحر خفيف است الخ (the last words quoted here correspond to p. 216, last line, and p. 217, first line, in Rosen, Persian MSS.; the end of the text, in the present copy, to p. 217, l. 3 ab infra in the same Cat.). (b) On fol. 3^b sq., by the same prose-preface as in the preceding copy, beginning: ملاّ هاتفى جامى نامش الخ.

No. 561, ff. 91, 2 coll., each ll. 13; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; splendid eastern binding; size, 12^5/8 in. by 7^5/8 in.