[IO Islamic 490] نيرنگ عشق

• Nairang-i-’Ishḳ
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1652 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 490 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1652

A short anonymous mathnawî, apparently a ساقى نامه and probably by the same Ghanîmat; it is written by the same hand as the نيرنگ عشق in No. 1649 and immediately after it. Beginning:

بيا ساقى كه فصل نوبهارست

قلع گلرنگ مى مطرب هزارست

End:

چه حاصل نكهت از طول كلامست

تمام است و تمام است و تمام است

As a kind of colophon appears the words: محمّد عين الدّين توحيد.

No. 490, ff. 79^a-88^b, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Shikasta; size, 8^3/8 in. by 4^3/4 in.