[IO Islamic 768] Niżâmî's Mathnawîs

• Niżâmî's Mathnawîs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 988 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 768 here with notations and hyperlinks].

988

An incomplete copy of two mathnawîs by Niżâmî.

1.Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 1^b. 2. Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 55^b. The first mathnawî is dated A.H. 92 (=1092, A.D. 1681), the second is incomplete at the end; its last bait corresponds to No. 141 (973 in this Cat.), fol. 119^b, l. 12.

No. 768, ff. 125, 4 coll., each ll. 21; small, but clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of either mathnawî; the original leaves are put into a modern margin; size, 10^3/8 in. by 6^1/2 in.