[IO Islamic 386] نه سپهر

• Nuh-Sipihr.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1218 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 386 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1218

Nuh Sipihr.

Another copy of Amîr Khusrau’s mathnawî, ‘the nine spheres,’ introduced by a so-called chain-distich:

اوّل نگر نگارش توحید کردگار

کین نه سپهر گشت بفرمانش آشکار

Beginning of the mathnawî itself as usual: خدا را كنم بر سر نامه ياد الخ.

The date of composition, viz. A.H. 718 (see No. 1187, 12 above), appears here on the last page:

در گشاده کنم این نقش و نگار

سال بر هفصد و هژده بشمار

No date. Two seals of former owners from A.H. 1179 and 1180 (A.D. 1765-1767), on fol. 1^a.

No. 386, ff. 132, 2 coll., each ll. 17; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10^1/4 in. by 5^3/4 in.