[IO Islamic 1085] نقل بياض

Naḳl-i-bayâḍ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1757 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 1085 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1757

Naḳl-i-bayâḍ (نقل بياض).

Another kind of album with selections from Persian poets, beginning:

رفعت زدرت سپهر آموخته است

حاشا كه ارادۀ جفا با تو كنيم

There are many lacunas between the single leaves. The principal portion breaks off on fol. 30b. Ff. 31a-39a, also filled with poetical quotations, are of much smaller size and written by another hand, apparently bound together with the first part by mere chance.

No. 1085, ff. 39, 2 coll. on ff. 1-30, varying much in the number of lines; 3 and 4 columns (partly in diagonal lines) on ff. 31-39; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 4¾ in. on ff. 1-30; 7 in. by 4½ in. on ff. 31-39.