[IO Islamic 421] سلسلة الذهب

Jâmî's-Mathnawîs. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1323 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 421 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1323 The same. First book, on fol. 1b; according to the colophon this part of the mathnawî was composed already in A.H. 880 (A.D. 1475, 1476); second book, on fol. 138b; the colophon here gives the usual date of composition, viz. A.H. 890; third book, on fol. 196b. No date. Many annotations on the margin through-out. No. 421, ff. 235, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each book; size, 9½ in. by 5½ in.