[IO Islamic 3138] نگارستان

Nigâristân.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 756 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 3138 here with notations and hyperlinks].

756

Another copy of the same.

Beginning: حمد و ستايش مر خدايرا كه ازليّتش از سمت بدايت منزّه است الخ.

In the index the usual order of the seven bâbs is changed in this way, that the seventh, viz. در فوائد متفرّقه, appears as third, the third therefore as fourth, and so on (see fol. 81a), but in the text the arrangement agrees with that in the preceding copy: bâb I, on fol. 81a; II (not marked), on fol. 118b; III (not marked), on fol. 149a; IV, on fol. 178b; V (not marked), on fol. 236a; VI, on fol.271a; VII, on fol. 304a. No date; rather modern copy, bought (together with the Bahâristân, which forms the first part of this MS.) by Adam Clarke, for four guineas, 1817, from Mr. Henry George Keene, who acquired it in 1803.

Received into the library, April 10, 1877.

No. 3183, ff. 63-342, ll. 17; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 115/8 in. by 67/8 in.