[IO Islamic 107] مهر و مشترى

Mihr-u-Mushtarî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1244 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 107 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1244

Mihr u Mushtarî (مهر و مشترى).

A good and tolerably old copy of the romantic mathnawî ‘Sun and Jupiter,’ by Maulânâ Shams-aldîn Muḥammad ‘Aṣṣâr of Tabrîz, who died A.H. 784 (A.D. 1382, 1383); the poem was completed the 10th of Shawwâl, A.H. 778 (A.D. 1377, Febr. 20); comp. expressly Fleischer’s excellent treatise on the lifetime of the poet, and the date of the composition of this work, in Zeitschrift der D.M.G. xv. pp. 389-396; Rieu ii. pp. 626 sq. and 817; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 843-845 and 1066; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 811-814; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 311; G. Flügel i. p. 547; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 359; J.C. Tornberg, p. 111; Peiper, Comment. de Mihri et Musht. amoribus, Berlin, 1839, and Stimmen aus dem Morgenlande, Hirschberg, 1850, pp. 266, 449; Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, pp. 201-226; Ḥ. Khalfa vi. p. 277, No. 13471; Haft Iḳlim, No. 1321 (col. 476 in this Cat.); Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 45 (Bodleian Cat., col. 298), etc. A Turkish translation of this poem is noticed in the Paris Cat., No. 313, 1, and in J. Aumer, Türkische Handschriften, No. 178.

Beginning:

بنام پادشاه عالم عشق

که نامش هست نقش خاتم عشق

Dated the 27th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 969 (A.D. 1562, July 29), by Âḳâjân ibn Ḥâji Amîr Ḥusain, known as Arsh Oghlû Arashî, of Arash, a town in Shirwân.

No. 107, ff. 213, 2 coll., each ll. 12; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece, the first two pages ornamented; size, 7¼ in. by 4¾ in.