[IO Islamic 3141] هفت اورنگ

<strong>Jâmî's-Mathnawîs.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1317 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 3141 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1317 Haft Aurang (هفت اورنگ). Another excellent, but undated copy of the <em>seven</em> mathnawîs of Jâmî, with the usual prose-preface, quoted in full in Rosen, pp. 216-218, and beginning, on fol. 1^b: حمدأ لربّ جليل من عبد ذليل و سلامًا على حبيب فائق الخ. The mathnawîs are arranged in the following order: 1.Silsilat-aldhahab, <em>first</em> book, on fol. 3^b; <em>second</em> book, on fol. 89^b; <em>third</em> book, on fol. 124^b. 2.Salâmân u Absâl, on fol. 149^b. 3.Tuḥfat-alaḥrâr, on fol. 175^b. 4.Subḥat-alabrâr, on fol. 213^b margin. 5.Yûsuf u Zalîkhâ, on fol. 277^b. 6.Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 363^b. 7.Khiradnâma-i-Sikandarî, on fol. 445^b. The right order of ff. 439-443 is: 439, 441, 440, 442, 443; fol. 412 is turned upside down. Complete copies of the Haft Aurang are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 897-899; Rieu ii pp. 645 and 646; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 449-451; G. Flügel i. p. 564; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 368; J. C. Tornberg, p. 107, etc. No. 3141, ff. 496, 2 coll., each ll. 12, and a third on the margin, ll. 24 (on a few pages also a fourth column on the margin): beautiful Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages luxuriously adorned; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî, and also at the beginning of each book of the first poem; size, 10^1/3 in. by 7 in.