[IO Islamic 1168] Niżâmî's Mathnawîs

Niżâmî's Mathnawîs.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 984 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 1168 here with notations and hyperlinks].

984

Another set of four mathnawîs by Niżâmî.

This excellent, but undated copy contains:

1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 41b. 3. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 145b, beginning (differently from the usual copies): اى نام تو مؤنس روانم – جز نام تو نيست بر زبانم – اى نام تو بهترين الخ

4.Haft Paikar, on fol. 222b.

No. 1168, ff. 307, 4 coll., each ll. 15; beautiful Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî; miniature paintings on ff. 20a, 21b, 24a, 32a, 36b, 39b, 52a, 57a, 59b, 64b, 68a, 70a, 71a, 77b, 80b, 88a, 95b, 96b, 101a, 107b, 111a, 113a, 127a, 159b, 170b, 199a, 209a, 237a, 238a, 244b, 273b, 278a, 285b, and 291b; size, 9¾ in. by 6½ in.