[IO Islamic 1691] رقعات جامى

Ruḳa’ât-i-Jâmî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1387 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 1691 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Ruḳa’ât-i-Jâmî ( رقعات جامى).

Jâmi’s standard-letters and specimens of refined prose-writings, beginning:بعد از انشاء صحائف ثنا و محمدت لله الذى انزل على عبده الكتاب الخ ; see Bodleian Cat., No. 894, 35; No. 895, 35; No. 896, 20; and No. 965; G. Flügel i. pp. 264 and 265, and iii. p. 542; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 371, No. 7.

These letters have been edited in the ‘Selections for the Use of the Students of the Persian Class,’ vol. vi, Calcutta, 1811. This collection also bears the title of منشئات جامى, انشاء جامى, and sometime ديوان الرسائل.

The present copy, which contains a great number of interlinear glosses and paraphrases, is dated the 12th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1039 (A.D. 1630, June 23).

No. 1691, ff. 121, ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 85/8 in. by 47/8 in.