[IO Islamic 3429] سلسلة الذهب

Jâmî's-Mathnawîs.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1321 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 3429 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1321

The same.

Contents:

The prose-preface, prefixed to the Haft Aurang in No. 1317 above, beginning, on fol. 1b: حمداً لربّ جليل الخ. This preface is written by a hand different from that which copied the poem itself, and is dated the 10th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1144 (A.D. 1732, March 7).

First book, on fol. 4a; second, on fol. 96b; third, on fol. 135b. No date at the end. The right order of ff. 81-89 is: 81, 88, 82-87, 89. Various readings and additions on the margin.

No. 3429, olim 13. J. 3, ff. 161, 2 coll., each ll. 22; careless Nasta’lîḳ; ff. 1-3 supplied by a later hand; size, 81/8 in. by 41/4 in.