[IO Islamic 1527] معدن الجواهر

Ma’dan-aljawâhir.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 795 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 1527 here with notations and hyperlinks].

795

A shorter redaction of the same.

This copy contains the text of the Ma’dan-aljawâhir in that shorter form in which it is found in the two Bodleian copies, the second Munich copy (J. Aumer, No. 190), and the Berlin copy, viz. in seventeen bâbs only, to which are added between the second and third two other bâbs, corresponding to the twenty-second and the third in the preceding copies (beginning here respectively on ff. 63a and 85b), and the same conclusion as in No. 793, exhibiting the name of the author, Ṭarzî, and the chronogram for A.H. 1025. The seventeen bâbs of this copy correspond to those in No. 793, as follows: Bâb I, on fol. 8b=1st; II, on fol. 13a=2nd; III, on fol. 97a=9th; IV, on fol. 113b=12th; V, on fol. 118a-8th; VI, on fol. 126b =10th; VII, on fol. 134a=14th; VIII, on fol. 138a= 4th; IX, on fol. 141b=5th; X, on fol. 144b=7th; XI, on fol. 147b=6th; XII, on fol. 150a=11th; XIII, on fol. 153a=21st; XIV, on fol. 157a=20th; XV, on fol. 161b=19th; XVI, on fol. 164b=18th; XVII, on fol. 169a=16th.

Conclusion, on fol. 170b. Entirely missing are consequently bâbs 13, 15, and 17 of the larger redaction.

No date.

No. 1527, ff. 172, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 113/4 in. by 8 in.