[IO Islamic 1238] مهر و مشترى

<strong>Mihr-u-Mushtarî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1245 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 1238 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1245 Another extremely defective copy of the same. The leaves of this copy, which is dated the last of Rajab, A.H. 1021 (A.D. 1612, Sept. 26) are in a most bewildering confusion, and there are nine lacunas of considerable contents. A careful comparison with the preceding copy shows that the proper order of the leaves is as follows: 1, lacuna (=fol. 1^b, l.3 ab infra, to fol. 9^b, lin. penult. in No. 1244), 38, 30-36, lacuna (=fol. 21^a, first line, to fol. 21^b, l. 4 in No. 1244), 87-90, lacuna (=fol. 26^b, l. 4, to fol. 27^b, lin. penult. in No. 1244), 42-58, lacuna (=fol. 47^a, l. 3 ab infra, to fol. 49^a, 1.7 in No. 1244), 59-61, lacuna (=fol. 52^b, last line, to fol. 54^b, l. 3 ab infra in No. 1244), 62, 63, 70-86, 91-147, lacuna (=fol. 146^a, l. 5, to fol. 146^b, l. 3 ab infra in No. 1244), 39-41, 11-16, lacuna of four baits (=fol. 157^b, lin. penult., to fol. 158^a, l. 2 in No. 1244), 17-29, lacuna (=fol. 175^b, l. 3 ab infra, to fol. 184^a, l. 5 in No. 1244), 2-10, 67-69, 64-66, 37, lacuna (=fol.206^a, 1. 7, to fol. 207^b, l. 6 in No. 1244), 148-152. On the other hand, this defective copy contains in several chapters a series of baits not found in the preceding copy; for instance, between ll. 6 and 7, on fol. 46^b in No. 1244, there are wanting forty-five verses (=fol. 57^a, l. 1, to fol. 58^a, last line in the present copy), and between ll. 1 and 2 of fol. 141^a in No. 1244 there are wanting twenty-three baits (=fol. 142^a, l. 4 ab infra, to fol. 143^b, l. 7 in the present copy). Several pages of this copy are besides a little effaced or otherwise injured. No. 1238, ff. 152, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; the first page richly adorned; three miniature paintings on ff. 3^a, 19^a, and 111^a; size, 8 in. by 4¾ in.