[IO Islamic 1238] مهر و مشترى

Mihr-u-Mushtarî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1245 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 1238 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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. 1b, l.3 ab infra, to fol. 9b, lin. penult. in No. 1244), 38, 30-36, lacuna (=fol. 21a, first line, to fol. 21b, l. 4 in No. 1244), 87-90, lacuna (=fol. 26b, l. 4, to fol. 27b, lin. penult. in No. 1244), 42-58, lacuna (=fol. 47a, l. 3 ab infra, to fol. 49a, 1.7 in No. 1244), 59-61, lacuna (=fol. 52b, last line, to fol. 54b, l. 3 ab infra in No. 1244), 62, 63, 70-86, 91-147, lacuna (=fol. 146a, l. 5, to fol. 146b, l. 3 ab infra in No. 1244), 39-41, 11-16, lacuna of four baits (=fol. 157b, lin. penult., to fol. 158a, l. 2 in No. 1244), 17-29, lacuna (=fol. 175b, l. 3 ab infra, to fol. 184a, l. 5 in No. 1244), 2-10, 67-69, 64-66, 37, lacuna (=fol.206a, 1. 7, to fol. 207b, 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. 46b in No. 1244, there are wanting forty-five verses (=fol. 57a, l. 1, to fol. 58a, last line in the present copy), and between ll. 1 and 2 of fol. 141a in No. 1244 there are wanting twenty-three baits (=fol. 142a, l. 4 ab infra, to fol. 143b, 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. 3a, 19a, and 111a; size, 8 in. by 4¾ in.