[IO Islamic 2235] حديقه

Ḥadîḳah. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 919 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 2235 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 919 Another complete copy of the Ḥadîḳah. This copy was finished the 26th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1077 (not ١٠٨٨, as is written at the end, since the transcriber distinctly says in words: سنۀ سبع و سبعين و الف)=A.D. 1667, April 21. Beginning as usual. Bâb I, on fol. 1b; II, on fol. 56a; III, on fol. 100a; IV, on fol. 120a; V, on fol. 145b; VI, on fol. 154b; VII, on fol. 166a; VIII, on fol. 183b (here called by mistake باب سادس instead of باب ثامن); IX, on fol. 190b; X, on fol. 203a. Date of composition, A.H. 525. Damaged by worms in many pages. College of Fort William, 1825. No. 2235, ff. 270, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ, by two different hands, the first on ff. 1-152, the second on ff. 153-270; illuminated frontispiece; size, 121/8 in. by 7 in.