[IO Islamic 386] نه سپهر

<strong>Nuh-Sipihr.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1218 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 386 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1218 Nuh Sipihr. Another copy of Amîr Khusrau’s mathnawî, ‘the nine spheres,’ introduced by a so-called chain-distich: اوّل نگر نگارش توحید کردگار کین نه سپهر گشت بفرمانش آشکار Beginning of the mathnawî itself as usual: خدا را كنم بر سر نامه ياد الخ. The date of composition, viz. A.H. 718 (see No. 1187, 12 above), appears here on the last page: در گشاده کنم این نقش و نگار سال بر هفصد و هژده بشمار No date. Two seals of former owners from A.H. 1179 and 1180 (A.D. 1765-1767), on fol. 1^a. No. 386, ff. 132, 2 coll., each ll. 17; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10^1/4 in. by 5^3/4 in.