[IO Islamic 394] نفحات الأنس

Jâmî's-Mathnawîs.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1365 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 394 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1365

The same.

This otherwise excellent and annotated copy is much smaller than the preceding ones, and contains only 597 biographies; many marginal glosses and additions; all the Arabic quotations are translated into Persian.

Dated A.H. 1065 (A.D. 1654, 1655). Some leaves are misplaced; the right order of ff. 123-126 is: 123, 125, 124, 126; and of ff. 130-135: 130, 134b, 134a, 132, 133, 131b, 131a, 135.

No. 394, ff. 286, ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 11¾ in. by 6½ in.