[IO Islamic 2397] محيط اعظم

Muḥîṭ-i-a’żam

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1683 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 2397 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1683

Another copy of the same.

This copy, which is much smaller than the preceding one, contains the same prose-preface as Sprenger’s, beginning, on fol. 32b: حمد ثناء آفرينى كه ميخانۀ حقيقت انسانى را الخ.

Beginning of the mathnawî, on fol. 33b, the same as in the preceding copy.

Dated the 26th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777, April 5), by Muḥammad Ja’far Rif’atî.

No. 2397, ff. 32-74, 2 centre-columns, each ll. 15, and a margin-column, ll. 28; Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; size, 91/4 in. by 5 in.