[IO Islamic 1317] هفت اورنگ

Jâmî's-Mathnawîs.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1318 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 1317 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1318

Another copy of the same.

Another good, but modern copy of the seven mathnawîs of Jâmî, beginning with the same prose-preface as the preceding one, on fol. 1b.

1.Silsilat-aldhahab, first book, on fol. 3a; second, on fol. 56b; third, on fol. 81b.

2.Salâmân u Absâl, on fol. 97b.

3-7. The five principal mathnawîs of Jâmî, usually called Jâmî’s Khamsah (خمسۀ جامی), or Jâmî’s Panj Ganj (پنج گنج جامی), with a short general preface, on fol. 114b, beginning:

قبلۀ همّت خداى شناس

هست بر نعمت خداى سپاس الخ

See Rosen, p. 220; Rieu ii. pp. 645b, 646a; G. Flügel i. p. 566, etc. In Bodleian Cat., Nos. 896, 901, etc., and in Rieu ii. p. 645b, No. 7, it is prefixed to the Tuḥfat-alaḥrâr.

3.Tuḥfar-alaḥrâr, with a short prose-preface, on fol. 115a, beginning: حامداً لمن جعل جنان الخ, see Rieu ii. p. 647b; Rosen, p. 259, and W. Pertsch, Berlin. Cat, p. 877. Beginning of the poem itself, on fol. 115b.

4.Subḥat-alabrâr, with the prose-preface, on fol. 139b.

5.Yûsuf u Zalikhâ, on fol. 181b.

6.Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 236b.

7.Khiradnâma-i-Sikandarî, on fol. 288b.

Some pages a little injured, especially the last one.

This copy was made for Sir Barry Close, 1810, by Munshî Mîr Ibn ‘Alî, at Ḥaidarâbâd.

No. 1317, ff. 319, 4 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî, and also at that of the general preface of the Khamsah; the first two pages richly adorned; fine pictures on ff. 5, 39, 42, 60, 66, 74, 108, 135, 144, 150, 167, 202, 225, 230, 244, 256, 281, 285, 290, and 309; headings are wanting on ff. 27a-29b; size, 95/8 in. by 61/2 in.