[IO Islamic 239] صفات العاشقين

Ṣifât-al’âshiḳin.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1430 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 239 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1430

Ṣifât-al’âshiḳin (صفات العاشقين ).

Another mathnawî of ethical contents, styled ‘the qualities of lovers,’ by the same Hilâli; as the date of a copy of this poem, noticed in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 427, proves, it must have been composed before A.H. 913 (A.D. 1507, 1508); comp. besides, Bodleian Cat., No. 1026; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 64, No. 9, c, and 895; G. Flügel i. p. 580; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 390.

Beginning:

خداوندا درى از غيب بگشای

جمال شاهد لا ريب بنماى

Dated by Zain-aldîn ‘Alî, the 15th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 977 (A.D. 1570, Feb. 21). Fol. 40 is left blank.

No. 239, ff. 55, 2 coll., each ll. 12; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 83/8 in. by 47/8 in.