[IO Islamic 97] ساقينامۀ ظهورى

Sâḳînâma-i-Żuhûrî. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1508 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 97 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1508 A slightly defective copy of the same. Ten verses are wanting in the beginning; the initial bait of this copy: خمارى كسى را زكوثر شكست كه از مهر ساقيش گردید مست Corresponds to the eleventh verse in the usual copies (see fol. 2a, l. 3 in the preceding copy). Dated the 10th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1079 (A.D. 1669, March 13). No. 97, ff. 154, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7½ in. by 4 in.