[IO Islamic 193] سلسلة الذهب

<strong>Jâmî's-Mathnawîs.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1319 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 193 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1319 Silsilat-aldhahab. Another copy of the <em>first</em> mathnawî of the Haft Aurang, dated A.H. 977 (A.D. 1569, 1570), by Muḥammad Ḥusain ibn Khwâjah Saif-aldîn ‘Alî. <em>First</em> book, on fol. 1^b; <em>second</em>, on fol. 121^b; <em>third</em>, on fol. 172^b (this last one beginning here as in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 449, and Rosen, p. 219: حمد ايزد نه كار تست اى دل الخ, instead of زكار ,as other copies read, for instance, No. 1322 below). No. 193, ff. 207, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each book; the first two pages richly adorned; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^1/8 in.