[IO Islamic 904] منطق الطير

<strong>Manṭîḳ-alṭair.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1043 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 904 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1043 Manṭîḳ-alṭair. Another copy of Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr’s Manṭiḳ-alṭair, in which the composition of this mathnawî is fixed in A.H. 583 (A.D. 1187), see the last verse but one, and No. 1031, 5 above in this Cat. Beginning as usual. As date appears only the 8th of Rabî’-althânî, without a year. Copied at Ḥaidarâbâd at the request of Mîr ‘Alâ-aldîn. No. 904, ff. 176, 2 coll., each ll. 15; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9^1/8 in. by 5^1/8 in.