[IO Islamic 887] فتوح الحرمين

<strong>Futûḥ-Alḥaramain.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1420 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 887 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1420 The same. This copy is wrongly styled, on fol. 1^a, فتوح الحرمين تصنيف جامى (see No. 1417 above); but on fol. 1^b the proper statement appears, كتاب فتوح الحرمين مولانا محيى . The beginning is different here from that in the preceding copies, the first bait runs thus: اى دو جهان غرقۀ آلاى تو – كون و مكان قطرۀ درياى تو (corresponding to the initial bait in the Berlin copy, and to the twenty-second verse in the preceding copy, No. 2251, fol. 2^b, I. 1). The author’s name appears here, on ff. 4^a, l. 12, 43^a, l. 4, and 54^a, l. 3. No date. No. 887, ff. 55. 2 coll., each ll. 14; clear Nasta’lîḳ; illustrations on ff. 14^a, 25^b, 27^a, 27^b, 32^a, 36^b, 38^a, 39^b, 46^b, 49^a, 51^a, 51^b, 52^a, 52^b, 54^b, and 55^a; size, 9^3/4 in. by 5^7/8 in.