[IO Islamic 2626] قصّۀ چهار درويش

<strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćahâr darwîsh.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 741 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 2626 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 741 The same. Beginning: الحمد لله الذى اشرف الانسان بالكرم و فضّل نفوسهم على جزيل النعم و امتحن قلوبهم ..... امّا بعد راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و طوطيان شيرين الخ. Story of the <em>first</em> Dervish, on fol.6^a, last line; of the <em>second</em>, on fol. 39^b; of the <em>third</em>, on fol. 138^a; of the <em>fourth</em>, on fol. 167^b. The epilogue is not marked. There seems to be a lacuna after fol. 159. No date. A former owner was G[eorge] Swinton. No. 2626, ff. 190, ll. 12; Shikasta; ff. 1-9 supplied by another hand in Nasta’lîḳ; partly worm-eaten; size, 8^1/4 in. by 5^1/8 in.