[IO Islamic 1854] ميكا و منوهر

Mîkâ-u-Manûhar.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 824 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 1854 here with notations and hyperlinks].

824

Mîkâ u Manûhar (ميكا و منوهر).

The love-story of Mîkâ (or Minkâ) and the Râja Manûhar, a Persian romance, stated here to have been composed by Mâdhodâs of Gujarât in A.H. 1098 (A.D. 1687), see the chronogram on fol. 5b, l. 7: گلبن طبع عزيزان نوبهارى يافته.

Beginning: سخن است كه آدمى زاد را از حضيض حيوانى بانسانى رسانيده الخ.

Another copy of the same story in the Bodleian Cat., No. 478; comp. on some nearly related romances in prose and verse, No. 803 in this Cat.

Dated the 1st of Jumâdâ-althânî in the fiftieth year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign (=A.H. 1118, A.D. 1706, Sept. 10).

No. 1854, ff. 178, ll. 15; irregularly written in bad Shikasta; size, 91/4 in. by 5 in.