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Nâṣir-‘Alî-Mathnawîs

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1648 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 3106 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1648

An incomplete copy of the same.

Beginning as usual. It goes down to fol. 33b, l. 3 ab infra in No. 213 (1646 in this Cat.); the headings on ff. 265b, 267b, 269a, and 274a are left blank. This copy ends on fol. 278a and is dated A.H. 1103 (A.D. 1691, 1692). On ff. 278b-283b another short mathnawî, in the same metre, is added, probably by the same Nâṣir ‘Ali (but not found in No. 213), beginning:

شنيدم روزى از خونابه نوشى الخ

No. 3106, ff. 246b-283b, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Shikasta; worm-eaten and damaged in many places; size, 61/2 in. by 35/8 in.