[IO Islamic 1909] سبع سيّاره

Sab’-Sayyârah.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1495 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 1909 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1495

Another copy of Zulâlî’s seven mathnawîs.

All the prefaces are wanting in this copy, which is dated A.H. 1155 (A.D. 1742, 1743) by Ḳâsim bin ‘Azîz-allâh of Jarbâdḳân.

The seven mathnawîs are here arranged in the following order:

1.Maḥmûd wa Ayâz, on ff. 1b-106b, centre-columns.

2.Ḥusn-i-Gulûsûz, on fol. 1b sq., margin-column.

3.Dharra u Khwurshîd, on fol. 31b sq., margin-column.

4.Âdhar u Samandar, on fol.45b sq., margin-column.

5.Shu’la-i-Dîdâr, on fol. 51b sq., margin-column.

6.Sulaimânnâma, on fol. 62b sq., margin-column.

7.Maikhâna, on ff. 97a-106b, margin-column, and ff. 107a-113, both centre-columns and margin-column.

The beginnings are the same as in the preceding copy.

No. 1909, ff. 113, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 23, and margin-col., ll. 20; small, but clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10¼ in. by 5 in.