[IO Islamic 785] هفت اقليم

Haft Iḳlîm.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 725 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 785 here with notations and hyperlinks].

725

Another splendid copy of the Haft Iḳlîm.

This splendid copy is without an index. Beginning the same as in the preceding copy. Iḳlîm I, on fol. 3a; II, on fol. 14a; III, on fol. 42b; IV, on fol. 224b; V, on fol. 554a; VI, on fol. 638a; VII, on fol. 658b. Fol. 474 must be inserted between ff. 448 and 449.

Dated, by Shaikh Muḥammad Islâm of Aḥmadâbâd, the 21st of Rabî׳-althânî, A.H. 1089 (A.D. 1678, June 12). This copy was purchased from the executors of the Marquis of Hastings.

No. 3143, ff. 662, ll. 21; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; many marginal additions; splendid binding in green and gold; size, 105/8 in. by 53/4 in.