[IO Islamic 2515] شمع و پروانه

<ul> <li>Sham&rsquo;-u-Parw&acirc;na</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1635 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Eth&eacute;, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2515 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1635</span></p> <p><span>Sham&rsquo; u Parw&acirc;na (</span><span><span><span><span><span>شمع و </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>روانه</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Another copy of the </span><span><em>first</em></span><span> mathnaw&icirc; in the preceding collection, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>اى فرازند</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>رواق س</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>هر الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>On fol. 1</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> and on the fly-leaf this title is given to it:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>قصّ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ۀ پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>دم ورتن</span></span></span></span></span><span>. The date of composition appears here on fol. 94</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 4; the correct title, </span><span><span><span><span><span>شمع و </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>روانه </span></span></span></span></span><span>, on fol. 93</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 7.</span></p> <p><span>No date. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2515, ff. 1-95, mostly in diagonal lines, except ff. 1, 5, and 91-95 which have been added later, ll. 10-15; Shikasta; size, 7</span>^{<span>3/4</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>5/8</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>