[IO Islamic 490] نيرنگ عشق

<ul> <li>Nairang-i-&rsquo;Ishḳ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1652 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 490 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1652</span></p> <p><span>A short anonymous mathnaw&icirc;, apparently a </span><span><span><span><span><span>ساقى نامه</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>and probably by the same Ghan&icirc;mat; it is written by the same hand as the </span><span><span><span><span><span>نيرن</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ </span></span></span><span><span><span>عشق</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>in No. 1649 and immediately after it. Beginning: </span></p> <p><span><span><span>بيا ساقى كه فصل نوبهارست</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>قلع</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لرن</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ </span></span></span><span><span><span>مى مطرب هزارست</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>End:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ه حاصل نكهت از طول كلامست</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>تمام است و تمام است و تمام است</span></span></span></p> <p><span>As a kind of colophon appears the words: </span><span><span><span><span><span>محمّد عين الدّين توحيد</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>No. 490, ff. 79</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-88</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Shikasta; size, 8</span>^{<span>3/8</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>3/4</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>