[IO Islamic 410] محيط اعظم

<ul> <li>Muḥ&icirc;ṭ-i-a&rsquo;żam</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1682 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 410 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1682</span></p> <p><span>Mu</span><span>ḥ&icirc;ṭ-i-a</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span><span>ż</span></span><span>am (</span><span><span><span><span><span>محيط اعظم</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The great ocean, a mystical mathnaw&icirc; or rather a kind of s&acirc;</span><span>ḳ</span><span>&icirc;</span><span>n&acirc;ma, interwoven with short tales, by B</span><span>&icirc;</span><span>dil, beginning: </span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>خوش آندم كه در بزم</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>اه قدم</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>مئ بود بى نشاء و كيف و كم</span></span></span></p> <p><span>The title is a chronogram for A.H. 1078 (A.D. 1667, 1668), see the prose-preface of the following copy (fol. 33</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, l. 5: </span><span><span><span><span><span>سال اتمام بنامش مدغم</span></span></span></span></span><span>). Dated the 19th of Shaww&acirc;l, A.H. 1161 (A.D. 1748, Oct. 12).</span></p> <p><span>No. 410, ff. 204, 2 coll., each ll. 15; </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 10</span>^{<span>1/8</span>}<span> in. by 6</span>^{<span>5/8</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>