[IO Islamic 2397] محيط اعظم

<ul> <li>Muḥ&icirc;ṭ-i-a&rsquo;żam</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1683 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 2397 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1683</span></p> <p><span>Another copy of the same.</span></p> <p><span>This copy, which is much smaller than the preceding one, contains the same prose-preface as Sprenger&rsquo;</span><span>s, beginning, on fol. 32</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>: </span><span><span><span><span><span>حمد ثناء آفرينى كه ميخان</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>حقيقت انسانى را الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of the mathnaw&icirc;, on fol. 33</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, the same as in the preceding copy.</span></p> <p><span>Dated the 26th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777, April 5), by Muḥammad Ja&rsquo;</span><span>far Rif&rsquo;at&icirc;.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2397, ff. 32-74, 2 centre-columns, each ll. 15, and a margin-column, ll. 28; </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, mixed with Shikasta; size, 9</span>^{<span>1/4</span>}<span> in. by 5 in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>