[IO Islamic 2626] قصّۀ چهار درويش

<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćah&acirc;r darw&icirc;sh.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 741 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 2626 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>741</p> <p>The <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7199182">same</a>.</p> <p>Beginning: الحمد لله الذى اشرف الانسان بالكرم و فضّل نفوسهم على جزيل النعم و امتحن قلوبهم ..... امّا بعد راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و طوطيان شيرين الخ.</p> <p>Story of the <em>first</em> Dervish, on fol.6^a, last line; of the <em>second</em>, on fol. 39^b; of the <em>third</em>, on fol. 138^a; of the <em>fourth</em>, on fol. 167^b. The epilogue is not marked.</p> <p>There seems to be a lacuna after fol. 159.</p> <p>No date. A former owner was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Swinton_(botanist)">G[eorge]&nbsp;Swinton</a>.</p> <p>No. 2626, ff. 190, ll. 12; Shikasta; ff. 1-9 supplied by another hand in Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; partly worm-eaten; size, 8^1/4 in. by 5^1/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>