[IO Islamic 768] Niżâmî's Mathnawîs

<ul> <li><strong>Niż&acirc;m&icirc;&#39;s Mathnaw&icirc;s.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 988&nbsp;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 768 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>988</p> <p>An incomplete copy of two mathnaw&icirc;s by Niż&acirc;m&icirc;.</p> <p>1.Lail&acirc; u Majn&ucirc;n, on fol. 1^b. 2. Khusrau u Sh&icirc;r&icirc;n, on fol. 55^b. The first mathnaw&icirc; is dated A.H. 92 (=1092, A.D. 1681), the second is incomplete at the end; its last bait corresponds to No. 141 (973 in this Cat.), fol. 119^b, l. 12.</p> <p>No. 768, ff. 125, 4 coll., each ll. 21; small, but clear and distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of either mathnaw&icirc;; the original leaves are put into a modern margin; size, 10^3/8 in. by 6^1/2 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>