[IO Islamic 381] ليلى و مجنون

<ul> <li><strong>Lail&acirc; u Majn&ucirc;n.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1000&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 381 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1000</p> <p>Lail&acirc; u Majn&ucirc;n.</p> <p>Another excellent copy of Niż&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s ليلى و مجنون, beautifully written and ornamented, dated Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-alawwal, A.H. 965 (A.D. 1557, December, to 1558, January), by Muḥammad B&acirc;ḳir ibn Mull&acirc; M&icirc;r &lsquo;Al&icirc;.</p> <p>Beginning: اى نام تو بهترين سرآغاز الخ .</p> <p>A few lines on ff. 36^b and 37^a a little effaced.</p> <p>No. 381, ff. 50, 4 coll., each ll. 20; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; illuminated headings throughout; the first ten pages neatly embellished; five very fine pictures, superior to the usual illustrations, on ff. 7^a, 23^a, 34^b, 42^a, and 48^a; size, 11 in. by 6&frac34; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>