[IO Islamic 386] نه سپهر

<ul> <li><strong>Nuh-Sipihr.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1218 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 386 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1218</p> <p>Nuh Sipihr.</p> <p>Another copy of Am&icirc;r Khusrau&rsquo;s mathnaw&icirc;, &lsquo;the nine spheres,&rsquo; introduced by a so-called chain-distich:</p> <p>اوّل نگر نگارش توحید کردگار</p> <p>کین نه سپهر گشت بفرمانش آشکار</p> <p>Beginning of the mathnaw&icirc; itself as usual: خدا را كنم بر سر نامه ياد الخ.</p> <p>The date of composition, viz. A.H. 718 (see No. 1187, 12 above), appears here on the last page:</p> <p>در گشاده کنم این نقش و نگار</p> <p>سال بر هفصد و هژده بشمار</p> <p>No date. Two seals of former owners from A.H. 1179 and 1180 (A.D. 1765-1767), on fol. 1^a.</p> <p>No. 386, ff. 132, 2 coll., each ll. 17; clear Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 10^1/4 in. by 5^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>