• [IO Islamic 407] خورشيد و جمشيد/فراقنامه

<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;s.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 407 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 1243 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p><strong><a href="https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7537/page/n379/mode/2up">1243</a></strong></p> <p>Two mathnaw&icirc;s by <a href="https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjKMcbGJ4yKVvjPQw6qBbm">Salm&acirc;n of S&acirc;wa</a>.</p> <p>1. Khwursh&icirc;d u Jamsh&icirc;d (خورشيد و جمشيد) or Jamsh&icirc;d u Khwursh&icirc;d (جمشيد و خورشيد), the love-story of the prince of China and the princess of R&ucirc;m, completed in Jum&acirc;d&acirc; II, A.H. 763 (A.D. 1362, April), at the request of <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1144809">Sulṭ&acirc;n Uwais</a> [otherwise <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-871X_ei1_COM_0213">Uwais I</a>]. Beginning, on fol. 261^b:</p> <p>الهر پردۀ پندار بگشای &ndash; در گنجینۀ اسرار بگشای</p> <p>Extracts from this mathnaw&icirc; are given in the Khul&acirc;ṣat-alkal&acirc;m, No. 35 ([Eth&eacute; and Sachau,] <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3344766">Bodleian Cat</a>., col. <a href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_hn8pAAAAYAAJ/page/n161/mode/2up">298</a>).[ed note: = entry number 35 in <em>Khulāṣat al-Kalām</em> (خلاصة الكلام)]</p> <p>2. Fir&acirc;ḳn&acirc;ma (فراقنامه), the book of separation, completed A.H. 761 (A.D. 1360); beginning, on fol. 369^b :</p> <p>بنام خداى كه از تيره خاك</p> <p>برآميخت اين جوهر جان پاک</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 407, margin-column, ff. 261^b-396^a, ll. 44; clear Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; ornaments throughout.</p> <ul> <li>[<strong>ed note</strong>: Quick <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_36059765">link </a>to manscripts of other works by this author.]</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>