[IO Islamic 107] مهر و مشترى

<ul> <li><strong>Mihr-u-Mushtar&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1244&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 107 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1244</p> <p>Mihr u Mushtar&icirc; (مهر و مشترى).</p> <p>A good and tolerably old copy of the romantic mathnaw&icirc; &lsquo;Sun and Jupiter,&rsquo; by Maul&acirc;n&acirc; Shams-ald&icirc;n Muḥammad &lsquo;Aṣṣ&acirc;r of Tabr&icirc;z, who died A.H. 784 (A.D. 1382, 1383); the poem was completed the 10th of Shaww&acirc;l, A.H. 778 (A.D. 1377, Febr. 20); comp. expressly Fleischer&rsquo;s excellent treatise on the lifetime of the poet, and the date of the composition of this work, in Zeitschrift der D.M.G. xv. pp. 389-396; Rieu ii. pp. 626 sq. and 817; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 843-845 and 1066; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 811-814; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 311; G. Fl&uuml;gel i. p. 547; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 359; J.C. Tornberg, p. 111; Peiper, Comment. de Mihri et Musht. amoribus, Berlin, 1839, and Stimmen aus dem Morgenlande, Hirschberg, 1850, pp. 266, 449; Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, pp. 201-226; Ḥ. Khalfa vi. p. 277, No. 13471; Haft Iḳlim, No. 1321 (col. 476 in this Cat.); Khul&acirc;ṣat-alkal&acirc;m, No. 45 (Bodleian Cat., col. 298), etc. A Turkish translation of this poem is noticed in the Paris Cat., No. 313, 1, and in J. Aumer, T&uuml;rkische Handschriften, No. 178.</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>بنام پادشاه عالم عشق</p> <p>که نامش هست نقش خاتم عشق</p> <p>Dated the 27th of Dh&ucirc;-alḳa&rsquo;dah, A.H. 969 (A.D. 1562, July 29), by &Acirc;ḳ&acirc;j&acirc;n ibn Ḥ&acirc;ji Am&icirc;r Ḥusain, known as Arsh Oghl&ucirc; Arash&icirc;, of Arash, a town in Shirw&acirc;n.</p> <p>No. 107, ff. 213, 2 coll., each ll. 12; distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece, the first two pages ornamented; size, 7&frac14; in. by 4&frac34; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>