[IO Islamic 3141] هفت اورنگ

<ul> <li><strong>J&acirc;m&icirc;&#39;s-Mathnaw&icirc;s.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1317 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 3141 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1317</p> <p>Haft Aurang (هفت اورنگ).</p> <p>Another excellent, but undated copy of the <em>seven</em> mathnaw&icirc;s of J&acirc;m&icirc;, with the usual prose-preface, quoted in full in Rosen, pp. 216-218, and beginning, on fol. 1^b:</p> <p>حمدأ لربّ جليل من عبد ذليل و سلامًا على حبيب فائق الخ.</p> <p>The mathnaw&icirc;s are arranged in the following order:</p> <p>1.Silsilat-aldhahab, <em>first</em> book, on fol. 3^b; <em>second</em> book, on fol. 89^b; <em>third</em> book, on fol. 124^b.</p> <p>2.Sal&acirc;m&acirc;n u Abs&acirc;l, on fol. 149^b.</p> <p>3.Tuḥfat-alaḥr&acirc;r, on fol. 175^b.</p> <p>4.Subḥat-alabr&acirc;r, on fol. 213^b margin.</p> <p>5.Y&ucirc;suf u Zal&icirc;kh&acirc;, on fol. 277^b.</p> <p>6.Lail&acirc; u Majn&ucirc;n, on fol. 363^b.</p> <p>7.Khiradn&acirc;ma-i-Sikandar&icirc;, on fol. 445^b.</p> <p>The right order of ff. 439-443 is: 439, 441, 440, 442, 443; fol. 412 is turned upside down.</p> <p>Complete copies of the Haft Aurang are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 897-899; Rieu ii pp. 645 and 646; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 449-451; G. Fl&uuml;gel i. p. 564; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 368; J. C. Tornberg, p. 107, etc.</p> <p>No. 3141, ff. 496, 2 coll., each ll. 12, and a third on the margin, ll. 24 (on a few pages also a fourth column on the margin): beautiful Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; the first two pages luxuriously adorned; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnaw&icirc;, and also at the beginning of each book of the first poem; size, 10^1/3 in. by 7 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>