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[IO Islamic 1446] ليلى و مجنون

<ul> <li>Lailâ-u-Majnûn.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1398 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1446 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> Hâtifî (Nos. 1398-1416). 1398 Lailâ u Majnûn (ليلى و مجنون). The loves of Lailâ and Majnûn, an epic poem by Maulânâ ‘Abdallâh Hâtifî of Jâm, Jâmî’s nephew, who died A.H. 927 (A.D. 1521), according to the ta’rîkhs شاعر شهان and شه شاعران, quoted in the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 3036 (col. 393 in the Bodleian Library), which may serve as corrective for the slight error in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 87, ll. 22 and 23. This mathnawî is the first of his projected Khamsah, of which, however, only four poems are extant, viz. the present one, the تيمور نامه (Nos. 1410-1416 below), the هفت منظر and شيرين و خسرو (or خسرو و شيرين); see Haft Iḳlim, No. 671 (col. 427 in this Cat.); Safînah, No. 45 (col. 213 in the Bodleian Cat.); Âtashkada, No. 158 (ib. col. 267); Khulâṣt-alkalâm, No. 76 (ib. col. 301), etc.; comp. on Hâtifî and his poems, Bodleian Cat., Nos. 996-1016; Rieu ii. p. 652 sq.; W. Pertsch, p. 107, and Berlin Cat., pp. 888-893; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 421 sq.; Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, p. 143; G. Flügel i. pp. 581 and 582; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 121, etc. This poem was edited by Sir W. Jones, Calcutta, 1788; lithographed, Lucknow, A. H. 1279 (A.D. 1862). Beginning: اين نامه كه خامه كرد بنياد – توقيع قبول روزيش باد Dated the 16th of Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1078 (A.D. 1667, Oct. 5). No. 1446, ff. 69, 2. Coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/4 in. by 53/8 in.

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