[IO Islamic 1446] ليلى و مجنون

<ul> <li><strong>Lail&acirc;-u-Majn&ucirc;n.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1398 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 1446 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>H&acirc;tif&icirc; (Nos. 1398-1416).</p> <p>1398</p> <p>Lail&acirc; u Majn&ucirc;n (ليلى و مجنون).</p> <p>The loves of Lail&acirc; and Majn&ucirc;n, an epic poem by Maul&acirc;n&acirc; &lsquo;Abdall&acirc;h H&acirc;tif&icirc; of J&acirc;m, J&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s nephew, who died A.H. 927 (A.D. 1521), according to the ta&rsquo;r&icirc;khs شاعر شهان and شه شاعران, quoted in the Makhzan-alghar&acirc;&rsquo;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 mathnaw&icirc; 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.); Saf&icirc;nah, No. 45 (col. 213 in the Bodleian Cat.); &Acirc;tashkada, No. 158 (ib. col. 267); Khul&acirc;ṣt-alkal&acirc;m, No. 76 (ib. col. 301), etc.; comp. on H&acirc;tif&icirc; 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. Fl&uuml;gel 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).</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>اين نامه كه خامه كرد بنياد &ndash; توقيع قبول روزيش باد</p> <p>Dated the 16th of Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-alth&acirc;n&icirc;, A.H. 1078 (A.D. 1667, Oct. 5).</p> <p>No. 1446, ff. 69, 2. Coll., each ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9^1/4 in. by 5^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>