[IO Islamic 561] ليلى و مجنون

<ul> <li><strong>Lail&acirc;-u-Majn&ucirc;n.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1404 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 561 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1404</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>A third modern copy, written by the same Munsh&icirc; Muḥammad Ḥan&icirc;f, and dated the 22nd of Sha&rsquo;b&acirc;n, A.H. 1222 (correctly 1223, as the Christian date 1808, Oct. 15, proves). The poem, which begins on fol. 7^b, is preceded, (<em>a</em>) on fol. 1^b sq., by a part of the usual preface of J&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s هفت اورنگ (see Nos. 1317 and 1318 in this Cat.), on the metres of his seven mathnaw&icirc;s, beginning here: مولوى عبدالرّحمن جامى در كتاب خويش يعنى مجموعۀ جامی ميفرمايد كه اوزان كتب تصنيفات خود بر طبق وزن كتب شعراى متقدّمين بدين نهج بعمل عروض آورده اند و تفصيل آن كه تصنيف فرمودند اينست مثنوئ اوّل كتاب سلسلة الذهب است و وزن آن از مزاحفات بحر خفيف است الخ (the last words quoted here correspond to p. 216, last line, and p. 217, first line, in Rosen, Persian MSS.; the end of the text, in the present copy, to p. 217, l. 3 ab infra in the same Cat.). (<em>b</em>) On fol. 3^b sq., by the same prose-preface as in the preceding copy, beginning: ملاّ هاتفى جامى نامش الخ.</p> <p>No. 561, ff. 91, 2 coll., each ll. 13; large and distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; splendid eastern binding; size, 12^5/8 in. by 7^5/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>