[IO Islamic 208] فتوح الحرمين

<ul> <li><strong>Fut&ucirc;ḥ-Alḥaramain.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1418 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 208 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1418</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>Beginning the same as in the preceding copy; the poem concludes on fol.56^b, and is followed, on ff. 57^b-73^b, by the same anonymous prose-treatise on the holy places of Makkah, which is noticed in No. 426 of the Bodleian Cat., beginning here: بدان ايّدك الله بنيل هذه السّعادات و الكرامات كه اين كلمۀ چند مسطور شده در بيان ذراع حرم مكّۀ معظّمه حرّمها الله تعالى عن الآفات و البليّات و مساحت مسجد الحرام كه عبارتست از حرم كعبۀ معظّمۀ مشرّفه زاد الله تعالى تعظيمًا و تشريفًا امّا قبل از شروع بدانكه الخ. Both the poem and the prose-treatise are written A.H. 1070 (A.D. 1659, 1660) by N&ucirc;r Muḥammad, the author of a کليد خواجه حافظ (see No. 1273 in this Cat.), who may be himself perhaps the compiler of the latter.</p> <p>No. 208, ff. 1-73, ll. 12 (2 coll. on ff. 1-56); Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; illustrations on ff. 24^a, 24^b, 27^a, 27^b, 31^a, 32^a, 33^a, 33^b, 38^a, 39^b, 42^b, 48^b, 51^a, 53^a, 53^b, 55^a, and 55^b; fol. 54^b left blank; many pages damped with wet; size, 9^1/2 in. by 5^1/2 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>