[IO Islamic 887] فتوح الحرمين

<ul> <li><strong>Fut&ucirc;ḥ-Alḥaramain.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1420 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 887 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1420</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>This copy is wrongly styled, on fol. 1^a, فتوح الحرمين تصنيف جامى (see No. 1417 above); but on fol. 1^b the proper statement appears, كتاب فتوح الحرمين مولانا محيى . The beginning is different here from that in the preceding copies, the first bait runs thus:</p> <p>اى دو جهان غرقۀ آلاى تو &ndash; كون و مكان قطرۀ درياى تو</p> <p>(corresponding to the initial bait in the Berlin copy, and to the twenty-second verse in the preceding copy, No. 2251, fol. 2^b, I. 1). The author&rsquo;s name appears here, on ff. 4^a, l. 12, 43^a, l. 4, and 54^a, l. 3.</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 887, ff. 55. 2 coll., each ll. 14; clear Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illustrations on ff. 14^a, 25^b, 27^a, 27^b, 32^a, 36^b, 38^a, 39^b, 46^b, 49^a, 51^a, 51^b, 52^a, 52^b, 54^b, and 55^a; size, 9^3/4 in. by 5^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>