[IO Islamic 239] صفات العاشقين

<ul> <li><strong>Ṣif&acirc;t-al&rsquo;&acirc;shiḳin.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1430 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 239 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1430</p> <p>Ṣif&acirc;t-al&rsquo;&acirc;shiḳin (صفات العاشقين ).</p> <p>Another mathnaw&icirc; of ethical contents, styled &lsquo;the qualities of lovers,&rsquo; by the same Hil&acirc;li; as the date of a copy of this poem, noticed in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 427, proves, it must have been composed before A.H. 913 (A.D. 1507, 1508); comp. besides, Bodleian Cat., No. 1026; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 64, No. 9, c, and 895; G. Fl&uuml;gel i. p. 580; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 390.</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>خداوندا درى از غيب بگشای</p> <p>جمال شاهد لا ريب بنماى</p> <p>Dated by Zain-ald&icirc;n &lsquo;Al&icirc;, the 15th of Ramaḍ&acirc;n, A.H. 977 (A.D. 1570, Feb. 21). Fol. 40 is left blank.</p> <p>No. 239, ff. 55, 2 coll., each ll. 12; clear and distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8^3/8 in. by 4^7/8 in.</p> <p><br> &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>