[IO Islamic 269] نل و دمن

<ul> <li><strong>Nal-u-Daman</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1468 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 269 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1468</p> <p>Nal u Daman (نل و دمن).</p> <p>Faiḍ&icirc;&rsquo;s famous mathnaw&icirc;, Nal and Daman, a free Persian adaptation of the episode of Nala and Damayant&icirc; in the Indian Mah&acirc;bh&acirc;rata, and composed A.H. 1003=A.D. 1594, 1595 (comp. Blochmann, &Acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;n-i-Akbar&icirc;, p. 106, note 4 etc.). Beginning:</p> <p>اى در تگ و پوى تو زآغاز &ndash; عنقاى نظر بلند پرواز</p> <p>Lithographed, Calcutta, 1831, and Lucknow, A.H. 1263; a part of it is printed in Spiegel&rsquo;s Chrestomathia Persica, Leipzig, 1846, pp. 131-150. Copies of this mathnaw&icirc; are also noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 905; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 402; J. Aumer, p. 38; A. F. Mehren, p. 42, etc. This copy is dated the first of Sha&rsquo;b&acirc;n, A.H. 1069 (A.D. 1659, April 24); the last pages a little injured.</p> <p>No. 269, ff. 142, 2 coll., each ll. 15; ff. 1 and 2 supplied by a more modern hand; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 7&frac34; in. by 4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>