[IO Islamic 2626] قصّۀ چهار درويش

Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćahâr darwîsh. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 741 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2626 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 741 The same. Beginning: الحمد لله الذى اشرف الانسان بالكرم و فضّل نفوسهم على جزيل النعم و امتحن قلوبهم ..... امّا بعد راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و طوطيان شيرين الخ. Story of the first Dervish, on fol.6a, last line; of the second, on fol. 39b; of the third, on fol. 138a; of the fourth, on fol. 167b. The epilogue is not marked. There seems to be a lacuna after fol. 159. No date. A former owner was G[eorge] Swinton. No. 2626, ff. 190, ll. 12; Shikasta; ff. 1-9 supplied by another hand in Nasta’lîḳ; partly worm-eaten; size, 81/4 in. by 51/8 in.