[IO Islamic 208] فتوح الحرمين

Futûḥ-Alḥaramain. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1418 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 208 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1418 Another copy of the same. Beginning the same as in the preceding copy; the poem concludes on fol.56b, and is followed, on ff. 57b-73b, 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 Nûr Muḥammad, the author of a کليد خواجه حافظ (see No. 1273 in this Cat.), who may be himself perhaps the compiler of the latter. No. 208, ff. 1-73, ll. 12 (2 coll. on ff. 1-56); Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; illustrations on ff. 24a, 24b, 27a, 27b, 31a, 32a, 33a, 33b, 38a, 39b, 42b, 48b, 51a, 53a, 53b, 55a, and 55b; fol. 54b left blank; many pages damped with wet; size, 91/2 in. by 51/2 in