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The MS. is carefully preserved i in a ie gy 
Beginning of Sad Pand Luqman 
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Beginning of Risalah Khwajah ‘Abd-Allah Ansari :— 
89 gla Guay x 1 be Jo oy b 
BS wheyy csple ty de® oyd 
( (qp2ihut Kel g45 ) 
It is not out of place to mention here that a most valuable 
and well known MS. beautifully illuminated entitled Khirad 
Ndamah-i-Iskandari, an ethical Mathnani, by ‘Abd al-Rahman 
Jami (d. a.H. 898 = a.D. '1492), written by the same cele- 
brated scribe Mir ‘Ali! on the same date (a.H. 945 = 4.D. 1539) 
and bearing on the Ist fly-leaf the seals and autograph of the 
‘Emperor Shahjahan ? and purchased by him for his library for 
rupees three thousand (Rs. 3,000) :— 
See 
1 In the Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri (Sa id Ahmad’ i t 81, mention is 
ve mad’s edl lition), Pp: 
made of another! master-piece of the same Repo dea Mir ‘Ali, wee 
was valued at 1,000 go spony seine Rs. 15,000). ‘* The Khan _ 
Zula 4 A.H. 1019 = 1610] a most splendid copy of 000 yer 
ars. 
n the tiandwriting of Mir ‘Ali. Its price is 1; 
m 
*Rawdat al-Anwar of Khwaji Kirmani transcribed by t 
calligrapher tee my Persian Note No. 201, Bastan No. 196, oe for his 
work No. 233 
Matla’ al- Anwar of Amir Khusraw also written by the same scribe 
(see O.P. Lib. Cat., Bankipore. Vol. I, p. 191, and Vol. II, No. 196, P- w 
Another hd ‘of the Sad P and Lugman written by the same scribe 
or Mir Ali’s life see Habib al-Siyar , Vol. IIL, p ¢ TIL, p. 344 
another ge of Shahjah&n see Vol. Fr, i, Padisha NS e 
mar which MS. heiceigh to the A.S.B. Lib. No. 
arki-Rafiyah. MS. copy, Rampore State library, has a0 auto 
graph of the Emperor (see for iy i ow abie Notes No. 150 at 
J.A.S.B. XIII, 1917. I saw at Benares Y City (Ghiwae another - 
graph of the Emperor Shahjahan on the Ist fly-leaf o magnificent 
copy, entitled Muga atta‘ Gt-i-Ibnyamin, transcribed by the famous 36). 
Tho va ni tag ‘Ali al-Ma shhadi (for his life see my P ersian Note No. 
he valuable copy was in the possession of one — 
princely famil See my fers. 
pada es No. 1). Shahjahan pond ‘Jahdoxt r’s autographs Om 4 
neh Kamran, an unique copy, written by the sale 937.) 
grapher Mahmad of Harat, - O.P. Lib. Cat., Vol. I, p- 145, No- 
