A LIBRARY OF THE

WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE

ANCIENT AND MODERN

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

EDITOR

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE

GEORGE HENRY WARNER

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

FORTY-FIVE VOLUMES

VOL. VII.

NEW YORK

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY

MDCCCXCVII

PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT

Facsimile of an illuminated page from a manuscript copy of the

Persian poem

MUHR OUA MUSCHTARY,
" The Love Affairs of Jupiter and the Sun.”

Sixteenth Century.

National Library, Paris,