[IO Islamic 2684] Farîd-aldîn's Mathnawîs

• Mathnawîs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1034 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 2684 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1034

Six mathnawîs by Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr.

This splendid old copy, written by Muḥammad Ḥâjî bin Bâbâ Ḥâjî between A.H. 807 and 812 (A.D. 1405-1410), contains:

1.Ushturnâma or Shuturnâma (شترنامه), on fol. 1^b.

2.Asrârnâma, on fol. 116^b. This part is dated the 20th of Rajab, A.H. 807 (A.D. 1405, January 22).

3^a.Ilâhînâma, on fol. 196^b, beginning here:

بنام كردگار هفت افلاك

كه پيدا كرد آدم از كفى خاك

Dated the 20th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 807 (A.D. 1405, March 22).

4.Bulbulnâma, on fol. 279^b, beginning (without the usual ḥamd):

همه مرگان بدرگاه سليمان

شدند و داشتند از بلبل افغان

3^b.Khuṭba-i-Ilâhînâma (خطبۀ الهى نامه), the usual introduction to the Ilâhînâma, left out in 3^a, on fol.283^b, beginning (with a slight modification in the second hemistich, see Rieu ii. p. 576^a):

الهى نامه را آغاز كردم – در گنج سعادت باز كردم

5.Muṣibatnâma, on fol. 289^b.

6.Waṣlatnâma, on fol. 386^b. This part is dated the first of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 812 (A.D. 1410, March 7).

This MS. appears to be the first part or first volume only of a complete collection or كلّيّات of Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr’s works, as the index on ff. 1^a and 1^b (margin-column) indicates. A more detailed, although not complete, index of the contents of this MS. is found on one of the fly-leaves. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2684, ff. 406, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 29, and a margin-column, ll. 24-26; splendid Naskhî; size, 10^5/8 in. by 6^5/8 in.