[IO Islamic 736] Farîd-aldîn's Mathnawîs

• Mathnawîs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1035 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 736 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1035

Three mathnawîs by Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr.

This copy contains:

1.Manṭiḳ-alṭair, on fol. 1^b.

2.Jawâhir-aldhât or Jauhar-i-dhât, first daftar on fol. 64^b, in a very defective and abridged form, the first page is left blank, and the mathnawî begins on fol. 65^a with this bait:

كمانرا دور گردان از بر خويش

یقین را دان حقيقت ره بر خويش

Corresponding to fol. 9^a, l. 3, No. 2039 (1046 in this Cat., the fullest copy of the poem); the second chapter on the same page, beginning: الا اى جان و دلرا الخ, corresponds to fol. 16^b, l. 3 ab infra in the same copy; the last but two baits to fol. 160^b, l. 10; the last two baits of the present copy are not found in No. 2039. On fol. 64^a, and in the colophon at the end, the poem is wrongly styled اشترنامه.

3.Gul u Khusrau, on fol. 173^b.

No date. Very good and correct copy.

No. 736, ff. 1-269, 4 coll., each ll. 21; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî; size, 15^1/8 in. by 9^7/8 in.