[IO Islamic 3321] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1066 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 3321 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1066

The same.

All the usual prefaces are found here, as well as numerous marginal glosses and a few various readings.

Preface of Daftar I, on fol. 1^b.

Daftar I, on fol. 2^b.

Preface of Daftar II, on fol. 46^a.

Daftar II, on fol. 46^b.

Preface of Daftar III, on fol. 86^a.

Daftar III, on fol. 86^b.

Preface of Daftar IV, on fol. 138^a.

Daftar IV, on fol. 138^b.

Preface of Daftar V, on fol. 180^a, beginning as in No.1063:بدانيد و آگاه باشيد كه شريعت همچو شمعيست الخ.

Daftar V, on fol. 180^b.

Preface of Daftar VI, on fol. 228^a.

Daftar VI, on fol. 228^b.

A short epilogue in prose, on fol. 282^a, beginning: شكر و سپاس آفريدگار را كه تواناى الخ.

Dated Shawwâl, A.H. 1069 (A.D. 1659, June-July).

No. 3321, olim 17. J. 3, ff. 282, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9^1/4 in. by 5^3/8 in.