[IO Islamic 2451] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1068 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 2451 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1068

The same.

Good copy, with all the prose-prefaces, finished on a Sunday ( فى يوم الاحد) in Ṣafar , A.H. 1085 (A.D. 1674, May- June).

Daftar I, on fol. 1^b; II, on fol. 75^b; III, on fol. 142^b; IV, on fol. 227^b ; V, on fol. 295^b; VI, on fol. 373^b.

No. 2451, ff. 459, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 17, and a third on the margin, ll. 32; small, but clear Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each daftar; size, 9^5/8 in. by 5 in.