[IO Islamic 2550] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1071 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 2550 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1071

The same.

All the usual prefaces are found here; on ff. 1-7^a a detailed essay on Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s life and works is given, beginning: منقولست كه پادشاه ملك خراسان علاء الدين محمّد خوارزمشاه كه عمّ جلال الدين محمّد خوارزمشاه بود دخترى داشت الخ.

Preface of Daftar I, on fol. 7^a.

Daftar I, on fol. 8^b.

Preface of Daftar II, on fol. 52^b.

Daftar II, on fol. 53^a.

Preface of Daftar III, on fol. 93^a.

Daftar III, on fol. 93^b.

Preface of Daftar IV, on fol. 145^b.

Daftar IV, on fol. 146^a.

Preface of Daftar V, on fol. 189^a.

Preface of Daftar VI, on fol. 239^b.

Daftar VI, on fol. 240^a.

Some leaves are injured and supplied by the first owner of this copy (dated the 39th year, probably of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign=A.H. 1107, A.D. 1695, 1696), who added at the end some verses for his son.

No. 2550, ff. 295, 4 coll. (on fol. 8^b only 2), each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10½ in. by 6½ in.