[IO Islamic 2524] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1072 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 2524 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1072

The same.

An excellent copy, dated the 16th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1122 (A.D. 1710, April 16), by Muḥammad Sharîf, at Aurangâbâd.

Daftar I (without preface), on fol. 1^b.

Daftar II, on fol. 51^b. Preface, on fol. 51^a: بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم وما توفيقى الاّ بالله العلى العظيم‘ بيان بعضى از حكمت الخ.

Daftar III, on fol. 97^a. Preface, on fol. 96^b: الحكم جنود الله تعالى الخ.

Daftar IV, on fol. 155^b. Preface, on fol. 155^a: الظعن الرابع الى احسن المرابع الخ.

Daftar V, on fol. 203^a. Preface, on fol. 202^b: بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم وبه نستعين و عليه نتوكّل و عنده مفاتيح القلوب الخ.

Daftar VI, on fol. 256^a. Preface, on the same page: مجلّد ششم از دفترهاى مثنوى الخ.

Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2524, ff. 312, 4 coll., each ll. 23; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each daftar; size, 16½ in. by 10½ in.