[IO Islamic 3312] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1073 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 3312 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1073

The same.

This copy, which is collated and dated the 23rd of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1130 (A.D. 1718, April 24), by ‘Abdallâh, contains:

A Persian paraphrase and explanation of the (Arabic) preface of the first daftar, on fol. 1^b, beginning: هذا كتاب اين كتاب المثنوى المعنوى مثنوئ معنويست و نسبت او بسوى معانى آنست كه مقصد اصلى الخ.

Daftar I, on fol. 3^b; II, on fol. 68^b; III, on fol. 119^b; IV, on fol. 190^b; V, on fol. 248^b; VI, on fol. 311^b.

The prefaces are complete and agree in wording with those in the preceding copy, except that of Daftar V, which begins (as in Nos. 1063 and 1066 above): بدانيد و آگاه باشید که شریعت همچو شمعيست الخ.

No. 3312, olim 17. J. 2, ff. 381, 4 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1^b and at the beginning of each daftar; size, 10^1/8 in. by 6^7/8 in.