[IO Islamic 2035] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1074 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 2035 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1074

The same.

The order of the six daftars, which, with the exception of the first, are preceded by the usual prefaces, is here as follows:

Daftar I (without preface), on fol. 1^b; II, on fol. 41^a; V, on fol. 72^b; VI, on fol. 114^b; III, on fol. 152^a; IV, on fol. 194^a.

No date, but an entry from A.H. 1185 (A.D. 1771, 1772), appears on fol. 1^a. College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2035, ff. 227, 4 coll., each ll. 25; small, but clear Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each daftar; size, 12¼ in. by 8¼ in.