[IO Islamic 9] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1075 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 9 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1075

The same.

All the prefaces are complete in this copy.

Daftar I, on fol. 1^b; II, on fol. 51^b; III, on fol. 96^b; IV, on fol. 152^b (beginning of the preface: الحمد لله حقّ حمده و الصلوة و السّلام على خلقه الخ, see No. 1062 above); V, on fol. 198^b; VI, on fol. 250^b.

No date. Occasionally various readings and additions on the margin.

No. 9, ff. 308, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; each daftar and each preface headed by an illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages of each daftar richly ornamented; size, 14^1/8 in. by 8^7/8 in.