[IO Islamic 3260] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1080 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 3260 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1080

The last three daftars of the mathnawî.

This copy contains:

Daftar IV, on fol. 1^b; V, on fol. 136^b; VI, on fol. 264^b.

The preface of the fifth daftar is wanting; the other two are complete.

At the end of the fourth daftar the transcriber’s name is given as Muḥammad Sa’îdkhân Naḳshbandî; at the end of the fifth a date appears, viz. the 10th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1143 (A.D. 1730, July 26).

Numerous annotations on the margin, especially in the last two daftars; between the fourth and fifth as well as between the fifth and sixth two leaves are left blank.

No. 3260, olim 11. J. 10, ff. 403, 2 coll. Each ll. 16-19; irregular Nasta’lîḳ, partly Shikasta; size, 12 in. by 8 in.