[IO Islamic 1993] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1081 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 1993 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1081

A defective copy of the last two daftars of the mathnawî.

Daftar V, on fol. 1^a; VI, on fol. 101^a; the sixth daftar is incomplete at the end; the last bait appearing here corresponds to fol. 439^b, centre-coll., l. 12 in No. 1695 (1061 in this Cat.). the two prefaces are complete. On the first 104 leaves there are occasionally various readings and other additions.

No date.

No. 1993, ff. 158, 2 coll., each ll. 23; an additional third column, containing six baits, is found on the margin of ff. 105-158; Naskhî; the paper dirty and worm-eaten; size, 8^3/8 in. by 5^1/8 in.