[IO Islamic 3307] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1083 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 3307 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1083

Another copy of the second daftar of the mathnawî.

Written by the same Mihr ‘Alî (finished 1st of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1148=A.D. 1735, July 22 ), and adorned in the same manner as the preceding copy.

Beginning of the preface, on fol. 1^b: بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم و ما توفيقي الاّ بالله العلى العظيم ‘ بيان بعضى از حكمتها الخ.

Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 2^b:مدّتى اين مثنوى تأخير شد الخ.

No. 3307, olim 11. J. 13, ff. 143, 2 coll., each ll. 15, large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ, written on stiff brown paper; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b and 2^b; the first page of the preface an the first two of the poetry beautifully adorned; size, 10^1/4 in. by 5^7/8 in.