[IO Islamic 1984] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1084 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 1984 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1084

Another copy of the third daftar of the mathnawî.

Preface, on fol. 1^b, beginning: الحكم جنود الله الخ.

Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 2^b: اى ضياء الحق حسام الدين بيار الخ.

Copied A.H. 1130 (A.D. 1718). Various readings and glosses on the margin.

No. 1984, ff. 166, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 7^7/8 in. by 4^1/2 in.