[IO Islamic 2088] مثنوی معنوی

• Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1085 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 2088 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1085

Another copy of the fourth daftar of the mathnawî.

Preface, on fol. 1^b, beginning: الظعن الرابع الى احسن المرابع الخ.

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

Numerous various readings and glosses on the margin.

One half of fol. 131 is cut off.

No date.

No. 2088, ff. 131, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7^3/4 in. by 4^3/4 in.