[IO Islamic 3348] جواهر مولوى و لآلئ مثنوى

• Jawâhir-i-maulawî u la’âlî-i-mathnawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1087 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 3348 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1087

Jawâhir-i-maulawî u la’âlî-i-mathnawî ( جواهر مولوى و لآلئ¹ مثنوى).

A shorter selection of extracts from Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s mathnawî, made at the request of some Ṣûfic friends, by Maulânâ Abûbakr alshâshî (مولانا ابوبكر الشاشى), see fol. 1^b, l.4, and divided into 63 bâbs. The title appears on fol. 2^a, l. 7 (that given on fol. 1^a, viz. لبّ لباب مختصر مثنوئ مولوى روم, is incorrect). Most of the headings of the 63 bâbs are left blank; the few which are marked are:

1.باب اوّل در بيان نى و سماع, on fol. 2^a, beginning with the initial bait of the mathnawî:

بشنو از نى چون حكايت ميكند

وز جدائيها شكايت ميكند

2.دربيان صوفى و تصوّف و صفا, on fol.3^b; 5.در بيان زهد, on fol. 6^b; 10.در بيان تقوئ يقين ورضا, on fol. 12^a; 11.در بيان تواضع و مذمّت كردن عجب, on fol. 13^a; 12.در بيان مقام (؟ حزم) جزم, on fol. 14^b; and 13. در بيان مقام وفا بعهد on fol. 15^a.

Beginning of the short prose-preface: الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين و الصلوة على خير الذاكرين محمّد و آله الطاهرين الطيّبين اجمعين ‘ ميگويد شيخ الشيوخ قطب العارفين رئيس اهل اليقين زين الملّة و الدين مولانا ابوبكر الشاشى الخ

Dated the 19th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1677, Feb. 22).

No. 3348, olim 19. J. 6, ff. 96, 2 coll., each ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 6^5/8 in. by 3^5/8 in.

¹This word is spoiled in the text; there seems to have originally been written لعل, which has later been corrected.