[IO Islamic 3271] نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات سقيمه

• Nuskha-i-nâsikha-i-mathnawiyyât-i-saḳîmah.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1090 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 3271 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1090

Another copy of the last three daftars of the Nuskha-i-nâsikhah.

Contents:

The editor’s introduction to Daftar IV (Taken from the لطائف المعنوى, wanting in No. 1088 above), on fol. 1^b, beginning: اين دفتر دفتريست از نسخۀ ناسخۀ متنویّات الخ

Index to Daftar IV, on fol. 2^b.

Persian paraphrase of the original Arabic preface of Daftar IV, on fol. 5^a, beginning: همه سپاس و ستايش مر جناب مقدّس الخ.

The original Arabic preface of Daftar IV, on fol. 7^b, beginning here: الحمد لله حقّ حمده و الصّلوة و السّلام الخ.

Daftar IV, on fol. 8^a.

The editor’s introduction to Daftar V (wanting in No. 1088 above), on fol. 67^b, beginning exactly like the preceding introduction, and in fact like all the other introductions supplied by ‘Abd-allaṭîf.

Index to Daftar V, on fol. 68^b.

Preface of Daftar V, on fol. 73^b.

Daftar V, on fol. 74^a.

The editor’s introduction to Daftar VI, on fol. 144^b (identical with that in No. 1088 above).

Preface of daftar VI, on fol. 148^b.

Daftar VI, on fol. 148^b.

The same large number of glosses, various readings, and additions on the margin as in No. 1088 above.

A date of transcription appears at the end of the fourth daftar, viz. the 1st of Ṣafar in the sixth year of the جلوس همايون (probably the sixth year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign = A.H. 1074, A.D. 1663, Sept. 4).

No. 3271, olim 11. J. 9, ff. 225, 4 coll., each ll. 19: Nasta’lîḳ; size, 13^3/8 in. by 7^3/4 in.