[IO Islamic 2053] مصدر الآثار

• Maṣdar-alâthâr
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1600 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 2053 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1600

Maṣdar-alâthâr (مصدر الآثار).

A mathnawî by the same Muḥammad Muḥsin Fânî.

Written in imitation of Niżâmî’s Makhzan-alasrâr, and completed A.H. 1067 (A.D. 1656, 1657); see the chronogram in the last verse of the poem:

بود اثرهاش چو از حد فزون – آمده تأريخ زنامش برون

It is dedicated to the emperor Shâhjahân, see fol. 78^b, l. 9, and fol. 98^a, l. 6 sq.

Beginning of the prose-preface, on fol. 77^b: سپاس بيقياس و ستايش قدسى اساس تحفه ايست لائق بجناب حضرت احديّت الخ.

Beginning of the mathnawî, on fol. 81^b:

بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم -تازه نهاليست زباغ قديم

No date. College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2053, ff. 77-144, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 5¼ in.