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• Nâṣir-‘Alî-Mathnawîs
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1646 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 213 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1646

Mathnawîs by Nâṣir ‘Alî.

A number of mathnawîs by the same Nâṣir ‘Alî, the first of which, on ff. 1^b-52^a, is the same religious poem which appears in most copies of Nâṣir ‘Alî’s poetical works (see Rieu, Sprenger, Pertsch, and Bodleian Cat., loc. cit.), and begins:

الهى ذرّۀ درد ( دردى read) بجان ريز

شرر در پنبه زار استخوان ريز

A special copy of this mathnawî is noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 697, No. 15.

On ff. 53^a-105 a large number of smaller mathnawîs are added, no doubt by the same Nâṣir ‘Alî, the first of which begins:

بنام خداوند ناز آفرين – جگرهاى عاشق گداز آفرين

The others are partly Sâḳînâmas, partly encomiums of the Kalandarî monks, all of mystical import. The mathnawî on Kashmîr, noticed in Rieu ii. p. 700^a, is not found among them.

No date.

No. 213, ff. 105, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; all the headings (invariably in verses and sometimes very long( written in red ink; size, 9^1/2 in. by 5^3/8 in.