[IO Islamic 1444] Mathnawîs

• Mathnawîs.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 929 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 1444 here with notations and hyperlinks].

929

Two mathnawîs by Mu’ayyid alnasafî.

Two old mystical mathawîs in the very form and styled of the minor didactic poems of Sanâ’î, by a poet called Mu’ayyid alnasafî (who is no doubt identical with Mu’ayyid-aldîn Samarḳandî, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1428, col. 486 in this Cat., and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 659, No. 305), apparently a contemporary or disciple of the author of the Ḥadiḳah, whom he closely imitated.

1.نسيم الصبا الى الصبا, on ff. 24^b-32^b, beginning:

اى مصابيح آسمان هدى – وى مفاتيح جنّة الماوى

2.پهلوان نامه, on ff. 94^a-107^b, beginning:

مرحبا اى رفيق همدم من

بشنو اين سرگذشت بر غم من

The title of this second mathnawî appears at the bottom of fol. 32^b, and again at the end of the poem, on fol. 107^b, l. 13; the name of the poet, on fol. 32^b, l. 4, and in the title itself. The Pahlawânnâma is divided into fourteen short maḳâlas, dealing with various ethical and mystical topics, and a khâtimah.

Copied in Jumâdâ I, A.H. 637 (A.D. 1239, Dec.), by the same scribe who wrote No. 916 above, Faḍl-allâh bin Muḥammad bin ‘Umar bin ‘Uthmân alṣûfî.

No. 1444, ff. 24-32 and 94-107, 4 coll., each ll. 25: good old Naskhî; many pages greatly injured; size, 9¼ in. by 6 in.