[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. 1b, l.4, and divided into 63 bâbs. The title appears on fol. 2a, l. 7 (that given on fol. 1a, 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. 2a, 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.3b; 5.در بيان زهد, on fol. 6b; 10.در بيان تقوئ يقين ورضا, on fol. 12a; 11.در بيان تواضع و مذمّت كردن عجب, on fol. 13a; 12.در بيان مقام (؟ حزم) جزم, on fol. 14b; and 13. در بيان مقام وفا بعهد on fol. 15a.

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, 65/8 in. by 35/8 in.

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