[IO Islamic 1695] مثنوی معنوی

Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1061 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 1695 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1061

Another copy of the same.

Another beautiful old copy of the mathnawî with the same prose-prefaces, except at the beginning of the fourth Daftar, which opens at once with the initial bait: اى ضياء الحق الخ. Daftar I, on fol. 1b; II, on fol. 75b; III, on fol. 142b; IV, on fol. 231b; V, on fol. 302b; VI, on fol. 382b. The right order of ff. 1-20 is: 1, 3-8, 19, 9-18, 20. Copied A.H. 871 (A.D. 1466, 1467).

No. 1695, ff. 470, 2 centre-coll, each ll. 17, and a third on the margin, ll. 28; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each daftar; the first two pages splendidly adorned; ornaments throughout; size, 101/8 in. by 63/4 in.