[IO Islamic 1960] مرآة المثنوى

Mirât-almathnawî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1102 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 1960 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1102

Mirât-almathnawî (مرآة المثنوى).

Fragment of another commentary on the mathnawî, by the same ‘Abd-allaṭîf, comprising the fourth, fifth, and part of the sixth daftar of the poem. Title and author’s name appear in the preface to Daftar VI, on ff. 55-56. The copy begins with the initial words of the original Arabic preface of Daftar IV, together with a Persian paraphrase: الحمد لله حقّ حمده و الصّلوة و السّلام على خير خلقه الخ ترجمۀ ديباچۀ عربى همه سپاس و ستايش مر جناب مقدّس الخ.

Daftar V, on fol. 31a; VI, on fol. 56b.

The arrangement of this commentary is quite the same as in the preceding work, to which the author often refers and from which he gives many quotations.

Here, as there, Arabic sentences, traditions, verses of the Ḳurân, and difficult Persian baits are translated or explained.

No. 1960, ff. 64, ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ, written by two different hands (the second from fol. 49 to fol. 64); size, 10-103/8 in. by 51/2-53/4 in.