[IO Islamic 736] Farîd-aldîn's Mathnawîs

<strong>Mathnawîs.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1035 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 736 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1035 Three mathnawîs by Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr. This copy contains: 1.Manṭiḳ-alṭair, on fol. 1^b. 2.Jawâhir-aldhât or Jauhar-i-dhât, <em>first</em> daftar on fol. 64^b, in a very defective and abridged form, the first page is left blank, and the mathnawî begins on fol. 65^a with this bait: كمانرا دور گردان از بر خويش یقین را دان حقيقت ره بر خويش Corresponding to fol. 9^a, l. 3, No. 2039 (1046 in this Cat., the fullest copy of the poem); the second chapter on the same page, beginning: الا اى جان و دلرا الخ, corresponds to fol. 16^b, l. 3 ab infra in the same copy; the last but two baits to fol. 160^b, l. 10; the last two baits of the present copy are not found in No. 2039. On fol. 64^a, and in the colophon at the end, the poem is wrongly styled اشترنامه. 3.Gul u Khusrau, on fol. 173^b. No date. Very good and correct copy. No. 736, ff. 1-269, 4 coll., each ll. 21; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî; size, 15^1/8 in. by 9^7/8 in.