[IO Islamic 3326] نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات سقيمه

<strong>Nuskha-i-nâsikha-i-mathnawiyyât-i-saḳîmah.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1089 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 3326 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1089 Another copy of the <em>first three daftars</em> of the Nuskha-i-nâsikhah. Contents: Index to Daftar I, on fol. 1^b. The same elaborate heading as on fol. 9^b in the preceding copy, on fol. 4^b. The original Arabic preface of Daftar I (with the Persian paraphrase on the margin), on fol. 5^b. A short account of the reasons why the mathnawî is divided into six daftars (wanting in the preceding copy), taken from ‘Abd-allaṭif’s commentary لطائف المعنوى (see below, No. 1101), and beginning, on fol. 7^a: شش دفتر اين كتاب را عليحدّه و جدا در شش مجلّد باين جهت جلد كرده شد الخ. The editor’s introduction to Daftar I, on fol. 8^a, beginning, as in the preceding copy, fol.1^b: اين نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات الخ. Daftar I, on fol. 27^b. The editor’s introduction to Daftar II (wanting in the preceding copy), beginning, on fol. 165^b: اين دفتريست از نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات الخ. Index to Daftar II, on ff. 166^b and 168^a. Preface of Daftar II, on fol. 167^b; beginning quite different from that in the other copies, viz. امّا بعد بدان اى سعيد جوياى جوهر سعادت الخ. Daftar II, on fol. 168^a. Index to Daftar III, on fol. 278^a. The editor's introduction to Daftar III (taken from the لطائف المعنوى, wanting in the preceding copy), on fol. 281^b, beginning: حكمتها يعنى دانشهاى استواره كرده شد الخ. Daftar III, on fol. 282^b. The same large number of glosses, explanations, and additions on the margin, as in the preceding copy. Copied by Shaikh ‘Abd-allaṭîf of Banâras (not identical with the editor), A.H. 1060=A.D. 1650 (so correctly in spite of a strange مائتان between the words الف و ستّين, since there is an entry by Capt. Dow from 1764, Nov. 20, on the fly-leaf). No. 3326, olim 11.J. 11, ff. 406, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9^5/8 in. by 6 in.