[IO Islamic 3384] Farîd-aldîn's Mathnawîs

Mathnawîs. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1036 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 3384 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1036 Two mathnawîs by Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr. This copy contains: 1.Manṭiḳ-alṭair, on ff. 3b-226b. 2.Bîsarnâma, on ff. 227a-239a, beginning: من خدايم من خدايم من خدا فارغم از كبر و از كين و هوا The initial bait of this poem in No. 559 (1031 in this Cat.), fol. 152b, and in A. Sprenger’s first copy, Catal., p. 349, is here the third; whereas the beginning of Sprenger’s second copy appears here as second bait. On ff. 1a-3a there is a short account of some Pîrs of the Ḳâdirî seet in Multân, headed نقل عنايت نامه, and written by Muḥammad Ghauth ibn Sayyid Isma’îl ibn Shaikh ‘Abd-alḳâdir ibn Shaikh Mûsâ Ḥasanî alḥusainî algîlânî, who states that his grandfather ‘Abd-alḳâdir, who died the 17th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1677, February 20), invested him (after the premature death of his father), A.H. 1082 (A.D. 1671, 1672), with the خرقه. This copy is dated by Nû-allâh in the Ṣûbah of Khândîs, the 17th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1105=A.D. 1694, April 13 (here called the 38th year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign, whereas it is more correctly the 37th, ‘Âlamgir having declared himself emperor of Dihlî in Dhû-alḳa’dah of A.H. 1068=A.D. 1658, August). Presented by J. H. Peile, Esq., and received the 19th September, 1818; transferred to Civil College, 9 August, 1819 (Haileybury). No. 3384, olim 19. J. 12, ff. 239, 2 coll., each ll. 10; large and excellent Nasta’lîḳ, written on brown paper, sprinkled with gold; marbled margin throughout, except on the last six leaves; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 3b; size, 9 in. by 5 in.