[IO Islamic 1386] مثنوی معنوی

Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1064 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 1386 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1064

The same.

The preface of Daftar V is wanting in this copy; all the other prefaces agree with those in the preceding copies.

Daftar I, on fol. 1b; II, on fol. 42a; III, on fol. 82a; IV, on fol. 133a; V, on fol. 174b; VI, on fol. 220a.

Daftar III is dated the 19th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1029 (A.D. 1620, Nov. 15); Daftar VI, the 27th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1030 (A.D. 1620, Dec. 22), by ‘Abd-alwâḥid ibn Ḳâḍî ‘Abd-alwahhâb alṣârî, in the city of Burhânpûr. According to the colophon at the end of Daftar III, the first daftar of mathnawî contains 3995 baits, the second 3895, the third 4755, the fourth 3800, the fifth 4318, the sixth 5193; that makes together 25,956, but the total sum indicated in this colophon is 26,016, or 26,060, and that given in the colophon of Daftar VI, 26,242. The right number we should suppose to be 26,016, produced by reading 3860 instead of 3800 (سه هزار هشتصد و شصت for سه هزار هشتصد) for the fourth daftar.

Many pages are severely damaged; a great number of them is quite brown with damp. Numerous glosses and additions on the margin.

No. 1386, ff. 1-269, 4 coll., each ll. 25-32; careless Nasta’lîḳ; written by different hands on different paper; size, 13 in. by 71/8 in.