[IO Islamic 3326] نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات سقيمه

Nuskha-i-nâsikha-i-mathnawiyyât-i-saḳîmah.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1089 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 3326 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1089

Another copy of the first three daftars of the Nuskha-i-nâsikhah.

Contents:

Index to Daftar I, on fol. 1b.

The same elaborate heading as on fol. 9b in the preceding copy, on fol. 4b.

The original Arabic preface of Daftar I (with the Persian paraphrase on the margin), on fol. 5b.

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. 7a: 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. 8a, beginning, as in the preceding copy, fol.1b: اين نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات الخ.

Daftar I, on fol. 27b.

The editor’s introduction to Daftar II (wanting in the preceding copy), beginning, on fol. 165b: اين دفتريست از نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات الخ.

Index to Daftar II, on ff. 166b and 168a.

Preface of Daftar II, on fol. 167b; beginning quite different from that in the other copies, viz. امّا بعد بدان اى سعيد جوياى جوهر سعادت الخ.

Daftar II, on fol. 168a.

Index to Daftar III, on fol. 278a.

The editor's introduction to Daftar III (taken from the لطائف المعنوى, wanting in the preceding copy), on fol. 281b, beginning: حكمتها يعنى دانشهاى استواره كرده شد الخ.

Daftar III, on fol. 282b.

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, 95/8 in. by 6 in.