[IO Islamic 736] Farîd-aldîn's Mathnawîs

Mathnawîs.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1035 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 736 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1035

Three mathnawîs by Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr.

This copy contains:

1.Manṭiḳ-alṭair, on fol. 1b.

2.Jawâhir-aldhât or Jauhar-i-dhât, first daftar on fol. 64b, in a very defective and abridged form, the first page is left blank, and the mathnawî begins on fol. 65a with this bait:

كمانرا دور گردان از بر خويش

یقین را دان حقيقت ره بر خويش

Corresponding to fol. 9a, 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. 16b, l. 3 ab infra in the same copy; the last but two baits to fol. 160b, l. 10; the last two baits of the present copy are not found in No. 2039. On fol. 64a, and in the colophon at the end, the poem is wrongly styled اشترنامه.

3.Gul u Khusrau, on fol. 173b.

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, 151/8 in. by 97/8 in.