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<strong>Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1075 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 9 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1075 The same. All the prefaces are complete in this copy. Daftar I, on fol. 1^b; II, on fol. 51^b; III, on fol. 96^b; IV, on fol. 152^b (beginning of the preface: الحمد لله حقّ حمده و الصلوة و السّلام على خلقه الخ, see No. 1062 above); V, on fol. 198^b; VI, on fol. 250^b. No date. Occasionally various readings and additions on the margin. No. 9, ff. 308, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; each daftar and each preface headed by an illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages of each daftar richly ornamented; size, 14^1/8 in. by 8^7/8 in.