[IO Islamic 1444] Mathnawîs
<ul> <li><strong>Mathnawîs.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 929 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1444 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>929</p> <p>Two mathnawîs by Mu’ayyid alnasafî.</p> <p>Two old mystical mathawîs in the very form and styled of the minor didactic poems of Sanâ’î, by a poet called Mu’ayyid alnasafî (who is no doubt identical with Mu’ayyid-aldîn Samarḳandî, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1428, col. 486 in this Cat., and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 659, No. 305), apparently a contemporary or disciple of the author of the Ḥadiḳah, whom he closely imitated.</p> <p>1.نسيم الصبا الى الصبا, on ff. 24<sup>b</sup>-32<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>اى مصابيح آسمان هدى – وى مفاتيح جنّة الماوى</p> <p>2.پهلوان نامه, on ff. 94<sup>a</sup>-107<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>مرحبا اى رفيق همدم من</p> <p>بشنو اين سرگذشت بر غم من</p> <p>The title of this second mathnawî appears at the bottom of fol. 32<sup>b</sup>, and again at the end of the poem, on fol. 107<sup>b</sup>, l. 13; the name of the poet, on fol. 32<sup>b</sup>, l. 4, and in the title itself. The Pahlawânnâma is divided into fourteen short maḳâlas, dealing with various ethical and mystical topics, and a khâtimah.</p> <p>Copied in Jumâdâ I, A.H. 637 (A.D. 1239, Dec.), by the same scribe who wrote No. 916 above, Faḍl-allâh bin Muḥammad bin ‘Umar bin ‘Uthmân alṣûfî.</p> <p>No. 1444, ff. 24-32 and 94-107, 4 coll., each ll. 25: good old Naskhî; many pages greatly injured; size, 9¼ in. by 6 in.</p> <p> </p>
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