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[IO Islamic 1444] Mathnawîs

<ul> <li>Mathnawîs.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 929 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1444 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 929 Two mathnawîs by Mu’ayyid alnasafî. 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. 1.نسيم الصبا الى الصبا, on ff. 24b-32b, beginning: اى مصابيح آسمان هدى – وى مفاتيح جنّة الماوى 2.پهلوان نامه, on ff. 94a-107b, beginning: مرحبا اى رفيق همدم من بشنو اين سرگذشت بر غم من The title of this second mathnawî appears at the bottom of fol. 32b, and again at the end of the poem, on fol. 107b, l. 13; the name of the poet, on fol. 32b, 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. 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. 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.

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