[IO Islamic 1991] Mathnawîs

<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;s.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 915&nbsp;in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 1991 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>915</p> <p>Another defective copy of <em>three</em> mathnaw&icirc;s by San&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>1.Ḥad&icirc;ḳah, with the preface of the poet himself.</p> <p>Beginning of this preface (in which the poet&rsquo;s name appears on fol. 2^b, ll. 17 and 18: روزى من كه مجدود آدم سنائی ام), on fol.1^b: سپاس و ستایش مبدعى است كه بسخن پاك كلمۀ كن سخندان و سخنگوى را ابداع كرد الخ.</p> <p>It is styled in the colophon خطبۀ حديقۀ حكيم سنائى.</p> <p>Beginning of Book I of the mathnaw&icirc; itself, on fol. 11^b: اى درون پرور الخ ; Book II, on fol. 67^b; III, on fol. 122^b; IV, on fol. 132^a; V, on fol. 136^b (between ff. 141^b and 142^a one single bait is missing, indicated by the catchword: خويشتن بين الخ, corresponding to No. 2481 (918 in this Cat.), fol. 146^b, l.7); VI, on ff. 147-151 and 296-311^b (the leaves are misplaced and there is a considerable lacuna between ff. 151 and 296, corresponding to No.2481, fol. 177^a, l. 6-fol. 188^b, l. 1); VII, on ff. 311^b-315 and 152-155^b (likewise incomplete, the lacuna between ff. 315 and 152 comprising fol. 214^a, l. 11-fol. 215^b, l. 2 in No. 2481); VIII, on fol. 155^b; IX, on fol. 159^b; X, on fol. 187^a. On fol. 294^a there is added (by another hand in Shikasta) the famous <em>fatw&acirc;</em> of the Khal&icirc;f&rsquo;s court at Baghd&acirc;d, vindicating San&acirc;&rsquo;i&rsquo;s orthodoxy (see Bodleian Cat., No. 528, col. 464), and beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين و الصلوة على خير خلقة محمّد و آله اجمعين در بعضى آثار است كه دو چيز در عمر الخ. Marginal glosses on the first seventy-seven leaves; on fol. 1^a the author&rsquo;s name is misspelt as ثنائى.</p> <p>2.&rsquo;Ishḳn&acirc;ma, beginning, on fol. 332^b: عشق مرغ الخ.</p> <p>3.&rsquo;Aḳln&acirc;ma, beginning, on fol. 348^b: ابتدا ميكنم الخ.</p> <p>This part was transcribed at the end of Muḥarram, A.H. 1061 (A.D. 1651, Jan. 23); in the colophon of the preface of the Ḥad&icirc;ḳah appears as date the 2nd of Muḥarram, A.H. 1054 (which seems, however, a mere alteration of the original 1061). Ff. 316-331 do not belong to any of these three mathnaw&icirc;s of San&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;, but contain a portion of the B&acirc;gh-i-Iram (باغ ارم), also called Bahr&acirc;m and Bihr&ucirc;z (بهرام و بهروز), by Maul&acirc;n&acirc; Kam&acirc;l-aldin Bann&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;, with the takhalluṣ Ḥ&acirc;l&icirc;, who died A.H. 918 (A.D. 1512, 1513), see Bodleian Cat., No. 987; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 372; Rieu i. p. 351^b.</p> <p>No. 1991, ff. 362, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; small illuminated frontispieces on fol. 1^b and 11^b; size, 9^1/8in. by 4^5/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>