[IO Islamic 1991] Mathnawîs
<ul> <li><strong>Mathnawîs.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 915 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 1991 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>915</p> <p>Another defective copy of <em>three</em> mathnawîs by Sanâ’î.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>1.Ḥadîḳah, with the preface of the poet himself.</p> <p>Beginning of this preface (in which the poet’s name appears on fol. 2<sup>b</sup>, ll. 17 and 18: روزى من كه مجدود آدم سنائی ام), on fol.1<sup>b</sup>: 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 mathnawî itself, on fol. 11<sup>b</sup>: اى درون پرور الخ ; Book II, on fol. 67<sup>b</sup>; III, on fol. 122<sup>b</sup>; IV, on fol. 132<sup>a</sup>; V, on fol. 136<sup>b</sup> (between ff. 141<sup>b</sup> and 142<sup>a</sup> one single bait is missing, indicated by the catchword: خويشتن بين الخ, corresponding to No. 2481 (918 in this Cat.), fol. 146<sup>b</sup>, l.7); VI, on ff. 147-151 and 296-311<sup>b</sup> (the leaves are misplaced and there is a considerable lacuna between ff. 151 and 296, corresponding to No.2481, fol. 177<sup>a</sup>, l. 6-fol. 188<sup>b</sup>, l. 1); VII, on ff. 311<sup>b</sup>-315 and 152-155<sup>b</sup> (likewise incomplete, the lacuna between ff. 315 and 152 comprising fol. 214<sup>a</sup>, l. 11-fol. 215<sup>b</sup>, l. 2 in No. 2481); VIII, on fol. 155<sup>b</sup>; IX, on fol. 159<sup>b</sup>; X, on fol. 187<sup>a</sup>. On fol. 294<sup>a</sup> there is added (by another hand in Shikasta) the famous <em>fatwâ</em> of the Khalîf’s court at Baghdâd, vindicating Sanâ’i’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<sup>a</sup> the author’s name is misspelt as ثنائى.</p> <p>2.’Ishḳnâma, beginning, on fol. 332<sup>b</sup>: عشق مرغ الخ.</p> <p>3.’Aḳlnâma, beginning, on fol. 348<sup>b</sup>: 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 Ḥadîḳah 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 mathnawîs of Sanâ’î, but contain a portion of the Bâgh-i-Iram (باغ ارم), also called Bahrâm and Bihrûz (بهرام و بهروز), by Maulânâ Kamâl-aldin Bannâ’î, with the takhalluṣ Ḥâlî, who died A.H. 918 (A.D. 1512, 1513), see Bodleian Cat., No. 987; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 372; Rieu i. p. 351<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>No. 1991, ff. 362, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispieces on fol. 1<sup>b</sup> and 11<sup>b</sup>; size, 9<sup>1/8 </sup>in. by 4<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
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