[IO Islamic 825] Mathnawîs

<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;s.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 917&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 825 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>917</p> <p>A defective copy of <em>two</em> mathnaw&icirc;s by San&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>1.Sair-al&rsquo;ubb&acirc;d il&acirc;-alma&rsquo;&acirc;d (here styled رسالۀ سیر العباد), beginning, on fol. 2^b: مرحبا اى بريد الخ.</p> <p>2.Ḥadiḳah, incomplete and much curtailed; Book I, on fol. 30^a, beginning: اى درون پرور الخ ; Book II, on fol. 93^b; III, on fol. 107^a, last line (the chapter not being numbered); IV, on fol. 157^b; V, on fol. 166^b; VI, on fol. 198^b. The sixth b&acirc;b agrees with No. 2481 (918 in this Cat.) as far as fol. 202^b, l. 6 (=fol. 175^a, last line but two in that copy); but from thence there is no further agreement, B&acirc;b VII, on fol. 241^a, is entirely different from the corresponding 7th in No. 2481; after fol. 249 a very large lacuna; fol. 250^a opens in B&acirc;b X with the bait:</p> <p>با دو عاقل هوا نياميزد &ndash; يك هوا از دو عقل بگريزد</p> <p>But the exact words are not found in No. 2481; the agreement begins again on fol. 255^b, first line (=fol. 383^a, first line, in No. 2481). The usual date of A.H. 525 appears here in the last bait:</p> <p>پانصد و بیست و چار رفته زعام</p> <p>پانصد و بیست و پنج گشت تمام</p> <p>Copied by Ḳiw&acirc;m bin Muḥammad of Sh&icirc;r&acirc;z; no date appears. On fol. 1^a appears the same wrong spelling of San&acirc;&rsquo;i&rsquo;s name (ثنائى) as in No. 915 above.</p> <p>No. 825, ff. 262, 2 coll., each ll. 14; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; two luxuriously illuminated title-pages on ff. 1^b and 2^a; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 2^b and 30^a; ff. 2^b, 3^a, 29^b, and 30^a splendidly adorned; size, 8 in. by 5 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>