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[IO Islamic 1444] Mathnawîs

<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;s.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 916&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 1444 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>916</p> <p>A very defective copy of <em>three</em> mathnaw&icirc;s by San&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;.</p> <p>This very old copy of portions of three of San&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;&rsquo;s mathnaw&icirc;s is unfortunately not only greatly injured, but also in hopeless confusion as to the proper order of leaves, most of the catchwords being missing.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>1.Ḥadiḳah, beginning, on fol. 77<sup>b</sup>, with a fihrist of the ten b&acirc;bs ( فهرست الأبواب, comp. W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 748, where it is given in full), thus:</p> <p>باب اوّل ثنا و تحميدست</p> <p>محض تنزيه و صرف توحيدست</p> <p>This fihrist consists of ten baits and is immediately followed by the usual initial bait of Book I of the poem: اى درون پرور الخ. This mathnaw&icirc; breaks off on fol. 93<sup>b</sup>, but a number of leaves in the other portions of the MS. seem also to belong to it.</p> <p>2.Sair-al&rsquo;ubb&acirc;d il&acirc;-alma&rsquo;&acirc;d or Kun&ucirc;z-alrum&ucirc;z, on ff. 108<sup>a</sup>-116<sup>a</sup>, the only complete one, as it seems, of the three poems contained in this copy. Beginning: مرحبا اى بريد الخ.</p> <p>3.K&acirc;rn&acirc;ma, beginning, on fol. 116<sup>b</sup>:ويحك اى نقشبند الخ. The conclusion of this mathnaw&icirc; is found on fol. 76<sup>a</sup> (تمام شد كارنامه الخ), but whether it is complete, and how many of the other leaves really belong to it, is absolutely impossible to say. Copied in the month Jum&acirc;d&acirc; II, A.H. 637 (A.D. 1240, Jan.), by Faḍl-all&acirc;h bin Muḥammad bin &lsquo;Umar bin &lsquo;Uthm&acirc;n alṣ&ucirc;f&icirc;.</p> <p>No. 1444, ff. 33-76<sup>b</sup>, 77<sup>b</sup>-93<sup>b</sup>, and 108<sup>a</sup>-137<sup>b</sup>, 4 coll., each ll. 25; good old Naskh&icirc;; size, 9&frac14; in. by 6 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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