[IO Islamic 3384] Farîd-aldîn's Mathnawîs
<ul> <li><strong>Mathnawîs.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1036 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 3384 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1036</p> <p>Two mathnawîs by Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr.</p> <p>This copy contains:</p> <p>1.Manṭiḳ-alṭair, on ff. 3<sup>b</sup>-226<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>2.Bîsarnâma, on ff. 227<sup>a</sup>-239<sup>a</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>من خدايم من خدايم من خدا</p> <p>فارغم از كبر و از كين و هوا</p> <p>The initial bait of this poem in No. 559 (1031 in this Cat.), fol. 152<sup>b</sup>, and in A. Sprenger’s first copy, Catal., p. 349, is here the third; whereas the beginning of Sprenger’s second copy appears here as second bait.</p> <p>On ff. 1<sup>a</sup>-3<sup>a</sup> there is a short account of some Pîrs of the Ḳâdirî seet in Multân, headed نقل عنايت نامه, and written by Muḥammad Ghauth ibn Sayyid Isma’îl ibn Shaikh ‘Abd-alḳâdir ibn Shaikh Mûsâ Ḥasanî alḥusainî algîlânî, who states that his grandfather ‘Abd-alḳâdir, who died the 17th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1677, February 20), invested him (after the premature death of his father), A.H. 1082 (A.D. 1671, 1672), with the خرقه.</p> <p>This copy is dated by Nû-allâh in the Ṣûbah of Khândîs, the 17th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1105=A.D. 1694, April 13 (here called the 38th year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign, whereas it is more correctly the 37th, ‘Âlamgir having declared himself emperor of Dihlî in Dhû-alḳa’dah of A.H. 1068=A.D. 1658, August). Presented by J. H. Peile, Esq., and received the 19th September, 1818; transferred to Civil College, 9 August, 1819 (Haileybury).</p> <p>No. 3384, olim 19. J. 12, ff. 239, 2 coll., each ll. 10; large and excellent Nasta’lîḳ, written on brown paper, sprinkled with gold; marbled margin throughout, except on the last six leaves; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 3<sup>b</sup>; size, 9 in. by 5 in.</p> <p> </p>
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