[IO Islamic 3384] Farîd-aldîn's Mathnawîs

<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;s.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1036&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 3384 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1036</p> <p>Two mathnaw&icirc;s by Far&icirc;d-ald&icirc;n &lsquo;Aṭṭ&acirc;r.</p> <p>This copy contains:</p> <p>1.Manṭiḳ-alṭair, on ff. 3^b-226^b.</p> <p>2.B&icirc;sarn&acirc;ma, on ff. 227^a-239^a, 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^b, and in A. Sprenger&rsquo;s first copy, Catal., p. 349, is here the third; whereas the beginning of Sprenger&rsquo;s second copy appears here as second bait.</p> <p>On ff. 1^a-3^a there is a short account of some P&icirc;rs of the Ḳ&acirc;dir&icirc; seet in Mult&acirc;n, headed نقل عنايت نامه, and written by Muḥammad Ghauth ibn Sayyid Isma&rsquo;&icirc;l ibn Shaikh &lsquo;Abd-alḳ&acirc;dir ibn Shaikh M&ucirc;s&acirc; Ḥasan&icirc; alḥusain&icirc; alg&icirc;l&acirc;n&icirc;, who states that his grandfather &lsquo;Abd-alḳ&acirc;dir, who died the 17th of Dh&ucirc;-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 N&ucirc;-all&acirc;h in the Ṣ&ucirc;bah of Kh&acirc;nd&icirc;s, the 17th of Sha&rsquo;b&acirc;n, A.H. 1105=A.D. 1694, April 13 (here called the 38th year of &lsquo;&Acirc;lamg&icirc;r&rsquo;s reign, whereas it is more correctly the 37th, &lsquo;&Acirc;lamgir having declared himself emperor of Dihl&icirc; in Dh&ucirc;-alḳa&rsquo;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&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, written on brown paper, sprinkled with gold; marbled margin throughout, except on the last six leaves; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 3^b; size, 9 in. by 5 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>