[IO Islamic 3312] مثنوی معنوی

<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;-i-Ma&rsquo;naw&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1073 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 3312 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1073</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>This copy, which is collated and dated the 23rd of Jum&acirc;d&acirc;-alawwal, A.H. 1130 (A.D. 1718, April 24), by &lsquo;Abdall&acirc;h, contains:</p> <p>A Persian paraphrase and explanation of the (Arabic) preface of the first daftar, on fol. 1^b, beginning: هذا كتاب اين كتاب المثنوى المعنوى مثنوئ معنويست و نسبت او بسوى معانى آنست كه مقصد اصلى الخ.</p> <p>Daftar I, on fol. 3^b; II, on fol. 68^b; III, on fol. 119^b; IV, on fol. 190^b; V, on fol. 248^b; VI, on fol. 311^b.</p> <p>The prefaces are complete and agree in wording with those in the preceding copy, except that of Daftar V, which begins (as in Nos. 1063 and 1066 above): بدانيد و آگاه باشید که شریعت همچو شمعيست الخ.</p> <p>No. 3312, olim 17. J. 2, ff. 381, 4 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; an illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1^b and at the beginning of each daftar; size, 10^1/8 in. by 6^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>