[IO Islamic 3270] مثنوی معنوی

<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;-i-Ma&rsquo;naw&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1065&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 3270 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1065</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>All the daftars have the usual prose-prefaces, the preface of the first, on fol. 1^b, breaks off at the end of the first page.</p> <p>Daftar I, on fol. 2^b; II, on fol. 48^b; III, on fol. 90^b; IV, on fol. 145^b; V, on fol. 195^b; VI, on fol. 245^b (the preface of the last begins here: ربّ زِدْنى علماً مجلّد ششم الخ)</p> <p>This copy was transcribed by Muḥammad Ṭ&acirc;hir ibn Ḳ&acirc;ḍ&icirc; Muḥammad &lsquo;Al&icirc; in the citadel of كواندامه (belonging to Sulṭ&acirc;n Muḥammad &lsquo;&Acirc;dilsh&acirc;h); the first daftar was finished the 12th of Dh&ucirc;-alḳa&rsquo;dah, A.H. 1066 (A.D. 1656, Sept. 1); the second, the 13th of Dh&ucirc;-alḥijjah in the same year (A.D. 1656, Oct. 2 ); the third, the 12th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1067 (A.D. 1656, Oct. 31); the fourth, the 7th of Ṣafar in the same year (A.D. 1656, Nov. 25); the fifth, the 8th of Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-alawwal (A.D. 1656, Dec. 25); and the sixth, the 6th of Jum&acirc;d&acirc;-alawwal (A.D. 1657, Feb. 20). Occasionally various readings and short glosses on the margin.</p> <p>No. 3270, olim 11. J. 8, ff. 298, 4 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; a large illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each daftar; size, 13^5/8 in. by 8^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>