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<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;-i-Ma&rsquo;naw&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1071&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 2550 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1071</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>All the usual prefaces are found here; on ff. 1-7^a a detailed essay on Jal&acirc;l-ald&icirc;n R&ucirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s life and works is given, beginning: منقولست كه پادشاه ملك خراسان علاء الدين محمّد خوارزمشاه كه عمّ جلال الدين محمّد خوارزمشاه بود دخترى داشت الخ.</p> <p>Preface of Daftar I, on fol. 7^a.</p> <p>Daftar I, on fol. 8^b.</p> <p>Preface of Daftar II, on fol. 52^b.</p> <p>Daftar II, on fol. 53^a.</p> <p>Preface of Daftar III, on fol. 93^a.</p> <p>Daftar III, on fol. 93^b.</p> <p>Preface of Daftar IV, on fol. 145^b.</p> <p>Daftar IV, on fol. 146^a.</p> <p>Preface of Daftar V, on fol. 189^a.</p> <p>Preface of Daftar VI, on fol. 239^b.</p> <p>Daftar VI, on fol. 240^a.</p> <p>Some leaves are injured and supplied by the first owner of this copy (dated the 39th year, probably of &lsquo;&Acirc;lamg&icirc;r&rsquo;s reign=A.H. 1107, A.D. 1695, 1696), who added at the end some verses for his son.</p> <p>No. 2550, ff. 295, 4 coll. (on fol. 8^b only 2), each ll. 25; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 10&frac12; in. by 6&frac12; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>