[IO Islamic 1695] مثنوی معنوی

<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;-i-Ma&rsquo;naw&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1061&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 1695 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1061</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>Another beautiful old copy of the mathnaw&icirc; with the same prose-prefaces, except at the beginning of the <em>fourth Daftar</em>, which opens at once with the initial bait: اى ضياء الحق الخ. Daftar I, on fol. 1^b; II, on fol. 75^b; III, on fol. 142^b; IV, on fol. 231^b; V, on fol. 302^b; VI, on fol. 382^b. The right order of ff. 1-20 is: 1, 3-8, 19, 9-18, 20. Copied A.H. 871 (A.D. 1466, 1467).</p> <p>No. 1695, ff. 470, 2 centre-coll, each ll. 17, and a third on the margin, ll. 28; excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each daftar; the first two pages splendidly adorned; ornaments throughout; size, 10^1/8 in. by 6^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>