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[IO Islamic 2709] مثنوی معنوی

<ul> <li>Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1060 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2709 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> Jalal-aldîn Rûmî (Nos. 1060-1115). 1060 Mathnawî (مثنوى). An excellent old copy of the renowned mathnawî or Mathnawî-i-ma’nawî (the spiritual mathnawî) by Maulânâ Jalâl-aldîn Muḥammad bin Muḥammad Bahâ-aldîn bin Ḥusain albalkhi, best known as Jalâl-aldîn Rûmi, who was born in Balkh, A.H. 604 (A.D. 1207), and died in Iconium, A.H. 672 (A.D. 1273); comp. on this work and the biography of the poet, Rieu ii. p. 584 sq.; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 646-675; W. Pertsch, No. 42, 1 a, and Berlin Cat., p. 783 sq.; G. Flügel i. p. 514 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 489 sq.; Rosen, Persian MSS., pp. 173 and 174; J. Aumer, pp. 14-16; Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, p. 112 sq., etc.; comp. also the Manâḳib-al’ârifîn (No. 630 in this Cat.); Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 137 (ib., col. 289); Haft Iḳlim, No. 558 (ib., col. 418), and Ethé, Die mystische, didactische und lyrische Poesie etc. der Perser, Hamburg, 1888, pp. 26-31. The mathnawî has been printed (respectively lithographed) in Bombay, A.H. 1262, 1266, 1273, 1280, 1294, and A.D. 1890; in Lucknow, A.H. 1282; in Tabrîz, A.H. 1264; in Bûlâḳ, with the Turkish commentary of Isma’il Anḳirawî, A.H. 1251 and 1268; in Constantinople, A.H. 1289; in Ṭahrân, A.H. 1299 (the best of all, by Muḥammad Ṭâhir Mustaufî). Portions of this poem have been translated into German in Tholuck’s Blüthensammlung morgenländ. Mystik, p. 53 sq.; and by G. Rosen, ‘Mesnewi oder Doppelverse etc.,’ Leipzig, 1849; into English (the first book only) by J. W. Redhouse, London, 1881 (Trübner’s Oriental Series); extracts are also found in S. Robinson’s ‘Persian Poetry for English Readers,’ 1883, pp. 367-382. An abridged English translation of the whole work, an excellent specimen of sound scholarship, has been published by E.H. Whinfield, ‘Masnavi i ma’navi,’ London, 1887 (Trübner’s Oriental Series). The present copy is dated the 5th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 834 (A.D. 1431, Aug. 14), see the colophon: قد تمّ المثنوى المعنوى لمولوى الجلالى البلخى ثُمّ الرومى القونوى بحمد الله و مَنِّه فى تأريخ خامس ذى الحجّة سنة اربع و ثلثين و ثمانمائة الهجريّة , and contains: Preface of Daftar I, on fol. 1b, beginning:بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم هذا كتاب المثنوى و هو أصول أصول الدين لكشف اسرار الوصول و اليقين و هو فقه الله الاكبر و شرع الله الأزهر و برهان الله الأظهر الخ. Daftar I, on fol. 2b, beginning: بشنو از نى چون حكايت ميكند وز جدائيها شكايت ميكند Preface of Daftar II, on fol. 42a, beginning: بيان بعضى از حكمت تأخير اين مجلّد دوم كه اگر جملۀ حكمت الهى بنده را معلوم شود در فوائد آن كار بنده از آن كار فرو ماند و حكمت بي پايان حقّ ادراك آنرا ويران كند الخ. Daftar II, on fol. 42b, beginning: مدّتى اين مثنوى تأخير شد مهلتى بايست تا خون شير شد Preface of Daftar III, on fol. 77a, beginning: الحِكَم جنود الله فى الارض يقوّى بها ارواح المريدين ينزّه علمهم الخ. Daftar III, on fol. 77b, beginning: اى ضياء الحق حسام الدين بيار اين سيوم (سيم read ) دفتر كه سُنّت شد سه بار Preface of Daftar IV, on fol. 124a, beginning: الظعن الرابع الى احسن المرابع واجلّ المنافع تُسِرّ قلوب العارفين الخ. Daftar IV, on fol. 124b, beginning: اى ضياء الحق حسام الدين توئى كه گذشت از مه بنورت مثنوى Preface of Daftar V, on fol. 163a, beginning: وعنده مفاتيح الغيب و صلّى الله على محمّد و آله امّا بعد اين مجلّد پنجم است از دفترهاى مثنوى الخ. Daftar V, on fol. 163b, beginning: شه حسام الدين كه نور انجمست طالب آغاز سفر پنجمست Preface of Daftar VI, on fol. 206a, beginning: اين مجلّد ششم است از دفترهاى مثنوى و تبيان معنوى كه مصباح ظلام و شبهت و خيالات شكّ الخ. Daftar VI, on fol. 206b, beginning: اى حيات دل حسام الدين بسى ميل مى جوشد بقسم سادسى Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2709, ff. 252, 4 coll., each ll. 29; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; a large vignette on fol. 2a, the whole of fol. 2b luxuriously illuminated; fine illuminated frontispieces besides on ff. 42b, 77b, 124b, 163b, and 206b; size, 10¼ in. by 7 in.

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