[IO Islamic 2709] مثنوی معنوی
<ul> <li><strong>Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1060 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2709 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>Jalal-aldîn Rûmî (Nos. 1060-1115).</p> <p>1060</p> <p>Mathnawî (مثنوى).</p> <p>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).</p> <p>The present copy is dated the 5th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 834 (A.D. 1431, Aug. 14), see the colophon:</p> <p>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:</p> <p>Preface of Daftar I, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, 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.</p> <p>Daftar I, on fol. 2<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>بشنو از نى چون حكايت ميكند</p> <p>وز جدائيها شكايت ميكند</p> <p>Preface of Daftar II, on fol. 42<sup>a</sup>, 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.</p> <p>Daftar II, on fol. 42<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>مدّتى اين مثنوى تأخير شد</p> <p>مهلتى بايست تا خون شير شد</p> <p>Preface of Daftar III, on fol. 77<sup>a</sup>, beginning: الحِكَم جنود الله فى الارض يقوّى بها ارواح المريدين ينزّه علمهم الخ.</p> <p>Daftar III, on fol. 77<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>اى ضياء الحق حسام الدين بيار</p> <p>اين سيوم (سيم read ) دفتر كه سُنّت شد سه بار</p> <p>Preface of Daftar IV, on fol. 124<sup>a</sup>, beginning: الظعن الرابع الى احسن المرابع واجلّ المنافع تُسِرّ قلوب العارفين الخ.</p> <p>Daftar IV, on fol. 124<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>اى ضياء الحق حسام الدين توئى</p> <p>كه گذشت از مه بنورت مثنوى</p> <p>Preface of Daftar V, on fol. 163<sup>a</sup>, beginning: وعنده مفاتيح الغيب و صلّى الله على محمّد و آله امّا بعد اين مجلّد پنجم است از دفترهاى مثنوى الخ.</p> <p>Daftar V, on fol. 163<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>شه حسام الدين كه نور انجمست</p> <p>طالب آغاز سفر پنجمست</p> <p>Preface of Daftar VI, on fol. 206<sup>a</sup>, beginning: اين مجلّد ششم است از دفترهاى مثنوى و تبيان معنوى كه مصباح ظلام و شبهت و خيالات شكّ الخ.</p> <p>Daftar VI, on fol. 206<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>اى حيات دل حسام الدين بسى</p> <p>ميل مى جوشد بقسم سادسى</p> <p>Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2709, ff. 252, 4 coll., each ll. 29; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; a large vignette on fol. 2<sup>a</sup>, the whole of fol. 2<sup>b</sup> luxuriously illuminated; fine illuminated frontispieces besides on ff. 42<sup>b</sup>, 77<sup>b</sup>, 124<sup>b</sup>, 163<sup>b</sup>, and 206<sup>b</sup>; size, 10¼ in. by 7 in.</p> <p> </p>
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