[IO Islamic 3306] مثنوی معنوی

<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;-i-Ma&rsquo;naw&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1082&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 3306 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1082</p> <p>Another copy of the <em>first daftar</em> of the mathnaw&icirc;.</p> <p>Beautiful copy, finished the 24th of Sha&rsquo;b&acirc;n, A.H. 1147 (A.D. 1735, January 19), by Kh&acirc;kp&acirc;i khalḳ-ill&acirc;h Mihr &lsquo;Ali (خاكپاى خلق الله مهر على). Beginning of the preface, on fol. 1^b:هذا الكتاب المثنوى المعنوى اين كتاب الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 6^b: بشنو از نى الخ.</p> <p>Annotations, written in red ink, on the margin.</p> <p>No. 3306, olim 11. J. 12, ff. 167, 2 coll., each ll. 15; large and very distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ , written on stiff brown paper; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b and 6^b; the first pages of the preface as well as of the poetry beautifully adorned; each column in the whole MS. framed by gold-stripes; size, 10^1/4 in. by 5^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>