[IO Islamic 3307] مثنوی معنوی

<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;-i-Ma&rsquo;naw&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1083&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 3307 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1083</p> <p>Another copy of the <em>second daftar</em> of the mathnaw&icirc;.</p> <p>Written by the same Mihr &lsquo;Al&icirc; (finished 1st of Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-alawwal, A.H. 1148=A.D. 1735, July 22 ), and adorned in the same manner as the preceding copy.</p> <p>Beginning of the preface, on fol. 1^b: بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم و ما توفيقي الاّ بالله العلى العظيم &lsquo; بيان بعضى از حكمتها الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 2^b:مدّتى اين مثنوى تأخير شد الخ.</p> <p>No. 3307, olim 11. J. 13, ff. 143, 2 coll., each ll. 15, large and distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, written on stiff brown paper; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b and 2^b; the first page of the preface an the first two of the poetry beautifully adorned; size, 10^1/4 in. by 5^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>