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<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;-i-Ma&rsquo;naw&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1080&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 3260 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1080</p> <p>The <em>last three daftars</em> of the mathnaw&icirc;.</p> <p>This copy contains:</p> <p>Daftar IV, on fol. 1^b; V, on fol. 136^b; VI, on fol. 264^b.</p> <p>The preface of the fifth daftar is wanting; the other two are complete.</p> <p>At the end of the fourth daftar the transcriber&rsquo;s name is given as Muḥammad Sa&rsquo;&icirc;dkh&acirc;n Naḳshband&icirc;; at the end of the fifth a date appears, viz. the 10th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1143 (A.D. 1730, July 26).</p> <p>Numerous annotations on the margin, especially in the last two daftars; between the fourth and fifth as well as between the fifth and sixth two leaves are left blank.</p> <p>No. 3260, olim 11. J. 10, ff. 403, 2 coll. Each ll. 16-19; irregular Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, partly Shikasta; size, 12 in. by 8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>