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[IO Islamic 1954] نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات سقيمه

<ul> <li>Nuskha-i-nâsikha-i-mathnawiyyât-i-saḳîmah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1088 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 1954 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1088 Nuskha-i-nâsikha-i-mathnawiyyât-i-saḳîmah (نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات سقيمه). The revised edition of the mathnawî, with introductions, indices, paraphrases, and annotations, by ‘Abd-allaṭîf bin ‘Abdallâh al-’Abbâsî (who died A.H. 1048 or 1049=A.D. 1638, 1639), the author of the revised and collated edition of Sanâ’î’s Ḥadiḳah, with commentary and glosses, described in Nos. 923 and 924 of this Cat. He collated the mathnawî with more than eighty copies during the years A.H. 1024-1032 (A.D. 1615-1623), prefixed a special introduction and a detailed index to each of the six daftars, added on the margin a Persian paraphrase of the original Arabic prefaces of the first, the third, and the fourth daftar, and a large number of various readings and glosses, and completed his critical task A.H. 1032 (A.D. 1623); see more detailed remarks both on the editor and his work in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 663-665, and Rieu ii. p. 589. Contents: The editor’s introduction to Daftar I, on fol. 1b, beginning: اين نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات سقيمه و مثبّت و مروّج نسخ صحيحۀ مستقيمه كه بظاهر مصداق حال و مرآة منوّر مقال الخ. Index to Daftar I, on fol. 7b. An elaborate heading to the whole work, on fol. 9b, beginning: هذه الاسرار القدسيّة و الانوار الروحيّه الخ. The original Arabic preface of Daftar I (with the Persian paraphrase on the margin), on fol. 10a. Daftar I, on fol. 10b. Index to Daftar II, on fol. 63a. Preface of Daftar II, on fol. 65a. Daftar II, on fol. 65b. Index to Daftar III, on fol. 112b. The original Arabic preface of Daftar III (with the Persian paraphrase on the margin), on fol. 115b. Daftar III, on fol. 116b. Index Daftar IV, on fol. 177a. The original Arabic preface of Daftar IV (with the Persian paraphrase on the margin), on fol. 179a. Daftar IV, on fol. 179b. Index to Daftar V, on fol. 228a. Preface of Daftar V, on fol. 231a. Daftar V, on fol. 231b. Index to Daftar VI, on fol. 287a. The editor’s introduction to Daftar VI, on fol. 288b, beginning: اين دفتر دفتريست از نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات سقيمه و مثبّت و مروّج نسخ مستقيمه كه كمترين معتقدان اين كتاب و صاحب اين كتاب عبداللّطيف ابن عبدالله العبّاسى الخ. Preface of Daftar VI, on fol. 289b. Daftar VI, on fol. 289b. Copied in the twenty-first year of-probably ‘Âlam-gîr’s reign (=A.H. 1089, A.D. 1678). No. 1954, ff.1-351, 4 coll., each ll. 23; small, but distinct Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each daftar; a small illuminated heading at the top of each preface; size, 103/4 in. by 7 in.

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