[IO Islamic 1960] مرآة المثنوى

<ul> <li><strong>Mir&acirc;t-almathnaw&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1102&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 1960 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p><br> 1102</p> <p>Mir&acirc;t-almathnaw&icirc; (مرآة المثنوى).</p> <p>Fragment of another commentary on the mathnaw&icirc;, by the same &lsquo;Abd-allaṭ&icirc;f, comprising the <em>fourth</em>, <em>fifth</em>, and part of the <em>sixth</em> daftar of the poem. Title and author&rsquo;s name appear in the preface to Daftar VI, on ff. 55-56. The copy begins with the initial words of the original Arabic preface of Daftar IV, together with a Persian paraphrase: الحمد لله حقّ حمده و الصّلوة و السّلام على خير خلقه الخ ترجمۀ ديباچۀ عربى همه سپاس و ستايش مر جناب مقدّس الخ.</p> <p>Daftar V, on fol. 31^a; VI, on fol. 56^b.</p> <p>The arrangement of this commentary is quite the same as in the preceding work, to which the author often refers and from which he gives many quotations.</p> <p>Here, as there, Arabic sentences, traditions, verses of the Ḳur&acirc;n, and difficult Persian baits are translated or explained.</p> <p>No. 1960, ff. 64, ll. 11; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, written by two different hands (the second from fol. 49 to fol. 64); size, 10-10^3/8 in. by 5^1/2-5^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>