[IO Islamic 2360] مثنوئ اهلى

<ul> <li><strong>Mathnaw&icirc;-i-Ahl&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1434 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 2360 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1434</p> <p>Mathnaw&icirc;-i-Ahl&icirc; ( مثنوئ اهلى).</p> <p>A didactic mathnaw&icirc; on good morals and a life of humility and devotion to God, by a poet with the name of Ahl&icirc; (see this takhalluṣ twice. on fol. 48^b, l. 4, and fol. 58^a, l. 2); but whether Ahl&icirc; Sh&icirc;r&acirc;zi, Ahl&icirc; Khur&acirc;s&acirc;n&icirc;, Ahl&icirc; T&ucirc;r&acirc;ni, or Ahl&icirc; &Icirc;r&acirc;n&icirc; is the author, it is impossible to decide, since no date is given in the poem nor any allusions made to contemporary personages, comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 323.</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>بنام خداوند لوح و قلم &ndash; كه بر نيستى زد بهستى رقم</p> <p>Dated A.H. 1000 (A.D. 1591, 1592).</p> <p>No. 2360, ff. 43-58, 2 coll., each ll. 12-13; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece, some pages a little injured; size, 7 in. by 4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>