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[IO Islamic 112] Mathnawîs

<ul> <li>Mathnaw&icirc;s</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1657 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Eth&eacute;, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 477 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1657</span></p> <p><span>Two anonymous mathnaw&icirc;s.</span></p> <p><span>1.The </span><span><em>first</em></span><span>, on ff. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-53</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, is styled, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, </span><span><span><span><span><span>ليلى و مجنون</span></span></span></span></span><span>, but its real title appears to be Mihr u Waf&acirc; (</span><span><span><span><span><span>مهر و وفا</span></span></span></span></span><span>) ; it is dedicated to the emperor </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;lamg&icirc;r, see fol. 3</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>; and in the preface, on fol. 7</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> sq., the anonymous author mentions all the former great poets from R&ucirc;dag&icirc; down to his own time, and bestows a special praise upon each of them. Beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>خداوندا دلى ده داغ </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>رورد </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash;</span></span><span><span><span> سرا</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ا داغ و داغش سر</span></span></span><span><span><span>ب</span></span></span><span><span><span>سر درد</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>بمهر خود مرا </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>رم آشنا كن </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash;</span></span><span><span><span> دلم را نسخ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ۀ مهر و وفا کن</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>2.The </span><span><em>second</em></span><span>, on ff.</span><span> </span><span>54</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-112, is styled, on ff. 1</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> and 54</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, </span><span><span><span><span><span>شيرين</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>و</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>خسرو</span></span></span></span></span><span>, but this seems to be incorrect too; on fol. 59</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 2, the real title appears, </span><span><span><span><span><span>شمع انجمن</span></span></span></span></span><span>, in the following bait:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>فت نا</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ه هاتفى در </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>وش من</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>نام اين مجموعه شمع انجمن</span></span></span></p> <p><span>Beginning, on fol.54</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>اى وجودت واجب و ممكن همه</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>بر وجودت مؤمن و موقن همه</span></span></span></p> <p><span>The author of both mathnaw&icirc;s is probably the same; the only poet of </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;lamg&icirc;r</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s time, to whom a mathnaw&icirc;, </span><span><span><span><span><span>مهر و وفا</span></span></span></span></span><span>, is ascribed, is </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;rif of L&acirc;h&ucirc;r, see Makhzan-alghar&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib, No. 1672 (col. 354 in the Bodleian Cat.).</span></p> <p><span>No. 112, ff. 150, 2 coll., each ll. 14-17; written by different hands in different kinds of careful and careless </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size. 8</span>^{<span>1/8</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>3/4</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>