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[IO Islamic 3326] نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات سقيمه

<ul> <li><strong>Nuskha-i-n&acirc;sikha-i-mathnawiyy&acirc;t-i-saḳ&icirc;mah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1089&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 3326 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1089</p> <p>Another copy of the <em>first three daftars</em> of the Nuskha-i-n&acirc;sikhah.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Index to Daftar I, on fol. 1^b.</p> <p>The same elaborate heading as on fol. 9^b in the preceding copy, on fol. 4^b.</p> <p>The original Arabic preface of Daftar I (with the Persian paraphrase on the margin), on fol. 5^b.</p> <p>A short account of the reasons why the mathnaw&icirc; is divided into six daftars (wanting in the preceding copy), taken from &lsquo;Abd-allaṭif&rsquo;s commentary لطائف المعنوى (see below, No. 1101), and beginning, on fol. 7^a: شش دفتر اين كتاب را عليحدّه و جدا در شش مجلّد باين جهت جلد كرده شد الخ.</p> <p>The editor&rsquo;s introduction to Daftar I, on fol. 8^a, beginning, as in the preceding copy, fol.1^b: اين نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات الخ.</p> <p>Daftar I, on fol. 27^b.</p> <p>The editor&rsquo;s introduction to Daftar II (wanting in the preceding copy), beginning, on fol. 165^b: اين دفتريست از نسخۀ ناسخۀ مثنويّات الخ.</p> <p>Index to Daftar II, on ff. 166^b and 168^a.</p> <p>Preface of Daftar II, on fol. 167^b; beginning quite different from that in the other copies, viz. امّا بعد بدان اى سعيد جوياى جوهر سعادت الخ.</p> <p>Daftar II, on fol. 168^a.</p> <p>Index to Daftar III, on fol. 278^a.</p> <p>The editor&#39;s introduction to Daftar III (taken from the لطائف المعنوى, wanting in the preceding copy), on fol. 281^b, beginning: حكمتها يعنى دانشهاى استواره كرده شد الخ.</p> <p>Daftar III, on fol. 282^b.</p> <p>The same large number of glosses, explanations, and additions on the margin, as in the preceding copy.</p> <p>Copied by Shaikh &lsquo;Abd-allaṭ&icirc;f of Ban&acirc;ras (not identical with the editor), A.H. 1060=A.D. 1650 (so correctly in spite of a strange مائتان between the words الف و ستّين, since there is an entry by Capt. Dow from 1764, Nov. 20, on the fly-leaf).</p> <p>No. 3326, olim 11.J. 11, ff. 406, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9^5/8 in. by 6 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>