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Mas̲navī maʻnavī - Persian manuscript

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Mas̲navī maʻnavī - Persian manuscript

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Manuscript.
Persian.
Title from folio 2a.
Probably written in Iran.
Paper; cream-colored Middle Eastern slightly polished paper; black ink with rubrication; richly decorated title page, page following title page and chapter headings; rich border enclosing the beginning of the poem containst the following lines: "Tā qiyāmat kar rah-i ṣūrat ravī // Tā qiyāmat bū-0yi maʻná nashnavī // Jān-i jāvidān agar khvāhī bikhvān // Mas̲navī-i maʻnavī-i mawlavī"; catchwords on rectos.
Preceding the text, on folios 1b (first group) and 1a (second group) there is a brief essay in Arabic; in margin "Fīhā miṣbāḥ".
At end of the text, beginning on folio 314b is a 2 page poem titled: Daftar haftum az dafātir-i Mas̲navī.
Rypka, Jan. History of Iranian literature, p. 241
Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum, v. 2, p. 585-586
Nastaʻliq; 23 lines in written area 18.5 x 11.5 cm.
1b-314a.
Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, 71/48.
Later brown leather envelope binding; embossed medallions front and back; missing envelope flap.
Incipit: Bishnaw az nay jūn ḥikāyat mīkunad, vaz judāʼīhā shikāyat mīkunad.
Colophon: Tamma al-kitāb al-Mathnawī al-maʻnawī min kalām sulṭān al-ʻārifīn ... Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, qaddasa Allah sirrahu al-ʻazīz fī shuhūr sanat khams [wa-]ʻarbaʻīn wa-thamānimiʼah ...
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Incipit: بشنو از نى جون حكايت ميكند, وز جدائيها شكايت ميكند.
Colophon: تم الكتاب المثموي المعنوي من كلام سلطان العارفين ... مولانا جلال الدين رومي قدس الله سره العزيز في شهور سنه خمس عربعين وثمانماية ...

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01/01/1441
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