Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• On front cover: Label reading "263" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 22-24 lines per page, in four columns; written in casual naskh in black by several different hands on a variety of glazed, laid European paper. Headings in red or blue, in larger script, or overlined in red; some headings added by later hands, and some headings not filled in after fol. 218a. Catchwords; a few marginal notes and occasional cross-outs. Some paper repairs, mainly marginal, particularly at beginning and end of ms. Some pages foxed; light staining and smudging.
• Origin: Daftar 1 completed on 25 Ramaḍān 1081 H [5 Feburary 1671] (fol. 49a). Daftar 2 completed in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, but no year given [likely 1081 H] (fol. 92b). Daftar 6 completed in Rajab 1087 H [September 1676] in Kāshān (fol. 298b).

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants containing floral and foliar designs, blind-tooled fillets, and blind-stamped outer frame consisting of a scroll pattern. Decorated paper pastedowns, partially overlaid with pages from another manuscript.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. 1a, note dated Tehran, 1375.

Other title(s)

• Mathnawī al-maʻnawī
• مثنوي المعنوي

OCLC

758354320

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