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Summary of Contents: The Masnavi of Rumi. A fine example of a Safavid manuscript, with illuminations and very fine original binding.

Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī جلال الدین رومی

Title: Mas̲navī

Title: مثنوی

Incipit: هذا کتاب المثنوی وهو اصول اصول الدین فی کشف اسرار رب تمم بفضل الوصول والیقین وهو فقه الله الاکبر

Colophon: تم الدفتر السادس من کتاب المثنوی المعنوی المولوی...وانا الاقل المحتاج...حاجی محمد بن کرم الله الشوشتری فی تاریخ شهر محرم الحرام سنه اثنین وثمانین تسعمایه الهجریه

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 308 ff.

Layout

Hand(s)

Fine nasta'liq

Decoration

A fine example of a Safavid manuscript

, with illuminations.

Binding

Fine original binding.

History

Origin: Muharram 982 AH; 1574 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This manuscript is part of a small collection of Islamic manuscripts held at Eton College Library, which are not part of the separate ‘Pote Collection’. (The Pote Collection was given in 1788 by Edward Ephraim Pote to Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge and is now held on loan at the Cambridge University Library).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on M.S.Q. Fraser, Islamic manuscripts in the Eton College Library, 1996.

Availability

For admissions procedures to the Eton College Library reading room, please see information for researchers. Contact collections@etoncollege.org.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript and to arrange an appointment to visit the library.

Funding of Cataloguing

Eton College

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