Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

V. 14 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: منتخبات مثنوی A small MS. volume containing (ff. 3-30) selections from the Mathnawi, compiled in 943/1536-7. At the end the compiler has added the five following verses of his own: چونك كرد الطاف مولى فتح باب مفردات مثنوی شد انتخاببر امید آنك آن سلطان عشق سازد این درمانده را درمان عشق این دل گمراه را ره بین کند غرق بحر عشق شمس الدين كنداختیارم می کند آن پاك ذات مثنوی شد انتخاب مفردات بدين (?) تاریخ گزینش بشنوی هست لولوهای درج مثنوی تاریخ سنه ثلث و اربعین و تسعمائه So corrected in pencil. Originally مفردات stood at the beginning instead of the end of the line. As the chronogram appears to give 901/1495-6, the date 943/1536-7 may indicate the date of transcription. These extracts are followed (ff. 31-40) by an anonymous Persian tract entitled Mir átal-Qulab, beginning, after the doxology: ... اما بعد بدانای طالب علم یقین و ای کاشف اسرار دین که این فقیر چند کلمه از كنوز واردات غیبی در معنی حدیث نبوی صلعم ادا کرده تا سالكانرا مرات رؤیت گردد... و این رساله مشتمل است بسه دایره و این رساله را نام نهاده شد مرآت القلوب تا در میان اهل اشارت محبوب گردد والله الموفق والمعين قال رسول الله صلعم من أراد ان يجلس مع الله فليجلس مع اهلالتصوف الخ There are diagrams of the "three circles" to which allusion is made above, and at the end a qasida of some eighty verses beginning: اشجار باغ راست از دیربای چین قباازهار تاج وار ز مبدع شدش عطا The MS. was one of thirteen bought of J. J. Naaman for £25 in May, 1902. It comprises 40 ff. of 16'6 x 12'3 and 13-15 ll., and is written throughout in an ungraceful but legible ta'liq.
1. ff. 3b-30b

Language(s): Persian

References

Selections from the Mas̲navī-i maʻnavī مثنوی معنوی .
2. ff. 31b-40a

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 40
Dimensions: 16.6 × 12.3 cm.

Layout

13-15 lines

Hand(s)

Ungraceful but legible ta'liq

History

Origin: 943 AH; 1536-7 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The MS. was one of thirteen bought of J. J. Naaman for £25 in May, 1902.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

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JISC


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