V. 14 (University Library, Cambridge University)
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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-30bTitle: Muntakhabāt-i mas̲navīTitle: منتخبات مثنویLanguage(s): PersianReferences
Selections from the Mas̲navī-i maʻnavī مثنوی معنوی .Physical Description
Form: codexSupport: PaperExtent: Ff. 40Dimensions: 16.6 × 12.3 cm.Layout
13-15 lines
Hand(s)
Ungraceful but legible ta'liq
History
Origin: 943 AH; 1536-7 CEProvenance and Acquisition
The MS. was one of thirteen bought of J. J. Naaman for £25 in May, 1902.
Bequest of E. G. Browne.
Record Sources
Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.Availability
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