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RSPA 36

Record Id:
032-003481698
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003481698
MDARK:
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LARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 36
Title:
Mas̱navī-i Maʿnavī, Book 2 of 6
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
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032-003481698
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Hierarchy:
032-003481698
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not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff.ii+257+vi
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1790
End Date:
1792
Date Range:
1790-1792
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121449235,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/98930150
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121449235,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/98930150
Mavlavī ʿIzz al-Dīn
Subjects:
Persian poetry--747-1500
TEI:

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 36

Contents

Mas̱navī-i Maʿnavī, Book 2 of 6

Language(s): Persian

ff. 1v-257v
Title: Mas̱navī-i Maʿnavī
Title: مثنوی معنوی
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī جلال الدین رومی
Incipit: مدتی این مثنوی تاخیر شد *** مهلتی بایست تا خون شیر شد
Explicit: اینچنین فرمود مولانای ما *** گنج رحمن پیشوای اتقیا

Jones commissioned the six volumes of the Mas̱navī which make up MSs RSPA 35-40. This is clear from a note in MS RSPA 35 in which he acknowledges the scribe: "Written by Maulavī Aâzzu'ddīn began 21 Jan 1790. Began 21 Jan. 1790 25S.R. a month, asked; 30S.R. given". The scribe's name was Mavlavī ʿIzz al-Dīn.

Colophon: تمام شد جلد ثانی

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Strong white European paper. Watermarks are not frequent and tend to be found cut in half as the paper was bound to the margin.
Extent: ff.ii+257+vi
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

The manuscript is in excellent condition.

Layout

Columns:2

Written lines: 8

Hand(s)

Very neat black nastaʿlīq with red ink headings.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Standard India Office half leather binding with wine-coloured marbled endpapers.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1790-1792 1790 - 1792 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. These manuscripts were all given by Sir William Jones.

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p.29-30 no.XXXV-XL

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