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RSPA 34

Record Id:
032-003481700
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 34
Title:
1 copy of Mas̱navī-i Maʿnavī by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
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032-003481700
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff.ii+380+ii
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1619
End Date:
1620
Date Range:
1619-1620
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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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
Subjects:
Islamic poetry, Persian
TEI:

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 34

Contents

1 copy of Mas̱navī-i Maʿnavī by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Language(s): Persian

ff. 1v-380v
Title: Mas̱navī-i Maʿnavī
Title: مثنوی معنوی
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī جلال الدین رومی
Incipit: بشنو از نی چون حکابت میکند *** از جدائها شکایت میکند
Explicit: هست باقی شرح این لیکن درود *** بسته شد دیگر نمی آید برون
Colophon: تم الدفتر السادس من المثنوی الهادی إلب الصراط المستقیم بعون الله وحسن توفیقه علی ید اضعف

The date (year) can be found in a colophon to Book III on f182.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Fine brown woven paper.
Extent: ff.ii+380+ii
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Perso-Arabic numerals in pencil.

Condition

Fine condition. Damage to the bottom of each folio. Some worm damage. First folio very damage.

Layout

Columns:2

21 written lines in body of text with 17 hemistichs written transversely across the margins.

Hand(s)

Very small and elegant nastaʿlīq.

Decoration

Each book of the Masnavī begins with a new first page that has a blue and gold cupola style headpiece with a floral design.

Additions:

There are some marginal annotations by Jones throughout the manuscript, but particularly in the first quarter of the textblock. These range from linguistic notes, quotations from other works and transcribing the metre of the poem. On f1r, Jones has written "Masnavi". There are also notes in Persian from a range of different hands throughout the manuscript.

Binding

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

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1619-1620 1029 (1619 - 1620) AH ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. This manuscript was presented by Lady 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 no. XXXIV

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