al-Mas̲navī al-Mawlavī al-Maʻnavī

Title:

al-Mas̲navī al-Mawlavī al-Maʻnavī
المثنوي المولوي المعنوي

Alternative title:

Mas̲navī
Mas̲navī-i maʻnavī
Mathnawī al-Mawlawī al-Maʻnawī
المثنوی المولوی المعنوی
مثنوی
مثنوي

Creator:

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana
جلال الدين رومى, مولانا

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Fasāʼī, scribe
عبد الله بن احمد الفسايى، ناسخ

Date:

[1827].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 292Origin: As appears in final colophon at close of sixth daftar on p.614, copied by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Fasāyī [al-Fasāʼī, reading first supplied in note by Muhammad Isa Waley dated May 1980 on catalogue card] with transcription completed Jumādá II 1243 [December 1827]. As appears in colophon on p.99, transcription of first daftar completed 1 Rabīʻ II (presumably of 1243 [ca. 22 October 1827]). As appears in colophon on p.299, transcription of third daftar completed in the latter part of Jumādá I 1243 [December 1827]. As appears on p.499, transcription of fifth daftar completed Jumādá I 1243 [December 1827].Former shelfmark: "174 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of opening leaf (p.1) ; "50 / 12" in brown ink on recto of opening leaf (p.1) ; "١" in pencil on recto of opening leaf (p.1).Binding: Heavy pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork with spine in red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; likely two-piece binding ; doublures in fine painted lacquerwork with floral composition of three large blooms rising from a rooted stalk with leaves, all in gold on a red ground ; upper and lower covers carry central rectangular panel in brown with bronze flecks surrounded by borders of stalks and rules in bronze-gold as well as a band of delicate vegetal motifs with birds and fruits in shades of green, blue, white, red and orange ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations, reinforcements in dark blue thread ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion, minor losses of laquer, etc. ; slightly ill-fitting and perhaps not original.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, quite distinct, some curving) and no chain lines plainly visible, transluscent and crisp though dense and sturdy, well-burnished to glossy, gray in color ; some cockling and creasing.Decoration: Exquisite illuminated double-page opening (with illuminated headpiece / ʻunwān / sarlawḥ, gold cloud-bands and illuminated marginal decoration) at opening of each daftar (pp.6-7, 102-103, 188-189, 302-303, 394-395, 502-503), each unique but mainly involving rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche surmounted by rich well with w-shaped piece or dome set down in filled with floral vegetal decorations in shades of pink, orange, white, blue, yellow, and red on grounds of gold and dark blue and marginal decoration of saz leaves and floral forms chiefly in gold with red and blue accents ; preface to each daftar set in almond shaped medallion outlined in red rules ; written area surrounded by gold frame with outermost blue rule (divisions within defined by narrow gold bands outlined in black) ; keywords and headings rubricated or in blue ink.Script: Naskh ; compact Persianate hand in a medium line ; chiefly serifless with fairly straight and vertical ascenders, pointing in combination of distinct (two dots, one above the other) and conjoined dots (three dots, two conjoined and third above), adhering to baseline, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping dramatically), ascender of kāf often curved back with shaqq / sarkash gently curving up, partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page with written area divided to four columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV+2 (10), 37 IV(306), II (310) ; almost exclusively quaternions ; final leaves ruled but left blank (pp.615-619) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد تم هذا المثنوی المولوی المعنوی بید عبد الله ابن احمد الفسایی فی یوم الخمیس شهر جمادی الاخری سنه ثلث و اربعون و مائتين بعد الالف من الهجره النبویة علیه واله تم م م م م م"Explicit: "دردل من آن سخن زان مینمنه است زانکه ازدل جانب دل روزنه استIncipit: "هذا کتاب المثنوی وهو اصول اصول اصول الدین فی کشف اسرار الوصول والیقین ..."Title from colophons on pp.99, 299, 499 and 614.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī’s didactic poetical work in double verses with Arabic preface. Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Persian
Persian poetry 747-1500.
Masnavis, Persian Early works to 1800.
Sufi poetry, Persian Early works to 1800.

Time period:

747-1500

Extent:

310 leaves : paper ; 254 x 152 (171 x 96) mm. bound to 257 x 158 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006806363

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