Item Summary

Rūmī's famous book of poetry.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المثنوى المعنوى.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Mathnawī al-maʻnawī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 415L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcj6731h19m
Language
Persian
Format
Manuscript
Extent
273 leaves : paper ; 265 x 160 (200 x 115) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 415
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
Leaves 1b-46a: Book 1
leaves 46b-87a: Book 2
leaves 87b-140b: Book 3
leaves 141a-186a: Book 4
leaves 186b-236a: Book 5
leaves 238b-273a: index.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 1b).
Folios 141-142 missing.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 273 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page divided into four columns ; frame-ruled in gold, black, red and blue.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in poor condition, edges damaged with loss of marginal notes but not of main text.
Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpieces (ʻunwāns) in gold, blue, red, white and black at the beginning of each jild (fol. 1b, 46b, 87b, 186b).
Incipit: هذا كتاب المثنوى المعنوى وهو اصول واصول الدين في كشف اسرار الوصول واليقين وهو فقه الله الاكبر ...
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
poetry
Poetry
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
546

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8c6fad4e-ceea-477e-b51d-08a70cfcdd4b/manifest