[IO Islamic 2941] كشف المحجوب

Kashf-almaḥjûb

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1776 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2941 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1776

The same.

This copy is slightly defective at the end, and has, moreover, a lacuna after fol. 94, comprising two pages and corresponding to No. 1274 (1774 in this Cat.), fol. 138a, last line, to fol. 139b, last line but two.

No date. The proper order of ff. 94-97 is: 94, 96, 95, and 97; of ff. 182-189 : 182, 184, 189, 185, 186, 187, 188, and 183. Ff. 138 and 139 are turned upside down. The text is effaced and injured in many places.

Beginning: كشف لاولائه بواطن ملكوته الخ….

corresponding to the fourth word of line 3, on fol. 1b, in No. 1274.

Bâb 1. on fol. 6a ; 2. on fol. 8b ; 3. on fol. 13b ; 4. on fol. 19b ; 5. on fol. 25a ; 6. on fol. 26b ; 7. on fol. 30a ; 8. on fol. 32b ; 9. on fol. 36b; 10. on fol. 38a; 11. on fol. 40b; 12. on fol. 73b ; 13. on fol. 77b; 14. on fol. 79a ; Kashf 1, on fol.121b ; Kashf 2, on fol. 126b ; Kashf 3, on fol. 130a ; Kashf 4, on fol. 132a ; 15. on fol. 133b ; Kashf 5, on fol. 136a ; 16. on fol. 139a; Kashf 6, on fol. 143a ; 17. on fol. 144a ; Kashf 7, on fol. 145b ; 18. on fol. 147b ; Kashf 8, on fol. 148b ; 19. on fol. 150b ; Kashf 9, on fol. 152a ; 20. on fol. 153b ; 21. on fol. 155a ; 22. on fol. 156b ; 23. on fol. 158a ; 24. on fol. 159b ; 25. on fol. 160b; 26. on fol. 161a ; 27. on fol. 162b ; 28. on fol. 164a; 29. on fol. 165b ; 30. Kashf 10, on fol. 168a ; Kashf 11, on fol. 178b ; 31. on fol. 179a ; 32. on fol. 181a ; 33. on fol. 182a ; 34. on fol. 184b ; 35. on fol. 185a ; 36. on fol. 185b ; 37. on fol. 188a ; 38. on fol. 183a ; 39. on fol. 183b.

In the beginning of this bâb, on fol. 183b, the copy breaks off ; the last words, occurring here, correspond to fol. 279b, l. 10, in No. 1274.

A few marginal additions on the first three pages.

No. 2941, ff. 189, ll. 19 ; good old Nasta’lîḳ ; small illuminated frontispiece ; worm-eaten ; size, 101/8 in. by 61/4 in.