[IO Islamic 941] شرح گلشن راز

Sharḥ-i-Gulshan-i-râz This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1820 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 941 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1820 Sharḥ-i-Gulshan-i-râz (شرح گلشن راز). The text of the poem with a short commentary on all the difficult verses in it, by an anonymous author, beginning with the usual initial verse. First words of the commentary: وجان عبارت از روح انسانيست كه مدرك اين معانيست الخ. Slightly injured in several places. Dated by Muḥammad Bâḳî the 16th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1094 (A.D. 1683, Feb. 14). A similar, but defective, commentary is described in J. Aumer, p. 19; two short explanatory treatises on the Gulshan-i-râz are noticed in the Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1261 and 1262; an exposition of one verse only is found in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 20, No. 8. No. 941, ff. 119, ll. 17-19; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 5¾ in.