[IO Islamic 48] مخزن الاسرار

Makhzan-alasrâr.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 996 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 48 here with notations and hyperlinks].

996

A defective copy of the same.

This copy lacks the introduction, it begins at once with the مناجات thus:

اى هر ( همه read ) هستى زتو پيدا شده

خاك ضعيف از تو توانا شده

Of the twenty maḳâlas only eighteen are found in this copy; in the midst of eighteenth (according to No. 1444, 989 in this Cat., the nineteenth) it breaks off; the last bait corresponds to fol. 21b, l. 7 ab infra in No. 1444. There is besides a lacuna between ff. 46 and 47, corresponding to No. 1444, fol. 15a, l. 15-fol. 15b, l. 4 (in consequence of which the end of the eighth, respectively ninth, maḳâlah and the beginning of the ninth, respectively tenth, are missing). Some pages are filled with marginal and interlinear glosses.

No. 48; ff. 68, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 5¼ in.