[IO Islamic 953] مخزن الاسرار

Makhzan-alasrâr.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 997 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 953 here with notations and hyperlinks].

997

Another still more defective copy of the same.

This copy is very defective and besides in extreme confusion; the proper order of the leaves is: ff. 38-93 (lacuna), 1-30 (lacuna), 37, 31-36. The first bait on fol. 38a corresponds to No. 1444 (989 in this Cat.), fol. 4a, l. 12, the last bait on fol. 36b to fol. 23b, l. 9 in the same copy. The lacuna after fol. 93 comprises ff. 13b, l. 17-14a, l. 12 in No. 1444, that after fol. 30, ff. 19b, l. 8-22a, l. 4 ab infra in the same copy.

Maḳâlah I (according to the usual copies خلوت دويم or سيم, see No. 989 above), on fol. 63b; II (I in the usual copies), on fol. 69a; III (respectively II), on fol. 74a; IV (resp. III), on fol. 79b; V (resp. IV), on fol. 83b; VI (resp. V), on fol. 86b; VII (resp. VI), on fol. 90b; VIII (resp. VII), on fol. 2b; IX (resp. VIII), on fol. 5a; X (resp. IX), on fol. 7b; XI (resp. X), on fol. 11b; XII (resp. XI), on fol. 15b; XIII (resp. XII), on fol. 19a; XIV (resp. XIII), on fol. 23a; XV (resp. XIV), on fol. 27a; XXI (resp. XX), on fol. 34a.

Entirely wanting, besides portions of the introduction, are XVI-XIX (XV-XVIII resp.), and portions of VII (resp. VI), XV and XX (XIV and XIX) together with the conclusion.

Interlinear and marginal glosses throughout the greater part of the copy. Worm-eaten and severely injured in many places.

No. 953, ff. 93, 2 coll., each ll. 9; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 71/4 in. by 41/8 in.