[IO Islamic 1202] شرح مثنوى تصنيف نعيم

<strong>Sharḥ-i-mathnawî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1108 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 1202 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1108 Sharḥ-i-mathnawî, by Na’îm (شرح مثنوى تصنيف نعيم). A defective copy of the commentary on the mathnawi, by Mîr Muḥammad Na’îm, beginning abruptly in the middle of Daftar I: پس اين قسم رعايت اسباب كه محض براى حفظ دين بود و مدّت قليل الخ. The first bait commented upon runs thus: جهد حق است ودوا حق است و درد منكر اندر نفى جهدش جهد كرد Daftar II, on fol. 29^a; III is missing; IV, on fol. 44^b; V, on fol. 65^a; VI, on fol. 91^b. No date. The colophon states that the author compiled this commentary, which merely explains certain difficult verses and does not at all aim at a full and exhaustive treatment of the subject, for the sake of Ṣûfîs (طالبان راه خدا). A few various readings on the margin. No. 1202, ff. 113, ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¾ in. by 5 in.