[IO Islamic 2000] مكاشفات رضوى

Mukâshafât-i-Riḍawî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1105 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 2000 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1105

Mukâshafât-i-Riḍawî (مكاشفات رضوى).

Complete commentary on the mathnawî, compiled by Muḥammad Riḍâ in A.H. 1084 (A.D. 1673, 1674, see fol. 2a, ll. 5, 9, and 14); comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 495.

Beginning of the preface of Daftar I: نه حمدى سزاوار آفريدگار جهان و جهانیان است بر هر حامدى كاشف اسرار الخ.

The initial bait of the mathnawî appears on fol. 2a, introduced like all the baits of the text by the word متن. This daftar is dated the 2nd of Ṣafar, A.H. 1165 (A.D. 1751, Dec. 21).

Daftar II, on fol. 141b, dated the 21st of the same month (A.D. 1752, Jan. 9).

Daftar III, on fol. 186b, dated the 14the of Rabi’-alawwal in the same year (A.D. 1752, Jan.31).

Daftar IV, on fol. 224b; V, on fol. 248b; VI, on fol. 272b.

The last daftar is dated the 19the of Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1165 (A.D. 1752, March 6)

No. 2000, ff. 299, ll. 17; small, but clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 85/8 in. by 45/8 in.