[IO Islamic 2787] شرح گلستان

Sharḥ-i-Gulistân.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1181 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 2787 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Sharḥ-i-Gulistân (شرح گلستان).

Another commentary on the Gulistân, by Muḥammad Nûr-allâh Aḥrârî, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 550, beginning, on fol. 24b: منّت مر خدايرا عزّو جلّ كه زبان گویا را پيشكار دل دانا ساخت الخ.

The author’s name appears on fol. 25a, l.8. It is the same Nûr-allâh Aḥrârî who wrote a commentary on the mathnawî (see No. 1104 in this Cat.).

This copy is incomplete, one leaf seems to be missing at the end; it breaks off in the eighth chapter (which begins on fol. 96a); the last words of the text are:پادشاه از بهر ستمگار است... (or rather : پادشاه از براى دفع ستمگاران, see No. 2797 (1174 in this Cat.), fol. 95b, l. 7).

Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2787, ff. 24-103, ll. 15; Shikasta; size, 83/4 in. by 6 in.