[IO Islamic 898] شرح حديقه

Sharḥ-i-Ḥadîḳah.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 924 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 898 here with notations and hyperlinks].

924

Another copy of the same.

The prefaces, both of the poet and his editor, the account of Ilâhî’s share, the short introductions, and the fatwâ are wanting in this copy, which begins at once with the initial bait of Bâb I of the Ḥadîḳah; beginning of the commentary as in the preceding copy. It is rich in original glosses and notes, which make this copy especially valuable. The first gloss is: درون سالكان بنور عرفان و برون بنور شريعت.

Bâb II, on fol. 60b; III, on fol. 126a; IV, on fol. 140a; V, on fol. 143b; VI, on fol. 153a; VII, on fol. 177b; VIII, on fol. 185a; IX, on fol. 188b; X, on fol. 207a. The date of composition is again A.H. 535, but (as a various reading) there is written بيست above the word سى. On fol. 1a the poet is again called by mistake ثنائى.

This copy was made in Muḥammadshâh’s reign, at the request of Mîr Mu’min Ghulâm-i-Ḥasan wa Ḥusain (مير مؤمن غلام حسن و حسين), by Shaikh Jamâl Muḥammad Ḳuraishî alhâshimî. The year is omitted, only the 22nd of Rabî’-alawwal is given as date.

No. 898, ff. 276, ll. 19 (the verses in 4 coll.); Nasta’lîḳ; size, 103/8 in. by 6 in.