[IO Islamic 2787] شرح گلستان

<strong>Sharḥ-i-Gulistân.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1181 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 2787 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1181 Sharḥ-i-Gulistân (شرح گلستان). Another commentary on the Gulistân, by Muḥammad Nûr-allâh Aḥrârî, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 550, beginning, on fol. 24^b: منّت مر خدايرا عزّو جلّ كه زبان گویا را پيشكار دل دانا ساخت الخ. The author’s name appears on fol. 25^a, 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. 96^a); 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. 95^b, l. 7). Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2787, ff. 24-103, ll. 15; Shikasta; size, 8^3/4 in. by 6 in.