[IO Islamic 1673] مخزن الاسرار

Makhzan-alasrâr.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1107 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 1673 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1107

Makhzan-alasrâr (مخزن الاسرار).

Part of the commentary on the mathnawî by Shâh Walî Muḥammad ibn Shaikh Ruḥm-allâh of Akbarâbâd, which was compiled, as it seems, between A.H. 1140 and 1151 (A.D. 1727-1738); comp W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 791 and 792, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 495.

The present copy contains the fifth Daftar of the mathnawî only, beginning:

باز ميرانم قلم در حمد حق

ميكنم از سرقدم در حمد حق

چه سر وچه پا بحمد آيم بجان

مى سرايم حمد اورا بى زبان الخ

There are lacunas after fol. 84 (comprising two leaves), after fol. 85 (comprising four leaves), after fol. 86 (comprising again two leaves), and after fol. 88 (comprising six leaves). The commentary begins on fol. 5b; ff. 1a-4a contain a detailed index of this daftar. A complete copy of this commentary seems not to be extant; the Berlin copy contains the sixth daftar only; the various copies noticed in A. Sprenger, loc. cit., the first, second, and sixth.

No date.

No. 1673, ff. 151, ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10 in. by 55/8 in.