[IO Islamic 642] شرح تحفة العراقين

Sharḥ-i-Tuḥfat-al’irâḳain.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 960 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 642 here with notations and hyperlinks].

960

Sharḥ-i-Tuḥfat-al’irâḳain (شرح تحفة العراقين).

A commentary on the Tuḥfat-al’irâḳain, composed by Shaikh ‘Abd-alsalâm, A.H. 1057, in the 20th year of Shâhjahân’s reign=A.D. 1647 (see ff. 3b, l. 7, and 4b, ll. 10-13), comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 463, and Bodleian Cat., No. 581.

Beginning of the preface (different from that in Sprenger): حمدى كه كتاب ستايش و شرح نيايش را عنوان زيبد و اجزاى تحسين و اوراق آفرين را شيرازه بندد مر متكلّمى را الخ.

The first verse of the mathnawî, commented upon, is the usual initial bait: مائيم نظارگان الخ, on fol. 6a.

Another commentary on the same mathnawî, by Ghulâm Muḥammad, is noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 580.

This copy was finished the 17th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1059 (A.D. 1649, Nov. 22), only two years after the completion of the commentary.

No. 642, ff. 159, ll. 17; irregular Nasta’lîḳ, by two different hands, as it seems; size, 9 in. by 4½ in.