[IO Islamic 1342] مفاتيح الاعجاز فى شرح گلشن راز

Mafâtîḥ-ali’jâz fî sharḥ-i-Gulshan-i-râz

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1816 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 1342 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1816

Mafâtîḥ-ali’jâz fî sharḥ-i-Gulshan-i-râz (مفاتيح الاعجاز فى شرح گلشن راز).

The fullest and best of all the Persian commentaries (Jâmî inspected twenty-eight of them) on the Gulshan-i-râz, by Muḥammad bin Yaḥyâ bin ‘Alî aljilânî al-lâhijî al-Nûrbakhshî, with the takhalluṣ Asîrî, who commenced this work on the 19th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 877 (A.D. 1473, May 17), as all copies state except that in Leyden, which gives A.H. 879 (A.D. 1475, April 26) instead.

He probably died A.H. 912 (A.D. 1506, 1507). Other copies of this commentary are noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 829 ; G. Flügel iii. pp. 426 and 427 ; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 478 ; J. Aumer, p. 20 ; Cat. of the Library of Râghib Pâshâ, Constantinople, A.H. 1285, No. 690 ; and Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 117.

Beginning:باسمك الاعظم الشّامل فيضة المقدّس لكلّ موجود المنوّر ظلمات العدم بانوار الوجود الخ.

The commentator’s name appears on fol. 2a, that of the poet at the end on fol. 415a as Maulânâ Sa’d-aldîn Maḥmûd Ćabistarî (another honorary title of the poet seems to have been Najm-aldîn, and his father’s name ‘Abd-alkarîm bin Yaḥyâ).

Dated A.H. 1095 (A.D. 1684).

No. 1342, ff. 415, ll. 17; very clear and correct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; each page surrounded by a small gilt frame; size, 95/8 in. by 51/4 in.