[IO Islamic 1202] شرح مثنوى تصنيف نعيم

• Sharḥ-i-mathnawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1108 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 1202 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1108

Sharḥ-i-mathnawî, by Na’îm (شرح مثنوى تصنيف نعيم).

A defective copy of the commentary on the mathnawi, by Mîr Muḥammad Na’îm, beginning abruptly in the middle of Daftar I: پس اين قسم رعايت اسباب كه محض براى حفظ دين بود و مدّت قليل الخ.

The first bait commented upon runs thus:

جهد حق است ودوا حق است و درد

منكر اندر نفى جهدش جهد كرد

Daftar II, on fol. 29^a; III is missing; IV, on fol. 44^b; V, on fol. 65^a; VI, on fol. 91^b.

No date. The colophon states that the author compiled this commentary, which merely explains certain difficult verses and does not at all aim at a full and exhaustive treatment of the subject, for the sake of Ṣûfîs (طالبان راه خدا). A few various readings on the margin.

No. 1202, ff. 113, ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¾ in. by 5 in.