[IO Islamic 212] شرح گلستان

• Sharḥ-i-Gulistân.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1180 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 212 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Sharḥ-i-Gulistân (شرح گلستان).

Another short commentary on the Gulistân, by Muḥammad ‘Abd-alrasûl (or, as he is called here, by a confusion with his brother ‘Abdallâh, ‘Abdallâh alrasûl) bin Shihâb-almillat (Shihâb-aldîn) bin Shaikh ‘Abd-allâh bin Shaikh Ṭâhir bin Shaikh Ḥasan alḳuraishi (or alḳurashî) alhâshimi, who began this work after having completed his commentary on the Bûstân (see No. 1152 in this Cat.) in A.H. 1073 (A.D. 1662, 1663); comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 724; Rieu ii. p. 604 and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 550. It was printed in Lucknow, A.H. 1264.

Beginning:

سپاس بى قياس عليمى را كه علم علّم الاسماء كُلّها ( 2, v.29Sȗrah ) حرفى است از تختۀ تعليم او الخ.

Every bâb of the Gulistân comprises in this commentary five explanatory parts, viz. 1. verses of the Ḳurân (آيات الهى); 2. traditions of the Prophet, sayings of the Shaikhs, and Arabic proverbs (احاديث نبوى و اقوال مشايخ و امثال عرب); 3. Arabic verses (اشعار عربيّه); 4. Persian verses (ابيات فارسيّه); 5.difficult Arabic and Persian words and phrases, in alphabetical order (لغات عربيّه و فارسيّه برعايت ترتيب حروف).

Occasional notes and additions on the margin.

Dated the 2nd of Ramaḍân, in the seventeenth year of Âlamgîr’s reign (=A.H. 1085, A.D. 1674, Nov. 30).

No. 212, ff. 255-284, ll. 20; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9½ in. by 6 in.