[IO Islamic 723] شرح مثنوى تصنيف نور الله

• Sharḥ-i-mathnawî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1104 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 723 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1104

Sharḥ-i-mathnawî, by Nûr-allâh ( شرح مثنوى تصنيف نور الله).

A commentary on the mathnawî, by Shâh Mîr Muḥammad Nûr-allâh Aḥrârî (see fol. 2^a, l. 1), also called Akbarâbâdî (see Rieu ii. p. 592), who, if he is identical with the Mîr Nûr-allâh, mentioned, in Rieu ii. p. 604, as the master of ‘Abd-alrasûl alḳurashî, who submitted to him his commentary on the Bûstân, composed A.H. 1073 (A.D. 1662, 1663), must have been a younger contemporary of ‘Abd-allaṭîf, the editor and commentator of the same mathnawî, whom he often quotes and corrects. Other copies of this work are noticed in Rieu, loc. cit.; Bodleian Cat., No. 669, and A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 495 and 496. Beginning: الحمد لله العلى الاعلى الوهّاب الذى انزل على عبده الكتاب هدى للمتّقين الخ.

Daftar I, on fol. 2^b.

This daftar is incomplete, it breaks off on fol. 67^b in consequence of a lacuna.

Beginning of Daftar II, on fol. 68^b:تا نزايد بخت تو فرزند نو الخ لفظ بخت اگرچه بفتح اوّل مشهور است امّا بضمّ اوّل الخ.

Beginning of Daftar III, on fol. 119^b: اى ضياء الحق حسام الدين بيار – اين سوم دفتر كه سنّت شد سه بار‘ سنّت خود مطلق بمراعات عدد طاق است الخ.

Beginning of Daftar IV, on fol. 171^a: دفتر چهارم باقئ حكايت آن عاشق‘ گر زيان كردم الخ يعنى اگر از وى نمى گریختم مرا میگرفت الخ.

Beginning of Daftar V, on fol. 207^b: شه حسام الدين كه نور انجم است – طالب آغاز سفر پنجم است‘ سفر بكسر اوّل كتاب و نامه اينجا بمعنئ كتاب مناسب است الخ.

Beginning of Daftar VI, on fol. 240^b: شد دهان شان تلخ زان شرم و خجل – كه قرين شد نام اعظم با اقل‘ خجل بفتحتين مصدر است الخ.

The second daftar is dated the 26th of Ramadân, A.H. 1158 (A.D. 1745, Oct. 22); the rest is without a date. All the introductions to the text, written in red on the first 144 leaves, are entirely omitted from fol. 145 down to the end.

No. 723, ff. 282, ll. 15-20; written by many different hands, partly in Nasta’lîḳ, partly in Shikasta; size, 8 in. by 4^1/8 – 4^3/8 in.