[IO Islamic 898] شرح حديقه

<ul> <li><strong>Sharḥ-i-Ḥad&icirc;ḳah</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 924 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 898 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>924</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>The prefaces, both of the poet and his editor, the account of Il&acirc;h&icirc;&rsquo;s share, the short introductions, and the fatw&acirc; are wanting in this copy, which begins at once with the initial bait of B&acirc;b I of the Ḥad&icirc;ḳah; beginning of the commentary as in the preceding copy. It is rich in original glosses and notes, which make this copy especially valuable. The first gloss is: درون سالكان بنور عرفان و برون بنور شريعت.</p> <p>B&acirc;b II, on fol. 60^b; III, on fol. 126^a; IV, on fol. 140^a; V, on fol. 143^b; VI, on fol. 153^a; VII, on fol. 177^b; VIII, on fol. 185^a; IX, on fol. 188^b; X, on fol. 207^a. The date of composition is again A.H. 535, but (as a various reading) there is written بيست above the word سى. On fol. 1^a the poet is again called by mistake ثنائى.</p> <p>This copy was made in Muḥammadsh&acirc;h&rsquo;s reign, at the request of M&icirc;r Mu&rsquo;min Ghul&acirc;m-i-Ḥasan wa Ḥusain (مير مؤمن غلام حسن و حسين), by Shaikh Jam&acirc;l Muḥammad Ḳuraish&icirc; alh&acirc;shim&icirc;. The year is omitted, only the 22nd of Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-alawwal is given as date.</p> <p>No. 898, ff. 276, ll. 19 (the verses in 4 coll.); Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 10^3/8 in. by 6 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>