[IO Islamic 642] شرح تحفة العراقين

<ul> <li><strong>Sharḥ-i-Tuḥfat-al&rsquo;ir&acirc;ḳain.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 960&nbsp;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 642 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>960</p> <p>Sharḥ-i-Tuḥfat-al&rsquo;ir&acirc;ḳain (شرح تحفة العراقين).</p> <p>A commentary on the Tuḥfat-al&rsquo;ir&acirc;ḳain, composed by Shaikh &lsquo;Abd-alsal&acirc;m, A.H. 1057, in the 20th year of Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n&rsquo;s reign=A.D. 1647 (see ff. 3^b, l. 7, and 4^b, ll. 10-13), comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 463, and Bodleian Cat., No. 581.</p> <p>Beginning of the preface (different from that in Sprenger): حمدى كه كتاب ستايش و شرح نيايش را عنوان زيبد و اجزاى تحسين و اوراق آفرين را شيرازه بندد مر متكلّمى را الخ.</p> <p>The first verse of the mathnaw&icirc;, commented upon, is the usual initial bait: مائيم نظارگان الخ, on fol. 6^a.</p> <p>Another commentary on the same mathnaw&icirc;, by Ghul&acirc;m Muḥammad, is noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 580.</p> <p>This copy was finished the 17th of Dh&ucirc;-alḳa&rsquo;dah, A.H. 1059 (A.D. 1649, Nov. 22), only two years after the completion of the commentary.</p> <p>No. 642, ff. 159, ll. 17; irregular Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, by two different hands, as it seems; size, 9 in. by 4&frac12; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>