[IO Islamic 2265] مخزن الاسرار

<ul> <li><strong>Makhzan-alasr&acirc;r.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 992&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 2265 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>992</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>This copy, which is dated A.H. 1017 (A.D. 1608, 1609), by Ghul&acirc;m Muḥammad F&acirc;ḍil ibn F&acirc;ḍil Badakhsh&icirc;, abounds in marginal and interlinear glosses and explanations to such an extent that the text in many places becomes almost unreadable on account of the bewildering amount of notes. It contains the usual twenty maḳ&acirc;las, and begins (with a transposition of the hemistichs in the initial bait):</p> <p>هست كليد در گنج حكيم &ndash; بسم الله الخ</p> <p>College of Fort William, 1825.</p> <p>No. 2265, ff. 77, coll., each ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8^7/8 in. by 5^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>