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[IO Islamic 1444] مخزن الاسرار

<ul> <li><strong>Makhzan-alasr&acirc;r.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 989&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 1444 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>989</p> <p>Makhzan-alasr&acirc;r.</p> <p>Another extremely old and valuable copy of Niż&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s مخزن الاسرار, written by Faḍl-all&acirc;h bin Muḥammad bin &lsquo;Umar bin &lsquo;Uthm&acirc;n bin Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin-alḥusain bin H&acirc;r&ucirc;n alṣ&ucirc;f&icirc; (see Nos. 916 and 929 above), and finished in the month Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-al&acirc;khar, A.H. 637 (A.D. 1239, November); it is unfortunately injured and effaced in many places. Beginning:</p> <p>بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم &ndash; هست كليذ در گنج حكيم</p> <p>This old copy contains twenty-one maḳ&acirc;las (instead of the usual twenty), with the following headings : I, on fol. 8<sup>a</sup>, در صفت آدم و تخليص در نزل دنيى (this maḳ&acirc;lah is in the usual copies simply styled خلوت سيوم, see No. 141 (973 in this Cat.), fol. 11<sup>b</sup>, l. 3 ab infra, or خلوت دويم, see No. 387 (976 in this Cat.), fol. 13<sup>a</sup>, and No. 48 (996 below in this Cat.), fol. 23<sup>b</sup>); II, on fol. 9<sup>b</sup>, در محافظت عدل (this is the <em>first</em> maḳ&acirc;lah in the usual copies, but with the heading of the previous maḳ&acirc;lah, and so on in all the following maḳ&acirc;las); III, on fol. 10<sup>a</sup>, در حوادث عالم و انقلابش ; IV, on fol. 11<sup>a</sup>, در حسن رعايت پادشاهان ; V, on fol. 12<sup>a</sup>,در عجز آدمى و اختلاف او ; VI, on fol. 12<sup>b</sup>, در اعتبار موجودات ; VII, on fol. 13<sup>a</sup>, در مرتبت آدمى بر جملۀ حيوان; VIII, on fol. 14<sup>a</sup>, در حيّز آفرينش و بزرگوارئ عقل; IX, on fol. 14<sup>b</sup>, &hellip;.. در معونات دنياوى و نفس ; X, on fol. 15<sup>a</sup>, در نموّ نار آخر الزمان و علامات آن; XI, on fol. 16<sup>a</sup>, در مشقّت منزل و پرهيزگارى ازو ; XII, on fol. 16<sup>b</sup>, در وداع اين مقام; XIII, on fol. 17<sup>a</sup>, در شكايت عالم; XIV, on fol. 18<sup>a</sup>, در شرط بيذارى از غفلة; XV, on fol. 18<sup>b</sup>, در حذف آدمى و تفضيل او; XVI, on fol. 19<sup>b</sup>, در تدبير چابك روى; XVII, on fol. 20<sup>a</sup>, در خلوت و تجريد ; XVIII, on fol. 20<sup>b</sup>, در بيوفائئ روزگار; XIX, on fol. 21<sup>b</sup>, در استقبال آخرت; XX, on fol. 22<sup>a</sup>, در شكايت نامنصفان; XXI (not numbered in the text), on fol. 23<sup>a</sup>, در ترتيب نظم كتاب (this is the 20th maḳ&acirc;lah in the usual copies); Kh&acirc;timah, on fol. 24<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>On fol. 1<sup>a</sup> the concluding verses of another mathnaw&icirc;, written by the same copyist in the same year A.H. 637.</p> <p>Strange to Say, this oldest copy of the Makhzan-alasr&acirc;r contains <em>no</em> date of composition.</p> <p>No. 1444, ff. 1-24, 4 coll., each ll. 25; good old Naskh&icirc;; size, 9<sup>1/4 </sup>in. by 6<sup>1/8</sup> in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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