[IO Islamic 2058] جواهر الاسرار و زواهر الانوار

<ul> <li><strong>Jaw&acirc;hir-alasr&acirc;r wa Zaw&acirc;hir-alanw&acirc;r.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1098&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 2058 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1098</p> <p>Jaw&acirc;hir-alasr&acirc;r wa Zaw&acirc;hir-alanw&acirc;r (جواهر الاسرار و زواهر الانوار).</p> <p>The first half of one of the oldest commentaries, perhaps <em>the</em> oldest of all, on the mathnaw&icirc; in form of a detailed analysis of the poem, by Maul&acirc;n&acirc; Kam&acirc;l-ald&icirc;n Ḥusain bin Ḥasan of Khw&acirc;rizm, who died A.H. 840 (A.D. 1436, 1437) or 845 (A.D. 1441, 1442); the first date is given in Ḥ. Khalfa v. p. 375, the second ib., vi. p. 90; comp. on this work, Bodleian Cat., Nos. 666 and 667; Rieu ii. p. 588; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 793 and 794, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 493. The author had previously compiled a collection of discourses on the mathnaw&icirc;, entitled كنوز الحقائق فى رموز الدقائق. The present copy, which, like all the copies extant, comprises the <em>first three daftars</em> only, contains neither author&rsquo;s name nor date; it only gives the title on fol. 6^a, ll. 7 and 8, and the name of the prince, to whom the commentary was dedicated, N&acirc;ṣir-ald&icirc;n Ab&ucirc;-alman&acirc;ḳib Ibr&acirc;h&icirc;m Sulṭ&acirc;n, the ruler of Khw&acirc;rizm, on fol. 5^b, l. 13. From other copies we learn that the <em>second</em> daftar was commenced A.H. 834 (A.D. 1430, 1431); the author&rsquo;s spiritual guide was Khw&acirc;jah Ab&ucirc;-alwaf&acirc;, who died A.H. 835 (A.D. 1431, 1432), see Rieu, loc. cit. There is also wanting in this copy the preliminary discourse in ten maḳ&acirc;las, the headings of which in Persian are given in the Bodleian Cat., loc. cit., and the contents in English by Rieu.</p> <p>Beginning, on fol. 1^b: حمد بيحدّ و غايت و ثناى بيعدّ و نهايت حضرت پادشاهى الخ.</p> <p>Introduction ( فاتحة الابواب فى سبب تأليف الكتاب), on fol.4^b; containing besides a chapter on the division of men according to their more or less advanced Ṣ&ucirc;fic stage.</p> <p>Daftar I, on fol. 8^a; II, on fol. 180^a; III, on fol. 319^b. No date.</p> <p>No. 2058, ff. 481, ll. 19; irregular Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8^3/8 in. by 4^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>