[IO Islamic 723] شرح مثنوى تصنيف نور الله

<ul> <li><strong>Sharḥ-i-mathnaw&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1104&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 723 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1104</p> <p>Sharḥ-i-mathnaw&icirc;, by N&ucirc;r-all&acirc;h ( شرح مثنوى تصنيف نور الله).</p> <p>A commentary on the mathnaw&icirc;, by Sh&acirc;h M&icirc;r Muḥammad N&ucirc;r-all&acirc;h Aḥr&acirc;r&icirc; (see fol. 2^a, l. 1), also called Akbar&acirc;b&acirc;d&icirc; (see Rieu ii. p. 592), who, if he is identical with the M&icirc;r N&ucirc;r-all&acirc;h, mentioned, in Rieu ii. p. 604, as the master of &lsquo;Abd-alras&ucirc;l alḳurash&icirc;, who submitted to him his commentary on the B&ucirc;st&acirc;n, composed A.H. 1073 (A.D. 1662, 1663), must have been a younger contemporary of &lsquo;Abd-allaṭ&icirc;f, the editor and commentator of the same mathnaw&icirc;, whom he often quotes and corrects. Other copies of this work are noticed in Rieu, loc. cit.; Bodleian Cat., No. 669, and A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 495 and 496. Beginning: الحمد لله العلى الاعلى الوهّاب الذى انزل على عبده الكتاب هدى للمتّقين الخ.</p> <p>Daftar I, on fol. 2^b.</p> <p>This daftar is incomplete, it breaks off on fol. 67^b in consequence of a lacuna.</p> <p>Beginning of Daftar II, on fol. 68^b:تا نزايد بخت تو فرزند نو الخ لفظ بخت اگرچه بفتح اوّل مشهور است امّا بضمّ اوّل الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of Daftar III, on fol. 119^b: اى ضياء الحق حسام الدين بيار &ndash; اين سوم دفتر كه سنّت شد سه بار&lsquo; سنّت خود مطلق بمراعات عدد طاق است الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of Daftar IV, on fol. 171^a: دفتر چهارم باقئ حكايت آن عاشق&lsquo; گر زيان كردم الخ يعنى اگر از وى نمى گریختم مرا میگرفت الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of Daftar V, on fol. 207^b: شه حسام الدين كه نور انجم است &ndash; طالب آغاز سفر پنجم است&lsquo; سفر بكسر اوّل كتاب و نامه اينجا بمعنئ كتاب مناسب است الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of Daftar VI, on fol. 240^b: شد دهان شان تلخ زان شرم و خجل &ndash; كه قرين شد نام اعظم با اقل&lsquo; خجل بفتحتين مصدر است الخ.</p> <p>The second daftar is dated the 26th of Ramad&acirc;n, A.H. 1158 (A.D. 1745, Oct. 22); the rest is without a date. All the introductions to the text, written in red on the first 144 leaves, are entirely omitted from fol. 145 down to the end.</p> <p>No. 723, ff. 282, ll. 15-20; written by many different hands, partly in Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, partly in Shikasta; size, 8 in. by 4^1/8&ndash; 4^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>