[IO Islamic 2633] مفتاح المعانى

<ul> <li><strong>Mift&acirc;ḥ-alma&rsquo;&acirc;n&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1103&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 2633 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1103</p> <p>Mift&acirc;ḥ-alma&rsquo;&acirc;n&icirc; (مفتاح المعانى).</p> <p>Another complete commentary on the mathnaw&icirc;, styled مفتاح المعانى (see fol. 2^b, l. 6), by Sayyid &lsquo;Abd-alfatt&acirc;ḥ alḥusain&icirc; al&rsquo;askar&icirc; (see fol. 2^a, l. 10). According to A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 492, this commentary was collected by the author&rsquo;s pupil Hid&acirc;yat-all&acirc;h, A.H. 1049 (A.D. 1639, 1640); another work of the same &lsquo;Abd-alfatt&acirc;h alḥusain&icirc; al&rsquo;askar&icirc; is the درّ مكنون or selections from the mathnaw&icirc; in systematical arrangement with explanations, see ib.</p> <p>Beginning: حمد و ستايش ذاتى را كه بمقتضاى احببت ان اعرف فخلقت الخلق الخ.</p> <p>Daftar I, on fol. 2^b; II, on fol. 57^b; III, on fol. 95^a; IV, on fol. 130^a; V, on fol. 166^a; VI, on fol. 209^b.</p> <p>The second and the fourth daftar are dated at Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n&acirc;b&acirc;d, the 21st of Muḥarram, A.H. 1065 (or rather 1067, as we think, the ٥ probably being a closed or contracted ٧ in consequence of hasty writing), and the 26th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1067 respectively (=A.D. 1656, Nov. 9 and Dec. 14) The copy is greatly injured throughout; in most pages part of the inner corner are entirely torn away.</p> <p>Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2633, ff. 251, ll. 17; careless Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8^1/4 in. by 5^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>