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[IO Islamic 734] 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 1099&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 734 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1099</p> <p>Ḥ&acirc;shiya-i-D&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; ( حاشيۀ داعى).</p> <p>Another old commentary on the mathnaw&icirc;, also styled simply شرح مثنوى or كتاب حاشيۀ مثنوى ( the book of glosses to the mathnaw&icirc;), at the end of the first three daftars (on ff. 72^a, 92^a and 114^a respectively), compiled by Niż&acirc;m-ald&icirc;n Maḥm&ucirc;d bin al-Ḥasan al-ḥusain&icirc; of Sh&icirc;r&acirc;z, with the takhalluṣ D&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;, who according to the statement in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 387, was born A.H. 815 (A.D. 1412), but according to the more correct wording of the phrase in question in Bodleian Cat., No. 883, A.H. 810 (A.D. 1407, 1408), and collected his d&icirc;w&acirc;n A.H. 865 (A.D. 1460, 1461), when he was 55 years old ( پنجاه و پنج, as is distinctly written there).</p> <p>Other copies of this commentary are noticed in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 494; Hammer, Handschriften, No. 126 (where the contents are given), and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 792 (a number of fragments only); lithographed at Lucknow, A.H. 1282.</p> <p>Beginning: اللّهمّ صلّ على السيّد الفتّاح الخاتم محمّد مصطفى و آله المرتضى و بارك و سلّم &lsquo; عزيز من اين ناگزيريست معنوى بر موارد مثنوى كه از قلم داعى الخ.</p> <p>Daftar I, on fol. 1^b; II, on fol. 72^a; III, on fol. 92^a; IV, on fol. 114^a; V, on fol. 152^a; VI, on fol. 198^a.</p> <p>Dated the 12th of Sha&rsquo;b&acirc;n A.H. 1128=A.D. 1716, Aug. 1 (so correctly سنۀ ١١٢٨ هجرى ; in the additional words يكهزار و بيست و هشت هجرى النبوى there is omitted by mistake وصد after يكهزار), by J&acirc;n Muḥammad, the son of &lsquo;Abd-alfatt&acirc;ḥ Gujar&acirc;t&icirc; B&icirc;j&acirc;p&ucirc;r&icirc; (the learned expounder of the mathnaw&icirc;, who died A.H. 1090=A.D. 1679, see Rieu iii. p. 1090^a), who transcribed the first two daftars from a copy made by one of the most intimate pupils of his father, &lsquo;Abd-alfatt&acirc;ḥ, M&icirc;r Muḥammad Sh&acirc;h.</p> <p>No. 734, ff. 281, ll. 25; excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 16^1/4 in. by 9^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>