Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

D. 4 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: جواهر الاسرار ، شرح المثنوى A well-known commentary on the Mathnawi of Jalálu'd-Dín Rúmí entitled
Jawahirul-Asrar ("Gems of Mysteries ") by Husayn ibn Hasan of Khwarizm
(d. 849/1436-7). See Rieu's Persian Catalogue, p. 588; Ethé's Bodleian Persian
Catalogue, col. 519; etc. This MS., like Add. 14,051 of the British Museum,
contains the usual introductory matter and ten preliminary discourses, followed
by the commentary on Book 1 (f. 46%), Book II (f. 132), and Book III (f. 196').
Whether the commentary on the three remaining books was ever written I do
not know. This MS. fell to my share in the third partition of the Belshah MSS. in the
spring of 1920. It comprises 306 ff. of 28.3 x 18'5 c. and 25 ll.; small, neat ta'li
with rubrications; transcription completed in Jumádà 11, 1066/April, 1656.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 306
Dimensions: 28.3 × 18.5 cm.

Layout

25 lines

Hand(s)

small, neat ta'liq with rubrications

History

Origin: 1066 AH; 1656 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS. fell to my share in the third partition of the Belshah MSS. in the spring of 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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