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Summary of Contents: شرح دفتر سوم مثنوی The commentary of Surúri on Book III of the Mathnawi. Concerning the commentator, whose proper name was Muslihu'd-Din Mustafà ibn Sha'bán, and who was tutor to Sultán Sulaymán's son, Prince Mustafà, and died in 969/1561-2 at the age of seventy-two, see Rieu's Persian Catalogue, p. 606. This MS., which I bought in Constantinople on April 23, 1908, comprises 244 ff. of 25'5 x 14'3 c. and 32 ll., and is written in a legible Turkish nasta'liq with rubrications. The transcription was completed in Rabi' 1, 1089/May, 1678.

Author: Surūrī, Muṣliḥ al-Dīn, 1492-1562 سروري، مصلح الدين مصطفى بن شعبان

Title: Sharḥ-i daftar-i sivum-i mas̲navī

Title: شرح دفتر سوم مثنوي

Language(s): Persian

References

p.28

Commentary on the Mas̲navī maʻnavī مثنوي معنوي of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 ( مولانا جلال الدين رومى )

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 244

Dimensions: 25.5 × 14.3 cm.

Layout

32 lines

Hand(s)

Turkish nasta'liq with rubrications

History

Origin: 1089 AH; 1678 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

bought in Constantinople on April 23, 1908

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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JISC

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