D. 5 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
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.
Title: شرح دفتر سوم مثنوي
Language(s): Persian
References
Commentary on the Mas̲navī maʻnavī مثنوي معنوي of
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
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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