metadata [IO Islamic 2685] تذكرة الأمراء

<ul> <li><strong>Tadhkirat-alumar&acirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2685 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 629 here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>629</p> <p>Tadhkirat-alumar&acirc; (تذكرة الامرا).</p> <p>The biographical dictionary of famous Am&icirc;rs and Kh&acirc;ns who served under the Moghul emperors of India, Akbar, Jah&acirc;ng&icirc;r, Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n , and &lsquo;&Acirc;lamg&icirc;r, compiled by <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_73885269">K&icirc;wal R&acirc;m</a>, son of Raghun&acirc;th D&acirc;s ; comp. Bodleian Cat.[<a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3344766">Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; and Pusht&ucirc; Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library</a>], no. 258 ; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pierre_Henri_Rieu">Rieu</a> i [<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1301270">Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 1</a>], p. 339 ; &nbsp;<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloys_Sprenger">A. Sprenger,</a> MSS. of the late <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Miers_Elliot">Sir H. Elliot</a>, in <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6619302"><em>Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal</em>, vol. xxiii</a>. p. 239, no. 70; <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87876334/">Elliot</a>, <em>History of India</em>, viii. p. 192. The date of composition is here distinctly 1194 (A.D. 1780); see fol. 2^b, I.3. Other copies exhibit the dates 1184 and even (if it is not a mere mistake in writing) 1140 (as the Bodleian copy does , a date which after all would not be inconsistent with the chronology of the tadhkirah, as it does not mention any Am&icirc;rs beyond &lsquo;&Acirc;lamg&icirc;r&rsquo;s reign).</p> <p>The work is divided into two b&acirc;bs, the <em>first </em>containing the Muḥammadan, the <em>second </em>the Hind&ucirc; Am&icirc;rs, both in alphabetical order.</p> <p>Each b&acirc;b is subdivided into two faṣls, viz.:</p> <p><em>First b&acirc;b: </em>فصل اوّل در ذكر اميرانى كه بخطاب خانى و غيره سرافراز شده اند , on fol. 2^b ; with an appendix, در ذكر وصل فصل اوّل , on fol. 197^a.</p> <p>فصل دوم در ذكر اميرانى كه خطاب نيافته اند , on fol. 204^a.</p> <p><em>Second b&acirc;b </em>: فصل اوّل در ذكر آنهای كه خطاب راجه و مهاراجه و رانا وراو و راى ووت ( وراوت read) وراى رايان و غيره يافته اند , on fol. 231^a.</p> <p>فصل دوم در ذكر احوال راجپوتان و غيره كه خطاب راجگى و غيره نيافته اند , on fol. 263^b.</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>بعد حمد قادری كه بيك امر کُن هژده هزار عالم را موجود فرمود و پس از نعت پيغمبرى الخ</p> <p>Copied from a MS. in the possession of Captain <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb2008016048/">[Thomas] Roebuck</a> [1781-1819], by Munsh&icirc; Mirz&acirc;ibeg. No date.</p> <p>No. 2685, ff. 294, II. 15-17; Shikasta; size, 10^3/4in. by 7^5/8in.</p>