[IO Islamic 2570] Tuḥfa-i-Sâmî

<ul> <li><strong>Tuḥfa-i-S&acirc;m&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 665 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 2570&nbsp;here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>665</p> <p>Tuḥfa-i-S&acirc;m&icirc; (تحفۀ سامى ) .</p> <p>Biographies of Persian Poets from the end of the ninth century of the Hijrah to the middle of the tenth, a kind of continuation to Daulatsh&acirc;h&rsquo;s and Naw&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;&rsquo;s tadhkiras, by the prince S&acirc;m Mirz&acirc;, son of Sh&acirc;h Isma&rsquo;&icirc;l, who was born A.H. 923 (A.D. 1517), and put to death A.H. 984 (A.D. 1576), see Rieu i. p. 367 sq.; W. Pestsch, Berlin Catal., p. 600 sq.; G. Fl&uuml;gel ii. p. 367; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 12; J. Aumer, p. 1; Krafft, p. 126; and especially De Sacy in Notices et Extraits, iv. pp. 273-308, where a full list of the biographies has been given, and O. Frank, Morgenl&auml;ndische Handschriften der kgl. Hofbibliothek in M&uuml;nchen, p. 34 and Anhaug.</p> <p>It was composed A.H. 957 (A.D. 1550), and divided into seven ṣaḥ&icirc;fas, see Rieu and Pertsch, loc. cit. This copy contains (as far as it is possible to count the single items, several names being omitted) 579 biographies.</p> <p>Beginning: لله الحمد قبل كلّ كلام &ndash; بصفات الجلال و الاكرام حمد او تاج تارك سخن است &ndash; صدر هر نامۀ نو و كهن است الخ .</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 2570, ff. 153, ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 9^1/8 in. by 5 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>