[IO Islamic 3112] Khâtima-i-Khulâṣat-alsh'âr

<ul> <li><strong>Kh&acirc;tima-i-Khul&acirc;ṣat-alsh&rsquo;&acirc;r.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 668 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 3112 here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>668</p> <p>Kh&acirc;tima-i-Khul&acirc;ṣat-alsh&rsquo;&acirc;r (خاتمۀ خلاصة الاشعار ) .</p> <p>This is undoubtedly the same copy of the Kh&acirc;timah or appendix to Ṭaḳ&icirc; K&acirc;sh&icirc;&rsquo;s tadhkirah which, according to A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 15, formerly belonged to Mr. Hall, of Ban&acirc;ras, and which was copied in the very year of its completion, viz. A.H. 993, in the month Jum&acirc;d&acirc;-alth&acirc;n&icirc; (A.D. 1585, June), by &lsquo;Abd-alfatt&acirc;ḥ bin Shams-ald&icirc;n Muḥammad alk&acirc;sh&acirc;n&icirc;. It represents the first and fuller edition of Taḳ&icirc; K&acirc;sh&icirc;&rsquo;s work, with all the poetical extracts, which are not to be found in the more common abridgment of the second edition. The first leaf is missing; a full index on the fly-leaves, and a second index on the last two pages.</p> <p>The twelve aṣls are found here:</p> <p>1.Poets of K&acirc;sh&acirc;n (beginning with Muḥtasham), on fol. 3^a.</p> <p>2.Poets of Iṣfah&acirc;n, on fol. 92^a.</p> <p>3.Poets of Ḳumm and neighbourhood, on fol. 144^a.</p> <p>4.Poets of S&acirc;wa and environs, on fol. 162^a.</p> <p>5.Poets of Ḳazw&icirc;n, on fol. 173^b.</p> <p>6.Poets of G&icirc;l&acirc;n, on fol. 180^b.</p> <p>7.Poets of Tabr&icirc;z and adjacent districts, on fol. 186^b.</p> <p>8.Poets of Yazd and Kirm&acirc;n, on fol. 198^b.</p> <p>9.Poets of Sh&icirc;r&acirc;z, on fol. 230^a.</p> <p>10.Poets of Hamad&acirc;n and environs , on fol. 238^a.</p> <p>11.Poets of Rai and neighbouring cities, on fol. 253^a.</p> <p>12.Poets of Khur&acirc;s&acirc;n, on fol. 259^a.</p> <p>A short conclusion (ذيل ), on fol. 309^a.</p> <p>No. 3112, ff. 310, 4, coll., each ll. 24; clear Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; very much worm-eaten throughout; size, 12^1/4 in. by 7^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>