[IO Islamic 3206] Tadhkirat-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li><strong>Tadhkirat-alshu&rsquo;ar&acirc;&nbsp;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 662 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 3206&nbsp;here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>662</p> <p>A defective copy of the same.</p> <p>This excellent copy, written in the tenth or eleventh century of the Hijrah, breaks off towards the end of the <em>sixth</em> ṭabaḳah, in the biography of B&acirc;b&acirc; Saud&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; of Ab&icirc;wards, who flourished under Sh&acirc;hrukh, on fol. 242^b.</p> <p>The last words: ترا محنت جانى قربان ... , agree with the preceding copy, fol. 259^b, line 4 ab infra. Muḳaddimah, on fol. 12^a. Ṭabaḳah I, on fol. 18^b; II, on fol. 45^b; III, on fol. 76^a (heading omitted); IV, on fol. 108^b; V, on fol. 145^b; VI, on fol. 191^b(only headed طبقه , and beginning with كهبتانى (!), i.e. correctly: Ni&rsquo;mat-all&acirc;h K&ucirc;hist&acirc;n&icirc;). The last four pages (ff . 243 and 244), written by another hand, contain (<em>a</em>) the end of J&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s شرح فصوص الحكم , i.e. the نقد النصوص ,a commentary on Muḥy&icirc;-ald&icirc;n Muḥammad bin &lsquo;Al&icirc; al&rsquo;Arab&icirc;&rsquo;s (died A.H. 638 = A.D. 1240, 1241) نقش الفصوص , an extract from the same Arabic author&rsquo;s larger mystical work, the فصوص الحكم (comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 894, 9, and 976, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 274), and (<em>b</em>) another small prose-tract on mystical matters, beginning : الها ملكا پادشاها قبلۀ دل مارا بتشريف ربّ اشرح لى صدرى در اشعۀ آفتاب الخ.</p> <p>No. 3206, ff. 244, ll. 15 (ll. 19 on the last four pages); excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8^3/8 in. by 4^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>