[IO Islamic 2011] Mirât-alkhayâl

<ul> <li><strong>Mir&acirc;t-alkhay&acirc;l.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 673&nbsp;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 2011 here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>673</p> <p>Mir&acirc;t-alkhay&acirc;l ( مرآة الخيال ) .</p> <p>Biographies of renowned Persian poets and poetesses, by Sh&icirc;rkh&acirc;n ibn &lsquo;Al&icirc; Amjadkh&acirc;n L&ucirc;d&icirc;, who completed this work in A.H. 1102 (A.D. 1690, 1691), comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 374 and 375, where a complete list of the biographies is given; Rieu i. p. 369^b sq.; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 618; Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. pp. 140 and 142; A. Sprenger, Cat., p. 115, and J. Aumer, p. 3. Printed Calcutta, 1831, and Bareilly, 1848.</p> <p>Beginning: اى زتو بند بر زبان نطق سخن سراى را الخ .</p> <p>The first of the ancient poets is <em>R&ucirc;dag&icirc;</em>, on fol. 10^b; the first of the modern poets <em>J&acirc;m&icirc;</em>, on fol. 48^a; the tadhkirah of the poetesses begins on fol. 217^a.</p> <p>Dated the 1st of Ṣafar, A.H. 1147 (the sixteenth year of Muḥammadsh&acirc;h&rsquo;s reign) = A.D. 1734, July 3.</p> <p>An index of the whole work is found on the fly-leaves.</p> <p>No. 2011, ff. 220, ll. 17; unequal Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9 in. by 6^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>