[IO Islamic 2415] Anonymous Compilation

<ul> <li><strong>&nbsp;Anonymous Compilation.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 692&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 2415 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>692</p> <p>A very large universal biography of Persian poets, with copious extracts, comprising, according to the index on ff. 1^a-17^a, 2200 names, by an anonymous author, without preface and colophon. This big volume, which is (to judge from the blank leaves left between chapters and single names ) the first sketch of a tadhkirah only, must have been compiled between A.H. 1170 and 1180 (A.D. 1757-1766), for on fol.95^a the death of Sir&acirc;j-ald&icirc;n &lsquo;Al&icirc;kh&acirc;n &Acirc;rz&ucirc; (see Nos . 680 and 681 above) is fixed in A.H. 1170 (contrary to the usual statement), and on fol. 663^b M&icirc;r Shams-ald&icirc;n Faḳ&icirc;r, who died, according to A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 394, A.H. 1180 or 1181 (A.D. 1766 , 1767), is spoken of as still alive. Perhaps we have got in this copy the very rare -and as yet never met with &ndash; تذكرۀ بينظير , which was compiled A.H. 1172 or 1178 (A.D. 1758, 1759, or 1764, 1765), by M&icirc;r &lsquo;Abd-alwahh&acirc;b Daulat&acirc;b&acirc;d&icirc; (see A.Sprenger, Catal., p. 144, No. 11). The arrangement is alphabetical; each letter forms a حديقه , and each حديقه is subdivided into three گلشن (ancient, middle, and modern poets), the last of which comprises again two چمن (viz. poets of &Icirc;r&acirc;n and T&ucirc;r&acirc;n, and poets of India). The first name on fol. 19^b is Shaikh Ab&ucirc;-alḥasan Kharaḳ&acirc;n&icirc;. As for the old poets in particular, the biographical dates are very incorrect; Kharaḳ&acirc;n&icirc;&rsquo;s death, for example, being fixed in A.H. 352 (instead of A.H. 425), and N&acirc;ṣir bin Khurau&rsquo;s even in A.H. 119 (!!).</p> <p>No. 2415, ff. 936, 3 coll., ll. 15 in each; written by different hands in Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ and Shikasta; size, 12^1/8 in. by 8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>