[IO Islamic 2979] Khazâna-i-'âmirah

<ul> <li><strong>Khaz&acirc;na-i-&rsquo;&acirc;mirah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 685&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 2979 here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><br> 685</p> <p>Khaz&acirc;na-i-&rsquo;&acirc;mirah (خزانۀ عامره ) .</p> <p>The best known of all the tadhkiras of M&icirc;r Ghul&acirc;m &lsquo;Al&icirc; &Acirc;z&acirc;d, styled the &lsquo;Royal Treasury,&rsquo; and composed in A.H. 1176 and 1177 (A.D. 1762, 1763). It contains in alphabetical order 135 of the most renowned ancient and modern poets, comp. Bodleian Catal., No. 381, where a full list of all the biographies is given; Rieu i. p. 373, where the twenty-one authorities are enumerated, on which this work is founded; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 143; Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. pp. 40-43; Elliot, History of India, viii. p. 188; see also No. 490 in this Cat., where extracts from the account of the Marattahs (inserted in this tadhkirah after the tenth biography) are found. A full index on the fly-leaves.</p> <p>Beginning: سر كلام را جيغه حمد صانعى كه انسان الخ .</p> <p>This copy was transcribed from the author&rsquo;s autograph, by Muḥammad Ma&rsquo;r&ucirc;f bin Muḥammad b&ucirc;l&acirc;ḳ&icirc;, an inhabitant of Aurang&acirc;b&acirc;d, and dated the 16th of Rajab, A.H. 1182 (A.D. 1768, Nov. 26).</p> <p>No. 2979, ff. 351, ll. 17; distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>