[IO Islamic 1013] Lubb-i-Lubâb

<ul> <li><strong>&nbsp;Lubb-i-Lub&acirc;b.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 695&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 1013 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>695</p> <p>Lubb-i-Lub&acirc;b ( لبّ لباب ).</p> <p>An epitome from the large and well-known tadhkirah رياض الشعرا, by &lsquo;Al&icirc; Ḳul&icirc;kh&acirc;n, with the takhalluṣ W&acirc;lih (which was completed A.H. 1161=A.D. 1748, comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 377 and 378; Rieu i. p. 371; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 622 sq.; Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. p. 143; A. Sprenger, Catal., p.132, No. 18, etc.), made by Ḳamar-ald&icirc;n &lsquo;Al&icirc; bin San&acirc;-all&acirc;h alḥusain&icirc; aln&acirc;ṣir&icirc; for Mr. Richard Johnson.</p> <p>This copy is the compiler&rsquo;s autograph, and finished by him the 12th of Rajab, A.H. 1194 (A.D. 1780, July 14), at Lucknow.</p> <p>Beginning: حمدى منزّه از وصمت انقطاع سزاى بارگاه كليمى است كه انّه تذكرة للمتّقين نعت كلام الخ .</p> <p>It contains nearly all the same poets, who are quoted in the رياض, but much shorter, with a few biographical notices and a few specimens of their poetry; but in spite of its being only an abridgment, it is of some value as the author has made sometimes interesting additions, which are not found in the larger work. It is alphabetically arranged, and begins with Shaikh Ab&ucirc; Sa&rsquo;&icirc;d bin Ab&ucirc;-alkhair.</p> <p>No.1013, ff. 236, ll.15 Shikasta; size, 10^1/4 in. by 6^3/8 in.</p> <p><br> &nbsp;</p>