[IO Islamic 3445] Âtashkada

<ul> <li><strong>&nbsp;&Acirc;tashkada</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 694&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 3445 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>694</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy of the &Acirc;tashkada was written by the author&rsquo;s own son, &lsquo;Al&icirc; Muḥammad alsh&icirc;r&acirc;z&icirc; albur&ucirc;jirdi (ابن المرحوم لطفعلى على محمّد الشيرازى مسكناً البروجردى موطناً ), in the reign of Fatḥ &lsquo;Al&icirc; Sh&acirc;h of Persia, and finished in the month Ṣafar, A.H. 1215 (A.D. 1800, June, July). Index on ff. 3^b-5^b.</p> <p><em>First Censer</em> (مجمره ), older poets, on fol. 5^b.</p> <p><em>The flame</em> ( شعله ), on fol. 5^b; <em>first firebrand </em>(اخگر ), poets of &Icirc;r&acirc;n, in five sparks (شراره ), on ff. 14^a (heading omitted), 28^a, 77^a,85^a, and 133^a; <em>second firebrand</em>, poets of T&ucirc;r&acirc;n, in three sparks, on ff. 152^a, 157^b (margin), and 161^a (here must be read شرارۀ ثالثه instead of ثانيه ); <em>third firebrand</em>, poets of India, in three sparks, on ff. 175^b (first and second شراره ) and 177^b margin (here again شرارۀ ثالثه to be read instead of ثانيه ) .</p> <p><em>The lustre</em> ( فروغ ), poetesses, on fol. 178^a.</p> <p><em>Second Censer</em>: modern and contemporary poets, on fol. 179^a; <em>Kh&acirc;timah</em> (author&rsquo;s autobiography, etc.), on fol. 211^b margin.</p> <p>A geographical index on the fly-leaves at the end of the MS.</p> <p>No. 3445, ff. 235, 4 coll., each ll. 17, and a fifth on the margin, ll. 34; neat, but very small Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; large illuminated frontispiece, the first two pages gorgeously embellished; size, 8^2/8 in. by 5^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>