metadata [IO Islamic 3126] گلشن هند

<ul> <li><strong>Gulshan-i-Hind.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 703 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 3126 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>703</p> <p>Gulshan-i-Hind ( گلشن هند ) .</p> <p>A tadhkirah of the most famous Rekhta poets, written in Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; by <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85104481/">Mirz&acirc; Luṭf,</a> A.H. 1215 (A.D. 1800, 1801), at the request of Mr. <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88068489/">[John] Gilchrist</a> (see fol.2^a, l. 4 ab infra, and fol. 2^b, l. 12).</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>رعنائى اور زيبائى دلبران سخن لو اس زينت آفرين كى حمد سى حاصل هى الخ</p> <p>The first poet of this alphabetical tadhkirah is <em>&Acirc;ft&acirc;b</em>, on fol. 4^a; the last, Yakrang, on fol. 195^a.</p> <p>No date. On the inner side of the binding is an entry from A.H. 1265 (A.D. 1849). Comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 184.</p> <p>No. 3126, ff. 196, ll. 17; the larger portion is written in Shikasta; ff. 42-79 and 81-104 in large and stiff Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; fol. 76^b and parts of fol. 133 left blank; a few pages in diagonal lines; size, 11^1/8 in. by 6^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>