[IO Islamic 1740] ابيات شعرا

<ul> <li>Aby&acirc;t-i-shu&rsquo;ar&acirc;</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1750 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Eth&eacute;, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1740 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1750</span></p> <p><span>Aby&acirc;t-i-shu&rsquo;ar&acirc; (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ابيات شعرا</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Another, very short, anthology of Persian verses, taken for the greater part from the d&icirc;w&acirc;ns of modern poets, without any special arrangement. Prominent contributors are </span><span><em>Ṣ&acirc;&rsquo;ib</em></span><span> (died A.H. 1088), </span><span><em>W&acirc;lih</em></span><span> (died A.H. 1169, see No. 1708 above), </span><span><em>Shaukat </em></span><span>(died A.H. 1107), </span><span><em>B&icirc;dil</em></span><span> (died A.H. 1133), etc. It opens with a bait Ṣal&acirc;ḥ-ald&icirc;nkh&acirc;n, with the takhalluṣ </span><span><em>Ṣal&acirc;ḥ</em></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>No date.</span></p> <p><span>No. 1740, ff. 13, ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8&frac34; in. by 4&frac34; in. </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>