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[IO Islamic 2570] Tuḥfa-i-Sâmî

<ul> <li>Tuḥfa-i-Sâmî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 665 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2570 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 665 Tuḥfa-i-Sâmî (تحفۀ سامى ) . Biographies of Persian Poets from the end of the ninth century of the Hijrah to the middle of the tenth, a kind of continuation to Daulatshâh’s and Nawâ’î’s tadhkiras, by the prince Sâm Mirzâ, son of Shâh Isma’îl, who was born A.H. 923 (A.D. 1517), and put to death A.H. 984 (A.D. 1576), see Rieu i. p. 367 sq.; W. Pestsch, Berlin Catal., p. 600 sq.; G. Flügel ii. p. 367; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 12; J. Aumer, p. 1; Krafft, p. 126; and especially De Sacy in Notices et Extraits, iv. pp. 273-308, where a full list of the biographies has been given, and O. Frank, Morgenländische Handschriften der kgl. Hofbibliothek in München, p. 34 and Anhaug. It was composed A.H. 957 (A.D. 1550), and divided into seven ṣaḥîfas, see Rieu and Pertsch, loc. cit. This copy contains (as far as it is possible to count the single items, several names being omitted) 579 biographies. Beginning: لله الحمد قبل كلّ كلام – بصفات الجلال و الاكرام حمد او تاج تارك سخن است – صدر هر نامۀ نو و كهن است الخ . No date. No. 2570, ff. 153, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 91/8 in. by 5 in.

[IO Islamic 2003] Kalimât-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li>Kalimât-alshu’arâ.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 670 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2003 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 670 Kalimât-alshu’arâ ( كلمات الشعرا ) . The words of the poets, a tadhkirah of the Persian poets of India, flourishing in the reigns of Jahângîr, Shâhjahân, and ‘Âlamgîr, by Mirzâ Muḥammad Afḍal with the takhalluṣ Sarkhwush, who died at Dihlî, A.H. 1127 (A.D. 17150), according to the Khazâna-i-’âmirah (Bodleian Cat., No.381, 60), or A.H. 1126 (A.D. 1714), according to the Khulâṣat-alafkâr (Bodelian Cat., No. 391, 135); even A.H. 1125 (A.D. 1713) is given as date of his death, comp. Rieu i. p. 369; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., P. 617; Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. p. 168; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 108 sq., where a detailed account of this tadhkirah is given. The title of the book (see fol. 3b, l. 6) is a chronogram, giving the date of composition as A.H. 1093 (A.D. 1682). It is arranged alphabetically, and begins (on fol.3b) with Mîr Ilâhî (who died, according to the Khulâṣat-alafkâr, Bodleian Cat., No. 391, 36, A.H. 1060=A.D. 1650; others give the date of his death as A.H. 1057, 1063, or 1064=A.D. 1647, 1653, or 1654, see Rieu ii. p. 687, iii. p. 1091b, and A.Sprenger, Catal., p. 436); the last poet is Mîr Yaḥyâ Kâshî (who died A.H. 1074 = A.D. 1663, 1664), on fol. 103b. Beginning: سخن جانست و ديگر گفتگو جانان زمن بشنو – اگر هر لحظه جانى تازه خواهى اين سخن بشنو الخ. Dated Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1154 (24th year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign) = A.D. 1742, January. No. 2003, ff. 108, ll. 12-13; written for the greater part in Shikasta; size, 61/2 in. by 41/8 in.

[IO Islamic 3112] Khâtima-i-Khulâṣat-alsh'âr

<ul> <li>Khâtima-i-Khulâṣat-alsh’âr.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 668 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3112 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 668 Khâtima-i-Khulâṣat-alsh’âr (خاتمۀ خلاصة الاشعار ) . This is undoubtedly the same copy of the Khâtimah or appendix to Ṭaḳî Kâshî’s tadhkirah which, according to A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 15, formerly belonged to Mr. Hall, of Banâras, and which was copied in the very year of its completion, viz. A.H. 993, in the month Jumâdâ-althânî (A.D. 1585, June), by ‘Abd-alfattâḥ bin Shams-aldîn Muḥammad alkâshânî. It represents the first and fuller edition of Taḳî Kâshî’s work, with all the poetical extracts, which are not to be found in the more common abridgment of the second edition. The first leaf is missing; a full index on the fly-leaves, and a second index on the last two pages. The twelve aṣls are found here: 1.Poets of Kâshân (beginning with Muḥtasham), on fol. 3a. 2.Poets of Iṣfahân, on fol. 92a. 3.Poets of Ḳumm and neighbourhood, on fol. 144a. 4.Poets of Sâwa and environs, on fol. 162a. 5.Poets of Ḳazwîn, on fol. 173b. 6.Poets of Gîlân, on fol. 180b. 7.Poets of Tabrîz and adjacent districts, on fol. 186b. 8.Poets of Yazd and Kirmân, on fol. 198b. 9.Poets of Shîrâz, on fol. 230a. 10.Poets of Hamadân and environs , on fol. 238a. 11.Poets of Rai and neighbouring cities, on fol. 253a. 12.Poets of Khurâsân, on fol. 259a. A short conclusion (ذيل ), on fol. 309a. No. 3112, ff. 310, 4, coll., each ll. 24; clear Nasta’lîḳ; very much worm-eaten throughout; size, 121/4 in. by 73/4 in.

[IO Islamic 400] Tadhkirat-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li>Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 663 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 400 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 663 A still more defective copy of the same. This copy is incomplete both at the beginning and end. It opens abruptly in the introduction, thus: ... خندق جهت رسول گفته بود بدو بخشيد الخ, corresponding to the preceding copy (No. 3206), fol. 6a, l. 8, and breaks off in the beginning of the sixth ṭabaḳah with these word: تصرّف و تخت حكم او درآمد گويند كه در يورش ... corresponding to fol. 194a, l. 3 ab infra, in the same copy. No. 400, ff. 181, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 85/8 in. by 47/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2507] Majâlis-alnafâ'is

<ul> <li>Majâlis-alnafâ’is .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 664 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2507 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 664 Majâlis-alnafâ’is (مجالس النفائس ) . The Ćaghatâi original of Mîr ‘Alî Shîr Nawâ’î’s biography of Persian poets, composed A.H. 896 (A.D. 1491), comp. Rieu, Turkish Cat., p. 273; W. Pertsch, Berlin Turkish Cat., p. 313; G. Flügel, ii. p. 373; Paris Cat, pp. 297, 331, and 333; J. Aumer, Türkische Handschriften, No. 148; Cat. des MSS. et Xyl., No. 553, etc.; Hammer, Handschriften, pp. 326-330; Wiener Jahrbücher, vol. 74, Anzeigeblatt, p.11 sq., etc.; Biography of Nawâ’î, and French translation of the seventh majlis by Belin, Journal Asiatique, 5e Série, tom.xvii. p. 175 sq.; extracts from the third majlis in Berezin’s Chrestomathie Turque, p. 146 sq. A Persian translation of this work by Fakhrî of Harât, the author of the جواهر العجائب (see Bodleian Cat., No. 362), entitled لطائف نامه and composed about A.H. 927 (A.D. 1521 ), is described in Rieu i. p. 366; a later Persian version by Shâh ‘Alî is mentioned in Rieu, Turkish Cat., p. 274a . Mîr ‘Alî Shîr died in Jumâdâ II, A.H. 906 (A.D. 1501, beginning of January). Beginning: يوز حمد آنكا كيم يساب جهان بستانى ايلاب الخ. The title appears on fol. 3b , last line. The work is divided into eight Majlis, viz.: 1.Poets who died in the author’s lifetime, but were never personally known to him, beginning with Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr, on fol. 5b. The heading is omitted. 2.Contemporary poets, who were personally known to him, but died before the composition of this work, i.e. A.H. 896, on fol. 18b, beginning with Sharaf-aldîn ‘Alî Yazdî. 3.Contemporary Shaikhs and poets, personally known to him, and still alive at the time of composition of this work, on fol. 46a, last line, beginning with Jâmî. 4.Fuḍalâ, or men of letters, who composed occasionally verses, on fol. 66b, first line, beginning with Pahlawân Muḥammad. 5.Nobelmen of Khurâsân, who excelled in poetical composition, on fol. 84b, beginning with Daulatshâh. 6.Poets and ingenious men of other countries, on fol.89b, beginning with Aḥmad Ḥâjîbeg. 7.Poetry and witticisms of Sulṭâns and princes, on fol. 97a, beginning with Amîr Tîmûr Gûrgân. 8.Sayings in prose and verse of Nawâ’î’s patron, Sulṭân Ḥusain (reigned A.H. 873-911=A.D. 1469-1506), on fol. 101b . No. 2507, ff. 1-110, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/2 in. by 51/4 in.

[IO Islamic 3206] Tadhkirat-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li>Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 662 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3206 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 662 A defective copy of the same. This excellent copy, written in the tenth or eleventh century of the Hijrah, breaks off towards the end of the sixth ṭabaḳah, in the biography of Bâbâ Saudâ’î of Abîwards, who flourished under Shâhrukh, on fol. 242b. The last words: ترا محنت جانى قربان ... , agree with the preceding copy, fol. 259b, line 4 ab infra. Muḳaddimah, on fol. 12a. Ṭabaḳah I, on fol. 18b; II, on fol. 45b; III, on fol. 76a (heading omitted); IV, on fol. 108b; V, on fol. 145b; VI, on fol. 191b (only headed طبقه , and beginning with كهبتانى (!), i.e. correctly: Ni’mat-allâh Kûhistânî). The last four pages (ff . 243 and 244), written by another hand, contain (a) the end of Jâmî’s شرح فصوص الحكم , i.e. the نقد النصوص ,a commentary on Muḥyî-aldîn Muḥammad bin ‘Alî al’Arabî’s (died A.H. 638 = A.D. 1240, 1241) نقش الفصوص , an extract from the same Arabic author’s larger mystical work, the فصوص الحكم (comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 894, 9, and 976, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 274), and (b) another small prose-tract on mystical matters, beginning : الها ملكا پادشاها قبلۀ دل مارا بتشريف ربّ اشرح لى صدرى در اشعۀ آفتاب الخ. No. 3206, ff. 244, ll. 15 (ll. 19 on the last four pages); excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 83/8 in. by 43/4 in.

[IO Islamic 2773] Kalimât-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li>Kalimât-alshu’arâ.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 672 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2773 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 672 A fragment of the same. This fragment of the Kalimât-alshu’arâ breaks off on fol. 36b in the specimens of a poet with the takhalluṣ Sayyid, i.e. Mîr Sayyid ‘Alî (beginning on fol. 36a= fol. 51b in the preceding copy). The last words, گيسو مسلسل را ... , correspond to fol. 52b , l.4 in the same copy . Ff. 37b and 38a contain (in a different handwriting) a few Rekhta ghazals. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2773, ff. 1-38, ll. 16; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 in. by 55/8 in.

[IO Islamic 717] Kitâb-i-Ni'matnâma-i-Nâṣirshâhî

<ul> <li>Kitâb-i-Ni'matnâma-i-Nâṣirshâhî . </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 717 in the India Office collections at the British Library.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Carl Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">, volume 1</a>, catalogue no. 2776].</li> </ul> 2776 A short tract on the art of cookery, without title, preface, or author’s name. There, appears at the top of fol. 1a a heading, added by a later hand: ترتیب بریدن (؟پزیدن) طعام, and the tract begins at once with the first bâb: باب اوّل در بیان اقسام کهچژی (hodge-podge) . No date. No. 717, ff. 17, II. 11-13; Shikasta; size 75/8 in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 2678] Tadhkira-i-Nadrat

<ul> <li> Tadhkira-i-Nadrat.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 676 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2678 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 676 Tadhkira-i-Nadrat ( تذكرۀ ندرت ). A large fragment of a tadhkirah of ancient and modern Persian poets, compiled by ‘Âlî Fiṭrat ‘Aṭâ-allâh, with the takhalluṣ Nadrat, in the nineteenth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign, A.H. 1149, 1150 (A.D. 1737), see fol. 32b, margin, ll. 11-12. It is divided into two چمن , seven گلشن , and one حديقه or خاتمه ; the former nine comprising the nine centuries of Persian poetry, from A.H. 200 to 1100 (A.D. 815-1689), the latter dealing with contemporary poets of the twelfth century. Of these ten subdivisions, only five are found in this copy, viz. Ćaman I: Poets of the third century, from Rûdagî to ‘Umârah, on fol. 33a; Ćaman II: Poets of the fourth century, from Amîr Aḳâjî (or Aghâjî) to Abû-alfaraj Sijzî, on fol. 33b; Gulshan I and II (not separated here): Poets of the fifth and sixth centuries, from ‘Unṣurî to Jamâl-aldîn ‘Abd-alrazzâḳ of Iṣfahân, on fol. 34a, margin; Gulshan III: Poets of the seventh century, on fol. 61a, beginning with Kamâl-aldîn Isma’îl خلاّق المعانى , and breaking off abruptly in the account of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî. Beginning : ثناى فصاحت پيرا صانعى را سزاست كه دندان سين سخن الخ . Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2678, ff. 32-71, ll. 17 in the centre, ll. 34 on the margin; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 113/4 in. by 71/4 in.

[IO Islamic 2011] Mirât-alkhayâl

<ul> <li>Mirât-alkhayâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 673 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2011 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 673 Mirât-alkhayâl ( مرآة الخيال ) . Biographies of renowned Persian poets and poetesses, by Shîrkhân ibn ‘Alî Amjadkhân Lûdî, who completed this work in A.H. 1102 (A.D. 1690, 1691), comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 374 and 375, where a complete list of the biographies is given; Rieu i. p. 369b sq.; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 618; Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. pp. 140 and 142; A. Sprenger, Cat., p. 115, and J. Aumer, p. 3. Printed Calcutta, 1831, and Bareilly, 1848. Beginning: اى زتو بند بر زبان نطق سخن سراى را الخ . The first of the ancient poets is Rûdagî, on fol. 10b; the first of the modern poets Jâmî, on fol. 48a; the tadhkirah of the poetesses begins on fol. 217a. Dated the 1st of Ṣafar, A.H. 1147 (the sixteenth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign) = A.D. 1734, July 3. An index of the whole work is found on the fly-leaves. No. 2011, ff. 220, ll. 17; unequal Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 61/4 in.

[IO Islamic 3163] Hamîsha Bahâr

<ul> <li>Hamîsha Bahâr.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 675 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3163 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 675 Hamîsha Bahâr (هميشه بهار ) . Eternal Spring, a tadhkirah of Persian poets who flourished in India from the time of Jahângîr to the accession of Muḥammadshâh (A.H. 1131=A.D. 1719), by a Khatrî Kishanćand Ikhlâṣ, who completed this work in A.H. 1136 (A.D. 1723, 1724), see fol. 7b, ll. Penult. and ultim. Compare the complete list of poets in this tadhkirah in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 117 sq.; see also Rieu iii. p. 1086b. Beginning, on fol. 5b: اى ذكر تو گلفروش بازار سخن الخ . The first poet mentioned in this copy is Mîr Ilâhî (see above in No. 670), on fol.8a, not, as in Sprenger’s list, Amîrkhân Anjâm, who follows here as second, on fol. 9b; the last is Aḥmad Yârkhân Yaktâ, as in Sprenger. This copy is dated A.H. 1139 (ninth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign), the 9th of Dhû-alḳa’dah (A.D. 1727, June 28), by Muḥammad Majid, at Shâhjânâbâd. The remark on the fly-leaf, that it was copied A.H. 1231 (A.D. 1816) , is consequently wrong; there are besides seals of former owners, for instance, of Mîr Ghulâm, bearing the date A.H. 1222 (A.D. 1807, 1808). The Hamîsha Bahâr fills ff. 5-173; the first leaves, ff. 1-4, and the last, ff. 174-191, contain various specimens of Persian poetry, mostly in oblique or diagonal lines . On the margin of ff. 5-29 there are additional verses also. A former owner of this copy was Mr. Hall (Benares, 1851); see, besides, the remark of A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 117, note. No. 3163, ff. 191, ll. 11 (in the main portion); Shikasta; size, 93/4 in. by 51/4 in.

[IO Islamic 226] Mirât-alkhayâl

<ul> <li>Mirât-alkhayâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 674 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 226 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 674 Another copy of the same. Beginning as in the preceding copy. The tadhkirah of poetesses is entirely missing here. No date. No. 226, ff. 225, ll. 15; Shikasta; many damaged leaves have been carefully mended; size, 85/8 in. by 47/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2141] Tadhkirat-almu'âṣirîn

<ul> <li> Tadhkirat-almu’âṣirîn.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 679 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2141 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 679 Another copy of the same. Beginning as in the preceding copy. It was transcribed by the same who copied ‘Alî Ḥazîn’s autobiography (No. 677), and probably in the same year, viz. A.H. 1227 (A.D. 1812). No. 2141, ff. 161-270, ll. 11; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/4 in. by 61/8 in.

[IO Islamic 1320] Maâthir alkirâm-i-ta'rikh-i-Balgrâm

<ul> <li>Maâthir alkirâm-i-ta’rikh-i-Balgrâm.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 682 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1320 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 682 Maâthir alkirâm-i-ta’rikh-i-Balgrâm (مآثر الكرام تأريخ بلگرام ) . The first volume of the great biographical work on the famous men of Balgrâm in Audh and neighbourhood, and those other eminent Indians who were in some way or other connected with that district, by Mîr Ghulâm ‘Alikhân Ḥusainî Wâsiṭi Balgrâmî, with the takhalluṣ Âzâd, who was born in Balgrâm, A.H. 1116 (A.D. 1704, 1705 ), and died towards the end of A.H. 1200 (A.D. 1786, September); comp. on the author, who has been mentioned above as the first editor of the Maâthir-alumarâ, in No. 622 sq., and again in No. 655, Rieu i. p. 373; A.,Sprenger, Catal., p. 142, and Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. P. 150; and on the مآثر الكرام , Rieu iii . p. 971, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 566-569, where a full list of the biographies in the second faṣl of the work (sixty-seven in the Berlin copy) is given. The date of composition is A.H. 1166 (A.D. 1753), according to the chronogram ختامه مسك . The Maâthir-alkirâm is divided into two faṣls, the first dealing with the Fuḳarâ or Shaikhs and pious men, the second (beginning on fol. 71b) with the Fuḍalâ or learned men; there are seventy-seven biographies in the former, and seventy-two (five more than in the Berlin copy) in the latter. The author mentions himself in both, see ff. 65b and 121a. Beginning: نسائم المحامد سارية الى الحمى السرمدى و ازهار التصلية و التسليم الخ . This copy was sent (according to a note in this MS.) by the author from Aurangâbâd, to Mr. Richard Johnson, at Ḥaidarâbâd, through ‘Lutchmen-narain’ (that is no doubt Laćhmî Narâyan, the author of the گل رعنا , a tadhkirah of Persian poets in India, composed A.H. 1181=A.D. 1767, 1768, and a faithful Ghulâm or servant of Âzâd, see Rieu iii. p. 977), the 1st of March, 1785; 100 rupees were sent in return. No. 1320, ff. 123, ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 93/8 in. by 53/8 in.

[IO Islamic 3117] Muntakhab-i-Majma'-alnafâ'is

<ul> <li>Muntakhab-i-Majma’-alnafâ’is.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 681 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3117 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 681 Muntakhab-i-Majma’-alnafâ’is (منتخب مجمع النفائس ) . An abridgment of ‘Alî Khân Ârzû’s tadhkirah (منتخب تذكرۀ خان آرزو ), written in the shape of an album, and likewise identical with the one mentioned by A. Sprenger, Catal, p. 134, at the end of the note. Ff. 2a-14b contain a complete alphabetical index of all the poets quoted in this work. On fol. 15a the real tadhkirah, or rather the anthology (for the biographical notices are either extremely short or left out altogether), begins with a rubâ’i by Bâyazîd Bisṭâmî. On fol. 1b, a واسوخت in Rekhta is added. This copy is dated the 1st of Ṣafar, A.H. 1243 (=A.D. 1827, August 24, the twenty-second year of Akbarshâh II, the son of Shâh ‘Âlam and nominal emperor of Dihlî, from A.H. 1221 to 1253 = A.D. 1806-1837). No. 3117, ff. 137, 2 coll., in diagonal lines, with an additional long line between the columns; Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; size, 12 in. by 5 1/2 in.

[IO Islamic 2786] Tadhkirat-almu'âṣirîn

<ul> <li> Tadhkirat-almu’âṣirîn.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 678 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2786 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 678 Tadhkirat-almu’âṣirîn ( تذكرة المعاصرين ) . Biographies of one hundred contemporary poets of Persia, by the same Shaikh ‘Alî Ḥazin, compiled in India, A.H. 1165 (A.D. 1752); comp. Rieu i. p. 372; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 621; Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. p. 147; Garcin de Tassy, Mémoire sur la religion musulmane, p. 112, and A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 135-141, where the full list of biographies is given. Beginning: تعالى الله حمد بيچونيكه اوراق پريشان مجموعۀ كون و مكانرا برشتۀ ايجاد شيرازه الخ . Dated by Muḥammad Anîs (or as he is spelt here آنيس ) the 29th of the month Sâwan, ( ساون ), in the year 1213 of the Bangâlî (Faṣlî) era (A.D. 1806, August 13). Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2786, ff. 1-72b, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 85/8 in. by 61/8 in.

[IO Islamic 3116] Majma'-alnafâ'is

<ul> <li>Majma’-alnafâ’is.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 680 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3116 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 680 Majma’-alnafâ’is (مجمع النفائس ) . The second half ( جلد دوم ) of the famous tadhkirah of Persian poets, completed A.H. 1164 (A.D. 1750, 1751), by Sirâj-aldîn ‘Alî Khân Ârzû, who was born A.H. 1101 (A.D. 1690), and died A.H. 1169 (A.D. 1756 ); comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 132; Bodleian Catal., No. 380. This copy, which is no doubt Mr. Hall’s (see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 134, note), begins with the letter ض , and ends withى ; the first poet mentioned is Ḍiyâ-aldîn Fârsî. Among the numerous works of Ârzû the most prominent are: سراج اللغة , a glossary of ancient poets; چراغ هدايت , a glossary of modern poets; تنبيه الغافلين , a criticism on Shaikh ‘Alî Ḥazîn; غرائب اللغات , a glossary of Hindî words (comp. Rieu ii . p. 501, and iii. pp. 997, 1030, and 1070b), and خيابان گلستان , a commentary on the Gulistân (Bodleian Cat., No. 725; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 551). This copy is one of the oldest we have of Ârzû’s work, transcribed from the author’s autograph, A.H. 1166 (19th of Jumâdâ-alawwal, sixth year of Aḥmad-shâh’s reign)= A.D. 1753, March 24, by Ârzû’s pupil Mîr ‘Ârif-allâh, known as Imâm-aldîn; it came into Kaiḳubâdjang’s library, A.H. 1204, 2nd of Rabî’-alawwal (A.D. 1789, December 20). No. 3116, ff. 344, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; size, 121/2 in. by 67/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2141] Tadhkirat-alaḥwâl

<ul> <li> Tadhkirat-alaḥwâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 677 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2141 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 677 Tadhkirat-alaḥwâl (تذكرة الاحوال ) . The autobiography of Shaikh Muḥammad ‘Alî Ḥazîn, who was born in Iṣfahân, in Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1103 (A.D. 1691, December, to 1692, January), and died in Banâras, A.H. 1180 (A.D. 1766). He wrote this account of his life in A.H. 1154 (A.D. 1741), see fol. 159a, l. 7. Beginning: نحمده و نسأله التقى و نعتصم بعروة الوثقى و نصلّى على سيّدنا المصطفى و آله الخ . The above title is found in Rieu i. p. 372. Other titles, given to this book, are تذكرۀ شیخ محمّد على حزين , in Bodleian Cat., No. 383; تأريخ احوال شيخ حزين , in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 141; and حالات شيخ على حزين , on the fly-leaf of this copy. An English translation of it was published by F.C. Belfour, London, 1830; the Persian text by the same, London, 1831. Dated the 8th of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1227 (A.D. 1812, March 23), at Lucknow, by پيدرو شوير بوتيس عيسوى بن فراسيكو شوير بوتيس , who copied it for مشتر ( ! ) بيلونهرى . College of Fort William, 1825. No. 2141, ff. 1-160, ll. 11; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/4 in. by 61/8 in.

[IO Islamic 1852] Sarw-i-Âzâd

<ul> <li>Sarw-i-Âzâd.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 683 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1852 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 683 Sarw-i-Âzâd ( سرو آزاد ). The second volume of Mîr Ghulâm ‘Alî Âzâd’s great biographical work on the famous men of Balgrâm and other parts of India, with the special title of Sarw-i-Âzâd, likewise composed A.H. 1166, according to the following three chronograms: نشاند ، ختم او احسن آزاد سرو سبز تازه , and تحرير عالى كرد آزاد , see the last page in this copy, and ff. 3a, ll. 6 and 7, and 158b, last two lines, in the following copy; compare on this work, A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 143, and Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. p. 151. It is divided, like the first volume, into two faṣls; the first comprising 143 biographies of Persian poets; the second (on fol. 155b), eight biographies of Rekhta poets. At the end of the work, on fol. 165 sq., an extract is given from Mir Ghulâm Nabî’s (see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 230, first line sq.) Hindûstânî treatise, انك درپن , on the forms of poetry and music, composed A.H. 1154 (A.D. 1741, 1742) . A complete index of all biographies on ff. 1b-4a. Beginning, on fol. 5b: سرمايۀ حمد نياز مبدعى كه ارواح معانى را با قوالب الفاظ آميخت و سبعۀ متعلّقۀ افلاك را از در قدرت آويخت الخ. In the preface of this (second) volume the author gives a detailed statement about the composition of the whole work; he says, that after having completed A.H. 1148 (A.D. 1735, 1736) his general tadhkirah of Persian Poets, styled يد بيضا ( see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 142), he resolved upon writing a work on the literary men of his native town, which he divided into two volumes, the first to be styled مآثر الكرام الخ , and the second سرو آزاد (see fol. 6b , line 14 sq.). No date. No. 1852, ff. 172, ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/2 in. by 51/2 in.

[IO Islamic 2415] Anonymous Compilation

<ul> <li> Anonymous Compilation.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 692 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2415 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 692 A very large universal biography of Persian poets, with copious extracts, comprising, according to the index on ff. 1a-17a, 2200 names, by an anonymous author, without preface and colophon. This big volume, which is (to judge from the blank leaves left between chapters and single names ) the first sketch of a tadhkirah only, must have been compiled between A.H. 1170 and 1180 (A.D. 1757-1766), for on fol.95a the death of Sirâj-aldîn ‘Alîkhân Ârzû (see Nos . 680 and 681 above) is fixed in A.H. 1170 (contrary to the usual statement), and on fol. 663b Mîr Shams-aldîn Faḳîr, who died, according to A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 394, A.H. 1180 or 1181 (A.D. 1766 , 1767), is spoken of as still alive. Perhaps we have got in this copy the very rare -and as yet never met with – تذكرۀ بينظير , which was compiled A.H. 1172 or 1178 (A.D. 1758, 1759, or 1764, 1765), by Mîr ‘Abd-alwahhâb Daulatâbâdî (see A.Sprenger, Catal., p. 144, No. 11). The arrangement is alphabetical; each letter forms a حديقه , and each حديقه is subdivided into three گلشن (ancient, middle, and modern poets), the last of which comprises again two چمن (viz. poets of Îrân and Tûrân, and poets of India). The first name on fol. 19b is Shaikh Abû-alḥasan Kharaḳânî. As for the old poets in particular, the biographical dates are very incorrect; Kharaḳânî’s death, for example, being fixed in A.H. 352 (instead of A.H. 425), and Nâṣir bin Khurau’s even in A.H. 119 (!!). No. 2415, ff. 936, 3 coll., ll. 15 in each; written by different hands in Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; size, 121/8 in. by 8 in.