[IO Islamic 2753] Tadhkirat-alshu'arâ
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<li><strong>Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ .</strong></li>
<li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 656 in the India Office collections.</strong></li>
<li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2753 here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li>
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<p>d. <em>Persian Poets</em>.</p>
<p>656</p>
<p>Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ ( تذكرة الشعرا ).</p>
<p>The well-known biography of Persian poets by Daulatshâh bin ‘Alâ-aldaulah Bakhtîshâh (according to W. Pertsch: <em>ibn</em> Bakhtîshâh) of Samarḳand, who completed this work A.H. 892 (A.D. 1487), and dedicated it to Mîr ‘Alî Shîr. Hammer’s ‘Schöne Redekünste Persiens’ are principally based on it. It is divided into a muḳaddimah, seven ṭabaḳât, and a khâtimah, comp. Notices et Extr. iv. p. 220 sq., where the full list of biographies is given; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 348-359 ; Rieu i. p. 364 ; W. Pertsch, Berlin Catal., p. 597 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 7 sq.; Cat. Des MSS. et Xyl., p. 308 sq.; G. Flügel ii.p. 366 sq.; J. Aumer, p. 1; Ḥ. Khalfa ii. p. 262 , No. 2819 ; Dorn, Das asiatische Museum, p. 349, No. 19; Rehatsek, Mulla Firuz Library, p. 130 sq.; Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 160, etc. On the various articles of this work, translated into European languages, see W. Pertsch, loc. cit. A Turkish translation of it , entitled سفينة الشعرا , appeared in Constantinople , A.H. 1259. Daulatshâh died A.H. 900 (A.D. 1494 , 1495).</p>
<p>This copy , excellently written and comparatively old , begins , on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>:</p>
<p>تحمیدی که شاهباز بلند پرواز اندیشه بسیاجت (بساحت وread) فضای (کبریایadded in the other copies) آن طیران الخ.. Muḳaddimah, on fol. 11<sup>a</sup>.</p>
<p>Ṭabaḳah I (beginning with Rûdagî), on fol. 17<sup>b</sup>; II ( beginning with Azraḳî), on fol. 38<sup>b</sup>; III (beginning with Niżâmî), on fol. 64<sup>a</sup>; IV (beginning with Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr), on fol. 88<sup>a</sup>; V (beginning with ‘Imâd Faḳîh), on fol. 118<sup>a</sup>; VI (beginning with Sayyid Ni’mat-allâh of Kûhistân), on fol. 155<sup>a</sup>; VII (beginning with Amîr Shâhî), on fol. 197<sup>a</sup>. Khâtimah (beginning with Jâmî), on fol. 223<sup>a</sup>. In the text itself only the third ṭabaḳah is marked by a special heading; all the others have been determined both by the index on ff. 10<sup>a</sup>-11<sup>a</sup> and a comparison with the following copies.</p>
<p>Dated the 9th of Rajab, A.H. 960 (A.D. 1553, June 21). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p>
<p>No. 2753, ff. 246, ll. 17; Naskhî; size, 8<sup>3/4</sup> in. by 6<sup>3/4</sup> in.</p>
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