[IO Islamic 2753] Tadhkirat-alshu'arâ

• Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ .
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 656 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2753 here with notations and hyperlinks].

d. Persian Poets.

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Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ ( تذكرة الشعرا ).

The well-known biography of Persian poets by Daulatshâh bin ‘Alâ-aldaulah Bakhtîshâh (according to W. Pertsch: ibn 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).

This copy , excellently written and comparatively old , begins , on fol. 1^b:

تحمیدی که شاهباز بلند پرواز اندیشه بسیاجت (بساحت وread) فضای (کبریایadded in the other copies) آن طیران الخ.. Muḳaddimah, on fol. 11^a.

Ṭabaḳah I (beginning with Rûdagî), on fol. 17^b; II ( beginning with Azraḳî), on fol. 38^b; III (beginning with Niżâmî), on fol. 64^a; IV (beginning with Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr), on fol. 88^a; V (beginning with ‘Imâd Faḳîh), on fol. 118^a; VI (beginning with Sayyid Ni’mat-allâh of Kûhistân), on fol. 155^a; VII (beginning with Amîr Shâhî), on fol. 197^a. Khâtimah (beginning with Jâmî), on fol. 223^a. 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^a-11^a and a comparison with the following copies.

Dated the 9th of Rajab, A.H. 960 (A.D. 1553, June 21). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2753, ff. 246, ll. 17; Naskhî; size, 8^3/4 in. by 6^3/4 in.