[IO Islamic 3206] Tadhkirat-alshu'arâ

• Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ .
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 662 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 3206 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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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. 242^b.

The last words: ترا محنت جانى قربان ... , agree with the preceding copy, fol. 259^b, line 4 ab infra. Muḳaddimah, on fol. 12^a. Ṭabaḳah I, on fol. 18^b; II, on fol. 45^b; III, on fol. 76^a (heading omitted); IV, on fol. 108^b; V, on fol. 145^b; VI, on fol. 191^b (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, 8^3/8 in. by 4^3/4 in.