[IO Islamic 2570] Tuḥfa-i-Sâmî

• Tuḥfa-i-Sâmî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 665 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 2570 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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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 .

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No. 2570, ff. 153, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 9^1/8 in. by 5 in.