[IO Islamic 2565] Tadhkira-i-Naṣrâbâdî

• Tadhkira-i-Naṣrâbâdî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 669 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 2565 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Tadhkira-i-Naṣrâbâdî (تذكرۀ نصرابادى ).

Biographies of contemporary poets by Muḥammad Ṭâhir Naṣrâbâdî (or Naṣîrâbâdî), who began to compile this work A.H. 1083 (A.D. 1672, 1673), and divided it into a muḳaddimah, five sections (صفّ ), and a khâtimah. Various copies contain additions up to A.H. 1089 (A.D. 1678), and even to A.H. 1092 (A.D. 1681), comp. Bodleian Catal., No. 373; Rieu i. p. 368; W.Pertsch, Berlin Catal., p. 616; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 88-108, and Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. pp. 137-140.

Muḳaddimah: Poetry of kings and princes, on fol. 5^a.

Section I: Poetry of the Amîrs, Khâns, and wazîrs of Îrân and Hindûstân, on fol. 9^a, in three firḳas or classes.

Section II: Poetry of the Sayyids, Najîbs, etc., on fol. 64^a.

Section III: Poetry of wise and learned men, calligraphers, faḳîrs, etc., on fol. 100^b, in three firḳas.

Section IV: Poetry of Professional poets in ‘Irâḳ, Khurâsân, Transoxania, and Hindûstân, on fol. 142^b (the heading is forgotten here), in three firḳas.

Section V: Poetry of relations of the author himself.

The beginning of this section is not marked. The author’s own biography begins on fol. 320^a, last line.

Khâtimah, containing chronograms, logogriphs, riddles, etc., on fol. 328^a.

Beginning: سرسبزئ نهال خامه از طراوت الخ.

No. 2565, ff. 376, ll. 17; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10^1/8 in. by 5^7/8 in.