[IO Islamic 2979] Khazâna-i-'âmirah

• Khazâna-i-’âmirah.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 685 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 2979 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Khazâna-i-’âmirah (خزانۀ عامره ) .

The best known of all the tadhkiras of Mîr Ghulâm ‘Alî Âzâd, styled the ‘Royal Treasury,’ and composed in A.H. 1176 and 1177 (A.D. 1762, 1763). It contains in alphabetical order 135 of the most renowned ancient and modern poets, comp. Bodleian Catal., No. 381, where a full list of all the biographies is given; Rieu i. p. 373, where the twenty-one authorities are enumerated, on which this work is founded; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 143; Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. pp. 40-43; Elliot, History of India, viii. p. 188; see also No. 490 in this Cat., where extracts from the account of the Marattahs (inserted in this tadhkirah after the tenth biography) are found. A full index on the fly-leaves.

Beginning: سر كلام را جيغه حمد صانعى كه انسان الخ .

This copy was transcribed from the author’s autograph, by Muḥammad Ma’rûf bin Muḥammad bûlâḳî, an inhabitant of Aurangâbâd, and dated the 16th of Rajab, A.H. 1182 (A.D. 1768, Nov. 26).

No. 2979, ff. 351, ll. 17; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^3/4 in.