[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. 5a.

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

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

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

Section IV: Poetry of Professional poets in ‘Irâḳ, Khurâsân, Transoxania, and Hindûstân, on fol. 142b (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. 320a, last line.

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

Beginning: سرسبزئ نهال خامه از طراوت الخ.

No. 2565, ff. 376, ll. 17; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 101/8 in. by 57/8 in.