[IO Islamic 3117] Muntakhab-i-Majma'-alnafâ'is

Muntakhab-i-Majma’-alnafâ’is.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 681 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 3117 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Muntakhab-i-Majma’-alnafâ’is (منتخب مجمع النفائس ) .

An abridgment of ‘Alî Khân Ârzû’s tadhkirah (منتخب تذكرۀ خان آرزو ), written in the shape of an album, and likewise identical with the one mentioned by A. Sprenger, Catal, p. 134, at the end of the note.

Ff. 2a-14b contain a complete alphabetical index of all the poets quoted in this work. On fol. 15a the real tadhkirah, or rather the anthology (for the biographical notices are either extremely short or left out altogether), begins with a rubâ’i by Bâyazîd Bisṭâmî. On fol. 1b, a واسوخت in Rekhta is added.

This copy is dated the 1st of Ṣafar, A.H. 1243 (=A.D. 1827, August 24, the twenty-second year of Akbarshâh II, the son of Shâh ‘Âlam and nominal emperor of Dihlî, from A.H. 1221 to 1253 = A.D. 1806-1837).

No. 3117, ff. 137, 2 coll., in diagonal lines, with an additional long line between the columns; Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; size, 12 in. by 5 1/2 in.