[IO Islamic 2565] Tadhkira-i-Naṣrâbâdî

<strong>Tadhkira-i-Naṣrâbâdî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 669 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 2565 here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>. 669 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. <em>Mu</em><em>ḳaddimah: </em>Poetry of kings and princes, on fol. 5^a.<em> </em> <em>Section I: </em>Poetry of the Amîrs, Khâns, and wazîrs of Îrân and Hindûstân, on fol. 9^a,<em> </em>in three firḳas or classes. <em>Section II</em>: Poetry of the Sayyids, Najîbs, etc., on fol. 64^a. <em>Section III</em>: Poetry of wise and learned men, calligraphers, faḳîrs, etc., on fol. 100^b, in three firḳas. <em>Section IV</em>: Poetry of Professional poets in ‘Irâḳ, Khurâsân, Transoxania, and Hindûstân, on fol. 142^b (the heading is forgotten here), in three firḳas. <em>Section V: </em>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. <em>Khâtimah</em>, containing chronograms, logogriphs, riddles, etc., on fol. 328^a.<em> </em> 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. <br>