[IO Islamic 3168] Tadhkira-i-'Alî Ḥusainî Gardîzî

Tadhkira-i-’Alî Ḥusainî Gardîzî .

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 698 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 3168 here with notations and hyperlinks].

e. Rekhta Poets.

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Tadhkira-i-’Alî Ḥusainî Gardîzî (تذكرۀ على حسينى گرديزى ).

A tadhkirah of Rekhta poets, by ‘Alî alḥusainî al-gardîzî (see fol. 1b, l.3 ab infra), compiled in Persian, A.H. 1165 (A.D. 1752), at Dihlî, comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 178; Rieu iii. p. 1071; Garcin de Tassy, Littérature Hindouie, etc., 2nd ed. i. p. 523; Journal Asiatique, 5e Série, ii. p. 369. It is arranged alphabetically, and contains, according to the index on ff. 70b and 71a, ninety-seven biographies. It begins with Sirâj-aldîn ‘Alîkhân Ârzû (see above, Nos. 680 and 681), on fol.3b, and ends with ‘Abd-alwahhâb Yakrû, a pupil of Âbrû, on fol. 70b, l.2.

Beginning: ابتداى سخن بحمد سخن آفرينى سزاست كه سر لوح نسخۀ كائنات را الخ .

This is the oldest of the India Office copies, dated A.H. 1180 (A.D. 1766, 1767), and belonged formerly to Mr. J. Edward Hall (Benares, 1851), who lent it to Dr. A. Sprenger, as we learn from the latter’s Catal., p. 178, note. On ff. 71b and 72 there is added by another hand the index of some Hindûstânî medical work. A few Rekhta baits, on fol. 1a.

No. 3168, ff. 1-72, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ, written by two different hands (the first on ff. 1-31, the second in the handwriting of the colophon and date on ff. 32-71a); size, 81/8 in. by 41/2 in.