[IO Islamic 2786] Tadhkirat-almu'âṣirîn

<strong> Tadhkirat-almu’âṣirîn.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 678 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 2786 here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>. 678 Tadhkirat-almu’âṣirîn ( تذكرة المعاصرين ) . Biographies of one hundred contemporary poets of Persia, by the same Shaikh ‘Alî Ḥazin, compiled in India, A.H. 1165 (A.D. 1752); comp. Rieu i. p. 372; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 621; Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. p. 147; Garcin de Tassy, Mémoire sur la religion musulmane, p. 112, and A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 135-141, where the full list of biographies is given. Beginning: تعالى الله حمد بيچونيكه اوراق پريشان مجموعۀ كون و مكانرا برشتۀ ايجاد شيرازه الخ . Dated by Muḥammad Anîs (or as he is spelt here آنيس ) the 29th of the month Sâwan, ( ساون ), in the year 1213 of the Bangâlî (Faṣlî) era (A.D. 1806, August 13). Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2786, ff. 1-72^b, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8^5/8 in. by 6^1/8 in.