[IO Islamic 2786] Tadhkirat-almu'âṣirîn

Tadhkirat-almu’âṣirîn.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 678 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 2786 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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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. 1-72b, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 85/8 in. by 61/8 in.