[IO Islamic 3170] Tadhkira-i-'Alî Ḥusainî Gardîzî

Tadhkira-i-’Alî Ḥusainî Gardîzî .

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 699 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 3170 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Another copy of the same.

This copy, dated by Mu’în-aldîn Bhagalpûrî the first of Dhû-alḥijja, A.H. 1216 (A.D. 1802, April 4), belonged originally to Tîpû’s library. Later owners of it were: Ḥâfiż Aḥmad Kabîr, Maulawî Riḍâ Ḥasankhân Bahâdur, and Mr. J. Edward Hall, who got it from the latter, the 22nd of October, 1848, at Calcutta.

This is the second of the two copies lent by Mr. Hall to Dr. A .Sprenger, see the latter’s note in his Catal., loc. cit. The first biography, that of ‘Alîkhân Ârzû, begins here on fol. 3b, last line; the last, that of ‘Abd-alwahhâb Yakrû, on fol. 79b. There is no index in this copy.

Beginning as in the preceding copy.

No. 3170, ff. 79, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/4 in. by 53/8 in.