[IO Islamic 2003] Kalimât-alshu'arâ

Kalimât-alshu’arâ.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 670 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 2003 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Kalimât-alshu’arâ ( كلمات الشعرا ) .

The words of the poets, a tadhkirah of the Persian poets of India, flourishing in the reigns of Jahângîr, Shâhjahân, and ‘Âlamgîr, by Mirzâ Muḥammad Afḍal with the takhalluṣ Sarkhwush, who died at Dihlî, A.H. 1127 (A.D. 17150), according to the Khazâna-i-’âmirah (Bodleian Cat., No.381, 60), or A.H. 1126 (A.D. 1714), according to the Khulâṣat-alafkâr (Bodelian Cat., No. 391, 135); even A.H. 1125 (A.D. 1713) is given as date of his death, comp. Rieu i. p. 369; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., P. 617; Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. p. 168; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 108 sq., where a detailed account of this tadhkirah is given.

The title of the book (see fol. 3b, l. 6) is a chronogram, giving the date of composition as A.H. 1093 (A.D. 1682). It is arranged alphabetically, and begins (on fol.3b) with Mîr Ilâhî (who died, according to the Khulâṣat-alafkâr, Bodleian Cat., No. 391, 36, A.H. 1060=A.D. 1650; others give the date of his death as A.H. 1057, 1063, or 1064=A.D. 1647, 1653, or 1654, see Rieu ii. p. 687, iii. p. 1091b, and A.Sprenger, Catal., p. 436); the last poet is Mîr Yaḥyâ Kâshî (who died A.H. 1074 = A.D. 1663, 1664), on fol. 103b.

Beginning: سخن جانست و ديگر گفتگو جانان زمن بشنو – اگر هر لحظه جانى تازه خواهى اين سخن بشنو الخ.

Dated Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1154 (24th year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign) = A.D. 1742, January.

No. 2003, ff. 108, ll. 12-13; written for the greater part in Shikasta; size, 61/2 in. by 41/8 in.