[IO Islamic 3112] Khâtima-i-Khulâṣat-alsh'âr

Khâtima-i-Khulâṣat-alsh’âr.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 668 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 3112 here with notations and hyperlinks].

668

Khâtima-i-Khulâṣat-alsh’âr (خاتمۀ خلاصة الاشعار ) .

This is undoubtedly the same copy of the Khâtimah or appendix to Ṭaḳî Kâshî’s tadhkirah which, according to A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 15, formerly belonged to Mr. Hall, of Banâras, and which was copied in the very year of its completion, viz. A.H. 993, in the month Jumâdâ-althânî (A.D. 1585, June), by ‘Abd-alfattâḥ bin Shams-aldîn Muḥammad alkâshânî. It represents the first and fuller edition of Taḳî Kâshî’s work, with all the poetical extracts, which are not to be found in the more common abridgment of the second edition. The first leaf is missing; a full index on the fly-leaves, and a second index on the last two pages.

The twelve aṣls are found here:

1.Poets of Kâshân (beginning with Muḥtasham), on fol. 3a.

2.Poets of Iṣfahân, on fol. 92a.

3.Poets of Ḳumm and neighbourhood, on fol. 144a.

4.Poets of Sâwa and environs, on fol. 162a.

5.Poets of Ḳazwîn, on fol. 173b.

6.Poets of Gîlân, on fol. 180b.

7.Poets of Tabrîz and adjacent districts, on fol. 186b.

8.Poets of Yazd and Kirmân, on fol. 198b.

9.Poets of Shîrâz, on fol. 230a.

10.Poets of Hamadân and environs , on fol. 238a.

11.Poets of Rai and neighbouring cities, on fol. 253a.

12.Poets of Khurâsân, on fol. 259a.

A short conclusion (ذيل ), on fol. 309a.

No. 3112, ff. 310, 4, coll., each ll. 24; clear Nasta’lîḳ; very much worm-eaten throughout; size, 121/4 in. by 73/4 in.