Wadh.Minasian 62 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Summary of Contents: This treatise is a collective biography of poets, with samples of their poetry, in an introduction and seven 'classes'. The introduction is about Arab poets, the first class covers from Rūdakī to ʿImād Zūzanī, the second class from Ḥakīm Arzaqī to Sayf Isfarangī, the third class from Niẓāmī Ganjavī to ʿAbd al-Qādir Nāʾīnī, the fourth class from Shaykh Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār to Amīr Maydān Kirmānī, the fifth class from Khvājah ʿImād Faqīh Kirmānī to Khvājah ʿAbd al-Malik Samarqandī, the sixth class from Sayid Niʿmat Allāh Valī to Ṭāl Jājarḥī, and the seventh class from Amīr Shāhī Sabzivārī to Khvājah Maḥmūd Barsah. The conclusion is about six poets contemporary to the author.