IO Islamic 3899 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Khazin al-Shu'ara'
Contents
1 copy of Taz̲kirah-'i khāzin al-shuʿarāʾ by ʿAlī Kabīr Mīranjān Ilāhābādī
Alternative title: Vāqiʿāt al-nādirāt
Dictionary of alphabetically-arranged biographical notices for 191 north Indian poets of Persian, by ʿAlī Kabīr al-mawʿid Mīranjān al-Ḥusaynī al-Muḥammadī al-Ḥanafī al-Naqshbandī al-Abū al-ʿAlā-yi Ilāhābādī, largely drawn from the Ilāhābād (Allahabad) region (Uttar Pradesh, India)
Separate list of headings and subheadings appended to the start (ff. i-iv)
Possibly the author's autograph copy, written for or at the behest of Sayyid Muḥammad Bashīr, called Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad
Further described in Storey's entry in Persian Literature (vol. 1, part 2, pp. 902-3)
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Rough and awkward nastaʿlīq; headings and koranic quotations in naskh. Basmalah in sar lawḥ above text (f. 1v) in mirrored ṭughrā design, incomplete. Scribe may be the same as the author.
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History
Provenance and Acquisition
William Irvine, purchased from C. Rustumjee (?), 30 March 1908
Sayyid Muḥammad Bashīr, called Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad
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