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Khazin al-Shu'ara'

1 copy of Taz̲kirah-'i khāzin al-shuʿarāʾ by ʿAlī Kabīr Mīranjān Ilāhābādī

Author: ʿAlī Kabīr Mīranjān Ilāhābādī على كبير ميرنجان اله آبادى

Language(s): Persian

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)

Title: Taz̲kirah-'i khāzin al-shuʿarāʾ

Title: تذكرهٴ خازن الشّعراٴ

Physical Description

Machine-made European paper

Think black and red synthetic dye inks

Form: codex

Extent: 198 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 288 × 185 mm.

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

Origin: Sunday night, 27 Jum. II 1271 AH; 16 March 1855 CE Patna, Bihar ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine, purchased from C. Rustumjee (?), 30 March 1908

Sayyid Muḥammad Bashīr, called Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad

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