IO Islamic 4046 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Kalimat al-shu'ara'
Contents
1 copy of Kalimāt al-shuʿarāʾ by Muḥammad Afz̤al Lāhawrī "Sarkhvush"
Taz̲kirah of alphabetically-arranged biographical notices for ancient and modern Persian poets, especially seventeenth-century South Asian contemporaries
Defective, with 6 folios lacking at beginning after f. 1
Entries commence with Muḥammad Bāqir
Not dated
Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra
Physical Description
Condition
worm-eaten; repairs; some leaves overlaid with silk gauze
Hand(s)
Script ranging from scribal nastaʿlīq to Indian taʿlīq
Binding
History
Provenance and Acquisition
George Jasper Nicholls
Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī
1913-08-15
William Irvine
Record Sources
Availability
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