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Kalimat al-shu'ara'

1 copy of Kalimāt al-shuʿarāʾ by Muḥammad Afz̤al Lāhawrī "Sarkhvush"

Author: Muḥammad Afz̤al Lāhawrī "Sarkhvush" محمّد افضل لاهورى سرخوش

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

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 66 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 228 mm.

Condition

worm-eaten; repairs; some leaves overlaid with silk gauze

Hand(s)

Script ranging from scribal nastaʿlīq to Indian taʿlīq

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 23 Z̲ī Qaʿdah 1237, 1229 Faṣlī AH; 1822 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

George Jasper Nicholls

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

1913-08-15

William Irvine

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/16

Availability

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Bibliography

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