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IO Islamic 3999

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IO Islamic 3999
Title:
Tazkirah-yi tuhfah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
23 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1897
End Date:
1897
Date Range:
1897
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abū Ṭālib ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Naṣīr Khān ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Ṭāhir Ṭabāṭabāʾī Iṣfahānī
Durrānī, Aḥmad Shāh, Amir of Afghanistan, 1723?-1772,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000025588905,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/139145910119027021680
John (sic, read George) Jasper Nicholls
Saʿādat ʿAlī Khān
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3999

Tazkirah-yi tuhfah

Contents

1 copy of Taz̲kirah-'i tuḥfah by Abū Ṭālib ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Naṣīr Khān ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Ṭāhir Ṭabāṭabāʾī Iṣfahānī

Author: Abū Ṭālib ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Naṣīr Khān ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Ṭāhir Ṭabāṭabāʾī Iṣfahānī ابو طالب ابن سيّد محمّد نصير خان ابن سيّد محمّد طاهر طباطبائى اصفهانى
Title: Taz̲kirah-'i tuḥfah
Title: تذكرهٴ تحفه

Brief, alphabetically-arranged, biographical dictionary of ancient and modern Persian poets of South Asia (mostly without quotations of poetry), dedicated to the Nāʾib-Navvāb of Avadh, Saʿādat ʿAlī Khān, and completed at Lucknow (Lakhnaʾū) in 1227/1812

Preface contains important updates and first-hand details on the poets Ḥazīn, Vālih, and Qatīl, etcetera

Autobiographical account included at end

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from AgraCopied from an original manuscript belonging to the library of

Filiation: Copied from original manuscript belonging to Qāz̤ī Bandah Ḥasan Khān, resident of Telia Nala, Benares (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 23 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 255 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear nastaʿlīq

. Scribe: ʿAlī Aṣghar of Bhitrī

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1897-05-12 12 May 1897 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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_f107r (digital images currently unavailable) r

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/16_f107r (digital images currently unavailable)

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