. Persian Manuscripts. ceexl vil 
It was compiled by ‘Abd al-Karim B. Qadi Rajan of 
Himyarpiar, and not by Ahmad Khan as wrongly mentioned in 
the Bodl. Lib. Cat. No. 1405 (by Dr. Ethé) ; composed in .H. 
998=a.p. 1589 at the desire of Ahmad Khan B. Shir Khan 
Turkaman, and not ‘Abd al-Karim B. Qadi Rajan as mentioned 
in the Bodl. Lib. Cat. 
The date of composition (998 A.H.=1589 a.D.) appears 
from the following verses :— 
cls cop Or que dei wl 
nlsS'sd Sika y gh) Od ee 
Written in Ta‘liq. Dated a.n. 1224=a.p. 1809. 
Seribe :—Abd al-Ghani of Shahjahanabad. 
Beg.:— __- ra 1) ob} cckeb Bly igebSiec yo Cwlay urbe 
(R. 8. Lib.) 
296. 
ere Je 
the Takhallus “‘ Bahar’? of Delhi. ‘The work is not rare, but 
tives an interest from the fact that the valuable marginal] 
notes were written by Siraj al-Din ‘Ali Khan “ Arzi””' (d. A-H- 
1169 =a.p. 1755) himself in the space of a year. 
Transcribed from the author’s copy- 
Scribe :—Shanker Lal, clear Nasta‘liq. Dated 4-H. 1154= 
A.D. 1741. 
Beg. :— rl ty Baio flee » rk 
(Ali Husayn Lib., Lucknow.) 
known Persian and Hindustani 
“akDi Chiragh-i-Delhi. For 
pk Arzii is written 
! Sirajal-Din «Ali-Khan Arzi, a well- 
he 2 a nephew of the famous saint Nagir al-Din 
h 
12 the Nizam Lib., Hyderabad. The Ralinedt al-Shu‘ara’ formerly be- 
Onged to the Lib. of Siraj al-Din ‘Ali Khan Arzt. eee 
+ am informed that otk autograph copy entitled Majma‘al-N, apis 
Caled t+ composed by him is in the 0.P. Lib. (Bankipore). : 
There is another copy of the Majmat‘al-Nafa‘s [use eer] 
the Govt. collection A.S.B. which is not entered in the Catalogue. 
