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Manuscript/Mixed Material Taz̲kirat al-khaṭṭāṭīn تذکرة الخطاطين / / Mas̲navī-i Taz̲kirat al-khaṭṭāṭīn / Mas̲navī-i Rājī

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Title

  • Taz̲kirat al-khaṭṭāṭīn

Other Title

  • تذکرة الخطاطين /
  • Mas̲navī-i Taz̲kirat al-khaṭṭāṭīn
  • Mas̲navī-i Rājī

Summary

  • Short versified description of calligraphers of Bukhoro (Uzbekistan).
  • Taz̲kirat al-khaṭṭāṭīn (Memorial of calligraphers) is a book of verse in the mathnawi form. This type of poetry is based on a scheme of individually rhyming couplets and is used in many important works of Persian literature. The author, Muhammad Idris Khvajah Raji Bukhari (died 1919 or 1920), was a literary figure in the fabled city of Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan), capital of the Emirate of Bukhara. As the title of the book suggests, the work belongs to the tazkira (memorial) genre, and Raji Bukhari includes in it the names of the Bukharan calligraphers of his day and short accounts of their life and work. These miniature biographical sketches are preceded by an extended and whimsical description of the art of calligraphy itself, and of the various proportions and shapes of the Persian alphabet. Raji Bukhari concludes his work with a list of short references to various branches of knowledge, including logic and grammar. The manuscript, in a nastaʻliq script, was copied in 1908-9, possibly in Afghanistan. The scribe, Katib Kuchak Bukhari, notes that he based his text on the divan (or collected works) of Raji Bukhari. Bukhara came under the control of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century. In 1920, following the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was declared the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic. It subsequently became part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Rājī Bukhārī, Muḥammad Idrīs Khvājah
  • Bukhārī, ʻInāyat Allāh Khvājah

Created / Published

  • 1326 [1908]

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Afghanistan

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Nastaʻlīq script; 17 lines in written area 26.6 x 17 cm.
  • -  Written in Afghanistan?
  • -  Also available in digital form.
  • -  In Persian.
  • -  Acquired for LC only.

Medium

  • 52 pages (17 lines) bound : paper ; 26.6 x 17 cm

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2002344103

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Persian Language Manuscript Project are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Rājī Bukhārī, Muḥammad Idrīs Khvājah, and ʻInāyat Allāh Khvājah Bukhārī. Taz̲kirat Al-Khaṭṭāṭīn. [1908] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2002344103/.

APA citation style:

Rājī Bukhārī, M. I. K. & Bukhārī, ʻ. A. K. (1908) Taz̲kirat Al-Khaṭṭāṭīn. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2002344103/.

MLA citation style:

Rājī Bukhārī, Muḥammad Idrīs Khvājah, and ʻInāyat Allāh Khvājah Bukhārī. Taz̲kirat Al-Khaṭṭāṭīn. [1908] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2002344103/>.