This is the online archive for the unpublished works of the master Urdu poet and scholar Amir Ahmad Minai.(1829-1900)
We will keep uploading sections of manuscripts from the Amir Minai Archive in subsequent posts. Please keep visiting. We will notify once the project is complete.
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The Amir Minai Archive Team

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Title 57, Manuscript --Masnavi qissa aik yahudi ka/masnavi owais qarani calligrapged by Talib Hasan/Amir Minai’s Naatia kalam - 1884

Serial No: 57
Dimensions (HxW): 7.5”x5”
Nature of Document: Manuscript --Masnavi qissa aik yahudi ka/masnavi owais qarani calligrapged by Talib Hasan/Amir Minai’s Naatia kalam - 1884
Genre: Urdu Poetry
No. of Pages: 96 pp -51 images

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Pp 2-3


Pp 96

Title 56, Manuscript --Qasida Masnad Nashini Nawab Arsh Aashian Tab Sarah

Serial No: 56
Dimensions (HxW): 9.25”x5.5”
Nature of Document: Manuscript --Qasida Masnad Nashini Nawab Arsh Aashian Tab Sarah
Genre: Urdu Poetry
No. of Pages: 8 pp -5 images

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Pp 2-3


Pp 8

Title 51, Manuscript -- Musaddas and other miscellaneous poetry

Serial No: 51
Dimensions (HxW): 9.5”x6.5”
Nature of Document: Manuscript -- Musaddas and other miscellaneous poetry
Genre: Urdu poetry
No. of Pages: 31 - 16 images

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Pp 2-3


Pp 31

Title 12, Manuscript --Sanamkhana-e Ishq (incomplete) with some radeef “nun” (ن) selections

Serial No: 12
Dimensions (HxW): 9.25”x5.5”
Nature of Document: Manuscript --Sanamkhana-e Ishq (incomplete) with some radeef “nun” (ن) selections
Genre: Urdu Poetry
No. of Pages: 164 -83 images (Starts on page 145)

Pp 145


Pp 146-147

Pp 310

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Title 4, Manuscript -- Surma-e Baseerat ( Dated: October 10, 1874)

Serial No: 4
Dimensions (HxW): 13.5”x9.5”
Nature of Document: Manuscript -- Surma-e Baseerat ( Dated: October 10, 1874)
Genre: Lexicon of 1963 Urdu words and phrases of Arabic and Persian origin and their usage
No. of Pages: 519 - 261 images

Pp 1

Pp 2

Pp 3-4

Pp 5-6

Pp 515-516

Pp 517-518

Pp 519