خلیل الرحمٰن داؤدی کی مخطوطات پر یادداشت نویسی

Abstract

Khalīl al-Raḥmān Dā’ūdī (1923-2002) was a versatile personality. Most of his work is about manuscripts, research and editing. He edited more than twenty 20 classical Urdu books, sixteen of them are published and four are still unpublished. He was famous for his good knowledge of manuscripts. He wrote notes on more than three thousand and five hundred manuscripts of different languages like Persian, Arabic, Urdu and Punjabi. Scholars of literature praised his research on manuscripts. This article is about the principles of catalogue in practical form and also a review of some samples notes written by Dā’ūdī. It is also a comparison of Dā’dī’s cataloging with other catalogues. No doubt it is an important addition to the chapter of codicology. This research explores the patterns of memories for the past scholarship they worked on different manuscripts for literature and languages.