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Add MS 26324

Record Id:
032-003394093
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003394093
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 26324
Title:

[Vaqi'āt-i Bāburī] / وقعات بابوري

Scope & Content:

Passages from the memoirs of the Mughal emperor Bābur (d. 937/1530), rare in the original Chaghatay. There are occasional pencilled notations regarding page references to the proper order of the fragments. This copy was produced by Dawud ibn 'Ali al-Kashmiri.

The note at the start of the volume by William Erskine reads as follows:

"This volume contains scattered fragments of the original Turki commentaries of Babur, being apparently some leaves preserved from a copy that had gone to pieces, and which have been bound together out of order. These fragments are six in number, with a portion of a Tail-piece containing the name of his transcriber and date of transcription."

According to Rieu (p. 280), Erskine would not have had possession of this manuscript early enough to use it as a basis of his translation of the Vaki'at-i Baburi.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 text, ff. 118
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Chagatai
English
Scripts:
Arabic
Latin
Start Date:
1630
End Date:
1630
Date Range:
1039
Calendar:
Hijri qamari
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials : Paper

Dimensions : 217 x 133 mm; text block 145 x 75 mm

Foliation : ff. 118

Pricking and Ruling: Black ink with red title and occasional red catchwords; pencilled marginalia

Script : Nastaliq; Latin Cursive

Binding : Western in turquoise leather

Custodial History:

Inscription on f. 1v reads "Presented by Major Wm. Yule to Mr. Erskine, Sept. 1836.

Several partial or faded seals in Persian can be found on the recto of f. 118, including:

Circular seal: Muhammad ʻAbid, son of Amir Jaʻfar Husayni 1050 (1640/41);

Circular seal: Sayyid ʻArif murid of Shah Jahan badshah, 1045 (1635/36);

Muḥammad [ʻAlī] Shāh Jahāní [RY] 24, [1060 (1650)] (this one is almost illegible but identifiable by shape with other examples)

Source of Acquisition:
Purchased from C. J. Erskine Esq. in February 1865.
Finding Aids:
Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of theTurkish Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1888). p. 280.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Babur, Mughal Emperor of India, 1483-1530,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108451285
Erskine, Charles James
Erskine, William, historian and orientalist, 1773-1852
Yule, William, Major, 1764-1839