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IO Islamic 3734

Record Id:
032-004341650
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Format:
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3734
Title:
Hasan Shirazi’s History of Jahangir
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
443 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1733
End Date:
1733
Date Range:
1733
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Ḥasan ibn Muḥammadī Shīrāzī “Khākī”
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IO Islamic 3734

Hasan Shirazi’s History of Jahangir

Contents

1 copy of Muntakhab al-tavārīkh by Ḥasan ibn Muḥammadī Shīrāzī “Khākī”

Compendium or mujmal of a world history and biography by Ḥasan Bayg, extending from creation to the hijrī year 1020

Initially commissioned by the Timurid or Mughal Emperor Akbar I and completed under Emperor Jahāngīr, on 20 Rajab 1019

Prefixed with a dībāchah by the Akbarī munshīʾ, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ʿAbbāsī, describing circumstances of the author’s death in 1022

Dated (f. 443r): 20 Z̲ī Qaʿdah 1145, year 15 of Muḥammad Shāh’s reign/3 May 1733

IOL stamp: 7 Sep. 1907

Language(s): Persian
Title: Muntakhab al-tavārīkh
Title: منتخب التّواريخ
Author: Ḥasan ibn Muḥammadī Shīrāzī “Khākī” حسن ابن محمدى شيرازى خاكى

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 443 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 242 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1733-05-03 20 Z̲ī Qaʿdah 1145, year 15 of Muḥammad Shāh’s reign AH; 3 May 1733 CE ; India

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