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IO Islamic 3770

Record Id:
032-004341682
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3770
Title:
Extracts on Afghanistan
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
244 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Latin
Start Date:
1841
End Date:
1850
Date Range:
1841-1850
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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India Office Library

IO Islamic 3770

Extracts on Afghanistan

Contents

Miscellaneous extracts and tracts in Persian relating to the history of Afghanistan, also covering Baluchistan, parts of which are attibuted to the scribe, Yaḥyá Munshīʾ

Some variation in dimentions of individual tracts

Annotations in English, possibly by Anderson

List of contents in English (f. 244v), possibly by Anderson

IOL stamp: 19 Mar 1909

Watermarks: 1) ФKHL (f. 192); 2) VIGO (f. 226); 3) erect bear with axe in ornamented oval frame (f. 228)

Not dated

Rare treatise with graphic diagrams (ff. 228v-242v) on coins excavated from Kandahar, entitled Z̤arb al-buldān and composed by Mīrzā Ḥasan ʿAlī Hiravī for the master of Shāh Shujāʿ al-Mulk's cannonade (tūp khānah), Andarsan Ṣāḥib. Prefixed with a note in English (f. 228r): ‘Transcripts of a few coins found at Kundahar copied by Husun Alee, 1844’.

Language(s): Persian & English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 244 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1841-1850 19th century CE ; Kandahar, Afghanistan

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