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IO Islamic 3886

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032-004341720
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3886
Title:
Ijaz al-siyar
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff vi, 312
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1840
End Date:
1880
Date Range:
1840-1880
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Pūran Chand
Wajid ʻAli Shah, King of Oudh, 1822-1887,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000423370004,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305855167
Subjects:
Koran--Hermeneutics
Tafsir
TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3886

Ijaz al-siyar

Contents

1 copy of Ījāz al-siyar by Pūran Chand

Author: Pūran Chand پورن چند
Language(s): Persian

Author's abridged version of his chronicle commisioned by Muḥammad Vājid ʿAlī Shāh, the Sulṭān al-siyar, a work in progress at the time of writing.

Possibly the author's autograph.

Not dated.

Loose unrelated(?) folios (ff 302-312) inserted at end

Title: Ījāz al-siyar
Title: ايجاز السّير

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff vi, 312
Dimensions (leaf): 265 × 170 mm.

Hand(s)

Main text in rough nastaʿlīq; marginalia in shikastah āmīz

Decoration

Additions:

Heavily annotated in the margins and on other pages left blank in a different, semi-calligraphic hand.

Binding

History

Origin: 1840-1880 1840 - 1880 CE Lucknow, Awadh (Oudh), ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine, acquired 26 December 1882, possibly from "Abd ul-Aziz"

1913-08-15

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/7_f079r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/7_f.79r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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