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IO Islamic 3928

Record Id:
032-004341744
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3928
Title:
Chanderi, various historical extracts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
416 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Urdu
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1837
End Date:
1896
Date Range:
1837-1896
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Durrānī, Aḥmad Shāh, Amir of Afghanistan, 1723?-1772,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000025588905,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/139145910119027021680
Sayyid Ṣafdar Sulṭān
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3928

Chanderi, various historical extracts

Contents

Title and compiler's name not stated in work

Large label on front cover describes the contents in Urdu: jild-i naql-i kaifiyyat-i Fārsī, ʿahd-i Akbar Pādshāh se tā ʿahd-i Bahādur Shāh-i avval, jis-qadr ḥālāt-i mahārājagān-i Canderī az rū-yi kutub-i tavārīk̲h̲hāʾī se dastiyāb hūʾā, va tamām va kamāl-i jild-i hāz̲ā men̲ mundarij kiyā gayā

Anonymously compiled historical extracts, from the reigns of Timurid or Mughal Emperor Akbar I to Emperor Bahādur Shāh I, relating to the town and fort of Chanderi in Malwa (now Ashoknagar District, Madhya Pradesh), possibly drawn up in connexion with a law suit

Label and descriptive notes between flyleaves in Urdu

The scribe has included details on filiation for most extracts

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 416 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 197 mm.

Hand(s)

Large, scribal nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Sayyid Ṣafdar Sulṭān

Zaydī

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1837-1896-05 19th century CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

1913-08-15

William Irvine

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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_f038r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/7_f038r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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