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IO Islamic 3931

Record Id:
032-004341747
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3931
Title:
Gawhar-i 'Alam
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff 64
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1903
End Date:
1903
Date Range:
1903
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Durrānī, Aḥmad Shāh, Amir of Afghanistan, 1723?-1772,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000025588905,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/139145910119027021680
Lāhījī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000006514724,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2528171
Muḥammad Aslam Munʿimī
Shāh ʻĀlam, Emperor of Hindustan, 1728-1806,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082588629,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/70169499
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3931

Gawhar-i 'Alam

Contents

1 copy of Gawhar-i ʿālam tuḥfatan li-al-Shāh ʿĀlam by Muḥammad Aslam Munʿimī

Author: Muḥammad Aslam Munʿimī محمّد اسلم منعمى
Title: Gawhar-i ʿālam tuḥfatan li-al-Shāh ʿĀlam
Title: گوهر عالم تحفۃً للشّاه عالم

History of Kashmir, written between circa 1190 / 1776 to 1200 / 1786, and dedicated by the author to Shāh ʿAlam (r. 1759-86)

Based on the work Vāqiʿāt-i Kashmīr by Khvājah Muḥammad Aʿẓam (possibly the present author's father)

Consists of the muqaddimah and an incomplete fifth ṭabaqah, containing an account on the Timurids or Moguls, ending with the year 1150

Author's full name is: Badīʿ al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Aslam 'Munʿimī' ibn Mawlavī Muḥammad Aʿẓam Kawl 'Mustaghnī'

The work may be identical with the works Gawharnāmah-yi ʿĀlam and Gawhar-i ʿĀlam

Language(s): Persian
Filiation: Note by W. Irvine (f. 1r): "Through E. D. Ross 7 Mch 1903. Extracts from Ms D66 of Asiatic Society of Bengal. Tarikhi Kashmir (519 folios)..."

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff 64
Dimensions (leaf): 276 × 211 mm.

Hand(s)

Small, neat nastaʿlīq. Transcribed without diacritics or nuqaṭ

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1903 1903 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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_f056r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/7_f.56r (digital images currently unavailable)

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