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IO Islamic 3933

Record Id:
032-004341748
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004341748
MDARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3933
Title:
Bahadurshahnamah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
107 pages
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1725
End Date:
1765
Date Range:
1725-1765
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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Names:
Bahādur Shāh I, fl 1707-1712,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/314901452
Bahādur Shāh I, fl 1707-1712,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/314901452
Durrānī, Aḥmad Shāh, Amir of Afghanistan, 1723?-1772,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000025588905,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/139145910119027021680
John (sic, read George) Jasper Nicholls
Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad Dānishmand Khān ʻĀlī, d 1710,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/285159837
Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad Dānishmand Khān ʻĀlī, d 1710,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/285159837
Quaritch, Bernard Alexander Christian, bookseller and publisher, 1819-1899
TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3933

Bahadurshahnamah

Contents

1 copy of Bahādur shāh'nāmah by Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad Dānishmand Khān ʻĀlī

Author: Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad Dānishmand Khān ʻĀlī نور الدّين محمّد دانشمند خان عالی
Title: Bahādur shāh'nāmah
Title: بهادر شاه نامه

Official regnal chronicle for the reign of Bahādur Shāh I (r.1707-1712) by Mīrzā Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad 'ʿĀlī,' entitled successively Niʿmat Khān, Muqarrab Khān, and Dānishmand Khān (d. 1 Rabīʿ I 1122 / 30 April 1710, at Delhi)

Consists of account covering first 2 regnal years only, ending abruptly either because the source ms. was defective or transcription was discontinued

Note of purchase dated 4 Rabīʿ II 1179 / 20 September 1765

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 107 pages
Dimensions (leaf): 277 × 160 mm.

Hand(s)

Nastaʿlīq inclining toward shikastah

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1725-1765 1725 - 1765 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine, purchased 16 January 1896

Quaritch

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_f051r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/7_f.51r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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