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IO Islamic 3938

Record Id:
032-004341750
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3938
Title:
Savanih-i ahval-i Ashob
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
33 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1892
End Date:
1892
Date Range:
1892
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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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
John (sic, read George) Jasper Nicholls
Muḥammad Bakhsh, poetically named Āshūb, d. 1784 or 5
Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
Muẓaffar Ḥusayn 'Ḥusayn'
Shaykh ʿAbd al-Sattār
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3938

Savanih-i ahval-i Ashob

Contents

1 copy of Savāniḥ-i ʿumrī-yi Āshūb by Mīrzā Muḥammad Bakhsh Āshūb ibn Muḥammad Ghiyās̲

Author: Mīrzā Muḥammad Bakhsh Āshūb ibn Muḥammad Ghiyās̲ ميرزا محمّد بخش آشوب ابن محمّد غياث
Title: Savāniḥ-i ʿumrī-yi Āshūb
Title: سوانح عمرى آشوب

Alternatively known by the title: Savāniḥ-i aḥvāl-i Āshūb

Alternative title on binding spine: Life of Ashub

Alternative title on binding label: Siwanih i 'Umri of Mhd Bakhsh (Ashob)

Brief autobiography, generally lacking chronological details

Supplementary account of the author's elder brother, Muẓaffar Ḥusayn 'Ḥusayn', including his poems

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: According to a note (f. 1r) by George Jasper Nicholls, this manuscript has been copied from a volume lent by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Sattār, of Bhitrī (Ghāzīpūr)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 33 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 183 × 273 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1892 1892 CE Bhitri (Ghazipur District) ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

George Jasper Nicholls

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/16_f4r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/16_f.4r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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