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IO Islamic 3939

Record Id:
032-004341751
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
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MDARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3939
Title:
Nigaristan
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
285 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1664
End Date:
1664
Date Range:
1664
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
Fida Husain Khan of Fatehgurh
Ghaffārī, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, 1495-1568?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000119622158,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/170551551
Ghaffārī, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, 1495-1568?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000119622158,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/170551551
Hidāyat Allāh ibn Shukr Allāh Aymūrī (?)
John (sic, read George) Jasper Nicholls
Shah Ṭahmāsp, 1514-1576,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061219146,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78638870
TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3939

Nigaristan

Contents

1 copy of Nigāristān by Qāz̤ī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghaffārī al-Qazvīnī

Author: Qāz̤ī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghaffārī al-Qazvīnī قاضى احمد ابن محمّد الغفّارى القزوينى
Title: Nigāristān
Title: نگارستان

Collection of historical and biographical anecdotes arranged in order of dynasties

Composed in 959 / 1552 and dedicated to Shāh Ṭahmāsp Ṣafavī

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: 285 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 127 × 216 mm.

Hand(s)

Scribal to calligraphic nastaʿlīq-i khafī. Scribe: Hidāyat Allāh ibn Shukr Allāh Aymūrī (?)

Decoration

Original rubrication and coloured rulings; early-nineteenth-century 'Delhi' style interlinear gilding, illuminated sarlawḥ, illuminated floral margins (ff.1v-2r)

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1664 Monday, 26 Rajab 1074 AH; 1664 CE ; Iran

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

Fida Husain Khan of Fatehgurh

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 E207/5_f036r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/5_f.36r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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