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IO Islamic 3957

Record Id:
032-004341767
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3957
Title:
Account of Maratha Wars
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
46 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1790
End Date:
1800
Date Range:
1790-1800
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Amīr Muḥammad Khvurram [sic] Bakht Bahādur Gūrkānī
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
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3957

Account of Maratha Wars

Contents

Title lacking, endorsed on label attached to binding as Bhāʾo'nāmah (Bhāʾū'nāmah)

Untitled account of Maratha wars from 1171-1199 / 1757-1785

Written by author in Benares (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India), in 1201 / 1786-7, for Governor-General Cornwallis

Acquired by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, 15 July 1891

Not dated

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: 46 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 143 × 242 mm.

Hand(s)

Good scribal nastaʿlīq

Additions:

Binding

Seal(s):

Seal at front (f. 1r) of Amīr Muḥammad Khvurram [sic] Bakht Bahādur Gūrkānī, with adjacent note, Muḥammad Khvurram [sic] Bakht Ḥanafī Qādirī Gūrkānī, dated 1212 / 1797-8

Seal of Timurid prince: Amīr Muḥammad Khurram Bakht Bahādur Ḥanafī Qādirī Gūrgānī

History

Origin: 1790-1800 1790 - 1800 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

Amīr Muḥammad Khurram Bakht Bahādur Ḥanafī Qādirī Gūrgānī

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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

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