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IO Islamic 3960
- Record Id:
- 032-004341768
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004341768
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163233992.0x000054
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 3960
- Title:
- Miscellany on insha
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Irvine Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004341768", "parent" : "#", "text" : "IO Islamic 3960: Miscellany on insha" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004341768
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004341768
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 121 pp. (not foliated)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Persian
Urdu - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1775
- End Date:
- 1848
- Date Range:
- 1775-1848
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Durrānī, Aḥmad Shāh, Amir of Afghanistan, 1723?-1772,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000025588905,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/139145910119027021680
Munshī Gangā Bishan Pandit
Shāh ʻĀlam, Emperor of Hindustan, 1728-1806,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082588629,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/70169499 - TEI:
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Irvine Collection
IO Islamic 3960
Miscellany on insha
Contents
1 copy of a work by Munshī Gangā Bishan Pandit
Untitled collection (termed bayāz̤) of abstracts, notes, and conventions useful to practitioners of formal prose or inshāʾ by Munshīʾ Gangā Bishan Pandit
Additionally includes unrelated poetic compositions (rubāʿī and ghazal, for example) in Persian and Urdu
Appendices at the end list months and years according to various calendrical systems, the titles of Timurid or Mughal Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam's ministers and provincial governors, and, interestingly, the names and titles of ladies or begums
Script: clear nastaʿlīq with taʿlīq and shikastah
Paper in poor condition; leather of binding has mostly crumbled off
Not dated
Language(s): PersianCopied from an original =-=-=-=-
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 121 pp. (not foliated)Dimensions (leaf): 219 × 138 mm.Hand(s)
Clear nastaʿlīq with taʿlīq and shikastah
Binding
History
Origin: 1775-1848 18th-19th centuries CE ; IndiaAvailability
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