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IO Islamic 3962

Record Id:
032-004341770
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3962
Title:
Habib al-siyar
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
612 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1570
End Date:
1630
Date Range:
1570-1630
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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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
Khvānd Mīr, Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ibn Humām al-Dīn, 1475?-1535?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108941778,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/45109504
Khvānd Mīr, Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ibn Humām al-Dīn, 1475?-1535?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108941778,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/45109504
Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh, 1433-1498,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000439583047,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/175393012
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3962

Habib al-siyar

Contents

1 copy of Ḥabīb al-siyar by Khvānd Amīr

Author: Khvānd Amīr خواند امير
Title: Ḥabīb al-siyar
Title: حبيب السّير

Universal history expanding and extending Mīr Khvānd's Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʾ

Consisting of volume 3, including ikhtitām

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: 612 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 303 mm.

Condition

Margins torn (ff. 1-2); water staining; slightly worm eaten

Sections bound in incorrect order

Hand(s)

Fine naskh

by several hands

Decoration

Poor illuminated sarlawḥ (ff. 1v, 121v, 186v, 345v), possibly added later; interlinear gilding; illuminated margins (f. 1v-2r), probably added in 19th century India

Additions:

Contemporary and later annotations and corrections (for example, f. 437v)

Binding

History

Origin: 1570-1630 1570 - 1630 CE ; Iran

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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

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