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IO Islamic 3971

Record Id:
032-004341777
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3971
Title:
Zikr al-siyar
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
338 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1897
End Date:
1898
Date Range:
1897-1898
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
Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān ibn Himmat Khān
John (sic, read George) Jasper Nicholls
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3971

Zikr al-siyar

Contents

1 copy of Z̲ikr al-siyar by Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān ibn Muḥammad Himmat Khān

Author: Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān ibn Muḥammad Himmat Khān غلام حسين خان ابن محمّد همّت خان
Title: Z̲ikr al-siyar
Title: ذكر السّير

History of Mogul or Timurid Empire, from Nādir Shāh's sack of Delhi in 1151/1738-9 to the end of Shāh ʿĀlam's reign, in 1221/1806

The title is an abjad-based tāʾrīkh (yielding 1221)

Single work in 2 fascicules bound together

Not dated at end

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
Support: 2 fascicules of different dimensions
Extent: 338 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (leaf): 254 × 160 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough nastaʿlīq in watery ink; different hands

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1897-1898 1897 - 1898 CE Benares (Varanasi) ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/6 (digital images currently unavailable)

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