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IO Islamic 3973

Record Id:
032-004341779
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3973
Title:
Tarikh-i Shakir Khani
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
54 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1884
End Date:
1884
Date Range:
1884
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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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
John (sic, read George) Jasper Nicholls
Shākir Khān ibn Luṭf Allāh Khān Ṣādiq
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3973

Tarikh-i Shakir Khani

Contents

1 copy of Tārīkh-i Shākir Khānī by Shākir Khān ibn Luṭf Allāh Khān "Ṣādiq"

Author: Shākir Khān ibn Luṭf Allāh Khān "Ṣādiq" شاكر خان ابن لطف الله خان صادق
Title: Tārīkh-i Shākir Khānī
Title: تاريخ شاكر خانى

Alternative title stated on f. 1v: Gulshan-i Ṣādiq

History of Emperor Muḥammad Shāh and his descendents to the beginning of the reign of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam, ending in 1173/1759

Luṭf Allāh Khān's full epithet is "Ṣādiq-i Nīknām"

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra

Filiation: Details on filiation recorded in an Urdu letter (dated 18 May 1884) addressed to William Irvine by Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī inserted between front flyleaf and f. 1

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 54 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 330 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough, inelegant nastaʿlīq

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1884 1884 CE ; 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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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