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IO Islamic 3975

Record Id:
032-004341781
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3975
Title:
Razmistan
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
50 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1896
End Date:
1896
Date Range:
1896
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
Rāy Amar Singh Khūshdil
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3975

Razmistan

Contents

1 copy of Razmistān by Amar Singh "Khvush Dil"

Author: Amar Singh "Khvush Dil" امر سنگه خوش دل
Title: Razmistān
Title: رزمستان

Alternative title stated on title page: Shāh'nāmah-'i Hind muṣannifahu Amīr (sic) Singh

Versified (mas̲navī) account imitating Firdawsī's Shāhnāmah, narrating Indian history, especially from the British period

According to the short prose dībāchah, the work was completed at Benares (Varanasi) on 10 Z̲ū al-ḥijjah 1211/1797, and written at the request of Mr Alexander Duncan (Mistar Alig Zandar Dankayn Ṣāḥib Muẓaffar Jang), the nāẓim or governor of Benares

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: Copied at Moradabad from a manuscript in the library of Mīrzā Naṣīr al-Dīn Ḥaydar Bayg (Beg)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 50 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 340 mm.

Hand(s)

Very inelegant nastaʿlīq

in watery ink

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1896 1896 CE Murādābād (Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh) ; 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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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