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IO Islamic 3985

Record Id:
032-004341791
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3985
Title:
Imdad fi ma'asir al-ajdad
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
8 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1799
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1799
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Dihlawī, Walī Allāh, 1702?-1763?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000071442181,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/71535292
Dihlawī, Walī Allāh, 1702?-1763?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000071442181,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/71535292
Durrānī, Aḥmad Shāh, Amir of Afghanistan, 1723?-1772,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000025588905,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/139145910119027021680
Muḥammad Ḥasan
TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3985

Imdad fi ma'asir al-ajdad

Contents

1 copy of Imdād fī maʾās̲ir al-ajdād by Valī Allāh Dihlavī

Author: Valī Allāh Dihlavī ولى الله دهلوى
Title: Imdād fī maʾās̲ir al-ajdād
Title: امداد فى مآثر الاجداد

Short hagiographic account treated as a separate work describing the author's ancestors

The work forms the whole of faṣl 1 of qism 3 from the larger work on the miracles and contributions of the author's family and teachers, the Anfās al-ʿārifīn

Each qism and every faṣl has been treated as a detachable work

According to Storey, the Hijrī year specified in the colophon (1213/1799) may be a mistake, and should read 1312/1895, in keeping with the period of transcription

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 8 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 274 × 177 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough nastaʿlīq

. Scribe: Muḥammad Ḥasan, the student of Persian

Binding

History

Origin: 1799 29 Ram. 1213 AH; 1799 CE ; India NB: see notes

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/9_f226r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/9_f226r (digital images currently unavailable)

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