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IO Islamic 3988

Record Id:
032-004341794
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3988
Title:
Jahandarnamah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
62 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1892
End Date:
1892
Date Range:
1892
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
Muḥammad ʿAlī Aṣghar
Nūr al-Dīn ibn Burhān al-Dīn Fārūqī
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3988

Jahandarnamah

Contents

1 copy of Jahāndār Shāh'nāmah by Nūr al-Dīn ibn Burhān al-Dīn Fārūqī

Author: Nūr al-Dīn ibn Burhān al-Dīn Fārūqī نور الدّين ابن برهان الدّين فاروقى
Title: Jahāndār Shāh'nāmah
Title: جهاندار شاه نامه

Privately written account of the the wars of succession following the death of Timurid or Mughal Emperor Bahādur Shāh, the succession of his eldest son, Prince Muʿizz al-Dīn, as Emperor Jahāndār Shāh I, in 1124/1712, and his subsequent defeat and death at the hands of his nephew, who succeeded soon after as the Emperor Farrukhsiyar

Preface contains a detailed autobiographical summary

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: According to note (f. 1r), copied from an original manuscript in the possession of "the Jaunpur Quazi's family"

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 62 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 251 mm.

Hand(s)

Inelegant nastaʿlīq

. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAlī Aṣghar of Bhitrī

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1892 1892 CE Benares (Varanasi) ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

George Jasper Nicholls

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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_f143r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/6_f143r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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