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IO Islamic 3998

Record Id:
032-004341804
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3998
Title:
Haft Iqlim, Selections
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
4 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1902
End Date:
1903
Date Range:
1902-1903
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
Fayz̤ Allāh Anṣārī Jawnpūrī Himmat
John (sic, read George) Jasper Nicholls
Rāzī, Amīn Aḥmad, b 1593,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000042662943X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/232008283
ʿAlī Aṣghar of Bhitrī
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3998

Haft Iqlim, Selections

Contents

1 copy of Intikhāb-i haft iqlīm by Fayz̤ Allāh Anṣārī Jawnpūrī "Himmat"

Author: Fayz̤ Allāh Anṣārī Jawnpūrī "Himmat" فيض الله انصارى همّت
Title: Intikhāb-i haft iqlīm
Title: انتخاب هفت اقليم

Althernative title: Muntakhab-i haft iqlīm

Althernative title: Ḥālāt-i Jawnpūr

Abridgement of the Timurid or Mughal-period geographical history, Haft iqlīm of Amīn ibn Aḥmad Rāzī, at the request of Lālah Rām Dayāl (the qānūn-gū of Jaunpur), made in regnal year 24 of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam, 1196/1782

Excerpts, consisting of preface and portion on history of Jaunpur under the Sharqī Sulṭān dynasty

Preface additionally based on another local history, the Mirʾāt al-asrār (author unnamed)

Version of preface differs from another BL copy of the manuscript dedicated to Vajīh al-Dīn ʿAlī Khān (Ethé 727)

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from AgraCopied from an original manuscript belonging to the library of

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 4 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 255 mm.

Hand(s)

Careful nastaʿlīq

. Scribe: ʿAlī Aṣghar of Bhitrī

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1902-1903 1902 - 1903 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 E207/16_f104r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/16_f104r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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