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IO Islamic 4009

Record Id:
032-004341824
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4009
Title:
Tuhfah-yi Akbari
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
67 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1897
End Date:
1897
Date Range:
1897
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan, 1618-1707,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109510021,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6178410
Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan, 1618-1707,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109510021,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6178410
Durrānī, Aḥmad Shāh, Amir of Afghanistan, 1723?-1772,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000025588905,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/139145910119027021680
Khvājah ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm
Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
Mīr ʿAzīz Allāh
R. E. Hamblin, Collector of Ghazipur
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 4009

Tuhfah-yi Akbari

Contents

1 copy of Tuḥfah-yi Akbarī by Khvājah ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm

Author: Khvājah ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm خواجه عبد الحكيم
Title: Tuḥfah-yi Akbarī
Title: تحفهٴ اكبرى

Concise chronicle on the Niẓām al-Mulk dynasty ruling Hydrabad (Tilingana and Andhra Pradesh states), recording also the history of the Timurid or Mughal Empire from Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I onward, and the rise of Sikh polities

This work - begun in 1209 / 1794-5 (sic), for which 1219 / 1804-5 is the correcta - was produced as the author's personal project, with access to state records provided by Hyderabad's mīr munshīʾ, Mīr ʿAzīz Allāh, and dedicated to the reigning Niẓām al-Mulk, Āṣaf Jāh Mīr Akbar ʿAlī Khān (d. 1829)

Not dated

Language(s): Persian
Filiation: Copied from an original characterised with multiple lacunae, in the collection of R. E. Hamblin, Collector of Ghazipur

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 67 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 254 × 165 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1897-03-25 25 March 1897 CE ; India

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/7 (digital images currently unavailable)

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