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IO Islamic 4020
- Record Id:
- 032-004341835
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004341835
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163233992.0x00008f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 4020
- Title:
- Vaqa'i'-i Kohistan
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Irvine Collection
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- [{ "id" : "032-004341835", "parent" : "#", "text" : "IO Islamic 4020: Vaqa'i'-i Kohistan" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
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- 032-004341835
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004341835
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 73 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1893
- Date Range:
- 1800-1893
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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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 Faz̤l ‘Aẓīm - TEI:
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Irvine Collection
IO Islamic 4020
Vaqa'i'-i Kohistan
Contents
1 copy of Vaqāʾiʿ-i kūhistān by Muḥammad Faz̤l ʿAẓīm "ʿAẓīm"
Title: Vaqāʾiʿ-i kūhistānTitle: وقائع كوهستانCombined prose (nas̲r) and versified (mas̲navī) account of the Nepalese war, 1814-16, completed before 1269 / 1853
Author was an eyewitness to the events, having accompanied William Fraser (political agent to General Martindell's army) as secretary
Author also wrote another mas̲navī, Shamʿ-i shabistān, on the love of an unnamed youth for a lady named Navratan, completed in 1269 / 1853
Not dated
Language(s): PersianTranscribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra
Filiation: Copied from lithographed edition published at the Muṣṭafāʾī Press, Shāhjahānābād, in 1269 / 1853Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 73 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 147 × 241 mm.Hand(s)
Rough and inelegant nastaʿlīq
in watery ink. Scribe: Hari Parshād
Additions:Note by William Irvine on brown-paper cover: "Got through Mr Rustomjee at Fathpur. Rec.d 15/5/93"
Binding
History
Origin: 1800-1893 1800 - 1893 CE ; IndiaRecord 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) [Persian_III] 6_237rAvailability
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Bibliography
[Persian_III] 6_237rFunding of Cataloguing
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