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IO Islamic 4030

Record Id:
032-004341845
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4030
Title:
Jam-i Jam, tract
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
14 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1851
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1851-1899
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Aḥmad K̲h̲ān̲, Sayyid, 1817-1898,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000009101319X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/56627751
Aḥmad K̲h̲ān̲, Sayyid, 1817-1898,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000009101319X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/56627751
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
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 4030

Jam-i Jam, tract

Contents

1 copy of Jām-i Jam by Sayyid Aḥmad Khān ibn Sayyid Muttaqī Khān

Author: Sayyid Aḥmad Khān ibn Sayyid Muttaqī Khān سيّد احمد خان ابن سيّد متّقى خان
Title: Jām-i Jam
Title: جام جم

Information on Muslim rulers of Dihlī (Delhi), arranged in tabular form, entending from Amīr Tīmūr the Ṣāḥibqirān to the last Timurid or Mughal Emperor of South Asia, Bahādur Shāh II

Total 17 columns arranged by serial number, regnal title, father's name, mother's name, tribal affiliation, date of birth, place of accession, date of accession, length of reign, versified tāʾrīkh or chronostichon on accession, age at death, date of death, versified chronostichon or tārīkh on death, posthumous title, place of burial, comments

The author is better known as Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, KCSI (d. 1898), the founder of the college (now Aligarh University) and reform movement

Not dated

Tract 6 of 6

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: Manuscript copied from an edition published by Khvājah ʿAlī Ḥasan at Sharaf al-maṭābiʿ Press, Dihlī, 1268 / 1851

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 14 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 275 mm.

Hand(s)

Very inelegant nastaʿlīq

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1851-1899 19th century 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 E207/6 (digital images currently unavailable) [Persian_III] 6_1r

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