Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??


Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

IO Islamic 4052

Record Id:
032-004341867
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004341867
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100163235680.0x00001e
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4052
Title:
Qalandar Shahi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
[{ "id" : "032-004341867", "parent" : "#", "text" : "IO Islamic 4052: Qalandar Shahi" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-004341867
Is part of:
not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-004341867
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
22 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1803
End Date:
1803
Date Range:
1803
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures contact . Contact for further information on the availability of this manuscript. For information on catalogues and ordering manuscripts see .
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
Ghulām Qalandar Ḥātim
TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 4052

Qalandar Shahi

Contents

1 copy of Qalandar shāhī by Ghulām Qalandar "Ḥātim"

Author: Ghulām Qalandar "Ḥātim" غلام قلندر حاتم
Title: Qalandar shāhī
Title: قلندر شاهى

Alternative title: Ruqaʿāt-i Mīrzā Ḥātim

Fragment of a larger collection of letters assembled by the eighteenth-century author, also known as Mīrzā Ḥātim, prefixed with a brief autobiographical preface, containing also the author's preferred title for the work

Born at ʿAẓīmābād (Patna), the author resided mostly in Shāhjahānābād (Delhi) as a darvīsh, living through Nādir Shāh Afshār's invasion and sack of the city (while at Qannawj), and corresponding with many important literary figures of the time, such as ʿAlī Ḥusayn Gardīzī (author of a taz̲kirah)

Correspondents include: Shāh Vajīh al-Dīn; Navvāb Sayf Khān; Shāh Ibrāhīm; Miyān Shāh Faṣīḥ al-Dīn (qāz̤ī of Qannawj); Mawlavī Fatḥ ʿAlī; Mīrzā Niyāz Bayg; Shaykh Fāʾiq Allāh; Khvājah Yūsuf Khān; Rashīd Khān; Miyān Muḥammad Yār; Mīr Aḥmad Saʿīd; Mir Navvāb (Mīr Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn "Āshnā"); Chawdharī Muḥammad Dawlat; Shāh Ẓuhūr Allāh at Delhi; Miyān Muḥammad Khusraw; Shāh Yatīm; Munshīʾ Thākur Dās; Miyān Ghulām Pīr

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 22 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 238 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear scribal nastaʿlīq

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1803 25 Rabīʿ II 1218 AH; 1803 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 E207/9 (digital images currently unavailable)

Availability

WARNING: Under current circumstances, not all items are available for consultation and orders can only be placed within Reading Rooms. Please contact Reading Room staff at the British Library for information on availability and for help with placing orders.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

BL