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IO Islamic 4552

Record Id:
032-004342029
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4552
Title:
Miscellaneous Persian documents
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
42 ff. (+ 50 approx.)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Tibetan
Scripts:
Arabic
Tibetan
Start Date:
1812
End Date:
1870
Date Range:
1812-1870
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
Moorcroft, William, 1767-1825,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000116091363,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24720802
Moorcroft, William, 1767-1825,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000116091363,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24720802
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India Office Library

IO Islamic 4552

Miscellaneous Persian documents

Contents

Collection of miscellaneous, multilingual papers and correspondence from various nineteenth-century sources, including a large cartoon of traced mosque inscriptions once belonging to William Irvine. The majority of correspondence relates to William Moorcroft (1767-1825), is aborted expedition to Tibet in 1812, and the British East India Company’s failure to gain concessions from the rulers of Ladakh (Ladāgh)

Material additionally includes copies of seventeenth-century Timurid or Mughal farmāns, correspondence with Maharajah Ranjit Singh, ruler of Punjab, and a calligraphic tract on chronogrammatic and laudatory verses written on the walls of Tipu Sultan’s palace at Srirangapatnam

Annotations by Charles Ambrose Storey dated 18 December 1931, suggesting he was responsible for compiling the miscellaneous documents

Foliated, 42 folios, followed by an estimated 50 blank folios approximately

Language(s): Persian, Urdu, Tibetan, English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 42 ff. (+ 50 approx.)
Dimensions (leaf): 722 × 445 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1812-1870 19th century CE ; India & London, United Kindgdom

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