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IO Islamic 4559

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032-004342032
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4559
Title:
A volume containing two separate works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
32 ff
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1850
Date Range:
1800-1850
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Anonymous
Briggs
Firishtah, Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī
Khairāt ʻAlī Khān “Mushtāq”
Subjects:
India History 1000-1765
Persian language Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
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IO Islamic 4559

A volume containing two separate works

Contents

Summary of Contents: 2 works by Unknown on the subjects of Persian language Glossaries and India History 1000-1765
1. ff. 1-15
Author: Unknown
Title: Farhang-i Briggsī
Title: فرهنگ برگزی

A glossary of obsolete words, occurring in the Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī (or Tārikh-i Firishtah) of Muhammad Qāsim "Firishtah", محمد قاسم فرشته , who brought his narrative down to 1015

This glossary was compiled for John Briggs, the celebrated editor and translator of Ferishtah, by Khairāt ʻAlī Khān “Mushtāq”, خیرات علی خان مشتاق in 1241

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 354.
2. ff. 17-32
Author: Unknown
Title: Tārikh-i Firishtah
Title: تاریخ فرشته

In prose with some verse

A fragment of this work, corresponding with vol. i, pp. 339(8)-387(15) of the Bombay 1832 edition

The margins are filled with notes of collation and interpretation, and it would appear from Briggs's remarks, quoted above, that these addenda are in Briggs's own hand

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, pages 354-5.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 32 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 17 × 10.7 in.

Hand(s)

Clear Indian Nastaʻlīq

Decoration

History

Origin: Early 19th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The manuscript was accessioned in 1936

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on A. J. Arberry: Hand-List of Islamic Manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library, 1936–8. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) (1939), 71: pp 353-396

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