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IO Islamic 3955

Record Id:
032-004343618
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3955
Title:
Mughal court and Bengal, histories and letters
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
169 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1750
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1750-1799
Calendar:
Gregorian
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
Salīm Allāh, Munshī,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000051059062,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/26939584
Salīm Allāh, Munshī,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000051059062,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/26939584
Subjects:
India--History--18th century
Mogul Empire--History
TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3955

Mughal court and Bengal, histories and letters

Contents

Collection of histories and letters covering affairs of the eighteenth-century Timurid or Mughal court and government of Bengal

1. ff. 1-117
Author: Salīm Allāh, Munshī

Excerpt from Munshī Salīm Allāh's Tārīkh-i Bangālah commission by Henry Vansittart

Language(s): Persian
2. ff. 136v-150

Untitled and unattributed brief history, covering the reigns of Timurid or Mughal Emperor Farrukh Siyar to Emperor ʿĀlamgīr II

Appended at end (3 ff.): historical passage relating to ʿImād al-Mulk Ghāzī al-Dīn Khān's retirement to Farrukhabad

Language(s): Persian
3. ff. 151-169

Transcripts of letters (14 in total) relating to the affairs of government in 18th cent. Bengal

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 169 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 228 × 152 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1750-1799 18th century CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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_f273r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/6_f273r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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