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RSPA 8

Record Id:
032-004380735
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004380735
MDARK:
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LARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 8
Title:
1 copy of Mirʾāt-i Sikandarī by Sikandar ibn Mu'hammad ʿArab Manjhū ibn Akbar
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
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032-004380735
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not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff.i+274+ii
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Manjū, Iskandar ibn Muḥammad, b 1582,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000004806133X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12192778
Manjū, Iskandar ibn Muḥammad, b 1582,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000004806133X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12192778
Subjects:
Gujarat (India)--History
TEI:

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 8

Contents

1 copy of Mirʾāt-i Sikandarī by Sikandar ibn Mu'hammad ʿArab Manjhū ibn Akbar

Language(s): Persian

ff. 1v-274v
Title: Mirʾāt-i Sikandarī
Title: مرآت سکندر

The gap in the explicit represents where a word has been almost entirely efface because of repair tape. The only letter which remains visible is a final tā.

Incipit: الحمد لله الذی جعل فردا من افراد البشر
Explicit: که بسیاری بوقت صبح یکدعا بکند __ت تمام شد تواریخ کجرات
Author: Sikandar ibn Mu'hammad ʿArab Manjhū ibn Akbar سکندر ابن محمد عرب منجهو ابن اکبر

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Very thin and heavily restored brown woven paper.
Extent: ff.i+274+ii
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Irregular foliation using Urdu numerals.

Condition

Poor condition. Heavy restoration of considerable worm damage. At f143, the manuscript comes apart from the binding and f167 is a loose folio.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 17

Hand(s)

Neat black ink nastaʿlīq with rubrications.

Decoration

Additions:

There are infrequent marginal comments in Persian. On f1v, Jones has written "Towārīkh-i-Gujarāt: A History of the Province of Gujarat".

Binding

Red leather European-style Indian binding with gilded circular frieze patterning.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. According to Wilkins, this manuscript was presented by Lady Jones.

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p. 5 no. VIII

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