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Delhi Persian 583

Record Id:
032-004546202
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Delhi Persian 583
Title:
Mihr-i nīm’rūz by Mirza by Mirzā Asadullāh Ḵẖān G̱ẖālib
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. vii+116+iv
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1854
End Date:
1854
Date Range:
1854
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad.
Humayun, Emperor of Hindustan, 1508-1556,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000097222603,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/11090963
Humayun, Emperor of Hindustan, 1508-1556,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000097222603,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/11090963
Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066753540,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017634
Subjects:
India--History
Timurids
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 583

Mihr-i nīm’rūz by Mirza by Mirzā Asadullāh Ḵẖān G̱ẖālib

Contents

Summary of Contents: A short history of the Timurids from the Creation up to the reign of Humayun, begun in 1850 and intended to be the first half of a work entitled Partavistan
Author: G̱ẖālib, Mirzā Asadullāh Ḵẖān, 1797-1869. غالب، ميرزا أسد الله خان
Title: Mihr-i nīm’rūz
Title: مهر نیم روز
Title: Partavistān
Title: پرتوستان
Colophon: Completed by Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad on the fourth day of the third decade of Zu’l-Hijjah 1270 (17 September 1854).

Titled Partavistān on f. i recto

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. vii+116+iv
Dimensions (leaf): 277 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written):
Foliation:

Foliation in roman numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headingsin red. Copied by Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad.

Additions:

Occasional marginal notes.

Binding

Marbled board binding dating from the 19th century

History

Origin: Completed by Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad in India; 24 Zu ʼl-Hijjah 1270 AH (17 September 1854 CE)

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.

Acquired by the Government of India in 1876

Record Sources

Based on C.A. Storey's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library vol III: Mss Eur 207/16, ff 138-39. (digital images currently unavailable)Revised and enriched by Ursula Sims-Williams

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