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Delhi Persian 592

Record Id:
032-004546216
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Delhi Persian 592
Title:
Makhzan-i Afghānī by Khvājah Niʻmat Allāh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. ii+206+iii
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1686
End Date:
1686
Date Range:
1686
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066753540,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017634
Niʻmat Allāh, 1613-1630,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066819044,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/35539655
Shaykh Muḥammad Isḥāq
Sujān Singh
Subjects:
Mogul Empire--History
TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 592

Makhzan-i Afghānī by Khvājah Niʻmat Allāh

Contents

Summary of Contents: A shorter recension of his Tārīk̲h̲ i K̲h̲ān-Jahānī va Mak̲h̲zan i Afg̲h̲ānī, a history of the Afg̲h̲āns by Khvājah Niʻmat Allāh, fl. 1613-1630
Author: Khvājah Niʻmat Allāh ibn Khvājah Ḥabīb Allāh Haravī (fl. 1613-1630) خواجه نعمت الله بن خواجه حبيب الله هروی
Title: Makhzan-i Afghānī
Title: مخزن افغانی
Colophon: Copied for Shaykh Muḥammad Isḥāq by Sujān Singh, writer (navīsandah), resident of Nakodar, Punjab (f. 59v) between 15th Shaʻban regnal year 29 of Aurangzeb (7 July 1686) and (f. 206r) the last day of Ramazan regnal year 30 (20 August 1686) in the qaṣbah Vādī(?) in the parganah of Nagmīr(?).
Language(s): Persian

Copy defective at both ends.

Contents: bāb 3 (f. 12r); daftar 1 (f. 27r); daftar 2 (f. 60r); daftar 3 (f. 154r); khāṭimah (f. 206v).

Colophons on ff. 59v, 153v and 206r.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. ii+206+iii
Dimensions (leaf): 262 × 164 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Pencilled foliation.

Collation

Catchwords preserved occasionally.

Condition

Extensive re-margining has resulted in the loss of some text at the top of the page and the catchwords at the bottom water-stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

17 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings in red. Copied for Shaykh Muḥammad Isḥāq by Sujān Singh

Decoration

Illustrated headigs on ff. 60r and 154r.

Ruled border coloured red and gold.

Additions:

Binding

Red plain leather binding without flap, paper pastedown.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 59v, 60r, 153v, 154r).

History

Origin: 1686Shaʻban/Ramazan regnal years 29/30 of Aurangzeb (July/August 1686); Nagmīr(?), India

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 E207/8, ff. 127-9 (digital images currently unavailable). Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams.

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