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Histories of Qutbshahi state

Summary of Contents: Collection of official regnal chronicles relating to the reign of Abū al-Muẓaffar Sulṭān Muḥammad Quṭb Shāh, and the foundations of the Quṭbshāhī/Quṭbkhānī State at Ḥaydar'ābād and Gulkundah (Golconda); formerly belonging to the Elliot library; letter (dated Wullurr, July 1853) attached to 1st flyleaf describes this copy as affiliated to an original belonging to the Qutbshahi royal family; collated and checked agaist the original by Mirzā Muḥammad Ṭāhir (f. 576v)

1. ff. 3r-352v

Anonymously written official chronicle on the foundation of the Quṭbshāhī/Quṭbkhānī Dynasty, based at Golkonda, possibly written for Abū al-Muẓaffar Sulṭān Muḥammad Quṭb Shāh

Machine-made multicoloured papers, blind stamped: S. Baurie Fils, Bordeaux

Dated (ff. 352v-353r): completed at the request of Mistar Vātar Īliyat Ṣāḥib Iskvayar Bahādur (Mr Walter Elliot, Esq.), Governor of the Southern Presidency, Madras, by Mīr Pādshāh, at Machhlī Bandar (Machilipatnam/Masulipatnam), Wednesday, ghurrah (=1st) Z̲ī Qaʿdah 1268/18 August 1852

Language(s): Persian

Title: Tārīkh-i Sulṭān Muḥammad Quṭbshāhī

Title: تأريخ سلطان محمّد قطبشاهى

2. ff. 353r-576v

Author: Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Shīrāzī al-Ṣāʿidī نظام الدّين احمد ابن عبد الله الشّيرازى الصّاعدى

Title: Ḥadīqat al-salāṭīn

Title: حدیقة السّلاطين

Official regnal chronicle written for and covering the reign of the mid-seventeenth-century Quṭbshāhī/Quṭbkhānī ruler of the sultanate of Ḥaydar'ābād/Gulkundah, Abū al-Muẓaffar Sulṭān Muḥammad Quṭb Shāh

Account extends until the 16th regnal year, when it breaks abruptly before the colophon

Machine-made multicoloured papers, blind stamped: S. Baurie Fils, Bordeaux

Dated (f. 576v): completed at the request of Mistar Vātar Īliyat Ṣāḥib Iskvayar Bahādur (Mr Walter Elliot, Esq.), Governor of the Southern Presidency, Madras, by Mīr Pādshāh, at Machhlī Bandar (Machilipatnam/Masulipatnam), Monday, 2 Ṣafar 1269/15 November 1852

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 576 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 227 × 170 mm.

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History

Origin: 1 Z̲ī Qaʿdah 1268-2 Ṣafar 1269 (18 August 1852 - 15 November 1852) AH Machhlī Bandar (Machilipatnam/Masulipatnam) ; India

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