IO Islamic 3676 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Histories of Qutbshahi state
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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
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
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