Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 3745 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Raverty Collection

Tabaqat-i Nasiri

Contents

1 copy of Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī by Minhāj Sirāj Jūzjānī

General history with special reference to the Muslim ruling dynasties of India, written over the years 657-8/1259-60

The author was born at Fīrūzkūh (Khurāsān) in 589/1193, and travelled to India in 624, where he became a high offcial of Nāṣir al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Altmish (or Iltutmish) to whom this work is dedicated

Orthography and diacritics unusual

Naskh script by Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm Ghūrī (?). Illuminated and coloured rulings. Damaged. Poorly repaired

Pencil annotations by H G Raverty

Defective at end

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 327 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 17 Ṣafar 1002 AH; 1593 CE ; India

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/5_f040r

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