IO Islamic 3767 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Extracts on Afghanistan

Miscellaneous extracts and tracts in Persian relating to the history of Afghanistan

ff. 127-154 left blank

Some variation in dimentions of individual tracts

Annotations in English, possibly by Anderson

IOL stamp: 19 Mar 1909

According to a colophon (f. 158v): completed by Mīrzā Yaḥyá the munshīʾ, the servant of Captain Anderson Ṣāḥib Bahādur, in Ashraf al-bilād-i Aḥmad Shāhī (Kandahar), at the request of his master, on Wednesday, 16 Muḥarram 1257/10 March 1841

Dated seal below colophon: ʿAbduhu Yaḥyá 1254

Language(s): Persian & English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 158

Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 171 mm.

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History

Origin: Wednesday, 16 Muḥarram 1257 AH; 10 March 1841 CE ; Kandahar, Afghanistan

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World