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Makhzan-i Afghani

Tārīkh-i Khān Jahānī va makhzan-i Afghānī by Niʿmat Allāh, active 1613-1630

Author: Niʿmat Allāh, active 1613-1630 خواجه نعمت الله بن خواجه حبيب الله هروی

Title: Tārīkh-i Khān Jahānī va makhzan-i Afghānī

History of Afghan tribes, with special reference to the Lodi Sultanate in India, written for Pīrā Khān Khān Jahān Lūdī, a close companion the Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr who was later executed by Shāh Jahān.

Illuminated heading (f. 1v).

Oval seal of undeciphered former author (f. 1v).

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 226 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 160 mm.

Dimensions (written):

Collation

Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink.

Decoration

Illuminated polychrome headpiece (f. 1v).

Ruled gold and polychrome margins.

Additions:

Notes in Persian on flyleaf recto and f.1r describing contents.

Binding

Late 19th or early 20th century half-leather European binding with marbled boards.

History

Origin: 1251 AH (1835/36) ; Probably India

Provenance and Acquisition

Previously owned by Lieutenant-Colonel William Anderson (1803-1858)

Acquired by the India Office Library on 19 March 1909, one of 25 vols. purchased at a sale of Sotheby, Wilkins and Hodge for £7.0.6 on 16 March 1909 (ref. IOR/L/R/6/309 no 546).

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/8_f119r

Availability

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