Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 3841 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Tarikh-i Mahmudshahi

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1 copy of Tārīkh-i Maḥmūd Shāhī

Anonymously-written official regnal chronicle for the reign of Sultan Mahmud Begarah written in florid prose, extending from 896/1490-1 to 916/1511, intended as a supplement to the anonymously-written Maʾās̲ir-i Maḥmūdshāhī

According to Storey (p. 726), this volume apparently contains only the first two maqālahs described in the preface, with accounts for Mahmud Shah and his contemporaries

Dated colophon (f. 60v): completed Sunday, 12 Shavvāl 1299/27 August 1882, in the city of farkhandah bunyād Ḥaydar'ābād (Deccan), within the office of the Garīntar (Guarantor) for the Navvāb Niẓām al-Mulk Āṣafjāh, by ʿAbd al-Razzāq. Checked by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, 13 Shavvāl 1299/28 August 1882

IOL stamp 15 Aug. 1913

Bound with IO Islamic 3842

Bound in original covers, signed Yūsuf ʿAlī the ṣaḥḥāf

Transcribed in clear and neat shikastah āmīz, with large naskh for quotations, with flecked mica

Notes of ownership at beginning

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 60 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 326 × 199 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: Sunday, 12 Shavvāl 1299 AH; 27 August 1882 CE ; Hydrabad, India

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