Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 3888 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Savanih-i Dakan

Contents

1 copy of Savāniḥ-i Dakan by Munʿim Khān ibn ʿAbd al-Mughnī Awrangābādī

Language(s): Persian

Account of 6 ṣūbahs of the Deccan and the Niẓām al-Mulk Dynasty of Hyderabad, with additional notices

Additional notes supplying transliterated portions of the text missing at the beginning (ff i-xv) and end (ff i-ii, tipped in between ff 125 and 126), as well as a concordence (to Add.23885), by W. Irvine

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff xv +126 + ii
Dimensions (leaf): 289 × 187 mm.

Hand(s)

Fair nastaʿlīq

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1900 - 1904 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine, acquired 30 Jan 1904

1913-08-15

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/7

Availability

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Bibliography

    7, f.42r

Funding of Cataloguing

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