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Sultan al-hikayat

1 copy of Sulṭān al-ḥikāyāt by Lāl-jī valad Munshīʾ Sītal Parshād ibn Munshīʾ Shīv Kumār, resident of Karrā

Author: Lāl-jī valad Munshīʾ Sītal Parshād ibn Munshīʾ Shīv Kumār, resident of Karrā لال جى ولد منشئ سيتل پرشاد ابن منشئ شيو كمار متوطّن كرّا

Language(s): Persian

Concise history of Awadh from Burhān al-Mulk Saʿādat Khān to Muḥammad Vājid ʿAlī Shāh

Written in Muḥarram 1270/1853, in response to the Mirʾāt al-ashbāh of Mawlavī Fakhr al-Dīn Ḥusayn Dihlavī

Title: Sulṭān al-ḥikāyāt

Title: سلطان الحكايات

Filiation: Transcribed by order of John (sic, read George) Jasper Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, copying a ms obtained from the library of late Mawlavī Sayyid Imdād ʿAlī Khān on 25 February 1893, sent to William Irvine by Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, on 24 March 1893.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 109 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 27 × 175 mm.

Hand(s)

Fairly clear nastaʿlīq

Decoration

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Binding

History

Origin: 25 February 1893 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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_f090r

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