IO Islamic 3902 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Sultan al-hikayat
Contents
1 copy of Sulṭān al-ḥikāyāt by Lāl-jī valad Munshīʾ Sītal Parshād ibn Munshīʾ Shīv Kumār, resident of Karrā
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
Additions:
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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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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