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Vaqa'i'-i Holkar

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1 copy of Vaqāʾiʿ-i Hūlkar by Mūhan Singh

Author: Mūhan Singh موهن سنگه
Title: Vaqāʾiʿ-i Hūlkar
Title: وقائع هولكر

History of the Maratha ruler, Jasvant Rao Holkar, the Maharajah of Indore, with a short account of his predecessors

Composed in 1223 / 1808 by Mohan Singh

Colophon details (scribe: Khalīfah Aḥsan Allāh) and date (4 Shaʿbān 1223, year 2 of Akbar Pādshāh's reign) resembles the colophon of a manuscript of the same work in Bankipore (Khudabakhsh Public Oriental Library, Patna, Bihar)

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff 142
Dimensions (leaf): 271 × 170 mm.

Hand(s)

Poor nastaʿlīq

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Binding

History

Origin: 4 Shaʿbān 1223 AH; 25 September 1808 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

1913-08-15

William Irvine

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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_f051r

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