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Savanih-i ahval-i Ashob

1 copy of Savāniḥ-i ʿumrī-yi Āshūb by Mīrzā Muḥammad Bakhsh Āshūb ibn Muḥammad Ghiyās̲

Author: Mīrzā Muḥammad Bakhsh Āshūb ibn Muḥammad Ghiyās̲ ميرزا محمّد بخش آشوب ابن محمّد غياث

Title: Savāniḥ-i ʿumrī-yi Āshūb

Title: سوانح عمرى آشوب

Alternatively known by the title: Savāniḥ-i aḥvāl-i Āshūb

Alternative title on binding spine: Life of Ashub

Alternative title on binding label: Siwanih i 'Umri of Mhd Bakhsh (Ashob)

Brief autobiography, generally lacking chronological details

Supplementary account of the author's elder brother, Muẓaffar Ḥusayn 'Ḥusayn', including his poems

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: According to a note (f. 1r) by George Jasper Nicholls, this manuscript has been copied from a volume lent by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Sattār, of Bhitrī (Ghāzīpūr)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 33 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 183 × 273 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1892 CE Bhitri (Ghazipur District) ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

George Jasper Nicholls

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/16_f4r

Availability

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Bibliography

MSS Eur E207/16_f.4r

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