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Durr-i Najaf

1 copy of Durr-i Najaf

Anonymously compiled collection of 47 letters or petitions (ʿarz̤ah dāsht) addressed to the Bakhshī al-Mamālik Z̲ū al-Fiqār al-Dawlah Mīrzā Najaf Khān Bahādur Ghālib Jang, ṣūbadār of Ilāhābād (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh), and the vakīl-i muṭlaq of Shāh ʿĀlam, who died 1196 / 1782

Lacks preface or epilogue

Undated

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: Copied from a manuscript subsequently sent (back?) to Patna

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 32 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 261 mm.

Hand(s)

Fair nastaʿlīq

Additions:

Note by W. Irvine, dated 1893-05-31

Binding

History

Origin: 23 February 1893 CE ; 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/9

Availability

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