Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 3952 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Tazkirat al-ahval

Contents

1 copy of Taz̲kirat al-aḥvāl by Shaykh Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥazīn

Autobiography, with observations on Timurid or Mughal society, court life, and political events in the late seventeenth to early eighteenth century

Language(s): Persian & English

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

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 84 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 247 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough 'Indian' taʿlīq

Additions:

Binding

Seal(s):
Several seals obliterated

History

Origin: 14 Ṣafar 1259 AH; 1843 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/16

Availability

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Bibliography

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Funding of Cataloguing

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