IO Islamic 3954 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Tarikh-i Muzaffari

1 copy of Tārīkh-i Muẓaffarī by Muḥammad ʿAlī Khān Anṣārī

Author: Muḥammad ʿAlī Khān Anṣārī محمّد على خان انصارى

History of India.

Title based on that of the history's dedicatee, the nāʾib-nāẓim of Bengal and Bihar, Navvāb Muʿīn al-Dawlah Mubāriz al-Mulk Khānkhānān Sayyid Muḥammad Riz̤āʾ Khān Bahādur Muẓaffar Jang

Extract covers the descendents of Amīr Taymūr (Timur) from the reign of Bahādur Shāh to the beginning of the reign of Jahāndār Shāh

Undated

Language(s): Persian

Filiation: According to note by George Jasper Nicholls at beginning, the text "by Mahammad [sic] Ali Khan nephew [or grandson] of Lutfulla [sic] Khan Sadik [sic]" was copied from a manuscript "kindly lent by Moulvi Khuda Buksh [sic] Khan, Khan Bahadur of Bankipur Zilla Patna."

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 32 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 255 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear nastaʿlīq

Additions:

Interlinear annotations by William Irvine

Binding

History

Origin: 1892 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/6_f071r

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World