IO Islamic 3960 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Miscellany on insha
Contents
1 copy of a work by Munshī Gangā Bishan Pandit
Untitled collection (termed bayāz̤) of abstracts, notes, and conventions useful to practitioners of formal prose or inshāʾ by Munshīʾ Gangā Bishan Pandit
Additionally includes unrelated poetic compositions (rubāʿī and ghazal, for example) in Persian and Urdu
Appendices at the end list months and years according to various calendrical systems, the titles of Timurid or Mughal Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam's ministers and provincial governors, and, interestingly, the names and titles of ladies or begums
Script: clear nastaʿlīq with taʿlīq and shikastah
Paper in poor condition; leather of binding has mostly crumbled off
Not dated
Copied from an original =-=-=-=-
Physical Description
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Clear nastaʿlīq with taʿlīq and shikastah
Binding
History
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