IO Islamic 3962 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Habib al-siyar

1 copy of Ḥabīb al-siyar by Khvānd Amīr

Author: Khvānd Amīr خواند امير

Title: Ḥabīb al-siyar

Title: حبيب السّير

Universal history expanding and extending Mīr Khvānd's Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʾ

Consisting of volume 3, including ikhtitām

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

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

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 612 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 303 mm.

Condition

Margins torn (ff. 1-2); water staining; slightly worm eaten

Sections bound in incorrect order

Hand(s)

Fine naskh

by several hands

Decoration

Poor illuminated sarlawḥ (ff. 1v, 121v, 186v, 345v), possibly added later; interlinear gilding; illuminated margins (f. 1v-2r), probably added in 19th century India

Additions:

Contemporary and later annotations and corrections (for example, f. 437v)

Binding

History

Origin: 1570 - 1630 CE ; Iran

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/5

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World