IO Islamic 3972 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Hadiqat al-safa

1 copy of Ḥadīqat al-ṣafāʾ by Yūsuf ʿAlī Khān ibn Ghulām ʿAlī Khān

Author: Yūsuf ʿAlī Khān ibn Ghulām ʿAlī Khān يوسف على خان ابن غلام على خان

Title: Ḥadīqat al-ṣafāʾ

Title: حديقة الصّفا

Extract from volume 2 of the 3 volume universal history

Account relates to the Timurid or Mughal princes and rulers, Aʿẓam Shāh, Bahādur Shāh, and Jahāndār Shāh

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: Possibly copied from an original manuscript in the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 28 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 342 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Muḥammad Mūsá

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 12 Rabīʿ I 1323 AH; 18 May 1905 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

E. D. Ross (Edward Denison Ross)

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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