IO Islamic 3973 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Tarikh-i Shakir Khani

1 copy of Tārīkh-i Shākir Khānī by Shākir Khān ibn Luṭf Allāh Khān "Ṣādiq"

Author: Shākir Khān ibn Luṭf Allāh Khān "Ṣādiq" شاكر خان ابن لطف الله خان صادق

Alternative title stated on f. 1v: Gulshan-i Ṣādiq

History of Emperor Muḥammad Shāh and his descendents to the beginning of the reign of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam, ending in 1173/1759

Luṭf Allāh Khān's full epithet is "Ṣādiq-i Nīknām"

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: Details on filiation recorded in an Urdu letter (dated 18 May 1884) addressed to William Irvine by Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī inserted between front flyleaf and f. 1

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 54 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 330 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough, inelegant nastaʿlīq

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1884 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World