IO Islamic 3979 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Padash-i kirdar

1 copy of Pādāsh-i kirdār by Amīn al-Dīn Ḥusayn Khān

Author: Amīn al-Dīn Ḥusayn Khān امين الدّين حسين خان

Abridged account of the career and death of Ghulām Qādir Khān, who blinded Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam, in 1788, based on an account by the author's father, the ʿIbratnāmah of Khayr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ilāhābādī

Not dated at end

Language(s): Persian

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

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 64 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 270 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 3 July 1893 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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