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Ta'rikh-i Muzaffari

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1 copy of Tārīkh-i Muẓaffarī by Muḥammad ʿAlī Khān Anṣārī

Author: Muḥammad ʿAlī Khān Anṣārī محمّد على خان انصارى
Title: Tārīkh-i Muẓaffarī
Title: تاريخ مظفّرى

Alternative title stated in colophon: Akhbār al-salāṭīn

Universal history, extending to 1211/1796

According to preface, completed in 1209/1794-5

Extract consists of accounts for the accession of Nādir Shāh to the death of Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: According to Irvine's note, copied from an original manuscript in the possession of Mahārājah Prabhū Narāyan Singh of Benares (Varanasi)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 33 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 275 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear nastaʿlīq

. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

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Binding

History

Origin: 8 June 1895 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/5_f007r

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