Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 3984 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Ibrat-i arbab-i basar

Contents

1 copy of ʿIbrat-i arbāb-i baṣar

History of Bengal from the fall of Sarfarāz Khān in 1151/1738-9 to the death of Sirāj al-Dawlah in 1170/1757

Composed in a series of chronogrammatic sentences yielding the year of completion, 1170, by an author who does not state his name

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: 18 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 270 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear nastaʿlīq in watery ink

. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 28 May 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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_f264r

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