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Ahkam-i 'Alamgiri

1 copy of Aḥkām-i ʿĀlamgīrī by ʿInāyat Allāh Khān ibn Mīrzā Shukr Allāh Khān

Author: ʿInāyat Allāh Khān ibn Mīrzā Shukr Allāh Khān عنايت الله خان ابن ميرزا شكر الله خان

Collection of anecdotes relating to the aḥkām (orders or directions) written on petitions and reports by the Timurid or Mughal prince, Awrangzīb, and later emperor, ʿĀlamgīr I

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: According to colophon, copied from an original manuscript in the possession of Qāz̤ī Bandah Ḥasan Khān of Benares (Varanasi)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 27 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 255 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear to inelegant nastaʿlīq

. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

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Binding

History

Origin: 22 December 1898 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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_f122r

Availability

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Bibliography

MSS Eur E207/6_f122r

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