Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 3989 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Ta'rikh-i Sultani

Contents

1 copy of Tārīkh-i Sulṭānī by Sulṭān Muḥammad Khān "Khāliṣ" ibn Mūsá Khān Bārakzaʾī

Extracts from a larger history of Afghanistan under the Durrānī dynasty

Work lithographed at Bombay in 1298/1881

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: According to note (f. 1r), copied from an original manuscript obtained at Ilāhābād (Allahabad)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 81 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 255 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough, cramped nastaʿlīq

. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 19th century CE Benares (Varanasi) ; 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/8_f130r

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Bibliography

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