IO Islamic 3992 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Tarikh-i Kashmir
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1 copy of Tārīkh-i Kashmīr by Narāyan Kawl "ʿĀjiz"
History of Kashmir, abridged and in a simplified literary style, based on earlier sources
Commissioned by ʿĀrif Khān, the divān and nāʾib of Kashmir, in the reign of the Timurid or Mughal Emperor Bahādur Shāh ibn ʿĀlamgīr I (r. 1707-12)
Completed by the author in 1122/1710-11 according to the chronogram verse: ‘aḥvāl ba-ījāz-i tamām-i Kashmīr’
Script: rough nastaʿlīq
Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
Colophon of original manuscript given: 2 Shavvāl in regnal year 23 of ... (?) in Shāhjahānābād (=1140)
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Rough nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
Binding
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