IO Islamic 3995 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Timurid / Mughal manual
Contents
1 copy of Bayāz̤-i intiẓām-i salṭanat-i ʿālīyah-'i Tīmūrīyah
Anonymously-compiled collection of texts, 10 in number, on regulations and conventions of the Timurid or Mughal Empire
According to Storey, this is not a formal work
Included at the end (f. 14r) is an older diagrammatic plan (possibly extracted from the original manuscript), showing the arrangement of the umarāʾ, khavvāṣ, and mutaṣaddiyān around the dawlat khānah-yi khāṣṣ va ʿāmm in the reign of Emperor Muḥammad Shāh. The site is not recorded, but it is not unlike the dīvān-i khāṣṣ va ʿāmm courtyards of Akbarābād (Agra) or Shāhjahānābād (Delhi) forts. Rare.
Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Rough nastaʿlīq
. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī
Binding
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī
1913-08-15
William Irvine
Record Sources
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