Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 3998 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Haft Iqlim, Selections

Contents

1 copy of Intikhāb-i haft iqlīm by Fayz̤ Allāh Anṣārī Jawnpūrī "Himmat"

Althernative title: Muntakhab-i haft iqlīm

Althernative title: Ḥālāt-i Jawnpūr

Abridgement of the Timurid or Mughal-period geographical history, Haft iqlīm of Amīn ibn Aḥmad Rāzī, at the request of Lālah Rām Dayāl (the qānūn-gū of Jaunpur), made in regnal year 24 of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam, 1196/1782

Excerpts, consisting of preface and portion on history of Jaunpur under the Sharqī Sulṭān dynasty

Preface additionally based on another local history, the Mirʾāt al-asrār (author unnamed)

Version of preface differs from another BL copy of the manuscript dedicated to Vajīh al-Dīn ʿAlī Khān (Ethé 727)

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from AgraCopied from an original manuscript belonging to the library of

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 4 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 255 mm.

Hand(s)

Careful nastaʿlīq

. Scribe: ʿAlī Aṣghar of Bhitrī

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1902 - 1903 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/16_f104r

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