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Tuhfah-yi Akbari

1 copy of Tuḥfah-yi Akbarī by Khvājah ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm

Author: Khvājah ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm خواجه عبد الحكيم

Concise chronicle on the Niẓām al-Mulk dynasty ruling Hydrabad (Tilingana and Andhra Pradesh states), recording also the history of the Timurid or Mughal Empire from Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I onward, and the rise of Sikh polities

This work - begun in 1209 / 1794-5 (sic), for which 1219 / 1804-5 is the correcta - was produced as the author's personal project, with access to state records provided by Hyderabad's mīr munshīʾ, Mīr ʿAzīz Allāh, and dedicated to the reigning Niẓām al-Mulk, Āṣaf Jāh Mīr Akbar ʿAlī Khān (d. 1829)

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Filiation: Copied from an original characterised with multiple lacunae, in the collection of R. E. Hamblin, Collector of Ghazipur

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 67 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 254 × 165 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz

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Binding

History

Origin: 25 March 1897 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/7

Availability

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