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Ta'rikh-i Mahabatjang, tract

1 copy of Tārīkh-i Mahābat Jang by Yūsuf ʿAlī Khān ibn Ghulām ʿAlī Khān

Author: Yūsuf ʿAlī Khān ibn Ghulām ʿAlī Khān يوسف على خان ابن غلام على خان

Alternative title on title page: Aḥvāl-i salāṭīn-i Hind

History of the Navvāb-Nāẓim of the Mughal province of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, ʿAlī Virdī Khān Mahābat Jang (d. 1169 / 1756) and his successor, Navvāb-Nāẓim Shujāʿ al-Dawlah (d. 1170 / 1757), completed at Ilāhābād (Allahabad), in 1177 / 1763

The author also wrote the Ḥadīqat al-ṣafāʾ (I.O.Islamic 3972)

Tract 1 of 6

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: Copied from a manuscript in the library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Ms. D.19 (Ivanow 205)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 95 ff.; also paginated in Persian (189 pages)

Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 280 mm.

Hand(s)

Rushed and untidy nastaʿlīq inclining to right. Scribe: Ḥabīb Allāh Khān

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Binding

History

Origin: 1903 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/6 6_266r

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