Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4030 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Jam-i Jam, tract

Contents

1 copy of Jām-i Jam by Sayyid Aḥmad Khān ibn Sayyid Muttaqī Khān

Title: Jām-i Jam

Information on Muslim rulers of Dihlī (Delhi), arranged in tabular form, entending from Amīr Tīmūr the Ṣāḥibqirān to the last Timurid or Mughal Emperor of South Asia, Bahādur Shāh II

Total 17 columns arranged by serial number, regnal title, father's name, mother's name, tribal affiliation, date of birth, place of accession, date of accession, length of reign, versified tāʾrīkh or chronostichon on accession, age at death, date of death, versified chronostichon or tārīkh on death, posthumous title, place of burial, comments

The author is better known as Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, KCSI (d. 1898), the founder of the college (now Aligarh University) and reform movement

Not dated

Tract 6 of 6

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: Manuscript copied from an edition published by Khvājah ʿAlī Ḥasan at Sharaf al-maṭābiʿ Press, Dihlī, 1268 / 1851

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 14 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 275 mm.

Hand(s)

Very inelegant nastaʿlīq

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 19th century 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/6 6_1r

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Bibliography

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