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Jam-i Jam, tract
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1 copy of Jām-i Jam by Sayyid Aḥmad Khān ibn Sayyid Muttaqī Khān
Title: Jām-i JamTitle: جام جمInformation 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
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Tract 6 of 6
Language(s): PersianTranscribed 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 / 1851Physical Description
Form: codexExtent: 14 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 275 mm.Hand(s)
Very inelegant nastaʿlīq
Additions:Binding
History
Origin: 19th century CE ; IndiaProvenance and Acquisition
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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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_1rAvailability
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